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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 1. 1920 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 



The Market. 



There was a greater abundance of 

 stock on the market last week than 

 there has been for some time. The de- 

 mand has been fairly good and the large 

 supply of sweet peas and various spring 

 flowers has kept the market filled up. 

 Prices have been affected in all lines. 

 Orchids are bringing $20 per dozen, 

 Beauties $12 to $15 per dozen, Easter 

 lilies $30 per hundred, carnations l$15 

 per hundred, sweet peas $3 to $5/ per 

 hundred, gardenias $5 to $9 per df^zen 

 and roses $10 to $50 per hundred. The 

 rose supply is satisfactory and the 

 stock is exceedingly fine. Spring flow- 

 ers are arriving in large quantities, but 

 are cleaning up in good shape. 



The outlook for Easter is good and 

 business is fair at present, although 

 there is a lull before the storm. All va- 

 rieties of stock are keeping up to the 

 mark in quality and, despite the large 

 supply, little is held. Everybody seems 

 to be piled up with Easter orders and 

 all members of the trade are preparing 

 for the rush. Due to the disappearance 

 of the flu epidemic, the amount of fu- 

 neral work is about normal again. 



Various Notes. 



With much hard work and careful 

 thinking, Arthur Shaffer and Herbert 

 Sauber are working out their plans for 

 the Washington baseball team this year. 

 The members of the trade have given 

 freely to the fund which is being col- 

 lected to equip the team in first-class 

 shape. The team has had its first work- 

 out and the batteries have been out get- 

 ting good practice. Arthur Shaffer is 

 manager and he reports the progress 

 satisfactory. Arrangements for the first 

 game have been completed and they ex- 

 pect to play several out-of-town games. 

 They also have hopes of going to Cleve- 

 land to play for the convention. 



A movement is on hand to induce the 

 local music stores to handle the "Say 

 It with Flowers" song and also to have 

 the different picture houses flash the 

 chorus on their screens. There is also 

 a suggestion that the local florists 

 handle the song in their stores. 



Final arrangements have been com- 

 pleted for the oyster roast to be held in 

 honor of the newly elected officers of 

 the Washington Florists' Club at Elks' 

 hall, April 9. G. V. S. 



David G. Grillbortzer, of the Wash- 

 ington Floral Co., reports that his firm 

 has between 5,000 and 6,000 pots of 

 lilies bearing from three to fifteen flow- 

 ers each, at the Alexandria range. Of 

 hydrangea plants the company has 

 about 1,500 pots. 



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Dear Mr. Review Reader: 



Troy. Ohio, March 16. 1920. 



We are frankly optimists upon the future of a flower-srowlng 

 Industry in this country. With flowera being used as they are today, 

 not merely as a luxury by the rich, but practically as a necessity In 

 the ever-day life of the people, who have learned to "Say It with 

 Flowers," has come an Insistent demand that wlU mean high prlcea 

 for a Ions' time. 



So It surely behooves every Florist, whether he grows plants for 

 the trade, or cut flowers. Inside or out, to take advantage of every 

 labor-saving device and every proven method of getting bigger and 

 better crops, that he can find. 



There Is many a grrower operating only an acre or two of ground 

 outside, and a few thousand square feet of glass, who wants a Skin- 

 ner system, but does not think that he can afford It. 

 Irrigation Is now a really vital necessity to those men who expect 

 to make real money out of their crops outside, and it is proving to 

 be a tremendous saver of labor and expense for Inside watering. 

 The big grower, operating a dozen houses and acres of ground out- 

 side, can better afford tn take a chance on the weather than the 

 small grower, because he is in a financial position to stand the loss. 

 But. as a rule, the big grower has the Skinner system, because he 

 Is a keen business man and knows that it is necessary to realize the 

 biggest percentage of profit on his Investment. 



It must be admitted that the small grower realizes the value of 

 irrigation, but his excuse is that "it costs too much." That is not a 

 logical excuse. 



To make It easier for the small grower to try Irrisratlon on hla own 

 place, the company with which I am Identified has put on the mar- 

 ket what we call Sectional Portable Irrigation Lines. 

 These lines are buiU of heavily galvanized pipe, cut Into 18-foot 

 sections. Between each two sections there is a patented "quick- 

 acting coupling." Here is a picture to show Just what this coupling 

 looks like. 



The ancketa fit together no that the aoaales are always In perfect 

 alignment. No tool except an ordinary monkey wrench is needed 

 to quickly take them apart and put them together. 

 A line 200 feet long conaists of 11 sections 18 feet long, the extra 

 2 feet being made up by the turning union attachment at the head 

 of the line. _^ 



Here's the interesting part: 



Suppose the grower has an acre outside, which Is a piece of ground 

 about 200 feet square, and he wants to put that acre under the Skin- 

 ner system. Ordinarily, it would require four lines, each 200 feet 

 long, spaced 60 feet apart. 



The Sectional Portable Line makes it possible for the grower to uae 

 one line to watnr the whole piece. He simply places four rows of 

 posts 50 feet apart, the posts being 16 feet apart In the row. Water 

 is piped to the head of each row. It is a very simple matter to 

 couple the pipe together, lay it on the top of the roller-bearing 

 hangers, which slip into the pipe posts, turn on the water and irri- 

 gate a first strip, 60 feet wide. When that strip is watered, two men 

 can easily and quickly shift the line in 36-foot lengths to the next 

 row of posts, and so on, until the acre is watered. Three men can 

 move the line in 72-foot lengths. 



This may sound like some trouble, but it will pay the biggest return 

 of any labor you can do. Two hours will cover the pipe shifting 

 necessary to water an acre. 



In an ordinary year the line will more than pay for itself and 

 in a dry year it will pay dividends the grower didn't think possible. 

 Or, one of these Portable Lines, equipped for greenhouse watering, 

 can be put up and tried in one house. If you have any doubts of 

 its working successfully on the different things you are growing, it is 

 an easy matter to shift it to another house, and prove for yourself 

 that it will work successfully there. 



Now these Portable Lines make a mighty easy way to get started, 

 and we heartily recommend them to the man who wants a Skinner 

 system, but has put oft getting it, with the argument that he can't 

 afford it. 



The Skinner Irrigation Co. especially Invites correspondence. Ques- 

 tions about water supply, pumps, engines, etc, are cheerfully 

 answered. A service that growers will appreciate U a free blue 

 print, showing how the Skinner System can be adapted to the size 

 *??.^"*P«® °' *".? '^"'^ °' ^'^^ grower asking for it. Or to different 

 widths of greenhouses, and for different greenhouse crops. There la 

 no obligation, and we would like to have every one Interested write 

 us. Through our Engineering Department and traveling experts 

 we render distinct service that is valuable to any grower. 

 We don't care how small a proposition is — it will receive just as 

 careful attention as one calling for the largest kind of a system. 



P. H. BRIDGE, Secy. 

 P. S. We are jroing to have a few things to say 

 about watering by hose, ami watering by me. 

 chanlcal equipment, whicli will Interest any one 

 who grows anjthing under glass. Watch the 

 columns of this paper the next few weeks, for 

 the series of talks on "Horse Sense Hunches on 

 the National Sport of Hose Holding." No. 1 will 

 be entitled, "Rut Running and Hobby Riding." 



THE SKINNER IRRIGATION CO. 



223 Water Street TROY, OHIO 



