JAMDABT 16, 1910. 



The Florists' Review 



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House of the Aaemone-flo^irerecl ChrTsanthetnum* Sunshfne^ Grown by the Disbudding Process. 



good friends on Wabash avenue realize 

 that they cannot agitate this matter too 

 soon. But I am afraid from the replies 

 I have received that it is a ease of 

 "Sufficient unto the day is the evil 

 thereof." As they have no surplus 

 stock to dispose of at present, they are 

 not making much of an effort to have 

 this state of things rectified. 



Your freight traffic is just as unsatis- 

 factory as your express service, since 

 your government took over your rail- 

 roads. I have some cases of Paper 

 Whites and Romans from France that 

 passed New York October 23, and there 

 is still no trace of them, and I do not 

 now expect to receive them. My ship- 

 ment from France the year previous 

 passed through New York in September, 

 1917, and the delivering company here 

 had the effrontery to offer me one of 

 the cases in April, 1918. 



As far as I can see, there is only one 

 remedy, namely, to insist on imports 

 coming via England and Montreal, the 

 way my Dutch bulbs arrived. Of course, 

 if you people cannot get your express 

 service made as efficient as it used to 

 be under private ownership, we shall 

 have to do the best we can among our- 

 selves in Canada and cut out buying in 

 the United States altogether. 



Your telegraph service is just about as 

 bad. Recently we got an F. T. D. order 

 for a funeral offering from Boston, 

 Mass. The telegram was delivered the 

 following day, when the funeral was on 

 its way to the cemetery. And in con- 

 nection with the F. T. D., I would like 

 to say, our American brother florists 

 seem to like to put it over us once in a 



while, sending local checks in payment 

 of their bills, on which we have to pay 

 exchange, and deducting the prepaid ex- 

 press charges from the accounts, when 

 we ship flowers to outside points for 

 them. These are only small items of 

 25 cents or perhaps 35 cents or 40 cents, 

 but it makes a man sore, after he has 

 already deducted twenty per cent of his 

 bill for trade discount. 



May I hope you will find some way of 

 placing these matters before the proper 

 authorities so there will be some im- 

 provement? I am sure both the sellers 

 in the United States and the buyers in 

 Canada are vitally interested. 



E. J. Coster. 



SUNSHINE. 



Judging from the man 's position in 

 the accompanying illustration, it is safe 

 to say that he is perfectly willing to 

 let his deeds speak for him. In other 

 words, he is not ashamed of his crop, 

 and the readers probably will agree that 

 he has no reason to be ashamed of it. 

 The man is J. F. Goetz, who has charge 

 of "the greenhouse end" of the busi- 

 ness of J. B. Goetz Sons, Saginaw, 

 Mich. The crop consists of the new 

 yellow, Japanese anemone-flowered 

 chrysanthemum. Sunshine, which orig- 

 inated with J. B. Goetz Sons two or 

 three years ago. 



The other member of the company, 

 Henry W. F. Goetz, mentions the fact 

 that "all the plants shown in this view 

 were disbudded to single stems." He 

 adds: "Last season there was an un- 

 expectedly heavy demand for these 



blooms in Chicago and other leading 

 markets. We also had another house 

 of Sunshine, grown in clusters^ but 

 we do not think these were nearly so 

 handsome as the flowers grown by the 

 disbudding process." 



In directing attention to the photo- 

 graph from which the illustration was 

 made, the company says: "Please note 

 the deep layer of ray petals, the large 

 and high anemone center, the stiff stems 

 and small foliage." Other particulars 

 given in the description of the new 

 variety are these: "The flowers are 

 of medium size, about four inches in 

 diameter; the center is a rich golden 

 yellow and the petals are a somewhat 

 lighter yellow. The variety is a seed- 

 ling of Helen Newberry and has similar 

 keeping qualities. It comes in bloom 

 for Thanksgiving and makes a good 

 pot plant, growing about two feet 

 high." 



Meadvllle, Pa. — George W. Haas & 

 Son have enjoyed a record business for 

 the month of December, cleaning up all 

 stocks procurable. 



"Tflagara Falls, N. Y. — Mrs. J. K. Cres- 

 set, who conducts a flower store at 409 

 Third street, reported to the police Die- 

 cember 28 that she had been victimized 

 the day before by accepting a worth- 

 less check offered in payment for a floral 

 wreath. The check was for $20.50 and 

 bore the signature "Harry Gilmore." 

 It was the old game: The price of the 

 wreath was $6 and Mrs. Crosset paid the 

 difference in currency. The address 

 given by the purchaser was found to be 

 fictitious. 



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