174 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



have ways and means of properly caring for their plants so as to 

 have them just at their best for Easter Sunday. 



PREPARATIONS FOR EASTER 



Perhaps as important as anything, besides having an Easter 

 display, is to provide proper facilities for keeping the flowering pot 

 plants such as Roses, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Hydrangeas, Lilies, 

 etc., in good shape. You must have a place where plants can be kept, 

 if found necessary, in a cool, shaded position. There the flowers 

 of almost anything will improve; they will get a finish not possible 

 in a hot, sunny house. I have yet to go through an Easter season 

 lin which it didn't happen that, just a few days or maybe a week or 

 more before Easter, a hot, windy spell set in. That meant getting 

 'busy and moving things to cooler quarters. It helps a batch of late 

 (Lilies perhaps, but other stock, if left unprotected, would surely 

 spoil. Therefore, always provide either a well-ventilated and heavily 

 shaded house, a frostproof shed or some other place, according to 

 your needs, to properly take care of your plants. For bulb stock 

 a deep coldframe is usually an ideal place to keep the flats and pans 

 in good condition; such a frame can be shaded and ventilated to 

 best suit the stock. 



What I have said about the Christmas rush is equally true in 

 regard to preparing for Easter you want to be well supplied with 



everything necessary for doing 

 business. Raskets, hampers, 

 pot-covers and ribbon play a 

 more important part today 

 than ever. It is the way some 

 plants are dressed up that 

 sells them. Seeing what the 

 big fellow in the large city 

 does is a good way to get new 

 ideas, for people want some- 

 thing different, some new crea- 

 tion and these usually come 

 from the large cities. Not 

 that the city florist is so much 

 smarter than his brother from 

 the country, but competition 

 and the fact that he devotes 

 his entire time to the selling 

 end of the business make the 



Fig. 59. ANOTHER TASTEFUL EASTER AR- .. fl . . ^t^ollv a Ipador 

 RANGEMENT. Narcissus Victoria and Gin- Clt y "OHM naturally a leaae 

 erarias can both be grown for Easter by when it comes to a floral ar- 

 even the smaUest^grower and then used most ran gement or dressing up a 

 effectively in such a basket arrangement , f f ., T . 



as is illustrated here P lant tor tne counter. It IS 



