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The Weekly Rorists'l^evicW. 



NOVBMBEU 16, 1911. 



BISMABCK, N. D. 



When making a display at the re- 

 cent fair the Iloskins Floral Co. handed 

 out to visitors at the booth a 16-page 

 illustrated pamphlet descriptive of the 

 greenhouses and of the uses of flowers. 

 It proved an exceptionally timely piece 

 of advertising. The title was: "A 

 Brief History of the Commencement 

 and Growth of the Hoskins Floral Co., 

 With a Few Suggestions Concerning 

 Flowers, Plants, Bulbs and Gardening 

 Material, and the A^ppropriate Use of 

 the Same." The "history" was: 



"In the year 1909 the Hoskins 

 Floral Co., as an experiment, built a 

 small greenhouse. The difficulties were 

 many and expenses high. In the first 

 place, there are few greenhouses, and 

 none of any importance, located where 

 the extremes of temperature are as 

 great, that could be used as a basis of 

 comparison. In spite of many difficul- 

 ties, we started. The quality of the 

 stock produced was so fine that the 

 demand soon exceeded the supply. 



"In 1910 our trade for home grown 

 stock was such that we decided to erect 

 additional houses. A rose house, 32x 

 140, a carnation house the same size, 

 and a violet house, 20x140, were added; 

 the heating system enlarged and many 

 other improvements made. These new 

 houses enabled us to supply the demand 

 for a short time only, as people found 

 that flowers grown at home and freshly 

 cut were so far ahead of stock shipped 

 in that there was no comparison. 



"In 1911, therefore, we have added 

 another carnation house, 32x140, and 

 a fern house, 20x140; have changed our 

 heating system from hot water to 

 steam; built a smokestack sixty-five 

 feet high; enlarged our coal storage to 

 a capacity of 500 tons, and made the 

 plant the largest and best equipped 

 west of the Twin Cities. In those cities 

 there is nothing better; merely larger 

 capacit}-. 



"The present season we expect to 

 produce the following main items. Car- 

 nations, 400,000; roses, 125,000; chrysan- 

 themums, 12,000; violets, 90,000; Easter 

 lilies, 20,000, besides many thousands 

 of bulb stock, such as tulips, narcissi, 

 daffodils, jonquils, lilies of the valley, 

 hyacinths, etc. 



"A few items culled at random may 

 interest you. One of our heating boil- 

 ers weighs twelve tons; we have seven 

 miles of steam piping in the plant; our 

 glass comes by the carload; our bulbs 

 are imported direct from Holland by 

 ourselves; it takes a 2-inch pipe from 

 the city plant to supply moisture; some 

 6f our thermometers cost $50 each. 



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