Daily Republican., 1881-04-26
OUR WILMINGTON FLORISTS.
Their Success i'm Flsriculture-
what Jacob Brown says About the
Culture Of Roses.

OuAtuEe Va AhVbVhs
The sudden bursting of hot weather
upon us has all at once opened up the
florists harvest, if the selling of large
numbers of flower plants can be called u
harvest. The raising of flowers has
been reduced to such science that the
florists by the aid of hot houses have an
abundanceof flowers in winter as well as
summer and what the winter lacks in
quantity of flowers sold is made up in
quality and the high prices received for
the flowers.
There is probably no city in the coun-
try where flowers are more appreciated,
cultivated and used than in Whining
ton. This taste for the beautiful has
been very encouraging to quite num-
Der of florists, who have made the rails
ing of flowers II speciality, and every
year the demand is increasing.
Edward Tatnall is probably the oldest
florist in. Wilmington, who made -
speciality Of raising flowers, and he is
still at the business. Following him is
Jacob Brown, on the lane leading from
the New Castle cauSeway over Market
street bridge to New Castle avenue
running from Third street. bridge. Mr.,
Brown has been probably more sue
cesSful in tlOrlculture than any other
person who has followed it for II living
around Wilmington. Mr.. Bayliss on
the Concord pike has been very success
ful for the time he has been at the buSi-
ness, but he has not had the experience
Mr.. Brown has had 4 representative
of the REPUBLICAN called upon Mr..
Brown yesterday afternoon ut his eStab-
lishment, and found him interested in a
bed of broad trimmed pansieS, that were
turning up their faces and laughing at
the sun. A walk with Mr., Brown
through his seven hot houses and his
explanations and descriptions of his
grand varieties of roses, carnations, tll-
chsias, vcrbenaS, allyssun, heliotropes,
coleas, longiforum lilies, callas, lantanas
and hundreds of other varieties OF
flowers convinced us that he was master
of his business and had as much love
for it as II mother has for her first born
His Marshal Neil roses climbed up the
posts and ran along the roofs of his glass
winter houses and from them depended
immense clusters Of rich, golden
buds in martial majesty, seeming with
their delicious perfume the whole house
fifty feet long in which it grew. The
Marshal Neil is undoubtedly the king
of roses but it is hard to raise, and unless
persons have hot houses or very evenly
tempered rooms in which to keep them
during the winter it is scarcely worth
expending money on them. Mr.. Brown
has other varieties its equal in every
thing but scent, and we are not sure
but he has some that are its equal in that
respect also.
As almost everybody is fond of roses
and so few know how to raise them a
few instructions from Mr.. Brown may
not be amisS to those amateurs in rose
culture who want to raise roses and dc
not know how to plant them and take
care of them. In the first place there is
no use in spending money for roses un-
less a person has u real love for them.
They will not bear neglect. In planting
them a sod should be placed in the
bottom ofthe hole dug to receive them,
1t should be cut in pieces and turned
grass downward. On this set the rose
and cover the roots and fill about the
stem with fine pulVerlHeu ground tha
has not been used for years, Roses necC
new ground.
They should be watch every day, anC
and flies and mildew syringed away. i
these rules are followed there will b'
roses, but if.the roses are neglected and
left to look ont for themselves nt
bloom need be expected.
People often make n great mistak,
sending great distance for roses and
paying high prices for them. They
often turn out perfectly worthless
Such florists as MeSsrs. Brown, BayliS'
and Tatnall must furnish the latest anC
best plants Of all kinds of flowers. |
they did not do so they would soon lost
their custom. Our home florists dar'
not deceive their customers, hence ther
is more certainty of getting good flow
ers from the florists around Whining
ton then from abroad.