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The Florists^ Review 



NOTBMBBB 21. 1818. 



the closest attention should be given to 

 the class of business that provides the 

 all-year-round income. By so doing 

 there will be a steady inflow of the stuff 

 that makes it possible to pay the bills 

 regularly. 



The increase in funeral work has been 

 natural. The growth has come from 

 the fact that those who always send a 

 floral tribute of some kind to the homes 

 of dead friends and relatives have had 

 more monev than ever before. With 



their increases in income their expend- 

 itures have increased, and the only 

 thing that will stop them from continu- 

 ing to spend for flowers will be the ab- 

 sence of money. 



The Beconstructlon Period. 



With the reconstruction period in Eu- 

 rope ahead, for which the United States 

 will be called on to supply a considera- 

 ble part of the materials, and with the 

 return to normal pursuits in this coun- 



try, there is not likely to be any short- 

 age of money among the workers for 

 some time to come. This theory leads 

 to the belief that the growth of funeral 

 work is a healthy growth and that the 

 call for flowers will continue good. 



At any rate, we have come through 

 the war in good shape; we have been 

 taught to practice little economies that, 

 it is hoped, have become habits, and al- 

 together we are well prepared to face 

 what the future holds. 



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WARD CHANGES HIS PLANS 



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WILL MOVE BULB FARMS NORTH. 



To Columbia River Section. 



Charles Willis Ward, whose operations 

 on the Pacific coast have been the sub- 

 ject of many newspaper articles in the 

 last two years, and of still more private 

 discussion, especially in the last six 

 months, announces that he will abandon 

 the attempt to grow early tulips at 

 Eureka, Cal., and will remove the main 

 bulb growing establishment of the Cot- 

 tage Gardens Nurseries to the Columbia 

 river bottoms, some fifty miles down the 

 river from Portland. 



"I am so thoroughly convinced that 

 the Columbia river bottoms are the log- 

 ical place for the future development of 

 the bulb industry in the United States," 

 says Mr. Ward, * * that I have decided to 

 dispose of all of my interests in Califor- 

 nia, including my investment in tim- 

 bered lands, as well as my interest in 

 extensive oil properties in Louisiana and 

 West Virginia, and invest my entire 

 capital in the Cottage Gardens Nurs- 

 eries business, which will be removed 

 from California to the vicinity of Port- 

 land. ' ' 



Experiences at Eureka. 



"In planning the future growing of 

 bulbs by the Cottage Gardens Nurs- 

 eries," says Mr. Ward, "we have con- 

 cluded to maintain one bulb farm of 

 about 200 acres lying near the coast 

 about twenty miles north of Eureka, 

 Cal. The soil upon this farm is from 

 two to six feet in depth and is a light, 

 sandy loam, heavily impregnated with 

 leaf -mold. The subsoil, which is thirty 

 to forty feet in depth, is a clear, sharp 

 sand, which retains considerable mois- 

 ture during the dry season and gives it 

 off gradually to the upper soil. The re- 

 gion is frost-free. Lying immediately 

 upon the coast, it usually is blanketed 

 with heavy fogs whenever freezing 

 weather occurs in the mountain regions 

 behind. Upon this farm hyacinths can 

 be grown of superior quality, and also 

 the Darwin tulips, the gladiolus and the 

 crocus, but the early tulips are a failure, 

 owing to the mildness of the vsdnter 

 month of December, when they are often 

 forced into flower before the foliage has 

 made suflScient growth to carry out the 

 development and maturity of the new 

 bulb." 



The Columbia Bottoms. 



"The main bulb growing establish- 

 ment of the Cottage Gardens Nurseries 

 will be located in the Columbia river 

 bottoms,lyingabout fifty miles down the 

 river from the city of Portland. These 

 lands are identical with, the bulb lands 



in the vicinity of Sassenheim, Haarlem 

 and Leiden, Holland. The main forma- 

 tion, or subsoil, is a river silt from forty 

 to fifty feet in depth. Upon certain por- 

 tions of these lands this is overlaid with 

 four to five feet of a clean, sandy loam, 

 which is particularly adaptable for the 

 growth of early tulips and hyacinths. 

 Other sections are overlaid with a 



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stratum of two to four feet of peat, 

 which is highly impregnated with 

 nitrogen and which rapidly rots away 

 and mixes up with the subsoil as the 

 lands are cultivated. In other sections 

 the river silt comes to the surface and 

 this soil is the richest and most pro- 

 ductive of all of the soils on the Pacific 

 coast. It is light and friable as soon as 

 it dries out and, under cultivation, works 

 up into a soft, smooth, silky loam. It 

 produces all of the garden vegetables in 

 the greatest profusion and of best qual- 

 ity. As there are approximately 200,000 

 acres of this land in the Columbia river 

 bottoms, there is area enough to accom- 

 modate the entire bulb growing business 

 of Holland. All of these lands must be 

 diked and^ as the winter rainfall ranges 

 from forty-five to sixty inches, extensive 

 pumping plants must be maintained to 

 keep the water level five or six feet be- 

 low the surface of the soil. The lands 

 acquired by the Cottage Gardens Nurs- 

 eries are surrounded with dikes twenty- 

 three feet in height, with bases 100 feet 

 through. They are furnished with pow- 

 erful pumping plants throwing double 

 streams of water, each individual stream 

 thirty-six inches in diameter." 



What of Forcing Plants? 



Mr. Ward's announcement does not 

 include information with regard to plans 

 for the business of producing azaleas 

 and other forcing plants, which he 

 sought to establish at Eureka coinci- 

 dentally with the starting of bulb grow- 

 ing on a large scale. Mr. Ward said, 

 however: 



"I would strongly advise any florists 

 who contemplate entering either the 

 business of growing bulbs on the Pacific 

 coast, or the production of florists ' forc- 

 ing plants, to locate in the vicinity of 

 Portland, Ore., and not to spend any 

 time or fool away any money in in- 

 vestigating other sections of this 

 coast." 



That other changes are being made at 

 Eureka was made apparent this week 

 by the arrival of two letters from the 

 general office of the Cottage Gardens 

 Nurseries, one announcing that Wm. P. 

 Stark, the widely known nurseryman of 

 Neosho, Mo., was on a visit there, and 

 the other signed "Cottage Gardens 

 Nurseries, W. P. Stark, Manager." 



LOCK UP THE NICOTINE. 



After Labeling the Container. 



Florists know the deadly nature of 

 the insecticides used in the trade and 

 are cautious; it is the "innocent by- 

 stander" who pays the penalty of ig- 

 norance and carelessness. 



This is the story of a double death at 

 Morton Grove, 111., involving persons 

 not members of the trade: 



"Two years ago I went to a florist 

 and asked for some poison to spray on 

 my plants," said Mrs. H. A. Scharen- 

 berg. "He sold it to me after pouring 

 it into a whisky bottle. I hid the bot- 

 tle on a rafter in the garage so that my 

 child could not get it." 



Mr. Scharenberg continued the story: 

 "I found the bottle. It looked like 

 whisky. Occasionally I had taken a 

 half-pint flask with me on hunting trips. 

 I thought it was a bottle I had left 

 there and forgotten. I took it into the 

 house and kept it a while. 



"Last Friday morning at about 4 

 o'clock E. L. Nieman and Fred Pein, 

 who were like brothers to me, rapped on 

 our door. Everyone had been celebrat- 

 ing and we all were up. They asked if 

 we had 'something hard to drink.* I 

 thought of the bottle. I got it and 

 poured out the drinks. Nieman and 

 Pein lifted their glasses, touched them, 

 and Pein gave the toast: 'Here's to 

 peace on earth forever.* " 



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