Identifier: americanfloristw35amer (find matches)
Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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plants are set asidefor stock, as even the best of seed willproduce a number of different shades ofblue. Allentown, Pa.—E. M. Young isbuilding a greenhouse at his residence,Fifteenth and Hamilton streets. Con-crete construction, as far as possible, isbeing used. BowDOiNHAM, Me.—E. B. Sprague ofBay road is making extensive repairsand additions to his greenhouses in or-<ler to bring them into line with hisgrowing business. Rock Island, III.—L. Stapp has just■closed an order with the Standard Pump■& Engine Co., of Cleveland, O., forone of its latest models of combina-tion pumping engines. Dayton, O.—The National Cash Reg-■Jster Co.. employing S,ooo people witha pay roll of $4,000,000 yearly, wants tomove to a city with a population of200,000, north of Dayton and Pitts-burg. Rothesay. N. B.—P. E. Campbellmakes a great specialty of carnations inbis greenhouses here and he has a gor-geous display. Smilax, sweet peas, potplants and roses are also in excellentcondition.
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PHALiBNOPSIS GRANDIFLORA RIMESTADIANA. ORCHID NOTES. Calanthes of the vestita section aresuch beautiful and easily grown orchidsand so suitable for decoration withal,that an effort should be made to increasetheir popularity. Compared with manyother species they are cheap, and once afew stock plants are procured these mayhe increased very readily. We havefrequently cut up a single bulb into adozen and more pieces and placed theseupon pans of sphagnum moss. Everypiece will break strongly and by the endof the second seascn they are fine plants,carrying large spikes. The kind usedwas the hybrid C. Veitchii, the popularrosy pink, but the true vestita varietiesmay be treated in the same way. onlythe bulbs being usually smaller do notmake so many cuttings or sets. Vanda Coerulea. Beginners in orchid culture will notfind this a difficult species to manageprovided they do not over water it orgive it too large a pot. AH vandas, andindeed, all orchids of the single stem-med tribe with distichous

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