Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-25
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Thousands os Exquisite ROscs-
waiting aer Balsny Spring TO
Haooms-Csyssai Palace Rese Park.
Nature pushing to its ripest develop |
ment the horioulturist's art has given an |
exquisite bloom and delicious fragrance
to Cryatal Palace Rose Park. Thousands
of luxuriantly green plants are unfolding
their rich colors, and filling their glass
confines with odors indescribaoly sweet.
The wealth of bright tints is delight to
the eye, and the subtle perfume alike
charming TO the olfactory s4nse. A care
full, systematic and intelligent husband
ing of the plants is shown by their yigor,
and in the results of their blooming
possibilities, and the superiority of the
stock Ia attested by the fruits in flowers.
Crystal Palace Rose Park is located q
short distance from this city, close by the
Newport pike, and is owned and operated
by M. F. Hayden. trife over $4,000
square feet Of land is covered by
glnss, aud beneath this plants and
flowers of every description grow
and bloom in their fullest vigor. Roses
are the speciality of the many products of
the houses and a greater space is set aside
for their propagation than for any other
single class of flowers. In all there are
| 125 varieties of the rose species, which
are multiplied into about 10000 stock
plants and over 100, 900 yearlings strong
and finely rooted ready for immediate
transplanting. These include oil the
favorite roses in cultivation besides
several new varieties, which for beauty
and perfection and fragrance with such
| qualities as hardness, promise to root up
in the public's favor many which have
hitherto been held in such high estate by
amateur florists. In this connection
must be mentioned an entirely new rose,
q Seeding from the garden of Bancroft,
the historian, who is the possessor of the
| finest collection of roses in this country.
II is called the American Beauty; the
flower is very large, q scarlet-crimson,
/ sufused with carmine, rivaling the Jac.
The plants are perpetual boomers and
quite hardy. Another new variety, "Her
Majesty" has decidedly strong claims for
popularity. The flower is very large, per-
fectly double, of rich delicate hue and
the plant very vigorous. William Francis
Bennett is another variety entirely new.
1t ismuch like the JAG in color, but larger,
and deliciously fragrant, and the plant a
vigorous grower. These three varieties
with the Sunset, an exquisite blossom of
rich buff and La France, superb flower,
are grouped as the five specialties, aud
sold at SIS for the first size bushes and
| 80 for the second, (for five bushes
one of each kind.) In the stock
is every variety known in Horticulture.
Making a specially of their propagation,
plants are put upon the market with such
an inducement as 81 per dozen, for
hardy shoots. The shoots are taken from
the pots with the soil for shipment, and
can be transplanted without the risk of a
single loss. For distant deliveries they
are also shipped with the soil and by ex-
press. The system of growing plants, is
so thorough that there is no possibility of
mistake or mixing Of the varieties, and
each plant is guaranteed true to name.
The collection of bedding, basket and
greenhouse plants, vines and creepers is
likewise full and complete. Everything
in these several lines is in stock, and
none better can be obtained than those in
growing at Crystal Palace Hose Park.
There is a luxuriance and strength notice
able in all the products of this establish
ment, which must very emphatically com
mend them TO the public in decided pref
erence to plants cultivated with less in
telligent care. Mr.. Hayden's persona
attention is directed to his numerous
greenhouses, and the handiwork of al
experienced, conscientious florist, is visi
! BILE at every hand. The we'll known howe
4 store, No. 700 Market street, is the Viii
| mington office of Crystal Palace Rose Park
| | 1t is superfiuous to state that cut flower
! of all kinds are obtainable Their
/ at all times. Flowers in different stage
K of advancement furnish the store with it
9 fragrant stock in trade, and the facilitie
e are very large. just now attention
e being directed to timing the unfolding G
d some especially pretty plants to tn
h Easter festival, when the demand
Is always very great. In this connectic
a may be mentioned hundreds of Bermud
y lilies, a flower uniting delicate an
i. graceful type of beauty with rich pc
i, fume; also the stepnotiee, creepe
d Towering a white blossom much like q
g. tuberose in appearance and penetratir
lie odor, and a variety of flower which
~ very rare.