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
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me-thing like C. labiata, is not often seertin commercial places, being rather a hardone to import and raise. There areabout 200 plants here, looking verypromising. C. Bowringeana is growrs S<^ < *<■*-.,... Wtm^l^^- -^^ Wit Vmitmsi 1 ESTABLISHMENT OF GODFREY ASCHMANN, PHILADELPHIA, PA.One of the fero houses. igo6. The American Florist. 933 largely for decorative work. It is a na-tive of British Honduras and somethinglike C. Skinneri. The flowers grow onlong spikes, sometimes as many as 50to the spike although 30 is ordinarilythe limit. For table centerpieces it isconsidered better than C. labiata. TheEaster cattleya is C. Skinneri, the flow-ers of which are small, but they arealone in their season. WITH THE GROWERS Schelden & Scboos, Evanston, 111. John Scheiden and Joseph Schoos areamong the more recent additions to thelong list of growers around the Chi-cago district, having bought their plantand commenced business here in April,1905. At the time of purchase the stock
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HOUSE OF CATTLEYA LABIATA AT SIEBRECHT & SONS, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Cattleya citrina, the tulip orchid, isgrown as a novelty for florists wmdows.It grows in a cool house on blocks ofbark or wood and requires little atten-tion. There is quite a stock of Dendrobiumformosum giganteum, which flowersright along, and is much used for wed-dings, funerals, etc. Dendrobium Phal-aenopsis, very fine for florists use, isnow flowering well. It is admirablyadapted for bouquets and similar work,its beautiful mauve flowers on longspikes, making it especially desirablefor cutting. The flowers sometimes lastfor six weeks on the plants. The colorvaries in depth of shade, the flowersrarely coming two sprays alike fromdifferent plants. Dendrobium nobile iswell grown here, and it has some ad-vantages over other kinds. It givesblooms in March and April. The plantsare located in a cool house in winter,and given all the sun they can get toripen the wood. They may be flowerednicely in a temperature of .so.

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