The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-09-10

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Indianapolis rose, which, NKc this
/ city's carnations, already has name
! in American flower circles, writes the
! Indianapolis correspondent OF the
New York Tribune. w. j. Hassclman.
owner of the Indianapolis Flower and
| Plant Company, a whOlcSaling con-
corn, that has large greenhouses just
| north Of Central avenue and Thirty
fourth street, shipped two car loads
! of the wonderful Newcastle rose pro
ducing earth to indianapolis last year
and used it with remarkable success
| in his greenhouse benches. He Is
| just now unloading four more car
| loads The soil that is now being
shipped to Indianapolis is taken out
! Of one Cf Newcastle's streets that is
being improved. 1t is a dark cOlored
| clay-tha kind that farmers call
white oak clay'-and its peculiar
characteristic is its adhesiveness
when in damp state. 1t can be
worked until it locks and feels like
putty, but when dried out it lies a
compact mass that holds we'll any fer
tiliZer thai may be used on it.
The Newcastle people think that
this is the greatest rose producing soil
in the world" said Hasselman today
as he handled some of the clay that
was being unlOaded in the green
houses, but | am not prepared to
say whether that is true or not. At
all events it has given the best re-
suits in rose growing of any soil found
il Indiana and has also given New
castle a national reputation as O pro-
ducer of roses that cannot be sur
passed. Newcastle roses have taken
sweepstakes and other prizes in ma
tiOnal shows. We are shipping it to
indianapolis because it is the best
soil that we have available, and mas
much as we can get it from the streets
that are being improved in Newcastle
it is about as cheap earth as we could
get even If we sent teams out into
the country here and found passably
good clay. We have found a place
north Of Broad Ripple that seems to
have good rose growing soil, but we
have not made sufficient experiments
yet to be certain that it will produce
the results that Newcastle soil will
produce.
Newcastle has built up wonder
full rose growing industry. Chicago
is still the rose centre of the West,
as Madison, ~ J., is in the East, but
Newcastle IS looming up in the list
Of our national rose centres.
"The Newcastle florists are cutting
and shipping between 100000 and
100000 roses a year now, and they
go everywhere What is it IN the soil
that makes the roses grow and
bloom so wonderfully? l don't know.
but it is there we have very good
rose soil around Indianapolis. and it
produces a superior flower, but still
l cannot say that it equals the soil
of Newcastle
"All of Indiana is the best carna.
ton growing region in this country,
and possibly In the world. | don't
know why the carnation likes Indiana
SO well, but perhaps it is because In
diana likes the carnation equally we'll.
Indiana has produced more good, high
standard commercial carnations than
any other part and more new species
Of the flower The State is we'll to
the fore in flower raising of all kinds"
Hasselman has developed several
carnations, one Of which, brilliant
red one, is as pretty flower as can
be found in the carnation family. He
is working on several other new spe-
cies and has them in the third year
Of their development stage.