MEN WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED. 



HENRY DALE, FLORIST, BRAMPTON. 



Fig. 2272. Mk. Henky Dale. 



}OR the inspiration of our young men 

 who have in our fair Canada so 

 many avenues open before them, 

 but who so often lack that ambition 

 which leads them to seek after advance- 

 ment, we have undertaken to write a few 

 sketches of men who have succeeded. 



Of the long list of such worthy men, we 

 may well speak with pride of Mr. Henry 

 Dale of Brampton, who began at the very 

 bottom and rose to the top of the ladder of 

 success. 



Some years ago he came from England to 



Brampton with his father, Mr. Edward 

 Dale. At first the lad was apprenticed 

 to a shoemaker, but this was not to 

 his mind, and he persuaded his father 

 to start a small truck garden for 

 Brampton market. Then, about 1870, 

 he induced him to buy a small green- 

 house, which they operated in part- 

 nership, utilizing the experience which 

 the latter had gained in England as a 

 market gardener. In this greenhouse, 

 which was only twenty-five feet long, 

 and was heated with the old fashioned 

 flues, they grew vegetables and pot 

 plants ; it is still standing and may be 

 seen in our engraving, just next the 

 Dale home. 



From the very first the demand for 

 their roses exceeded the supply, and 

 enlargements were necessary. After 

 two or three years, two houses were 

 added, fifty feet long, for spring stock 

 and bedding plants, in which they also 

 planted some Marechal Neil and La- 

 marque roses. On these they budded 

 Sunset and Pearl, and took the bloom 

 in boxes to Toronto, selling it to Mr. 

 Fleming, who was so long a prominent 

 florist on Yonge Street. 



In about 1880 Mr. Edward Dale gave the 

 cut flower business up to his son Henry, who 

 had always been the life of it ; rose and car- 

 nation houses were added from time to time, 

 indeed, of late almost every year, until now 

 about seven acres of ground are under glass. 

 The greenhouses require 3b boilers of 

 fifteen horse power each for heating them, 

 and have automatic machinery for furnish- 

 ing the coal so as to economize the labor as 

 much as possible. 



