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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw26amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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DISPLAY MADE BY VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX & CO., AT THE RECENT AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT PARIS. their beds of large-flowering hybrid cinerarias surrounded by a row of Cin- eraria maritima candidissima and their bed of mixed wallflowers, with a row of Myosotis alpestris around it, the whole finished ofi" with a row of yellow-leaved Pyrethrum parthenifolium aureum, a large phoenix standing in the center of the bed adding to the taste of the arrangement. Next to Vilmorin in beauty of display come H. Defresne, of Vitry, and Croux & Son, of Sceaux, the two great nursery- men, who show us splendid collections of flowering shrubs. Among the most con- spicuous of them I may mention Cerasus Japonica in the following varieties: Seki no Yama, Shiro Fugen, Shiro Fagu, J. H.Veitch and others; Amygdalus Persica camelliEeflora, A. Persica Clara Meyer, Prunus triloba, Malus flori- bunda, Cratagus Oxyacantha punicea plena, ForsythiaFortunei, F. intermedia, F. viridissima and F. suspensa, Genista scopariaAndreana, G. Canadensis and G. alba prtECOx, Spir;ea multiflora arguta, S. Thunbergi and S. Van Houttei, Chio- nanthus Virginica, Viburnum Tinus, Amelanchier spicata, Azalea Japonica Seighai, A. Japonica Shiro Yave, A. mollis Mr. Arthur de Warelles, Robinia hispida rosea, Rhododendron Erato, R. Chevalier Felix de Sauvage, Magnolia Soulangeana and varied tree peonies and Japanese maples. Boucher, of Paris, is represented, as usual, by a beautiful group of clematises and pot-grown lilacs in dwarf and standard forms. The lilacs comprise such popular sorts as Marie Legraye, Alba Magnifica, Mme. Moser, single white; Ville de Troyes, single rose; Macros- tachya, single rose, very fine; Louis Van Houtte, single violet red; President Camot, double lilac; Senateur Volland, double violet red; Emile Lemoine, double rose; Mrs. Lemoine, Mrs. Casimir Perier, double white; Michel Buchner, President Grevy, double violet mauve, and a new cream-colored variety, not yet named, obtained from seed, with large, fine trusses. From Millet, of Bourg-la-Reine, comes a remarkable collection of violets, embracing the large flowering La France, Princess of Wales, Mr. Arene, Baroness Rothschild and Countess E. Dutertre, the yellow-flowered Viola sulphurea and pubescens, the striped-leaved Armandine, the pink Perle Rose and Double Rose, and a lot of others. Remarkable are also Millet's tree-trained violas, some of which are over a foot and a half high and are looked upon with surprise by the people. Dugourd, of Fontainebleau, continues to be the best grower of hellebores, or Christmas roses, and shows a fine collec- tion of them. Moser, of Versailles, staged a good collection of coniferse comprising cupressus, retinospora, abies, juniperus, sciadopitys, thuiopsis, taxus and some splendid specimens of euonymus, Pernet- tya mucronata alba and coccinea. Compoint, the asparagus forcer, pre- sents a tasteful display of that popular vegetable, from its earliest stages, or plants a few days old, to the fully grown roots and seed-bearing plants. Quite a strongfeature is the fruit show, which reflects great credit on the exhibi- tors. The most admired kinds of pears are Doyenne d' Hiver, Tasse Crassanne and Belle Angevine; of apple, Calville Blanc, Grand Alexandre, Reinette Blanche du Canada, Belle Dubois, De Pontoise, Calville St. Sauveur, Calville Rouge d' Anjou and Roi d' Angleterre. These apples and pears were kept by the ordinary method and look much better than the imported cold storage apples, of which several barrels are shown. The splendidly preserved grapes of the variety Chasselas Dore de Fontainebleau are also much more admired than the forced big Colman, Alicante and Black Hamburg and far outrival them in quality. Noticeable, also, are some fresh peaches coming from South Africa and the fine pot-grown strawberries from Lauris, Southern France, a district well known for its early vegetables, especially asparagus. The florists' trade has been very poor and everybody interested in it is com- plaining bitterly of the bad times. Flowers do not sell and Southern France is sending us twenty times as much stock as is needed. Flowers are a real glut and cannot be disposed of at any price. Roses which usually fetch 15 cents a dozen can be had for 4 cents, American mo'ney; violets ordinarily sold at $1 per hundred small bunches do not find buyers at 40 cents; medium-sized violet bunches for which the grower usually gets $1.60 are sold at 80 cents, and the large bunches are sold at one-third the price. The Parme violet, which in normal seasons finds a ready sale at 60 cents per bunch

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