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The Florists' Review 



'Jtjnb 22, 1916. 



A BIG CUT 



of Russell, Ophelia, Stanley, Sunburst, 

 Mrs. Hurst, Hoosier Beauty, Klllarney 

 Brilliant, Double White Klllarney, Pink 

 Klllarney, Richmond, Milady and Ward Roses to offer, in addition to heavy supplies of Car- 

 nations, Callas, Peonies, Galax, Asparagus Sprengeri, Adiantum, as well as 

 other seasonable stock and Greens* 



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last week. Orchids continue extremely 

 Bcarce. No difficulty is experienced in 

 moving Easter lilies. Sweet peas are 

 in limited supply and sell well. Daisies, 

 though nearing their end, continue to 

 experience a degree of popularity. Gla- 

 dioli would probably sell well but for 

 the fact that they are coming into the 

 market in poor condition because of 

 heavy rains. Pansies are about out of 

 the running. 



Greens are again in ample supply, a 

 large quantity of new ferns having 

 reached the market this week. 



Tbe Express Strike. 



The strike of express drivers grad- 

 ually is wearing itself out. Many of 

 the men have returned to work and a 

 partial service has been given in the 

 market for several days. The Whole- 

 sale Florists' Cartage Service, man- 

 aged by Fred Lautenschlager, still was 

 operating June 21, but expected to be 

 able to discontinue within a day or 

 two, things being that near normal. 



Later: The drivers declared their 

 strike off at noon June 21. 



Tbe Peony Season. 



Except for a few late varieties the 

 local peony crop was nearly all cut last 

 week. The growers had their troubles, 

 as usual. While favored by cool weath- 

 er, the frequent heavy rains made the 

 work difficult and in some cases de- 

 stroyed hundreds of dollars' worth of 

 flowers that were too far along to stand 

 such peltings. This, combined with a 

 June market rather better than any 

 previous year, has resulted in the quan- 

 tity put in cold storage being consid- 

 erably less than last year. But there 

 are peonies enough on hand, coupled 

 with late receipts from the north, so 

 that it will be impossible for the mar- 

 ket to be cleaned by July 4, as it usually 

 is. In recent years Klehm's Nursery 

 has been the only holder to carry peo- 

 nies into July, but this year quite a 

 number of wholesalers expect to have 



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to carry considerable quantities beyond 

 the usual date. 



Reichling's Big Task. 



A half day's work June 19 finished 

 the replanting operations at Peter Eein- 

 berg's principal place, a task begun in 

 March. There are 102 houses in this 

 establishment and Superintendent Emil 

 Reichling has replanted forty-two of 

 them with young roses, besides replant- 

 ing a number of houses and filling with 

 chrysanthemums the space later to be 

 used for propagating. At the carnation 

 range farther in the country half the 

 houses have been replanted. It is earlier 

 than the work ever before has been 



done and it has been accomplished with 

 surprisingly little help, for the payroll 

 last week carried only eighty-eight 

 names, which included the chauffeurs 

 and several others not employed direct- 

 ly in greenhouse work. 



The Beauties have been cut down 

 sharply; only seven houses remain. Tbe 

 principal iftcrease has been in Bussell, 

 ten additional houses containing 38,000 

 plants; the total planting of Bussell, 

 seventeen houses, now runs to 65,000 

 plants. The planting of Sunburst has 

 been increased from three houses to six 

 and one-half, 6r by 27,000 plants; ah 

 entire range is given to yellow roses. 

 Other increases are three houses of 



