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HORTICULTUEE 



Mav 22. 1920 



in various parts of the East, the 

 benches are pretty well planted with 

 stock that promises to be in good time 

 for that season. I believe the flower 

 market will be generously supplied 

 with cut flowers of all kinds and that 

 should mean for everyone a fine, big 

 Memorial Day business. 



While Crotons are considered mainly 

 in the line of a holiday and winter 

 plant, we are now coming to the season 

 when they can be used very nicely in 

 another way, and that is in porch 

 boxes in shady locations, mixed in 

 with ferns and other plants of a like 

 nature. Hotels, clubs and private 

 residences at the various summer re- 

 sorts furnish ample opportunities tor 

 the use of boxes of this character, and 

 good croton stock In medium sizes 

 suitable for box work is in fairly good 

 supply. The narrow leaved types, such 

 as Florence, Golden Thread and Delica- 

 tissima are especially fine for jardi- 

 niere and table work and with them a 

 number of the Dracaenas can be used, 

 such as terminalis, Kelleriana and 

 Lilndenii. 



Memorial Day business in Boston 

 premises to be the biggest in the his- 

 tory of the city. This is especially 

 true as regards artificial goods, 

 wreaths and prepared stock of all 

 kinds. Mr. Charles Robinson, of the 

 Henry Robinson Co., told me a few 

 days ago that he had been obliged to 

 cancel all advertising and call in some 

 of his salesmen, because the company 

 had all the orders it could possibly fill. 

 Moreover, the price has constantly 

 been going up, so that if he had the 

 goods now which he sold two weeks 

 ago he could make a great deal more 

 money on them. Mr. Robinson said 

 that apparently the matter of price did 

 not have any effect on the trade. The 

 whole question was that of getting 

 goods enough to go around. 



Pachysandra terminalis 



2 year old plants, 

 $12.00 per 100, $100.00 per 1000 



Euonymus radicans 



3 year old plants 

 $12.00 per 100, $100.00 per 1000 



JAMES WHEELER 



NATICK, MASS. 



I ha>e been interested to note that 

 for the first time the Copley-Plaza 

 Hotel in Boston has filled its window 

 boxes with flowering plants. The ef- 

 fect is remarkably good, and has 

 brought many favorable comments. 

 The work was done by Hoffman, who 

 used 800 Poitevine Geraniums and 450 

 Vincas. The very simplicity of the 

 decorations add to their charm. In 

 the'fall the boxes are again to be filled 

 with boxwood, of which Mr. Hoffman 

 has just purchased a supply. The use 

 of window boxes is constantly grow- 

 ing in favor and filling them is a line 

 of work which florists can take up 

 -with profit. 



In most parts of the country Mothers- 

 Day was a distinct success, judging 

 from the different people with whom 

 I talked. Samuel Murray, of Kansas 

 City, says that Mothers' Day business 

 there demonstrated the fact that the 

 day is now too well established to be 

 hurt by knocks of the nature appear- 

 ing in some of the papers. He says 

 that the demand for plants and cut 

 flowers was about equal with him, and 

 that he had a great many fine Glox- 

 inias which sold well. Owing to a 

 severe hailstorm just before Mothers' 

 Day, most of the carnation growers 

 near Kansas City had their stock 

 ruined with the result that there was 

 a big shortage of carnations in the 

 market. Flowers sold for $4.00 per 

 dozen. Mr. Murray himself sold none 

 out of the store, holding his stock to 

 take care of his F. T. D. orders, but 

 he could have moved a great quantity 

 of them had he had them, as the de- 

 mand was strong. Mr. Murray feels 

 particularly good over the prompt and 

 liberal support given by the florists of 

 the city towards an advertising cam- 

 paign which was started for Mothers' 

 Day. For the first time all the Kansas 

 City florists cooperated on their ad- 

 vertising, this being due in great meas- 

 ure to the efforts of Miss Hayden, one 

 of the enterprising young ladies in the 

 Murray establishment. About $900 

 was raised, and was used in the local 

 papers. No doubt it was due in large 

 measure to this publicity that a 

 marked increase of business was ob- 

 served. Mr. Murray says that he is 

 able to report an increase of 40 per 

 cent on sales. On the F. T. D. busi- 

 ness there was an increase of 70 per 

 cent. 



The widespread utility of the F. T. 

 D. development is illustrated by the 

 fact that one order was sent to Abera- 

 von, Wales, a suburb of Cardiff. 



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Geraniums, Nutt, Buchner, Poitevine 

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