The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-15
FASTER FLOWER TRADE.
,,cu WATER MARK eF THE FLOR
,srs, BUSINESS IN THE UNITED
STATES.

,-,on Bermuda's Lily 1rahc anu
tends the whole World i'm
r,o,xer Farming - Economics of
Urade-What Is Due to Ameri-
sunshine and American Law
ishuess.
~. YORK. April 13.-For the past six
..l-s or more in the thousands of COM
.aorciaI green houses now registered in
..t. ..,gntry. plants of innumerable variety
" been timed and tended for Easter
,,.-,,,ior Those two forward are set
.a-,, somewhat that forming buds be de-
ID Those backward pushed nearer the
..,rmth and fostered with all the garden
49,, arf And all last week at the hun
,ra1s of express offices and railroad stores,
s..;s-., shops and cut flower mission vans
and attendants have been busy moving
,ba seasons donations of spring blossoms.
nh. flower industry in this country
elbows marvellous expansion. Where, ac-
,ording to the government census of 1891,
,bare we're 1859 establishments for the
,r,o,ing and sale of flowers, a conservative
estimate now puts the number at 10000.
There are more than 100000 square feet
,f Green house acreage under cultivation
now as against 38,00OO00 nine years ago.
And the value of cur flowers, which rep
resented in 1891 something over 100000,
Is now judged TO have reached five times
hat sum or $70.000,0O0.
Americans Pre-eminence.
fact that the flower chiefs pride
themselves on a present is that America
leads the world in growing roses and rare
n,ants in winter, and is frequently called
mon to send flower pieces and hampers
m Paris Berlin and London for wedding
gifts and purposes of social congratula-
ion So perfect is the method of packing
and the forestalling of accident or i'll
usage in the transit that these hot house
flowers reach their foreign destination as
fresh and fragant as if only a day or two
on the way.
This country is acknowledged to have
the best equipped and most perfectly sys-
tematized greenhouses in existence. And
lately projects have been started by
American growers that promise to ma
terally alter the flower trade, both geo.
graphically and additionally. Within a
short time a progressive flower grower and
nurserymau with years of successful eX-
perienle in the business, has begun to ship
palms and house plants of rare foliage to
Europe, thus beating the old world flor
isis on their own ground, for it is only
cultivated to any marked extent in Amer
lea, a branch of trade that has grown
enormously.
To-day tube roses are being shipped by
the thousands from North Carolina, Flor
ida and Texas to foreign markets, and
gadiolus from Ohio and the New Jersey
and eastern green houses are also ex-
ported in quantities.
Washinston's Rivalry of Holland.
The climate and soil of the state of
Washington has been found in certain
spots to be exceptionally fitted for grow
ing the Hearrissii lily, so long identified
with Bermuda. and older tropical markets
has now an alarmingly brisk young rival
on the Pacific coast. The greatest trade
development of all, however, is the fact
that the familiar Dutch bulbs, tulips, by
aciAths, narcissus, without which no
spring garden or window Shelf can be
complete are being successfully germin-
ed in the state of Washington.
With all the American florists industry
and push in the forcing of the bulbs, he
has hitherto depended for the
cigination of them on the Dutch
brothel hood who have conducted their
nourlshng industry for centuries togeth-
er without competition. Millions of bulbs
are now received into the United States
every November in preparation for the
Easter blossoms, but up to date authorf-
lies predict that America will soon be
aole to furnish a good proportion of this
supply for herself. Hustlng growers from
the New England cities have started this
oulb growing industry in Washington and
nave taken the precaution to import eX-
nenc5d Dutch gardeners to initiate
mem INTO the practical methods
What may be done in regard to utilizing
our new colonies from the florists stand
io'ht is yet question. Porto Rico is
known to be rich in shrubs and flowers
ana the most exquisite orchids in the
%ofd are found in the Philippines. Since
DTWey captured Manila, however, the
voH9ctor work in the islands has been
greatly Interrupted. The country was too
upset to allow of flower hunting expedi-
ions and 1t was only a week ago that
H5 agent for an American florist was
o34e 10 make any definite response to or
7rS Tor Philippine orchids and native
Inc Hover growers classed in the North
Auanuc division of territory, which en-
traces the New England states. New
ork New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
le'e hitherto monopolized the center of
we mower trade, the output from their
Il Sen houses being largely in excess 10
ae amount of flowers and plants pro-
ou9ed by the growers of any other sec
,oI. Ot late years, however. Illinois and
'' nave devoted q large area OF
spare and great deal of capital and
nefsy to flower growing, some of the
Host prominent commercial growers in
i'e country having settled there.
Trade Economics.
IN the latest constructed flower fac
.olies' the utmost business system and
onoiny of management obtains. For in
iuce' certain grower owning eighty
4 80" houses, most of them $50 feet long
4, u as wide as a street, operates them
~ with far less help than a forest of
lHer days was wont to employ about a
United establishment. The heating
H4 ventilation for the entire eighty
ouS'S IS generated from two batteries. A
N nsIe gardener of proper discretion is
tS enabled 10 regulate the temperature
lNe various grades Of plant property
ushout che entire system. At night n
ulchman who might be called the flower
use makes the rounds at certain inter-
US lowers or hlghtens the temperature
Co3fGlng TO need. II the wind rises he
a'ert to alter the ventilation and screen
charges. If IL comes on muggy and
A ahP he must temper his machinery. If
MY turns colder he is on hand to
The even climate of spring must
hfn oil