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Apbil 29, 1020 



The Florists^ Review 



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Members of the Florists' Club of Hartford at Banquet oa Ladies' Nightt April 22. 



like to add to the collection. My place 



is the Home of Booze-Bearing Plants. 



Here are a few which can be grown and 



will relieve the thirst: 



Hop vines (Humea Liipulus) for beer. 



Grape vines for ■wine. 



Apple trees for cider. 



Apricot trees and blacltberry buslies, for brnndies. 



Junipers ( Juniperus) for gin. 



Rye and corn for wiiiskc.v. 



Mint (Mentha riperita) . . . .for creme de mentlie. 



Caraway (canim) for Icimmell. 



Wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium), for absinthe. 



Plum trees for slivowitz, a Russian drink. 



Bice for areck and sake. 



Commeal for muscatel. 



And not to neglect the drug addicts, 

 grow poppy (Papaver somniferum) for 

 opium. 



Why make the proprietor of a cafe 

 liable to a heavy fine when you can 

 produce all of the above yourself? 



Samuel J. Clark. 



SEPAKA.TINO DAHLIA CLUMPS. 



The dahlia clump can be properly 

 separated by anyone if the following 

 instructions are carefully followed: 



Take the dahlia clump as it was har- 

 vested, with the portion of the original 

 stalk, from which the top was removed. 

 Upon examining the clump you will 

 notice that the tubers formed at the 

 base of the stalk and that each tuber 

 has a crown, neck and body; the crown 

 being the bulging portion that is con- 

 nected with the clump, and the neck 

 being the small portion between the 

 crown and the body of the tuber. By 

 examining carefully, small eyes, or 

 sprouts, can be detected on the crowns 

 and stalk base. These eyes produce 

 the new plants; so, in separating, it is 

 necessary that each tuber have an eye. 

 Without an eye the tuber is worthless. 



In separating, a sharp knife should 

 be used and great care taken. The 

 best way is to remove each tuber in- 

 dividually, but in cutting, it is neces- 

 sary that each tuber have a crown, or 

 a portion of the stalk, as it is upon 

 this that all the eyes grow. 



First, select the tuber you think can 

 be most easily removed. With the 

 point of your knife, cut deeply into 

 the base of the stalk, so as to leave 

 an equal amount of the stalk base for 

 each tuber and so that each tuber has 

 its crown. By cutting deeply into the 

 stalk base on both sides, the tuber be- 

 comes separated from the clump, leav- 

 ing a V-shaped portion of the stalk base 



as a crown or head, upon which the 

 eye is found or will grow. 



The next tuber favorably located 

 from the separating standpoint can then 

 be chosen and removed by again cut- 

 ting the stalk base, and so on until the 

 stalk base becomes the crown of each 

 individual tuber. 



When the tuber is planted it should 

 be laid flat, six inches deep, so that the 

 crown, around which the new tubers 

 form, will be sufficiently deep to re- 

 ceive plenty of moisture, which is neces- 

 sary that the new tubers may develop 

 properly. The sprout will grow from 

 the crown and soon reach the top of 

 the ground, producing a plant the stem 

 of which, when full grown, becomes 

 the stalk. J. K. Alexander. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



The Market. 



There is an abundant supply of flow- 

 ers at present, but also a good demand 

 for them and no glut has developed. 

 Carnations and sweet peas are fine. 

 Snapdragons are arriving on the market 

 in fine quality. There has been a good 

 demand for funeral flowers, which has 

 kept most of the stores busy. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club of Hartford held 

 ladies' night Thursday evening, April 

 22. The ladies must have been looking 

 for this time to come, when their hus- 

 bands would take them to one of the 

 club's famous dinners, and they were 

 out in force. Dinner was served at the 

 City club. The dinner table was in the 

 shape of a hollow square. This square 

 was prettily filled, having an electric 

 fountain in the center, banked with 

 rambler roses. At the ends were large 

 baskets of Laddie carnations, sur- 

 rounded by genistas. On the tables 

 were strings of smilax with carnations 

 and roses. - Each of the ladies, about 

 thirty of whom wer;e present, received a 

 corsage of purple sweet peas and each 

 gentleman wore a white carnation. The 

 ends of the room were banked with large 

 ferns. An orchestra played during the 

 dinner. After a delightful dinner. 

 President Joseph F. Coombs welcomed 

 the ladies on behalf of the club and re- 

 minded them that there was a summer 

 picnic coming and hoped that they 



would all be present at that time. At 

 8 p. m. they adjourned to Parsons' 

 theater, where they witnessed "Chu 

 Chin Chow." There were several out- 

 of-town guests present. N. C. Osborne 

 and G. B. Marchant were in charge of 

 the arrangements and Vincent 01m- 

 stead did the decorating. 



Various Notes. 



Tlic greenhouses of Thomas Dryden 

 have plants for spring trade coming 

 along in fine shape. The Easter trade 

 was satisfactory here. 



Frank Ricliardson, East Hartford, 

 has a romarkable display of geraniums, 

 which are his specialty. His green- 

 houses are located at an advantageous 

 placp on the Connecticut boulevard, 

 where there is a trolley transfer point, 

 and the display is a fine advertisement. 



Mrs. E. M. Welch has sold her green- 

 houses on Annawan street. She will 

 devote all of her time to her new store 

 in the Allyn House. It is a store with 

 all the latest improvements and is al- 

 ways prettily decorated. 



Lane the Florist has been treating 

 the public to some unusually fine win- 

 dow displays. 



John Coombs' greenhouses, on South 

 street, are a fine sight at present. The 

 carnations are excellent, having both 

 stiff stems and good color. The roses 

 are growing well, too. The Benton 

 street range, which was damaged by the 

 ice and snow, is being repaired. His 

 bedding plants are in good shape and 

 he has a large number of geraniums, 

 which are fine. The house of sweet 

 peas is coming into crop with long 

 stems and large flowers. He has re- 

 newed his mum stock this year. The 

 young plants are healthy. 



The rose gardens at Elizabeth park, 

 for which Hartford is noted, have come 

 through the winter in fine shape. The 

 display will be larger than ever this 

 year. 



Pansy plants are beginning to appear 

 in the stores again. They are of good 

 quality and are retailing for about 75 

 cents per dozen. G. B. M. 



Evansville, Ind. — Hugh C. Schmitt 

 has purchased seven acres of land, near 

 the Salt Pool, west of this city. He 

 intends to erect a range of 20,000 square 

 feet of glass. He has secured Louis 

 Kassel as grower. 



