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May 27, 1920. 



The Florists' Review 



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Varieties of Primula Obconlca Grown as Specimen Plants in 5-inch and 6-inch Pots. 



able for an early crop. It is not usually 

 seen at its best for Christmas, but is 

 of better quality from the end of Janu- 

 ary onward and is one of the best 

 types of primula for an early Easter. 



In each of the aforementioned species 

 there are varieties so numerous that it 

 would be difficult to recommend a few 

 of them without doing injustice to many 

 others that would be equally worthy of 

 honorable mention. Moreover, some of 

 these varieties, under different methods 

 of culture, have gradually undergone 

 such changes as to assume many distinct 

 individualities. Each variety has passed 

 through a different series of improve- 

 ments or modifications in the hands of 

 each specialist. So the facts of the 

 case lead logically to a repetition — an- 

 other and final repetition — of the ad- 

 vice, first be sure to get a good strain. 



regular admission charge will be 50 

 cents. 



It was finally decided that only ex- 

 hibitors occupying trade space would be 

 allowed to do business in the hall dur- 

 ing the show and that all competitive 

 exhibits would be together, separate 

 from the trade exhibits, instead of being 

 combined with them, as was originally 

 intended. 



The many obstacles which appeared 

 have been overcome and everything now 

 points to this being the largest and 

 most successful show of any single 

 flower ever held. 



Edward C. Vick, Sec 'y. 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



Executive Committee Meets. 



A meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the American Dahlia Society was 

 held at the Grand hotel, New York, 

 Monday afternoon, May 10, with full 

 attendance. 



A prize schedule for the fall flowei 

 show was partially prepared, to be com- 

 pleted by the committee and presented 

 at the next meeting, June 14. 



More than half of the trade space has 

 already been taken for the dahlia show 

 to be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 

 New York, September 27 to 29, and 

 many prizes have been contributed. The 

 indications are that the prizes will ex- 

 ceed in number and value those offered 

 at any previous show. 



A large number of orders have also 

 boon received for trade tickets, which 

 are offered at $25 per hundred. The 



RELIEF OF COAL SHORTAGE. 



Since the appeal of the railroads to 

 the interstate commerce commission, ac- 

 tion has been taken to expedite the 

 movement of freight cars in all parts 

 of the country. Special importance has 

 been attached to cars for coal and sup- 

 plies are therefore moving with more 

 freedom than they were a week ago. 

 The improvement is only gradual and 

 it will be some weeks before the conges- 

 tion is completely overcome. In the 

 meantime such essential commodities as 

 food and fuel are given every prefer- 

 ence. At many points arrival of coal 

 has already shown an encouraging in- 

 crease and greenhousemen are feeling 

 relieved. 



Cooperative committees, representing 

 shippers, railroads and the interstate 

 commerce commission, have been organ- 

 ized at congested points to act in an 

 auxiliary capacity to the railroads and 

 the interstate commerce commission to 

 execute all orders issued by the govern- 

 ment to relieve congestion. Regular 

 duties of the committees consist of ex- 

 pediting the unloading of equipment 

 and the taking of other steps to quicken 



railroad transportation in. the. move- 

 ment of commodities subject to the 

 freight jam, existing in most sections of 

 the country. Those cities which will 

 have the benefit of the latest step to re- 

 duce congestion are New York, Omaha, 

 Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago, Youngs- 

 town, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Nor- 

 folk, St. Louis, Boston, Denver, Phila- 

 delphia, Buffalo, Peoria, Birmingham, 

 Kansas City, Cleveland, Detroit, Port- 

 land, Washington, D. C, New Orleans, 

 Pittsburgh, Louisville, Galveston, At- 

 lanta, San Francisco, Dallas, Toledo and 

 Cincinnati. Growers whose cars of coal 

 are still delayed en route and are much 

 needed may get help from the commit- 

 tee in their center. 



The effects of the freight tie-up in ad- 

 dition to previous difficulties which 

 have affected fuel will show markedly 

 in the coming season's supply, in the 

 opinion of coal men. It is stated that 

 movement above normal will be neces- 

 sary for the next three months to guard 

 against a famine next winter. As a re- 

 sult of the traffic congestion on the 

 railroads, the geological survey's 

 weekly report on coal mining shows the 

 output of soft coal at 8,773,000 net tons, 

 a decrease of 319,000 tons compared 

 with the preceding week. Production 

 was the smallest since the week of April 

 24. The daily rate of production — 

 1,462,000 tons — was only eighty-three 

 per cent of that during the first quarter 

 of the year and seventy per cent of that 

 in October, 1919. 



This season, more than ever, the 

 greenhouse owner should get in his coal 

 earlv. 



Sedalia, Mo. — Wreaths feature con- 

 spicuously in the Memorial day special 

 list distributed by the Archias Floral 

 Co. to its customers in the effort to 

 secure early orders. 



