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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 22, 1919. 



PEONIES 



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A note from George Rye, Fort Smith, 

 Ark., says: "John Poehlmann, of 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, dropped 

 in to see me May 14 and I took him 

 around the city. He said to me that 

 Fort Smith was one of the best towns 

 he had ever visited in the southwest and 

 of course that made me feel pretty 

 good." 



Sam Pearce has been notably success- 

 ful during the war years, but he has 

 earned his success by his forethought. 

 As far back as the spring of 1918 he 

 was thinking of the supply of bulbs for 

 the spring of 1920. At that time it 

 seemed doubtful if there would be any 

 importations from Holland, so Mr. 

 Pearce took good care of the stock from 

 which he had been cutting and turned 

 it over to the Michigan Bulb Farm, Ben- 

 ton Harbor, to be planted last fall and 

 grown on as a fifty-fifty proposition. 

 This spring there have been three acres 

 of Dutch bulbs in bloom at Benton Har- 

 bor and they have made a showing cal- 

 culated to encourage the idea that we 

 can grow tulip and narcissus bulbs to 

 supply all our needs. The only ques- 

 tion seems to be one of cost. 



Miss Marguerite McNulty, who is 

 right-hand man for Peter Reinberg, says 

 the call for carnation cuttings and 

 young mum stock has been a surprise 

 this season. They never before have 

 sold out the surplus at such an early 

 date. 



»Frank M. Johnson and Henry Nie- 

 buhr, of the A. L. Randall Co., spent a 

 few days in New York last week and 

 Saturday May 17, were in Pittsburgh. 

 They had the opportunity to see the 

 flowers at the funeral of H. J. Heinz, 

 of pickle fame, and say that for quan- 



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