New-York tribune., 1868-08-26
THE FLOWER TRADE or NER-YORK.

WHO ARE ENGAGED IN IT-THEIR EXpENDl-
TUREs AND THEIR PROFITS
II would be surely appropriate 10 call August the
Month OF Flowers for no other m the calendar
sboxx greater richness or variety of bloom. Now
on.n the great ito roses not fair than
sweet the tiny Scotch IOse daTlDes of the gardens
slender day lilies stand powdered with gold dust
and the Japan lilies splendid as a court OF man
aarins and breathe such heavy sweetness that flies
who come within the wide circle of their CuTledbaek
leaves are known to drop faint with the poisoned
honey; gadioas glow in softest scarlet and hesh
sns. that the sun seems 10 love TO shine through;
salvias and geraniums in the hight are Suoh
An mpassioned color that the eye can scarcely rest
upon them; pOppies seem 70 tempt one 10 HJ INC
sleepy wine that shows IN their Bohemian cups ana
the host of lesser Aowers-mignOnette pansles,
phloxes both white and pink, larkspur. harebel con
yolyulus. hibiscus dianthas and early asters, raj
fnssia thunbergia with its nankeen leaf, and the
fr,pgv vine of the eueums and. crOwnlng grace and
pride of the month, row bloom the water lies on III
Land axes opening in the dewy morning at the touch
of the SUMS spear Cape jasmine, and tuber0se ana
sarnatOn now shed their sweets on the garden ar
and in the woods the sweet fern Is spcest, and the
pine balmest under these slow ierVd suns. Nature
adjusts everything both for beauty and sutaDlltyi
10 with the tempered light of hazy moons comes az
this tTOpe heat of color, that would be IDSueIaDle
under the crystal light Of June.
Ii Is question whether one in cities where the
gradatiOns of seasons are unmarked save by u zen
deuess of the air, does not value hOwers more leel
ingly than country people do. IL Is mere IN bhe cry
where one knows it IS August because the catefpl-
lars are the ground and backDeTries are III IDaI
ket, that people spend millions OF dollars Oh Jaoques
AlinOt roses and butOn-hOle bouquets III may seem
bringing money into Tcpellant cOnneNlOn WIZ thoSo
creations most akin 10 the spiritual, Dut the hover
trade of New York to-day IS no lnc0nsdcIaDle lteh
of It's pursuits Taken an indication OF lls pros
peritV and growth OftaSte, the increasing demand
Tor flowers is a gratifying sign to every person ol
liberal tastes. The New-Y0rk market for hoWSIS Is
rcrtainly the largest IN the country: PmadeIpnI,
Baltimore and even Cincinnati florists send 10 the
great and canela nurseries or Long lslahu lor
thcfr plants in return fOr which NeW-1Ork on Occh-
siou sends for all the cut flowers either city mas 70
spare great is the popular passion tor these sweet
Within tbe last few years the demand for cut
flowers has more than doubled. Twelve years since,
there was only store and q lew easements on
Broadway devoted to cut flowers. Now there are ~
stores on Broadway alone, beside easements Inc
latter arc fast giving way TO stores as they cannot
make any display of their wares, and ladies ODect 10
descending into them. Very lew OF the DOuqueF-
dealers on Broadway cultivate their own hOWers.
The principal ones who do so are JOhn henderson,
Andrew Brdgeman, William F1tzpatrlck, ana y
Clarke. In the side streets ont of Broadway are
several bOuQuetmakers; the best known among
them are Isaac Buchanan OF Seyenteenth-sE ana
william wilson OF fOuIIeeiI,ll-stt' % %Ioun Vh I n @
grow their own flowers. Beside these tnere are
several floral establishments III Brooklyn and jersey
City To supply the various houses who make but
do not grow bouquets, there are numerous ellai
growers in all the outskirts of NGN1Ork having TWO
or more greenhouses and narrow borders for open air
flowers These growers mostly Germans and
English very few Americans. Most OF them sell
their flowers to the bOuquetmakers during the Win
ter and in warm weather send their children to Nend
them on the streets. But kew-lOTk draws largely
from Philadelphia and Baltimore, principally for
cameliaS.
The largest establishment for the cultivation of
flowers in the vicinity of this city Is that OF John
Henderson a. Co. of No. 80 Broadway, whose green
houses are situated four miles from Flushing l. l.
These gentlemen have IA greenhouses each 100 feet
l,,,s civ pf fpp
large ones devoted to the cultivation of camehas
and other large growing plants The building and
fitting up OF this establishment cost upward OF
e6OC0 The heating apparatus and hot water pipes
alone cost $1,000: the latter are 4inch cast iron
pipes and were they laid in straight line, would
reach nearly two miles. The consumption of coal
for warming the water in the pipes during the past
Winter was over 2OO tuns The quantity Of flowers
cut and sent 10 New-lOrk was about nan mlIlloh'