September 4, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



191 



numbers of g^rowers are electing to 

 leave their bulbs in the ground and 

 sell the flowers during December and 

 .January. Ordinarily this might not 

 pay, l)ut with the price of blooms 

 where it has been for the past season 

 or so, it has been a decidedly attrac- 

 tive pro|insition. 



All in all, the bulb situation appears, 

 to Mr. Rynveld, to be brighter than it 

 has been; the fact that Holland prices 

 show a downward tendency, he says, 

 does not indicate that previous prices 

 have been exorbitant, but simply that 

 a slightly larger sui)ply and lessened 

 yield are getting in their work. The 

 attitude of the associated growers, or 

 rather exporters of that country is not 

 one of desire to make excessive or 

 wartime profits, but simply to get 

 enough to make the growing of bulbs 

 a moderately i.rofitable venture for 

 those who are carrying it on. 



Mr. Scheepers' Opinion. 



Nevertheless, the retail trade has 

 yet to feel really satisfied with the 

 bulb situation. According to .John 

 Scheepers of 520 Fifth avenue, of So- 

 lid D'Or there is only about eight per 

 cent of a normal supply in sight. For- 

 mosum lilies will be late and probably 

 will not arrive until the end of October 

 because the Japanese dealers are 

 while buyers refuse to pay their prices. 

 At this end the steamship companies 

 are acting in a discouragingly indepen- 

 dent manner as to the delivery of bulb 

 shipments to consignees, until the loss 

 of several cases out of a shipment and 

 no end of confusion in locating them 

 are common occurrences. "Never," 

 says Mr. Scheepers, "have I seen such 

 a situation as regards the transporta- 

 tion of bulb stocks." 



Of domestic sorts, he reports a big 

 shortage of Free-jias in all sizes above 

 five-eighths of an inch. Personally he 

 favors moderate sized, solid, well 

 rijiened bulbs — say about three quar- 

 ters of an inch in diameter. But there 

 is a very live demand on the part of 

 amateurs and some professionals, for 

 big ones and the shortage of these is 

 l)ound to cause a howl. 



Mr. Scheepers is of the opinion that 

 although the general discussion of the 

 Holland bulb situation may have done 

 considerable good, still there is a 

 chance that the independent growers 

 and shi|:pers may undo it if they at- 

 tempt to revive the old time auction 

 sales which are u.sually thought of in 

 connection with the stock untrue to 

 name, of questionable quality, etc. 

 However, the statements of Mr. Ryn- 

 veld have a bearing here. Provided 

 the expected large demand from Eng- 

 land materializes, there will be so 

 small a surplus of bulbs on hand thai 

 there may not be enough to justify 

 auctions here or anywhere else. 



Of course there are in the nature of 

 a last resort and it is not probable that 

 any grower or exporter would make 

 use of that method of clearing up his 

 stocks if he could see any other way 

 out. 



Owing to the absence from New 

 York of many enthusiastic and impor- 

 tant horticultural patrons during the 

 summer. c(jrnparatively little has been 

 done of late regarding the Horticul- 

 tural Hall project, says Chaii-man 

 Scheepers. However, the plan is still 

 very much alive and alternative 

 projects are being put in shape so that 

 with the beginning of another season 

 definite steps will be taken without de- 

 lay. 



GROWS BULBS IN WASHINGTON 



Bellingham, Wash. — The citizens of 

 this town and district have started a 

 movement to become competitors of 

 the tulip bulb growers of Holland. 



The federal government's only tulip. 

 narcissus and hyacinth bulb experi- 

 mental farm is located here. Not un- 

 til this year has there been a con- 

 certed endeavor to start and commer- 

 cialize a great bulb-growing industry', 

 not only in Bellingham's territory at 

 the north end of Puget Sound, but in 

 considerable of the Puget Sound coun- 

 try. This year the bulb experimental 

 farm will dig up 1,000,000 bulbs, it has 

 just been stated by those in charge. 



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