December 15, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



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ROEHRS' CHRISTMAS FEAST. 



A feast of good things for the holi- 

 day plant demand has been provided 

 for the florist trade by the Julius 

 Roehrs Company at Rutherford, N. J., 

 and active buying has already begun. 

 One great attraction is the Begonia 

 section where a long line of houses is 

 devoted to Lorraines, Cincinnati, Me- 

 lior and, finest of all, Mrs. J. A. Peter- 

 son. They make a gorgeous show, in- 

 deed. There is a house of Euphorbia 

 JacquinitBflora that will gladden the 

 heart of any visitor, with its beautiful 

 long arching sprays of coral bloom. 

 Of ericas there are several houses, the 

 great Christmas flowering favorite, E. 

 melanthera, taking the lead but in 

 addition there are President Carnot, 

 ovata and others, all splendid sul> 

 jects for mixed baskets. Poinsettias, 

 of course, are a strong feature 

 and they are grand. In colored 

 foliage plants we should put the Dra- 

 caena terminalis and Lord Wolesley 

 first choice. They are all brilliantly 

 colored this fall, better than custom- 

 ary. Then there are Dracaenas Mas- 

 songeana and amabllis, house after 

 house of palms, ferns and araucarias. 

 and the big tropical range offers an 

 endless array of attractive and rare 

 things. Looking over this holiday dis- 

 play one concludes that we shall get 

 along quite comfortably without aza- 

 leas this year. 



The orchid range is attractive 

 as ever. Cattleya labiata is just 

 through blooming and Trianae Is 

 just starting in. Bridging the gap be- 

 tween these two is Percivaliana which 

 at present is furnishing most of the 

 flowers. The biggest thing, however, 

 for the plantsman to see is the stock 

 of young hybrid cattleyas of which 

 there are ten thousand home-raised, in 

 pots, and myriads in seed pans. This 

 work is being carried on by Ed. Roehrs 

 who is an orchid expert and in a year 

 or two more there will be something 

 worth seeing here. It looks as though 

 the hybrid raising might yet revolu- 

 tionize the orchid business. 



A whole house each is given to Aca- 

 cias Bayleyana and longifolia. The 

 former are mostly standards, 6 to 8 

 feet tall in 10-12 inch pots. Longifolia 

 is in low bushy specimens and when in 

 bloom, say from February 15 on till 

 Easter, will present a beautiful pic- 

 ture. 



THE OPPORTUNE MOMENT. 

 Charles E. Grakelow, one of the 

 brightest and most progressive of Phil- 

 adelphia's retail florists, says, "the 

 time to advertise is when business is 

 'on the blink.' The average man be- 

 lieves what he reads and when his 

 mind gets massaged up to the point he 

 goes and does it. Just now, especially, 

 we have got to hustle for all we are 

 worth to keep business from going 

 backward. This year I am spending 

 more money than ever in advertising 

 and while it is a hard fight I am proud 

 to say my business is on the Increase." 



NEWS NOTES. 



Binghamton, N. Y.— Davis & Cole- 

 man, contractors and builders, are now 

 making extensive repairs to the Sus- 

 quehanna greenhouses which were re- 

 cently damaged by fire. 



Pen Yan, N. Y. — Fire which started 

 in the basement of the flower estab- 

 lishment of Lewis J. Brundage in Pen 

 Yan did damage amounting to $500 

 before it could be extinguished. It is 

 thought that the fire started from an 

 overheated pipe. 



Doylestown, Pa. — Enforcement of 

 the State nursery inspection law, 

 which became operative this autumn, 

 has resulted in a number of prosecu- 

 tions of men who refused to comply 

 with provisions of the act laid down 

 by Secretary of A.griculture Charles E. 

 Patton, who is charged with adminis- 

 tration of the act of 1917. Most of 

 these men were served with notices 

 and when they refused to comply, the 

 law was invoked. Professor J. G. San- 

 ders, the State Zoologist, says that 

 the large nursery establishments co- 

 operated in the administration of the 

 law and opened their plants to inspec- 

 tion and removed such as were de- 

 clared dangerous by the inspectors. 

 Some of the smaller plants, however, 

 made some trouble. 



