The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-22
FLOWERS FOR EASTER.
There Will Be Fine Display of
Them at SmalI's This Week.

The flowers that bloom in the spring this
year are blooming with unusual luxuriance
and splendor, and the promise for Easter is
OF display much more than ordinarily fine.
Already the shops of the florists glow with
the vivid and varied bloom OF tulip, ,hydrangea,
cineraria, azaiea, and genesta, while the rose
in prodigal supply as always forms back
ground of loveliness on which the eye reposes
with that restful sense Of visual luxurious
ness which is the last proof of the justice of
its claim to the title of sovereign of the floral
kingdom. The character of the weather of the
past few weeks, the mingled sunshine and soft
rain, has been specially favorable to the plants.
They have grown with vigor and bloomed
with luxuriance that has not been known
for several seasons. The freedom from long
cold spells during the winter has made the
expenses of the greenhouse men less
heavy than usual and this, in addition to the
big supply, will enable the florists to sell their
exquisite products at prices so reasonable that
even people of the most moderate means will
have no excuse for denying themselves and
their families the customary Easter treat of
lilies and roses or other seasonable flowers.
There will be the usual Easter flower show
this week at the establishment of Messrs. j.
ii. Small & Sons. The large show-window
on Fourteenth street will be filed with the
finest specimens their greenhouses have pro-
duced Of all the spring blooms arranged in
unique and appropriate designs. The chaste
and graceful Lilies of the Annunciation, which
have attained uncommon size and beauty
will OF course be utilized freely as the typical
flower of the season. Orchids of bewil-
dering oddity OF form and hues the
most cunning colorist would despair
OF reproducing will give touch
of the artistically fantastic to the display.
The cinerarias, with their deep but vivid in
tensity of coloring, are plentiful in all varie-
ties So, too, are the azaleas OF the different
shades, the rich-hued and rich-perfumed hya-
cinths, the hydrangeas, the tulips, and the
dainty astilbas. The central space within
the showroom will be filled with fine dis
play of palms and Easter lilies, and profu-
sion OF towering genestas, azaleas, tulips and
other potted plants and cut flowers will make
the show one of the finest ever given by the
Messrs Small.
"The tendency just now," Mr.. Small said
to representative of THE HERALD as he took
up magnificent bunch OF gigantic Magma
Charta roses, sis to cultivate for size Lovers
of flowers seem to want fewer buds of the
largest possible varieties. Here is about the
newest thing in roses" he continued, display
ing bunch of large buds of an exquisite pale
pink tint. "These are called the white La
France and they have just been placed on
sale here for the first time. The finest speci-
mems of them were fully as large as the red
variety. Here is another new rose," he added,
taking from pot an odd-looking bunch of
blooms of delicate copper tint. ''It is called
LaCapucin, or the Easter rose The favorite
rose in New York this season has been the
Ulrich Bruner. 1t has brought the highest price
ever paid for a rose in this country probably,
SO apiece. The favorites of other years still
hold their place here, such as the Baroness
Rothschild, the Mrs. John Lang, the Gabrielle
Luizet, the Mabel Morrison, the finest white
rose in cultivation; the Nine. VAUDEVILLE, the
Nine. Cusin, and, of course, the Jacks. The
Jacks have been rare and hard to obtain of
late, but we have just begun to get them in
plenty. and they are in magnificent condition.
"Oh, yes,' Mr.. Small concluded, as
he carefully closed the big box whose
dimly-lighted interior was glorifed with
the brilliant hues of the splen-
did roses he had been discussing. sthe de-
mand for violets grows steadily and the sup
ply keeps pace with it. The growing market
for them in Washington has caused the gar
deners to plant alternate rows of vegetables
and volets under glass in their grounds. If
this hadn't been the case this year violets
would have been scarce and dear, as the plants
have suffered severely from disease that
resembles black-spot, sort of fungus which
destroys the leaves.