The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-07-14

knshionable Famcies i'm Gardening
and the Cultivation of Flowers.


and the Cultivation of Flowers.
There has been fashionable revival Of
gardening. Numerous young ladies promi-
nent in social circles, who are to spend the
summer at country places not far from the
city, expect to devote considerable portion
of their time to the cultivation of flowers,
and have little gardens oil ready and pretty
little watering pots and fancy handled rakes
oil ready for business. In keeping with
this fancy the oid-fashioned broad brimmed
garden hats are again in fashion, and flowers
Of oil sorts will be the popular adornmeni
for hats and bonnets, to the exclusion of al.
most everything else. The rose will be the
reigning flower of the summer and will oc-
| cupy tho place of honor in adjoining the
fairest beauties of the country. Big clusters
OF roses will be worn on GainsborouQh
hats they will catch up and embellish the
corsages of black tulle and black lace
dresses, and the natural flowers will be in
almost as great demand as during the win
ter. A regular rose craze has started and
promises to continue. Not only for gardens
and places close to the city, but at the sea-
side and wherever they will thrive, people
are planting roses and accommodating them
for In and out-of-door decoration. Almost
everyone who has handsome country
place rs cultivating roses and making them,
10 the exclusion of almost all else, the
fayorite flower for decoration.
The POPULARITY of the rose and It's soyer.
eighty as the most fashionable flower is of
comparatively recent origin. Previous to
1870 the fashionable flower of the ball room
which invariably graced beauty's bouquet
was the camelia, and bouquets of these
flowers brought SIS to $40 in the winter
past, as bouquets of roses do now. The
camelia was also the favorite Towering plant
for decoration. About 1870 the practice Of
forcing roses began and for time was con.
centrated here among such men as Louis A.
Bauman, the late John Richie and Robert
Scott, but afterward it was diverted to Bos.
ton, where great attention was given to it,
and the forcing of roses in winter, especially
for bouquets, Is now more extensively car.
rfed on close TO Boston than anywhere in
the, country. Many of the finest roses that
are seen in Philadelphia in the winter come
from the Wauban Conservatives and are
grown by e. M. Wood.
Around New York the great rose growers
are concentrated at Hobokeniand along the
Morris ard Essex road. The great rose
growing State of the Union is New Jersey
and it is there that the growing of roses, es-
pecially in plants for out-of-doors, is carried
to the greatest perfection. Al Madison and
Summit are grown some of the finest roses
that find their way TO the gardens and con.
seryatories of the rich, and several of the
roses now highest in popular favor wers
originated at Madison by Mr. J. N. May.
It was he who produced the new white rose,
the Bride, that is making such sensation.
In the latest most popular work on roses,
by II. b. Ellwanger, the statement is made
that " in the English rose exhibitions are
still to be seen the finest specimens of hardy
roses, but to SEQ the most beautiful blooms
of tea roses that the world produces we must
go to New Jersey The most Of the roses
supplied TO the Conservatives and for out.
of-door planting around Philadelphia, how.
eyer, come from the rose establishments Of
Mr.. Henry A. Dreer, near Trenton, in New
Jersey, which Is one of the largest places Of
the kind in the country. From these, rosei
are now daily being shipped in large guam
titles to California, New Mexico and especi
ally to the South, New Orleans in particulal
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