The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-04

/ pany have 40 green houses, 100 feet long
and 12 feet wide; that they have about A
acres of land devoted to the culture O
roses and other flowers that can readily bt
! transported by mail. The temperature O
these houses is kept up by means Of a fur
mace at one end of each house. and is abou
80 Fair. at night, and Co. during the day
! They use about $50 tons of coal year
They employ a force of about 40 men anC
boys, and expend about $4,000 year il
advertising, and distribute about 10O 00(
catalogues annually.
They send roses all over North America
and hundreds OF dollars worth to the
Sandwich Islands, and some to China anG
Japan, and the western coast of Africa
The firm in all cases pays the postage
when they fill orders. by mail. All the
roses and other plants sold by this firm
are propagated from cuttings containing
two buds, except in case of rare plants, wher
single bud is used; consequently there is
no danger, if the top should die, of the root
producing an inferior flower. The cuttings
are first set in clean, white limestone sand
and after being kept properly watered, and
at the right temperature for few days,
they form roots, and then they are trans.
ferred to small pots and placed in other
houses. After a while they are planted in
the ground in the open air.
This nursery contains all sorts and kinds
of roses, the company importing all the
new varieties from Europe as soon as prac.
ticable after they have been originated.
twenty neU, blooming roses, twenty
new hybrid perpetual roses, general collec,
ton of ever blooming roses, one hundred
and thirty. four; general collection of n.y.
Bird perpetual roses, one hundred and
thirty nine; general collection of moss
roses, thirteen; general collection of climb
ing roses, eight; making, if we have count
ed them right, three hundred and thirty
four different kinds of roses. They are of
every imaginable kind and color, including
the green rose and tree roses, which are
budded on large stalk and look like a
dwarf tree. Each rose is labeled when
shipped from the nursery. The labels are
made in Rochester, n. Y, and have printed
on them the name of each rose. The com
pany use about 800 900 annually.
The new roses are most originated in
Europe by persons who make it a special
study. After carefully Hybridizing differ
ent, roses, with the view of improving their
desirable qualities, the seed is planted and
the young plant bloomed. Most of these
prove of no special merit. but occasionally
good one is found; it is tested thoroughly
for srveral years, and if still believed valu-
rble is offered for approval before the rose
Congress of France or the Royal Horticul-
tural Society of England. Here the judg-
ment is SO severe that but few roses can
pass, those that do may be considered really
good. If granted certificate of merit,
the fortunate owner is at liberty to place it
on the market with the official endorse
ment Of the Society. Plants of the new
varieties, which have received certificates,
are usually sold for more than their weight
in gold.
This company have all kinds of hardy
shrubs and plants that are easily sent by
mail. and in connection with the rose nurs-
cry about three hundred acres of land de-
voted to fruit and ornamental trees, and
have large stock of these on hand; but
finding the sale of roses much better than
that of fruit trees, they intend to con-
fine themselves exclusively to the culture
of roses, and will dispose of their stock of
fruit trees at exceedingly low prices.
QUILP.