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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBKU 23, 1919. 



the county treasurer, had authorized for 

 an initial deposit of $50,000 for Erie 

 county in the Lafayette National 

 Bank. Do you wonder that we are 

 friends of the florists? 



' ' Come over and see what we have 

 over there and get an insight of the 

 value of flowers to a bank or anyone 

 else. Our display indicates what Bow- 

 ers will do in a business way. You 

 say, 'Say It with Flowers.' That is 

 when you send them to your best girl. 

 By the way, two or three young ladies 

 were looking around the bank last night 

 and I happened to be the pilot — if I 

 had been a lady, I would have been 

 the. chaperon — and one of them said, 

 ' The only thing that is lacking is that 

 a wedding ought to grace this occasion.' 

 I said, ' Madam, g'jt things ready and 

 we will tek'ijhone for a preacher in a 

 minute. ' 



* ' Come over and see what we have 

 got. Come and see the prettiest little 



bank in town. It is the baby bank and 

 babies are always pretty — it isn 't safe 

 to say anything else whether they are 

 or not. You will see the advertising 

 value of the finest floral display out- 

 side of a flower show that you have ever 

 seen in Buffalo." 



. Blooms Bring Business. 



Those who went — and nearly every 

 florist at the convention did — were con- 

 vinced of the truth of Mr. Tuttle 's 

 words in regard to the size and quality 

 of the display. And the fact that the 

 flowers, by attracting so many visitors 

 into the bank, succeeded in adding a 

 considerable number of accounts to its 

 books, indicated the extraordinary re- 

 sults that follow the impulse to "Say 

 It with Flowers. ' ' That they are of 

 advertising value to other businesses 

 besides florists' is a discovery that will 

 result to the advantage of both. 



C»CN UETTEa3-/^ KEADED6 



NATURAL GAS IN KENTUCKY. 



I note an in<(uiry of C. R. R. — Texas 

 regarding natural gas and your, reply 

 in The Review for October 16. For the 

 benefit of those desiring to use natural 

 gas, I will say I have heated a house 

 16x;')5 feet for the last five years with 

 ^latural gas burners inside the green- 

 house and grow first-class stock with no 

 bad results. ' 



I have the house ])iped with l^/i-inch 

 hot water returns, and ust' four ordi- 

 nary hot water tank heaters such as are 

 used in residences (Xo. 12 Jewel). T 

 light one, two or three of them, as the 

 weather requires. During the winter of 

 1917 we ha<l a temperature of l.l de- 

 grees below zero for several days and 

 only then T found it necessary to burn 

 three of the lieaters to keep a tempera- 

 ture of 55 degrees. 



From the heaters I have a 3-incii 

 galvanized i)ipe running the' length of 

 house along the wall plate with a grad- 

 ual incline and this, which is made of 

 down-spouting, carries off the fumes 

 with a good draft, as can l»e seen by 

 the vapor from moist gas. 



Several ])lumbing and steam fitting 

 ]ieo])le have seen my ;iiraugemi'nt and 

 ])ronounced it perfect; in fact, I re- 

 ceived a Ic'tter from a Pittsburgli 

 water-heater m;nuifacturer asking for 

 a sketch of my j)lant for advertising 

 l)urposes. 



I believe C. R. R. could heat his 

 house without danger by using 4-inch or 

 5-inch galvanized down-spouting, the 

 same as a flue, with jiroper outlet, com- 

 mencing his slope from the heater, 

 with open bottom to give draft and an 

 outlet througli the roof at the highest 

 point. 



One night, for some reason, the heat- 

 ers went out with the burners open and 

 my flue still carried the pure gas off 

 without disaster. 



Another little thing; to save going 

 out of the house during the night to 

 see how the temperature is, I have mir- 

 rors 80 arranged that I can see the re- 

 flection from the fire through the peep 



holes in heaters from my bedroom win- 

 dow. On very cold nights I leave an 

 electric light burning in the green 

 house so that I can see the amount of 

 frost on the gable glass and can tell 

 whether the house is colder than when 

 I went to bed. I intended making th > 

 heating plant automatic, but have not 

 found it necessary. Q. D. Butler. 



NAME OF CALIFORNIA FUCHSIA. 



In reply to the query of O. D. W. in 

 The Review for October 16, I find in 

 Bailey's cyclopedia, new edition, that 

 Zauschneria californica is commonly 

 called California fuchsia, humming 

 bird's trumpet or balsamea. It is a 

 "half hardy ])erennial with the flowers 

 of a fuchsia and the fruits of an epilo- 

 biuni." If O. D. W. has access to Bai 

 ley's cyclopedia, he can find additional 

 information on page .■!538. 



Frank J. Matthews. 



"SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR." 



I am indeed glad to see that the flo- 

 rists of America are beginning to realize 

 that closing on Sundays is the thing to 

 do. I have closed my place on the Sab- 

 bath for many years. It is the right 

 thing to do for every reason. Life is 

 too short to spend it all in the store or 

 greenhouse. Besides, a florist can make 

 just as much money in six business days 

 as in seven. H. R. Fisher. 



SUNDAY CLOSING PROFITABLE. 



Fourteen years ago, after twenty-one 

 successful years of closed Sundays in 

 another business, I took over the Port 

 Allegany Greenhouses, which were at 

 that time dicing some Sunday business. 

 I knew nothing of the business and had 

 one competitor. I was repeatedly told 

 that I should be obliged to sell on Sun- 

 day or else lose trade, but on both re- 

 ligious and business grounds I believed 

 that I ought to continue to keep closed 

 on Sunday. 



I have never kept the greenhouses 

 open or sold on Sunday, except occa- 



sionally for funerals. My business has 

 increased each year; last year the re- 

 ceipts were fifty-nine per cent greater 

 than those of any previous year. My 

 year's coal bill and my taxes are paid 

 and I am entirely out of debt. 



As a result of my own experience, 

 therefore, my advice is to "trust and 

 obey" and reap a greater harvest, in 

 every sense of the word, by Sunday 

 closing. Mrs. M. E. G. Ventres. 



A BOSTONIAN'S IDEA. 



Regarding the situation on the restric- 

 tion of palms, azaleas, etc., coming into 

 this country from Belgium, I think it 

 would be advisable to appeal to the King 

 of Belgium, who arrived October 2 in 

 this countTy, and ask him to use his best 

 influence with Washington, D. C, to 

 have that law repealed. 



A. C. Caplan. 



AN EASY COURTESY. 



We are located well out of the lines 

 of travel for employees and at times 

 have to resort to the valuable columns 

 of The Review for help wanted. In 

 many cases replies that we make to ad- 

 vertisements for positions are never an- 

 swered. We should suggest a little no- 

 tice at the head of the Help Wanted 

 columns — or rather Situations Wanted 

 — to the effect that acknowledgment of 

 a reply to an advertisement, whether 

 an acceptance of not, is but a courteous 

 and just expectation on the part of the 

 persons answering such advertisements 

 and would, we feel sure, be appreciated 

 by many in the business. 



State Nursery & Seed Co. 



TWO GOOD NEW CANNAS. 



I have been much im])ressed with 

 some of the new cannas I have tried 

 this summer and cannot refrain from 

 mentioning two of such merit that 

 florists should secure a supply and work 

 up a stock by spring. These are the 

 President and Snow Queen. President 

 is by all odds the best red canna today, 

 larger and better than Firebird and a 

 free bloomer; the foliage is strong and 

 does not burn, as does that of Firebird. 

 Those who have tried Firebird and la- 

 mented that it would not do on account 

 of diseased foliage will rejoice to know 

 that at last we have a canna that is 

 "right." Snow Queen is whiter than 

 any other canna on the market.. It is 

 also one of the largest individual flowers 

 among cannas of any color, is as free 

 as the freest, and the trusses are of 

 enormous size. It has a better habit of 

 growth and better foliage than either 

 Eureka or Flag of Truce, the best two 

 whites heretofore. Only in the best 

 reds do we find anything that . ap- 

 jiroaches it in general value. 



Flovd Bralliar. 



BRIEF ANSWERS. 



A. M. C, Ark.— Plant the roses in the 

 spring. They will require winter j)ro- 

 tection. 



F. C, Ind. — Bougainvillea glabra 

 Sanderiana. 



G. C. S., Va. — Sulphur is insoluble in 

 water. Growers add water to flowers of 

 sulphur until a consistency of paint is 

 reached, then apply to steam pipes with 

 a brush. 



E. H., Wyo.— The F. T. D. of course. 

 Address Albert Pochelon, secretary, 153 

 Bates street, Detroit, Mich. 



