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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 6, 1920 



Scatter Happiness 



owers on 



Mutely eltMjuent. tKey kpckk the univcrul l*ntu«|r 

 of ^adneu — thoae beautiKii exprefwoni of joy nrard 

 ■like in the heart* of all— rich or poor- old or young 

 Today ia a good day to 



Do your Aare'to b«lp fill the %vorId with hapuocM 

 I t'in alvays appropriate (o "Say it »iith Flowers. For 

 Hirthdayi. Wedding*. 5ioci»l EvmU. the Sick Room, 

 to Bnghten the Home— Mowi-ri be*! €:x|»res!i your 

 scn(immt.s. Decide to 



Make Someone Happy Today ! 



Conwh your favorite FloriM. Allow hini to suj: 

 test the beat way in which to nijoy Flower* iheytai 

 'round at a nominal cost. Juat Now. LtlUi-of-lhe-\/aiey. 

 Su)tti Peas. CamatlonM, Roata and Snap Draftcnt vie with 

 each other for a Permanent Place in Your llcarl and 



LVER SEND A FLOWEROCRAM } 



Fur tafwaaNM (••htMh Vism 



ASSOQATED FLORISTS 

 of BALTIMORE 



DMf Uittr 

 WINDOW BOX 



Baltimore's Second Shot. 



to destroy these pests Hammond's Thrip 

 Juice No. 2 has been used successfully, 

 following the instructions on the can or 

 container. The use of Thrip Juice should 

 be continued until about October; 

 after that it is better to spray with a 

 nicotine extract once a week until No- 

 vember 1, or until the blooms begin to 

 appear. Then the spraying with insec- 

 ticides should, be discontinued, as it dis- 

 colors the flow^s and foliage. Continue 

 spraying with clear water at least 

 twice every day, weather permitting. 

 It is necessary at all times to use 

 great care in watering cyclamen plants. 

 Water only when moderately dry; do 

 not be overliberal with water, since 

 there is little hope for plants when once 

 overwatered. When the plants are 

 strong and sturdy and full of roots, a 

 weekly feeding with liquid fertilizer is 

 greatly beneficial; fresh cow or horse 

 manure is preferable, but it should be 

 used with great care. Cyclamens are 

 easy of culture, but they have their 

 whims and good judgment must be used. 



BALTIMOBE CARRYING ON. 



Public Given Second Lesson. 



The Associated Florists of Baltimore 

 launched their second broadside at the 

 public Tuesday, April 27, in the effort 

 to teach it to "Say It with Flowers," 

 in the form of an advertisement eleven 

 and a half inches deep and three col- 

 umns wide, reproduced on this page. 

 This campaign, which is being carried 

 on both through the newspapers and 

 through floral displays in public build- 

 ings, is attracting much attention and 

 is said to be slowly but surely awaken- 

 ing greater interest in flowers. 



A novel means of publicity for 

 flowers, which has been used by the 

 florists, tying up with the newspaper 

 advertisements, consists of floral decora- 

 tions and displays in banks and thea- 

 ters, bearing the slogan, "Say It with 



Flowers." Last week the displays in 

 the rooms of the Fidelity Trust Co. and 

 in the Merchants & Manufacturers bank 

 made a decided hit. 



Poem from the Review. 



The advertisement of April 27 con-^ 

 tained-a verse from the' poem, "Say It 

 with Flowers," by H. Hill, a reader of 

 The Eeview, which appeared in these 

 columns not long ago. The advertise- 

 ment was well written and its appeal, 

 to scatter happiness with flowers on 

 every occasion, was a good ons. There 

 is a notice in the advertisement that 

 there is an information bureau main- 

 tained for the benefit of those seek- 

 ing information concerning flowers or 

 plants. 



The special box of flowers which is 

 advertised every Saturday morning is 

 meeting with success. It is reported 

 that many of the florists had a num- 

 ber of calls for this box after the 

 second advertisement. 



THE FISKS IN JAPAN. 



Describing the photograph repro- 

 duced in the accompanying illustration, 

 Charles H. Fisk, for forty years a Chi- 

 cago retailer, wrote from Japan: 



"The large figure at the top is the 

 famous bronze statue of Buddha, cast 

 in the year 1252. The two smaller ones 

 in the foreground are not bronze, and 

 are products of more modern times. 

 The one with an overcoat which bulges 

 a little is not a Japanese statesman, 

 nor even Ajax defying the lightning, 

 and the unseemly, not to say ungrace- 

 ful, bulging of the coat is caused by 

 too many papers in the pockets, and not 

 by adipose tissue, the fact being that 

 I am several pounds lighter than 

 usual." 



After having sold his store to his 

 employees last January, Mr. Fisk, ac- 

 companied by his wife, started on a 

 tour of the orient, combining recreation 

 and a purchasing trip for the A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co., he and Mr. Randall having 

 been boys in the trade together and 

 their interests having been more or less 

 the same ever since. Writes Mr. Fisk 

 further from Yokohama: 



"We have been in the land of tea 

 and temples long enough to get our 

 bearings a little; have learned to say 

 'Good morning' in Japanese, the points 

 of the compass, and the knowledge that 

 the U. S. A. is not the most expensive 

 place in the world in which to exist and 

 have your being. Except for the fact 

 that the necessities of life are much 

 higher here than any place I know of, 

 it is nice to be here, for a while, any- 

 how. 



"The great influx of Russian refu- 

 gees is responsible for much of the H. 

 C. of L. — they are ready and willing to 

 pay fabulous prices for everything, and 

 of course the Japs are willing to meet 

 them more than halfway. Office space 

 is almost impossible to get at anjr 

 price, and that goes double for living 

 rooms. Nearly all the natives in the 

 business part of the town can^ speak 

 a little English, and many of them are 

 fairly fluent, but get out in the country 

 a little way and you are up against it 

 unless you have an interpreter. Hotels 

 are all crowded, and reservations must 

 be made at least a week in advance; 

 and travelers I meet who have recently 

 been in Hongkong say it is much worse 

 there. 



"I have visited the artificial flower 



dealers and manufacturers and, while 

 prices are at least a third higher than 

 they were last summer^ no one will ac- 

 cept an order with any assurance of 

 when it is likely to be delivered, or that 

 tlie price will hold as quoted. There 

 are strikes everywhere; tram cars, 

 postal clerks, messenger boys and labor- 

 ers, which tends in a great measure to 

 make one feel right at home, and just 

 as naturally will keep prices up to the 

 top level for a while." 



HYBRIDIZING ORCHIDS. 



In crossing orchids, as, for instance, 

 two cattleyas, one blooming in the fall 

 and the other blooming in the spring, 

 how would it be possible to keep the 

 pollen or hold the flowers back in order 

 to make the cross some months later! 

 Or would they have to be blooming at 

 the same time? 



The article in The Review of March 

 11 on "Raising Orchids from Seed" 

 spoke of dividing cattleyas in order to 

 increase stock rapidly. Please describe 

 the method of doing this. Also mention 

 the best books on orchids for hybridiz- 

 ing and growing from seed and for in- 

 creasing by other means. J. D. — Pa. 



In the case of cattleyas or other or- 

 chids flowering at different seasons, you 

 can remove the pollen masses and store 

 them in pollen tubes. It is not neces- 

 sary to have the plants blooming at the 

 same time. Pollen will retain its vital- 

 ity for several months. I have sent and 

 received pollen from England and it has 

 always proved potent, in one case six 

 months after being removed from cat- 

 tleya flowers. 



In order to increase cattleyas it is 

 often necessary to cut the plants in 

 pieces. Usually one lead or more is left 

 on each division. A sharp knife is need- 

 ed to make the divisions and the roots 

 are separated as carefully as possible, 

 to avoid injury. In the case of spe- 

 cially good or valuable sorts, back bulbs 

 are often used, even when they have no 

 lead. These will frequently break back. 

 Embryo eyes can be noted at the base 

 of some of these back bulbs. As to 



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The Fisks Turn Their Backs on Buddha. 



