MAMB ft, 1919 



The tHorists' Review 



11 



O^eN USTTCa^y^ DEADER^ 



A PATBIOTIO APPEAL. 



The Federal Board for Vocational 

 Education has brought to my attention 

 the fact that there are a great many 

 disabled soldiers who are finding trouble 

 in getting employment. 



The business men of the country are 

 not responding in the patriotic way that 

 they should. If each firm would en- 

 deavor to make a position, if only for 

 one man, it would solve the question, 

 beyond a doubt. 



Greenhouse work would oflPer oppor- 

 tunities in many cases, particularly in 

 some cases where the men have been 

 doing heavy work in the past and are 

 disabled and only able to do light work. 

 Many of these men have been hard 

 workers and any work that they could 

 do would probably be well done. 



Jerome B. Scott, Supervisor of Place- 

 ment of District No. 3, located in Phila- 

 tlelphia, has handed me some memoran- 

 da, and among them are the following 

 points: 



In reference to the kind of work wanted for 

 the men and the class of men that are disabled, 

 I desire to state that many of the men we are 

 coming in contact with are fellows who have done 

 strenuous work before enlistmeiit and who, be- 

 oaiise of healing wounds and other minor dis- 

 abilities, are nnable to take up this kind of 

 work but require Jobs of a lighter nature. In 

 some cases they require sitting-down Jobs, and 

 in other cases the men have been gassed and 

 require outside Jobs. As I stated the other day, 

 work in your line is particularly well suited for 

 this class of men. They will not be men of 

 any great Industrial experience; they will not be 

 men of any particular skill. 



It is the bale and hearty chap who had lived 

 a rough and strenuous life prior to enlistment, 

 who, because of this rugged, enthusiastic spirit, 

 was the man who managed to get himself in 

 the front lines and in the first dash over the 

 top and, (n many cases, the one most ready to 

 do the seemingly foolhardy things, whom we 

 have to deal with. The reward for this spirit 

 of dash and bravery is a weakened constitution, 

 for a time. 



It Is here that we are appealing to the em- 

 ployer to follow up his splendid work and back- 

 ing that he gave to these fellows during the 

 war and to now d» his "after-war bit" and con- 

 tinue to back him up until be is established again 

 in civil life and is self-reliant. 



Do yoa knew that many of these fine fellows 

 that yon see pictored on tke screen leaving the 

 transports, are reamliiK the streets without Jobs 

 and compelled to go t« the Bed Cross, Rotary 

 Club and otker Institutions to ask for a bed 

 and a mealT 



The hero that retanis to a home and loved 

 ones is truly fortmiate. How about the fellow 

 that bared bis breast to the Hun and returned 

 to these shores wounded and cheered for a day, 

 but realises upon the following day that the 

 cheers have subsided? 



A great problem confronts the nation at this 

 time; that is, the problem of unemployment, and 

 the greatest element in this unemployment Is 

 the wounded man. 



Please don't offer us ten-dollar-a-week jobs. 

 Can YOU live on ten dollars a week? 



These fine fellows do not want charity — they 

 simply want a chance to make an honest and 

 fair living — to make good. 



It seems to me that this should ap- 

 peal to tho^e among our profession who 

 have any patriotism about them, and I 

 feel that it is the duty of everyone to 

 "lo their "after-war bit." 



8. S. Pennock. 



THE SLACSEB NOT NEEDED. 



I saw a small paragraph in The Re- 

 ■iew of February 20 that seems to me 

 to be a keynote. It was: "What the 

 trade needs is not cheaper labor, or more 

 labor, but increased production on thp 

 part of tk«fl« mow employed." 



If a rose grower finds a sucker thriv- 

 ing in his bench, the first thing he does 

 is to cut it out, for its space is too valu- 

 able. The same space that will grow 

 suckers will grow roses. There is no 

 space for slackers. 



The florist who employs a man who 

 does not see the beauty of flowers — one 

 of God's greatest gifts to man — who 

 does not put his whole soul and heart 

 into his work, has made a mistake, for 

 with such a man he vfiU not get as much 

 work accomplished, nor done as well, as 

 with one who loves his work and the 

 flowers for what they are. 



So now, Mr. Employee, study the life 

 of flowers, their beauty, their good as 

 a word of cheer to the sick, or a word 

 of sympathy to the bereft. Cooperate 

 vdth your employer, grow the goods the 

 public wants, and they vfiU pay the 

 price. Then your employer will feel that 

 you can earn more for him and he will 

 be free to pay you more for your serv- 

 ices. 



The man who takes any kind of a job 

 and does not improve his time is as the 

 sucker on the rose, a slacker, and we 

 have all learned to hate the word 

 slacker. M. L. Brandt. 



NEBRASKA STATE FLORISTS. 



The Nebraska State Florists' Society 

 held its annual meeting February 25 at 

 Lincoln, with a good attendance. The 

 afternoon was devoted to a floral display 

 at the Commercial Club, at which C. H. 

 Froy, of Lincoln, carried away the 

 prizes and a diploma for the best display 

 of plants and cut flowers. 



A banquet was served at the Lincoln 



hotel and the evening was devoted to 

 a business session. J. J. Hess read an 

 interesting paper on "Why We Should 

 Support the F. T. D." Edward Wil 

 liams talked on * * How to Make a Small 

 Greenhouse Establishment Pay," and 

 C. H. Frey on "Seasonable Sugges 

 tions." Among the visitors was Philip 

 J. Foley, of Chicago, who spoke of va- 

 rious things and congratulated the so- 

 ciety on the work done in this state. 



Officers were elected as follows: C. H. 

 Frey, of Lincoln, president ; W. J. Bodg- 

 ers, of Blair, vice-president; O. H. 

 Enslow, of Lincoln, secretary a&d treas- 

 urer. 



A committee was appointed, consist- 

 ing of Lewis Henderson, Edward Wil- 

 liams and C. H. Green, to see to getting 

 a larger appropriation for the floral dis- 

 play this year. The secretary was also 

 instructed to send a telegram to Ne- 

 braska representatives at Washington, 

 urging them to help, if possible, to re- 

 scind the plant embargo. A vote of 

 thanks was ordered sent to W. P. Gude, 

 of Washington, D. C, for the untiring 

 efforts he has made in the interest of the 

 florists of the country. A vote of thanks 

 to the officers of the S. A. P., for the 

 great work they have done in advertis- 

 ing flowers, was ordered. 



The morning following the sessions 

 was devoted to visiting greenhouses. 

 In the afternoon the society met at the 

 capitol, where the state legislature was 

 in session, and succeeded in having 

 killed a bill which was intended to per- 

 mit cemeteries to do commercial busi- 

 ness. Lewis Henderson. 



Canandalgua, N. Y. — Edward Sick 

 looks for a large demand in annuals 

 such as petunias, salvias and the like, 

 owing to the scarcity of geraniums. 

 He is governing himself accordingly. 



Lima, O. — A greenhouse to cost in the 

 neighborhood of $5,000 will be built at 

 the state hospital, near here, if a bill 

 now before the Ohio legislature is 

 passed. The building has been recom- 

 mended by the state supervisor. 



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FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 



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STABTINa VEGETABLE PLANTS. 



While there may be some falling off 

 in the number of so-called war gardens 

 this year, there is bound to be a heavy 

 call for vegetable plants of all kinds, as 

 hundreds of thousands of those who 

 have got in contact with mother earth 

 for the first time and have found out 

 how superior home-grown produce is to 

 that purchased at the corner grocery 

 will want to grow their own vegetables 

 again. This great world war will give 

 horticulture a tremendous boom, as peo- 

 ple are just beginning to appreciate the 

 fact that practically all we have in this 

 world comes either from the soil itself 

 or below it in the form of minerals and 

 metals. 



Now is a good time to start such vege- 

 tables as tomatoes; celery, of the Paris 

 Golden type; cabbages, of which Early 

 .Jersey Wakefield and Copenhagen Mar- 

 ket are splendid early sorts; Kronk's 



Erfurt and Snowball cauliflower; Big 

 Boston, Wayahead, White Tennisball, 

 Curled Simpson and other lettuces, and 

 Brussels sprouts. Where purchasers 

 have a coldframe they will buy cucum- 

 ber and melon plants in pots and, as a 

 good many like to produce vegetables fit 

 for show, they will purchase seedlings 

 of Ailsa Craig, Gigantic Gibraltar and 

 Prizetaker onions and Lyon or Mussel- 

 burg leeks. Peppers and eggplants will 

 be better if sown a couple of weeks 

 later, at which time also a further sow- 

 ing of tomatoes, like Stone, Dwarf 

 Stone, John Baer, Early Jew6l and 

 Earliana, can be made. 



Small growers now demand a greater 

 assortment of started vegetables and 

 last season pots of New Zealand spinach, 

 Lima beans, parsley and even Globe arti- 

 chokes were called for. The gardens are 

 sure to contain a great many more flow- 

 ers than a year ago and florists find the 

 demand for plants of these much greater 

 this season. 



