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EASTER LILIES FROM 



COLD STORAGE BULBS 



Are any of your benches empty f Then why not fill some of the vacant 

 space with cold storage giganteum bulbsf If you act promptly, a fair pro- 

 portion of the lilies may be in bloom for Easter, since cold storage bulbs give 

 quick results and Easter this year is late. 



OT NEARLY enough lilies 

 "^|k ^ to go around — that is the 

 ^l^^l prospect for Easter. In 

 rl ^U fact, one shrewd observer 

 '"^ ^ has made the estimate, 

 based on the ratio of the 

 country 's population to the 

 probable number of bulbs 

 available for Easter pur- 

 poses, that there will not 

 be as many as one lily plant for each 

 hundred people. Considering, then, 

 that almost every fairly intelligent and 

 well-to-do family will wish to purchase 

 at least one pot of Easter lilies, it seems 

 reasonably certain that there will be an 

 insistent demand for every lily that will 

 reach the market. That is not prophecy 

 — Heaven forbid! — but just a little ap- 

 plication of hearsay figures. In spite 

 of the adage to the contrary, figures 

 often lie outrageously. In this case the 

 figures do not lie, not intentionally at 

 any rate, but they are far from in- 

 fallible. 



The Only Secourse. 



The scarcity of the bulbs in question, 

 as most florists know, is due principally 

 to the action taken by the United States 

 government last April, in placing an 

 embargo on certain imports, including 

 Japanese Lilium giganteum bulbs. The 

 armistice which ended the war was 

 signed November 11, but the govern- 

 ment order removing the restrictions on 

 imports did not take effect until the 

 close of the year, as reported in The 



THAKS TOV! 



One of the moit pleasant of the 

 many Intereatlnff featnree of pnli- 

 UaUnsr The Bevlew has to do with 

 the invalnable aeelstance rendered 

 by Ite readers. For many yean 

 t£e~ steady ir'owth of the paper, 

 partlcnlarly in cironlation, haa 

 come principally thronffh well- 

 pleased readers recommendinir it 

 to others to whom it should prove 

 equally helpfuL This assistance 

 will he especially valuable now 

 that the trade is about to enter 

 another period of rapid expansion 

 and will be thorouflrhly appreciated. 



Review of December 26, and was too 

 late, therefore, to permit the securing 

 of the needed quantity of fresh gigan- 

 teum bulbs for the Easter crop. Conse- 

 quently, the limited supply of quick- 

 acting cold storage bulbs was the only 

 recourse. The stocks of large-sized 

 storage bulbs, the 9 to 10 's, were quick- 

 ly exhausted, but several dealers re- 

 cently have been offering the 7 to 9's. 

 It is likely, however, that this size, too, 

 will soon disappear from the market. 



No one would claim, of course, that 

 the cold storage btilbs possess every de- 

 sirable quality. They lack the vigor of 

 newly imported bulbs and do not pro- 



duce so many flowers. But they are 

 true "friends in need" when the fresh 

 bulbs are unprocurable and are a veri- 

 table boon in such an emergency as 

 exists at present, when quickness of 

 growth is the chief desideratum. Lilies 

 from cold storage bulbs will be much 

 better than none. 



As to starting the cold storage bulbs 

 now and having the majority of the 

 plants in flower for Easter, the present 

 writer, like seedsmen and some others, 

 wishes to display a conspicuous and 

 positive non-warranty. The circum- 

 stances that determine the fate of the 

 plants are largely under the control of 

 the grower, but even the grower cannot 

 regulate the weather. He cannot roll 

 back the hovering clouds or govern the 

 direction of the winds. 



Facts in the Grower's Favor. 



However, the facts and probabilities 

 are mostly in the grower's favor and 

 the chief fact in his favor is the late- 

 ness of this year's Easter; it does not 

 arrive till April 20. And the added time 

 in April is particularly helpful, on ac- 

 count of the increasing sunshine and 

 warmth. "A week of March weather," 

 says a noted grower, * ' is equal to a fort- 

 night in February." If that is correct, 

 what is the relative value of two or 

 three weeks of April weather t 



The cold storage bulbs may be placed 

 in a temperature of 60 degrees imme- 

 diately after being potted and may be 

 grown continuously in such an atmos- 



Glganteums Grown from Cold Storage Btilbs» by tbe Orescent Street Floral Co.« Grand Rapids* Mich. 



