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Fig. 2274. In the Dale Greenhouses. 

 View in Rose House, showing new style of benches. 



Six of these rose houses are 840 feet 

 long, and contain about three acres of 

 roses. These are cut morning and evening, 

 through the winter, but in April and May 

 during the height of the season, from 6000 

 to 10,000 blooms are cut daily and shipped 

 away wholesale to the large cities of Canada 

 and the United States, at prices varying 

 from $6.00 to $30.00 a hundred. 



The death of Mr. Henry Dale, which 

 occurred in July, 1900, at the age of forty, 

 was a shock to his large circle of 

 friends, whose sympathy evidenced itself in a 

 wealth of floral emblems from the many 

 societies of which he was a member, and 

 from his many personal friends. 



A Visit to tlie Greenhouses — Happening to 

 be in Brampton on the 7th of March, we 

 were received most cordially by Mr. T. W. 

 Duggan, the manager, and conducted 

 through these extensive greenhouses. "Al- 

 ready," he said, "we have the leading busi- 

 ness in America in the cut flower trade. We 

 have now 300,000 square feet under glass, 

 and intend to add 100,000 more this spring ; 



indeed we have doubled the amount of glass 

 since Mr. Dale's death." 



Will you not over do the thing and produce 

 more cut flowers than you can sell to a profit ? 



"No," said Mr. Edward Dale, the fore- 

 man, "it is not likely, because we are only 

 building what we are forced to do to supply 

 the demand. We must build or some one 

 else will have to grow flowers to satisfy the 

 growing trade." 



Do you grow many varieties of roses ? 



"No," said Mr. Duggan, "about six or 

 eight varieties are all that will pay to grow 

 for the cut flower trade, and of these the 

 chief are the Bride and the Brides-maid. 

 Next to these the new rose, J. Pierpont 

 Morgan, which you see is a free bloomer, 

 and a perfect flower. Next would come 

 the Sunset ; and then the Meteor, Perle and 

 American Beauty." 



Are not these benches lower than usual? 



"Yes," said Mr. Duggan, " these are quite 

 a new style, but vastly better than high ones. 

 You see they are of brick and built over tiles 

 which secure perfect drainage, and also per- 

 fect circulation of warm air." 



Fig. 2275. In the Dale Greenhouses. ^' 

 A view in one of the Carnation Houses. 



