The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-16
Tho Flower Trade.

A prominent florist estimates that three
hundred wagon loads of Towering plants
are brought to New York during the period
OF the Spring trade and that as much as
~, 600. 900 is spent every spring in New
York and Brooklyn for plants and flowers.
The flowers come from all around New
| York. In New jersey. Staten Island.
| Long Island, and che adjoining counties of
this State are vast flower and plant farms.
each or which represents fortune to ita
owner. Over in Astoria one loriculturist
has over two acres of ground under glass.
and there are several others like him and
many less extensive, but still very large
growers. These raiseIs have each their
special varieties and graftings and planta,
anu In addition to thier New York trade,
snip all over the country. San Francisco,
Montreal, and Savannah are profitable
markets to them, and IN every town and
city of the United States they have Gus.
toners. In addition to these extensive
cult'lrists, who raise the rarest and costliest
exotic plants. rs well as the COMMONPLACE
market flowers, there are many smaller
ones who raise flowers for the spring trade
and winter supply of the bouquet-makers
almost exclusively. In addition to the big
lower and plant farms at Flatbush, Astoria,
onion Fill and Orange, there are many
MINOR ones scattered all over the suburbs.
ana even in the city itself, One popular
one IL III Fourteenth street near Third ave-
nue. ana another occupies the corner of
houston and Hudson streets. Within n
radius Of thirty miles from the CITY Hall.
there is at least $4,000, 600 invested in
the BUSH o,s. 70 cn,,merate the yarietiea
Of plants and flowers sold in the spring
trade this year would require census IF
the globe in that line. The gardeners are
constantly adding foreign varieties to their
stocks, and the gardens of India, China,
and the Sandwich Islands contribute to the
store New Workers select from. The
heaviest sales are, Of course, in the cheaper
varieties Of plants. The familiar roses,
ycraniuns fuschias, heliotropcs, pansies,
DAISIES, hydrangcas, laburnums vcrbenas,
petnnias. vi0lcts, carnations and mignon-
cttes are sold by the hundreds of thousands.
ives, passion flowers, and other vines have
an immense sale too. Ferns, native and
tropical; strange grasses from the sun
Smlttcn natural gardens of South America,
and orchids from tho mysterious forests of
the Equator swell the list. The catalogues
the flow OF mon publish would put those of
many Il librscy to shame, for size at least.
dealer said that the largest profit Is made
on cheap plants, thG-aumbcr of them sold
is so great. The heavlee. gains are made
by the owners of city greenhouses, w,e,.
raise fine plants, and arc able to Tell thr >.
without the intervention of middlcE u.
The trade in flower and vegetable seed,
at this season almost rivals that In plants
and flowers. The flower seeds are largely
imported from France and Germany, u
few coming from England and Holland.
The vegetable seeds, on the contrary, are
grown in the New England States, New
York, Canada, and other sections of the
continent, and are exported 80 as to almost
balance the imports Of flower seeds. Ameri-
can vegetable seeds are much better than
those grown in Europe and produce better
results. They arc popular abroad In con
sequence.