JfLY 12, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



J8I 



View in the Conservatory of Mr. Chas. J. Osborn, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



[Erected by Lurd & Burnham Co., New York.] 



be in full running order, and so crops 

 were late and a full product was not 

 realized, but this year Mr. Rooney, the 

 able superintendent, has got things in 

 fine shape. 



About seventy thousand roses are 

 planted and the last house was under 

 way at the time of my visit, July 6. 

 Sixty-eight thousand carnations are 

 in the field and in spite of dry weath- 

 er are looking good. All the stand- 

 ard sorts are grown and a trial is 

 given to the seedlings of last spring's 

 introduction. The roses are mostly 

 Am. Beauty. Bridesmaid, Bride, Me- 

 teor, and one larg; house of Ijiberty. 

 There is also one long house running 

 north and south devoted to Kaiserin 

 for summer use. I saw that Mr. 

 Rooney had an excellent quality of 

 sod and he told me he had ample 

 heating capacity. He has light, ample 

 ventilation, no expense is spared for 

 any requisite to produce good flowers, 

 so I expect that the cut of this place 

 is going to cut a big figure in the 

 flower market of western New York, 

 and perhaps wider. 



The addition to the glass this sum- 

 mer will be six carnation houses, us- 

 ing .50,000 square feet of glass. Bask- 

 ing in the sun in a nearby meadow 



which I mistook for a flock of South 

 Down lambs, are 1,000 boxes of glass. 



In the %ery center of Jamestown is 

 a retail store connected with Lake- 

 view. The store is immeasurably too 

 good for the city. If I were to tell 

 you that for height of ceiling and 

 width and depth and light and ele- 

 gant but tasty furniture I have not 

 seen its equal, you would think I was 

 talking through my tile, but such is 

 a fact. In the basement of the build- 

 ing is a spacious floor devoted to flo- 

 rists' supplies, in which the firm do:s 

 a large business. 



Any attempt to describe this great 

 young giant would be quite incom- 

 plete without a word about the pro- 

 prietor, Mr. A. N. Broadhead. What 

 a strange coincidence that this man 

 should have such a name, but it only 

 one-third describes him, for he is 

 broad shouldered and broad minded, 

 the last the broadest of all. Every 

 now and then there is one of these sort 

 of men born. It's fortunate they 

 don't come any faster or we weaker 

 ones would stand no show. Did it ever 

 strike you how lucky it is for you 

 that there are so many fools and in- 

 competents in the world? If they were 



all smart where would you be? I mean 

 you, Mr. Average! 



Well, this Mr, Broadhead is one of 

 those big men who can tackle any- 

 thing and are picayunish in noth- 

 ing. He controls the large woolen 

 mills of the city, a hotel or two and 

 several blocks of buildings, the street 

 railway and suburban lines, the tele- 

 phone, the steamers on Lake Chau- 

 tauqua, the summer resort known as 

 "Celerion," the greatest inland Coney 

 Island of the country: and so that 

 time should not hang heavy on his 

 hands he has built the Lakeview con- 

 servatories and they are going to be a 

 go. Mr. Broadhead will make them 

 go ahead and pay just as sure as do 

 his steamers, his railroads, his thea- 

 tres, and his own splendid high pres- 

 sure physique that by his appearance 

 pays a big dividend, for his broad re- 

 marks and jovial smile indicate that 

 there is nothing good in life that he 

 cuts out. w. S. 



CHARLOTTE, N. C— At the State 

 Experiment Farm an experiment is 

 being made in growing 50,000 Harri- 

 sii lily bulbs for a Philadelphia firm to 

 see whether the bulbs can be success- 

 fully grown in this state. 



