The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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Partial View of a Pond of Aquatics, with Herbaceous Border in background, at H. A. Dreer's, Riverton, N. J. 



ness in Chicago for thirty-two years. 

 When he came to this city there were 

 only six florists here. He was at first 

 in the employ of Martin Lewis, then a 

 florist but now a well-to-do real estate 

 dealer in Evanston. Mr. Dressel soon 

 started in business for himself and is 

 widely known. 



He is gradually lessening the space 

 devoted to roses and will this year 

 grow only four houses, about equally 

 divided between Beauties, Brides. 

 Maids, Kaiserin and Siebrecht. He 

 finds the latter deficient in stem but 

 it is so free in blooming that it is pro- 

 fitable. He will this year experiment 

 with a house of roses in solid beds 

 which are practically hot-beds. Thes3 

 contain a layer of about two feet of 

 manure with the usual depth of soil 

 on top. He used to grow them with 

 this bottom heat in Europe and 

 thought would try the plan here and 

 see how it worked. 



He is now benching his chrysanthe- 

 mums, of which he will have about 20,- 

 (MK). The varieties he is growing in 

 largest quantities are Robinson, Ivory, 

 Bonnaffon, Murdock, Mayflower, Harry 

 Widener and John E. Lager. Others 

 grown in lesser quantities are Whill- 

 din. Glory of the Pacific, Fres. Smith, 

 Bergman, Merry Monarch, Jones, Wm. 

 Simpson, and a few other scattering 

 sorts. One variety lie thinks well of 

 very closely resembles L. Canning, and 

 for lack of a name he calls it Can- 

 ning. He would be pleased to know its 

 right name. He considers John E. 

 Lager his best early yellow. He likes 



Wm. Simpson, though with him it is a 

 little "slim and long-legged." He is 

 well pleased with Murdock. Last win- 

 ter he had a good crop of this sort as 

 late as Christmas. 



Of carnations he will have this sea- 

 son 3,000 each of Scott, Daybreak and 

 McGowan and 1,000 divided between 

 quite a number of other sorts, includ- 

 ing Helen Keller, Meteor, Albertini, 

 Bridesmaid and others. Albertini is 

 still a leader with him and he consid- 

 ers Bridesmaid one of the best. For 

 school closing week he picked 15,00() 

 flowers whicli found a good market, 

 but demand has since dropped sharply. 



He is now cutting flowers from a 

 house of Asters. He don't remember 

 the date he benched them, but does 

 know that it was about two weeks late 

 and says there is not much show for 

 asters with plenty of carnations in the 

 market. 



He follows his chrysanthemums with 

 lilies, azaleas and various pot plants, 

 and sometimes with carnations that 

 have been carried on in pots till the 

 chrysanthemum crop has been mar- 

 keted. 



He has grown bedding plants exten- 

 sively but is gradually working out of 

 it. He grew 10,000 geraniums the past 

 season and all sold but prices were 

 low. He bad a good variety of pelar- 

 goniums, but they don't pay at the 

 price that can be had. 



He has several houses of palms and 

 ferns and is increasing his space de- 

 voted to these. He has a fine lot of 

 small latanias growing on. 



His place is heated by steam and the 

 lay of the land is such that he couldn't 

 use hot water, but he believes hot 

 water is the most economical. For a 

 place of his size he finds it necessary 

 to have both a day and night fireman 

 and these two must both be men ot 

 some skill, while with hot water less 

 expensive help and less of it would 

 be necessary. And while the first ex- 

 pense of the piping is in favor of 

 steam, he finds that the pipes rust out 

 in six or eight years, while with hot 

 water he believes they will last fifty 

 years. Then again with the steam 

 pipes there is a good deal of repairing 

 and fixing to be done every year. He 

 believes his expense in this direction 

 will amount to $100 a year while with 

 water it would not amount to $10. 

 However, steam has an advantage in 

 that it is much easier to make changes 

 in the steam pipes than it would be 

 with hot water. The rusting out of 

 the steam pipes may be due to the fact 

 that they are alternately full and 

 empty, whereas the hot water pipes 

 are always full, thus excluding air at 

 all times. 



John Lang's. 



John Lang is this year growing 

 quite a lengthy list ot chrysanthe- 

 mums. He has 1,200 Jones, 600 each 

 of Maud Dean, Glory of the Pacific and 

 Golden Wedding, 500 Bonuaffon, 400 

 each of Robinson and Wanamaker, 

 300 each of Mayflower, Lincoln, Ivory 

 and Morel, 200 each of Yellow Queen, 

 Fitzwigram, Whilldin and Pink Ivory, 

 and 100 each of Montmort, Mrs. Geo. 



