The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

Scotch lad. some forfy-odd years ago was taken out of school near Stiri- ing because his health had gotten so bad. that it was an even chance wheth- CT he would live or die. His parents, after thinking over various plans to build up his health put him out at work on a gentleman's estate where he would have work out in tho open in a big flower garden.
 And here was the inception, the be- ginning of the idea of Rosemont Flow CT Gardens, the most convenient, the most cotnpiete and with one possible exception, the largest floral garden in the South. The lad was William B Paterson. and 1t was over thirty years before the influence of those days or pleasant labor among the flowers ot Scotland were felt at their fullest. The old interest, the old love for flowers which were born in those days lying dormant for year after year, revived when the boy had become a man, and had so used his opportunities that he was from the profession of school teaching comfortably established for life and with no fear of ultimate pow nrtyHe had come to America a Scotch lad of r years, wandered for two years, to finally come to Alabama and make money at teaching,
 1t was a bare dozen years ago when rfhe love of this man for flowers, coup led with his wide knowledge of their habits and growth was turned to any commercial use And now he and his sons are the owners of the hest flower garden in the South.
 Of Enormous Extent.
 It Is of enormous extent. For in- stance of q single flower, the carna- ton, no less than 240,000 are grown in one season. There are eighteen splen- did green houses as modern as intelli- gence and skill can make them. Three hundred tons of coal are required each year to keep these green houses at the proper temperature. And the heat en- gepdered by these 300 tons of coal is distributed over and through the eigh- teen greenhouses by as modern a sys- tenn of hat water heating as could be obtained anywhere.
 Tn the eighteen green houses are the enormous total of 50,000 square feet oi space. And 1t may be said that every inch of space Is utilized. In the utili- tartan adaptation of all available inches of space these big green houses oi Rosemont are remarkable if nothing else. In these hot water heated glass houses here, there and everywhere tho space Is taken up and the flowers art growing, Here 1t may be that there is an immense bed of carnations of made earth and under them Is still another bench filled with hyacinth and nareis' sus Or In another green house there Is growing an immense field of Kaisr erin roses, with every remaining nook and corner, but all in order, all in good order filled with aselias and oth- CT towering Christmas plants.
 Each of these eighteen green houses is from i20 to 150 feet long and twenty feet broad. They radiate from com mon center and into this common cen ter each of them opens. The center ! also a green house. the furnace room and the potting room
 Heating the Green Housee.
 he two tons of coal which make
 daily heat from the green house
 dumped into the big furnace kep
 stantly heated, The water which I
 means of distribution of the hea
 ent in and around the numerou
 n houses in big pipes, There ar' ,-o systems of pipes for this service both controlled by valves situated h zach green house, One system is fo regular service for each day. Tn other is for use in case of a bitint freeze. a blizzard or any such emer gency. For it is to be kept In minl that the delicate flowers which bloom so beautifully in freezing weather a we'll as in summer time must be kep at an even temperature. For instance carnations demand a temperature da, fin and day out of 4S degrees. AmerI can Beauty roses may not be success fully grown with a temperature of les than 56 degrees, while other varDetie of roses require a temperature of 5 degrees. Ii is many sided business