. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. eie^esp¥H^e^¥ety=^epsaeGaa^ The florist* whose cards appear on the pages carrying this head, are prepared to fiU orders """"•?•"— from other florists for local deUvery on the usual \»voii«/jiAS-(Jlvsyi.^;i8iii^iiSi]|^lxsyivs^tm MOIT-LY MUSINGS R. S. Brown, of K. S. Brown & Son, Kansas City, Mo., was found at the bench, potting coleus. "Same old spot for fifty-three years," observed the veteran of eighty-four summers, who, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, harked back to the time when the sight from whe
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. eie^esp¥H^e^¥ety=^epsaeGaa^ The florist* whose cards appear on the pages carrying this head, are prepared to fiU orders """"•?•"— from other florists for local deUvery on the usual \»voii«/jiAS-(Jlvsyi.^;i8iii^iiSi]|^lxsyivs^tm MOIT-LY MUSINGS R. S. Brown, of K. S. Brown & Son, Kansas City, Mo., was found at the bench, potting coleus. "Same old spot for fifty-three years," observed the veteran of eighty-four summers, who, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, harked back to the time when the sight from where he stood included immense herds of buffalo roaming through the valley, while as many as 10,000 Indians gath- ered upon the bluffs. "We are to be lionored next summer with the conven- tion of the S. A. F., of which I am ])roud to be a charter member, and I hope that our convention hall, which has a capacity of 15,000, will be ; The business has practically been handed over to son Nathan. The greenhouses are upon land too valuable to warrant rebuilding and arc kept running await- ing a real estate purchaser. » » » * Samuel Murray's houses, at Kansas City, are not new, yet remarkable is the quality of stock produced, chiefly l)ot-grown. Colonel William Sharp, who is putting in the thirty-second sea son at this place, has two houses con- taining .some 2,000 Begonia Melior, that are in superb shape, and when it is understood that every plant will be sold at the retail store, one gains some idea of the jjopularity of this one plant. They run from 4-inch to 6 inch pots and 7-inch and 8-inch azalea pots. These were jiotted by Vice-President-elect Murray, who gives his grower credit for the result, claiming it is all in the watering and ventilating. It was noted that the English varieties on trial are not so satisfactory. They are of a dif ferent type and not so free. When the l)egonias are gone, the space is occupied with lilies, then gloxinias, fancy-l
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