March 22, 1917. 



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A General View of the Highly Successful Spring Flower Show at St. Louis. 



Plants which have been in the benches 

 since last fall will have well exhausted 

 the soil now, so give them a mulch of 

 sheep manure or well decayed cow ma- 

 nure. This will help to keep the 

 benches from drying out rapidly, as 

 well as stimulate the plants. Snap- 

 dragons now carry an abundance of 

 nice, stocky cuttings. Take oflF and 

 propagate a good batch of these; they 

 will ^ make salable plants for bedding 

 out in May. Many people do not half 

 appreciate the value of snapdragons as 

 bedding plants. As a matter of fact, 

 they are among our most useful sum- 

 mer-flowering outdoor plants. 



DETROIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



The market last week found plenty 

 of everything, except American Beau- 

 ties and special Russell roses. St. Pat- 

 rick's day business cleaned up great 

 quantities of white carnations, roses, 

 peas and violets, and other stock sold 

 well. Choice snapdragons come to the 

 market and find a ready sale. Darwin 

 tulips and irises have made their ap- 

 pearance and clear leadily. 



Various Notes. 



Philip Breitmeyer and Frank Danzer 

 attended the shows in the east. 



William Carter, of W. L. Rock Flower 

 Co., Kansas City, Mo., stopped off in De- 

 troit, on his way to New York. 



Lewis Neubeck, of the L. H. Neu- 

 beck establishment, Buffalo, N. Y., is 

 now in the employ of J. Breitmeyer 's 

 Sons, at the Park store. . 



Bowlers Busy Again. 



The Detroit Florists' Club held a 

 special meeting March 15. After the 

 session the Bowling Club members took 

 to the pins, with the following results: 



BBOWNIBS. 



H. Taylor 16« 



J. Stock 156 



McHugb, Sr 126 



P. Papes 132 



T. Brown 122 



BISONS. 



Kirkpatiick 136 



F. Pautke 14T 



McHugh, Jr 152 



Plumb 80 



J. Strelt 136 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES. 



F. Holznagle 163 



H. Foster 101 



W. Taepke 150 



Al. Sylvester 191 



B. Fetters 148 



MICHIGAN OUT FLOWER. 



Jean 122 



J. F. Sullivan 98 



Roister 141 



B. V. Sullivan 157 



R. Bataaley 140 



SHRAP 



Sassenheim, Holland. — Westerbeek & 

 Klyn, who had three men in America 

 last season, have eight travelers there 

 this year. 



Yokoliama, Japan. — Robert Fulton, of 

 Henry & Lee, New York, who has been 

 here for several months, contrary to his 

 custom will not return to the United 

 States this summer. 



Copenhagen, Denmark. — There still are 

 several millions of Hamburg valley pips 

 in the hands of Danish dealers who have 

 not been able to ship them. It is report- 

 ed here the German growers will produce 

 few pips in 1917. 



Sassenheim, Holland. — It is said that 

 Westerbeek & Klyn established a virtual 

 control of the gladiolus market by the 

 purchase early in the season of prac- 

 tically all the unpledged bulbs in Hol- 

 land of the varieties called for by the 

 American trade. The U-boat situation 

 has interfered with their plans. They 

 had about 400 cases on the Nieuw Am- 

 sterdam when it sailed Jate in January 

 and returned a few days later. 



London, England.— The new British 

 Wholesale Florists' Federation has been 

 before the Imports Restriction Com- 

 mittee of the government to secure the 

 exclusion of flowers of Dutch bulbs, 

 the importation of the bulbs themselves 

 having been stopped last autumn. 



Rotterdam, Holland,— The inclination 

 of the government to cause the laying 

 up of Dutch ships rather than expose 

 them to attacks by U-boats is creating 

 a stir in many other countries, but no 

 class is hit harder than the Dutch ex- 

 porters of bulbs and nursery stock. Only 

 a small part of the usual spring ship- 

 ments of nursery stock have gone for- 

 ward, and there still are quantities of 

 gladiolus bulbs to be forwarded, with 

 the fall bulb season only a few months 

 away, and freight piling up every day. 

 The blockade may begin to diminish 

 at any time, but some change must oc- 

 cur soon or the spring nursery stock will 

 not move in time to be of any use to 

 the American trade, and until the block- 

 ade breaks the bulb shipments will be in 

 doubt. 



