The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-24 00:00:00

CUT FLOWN TIUD3 11l MIZILIC/1.

Tho cut flowrr trsdv for ~we year. has been & owing
srit't wonderful ratidlty, till now in Nsw York city alone
the 'opine.' has reaches s several million dollars annually.
Growers of cut timers. raslising that the day ham gone by
for Sao raising of gun. rat mixture, or "trash" as it is
termed. now confine therneilves wincipally to forcing
two or three articles awl growing them well. Thus we
fin I on Union Hill, near Jersey City, one man who con-
fine himself to groving tea roses. jacquominot roses, and
violets ; another to foreiog lily of the relay, hyacinths,
and lilies • whileatill an•sther puts all his energies into the
cheaper but j.;st as importint carnation, bouvardit, and
. .

Fmhion midis her iron acep,re and dictates to her
emries the kin.l4 and colours of 11 mere to be used, ai dm
doe,' in everythinzelee. L ist winter dm decre,i4 yellow.
ant Nisl r3ses and iUfl,W.rs and yellow pewits were in
demand.

The forcing of mesa is perhaps the greatest branch of
this great industry, and the quantity consumed is
enormous. It is impossible t even estimate the
quantity. It is known that in Philadelphia, at one of
the assembly balls, not less than twenty thousand tea
r.tiPS were used,bes de jscquerninot and other kinds.
At one affair in NSW York over five thousand tea roses
were recently used in the decoratioi.• The five or six
principal conunission defiler' in Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia probably pisa twelve or fifteen thousand tea
roses through their hands daily. When it is considered
that the roses that these gentlemen sell are the circling
required it may give cane faint idea of the quantity con-
sumed in the three cities. It is asserted that one firm of
growers in New York cleared over twelve thousand dollars
in one season in jaespieminot roses alone.
Of cesium this is an exceptions' ease, and the growers
sometimes lose heavily. For instanew, one firm down east
undertook to grow Ma-e :sal on a grand wale, end the
result was a bleak in the market, and • twenty-five dollar
bed sold for three &Mars a hundred, productive fifure
being about five dollar, at thct time.
111 carnation blooms Ves quantity c-miumel ix still more
enormous. One c numixeun dealer hat winter passed
through his hands an mm emm ge of fifty thousand • month
between Novem,ier and April, and then complained be
had not enough to supply the demand. He sold nearly
thirty thousand to one firm in one month, and he sirus in-
formed that that was two thousand • day lees than hi.
customer used, or ninety thousand that month cmosumed
by one firm. There are probably from ten to thirty thou-
sand earnatian blooms need in Philadelphia daily, and
sometimes more.

A few years ago lycopodium was used almost entirely
for filling bouquets. Now it is almost altogether discarded,
en I smilax has tAken its place. 133 enormous is the con-
sumption of this plant that there're growers of it entirely.
Oue mat, lo Ptill.ldohia, who raises it in connection with
0114 or two other thwers, has cut to data nearly ten
thousand strings, and thie is • mere drop la the bucket to
the amount grown.
. . .

For the Grant procession in one of our westeso cities
over five hundred strings were used to decorats the hose
carriages of the fire department
Ldy of till valley playa an important part in the trade,
one gentleman in Newport having several houses of it, and
is so skilful in blooming it that he is enabled to have it the
whole twelve months of the year. One firm in Phila.
dolphin also posses/1 the secret Of neci.saity the quantity
consumed of this 114wer is much lee. than that of some of
the other leading things. Still, thousands of do"ars
annuall pass into the hr-uls of the growers of this gem
aTirtise °,7teiress'in the Cajon, New Yock and Boston each
tonsuuse the urratest amount, Philadelphia next, among
the eastern titles, and Chicago and Cincinnatt of the
western ones. The ta o latter, and In fact most of the
cities and towns north, south, and west of New York and
Boston, draw their heaviest supplies from the two last-
mentioned cities and from Philadelphia. The trade is
still in its infancy, and before many years it is safe to say
that the cut-fiower business will be one of the most
important of the trades that supply the luxuries of life.—
W. E Also:riots (hardener's iontUy).