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Patten, J. A. Nelson, W. H. Elliott, A. A. Pembroke, 

 Littlefield and Wyman, W. Nicholson, and the ex-president 

 of the A. C. S., S. J. Goddard, stand out prominently. 



No finer flowers are produced anywhere than those of 

 New Engfand. The general cultural routine is almost iden- 

 tical to that outlined for the New York and Chicago regions. 

 In the chmate of New England, the growers have something 

 for which they should be grateful. 



CARNATIONS IN ONTARIO 



It is nothing short of astonishing, the progress horti- 

 culture, and therefore flower cultivation, is making in large 

 Canadian cities and their surroundings, and the Carnation 

 is an almost equal fii'st in popular favor with the Rose 

 itself. No evidences exist of any decline, but instead, a 

 steadily increasing output, with the greatest desire to acquire 

 the most approved of novelties likely to win all-round 

 popularity. Since the first flowers were produced for sale, 

 acre upon acre of glass ranges have been erected to grow 

 about entirely the Rose and the Carnation for the Canadian 

 markets. 



The queen city of Canada, Toronto, has in its environs 

 three great establishments given to the growing of flowers 

 for market: those of Mr. Dunlop, at Richmond Hill; Mr. 

 Lawrence, in the same quiet little town, and Mr. Miller to 

 the immediate north of the city. And no one interested in 

 the cultivation of flowers under glass should visit Toronto 

 without seeking out Brampton, a thriving town about twen- 

 ty-five miles west, and reached by a good service of trains. 

 Here are located the famous Dale Estate nurseries. No 

 less than 1,250,000 square feet of glass comprise this oasis 

 of flower culture. It was about the year 1880 that the late 



