The amount of capital required to start the florist's business is nothing like as much as it was before the large nurseries supplied the florists with what they wanted at wholesale rates.
Most of the florists in New York and Brooklyn get their plants and flowers at wholesale from nurseries on the outskirts, purchasing such stock as they may require from time to time.
For the convenience of our readers who may wish to procure varieties of plants of which we have treated in this work, we give the address of reliable florists who make a specialty of those connected with their address.
These are considered by florists as among the most elegant of tropical plants, but like the Eranthemums, are not generally known.
Until recently Italy grew the tubers for Europe and America, but it has now been discovered that American grown tuberoses are superior in quality to the imported, and many florists of Europe now advertise them.
That these are both a rare acquisition is evident from the testimony of such florists as Mr. John Thorp of Queens, and Mr. Henry A.
The "Show and Fancy Pelargoniums" have what the florists term "blotches," i.
It does not, however, injure the plant to keep it constantly growing, and the best florists have very generally abandoned their former method of letting them rest during the summer.
It was first cultivated in France, and the French florists have done the most toward perfecting the flat-petaled Aster, and this style of flower is known as the French Aster.
In the hands of the French florists it has attained to the superior position it occupies to-day.
The Bulb catalogues issued by leading florists in the autumn, and sent free to all applicants, will enable you to select just what you want.
A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit Growers, Truck Gardeners, Floristsand others.
The "silver sand" used by florists is a very clean and white sand which derives its particular advantages from the almost entire absence of any vegetable matter.
Florists slip geraniums and put them into sand; many people put the slips into water to form roots; but it is far easier for you children and for schools to place the slips immediately into the earth of the window box.
It is a plant that someflorists have put all their time upon.
I presume old catalogues of American florists would give details and dates of the journey of the plant from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
They had beauty of color, and a universally loved perfume--but florists have been blind to them till within a few years.
A drawback that florists discover is that the slightest bruise of the waxy petals produces a brownish discoloration, which prevents the shipment of these flowers.
A complete treatise on Greenhouse structures and arrangements of the various forms and styles of Plant Houses for professional florists as well as amateurs.
For many years this has been, and is yet, one of the most commonly grown and the most serviceable of the plants used by florists as "green.
There are florists who grow this profitably as a greenery for cut flowers, and when grown in partial shade is quite dainty and pretty enough for this purpose.
If professional florists can do so why isn't it good enough to pass along to ambitious amateurs?
Florists are growing it more and more for their sales, and to use in decorations for August and September weddings and parties.
A complete treatise on greenhouse structures and arrangements of the various forms and styles of plant houses for professionalflorists as well as amateurs.
In it the author gives the results of his many years experience, together with that of the most successful florists and gardeners, in the management of growing plants under glass.
I vaguely suggested to him that his fortune was made; that within a few days I should be able to put him in position to twiddle his fingers at the florists and the caterers.
They were gathered by one of the many orchid collectors that are constantly engaged in tropical America in making collections for florists in the United States and Europe.
Indeed, the regions on both sides of the Magdalena have long been favorite resorts for the orchid hunters in the employ of the florists and merchant princes of the United States and Europe.
From this country tens of thousands of plants are shipped annually to the florists of Europe and the United States.
Sinensis (Chinese Primrose), grown very extensively by florists as a Christmas plant.
Florists now usually grow plants suitable for window-gardens and winter flowering, and any intelligent florist, if asked, will take pleasure in making out a suitable collection.
Most of the plants suitable for the winter window-garden belong to the groups that florists grow in their medium and cool houses.
If cuttings are not to be had, young plants may be bought of the florists and treated in the manner described.
Florists force them in greater heat, however, often giving them a bottom heat of 80° or 90°; but skill and experience are required in order to attain uniformly good results in this case.
Glasses for hyacinths may be had of florists who deal in supplies, and in various shapes and colors.
Florists often sow certain kinds in the fall, and winter the young plants in coldframes.
Some of the finest Florists flowers have been reared by the mechanics of Norwich and Manchester and by the Spitalfield's weavers.
The Dutch florists have nearly two thousand varieties.
Combine the boys on the street into a "Leaf Mould Syndicate" and get the local florists interested in a home-made product.
He had an uphill job, though, convincing the fashionable floristsof the value of this plant.
In it the author gives the results of his many years' experience, together with that of the most successful florists and gardeners, in the management of growing plants under glass.
Then there were the churches, and the florists who decorated festal scenes.
They were of a race which holds together, and they gave not only the names and addresses of prospective entertainers, but those of florists and owners of halls where parties were given.
This power of discrimination, however, is as nothing compared to that which some florists have acquired.
This is so notorious a {347} fact, that some florists regularly pinch off the central trusses of flowers.
Florists in and near cemeteries are apt to find sale for flowers and plants.
Some seedsmen and florists near Boston employ four ladies in enveloping seed.
I was told by a man who supplies bouquets that he pays to florists from $8 to $10 a day for flowers, and then makes up his own bouquets.
This is so notorious a fact, that someflorists regularly pinch off the central trusses of flowers.
This begonia can be obtained from most florists in fall.
I would not class the crimson-rambler rose among the vines, though the majority of our florists have done so.
Don't attempt to grow all the plants that the florists describe so attractively in their catalogues.
This is often done byflorists whose trade demands the flowers at that season of the year, and especially early in spring.
All florists root their cuttings in sand, and that obtained from the beach of some fresh water lake is the best for the purpose, being free from gravel and clay, and will not hold water long.
Several excellent remedies are used by florists and gardeners for the prevention and cure of mildew.
A complete treatise on green-house structures and arrangements of the various forms and styles of plant houses for professional florists as well as amateurs.
Some florists sport a great variety of different soils, which are used in the growing of plants of different natures, requiring, as they claim, particular kinds of soil.
Some enterprising florists have Tuberoses nearly the whole year round.
There are more caterers andflorists in Ithaca than in Hayt's Corners.
When the flowers first begin to expand, our florists (who work on the principle of never watering) protect them from rain as carefully as they do auriculas.
Whatever its original colour, and whatever country it came from, it is certain that many species have been produced by the florists of Haarlem, and have entirely originated in their gardens.
When the single hyacinths are in bloom the floristsopen their gardens to the public.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "florists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
