Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-30
THE FLOWERS.
That Bloom in the Spring,
Ira La.
NEW Y0RKS GREAT SHOW
Horticulture sud "Reminiscences OF
supply Fashionable Flowsrs-Bat-
ing OF Roses-sscond.uand
Flowora-Orohida


For TIE sunday tAkctlei
New York April 2G.-Thosc. who have
known Sew York for years aud have WATCH
vd not only los mutrriul progress hul tue
Developments uf llfr ard character uMuhf
its residents, cannot fai to have noticed
the variations, ana, Ia some INSTANCES, lhg
complete reversal NJ the manifestation uf
that universal instinct, the love or flowers.
A few years ago every family bad lls
there was uo regular flower market, such
us now fo1us one N the Sights ~ the
city, Sew Workers knew where TO buy thcir
flowers, ana thr stands about Warrington,
Fulton and Jefferson markets were as crowd.
rd uH the shopping districts iu the season,
while careful housewives and eAtrayaEAnt
for chulrr plants, aud there were tiny con.
seryatorrs In every sunny window during
In spite Of the fact that the rich are
now ont az town the greater part " the
year aud that the middle class live In uats,
dry their clothes ON the roofs and can in-
dulgc their taste Tor flowers only hy an
occasional expenditure Tor u handful of
iiies or cluster ~ rosca New Workers
viii have flowers aud the business ia
them u constantly increasing,
DEALERs AND GROWERS.
~ Is not many years since the New York
florist ala business Ina his Frecuhouse-We
AN remember No with the fountain and
goldfish near the entrance aud how hc
used 90 GO about from plant 90 plaut clip
ping the blossoms which his customers He-
lucted. Now his business consists Ia selling
flowers not Ia raising them.
The source Of New Works. supply Is the
region lying within circumference OF
twenty miles outside the city. the line be
Ing drawn in all directions, Including Long
flower farms and Tie business once cone
uupd 60 the Germans is now largely 10 the
hands OF Americans. who. you may he sure,
Nnd " pmhlahle or they would nave ltit
II Is a popular dcluslou thar Horticulture
~ an occupation rbueclally adapted for
understand such matters ls that 90 Is too
heavy and too taxing for the average woman
There are women near New York who raise
huwors for the trade hut the nature Ot
the work Is such that mans power ~
endurance Is Hu important addition 90 the
capital stock required aud women are there
The Same h true of tho business of sell
ling flowers in tho city. The hours are
long paying orders mean hard work and
lions either in houses or churches,
THE SHIPMENT or FLOWERS.
I'm wlutcr. howera are packed GA cotton
/ aud enclosed I'M wooden boxes for shin.
mpnt in the summer they are dempened
B and tissue paper Is substituted Tor the
cotton. where nuwors are to be sent long
distances, moss ls sometimes used. as thar
/ win reiain moisture better than any other
/ A great buslress Is done IA alng orders
Tor howera 90 be delivered 90 persons travel
ing across the continent or TO Europe In
! forwarded frnm New York, but Instructions
I ere transmitted 90 dealers along the route
/ % supply what Is necessary, Tor steam.
I ships the flowers ate packed M hoXes. thp
l most fragile being arranged Tor prescnta-
1 ton on the hrst day, while the hardest are
I reserved Tor what win presumably De the
I last These boxes, properly labelled, are
I cnil listed 10 the chief steward, who puts
them Into the Vnigcrptor and produces
| them according 90 schedule,
PREFERRED STOCK.
The flowers for which there A con.
| siRnt demand ia New York are roses ana
| Niotts, Fashion may nom iiW9 to time
| eyalt one variety above another but q never
iorHaeps these n0wers for lilies on oarna.
tien of even that glory az the autumn the
| chrysanfhemun,
rhe American beauty. which has been
such a faFprlto thrse last few yelrS, has
noi been able % DUST the JacQueuiiuOt frou
~ position " being the rose preferred
above an others In the late wlnter and
eANf spring tne JQcQucminot has many
Rivals the fape Coulter, which equals Il