The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-11
TIE HEwsuRYs AT HOME
stll Building up Their Greenhouses
and Nursery Into the Best OF the
Northwest.

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The NeWburys-and that's the
name SO we'll associated with flowers,
trees and shrubs,-have been doing
an Immense amount of work over at
their palatial flower garden on the
south side since early last spring.
They started out to make some i'm
provements which they figured would
cost them about $1,000, but before
the fall season was reached that
$4,000 was shot all to pieces and
when they finished they had spent
about $4,000 in adding more equip
ment for conservatory.
One thing they had to improve up
on was the heating plant of that vast
institution. The one they had ans
wered the purpose for a number of
years but their plant had grown to
such proportions that the heating of
1t had become a serious subject. They
had to make q large excavation. for
the boiler room, which Is done OFF in
cement. with a cement roof. They
installed a battery of three boilers,
and erected a smokestack that stands
IS feet high, which took two carloads
of brick to build. There is store
room in the engine room for 200
tons of coal. and all the appliances
that tend to diminish hard labor.
Much of the greenhouses has been
r%earranged in the past few years by
the addition of new houses, and what
a great ROOF of glass surmounts the
grounds. An addition of 5000 square
of glass was added this season, which
now gives the Newburys $4,000
square feet OF glass surface in their
greenhouses. That means something
when a devastating hail storm comes
along. A walk beneath that glass
reveals things that the average per-
son knows not Of. To g the myriads
Of nodding chrysanthemums, which
are now in the height Of their. popul-
arity. standing in long rows, fresh.
vigorous and strong In their appear
ance. indicates that there is 4 master
hand behind their growth and devel-
opmsnt that. understands that science
{of producing that which 10 the best
and IN the truest type Of flower.
There are Thousands Of the NUNS at
the grssnhouse. and they are indeed
- stght to behold. In two or three
different houses are the carnations.
some grown and others in different
stages of development, for It is one
Of the sciences Of the greenhouse to
have the flower coming on" through
the season and always have some
thing fresh and appealing to the eye.
IN that great mass Of carnations Mr..
Newbury said there were 10000
separate plants which would yield
their flowers. Then OF to the rose
house where there were hundreds Of
roses that were doing business right
along under the propogating atmos-
phere. There were of about
every variety under the sun, that
bore the unmistakable evidence Of
thrift and vigor. The long rows Of
: smilax growing from the ground to
the glass ceiling on strings were a
novelty we had never before seen,
saAd there were hundreds of feet of
It ready to be shipped OF to grace
the table Of a social function.
Throughout the eight or ten houses
were growing the many varieties of
flowers and plants that have made ,
the Newburys famous. There are
flowers everywhere, packed in thick
on the long benches, and beneath
them were others simply waiting for
their chance to be placed in the
ground to grow and develop.
1t is something Of a delicate trick
to keep the greenhouse at the right
temperature throughout the day and
night in order that the flowers will
not suffer in the least. but the fine
heating and ventilating system has
brought this up to a fine point, and
1t is rare that any of the flowers are
ever caught in a Toe cold atmos-
phere. And It takes something of a
force Of men to operate a plant of
this character. Aside from the four
Newburys-father, mother, son and
daughter-in-law,-there are two fore
men, the best that can be secured in
this country. with IL men employed
the year around and 35 during the
spring and summer season. The en-
tire force is imbued with the one idea
Of %nurturing the flowers to their
highest and best development, and
the product of that greenhouse indi-