December 23, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



383 



of money, especially the working 

 class, and not being able to spend it 

 on food, as there was none to be had, 

 spent it on flowers. 



"The florist shop in Germany has 

 improved considerably since I was 

 there prior to the war. They have 

 all the material and the flowers to 

 make up most beautiful work, yet 

 have not the artistic arrangements the 

 florists in the United States have. I 

 showed them all of oin' ideas; some 

 took to them and some did not. I 

 told them about the baskets used for 

 funerals in this country. Some laughed, 

 others took it seriously and are going 

 to try it. This I told to the florist in 

 France and all the other countries I 

 visited. 



"Tins are used very little in bas- 

 kets. They make most baskets very 

 flat, with short stemmed flowers. 

 Blowers are put close and compact, 

 with very little greens among them. 



"On my second trip in May, 1920, 

 I went to Weimer. Weimer was the 

 center of the Socialist Party and is 

 one of the oldest towns in Germany. 

 There I went to see a man named Dor- 

 ner, a carnation culturist. Mr. Dorner 

 learned his business in America, from 

 Dreer and other United States florists. 

 This man did business all during the 

 war, cultivating new ideas in carna- 

 tions. The stems of some of the car- 

 nations I saw there were, without ex- 

 aggeration, four feet high, and the 

 flowers were in various combined col- 

 ors, such as lavender and pink, yellow 

 and lavender, etc. 



"Mr. Dorner pinned a white carna- 

 tion on me. It just came to me that 

 it was Mother's Day. I told him about 

 it, but he thought it could not be done 

 in Germany. I said, 'It is done in 

 America, so I do not see why you can- 

 not do it here. It would be a big sale 

 for your carnations.' He is going to 

 try to start it. 



"He showed me his greenhouse, 

 which is the old-fashioned kind. In 

 fact, In all Europe, there are no green- 

 houses like In America. He asked me 

 to send him some nicotine, which is 

 very scarce. There is very little of 

 this in Europe. 



"An Interesting thing about Ger- 

 many is that you find flowers in every 

 house, poor or rich. They have win- 

 dow -boxes in the smallest alleys. I 

 have gone into the houses of the poor 

 working class and found plants and 

 cut flowers around. This was encour- 

 aged during the entire war. 



"During the war they encouraged 

 giving birth to children, and the flor- 

 ists always had some novelties to send 

 to the newborn boy member of the 

 family. A girl was not important. One 

 of the novelties I picked up had on it 



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in German: 'Another soldier for Hin- 

 denburg.' This man told me he sold 

 over a thousand of these; and they 

 were quite expensive. 



"I happened to be in France on 

 Decoration Day, when they were plac- 

 ing wreaths on the graves of the dis- 

 tinguished Americans. Also a great 

 many Americans were sending their 

 families wreaths. I tried to help a few 

 of the florists make up these wreaths 

 and found that they would not have 

 them our way. They made them up 

 on frames, in the manner I spoke of 

 before. They were made of cedar, 

 beech sprays and oak wound around 

 big hoops, and at the bottom sprays of 

 orchids, lilies, carnations and roses, 

 making a wreath at least six feet in 

 diameter, at $25.00. Of course, the ex- 

 change is low in France, about one- 

 third of its original value. 



"Another thing they use in France, 

 of which any of the boys that were 

 over there can tell you, is beaded 

 wreaths. Each florist carries an enor- 

 mous stock of these beaded wreaths. 

 They are made from glass beads, in 

 various colors. I went out to the ceme- 

 teries and almost every grave had 

 from one to two dozen wreaths on it. 

 The bodies are buried above the 

 ground in France. 



"I went from there to the south of 

 France. Toulon, where the bulbs 

 come from, and found that the farm- 

 ers down there have gotten together 

 and are holding the price of bulbs 

 way up. saying the Americans have 

 plenty of money and can pay for 

 them. It is a beautiful sight. Flow- 

 ers from the south of France are 

 shipped everywhere; England, North- 

 ern France, Belgium and Switzer- 



