HORTICULTURE 



January 10, 1920 



PACKING AND SHIPPING CUT 

 FLOWERS. 



In no part of the business — for this 

 part is purely a business, unlike the 

 cultivating, which is a profession — 

 is there more need of good sense and 

 judgment, which with constant prac- 

 tice make an expert packer of flowers. 

 In the first place, some men have a 



knack of handling cut flowers differ- 

 ently from others. They will take up 

 a few dozen roses from the counter 

 and move them or show them off to 

 a customer quickly, but as gently as 

 a mother handles a two-months-old 

 'baby, while I have often been annoyed 

 to see others slap them down as if they 

 were a bundle of salt codfish. Every 

 time the soft petals of the rose get a 

 Icnock or bruise, this of course does 

 not show at once, but it will in a few 

 hours. 



It is not the distance they travel. 

 The quick ride in the express car can 

 do little harm; but they get jarred 

 about many times before they are 

 placed on the retailer's counter. The 

 grower may handle them roughly. 

 They get a bump at the local station, 

 another when thrown into the express 

 car; still another jar or two before 

 getting into the express wagon to be 

 delivered at the stores, and if they are 

 going to a commission man their 

 troubles have only begun. 



There are, broadly, two rules to 

 observe. Flowers should never be put 

 into a box so crowded that they are 

 actually squeezed, and. what is quite 

 as bad, so loosely that they can shake 

 or move about. 



Some years ago it was hard to find a 

 shipment of roses arriving at a re- 

 tall store packed in any other way but 

 layers. Recently nearly all rose grow- 

 ers are placing twenty-six roses to the 

 bunch with the heads carefully placed 

 together. These are rolled in oil 

 paper, then further rolled in a good 

 quality of manilla with small pieces of 

 ice. The end of the paper is left 

 longer than the stems and carefully 

 folded over to retain the moisture and 

 keep the air away from the stems and 

 ice. 



After roses have been prepared in 

 this way the grade, variety and quan- 

 tity is stamped on the package. 



These are placed in wooden ship- 

 ping boxes about three inches from 

 the ends of the box, and securely 

 fastened with a wooden cross-stick. 



Practically all cut flowers should be 

 carefully graded and put in bunches, 

 as we believe this is the best method 

 of grading and packing. It is appre- 

 ciated by the retailers as it is so easy 

 to check the shipment, as to count and 



J. A. BUDLONG 



184 North Wabash Avmim*. CHICAQO 



Wholesale Growers of Gut Flowers 



ROSES, CARNATIONS 



AND ALL OTHER SEASONABLE STOCK 



Shipping order* have most careful attention alway* 



FUTTERMAN BROS. 



Wholesale Florists, 102W. 28th St. New York 



The Right People to Deal with. Phone Watkins 9761-159 Consignments solicited. 



B. A. SNYDER CO. ^^.t"' 

 Hardy Cut Evergreens, Cut Flowers and Florists Supplies 



21-25 Otis Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephone Fort Hill 1083-1084-1085 



William F. Kasting Co. 



568^70 WASHINCSTON STREET - MJFFALO, N. Y. 



New England Florist Supply Co, 



276 Devonshire Street, 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones. Fort Hill, 3469 and 3135 



Would like to handle consignments from growers of good 

 Snapdragon and novelties. 



HERMAN WEISS, Wholesale Florist 



130 West 28th Street, New York City 



The House for Quality and Service 



ZECH & MANN 



O^We are Wholesale Florists Doing 

 a Strict^ Wholesale Businees 



10 Ea<t RiUKfelph Street, CHiCA£0 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 

 Hardy Fancy Fern Oar Specialty 



m RMDOIPH ST^ DETMfT. MCH. 



DREER'S 



FLORIST SFE0IALTI8S 



N«Tf ftranJ NeiT Stria 



•RIVBRTON" HOSE 



Furnished lengths up 

 to soo ft. without seam or 



joint. 



Tbe HflSE fir thi FLIRIST 



JKinch, per (t., :^3 c 



Reel of 500 n. " 21 c 



a RacIs, xoooft, " 20 c 



W-iach, " iQ c 



Heels, 300 ft., '■ i3 c 

 Couplings furnished with 

 out charge 



HENRY A. DREER 



7'i-Ji6 Chestnut St. 



