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JDI.Y 8, 1920 



The Floriists' Review 



23 



August 15 when they are planted late. 

 In three to four weeks after the picking 

 of the blossoms has stopped, the berries 

 will begin to ripen and can be picked 

 two or three times each week until No- 

 vember 1, or even later in some sea- 

 sons. 



The following spring they will need 

 cultivation and hoeing, cutting out some 

 of the plants, if too thick, and they 

 will produce a satisfactory crop in June. 

 They will again fruit during the fall 

 months, but it is more satisfactory to 

 start a new plantation each spring for 

 the fall crop. 



While it is desirable to set out the 

 plants as early in the spring as the 

 ground can be worked, the plants will 

 do well if put out any time before June 

 1. L. E. Taft. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Cut flower business last week was not 

 active. Beginning with a normal de- 

 mand, business at midweek commenced 

 to slacken, until at the end it was un- 

 usually dull, even for this time of year. 

 With the prospect of a 3-day holiday 

 ahead of them, buyers July 1 and 2 cov- 

 ered only for actual needs and had the 

 ehoice of the market at nominal prices. 



Monday, July 5, the market was dead 

 on account of the holiday. While most 

 of the wholesalers were at their posts, 

 there was hardly enough business in 

 both markets to keep one establishment 

 busy. Anticipating such conditions, 

 growers generally have refrained from 

 shipping. 



American Beauty roses have been in 

 fair supply, with the demand for them 

 quite weak. About $25 is the top price 

 for special grades, and the quality is 

 nothing to boast about. Hybrid teas 

 are in sufficient quantity to meet the de- 

 mand and clean up nicely within a price 

 range of $1 to $12 per hundred, with 

 one or two varieties, such as Scott Key 

 and Hadley, reaching $20. 



The supply of carnations is surprising 

 for the time of year, growers evidently 

 hesitating to clear out their benches 

 while fairly good flowers are coming 

 along as the result of a cool spring and 

 early summer. About $3 per hundred is 

 the price for the best and down to 50 

 cents for the inferior grades. A few 

 days of really hot weather, however, 

 will see the finish, of the .supply, espe- 

 cially as we are entering -the vacation 

 season. 



There is a fair supply of cattleyas, 

 which move at $1 to $1.50 for selected 

 flowers and down to 35 cents for the gen- 

 eral run of stock. 



The supply of Easter lilies has short- 

 ened a little, and the price range is now 

 $8 to $10, with a trifle more for selected 

 stock. Lily of the valley is in good sup- 

 ply again and drags at $4 to $8 per hun- 

 dred. 



There is a wealth of miscellaneous 

 flowers, all of which seem to move at 

 some sort of price or other. 



Various Notes. 



^ Mike Anderson, of the Garden Florist, 

 Xinety-flfth street and Broadway, 

 sailed Saturday, July 3, for Greece, 

 where he will remain for some time. 



W. H. Duckham, Madison, N. J., will 

 ■ail for Europe on the Aquitania 

 July 31. 



Edward Johnson, 852 East Twenty- 



Home-Made Soil Sifter, a Saver in Labor Costs. 



ninth street, Brooklyn, who is 69 years 

 old, encountered a negro burglar in his 

 home July 4 and attempted to subdue 

 him with a rifle, but the burglar wrested 

 the weapon away from him and beat 

 him with it. Mrs. Johnson, who is 58 

 years old, pluekily rushed to her hus- 

 band's assistance and suffered a frac- 

 tured skull. The burglar escaped, leav- 

 ing his victims unconscious. Both were 

 taken to King's County hospital.- Mrs. 

 Johnson is not expected to recover. 



Mrs. Isabel Eeid Wadley, wife of Al- 

 bert Wadley, formerly of Wadley & 

 Smyth, died Sunday, July 4, at her 

 home, in Plainfield, N. J. Services were 

 held at the home Tuesday, July 6, and 

 interment was made in Beechwoods 

 cemetery, New Eochelle, N. Y. 



J. H. P. 



M. David Klein, whose business in 

 florists' supplies is at 1248 Myrtle ave- 

 nue, Brooklyn, is devoting his week- 

 ends to trips in the New England states, 

 which he states have been quite advan- 

 tageous. 



EVANSVIIiLE, IND. 



The Market. 



Business is good. Flowers are some- 

 what scarce. Eoses and carnations are 

 of poor quality. It has been hot and 

 dry, though during the last few weeks 

 several rains have brightened things up. 



Various Notes. 



The Lockyear Floral Co. has decided 

 to postpone the building planned for 

 this summer and consequently is over- 

 stocked in carnation plants. 



Eoyston & Fenton have nearly com- 

 pleted the moving of their greenhouses 

 to the new location and hope to be ready 

 for business again soon. E. L. F. 



ELECTRIC son. SIFTER. 



In addition to making two blades of 

 g^ass grow where one grew before, the 

 students in the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, at Manhattan, have en- 

 abled one man to do the work of two in 

 potting soil by means of the device illus- 

 trated in the accompanying illustration. 



This is a mechanical sifter and saves, it 

 is estimated, $150 annually in labor 

 costs. Before it was installed, two men 

 worked one day a week sifting and pot- 

 ting soil for the college greenhouse. 



The electric motor which furnishes 

 the power was resurrected from a store- 

 room, where it had lain unused for a 

 number of years. The frame and fly- 

 wheel are part of an abandoned sewing 

 machine. The sifter, which formerly 

 did service in the hands of a student 

 laborer, is now mounted upon an iron 

 rim, supported by two gas pipes from 

 the floor of the work bench. These al- 

 low the sifter to be drawn back and 

 forth by the piston, which, too, is made 

 of gas pipe. 



Mrs. Isabel Reid Wadley. 



Mrs. Isabel Eeid Wadley, wife of Al- 

 bert Wadley, formerly of the retail firm 

 of Wadley & Smyth, New York, died 

 Sundav, July 4, at her home, at Plain- 

 field, N. J. 



Services v/ere held at the home Tues- 

 day, July 6. Interment was made in 

 Beechwoods cemetery. New Eochelle, 

 N. Y. 



Lafayette W. Goodell. 



Lafayette W. Goodell died June 25 at 

 his home in Pansy park, Dwight, Mass., 

 at the age of 69 years. He was born in 

 Pansy park and had spent his whole 

 life there. Medical Examiner Segur 

 said that death was due to natural 

 causes. 



Mr. Goodell was a life member of 

 eight horticultural societies, including 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, from which he had received more 

 than 200 premiums. He was considered 

 an authority on aquatic plants. 



He is survived by a brother, W. M. 

 Goodell, of Dwight; a sister, Miss 

 Bessie N. Goodell, of Norwich, Conn., 

 and a nephew, Lindsey G. Smith, of 

 New London, Conn. 



