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The Florists^ Review 



January 16, 1919. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The last two weeks have been un- 

 usually delightful weather. It has 

 frozen every night, but the days have 

 been warm and bright. The soldier boys 

 have been returning home and the in- 

 creased number of social functions has 

 added to the demand for flowers. There 

 has been a shortage of flowers ever 

 since Christmas, in fact. This does not 

 mean that there were not heavy cuts 

 coming in every day, but that there was 

 not enough stock to meet the large de- 

 mand. 



Eose crops were timed so well for the 

 holidays that roses have been scarce 

 since. There is still little bulbous stock 

 except Paper Whites. A few azaleas 

 are finding their way to the light, show- 

 ing that there were more carried over 

 and grown here than we supposed. The 

 quality seems to be as good as in former 

 years, though the flowers are not large. 



The Tennessee State Florists ' Associa- 

 tion is to hold its annual meeting in 

 the Hermitage hotel in connection with 

 the meetings of the Tennessee nursery- 

 men, fruit growers and bee keepers, 

 January 28 to 30. It is planned to hold 

 an exhibit at the same time, and every- 

 thing indicates that this is to be more 

 than ordinarily interesting, as there are 

 to be several exhibits of new things. 

 There are some live wires in different 

 parts of Tennessee who are working 

 overtime to make the state a leader in 

 producing new and better flowers. 



Various Notes. 



Prof. G. M. Bentley, secretary of the 

 State Florists' Association, writes that 

 indications are that the coming conven- 

 tion will be the most interesting yet 

 held, as the florists are especially in- 

 terested in considering the changed con- 

 ditions resulting from the close of the 

 war. 



All of the houses that were abandoned 

 on account of the fuel restrictions are 

 rapidly being put into commission, and 

 practically all will be well stocked by 

 spring. 



Lee Geny is at home ill with the 

 "flu" at present. 



Thomas Joy was in Chattanooga last 

 week looking after interests there. He 

 reports a growing business. 



J. F. Corbett has his entire plant in 

 commission again and is using it all in 

 the production of bedding plants for 

 the trade. Mr. Corbett knows how to 

 produce good stock and, as he has cut out 

 the cut flower end, he will have more 

 plants this season than ever before. 



Charles Trichler has a splendid lot 

 of young ferns. His bench of Veronas 

 is unusually fine. He also is propagat- 

 ing thujas, biotas and retinisporas 

 heavily. 



The Joys are doing a great deal of 

 remodeling at present, putting in new 

 benches, etc. They are making cement 

 supports for all of their new benches. 



Leslie Littel closed his greenhouse for 

 the winter and has been out of town of 

 late. He will not open again till fall. 



There is undoubtedly the smallest 

 stock of young geraniums in this city 

 that has been known in recent years. 

 This undoubtedly will be a petunia and 

 salvia year here. 



Mclntyre Bros, have been having a 

 heavy cut of orchids of late. They are 

 dismantling their old place and will sell 

 the land for building lots. F. B. 



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