GROWING UNDER GLASS 19 



be gathered from this statement by S. A. 

 Hill in The Florists' Exchange: 



"With most florists who grow roses, carna- 

 tions, and chrysanthemums, first place and 

 the choicest position is always given the 

 rose; the second best is given the carnation; 

 while the chrysanthemum is relegated to 

 'any old place,' only provided that there is 

 tolerably fair head-room for it. It is only 

 of late years, and with the most ambitious 

 exhibitors, that the chrysanthemum has 

 received much consideration as to her 

 blooming quarters; but as the old style 

 greenhouse passes, and new, up-to-date 

 structures replace it, the chrysanthemum 

 will be found growing in high, broad houses, 

 where the pure air is in free circulation, 

 carrying life and vigour into every leaf. 

 Two of our 4OO-foot houses are 18 feet high 

 on the ridge, and we have several times 

 reconsidered and decided that they probably 

 contain a good many cubic feet of wasted 

 space; but this year in a re-arrangement 

 of stock with the new place they somehow 

 got planted to chrysanthemums, with an 

 apology to ourselves for giving up such 

 valuable space to this tribe from the East, 



