Mat 6. 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



"increasing stock rapidly," I am afraid 

 we have a great deal more to learn be- 

 fore this can be done with orchids. 



Bailey's "Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Harticulture " has interesting practical 

 articles on hybridizing and raising 

 orchids from seed, and by other meth- 

 ods. Special orchid books I would rec- 

 ommend are: " The Book of Orchids, " 

 by W. H. White; "Orchids, Their Cul- 

 t, -e and Management," by W. Watson; 

 "The Orchid Growers' Manual," by B. 

 S. Williams, and "Orchids and Their 

 Cultivation, ' ' by James O 'Brien. * * The 

 Fertilization of Orchids," by Charles 

 Darwin, a small, inexpensive work, 

 should alsjo interest you. With the ex- 

 ception of Bailey *s, the above works are 

 English, and, while cultural conditions 

 are similar in both countries, they spe- 

 cialize in odontoglossums, which are 

 hard to grow here, and we are strong on 

 cattleyas, which succeed better here 

 than in Europe. C. W. 



FOBOIN'a OLADIOLL 



I purchased the largest gladiolus 

 bulbs I could get and put them in deep 

 boxes under a bench. At present they 

 are about ten inches high, most of them 

 having two spikes, some three. Can 

 these be flowered by putting them on a 

 solid bench now, without bottom heat, 

 and is it advisable" to leave all the 

 spikes onf I shall appreciate any other 

 advice you can give me in regard to 

 their treatment. H. E. W.— N. Y. 



By all means place the gladiolus 

 boxes .on the benches at once. You can 

 ■afely leave all the spikes on them. As 

 gladioli stand a comparatively low 

 temperature, anything •above actual 

 freezing will suit them, but for good 

 results I advise a night temperature of 

 48 to 50 degrees. C. W. 



ELE0TB0CT7TINQ APHIS. 



After reading in a British horticul- 

 tural journal a reprint of the article, 

 "Vacuum-Clean Your Mums," pub- 

 lished in The Review several months 

 ago, a member of the trade across the 

 water suggested another scientific nov- 

 elty, writing as follows: 



"A youthful friend, keenly inter- 

 ested in wireless telegraphy and slight- 

 ly interested in roses, told me he 

 cleaned aphis from his bushes with the 

 aid of an electric battery and coil, by 

 placing one wire to earth and touching 

 the tip of the affected growth with the 

 other. 



' ' The outfit was not capable of throw- 

 ing a spark more than five-eighths of 

 an inch in size. 



"He was highly amused by the rapid 

 manner they left the bushes, but was 

 unable to state if they survived the 

 shock. ' ' 



GIVING HENS HELL GENTLY. 



Eggs are still high-priced. So the 

 hens, who are presumably getting high 

 wages, deserve to be treated with re- 

 spect. If you are growing flowers not 

 only under glass, but also outdoors, and 

 your neighbor's hens show an uninvited 

 interest in your premises and wrath 

 rises within you, moving you to words, 

 remember that you are a florist and 

 "Say It with Flowers." If you must 

 damn, then damn with flowers. 



This suggestion, perhaps born of bit- 

 ter experience, was recently presented 

 by Judge, "the happy meoftvim," in a 



Suggestion of Humorous Weekly, Judge, how to *'Say It with Flowers." 



picture which covered the page next to 

 the front page in the issue of April 24 

 and had as caption the trade 's familiar 

 slogan. Two or three readers of The 

 Review, evidently alert and apprecia- 

 tive readers of Judge as well, saw it 

 and called attention to it. It is here 

 reproduced, not so much for the benefit 

 of those whose relations with their 

 neighbors need an occasional pacifier, 

 as to show how strong a hold the trade 's 

 slogan has on the public mind. It may 

 also help to convince the skeptical that 

 no demand which can be made upon 

 flowers will find them lacking. 



HOLLYHOCK NOVELTY. 



A customer of ours has a hollyhock 

 which is to us a distinct novelty. It was 

 planted out in the spring of 1919. Our 

 customer says that it bloomed profusely 

 all summer and that, when frost came, it 

 was still blooming; so she potted it and 

 took it into the house. It has bloomed 

 all winter and has branched out and 

 makes a large plant. It is still covered 

 with large, single blooms. We should 

 like to know if this is not an oniunuJ 

 kind. • B. F. C— Tenn. 



If it is planted outdoors now and if the 

 flower stems are cut back, the plant will 

 in all probability start to bloom again 

 in June. C. W. 



BETUBNINa CHECKS GALOBE. 



The word "galore" comes, via the 



Irish, from a Gaelic word meaning 



"enough." But nowadays it is used 



when we mean "more than enough," 



perhaps "too much of a good thing." 



That is what busy florists think when 



they have to take time to send back 



checks to the people who were just too 



late in replying to a Classified ad in The 



Review. See what a single insertion 



did: 



Pleaie don't insert my gladiolus ad more 

 than the one time. I am retuming checks 

 galore. Telegrams from nearly every state east 

 of the MisslBBlppl. I wanted to clean up in a 

 hurry and your ad has certainly brought it about. 

 —Tom Moore, Plattvllle, Wis., April 27, 1920. 



It is rather unusual for a hollyhock to 

 bloom all summer and winter. Some of 

 the single varieties are persistent bloom- 

 ers and continue to send up new flower 

 stalks as the earlier ones are removed. 



Bedford, O. — William Klein is start- 

 ing in business here. 



Jennings, La. — Mrs. A. O. Rankin, 

 whose trade has for the last few years 

 been simply local, is enlarging her 

 greenhouses and expects to extend her 

 trade. 



Bucyrus, O. — The Posie Shoppe, the 

 new store recently opened by Hattie 

 Edelstein and Nelle Spearman, gives its 

 address and its business ethics all in 

 one phrase. It is "on the Square." 



