September 11, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



207 



very valuable asset, because it con- 

 veys such a big idea in such a simple 

 fashion. You have made a magnifi- 

 cent start — you have a real oppor- 

 tunity; there is no question as to the 

 feasibility and profit of educating an 

 entire nation, by nati')nal advertising, 

 to the enormously increased use of 

 your commodity." 



Can we get away from this "sur- 

 face-scratching" procedure, and secure 

 the full benefits that will undoubtedly 

 follow a prime effort? We can, if the 

 florists will think enough of their own 

 interests to back them up with their 

 subscriptions to the Campaign Fund. 

 Such a little support from each one is 

 required that it need occasion no hard- 

 ship. Let us hear from you. 



John Young, Secy. 



43 West 18th St., New York City. 



PRODUCTS OF CHILDREN'S GAR 



DENS AT HORTICULTURAL 



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It has been my pleasure today to 

 serve as a judge at the exhibition of 

 the Products of Children's Gardens in 

 the hall of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. The display on en- 

 tering was pleasing for the flowers 

 were well and simply shown. 



A few years ago I visited the Chil- 

 dren's Exhibition on Sunday — the sec- 

 ond day of the show — and was so im- 

 pressed by the wilted appearance of 

 the flowers that for the following year 

 I offered two prizes for the Children's 

 Exhibition. One for the flowers which 

 were freshest at the end of the second 

 day of the show, the other for the best 

 arrangement of the flowers. These 

 prizes were later withdrawn, for there 

 are enough prizes and gratuities given 

 to the children. The judges are weary 

 before they all are awarded. Yet the 

 children should be taught how to 

 have their flowers fresh for the show. 

 The flowers should be gathered the 

 morning of the day before the show 

 and kept in water in a dark place 

 where no draught can strike them tor 



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twenty-four hours before the exhibi- 

 tion. When the flowers are brought in 

 from the garden they should be put 

 on a table with vases at hand into 

 which each flower should be put up to 

 its neck in water, after its stem has 

 been cut. Dahlias and flowers with 

 succulent stems should have two slits 

 in the stems from an inch to two or 

 three inches up from the end of the 

 stem. Roses should be cut on the 

 slant, while asters and strong, woody 

 flowers can be just cut across the end 

 of the stem. The reason for these 

 cuts is to open the pores of the stems 

 and give them a chance to get all the 

 water that they need. The following 

 day when the boxes in which they 

 have been carefully packed for the 

 exhibition are opened at the hall im- 

 mediately before the flowers are 



placed in the vases in which they are 

 to be shown the stems should be cut 

 in a similar way. For they have had 

 time to seal over since they were 

 talien from the vases in which they 

 had been kept through the previous 

 day and night and their pores must 

 again be opened. 



The flowers have been brought in 

 from the garden, they have had their 

 stems cut, and they have been placed 

 up to their necks in deep vases full 

 of water. They should not be crowded 

 in the vases. If there is a room in a 

 cellar where the vases can be kept 

 with no draught blowing over them, 

 they can be taken there and carefully 

 sprayed with an atomizer or watering- 

 pot with a fine spray to Its nozzle. 

 The following morning those who have 

 never tried this way of keeping flowers 



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