APRIL 14. 189S. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



803 



Easter Lilies Dressed with Pink Ribbon and Asparagus. 



whole series of fifty-two boxes is con- 

 sidered, only by No. 5, which was the 

 next highest in price, namely, five dol- 

 lars per hundred. 



Upon the other hand, of the three 

 lots co.>ting $2.50 per hundred, the low- 

 est price paid. one. No. 9. stood 

 third in output of blooms. From this 

 last fact it follows that the highest 

 priced plants do not always produce 

 the most blooms and likewise the low- 

 est priced plants do not always yield 

 the fewest flowers. The three lots 

 costing $2.50 per hundred gave about 

 one-halt the blooms produced by the 

 three lots that cost $6.00, $5.00 and 

 ?4.00 respectively. 



While it is seen from this that price 

 does not govern the quality of the 

 plants, the chances of a profitable out- 

 put are greater with high than with 

 low priced plants; in short, one should 

 be willing to pav well for the best 

 stocl£. BYRON D. HALSTED. 



Exp. Sta., New Brunswick, N. J. 



MISCELLANEOUS SEASONABLE 

 HINTS. 



The Easter that has just passed must 

 have taught us some lessons. It was a 

 great Easter undoubtedly and most 

 everything sold, but did you have your 

 stock well balanced? Our experience 

 was that people who wanted to buy, 

 with few exceptions, were better pleas- 

 ed with a dollar plant than one costing 

 more. Many of the orders received 

 from our best friends were for twenty 

 or twenty-flve plants, each to be given 

 to a friend. Now this is what sold .ir 

 would have sold if we had it, so make 

 a note and remember. 



Hyacinths. 



A single pot of hyacinths sold well at 

 25 cents each and ten of them in a 10- 

 ineh pan also sold at $2 per pan. but 

 as they are entirely ephemeral the cus- 

 tomers for them are not so plentiful as 

 pretty girls in June. Another year we 

 shall grow more pots than pans and 

 have them in several sizes. Nowa- 



days, when you have to crepe paper al- 

 most everything, the old-fashioned pot 

 is just as acceptable as the pan. Hya- 

 cinths in mixed colors did not take at 

 all. Three hyacinths in a 5-inch pot or 

 half a dozen tulips would have sold 

 well. Remember when planting your 

 pans or pots of hyacinths in the fall 

 that the public know enough not to 

 want mixed up colors. 



AzdAens, 



They were in rather an over-abund- 

 ance. Some of our people had very 

 large specimens that did not sell, and I 

 would advise my friends to buy in ad- 

 dition to their regular stock, for which 

 they pay 50 cents in Europe, to lay in a 

 stock of azaleas that can be supplied 

 by American houses at about 35 or 40 

 cents. We had lots of call for an azalea 

 at $1.50. The extraordinary weather of 

 March rushed out most of the Van der 

 Cruyssen, but it is still one of the best. 

 Buy Van der Cruyssen. Prof. Wolters, 

 Memoire de Louis Van Houtte, Ber- 

 nard Andre, and Bernard Andre alba 

 for Easter and buy Deutsche Perle and 

 Simon Mardner for Christmas. When 

 you sell an azalea to a customer don't 

 forget to tell him that they want to be 

 almost saturated. The little sqifwe put 

 around them in potting wheii Shey ar- 

 rive takes up about all of the moisture 

 we give them, and the ballot earth in 

 which the feeding roots exist only gets 

 it by what may be called sub-irrigation 

 or rather capillary attraction. The 

 azalea, beautiful as it is, has rather got 

 a, "black eye" this Easter, for the rea- 

 son that they are not sufficiently 

 watered. 



Lilies. 



Last year I was foolish enough to 

 think that the lily was going out of 

 fashion. This year has proved the con- 

 trary. Lilies sold better than ever, and 

 don't forget to buy only of houses that 

 guarantee absolutely sound bulbs. 

 There is a young man in Philadelphia 

 who can spot the unsound from the 

 sound bulbs; his name is "W. C" It 

 would be cheap to hire him at $10 a day 

 to select your bulbs. There has been 

 an awful cry-out about this disease. 

 It is certainly very annoying, but re- 

 member the cost of the bulbs is of lit- 

 tle consideration. Suppose they cost 

 you double the price; that would be of 

 little consequence. It is the growing 

 that costs the money. So buy the best 

 and do not be hard on the drummer. 

 We grew a good many Japan longi- 

 florums, put them in 8-inch pots, three 

 in a pot, and thanks to the weather 

 they were in full flower and sold at $2 

 a plant. The Easter lily is always in 

 demand and as it is emblematic of the 

 occasion will never tire. 



Roses. 



Of all the sweet things that people 

 love the rose takes the bakery. Buy 

 them now and plant out in your own 

 field, farm or garden. The Belgian 

 grown rose is a beauty of the first 

 water. Some twenty years ago I hap- 

 pened to have a lot of young La Reine. 

 They were planted out, made a great 



