The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-10-05
ACRES UNDER GLASS.
A Stroll Through the Great
Conservatives Of
Greenvil1e.
JOHN REDS ROSES.
The Wonders Of HenderSon's Green
houses Where Society Buds
and Blossoms Bloom.
Beautiful aowersl

Beautiful howersi
Who does not love them, and who
would not be glad to have his house
converted into bower of green with
bright blossoms nestled among it that
shed such sweet and subtle fragrance
abouta A few delicate blossoms in mid
win seem to fill room with warm,
Chef III light which none can behold
without feeling its good effects. Al
though nearly everybody loves and adj
mires flowers, few will ever assume the
care and expense Of cultivating them.
They require constant attention and the
neglect of a day will ruin q seasons
work Wondering to what extent flower
cultivation was engaged in as q matter Of
pleasure by people of this city, visited q
few days ago the fine green houses OF the
late Peter Henderson on Arlington ave
nue.. 1t is indeed an interesting place to
visit, and seemed like an immense gar
den of flowers.
ACRES OF FLOWERS
Over five acres of ground are covered
bv the glasshouses Floral culture never
seemed SO wonderful to me as it did when
l viewed the one hundred ana twenty
thousand square feet of glass lliied with
blossoming plants. 1t is now The time OF
houses where these plants are forced are
many thousands. Each plant bears but
one blossom. and when they first begin
TO cut them in the middle OF TINS month
they will sell at twenty-five Genus
each. After the early crop IS done. ana
when the market becomes Hooded, with
these blossoms, the price descenus 10
eight cents, and then at this greenhouse
the blooms are put back to be ready
for the late season in December wnen
they VIII command almost any sum. Ihese
flowers are very popular IN the ian.
and ladies wear no others at this time
of tue year. They are also very DeauI-
full for house decorations. specially Is
being made at the Henderson green
houses of the pink and white ostrich
plume last season imported from Japan
The pink ones are known as the LOUIS
BEGINNERS. A very beautiful plant snas !
saw here was The dwarf Erench cSahna,
used only in flower beds. Ii ia snowy
bed plant and looks very attractive. Next
TO chrysanthemuns the most pop nlar now
ers are roses and these are in markeG an
the year. Long greenhouses We're hilc9
with the rose plants in blossom, anu
large quantities are sent daily 10 the
market. The cheapest roses sold mere are
10 cents and the most expensive are %
cents each.
All the ordinary flowers and all kinds
of plants except shrubbery are cuitiya.el
mere, out no rare plants are r'tlsca = = =, {.
TO the great expenses aud the poor markel
fer them. In the greenhouse where inc
palms are kept the heat is always between
ninety and one hundred degrees Inls
greenhouse was one OF the smaller ones
aud although it had few plants III mum
Der they represent a greatmanY hundreds
OF collars. The smallest palm shown me
was about foot high, and had been
three years growing. and was valued az
five dollars Palms are not Proiitaoie
Investment To heat these greenhouses
during the winter il requires eight thous-
aud tons of coal, an amount which u
seems hardly possible to use in SO short 9
time.
After I LEFT Henderson's visited the
greenhouse OF John Reid, member OF the
Beard Of Education, These are in Green
willie and are not SO large rs Henderson's,
as only roses und 4 very few other How
ers are grown there. There are twenty
nine greenhouses here, all bright with
blossoming roses. They send from here
i daily average OF Loo roses. some Of
each Variety The American Beauty is
one OF the largest and most expensive
rose, bat the Duchess Of Albany. q
poeles Of tie In France. ~ the Latest.