OCTOBSB 6, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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mustered at such an early hour as 6 

 8. m. But that was what the program 

 of September 28 called for and a good- 

 ly number visited the South Water 

 (Street produce market and the West 

 "Bandolph street farmers' market. In 

 the course of the visit there were many 

 interesting discussions between vege- 

 table growers and commission men. The 

 remainder of the morning was devoted 

 to round-table discussions. The first, 

 ^Greenhouse Problems," was led by 

 E. L. Watts, director of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Experiment Station, Col- 

 lege Station, Pa. The second, "Mar- 

 keting Vegetables," was led by H. W. 

 Selby, of Philadelphia. The marketing 

 discussion was scheduled to continue in 

 the afternoon, but before the meeting 

 settled down to the afternoon's busi- 

 ness an illustrated address on advertis- 

 ing vegetables, by L. W. C. Tuthill, of 

 the Tuthill Ad Agency, New York, was 

 interpolated. Mr. Tuthill knows how to 

 be highly interesting as well . as in- 

 structive. 



The final session was given over pri- 

 marily to a round-table discussion on 

 "Extension Work for Vegetable Grow- 

 ers, ' ' led by C. W. Waid, of the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College, East Lansing, 

 Mich., and a round-table discussion of 

 "Seed Selection and Plant Improve- 

 ment for the Vegetable Growers," led 

 by A. T. Erwin, of the Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College, Ames, la. In discussing 

 the matter of securing satisfactory seed, 

 Mr. Erwin suggested that one way out 

 of the difficulty was for the vegetable 

 growers to grow and select their own 

 seeds, at least in part. "While the 

 seedsmen will always play an impor- 

 tant part," he said, "it is well to re- 

 member that 'if you want a thing done 

 well, do it yourself.' " In his opinion 

 the home-growing of seeds would do 

 much to build up local strains that 

 would more nearly meet the require- 

 ments of their own localities than seed 

 purchased from seedsmen. This opened 

 the door to a lively discussion which 

 resulted in the conclusion that cheap 

 seed is dear at any price. 



Entertainment of Iiadles. 



The local reception and entertain- 

 ment committee acted as luncheon host 

 to the visiting ladies in the Marshall 

 Field tea room. 



In closing Secretary S. W. Severance 

 read a resolution of thanks to the citi- 

 zens of Chicago, the local management 

 committee headed by Fred Lauten- 

 schlager, the Cook County Vegetable 

 Growers' Association, the trade exhibi- 

 tors, the officials and teachers of the 

 Cook county schools, for their work in 

 promoting vegetable growing among the 

 school children. The resolution also rec- 

 ommended that a certificate of merit 

 'be g^ven to each of the eight school 

 divisions represented in the exhibits. 



The Next Meeting Place. 



The next place of meeting of the 

 Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America will be Springfield, Mass. 



ASTER YEIJ.OWS. 



We are enclosing one of our aster 

 plants and would like to know what 

 caused it to be in that diseased condi- 

 tion. We have large beds of asters do- 

 ing well, but throughout the beds there 

 are flowers affected like the one en- 

 closed. C. G. — la. 



A New Concern's First Carload of Bulbs Reaches Chicago. 



but imperfectly understood. It is com- 

 monly spoken of as aster yellows. The 

 trouble has been rife this season, prob- 

 ably due to the peculiar climatic condi- 

 tions, and is especially bad on land 

 which had been used for asters in con- 

 secutive years. Such affected plants 

 should be pulled up and burned, to pre- 

 vent infection of the ground. If possi- 

 ble, give your plants a fresh stand each 

 year, and it is a good plan to plow the 

 land in the fall and leave it rough over 

 winter. Aster flowers never brought 

 better prices than this season, as many 

 growers have lost a great proportion of 

 their plants, in some eases many thou- 

 sands in number. There have been 

 one or two college bulletins issued on 

 this disease; they do not tell us a great 

 deal about it. New ground and clean- 

 liness will help to stamp it out and 

 plants started in coldframes and the 

 open air always seem more immune to 

 this and other ailments than seedlings 



started in greenhouses where artificial 

 heat is used. C. W. 



PROUD AS PAPA. 



You know how proud papa proverbi- 

 ally is of the first baby; well, that's 

 the way the American Bulb Co., Chi- 

 cago, felt about its first carload of 

 French bulbs, particularly as the bulbs 

 from France reached the shipping plat- 

 form at the Erie depot in Chicago 

 September 25, only seven weeks after 

 the company opened its office and began 

 doing business. 



Incidentally, the illustration, show- 

 ing this first car of bulbs, will give 

 an idea how the bulb business is han- 

 dled. The shipping clerk of the con- 

 signee is seen inspecting, readdressing 

 and reshipping to customers as the cases 

 come out of the car. Advance orders 

 are reshipped from the unloading plat- 

 form, saving time, labor and cartage. 





PERENNIAL PLANTS 



FOR FLORISTS' PROFITS 



bill] 



SUGGESTIONS BY AN EXPERT. 



Some Care Needed. 



To those of you who grow and retail 

 your own plants and flowers and have 

 little ground around your houses to 

 spare, I would suggest that you will 

 find it profitable to pay more attention 

 to perennial plants, but do not treat 

 perennials as leftovers from spring sales 

 and expect to make a profit, because if 

 you do you will be disappointed and apt 

 to say, "Oh, I don't see anything in 

 growing perennials!" Give them the 

 same attention that you do your field- 

 grown carnations, asters, vincas, ivies 

 or other plants from which you expect 

 to make a profit. You know if you do 



The cause of this disease is as yet 



From the address of WllUam Sayllle, nnraery 

 mperintendent of the Henry F. Mlchell Co., be- 

 fore the FlorlBts' Olub of Philadelphia, October 3, 

 1916. 



not give the necessary attention to car- 

 nation plants in the field you will have 

 few Beacon to retail at $2.50 a dozen 

 December 24. 



I believe perennials will pay you as 

 well as asters have paid you — this year, 

 at any rate — but you took a chance on 

 the asters, prepared the ground for 

 them, kept them cultivated and clean 

 Why not plant a piece of that ground 

 to peonies or delphiniums now? And 

 when the asters are going off at the 

 neck and the beetles are busy next 

 summer, you can go out and cut Bella- 

 donna or other delphiniums on 3-foot 

 stems. You will find that your custom- 

 ers will take them and also, in many 

 cases, leave; orders for plants. 



Good Prices Easy. 



Do you know that Augnst 20 this year 

 some spikes of delphinium were sold in 

 the New York market at $2 a dozen? 



