The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-29

| forty to fifty trays, and these each hold l one or two dozen plants, so that large
 wagon may carry two thousand plants. 1 One dealer, together with an assorted | stock, offered of yerbenas alone one | thousand plants in boxes holding do2- | en. Easter Saturday and the morning | preceding Decoration day are the big l days of the season, when 1t Is not unu- l sual for one grower to send in two or | three wagon loads instead of one The plants must be well grown and in Iuxu- | riant Towering, since each one Is final l ly subjected to selection by retail buy CT for place in the window or door yards, Geraniums are the most popu-
 lar, as the shoWiest, most persistent in
 bloom, and the easiest grown and they continue in demand from the opening to the closing day. Boxes of deep orange colored calendulas with the smaller lowered yellow daisies, anthemls tinc- toria, are among the showiest effects:
 and hardly less bright are masses of
 nasturtiums of assorted colors, patches
 of margolds and of lantanas. Lady
 Washington pelargoniums make an ef-
 fective show and win many buyers,
 while fuchsias covered with heavy buds
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 fields are in especial favor for retail
 sales to German householders. Old
 fashioned plants, as bachelors buttons,
 cockscomb, old man, scarlet sage, and
 musk plant have steady demand, and
 creepers and climbers, as stone crop,
 ice plant, myrtle, creeping Charlie,
 vinca, and tradescantia, are shown in
 quantities. Memories of house plants
 familiar to far-removed childhood, of
 almost forgotten country gardens, and
 of haunts by shady brooksldes are
 called up by plants of lemon-verbena,
 lobelia, oleander house leeks phlox,
 cigar plants, ten-weeks' stocks, thrift
 sweet William, zinnias, forget-me-nots,
 and ferns. Trays of vegetable plants
 are also among the offerings, one hun
 dred and twenty r lnts of tomatoes
 selling for thirty ge cents. Other
 prices at this seasf /are a dozen and
 half zinnias for one dollar, while the
 same sum will buy thirty-f1ve towering
 verbenas, a dozen good geraniums, two
 or three boxes of pansies, according to
 quality, each holding thirty plants, two
 dozen musk plants twelve large plants
 of Vinca, or two dozen pyrethrums or
 armerias. Roses of all varieties and
 grades and hydrangeas are abundant and generally well grown and stocky,
 though some plants are leggy. Tn the Easter season lilies, azaleas, hydran- geas and cytisus are the principal offer ings Bulbous plants are comparative rare. At the Canal street market the trade is in bedding plants and entirely wholesome, while at Union Square o 1u Haaoro r1lo fa f,FI I,y -g.,o are seen such as Portugal laurels, palms, rubber plants and arbor vitae sheared into various shapes. More stock is being offered each year, and prices this season have been lower than in former years The growers estimate that it costs dollar to grow dozen geraniuns, while ordinary stock brings only seventy-five cents. Plants of ge- raniums must be very good to command $1.25, and the choicest stock noticed, ex- tra large, full-fiowered plants of the va riety General Grant, brought two dol- lars a dozen.
 The market season is over by the end 1 of June, The cultivators then occupy themselves in repairing greenhouses, | on stock for fall and winter | and in caring for their bulbs | of Easter lilies from Bermuda and rose stocks from Belgium. The winter is given up to anxious care and cultiva- | ton for the spring rush, which rounds | out the year Altogether, 1t is hard | work, which yields not more than fair | living, and often but a frugal one. | Cold days and stormy weather operate | against sales, and large receipts of | strawberries and other fruits take the | hucksters into other lines of trade and | make slow sales and low prices in the l flower markets. Dull market days are often helped out by buyers from Spring | field, New Haven and other towns In | nearby states, who can buy more | eheaply in the metropolitan markets, even when the cost of transportation by | water or rail is included.
 It Is not possible to give an approxi- nate idea of the total sales in these markets for a season, but the flower rade has assumed great importance jince the beginning of the century, when there was but one commercial iorist in the United States. There are low nearly five thousand establish nents for growing flowers, and four ifths of this business has been devel- ped within the last twenty-five years. The last census report states, among 'ther interesting items connected with that 3S,S2324 square feet of 'lass are in use, covering more than S91 cres. Of these establishments, 812 are wned and conducted by women The 'alue of fixtures, heating apparatus nd tools amounted to s40,000, ,000 Fuel reight and express. and postage on ome twenty million catalogues are oth- r large items of expense. The receipts rom sales of cut flowers are put at lore than fourteen million dollars a ear, and from plants and shrubs at , bove twelve million dollars.
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