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The Florists^ Review 



March 22. 1917. 



Mr. Klingsporn is manager of the Chi- 

 cago Flower Growers' Association, vice- 

 president of the Chicago Florists' Club 

 and as an S. A. F. official he visited the 

 New York show. 



Edward Dornheim has resigned his 

 position with Berger Bros., to embark 

 in business as a grower with Clarence 

 Alwine at Alden, under the firm name 

 of Alwine & Dornheim. 



The M. Eice Co. has been working 

 overtime to get out orders. February 

 was this concern 's best early-in-the-year 

 month until now, but March bids fair to 

 eclipse it in volume of business. 



Fred Shesky expects to retire from his 

 greenhouses at Holland, Pa., this week. 



James J. Karins has returned to River- 

 ton, N. J., from his recent business trip. 



Edward Reid has some of the finest 

 peas seen here. 



The spring show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society was held in Horti- 

 cultural hall March 20 to 22. It was 

 largely made up of Easter flowering 

 plants and bulbous stock, mainly from 

 the private estates around Philadelphia, 

 with a few commercial exhibits. 



A. R. Newton, Norfolk, Va., has been 

 with us. Phil. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The last month has been an unusual 

 one, the weather having been most er- 

 ratic. A week ago we were in the 

 throes of a flood; the week before that 

 we enjoyed the heaviest snowfall of 

 thirty years, at a time when we usually 

 have an abundance of flowers of all 

 kinds outdoors. Outdoor flowers have 

 seldom been so slow to open as this year, 

 I have kept a record for the last eight 

 years of the blooming time of the flow- 

 ers that compete with the florists' prod- 

 ucts, and, wliile tlie blooms were later 

 tlian usual last season, they are still 

 later tliis spring. As a result there has 

 been a heavy demand for all the bulb- 

 ous stock forced in the city. One of the 

 largest growers lemarked that his bulb- 

 OU.S stock had been his salvation this 

 spring, for without it lie would never 

 ha,veT»een able to fill all his orders. We 

 had a light flurry of snow this morning, 

 March 18. Daffodils are still scarce out- 

 doors, while most of the liyacinths as 

 yet are not in bloom. 



It has been too wet for much work 

 of any kind outdoors. Tlie situation is 

 becoming serious, as gardeners and farm- 

 ers have been unable to attend to their 

 early jdanting and soon it will be too 

 late for several of the crops. 



As to trade conditions, there is a 

 continuous and strong demand for flow- 

 ers, perhaps as good as there ever was 

 in the history of the trade. Besides, 

 there is an ever-growing wholesale ship- 

 ping business. The future of the busi- 

 ness appears especially briglit this 

 spring. 



Various Notes. 



The death of Joseph Browne has left 

 the Lischey Gardens in a rather uncer- 

 tain position. The decedent had no son 

 to carry on the business, and his widow 

 is, as yet, undecided what to do. She 

 is continuing the business at present 

 with the assistance of the old helpers. 

 Mr. Browne had a large and growing 

 business and the establishment is one 

 of the oldest in the entire south, hav- 

 ing been established long before the 

 war. 



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