Makch 22, 191 7. 



The Florists' Review 



41 



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



Plants wldch 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 off 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 jdeiity 

 of everything, except American Beau 

 ties and special Russell roses. Rt. Pat- 

 rick 's day business cleaned up great 

 quantities of white carnations, roses, 

 peas and violets, and other stock sold 

 ^ell. Choice snapdragons come to the 

 market and find a ready sale. Darwin 

 tulips and irises have made their ap- 

 pearance and clear readily. 



Various Notes. 



riiiliji Breitmeycr and Frank Danzor 

 attend(>d the shows in the east. 



William Carter, of W. L. Rock Flower 

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

 troit, on his wav to Xew York. 



Lewis Xeiibo.-k, of the L. TL Xeu- 

 bcck establishment, Buffalo, N. Y., is 

 now in the employ of J. Broitnuver 's 

 f5nns, at the Park store. 



Bowlers Busy Agaiu. 



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: 



liUOWNIES. 



I{. Tavlor 1,")0 



.r. stock l.-,G 



McIIiiKh, Sr ILT) 



1'. IMpes i:{2 



I'. Itrown IL'2 



BISONS. 



Kirkpatrick 1,30 



K. I'aiitko 147 



MclIiiKli, Jr I,''i2 



I'hinih 80 



.r. .Streit 13<! 



A.MKUICAN I'.ICAt 1 IIO.S. 



F. Holziiasle 10.3 



II. Foster KPl 



\V. Tacpko I'll) 



Al. Sylvoster l!tl 



K. Flutters 1 IS 



MICIIIGA.N VVT FI.OWKK. 



.loan IL'2 



J. F. Sullivan !)S 



Kolster Ill 



K. V. Sullivan I."i7 



n. Uahaley 110 



Sassenheini, Holland. — Westerbeek & 

 Klyu, who had three men in America 

 last season, have eight travelers there 

 this year. 



Yokohama, Japan. — Robert Fulton, of 

 Henry & Lee, New York, wlio 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 it Klyii cst.-iblished 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 

 Americiin trade. The U boat situ.'ition 

 has interfered with their plans. They 

 h.'id nbout 100 cases on the Nieuw Am- 

 sterdam when it sailed .late in January 

 and returned a few davs later. 



London, England.-- -The new British 

 Wholesale Florists' Federation has been 

 before the Imports Restriction Com- 

 mittee of the government to secure the 

 extlusioii of flowers of Dutch bulbs, 

 the importation of the bulbs themselves 

 having been stopped last autumn. 



Rotterdam, Holland.— The inclination 

 of the governn.v'iit 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- 

 ado breaks the bulb shipments will bo in 

 doubt. 



