HORTICULTURE 



VoL XXXI 



JUNE 26, 1920 



No. 26 



THE TALK OF THE TRADE 



Mr. Bulterwortli, of Fiamiusliam, 

 has certainly been adding to his laurels 

 at a remarkable rate during the last 

 few months, although he has long been 

 known as one of the most enthusiastic 

 and successful growers of orchids in 

 the country. His display of .Vliltonias 

 at Horticultural Hall, last Saturday, 

 was an event of the greatest interest 

 to every devotee of this magnificent 

 plant. Unless I am mistaken no such 

 exhibit has ever before been seen in 

 this country, and I doubt if it ever has 

 been surpassed in Europe. This ap- 

 plies both to the size of the exhibit 

 ajid the quality of the flowers. The 

 latter was the subject of many remarks 

 from orchid enthusiasts who were pres- 

 ent. The whole display, with its even 

 tone of color throughout, would have 

 been glorious under any circumstances, 

 but banked as it was with evergreens 

 in the most artistic manner, it made 

 a picture of surpassing beauty. Mr. 



Butterworth said that the commercial 

 value of the flowers in the group was 

 about a thou.sand dollars, and certainly 

 he is to be complimented on his enter- 

 prise and public spirit in making such 

 a display. 



Southern florists have been having 

 a very iirosperous season and are in 

 good spirits, according to the reports 

 of Mr. L. W. C. Tuthill, of New York, 

 who has just returned from a long trip 

 through the southern cities. While the 

 trip was not primarily in greenhouse 

 interests, Mr. Tuthill came in contact 

 with several members of the trade. 

 "In Dahl's Flower Shop in Atlanta." 

 said Mr. Tuthill, "I had a little chat 

 with the manager, and also visited 

 Nunally's Candy Store next door. Mr. 

 Nunally also sells flowers. I asked the 

 Dahl people if this affected their trade 

 any. They said it most assuredly did. 

 It helped them tremendously to sell 



more flowers. When I talked with the 

 candy man he said the more flowers 

 they sold the more candy they could 

 sell. During the Christmas trade 

 their buyer had spent the entire week 

 previous in Chicago endeavoring to get 

 sufficient flowers to supply the demand 

 "In Richmond I had a talk with Mr 

 Ratcliffe, of Ratcliffe & Tanner. Their 

 shop is well up on the main street 

 When Mr. Ratcliffe moved up there 

 most of the wise heads among the flor- 

 ists looked on and said he would never 

 make a go of it. However, he has de- 

 veloped one of the finest businesses in 

 the city. When conferring with him 

 about it, he said he didn't move up 

 there to get away from competing 

 !lori.sts. for as a matter of fact if there 

 were more shops around him he would 

 do more business. All he would want 

 would be a door leading into his store 

 and he would take a chance on the 

 business the other stores were doing 

 to make more business for him. 

 "Considering the tremendous chan- 



ll.vl.rid Miltiinia. St. .Andre 



