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The Florists^ Review 



SEPTEMBEa 18, l919. 



the crop, although one large house of 

 swoot peas is showing up exceptionally 

 well. The company has received and 

 potted up at the Anacostia place 12,000 

 Harrisii lilies, which were received in 

 fine shape. 



Ernest T. Gude has just returned from 

 a trip to' St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chi- 

 cago, where he went after the S. A. F. 

 convention. Edgar, Edwin and Adolph 

 Gude returned from the convention by 

 way of Buffalo and New York city in 

 the automobile. Granville Gude has just 



returned from Virginia beach, where he 

 spent two weeks on the Atlantic ocean. 



Adolph Gude, Sr., W. F. Gude, Will 

 Sharper and Ernest and Granville Gude« 

 made a trip September 14 to White 

 Marsh, Md., to visit Eichard Vincent, 

 Jr., going over by automobile. 



Miss Nellie T. Breuninger, the book- 

 keeper of Gude Bros. Co., is visiting her 

 sister, near Colorado Springs, Colo. She 

 has been gone for three weeks and is 

 expected back next week. 



organization was moved forward one 

 day, to the afternoon of Wednesday, 

 September 10, to avoid possible conflict 

 with the annual banquet, held during 

 the evening of September 11. 



CABE OF CHRISTMAS PEPPERS. 



Will you kindly tell me how to care 

 for Christmas peppers, in regard to 

 moisture, temperature, etc.? 



L. N. B.— Ohio. 



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MARKET MEN MEET 



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Give the plants plenty of sunshine, 

 but do not spray overhead now, as it 

 may cause damping. Keep the soil 

 moist and give the plants a tempera- 

 ture of 55 degrees at night. C W. 



TOPPING SNAPDRAGONS. 



Will you kindly tell me how to top 

 snapdragons so as to have strong, fine 

 stalks of bloom? L. N. B.— Ohio. 



VEGETABLE GROWERS MEET. 



Officers Elected. 



The greenhouse wing of the Vegetable 

 Growers' Association of America was 

 returned to the management of affairs 

 in the election which took place at the 

 concluding session of the eleventh an- 

 nual convention, at Detroit, September 

 12. The new officers are: 



President— E. A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, 

 Ohio. 



Vice-president — Louis F. Miller, To- 

 ledo, O. 



Treasurer — H. J. Cheney, Grand Eap- 

 ids, Mich. 



Eecording Secretary- — Sam. W. Sever- 

 ance, Louisville, Ky. 



Field Secretary— C. W. Waid, Detroit, 

 Mich. 



Cincinnati was favored for the con- 

 vention in 1920. 



A Successful Meeting. 



The meeting was one of the most 

 successful in the history of the associa- 

 tion, although not appreciably larger 

 tlian several of its predecessors. The 

 membership, according to the reports, 

 was 469 .Tt the close of the year, which 

 is a small growth and led to the selec- 

 tion of Mr. Waid as field secretary, to 

 carry the work of tlie association from 

 one locality to another, to increase its 

 usefulness and its membership. 



The convention was all under one 

 roof, that of the Hotel Statler, which, 

 in its continuously overcrowded condi- 

 tion, offered poor accommodations for 

 a trade's display. Among the 1500 or 

 more people from out of town who at- 

 tended the convention, many carried 

 order books, but only about twenty-five 

 attempted any sort of an exhibit, and 

 most of these were small. Two green- 

 house building concerns, the John C. 

 Moninger Co. and the Foley Mfg. Co., 

 both of Chicago, made exhibits. The 

 only seedsmen who made displays were 

 the Everette E. Peacock Co., of Chicago, 

 and Stokes Seed Farmers Co., Moores- 

 town, N. J., the former putting up one 

 of the most interesting exhibits thus 

 far seen at these conventions. It in- 

 cluded specimens from the trial grounds 

 and the seeds from which they grew, 

 with a demonstration of the seed test- 

 ing methods employed, with full labora- 

 tory equipment. The booth was deco- 

 rated and contained many photographs 

 of the company's seed farms, trial 

 grounds, branch stores, etc. Methods of 

 packing onion sets for foreign and do- 

 mestic shipment were shown. Six peo- 



ple were required to keep the display 

 in operation. 



The Greenhouse Section. 



The interests in the association are 

 divided into two groups, those with 

 greenhouses and those without. In or- 

 der to give more time to each, it has 

 become the custom to hold sectional 

 meetings, two or more being in progress 

 at the same time. The program for the 

 two special sessions of the greenhouse 

 section was as follows: 



"Better Crops for the Greenhouse," by t'lmir- 

 jiian H. F. Thompson. 



"Past, Present and Future of VcKi'tablc Forc- 

 ing," by Frank Luce, Ashtabula, O. 



"Vegetable Forcing at Cleveland, O.," by H. 

 B. Richardson, Cleveland. 



"Development of Vegetable Forcing at Tolcdn, 

 O.," by George Bayer, Toledo, O. 



"Experimental Work in the Greenhousos iit tln> 

 Ohio Experiment Station," by Professor W. J. 

 Green, Wooster, O. 



"Some Diseases of Greenhouse Crops and Their 

 Control," by Professor A. D. Selby, Wooster, O. 



In general the program, as published 

 in full in The Eeview of August 28, 

 was carried out with notable fidelity, the 

 principal deviation being that the lake 

 trip as guests of the local gardeners' 



A great many growers blunder when 

 topping snapdragons, pinching out the 

 tops while quite soft. This causes them 

 to break weakly and throw blind shoots. 

 Let them run up and show flower; the 

 wood is then firm and you can top them 

 back with an assurance that they will 

 break vigorously and throw flowers in 

 stead of blind shoots. It is best to 

 ]»inch well back; I prefer to take young 

 ])lants within three 'inches of the 

 ground; then you are sure of a crop of 

 stocky shoots from the bottoms of tlic 

 jdants. C. W. 



Holland, Micb. — At the Ottawa county 

 fair, held here September 9 to 12, the 

 Twelfth Street Florists received first 

 prize for the largest and choicest collec- 

 tion of potted plants, consisting of 

 palms, ferns, begonias, araucarias and 

 other fancy-leaved plants. The Central 

 Park Florist received first prize for a 

 beautiful anchor made of gladioli and 

 asters. Both florists received a large 

 number of prizes on their plants and cut 

 flowers. 



AMERICAN PHOENIX SEED 



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PALM SEED FROM MISSISSIPPI. 



Phoenix Roebelenii Bearing. 



Perhaps American ciiterpriso will 

 make home markets independent of the 

 foreign supply of Phoenix Eoebelenii 

 seed. During the war tlie seeds of 

 Phoenix Roebelenii were practically 

 impossible to get. One large slii])nu'iit 

 from Bangkok was submarined some- 

 where in the Mediterranean. So tlie 

 report that J. B. Adams & Sons, at Pass 

 Christian, Miss., have succeeded in 

 gathering seeds from two jdnnts lust 

 year and this, is of unusual interest, 

 particularly as it is the first instance 

 of Phoenix Eoebelenii seed being grown 

 in America that has come to the notice 

 of The Eeview. 



During the last eight years this phoe- 

 nix has gained an immense popularity 

 in the United States. It is known as 

 the pygmy phoenix; specimens 20 to 30 

 years old have stems not over two feet 

 high. Watson, the Kew authority, says 

 of it: "By far the smallest of all the 



many kinds of phoenix known, and it 

 also is exceptional in the form of its 

 stem and in the elegance and poft tex 

 ture of its bright green leaves." He 

 adds that it deserves to rank with Cocos 

 Wcddelliana. 



All these facts have been recognized 

 by the trade, and there has developed a 

 large demand for the plants, principally 

 for indoor use, but in California an<i 

 some of the southern states Phoenix 

 Eoebelenii is reported in many gardens, 

 though it grows well only when in rich, 

 moist soil and in half shaded spots. In 

 California it is grown both outdoors and 

 under slat houses. 



Seeds from Asia. 



But the world's supply of seeds of 

 Phoenix Roebelenii has so far come 

 from a remote district in the northern 

 part of Siam and the northwestern part 

 of French Indo-China. The variety ob- 

 tained its name from its discoverer, 

 Charles Eoebelen, whose business was 

 collecting orchids. He found it native 

 in the Laos region of Indo-China and 



