OCTOBER 20, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



535 



Vie V in the store of Mr. P. J. Hauswirth, Chicago. 



plants this year are fine, and he should 

 be in the swim with first-class stock. 



For a side crop he grows about 2,000 

 plants of bouvardias, all of the double 

 pink and white varieties. These he 

 grows in the open ground during the 

 summer months, transplanting to 

 boxes when he houses them in August. 

 He sets these along the edge ot his 

 rose beds, and the quality of the bloom 

 is in keeping with the quality of his 

 roses, and will easily bring from 6 

 cents to 10 cents a head, the stems be- 

 ing from 1.5 to 20 inches long. 



Mr. Mathison uses steam as his 

 method of heating. He does not cater 

 for or want any local trade, but sells 

 everything to the dealere, sending a 

 salesman to the Boston Co-Operative 

 Market every day. 



The Wayside Farm, Milton. 



Cyclamen and primroses are the pre- 

 dominating crops at this famous es- 

 tablishment and the efficient manager, 

 Mr. George Anderson, has established 

 for himself a national reputation as a 

 grower of excellent specimens of these 

 two staples. 



Of cyclamen he has in the neighbor- 

 hood of 2,000 plants, the larger portion 

 of which are seedlings, seed sown dur- 

 ing January and February. In former 

 years Mr. Anderson has carried his 

 plants through the heat of the sum- 

 mer inside the houses, and in pots, 

 but after experimenting last season 

 found that plants put out of doors, 

 planted in a well shaded frame with 

 plenty of air. came through the hot 

 weather in better shape: while the ex- 

 pense of taking care of them and the 

 anxiety as to how they would summer 

 was reduced to a minimum, and his 

 plants were in fine condition to pot 



up and house. Primroses are treated 

 in a similar manner, being out of doors 

 in a frame, but are grown in pots. 



Mr. Anderson devotes two houses, 

 166x15, to carnations, Scott being his 

 favorite variety. In another house he 

 has about 1,000 well grown plants of 

 poinsettias, a Christmas crop of which 

 he makes a specialty. The most of 

 these are from cuttings made this sea- 

 son, and the outlook is that he will 

 have a gorgeous bench of blooms by 

 the holidays. Another house is de- 

 voted to chrysanthemums of mixed 

 varieties, planted in a solid bed and 

 grown to single stem and flower. Hy- 

 drangeas is another of Mr. Anderson's 

 specialties, and he propagates these 

 largely, making the cuttings early and 

 growing in the open ground all sum- 

 mer, wintering in a deep frame. 



For other crops he is this year grow- 

 ing quite a large lot of stevlas, both the 

 tall and the dwarf, grown in pots all 

 summer, and a house of mignonette, 

 from seed planted in August. He be- 

 lieves in utilizing all of his space, and 

 under all benches that he can he grows 

 mushrooms, 



E. and W. K. Wood, West Newton. 



At West Newton I rau across the 

 chrysanthemum expert, Elijah Wood 

 ("Little Woody,',' as he is affectionate- 

 ly called by members of the craft), and 

 he and his brother, W. K., kindly 

 showed me through the houses, to- 

 gether with W. W. Edgar, of Waverly, 

 and Brother Mott, of Philadelphia, 

 who happened along at the same time 

 that I did. 



The Messrs. Wood enjoy a remark- 

 able local trade, hence their houses 

 are used to grow a general collection 

 of plants and flowers. They have to a 



great extent gone out of mum gro'W- 

 ing, one house of about ~0i) plants be- 

 ing the extent this year. These ara 

 grown in a bench, and to single stems. 

 In this house they also grow, planted 

 in benches, Antirrhinum majus grand- 

 iflora, a type of which they introduced 

 several years ago. 



The staples, violets and carnations, 

 are grown largely. The former are 

 planted both in a house and in frames 

 out of doors, and are looking very- 

 well. Lady Campbell is the variety 

 most in evidence. They are trying a 

 few seedling pinks of their own, which 

 look promising, as do also part of a 

 bench of white ones, now in third 

 season; this is a seedling from Day- 

 break and with a strong Daybreak 

 habit and appearance. As is neces- 

 sary in a place of this sort, a general 

 collection of palms, ferns and flower- 

 ing plants have to be grown, and these 

 show good care and are especially 

 adapted to the demands of their cus- 

 tomers. 



C. E. Holbrow, Brighton. 



Among the rose experts which bring 

 their product to Boston is Charles Hol- 

 brow, and a look at his place will con- 

 vince anyone that he knows how to 

 grow them. He confines himself to 

 Brides and Bridesmaids, and his 25,000 

 square feet of glass contain nothing 

 else. He grows altogether in benches 

 and believes that the best results are 

 obtained from young plants, and, with 

 the exception of one small house, all 

 of his roses were planted in June, and 

 are now in good condition to crop. 



Mr. Holbrow is for the first time 

 trying part of a bench of grafted stock, 

 but is not satisfied so far with the 

 result of the trial. He uses entirely 

 new soil every year, making a fresh 

 compost during the dull season in the 

 summer. His roses are given a foot 

 of space and tied up to wire stakes, 

 kept in position by a wire which runs 

 lengthwise of his bench. Besides the 

 roses, he has one house devoted to 

 odds and ends for a local trade, of 

 which he can control quite an amount. 



W. H. Elliott, Brighton. 



Talk about your Smilax Kings, your 

 Rose Kings, or your Carnation Kings! 

 They are not in it, compared to the 

 Asparagus King, Mr. W. H. Elliott, 

 and a dozen years ago if such houses 

 now used by Mr. Elliott had been 

 thought of and suggested, the person 

 whose mind had conceived such houses 

 would have been considered a subject 

 for an insane asylum. It remained, 

 however, for Mr. Elliott, who at once, 

 on the introduction of Asparagus plu- 

 mosus, appreciated the value of it as 

 an improvement over any other known 

 plant, as a florists' green for decora- 

 tive purposes, and he has year by year 

 increased his capacity for growing this 

 vine, until he now has eight large 

 houses entirely devoted to it, and last 

 year he cut and marketed in the neigh- 

 borhood of 50,000 strings. He has it 

 in all stages of growth, from this 



