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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



OCTOBER 21), 1S9< 



-year's- seedlings to strings forty feet 

 in lengtli. Mr. Elliott does not grow 

 his stock in pots, but believes in con- 

 stant transplanting, and uses sliallow 

 -benches for this purpose. 



During the summer months aspara- 

 ;gus makes very little growth, but dur- 

 .ing the cooler fall the growth is very 

 .rapid, and Mr. Elliott is now busy 

 thinning out the heavy undergrowth, 

 which he ties in bunches and sells, and 

 stringing for the new runners. He 

 Mses a strong linen cord for this pur- 

 pose, which, being of a green color, 

 does not have to be cut out when the 

 vine is cut. The common cut worm is 

 the worst enemy he has to deal with 

 and requires constant hunting to keep 

 -him in check. 



Besides the asparagus, Mr. Elliott's 

 main crop is roses, and he has several 

 houses in all stages of growth, all 

 planted in benches, and in an average 

 ■depth of three inches. Mr. Elliott 

 says soil is expensive, and for one sea- 

 son's growth three inches is enough, 

 and he is entirely satisfied with re- 

 sults. The most of his plants are of 

 this year's planting and comprise 

 mostly Brides and Maids, with one 

 house devoted to President Carnot and 

 one house to Kaiserin, both young 

 stock. He has also a house of Kaiser- 

 ins from which he has been cutting all 

 summer. These he will soon throw 

 out, their season's usefulness being 

 about at an end. 



To replace these he has been grow- 

 -Ing along a lot of Brides, which are 

 now elegant plants. These plants 

 Jjave from the time they came out of 

 ihe sand been grown constantly in a 

 Tjench, and have been transplanted 

 two or three times, each time giving 

 them a little more space and a little 

 deeper soil, a much cheaper method of 

 handling than by using pots, and ob- 

 taining much stronger plants and al- 

 most as good as if they had been 

 planted in their permanent quarters 

 early in the season. Plants handled 

 this way make close, compact balls of 

 roots, and the setback caused by 

 transplanting is very slight — in fact, 

 .part of a bench that Mr. Elliott had 

 .planted the day before hardly showed 

 a sign of a wilt, the soft tips being as 

 erect as if they had been there for 

 weeks. A house of Gontiers in benches 

 showed signs of aL immense crop later 

 on, while a house of Jacks, planted in 

 a solid bed, has some excellent look- 

 ing canes, which bid fair to throw 

 some bloom later on. 



Mr. Elliott also makes a feature of 

 ■pot-grown chrysanthemums for com- 

 mercial sales. These are grown in the 

 open ground during the summer and 

 potted during the early part of Sep- 

 tember, mostly in 7 and S-inch, and 

 are disbudded to one flower to each 

 stem. Mr. Elliott is about the only 

 -grower who makes it a business to 

 grow pot chrysanthemums for Boston 

 market and handles about 2.000 plants 

 yearly. He believes in utilizing all of 

 the room possible and grows quite a 

 3ot of small-sized nephrolepis along 



the edge of his rose benches, which are 

 later put into a bench to make salable 

 plants. 



Mr. Elliott knows a good thing when 

 he sees it, apd has devoted a house 

 with an east and west exposure to 

 that gem of house plants, the Boston 

 fern. These are in all stages of growth 

 and are unexceptionally fine stock, be- 

 ing of a good, hard growth, with a 

 deep green color, showing a splendid 

 condition for shipping; in fact, some 

 of his specimen plants in S and 10- 

 inch pots can't be equaled anywhere, 

 being good, heavy plants, with fronds 

 from IS to 20 inches long — just such a 

 plant as a lover of house plants would 

 pick out to ornament his drawing 

 room. 



Besides the Brighton place, Mr. El- 

 liott has a large amount of glass at 

 Newtonville. which lie leases. This 

 place is devoted to roses and chrysan- 

 themums. He expects to cut about 

 l.^.OOO blooms of chrysanthemums, all 

 grown to single flowers. This crop he 

 follows by and by with young roses, 

 which he grows to sell in the pots. 



AMONG ST. PAUL GROWERS. 



C. Bussjaeger. 



Chris Bussjaeger, of Charles street, 

 has a neat range of six houses con- 

 taining about 8.000 feet of glass. His 

 first house was erected in 1896, two 

 more were added in 1897, and three 

 rose houses erected the present, sea- 

 son. He grows a general line of 

 greenhouse stock for the trade, his 

 principal stock for the coming season 

 being roses and carnations. Of the 

 former he has Perle, Bride, Brides- 

 maid, Wootton and Beauties, all of 

 which are in prime condition with 

 promise of a full crop of bloom later. 



In carnations we noted Daybreak, 

 Scott, Silver Spray. Jubilee, Rose 

 Queen and Flora Hill. He has one 

 house devoted to single stem mums of 

 the leading varieties, all in fine condi- 

 tion. One house will be devoted to 

 violets, while another is devoted to 

 smilax and asparagus. For the spring 

 trade he grows a general line of bed- 

 ding plants and also forces quite a 

 quantity of bulbs. His place is heated 

 throughout by steam and is well built 

 and well managed. 



Carlsen & Laoritsen. 



Carlsen & Lauritsen, located at the 

 entrance to Como Park, have the 

 houses and ground formerly owned 

 and operated by C. I. ■^''arren. They 

 rented the place during 1895 and 1896, 

 purchasing it in 1897. Their range 

 consists of seven houses, containing 

 about 12,000 feet, their stock consist- 

 ing principally of roses, carnations 

 and violets. In roses they have the 

 following benched for winter bloom- 

 ing: 500 Meteor, 700 Bride, 1,000 

 Bride.sniaid. 400 Perle, 600 Wootton, 

 200 Siebrecht, 300 Testout and 3.50 

 Beauties. They find Meteor, '^'ootton. 

 Bride and Bridesmaid, the most prof- 

 itable varieties, though careful records 



of returns indicate that Beauties are 

 not far behind. Siebrecht and Testout 

 are beautiful flowers, but are too shy 

 bloomers to be profitably grown, and 

 will most likely be discarded after 

 this season. 



In carnations their specialty is the 

 Daybreak, the tried and true, which 

 grows to perfection here. Their plant- 

 ing this year will include Flora Hill, 

 Jubilee, Triumph, Scott and Silver 

 Spray. One house is devoted to vio- 

 lets and a small one to smilax. For 

 the spring trade they grow quantities 

 of bedding plants. 



This season they have built two new 

 houses and repaired their boiler room. 

 Their stock is sold to the trade in this 

 city. Their evident thrift, push and 

 energy are apparent on every side, 

 while their stock grades mostly firsts 

 and is eagerly sought after. X. Y. Z. 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



There were many wrinkled brows 

 among the commission men last week, 

 for the most of the ice boxes were con- 

 tinually full of unsold stock, yet the 

 quantity of flowers sold in New York 

 is simply enormous. Here are a few 

 of the figures I've gathered for you: 

 they may be of interest to many both 

 here and in Europe. These figures rep- 

 resent the average daily sales through 

 the commission houses at the present 

 time: 65,000 roses, 10,000 lily of the 

 valley, 20,000 violets. 10.000 carnations, 

 5,000 chrysanthemums, 1,000 orchids. 

 5,000 adiantum. 500 asparagus and smi- 

 lax, 5,000 dahlias, 25.000 common and 

 fancy ferns. 5,000 bunches cosmos, 

 ageratum, bouvardia, mignonette and 

 other miscellaneous flowers. Then 

 there are the small growers who dis- 

 pose of at least 25,000 mixed flowers 

 every morning at the Thirty-fourth 

 street market, and we must also note 

 the vast quantity shipped from private 

 places and carried from amateurs' gar- 

 dens into the city every day; they at 

 least represent 20,000 flowers. 



When we contemplate the above fig- 

 ures we can readily understand the de- 

 spairing cries heard in the market dur- 

 ing wet or dull days. There is a great 



