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January 29, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



167 



the plants colder or warmer, according 

 to the season. Feverfew will stand some 

 forcing, but it is of better quality if 

 grown moderately cool. It needs an 

 abundant water supply and some feed- 

 ing in addition, once the benches are 

 full of roots. In your latitude the plants 

 could safely go outdoors early in May. 



C. W. 



DETROIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



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The cold, stormy weather continued 

 last week and the market had little to 

 offer, so that it was difficult to meet even 

 the small demand that existed. As in 

 the previous week, roses were off crop 

 to a large extent, with high prices pre- 

 vailing. American Beauties were poor 

 in quality, showing the effect of a frosty 

 journey, and moved slowly. Ophelia was 

 excellent in quality and in greater de- 

 mand than any other variety. Premier 

 and Eussell were acarce, but of good 

 quality; Columbia did not arrive in 

 good condition. Ward and Sweetheart 

 buds were scarce. 



Carnations were in as great demand 

 as roses, the colored varieties especially 

 being at a premium. Ward and Enchant- 

 ress were among the leaders. Sweet 

 peas were of good quality and moved 

 well. Paper Whites and freesias were 

 shorter in supply than in the previous 

 week. Ca'ila lilies were scarce and in 

 good demand. Calendulas are always 

 in big demind; their supply was small. 

 Cosmos, wallflowers, bouvardias, pansies 

 and yellow daisies were to" be had at 

 times. The season's first jonquils ap- 

 peared in the market, bringing perhaps 

 the highest wholesale price ever paid 

 for them, $18 per hundred. 



Plants are becoming more plentiful, 

 especially cinerarias, hyacinths and 

 cyclamens. Greens, except maidenhair 

 fern, are plentiful., 



Olub Meeting. 



The Detroit Florists' Club met Tues- 

 day evening, January 20, at the Hotel 

 Statler. S. A. Anderson, of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., spoke on the past, present and 

 future of the florists ' business. He went 

 back to the time of Adam, the world's 

 first gardener, then referred to the days 

 when the retailer used shoe boxes and 

 shirt boxes to send out the flowers in, 

 and, coming to the present, drew atten- 

 tion to the developed industry, in which 

 the retailer depends on the grower and 

 wholesaler and sends flowers by tele- 

 graph to other cities. In speaking of 

 the future, he sketched the time when 

 one would have a chain of stores across 

 the country, drawing on greenhouses in 

 the south and provided with its own 

 aerial shipping facilities, its own box 

 factory and its own supply factory. 



This address was followed by similar 

 talks from the older florists present, 

 leading into a discussion of the present 

 high prices of flowers. Herman Knoble, 

 of Cleveland, O., called attention to the 

 depreciated value of the dollar and 

 claimed that, since roses selling now for 

 $15 per dozen used to bring only $7.50 

 per dozen four or five years ago, the 

 present selling price is equivalent to 

 the price of that time. William F. Gude, 

 of Washington, D. C, gave his views 

 on war-time coal restriction and Quaran- 

 tine No. 37. William J. Smyth, of Chi- 

 cago, told about the Chicago Eetailers' 

 Association and its adoption of the Mil- 

 waukee plan for raising publicity funds. 



ROS£S Own Root OraCtsd 



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Pllarrlm (New Pink) $20.00 1180.00 $46.00 $400.00 



Crnaader (New Pink) 40.00 8B0.00 46.00 400.00 



Frank W. Dunlop (New Pink) 86.00 800.00 46.00 876.00 



Mmn. Butterfly (New Pink) 86.00 800.00 46.00 876.00 



Cornelia (New Pink) 80.00 260.00 40.00 860.00 



Premier 20.00 17B.0O 85.00 800.00 



Colnmbia 16.00 140.00 30.00 260.00 



Hadley 16.00 120.00 



Hooeler Beanty 16.00 120.00 



Mrs. Charles Rnsttell 25.00 200.00 35.00 300.00 



Ophelia, Donble White Klllamey, Doable Pink 



Klllamey, Sbigle White Klllamey. Klllamey 



Brilliant, gnnborat. Radiance, Maiyland, Mra. 



Aaron Ward 16.00 120.00 



Kalsertn^ Early delivery 12.00 110.00 .... .... 



Baby Rambler 10.00 90.00 .... .... 



Rosea will be scarce this season. 



Anyone wishing grafted stock or early delivery of own root should order aa early 

 as possible. 



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Irwin Bertermann, of Indianapolis, Ind., 

 invited and urged all to attend the F. T. 

 D. convention in Indianapolis. C. L. 

 Baum, of Knoxville, Tenn., and H. G, 

 Dillemuth, of Toronto, Can., also were 

 among the evening's speakers. 



Bowling Club Meets. 



The Detroit Florists' Bowling Club 

 met Thursday evening, January 22, with 

 the following results: 



Bisons. Timers. 



l8t 2nd Srd Ist 2nd .3rd 



Strelt ..168 162 132 Rnbe ...1.36 131 167 



Herfg..l89 153 151 Weber.. 109 146 164 



Klang ..175 130 las Oonce'd .150 150 150 



Moss ...197 138 177 Conce'd .150 150 150 



a good lot of narcissus and hyacinth 

 plants in bloom. 



Frank Holznagle has some fine calla 

 lilies and Easter lilies coming at his 

 range, which is one of the largest in 

 this vicinity. His roses will also be 

 ready for Easter. The carnations and 

 sweet peas, which he grows for his own 

 use, are in fine condition. He is cutting 

 daily from bulbous stock, such as nar- 

 cissi, freesias and tulips. H. T. 



Totals .729 883 643 Totals .545 577 631 



Indians. Beauties. 



iBt 2nd 3rd Ist 2nd 3rd 



Fetters .148 175 163 Art 150 160 160 



Betzh'l .127 143 109 Bezemer 169 161 172 



Coble ..147 93 167 Conce'd .160 150 150 



Klrkp'k .173 164 169 Conce'd .150 ISO 160 



Totals .695 665 688 Totals .619 621 632 



The present standing of the teams is 



as follows: 



Won. Lost 



Tigers 22 20 



American Beauties 21 21 



Riaons 21 21 



Indians 20 22 



Various Notes. 



The Detroit Greenhouse Co., Bedford, 

 continues to cut excellent sweet peas. 

 E. Y. Leslie reports that with sunny 

 weather the crop will be more than 

 tripled. 



David Scott, of Corfu, N. Y., has 

 shipped in some fine jonquils. 



John Klang, of Forest avenue, has 

 purchased the five greenhouses of Fer- 

 dinand Kolbe, located across from the 

 Elmwood cemetery. The land amounts 

 to about two acres. 



Beard Bros, have several houses of 

 fine cinerarias and cyclamens. 



John B. Dinser, Highland park, has 



POINSETTIA BRACTS DBOFPINQ. 



Can you toll me why my poinsettia 

 bracts fall off just when they are set- 

 ting! The leaves stay on well, but the 

 bracts drop off. I keep them in a tem- 

 perature of 65 to 70 degrees and am 

 careful that they do not get too wet or 

 too dry; the moisture is moderate. I 

 had 500 of these plants and did not 

 have more than fifty good blooms out of 

 them. They were made up in dishes in 

 the middle of September. F. W. — ^Pa. 



You do not say whether your tempera- 

 ture, 65 to 70 degrees, refers to day or 

 night readings. A temperature of 60 

 degrees at night is ample, with a rise 

 of 10 degrees during the day. Poinset- 

 tias need a dry atmosphere. Feeding, if 

 persisted in after the bracts are well 

 developed, will have a tendency to cause 

 them to fall. As your watering has been 

 carefully done and the foliage is good, 

 I am inclined to think that a too high 

 and moist temperature and possibly 

 feeding continued too late may be the 

 causes of your trouble. Usually incor- 

 rect treatment is shown in the loss of 

 foliage, but, with bracts developing, 

 overfeeding in a warm, moist house, 

 with perhaps too little ventilation, may 

 be responsible. (j, -^^^ 



