Garden Center
Garden Center
There are a types ofgarden centers in America. The term is used bysome commercial nurserymen, seedsmen andflorists to denote a store or center where every-thing for the garden is placed on display forsale—seeds, plants, tools, machines and all themany types of things used by gardeners inmaking and caring for their gardens. These arepopular because potential buyers can see ondisplay the many things that they can use and These are proving popular for growers whowish to diversify their goods, and also togardeners who can find what they desire in oneplace without having to visit stores or sales-rooms which specialize only in one product. Thenumber of these garden centers is increasingannually.
The second type of garden center is one inwhich an organization or group of people havecombined to make available rooms for meetings,a library, and a permanent staff for givinginformation on gardening. Here are frequentlyoffered a series of lectures on various phases ofhorticultural techniques. This type of gardencenter is often financed by memberships, by”white elephant” sales and by the sale of booksand other things. Two outstanding examplesare The Garden Center of Greater Cleveland,East Boulevard at Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio44106, and the Berkshire Garden Center, Inc.,Stockbridge, Mass., where many good orn-amental plantings are on the grounds for thepurpose of demonstrating actual living plantsand arrangements of them in living plantings.Such garden centers, with permanent staff, aredoing excellent work in disseminating horti-cultural information and are well worth theprice of membership.
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