HORTICULTURE 



VoL XXXII 



OCTOBER 23, 1920 



No. 17 



THE TALK OF THE TRADE 



breeding of a top notch line of car- 

 nations. 



It is interesting to study tlie rami- 

 fications of the florist business: A 

 few days ago I was talking with Mr. 

 Charles Stilphen, who is located at 

 North Conway. N. H., and does a busi- 

 ness which is confined almost exclu- 

 sively to the summer months. Mr. 

 Stilphen has stands at several of the 

 mountain hotels, from which most of 

 his flowers are sold. He said that 

 trade began to increase last year and 

 this season has been remarkably good. 

 The guests have kept their rooms 

 filled with flowers, and some of them 

 have bought flowers for the tables, 

 the hotel managements not providing 

 any table decorations this year. Most 

 of Mr. Stilphen's flowers have been 

 annuals, as they seem to please the 

 summer visitors better, he says, than 

 greenhouse products. Sweet peas, of 

 course, are the main standby and 

 flourish well in the New Hampshire 

 climate. They start to bloom in early 

 July and keep on flowering until Oc- 

 tober. Bachelor Buttons and yellow 

 Centaureas, gladioli and dahlias are 

 among the other flowers which find 

 appreciation. 



Have you read President Breitmey- 

 er's address at the F. T. D. meeting at 

 Indianapolis? If you haven't, whether 

 you are retailer, wholesaler, grower 

 or identified in any way with the 

 florist industry, you can well afford 

 to carefully follow what President 

 Breitmeyer said before that conven- 

 tion. As I have said in previous 

 notes, this was one of the live conven- 

 tions of the year and it will take a 

 good one to beat it, while President 

 P.reitmeyer's address is about as able 

 a paper as I have had the pleasure 

 reading in a long while. 



striping or marking to bring it out, 

 as has been the case with a number 

 of yellow varieties in former years. 



Mr Strout showed two nioe vases of 

 Maine Sunshine at the meeting of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton last Tuesday night, and the flow- 

 ers certainly were in very fine shape 

 for this season of the year. When you 

 consider the parentage of this carna- 

 tion, you can't help but think it has a 

 future as a commercial variety. Mrs. 

 C. W. Ward and Crystal White carry 



A numbei: of times I have been 

 asked about Mr. Strout's new carna- 

 tion, Maine Sunshine. The question 

 put to me very often is. "What about 

 the color at night; does it show yel- 

 low?" I think anyone who has had 

 the opportunity of seeing flowers of 

 Maine Sunshine on the bench under 

 artificial light would agree with me 

 that it positively does show a good 

 yellow shade and it doesn't need any 



And that reminds me again that 

 when you get ready to look for fancy 

 carnations, In spite of the fact that 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward is a variety of quite 

 a number of years back, you can al- 

 ways place that sort in the list of 

 fancy blooms, whether it be on the 

 exhibition table or in the wholesale 

 market. 



Every spring there is a strong call 

 tor cuttings and small plants of dou- 



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