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June 8, 1916. 



garage and Walter has just bought a 

 Ford, so a new garage is being built 

 at the rose range. Its size, 20x24, is 

 not prompted by the size of Walter's 

 car, but by the foresight that suggests 

 a refrigerating plant at the time the 

 three or four more houses go up to 

 make the two places one. The addi- 

 tion would have been made this year 

 but for the high cost of materials. 



Ernst C. Amling. 



The roofs of the Ernst Amling es- 

 tablishment shelter three strong boys, 

 the baby of six months just happily 

 recovering from a rather severe attack 

 of measles; 20,000 Mrs. Eussell, 5,000 

 Ophelia and a quite new Moline-Knight 

 car, not to mention Sport, the shepherd 

 dog, also glad' to see visitors. So it 

 is no wonder Mr. and Mrs. Amling are 

 thoroughly content. This range was 

 one of the first to try Russell and the 

 original plants are still there. The 

 proprietor thinks he has done better 

 with it this season than any of 

 his neighbors have done with other 

 varieties and the plants are in such 

 good condition he is going right on 

 with most of them, only drying off 

 a few benches of the oldest. But Mr. 

 Amling admits the space occupied by 

 Ophelia has brought more money per 

 foot than has the space in Russell, even 

 if Russell has done splendidly. He says 

 the Ophelia plants will average thirty 

 flowers each for the season, the present 

 cut being the best yet. Ophelia has 

 brought better prices than any other 

 rose of its size this year. 



The Beauty Growers. 



The one exception to the general sat- 

 isfaction with the season, so far as the 

 Maywood growers are concerned, is the 

 Weiss & Meyer Co., which devotes all 

 its space to Beauties. None of the 

 Beauty growers for the Chicago mar- 

 ket seems to have done specially well 

 this season. The Weiss & Meyer Co. 

 did splendidly with its Beauties up to 

 Christmas and it looked like a banner 

 season, for the heavy cut was realizing 

 good prices, but then black spot swept 

 in, the same disease, by the way, that 

 gave the Russell growers of the neigh- 

 borhood some anxious moments. Since 

 then there have been few Beauties to 

 cut, only one house now being in crop. 

 About half the place has been replanted 

 with young stock, part from Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. and part from the Batavia 

 Greenhouse Co. The other half is be- 

 ing replanted with old stock dried off 

 and cut back. There will be 35,000 

 Beauty plants on the benches when the 

 work is done. A big artesian well has 

 been put down a little over 300 feet 

 and a new water supply system is being 

 put in. 



Everybody Busy. 



The winter-blooming Spencer peas in 

 Henry Wehrman's south houses are a 

 sight, for picking ceased some days ago, 

 when the crop of spring bloomers be- 

 came so heavy it occupied all attention. 

 Mr. Wehrman never has had a better 

 season than the one now closing, the 

 pick having been steady and prices the 

 same. Preparations are now in progress 

 for filling the houses with mums, for 

 the usual autumn crop. 



Walter Burhop is industriously pick- 

 ing sweet peas while preparing to plant 

 mums for a fall crop. The peas have 

 held out unusually well this season be- 

 cause of the cool weather and the pres- 

 ent pick is heavy. 



Hugo Luedtke is one of the few 

 Maywood growers who has neither roses 

 nor sweet peas; his specialty is the old- 

 fashioned flowers. At present his prin- 

 cipal cut is double stocks that make a 

 sheet of snow of the benches not al- 

 ready emptied. 



A 50-foot Heine chimney is William 

 Wichtendahl's spring addition. He has 

 his place in excellent order. 



Felsch Bros., on the south side, are 

 busy with bedding plants, the season 

 having started late. 



The Albert T. Hey Floral Co., in the 

 west end of Maywood, is having an ac- 

 tive retail season. 



RESOUROETULNESS. 



In these days we hear a great deal 

 of talk about preparedness and little 

 about resourcefulness, an attribute of 

 greatest importance, especially among 

 country florists. It doesn't take much 

 ability to meet an unexpected demand 

 if one has at his back the resources 

 of a big city, but with the cpuntry 



When Stock Was Scarce. 



florist it is quite a different matter: 

 It is impossible to be pre|te.red, as 

 business does not warrant carrying 

 much stock, and resourcefulness must 

 frequently be called into play when a 

 hurry-up order comes in. In such a 

 case the hamper of prepared magnolia 

 leaves usually is called on, but some- 

 times it is not acceptable. Such was 

 the position of J. J. Utter, pf West 

 Branch, Mich., the other day; the be- 

 lated customer would have ^othing if 

 not a star on a base, while the stock 

 at hand was a bunch of carnations, two 

 bunches of marguerites and a little 

 swainsona. The illustration shows the 

 result. Many a man has done worse 

 with more. 



as you can see by the enclosed speci- 

 men. Can you inform us as to the 

 cause? E. B, H. & C— N. J. 



The double white gardenia-scented 

 narcissus, N. albus plenus odoratus, acts 

 in this way with the majority of grow- 

 ers. Its requirements are a deep, moist, 

 but well drained soil. In such a soil 

 it will still throw some withered buds, 

 but will give a good crop of flowers. 

 The best crop of this fine narcissus I 

 have ever seen was growing about three 

 feet above the water level of a large 

 pond in grass land. It is possible, how- 

 ever, to get a good lot of flowers im 

 any deep soil. Cover the bulbs to a 

 depth of four inches. Replant once in 

 four years, taking up the bulbs when 

 the foliage has matured. It is well to 

 state that it is much easier to grow 

 foliage than flowers on this beautiful 

 narcissus. 0. W. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



BLIGHTED NARCISSUS BUDS. 



We have a clump of double narcissi, 

 albus plenus odoratus, which were set 

 outdoors in the fall of 1913, but never 

 have bloomed -satisfactorily. The 

 flowers develop partly and then drjr up. 



Memorial day in the Buffalo cut 

 flower market will not be remembered 

 as a holiday of record-breaking busi- 

 ness or as a holiday of scarcity of stock. 

 Weather conditions were against the 

 day and more business was anticipated 

 in cut flowers. The sales of plants, 

 however, made up for it. Decorative 

 work for school commencements is in 

 full blast. 



Beauties were more than sufficient for 

 requirements and other varieties also 

 were more than plentiful. What little 

 funeral work there was cut no figure 

 in moving the supply. Carnations were 

 held back for several days and Memo- 

 rial day all varieties in quantity were 

 available. The sales were rather slow. 

 The peony situation was much like that 

 of the carnations. Practically the en- 

 tire market was ruled by the large 

 quantity of lilac, which was substi- 

 tuted for other flowers. The supply of 

 valley fluctuates from day to day. Cat- 

 tleyas, as usual, were scarce. Eastern 

 lilies were abundant and considerable 

 difficulty was experienced in moving 

 them. Callas are gradually receding. 

 Baby gladioli and sweet peas enjoyed 

 a ready sale. Irises and yellow daisies 

 were in eager demand. Miscellaneous 

 stock did not move with much celerity. 

 Greens of all kinds were plentiful. The 

 supply of fancy ferns is smaller. 



Various Notes. 



F. Baum found himself more than 

 busy Memorial day and he cleared all 

 pot plants. 



Miss A. A. Erckert is working early 

 and late filling porch boxes and urns. 

 Although the force has been working 

 overtime for the last two weeks, it 

 has not caught up with the orders. 



The strike of the express drivers has 

 not had a bad effect on the Buffalo 

 florists, although there is some trouble 

 in receiving and sending shipments on 

 certain routes. 



On visiting the greenhouses of the 

 city and suburban towns, I found in 

 many cases that there had been a com- 

 plete clean-up of spring stock; some- 

 times all orders had not been filled. 



Harold Taylor, who is with John 

 Breitmeyer's Sons, of Detroit, was in 

 town June 4. 



L. H. Neubeck has been busy filling 

 window boxes and urns. Memorial day 

 lie was on the jump. A. E. 



