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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 7. 1920 



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little the more or less continuous show- 

 ers. There were few varieties I saw 

 that we do not have or have not tested 

 in America, but we cannot ever hope 

 to attain the wonderful, delicate tints 

 of color that appeared in many of the 

 large number of delicate shades of pink. 

 Our hot sun blisters and fades the color 

 so that the same flower could be used 

 for several varieties. This is the chief 

 difference between the roses I saw in 

 Europe and those we have in America. 

 The British hybridizer is once more 

 beginning to take an interest in things 

 and I think another year or two will 

 see things back to a normal basis. 

 Quarantine 37 is of little interest to the 

 European rose grower at this time. He 

 has not nearly enough stock for his 

 own home trade without bothering to 

 do any exporting. 



One of the most enjoyable days I 

 spent in Europe was with Hugh Dick- 

 son, at his trial grounds at Belfast, 

 Ireland. For three generations this 

 family has worked up a system of 

 hybridizing rose stock, and book after 

 book was shown me with a full record 

 of all crosses in past years. All his 

 seedlings were so fine that had I not 

 known of the climatic differences be- 

 tween Ireland and America, I would 

 have wanted to buy everything in sight. 

 Dickson's raise about 1,000 new seed- 

 lings every year. These are rigorously 

 worked out as soon as they bloom. If 

 they show characteristics worthy of 



perpetuation, either improvement in 

 color, increase in size or some other de- 

 sirable qualification, they are kept for 

 future use and distribution. In the 

 final analysis, Mr. Dickson told me, the 

 yeari^ average of seedlings works 

 down to above five seedlings dissemi- 

 nated out of every thousand. Eighty 

 thousand seedlings can always be seen 

 in first, second or third year growth. 



On Tlielr Way. 



I have always been much interested 

 in yellows, and I saw three at Dick- 

 son's that will eventually find their 

 way to us, K-139, K-831 and W. B. Wal- 

 lace. The most noted thing in the trial 

 grounds was the variety J. Q. Glassf ord. 

 I am hoping, with the permission of the 

 federal board, to import a plant or two 

 of each of these this coming season so 

 that we can give them a test over here 

 and, if satisfactory under our condi- 

 tions, distribute them to the critical 

 American public. 



Many names that we conjured with 

 in the line of rose growers seem to be 

 dropping out, as the younger genera- 

 tions have been killed in the war or 

 have gone into other lines. 



Some nurseries have suffered from 

 business- dry-rot and could not stand 

 the pressure of war conditions and for 

 the future I think America has to look 

 more and more to its own growers for 

 improvements in the line of rose novel- 

 ties. 



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 of trade. 



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Hugo Busch, Jefferson City, Mo., is 

 celebrating his thirtieth anniversary in 

 the business here by giving his son an 

 interest; he is planning to add more 

 greenhouses to provide for the steadily 

 increftsing retail trade. Dahlias have 

 done well this season; one variety 

 among several of the newer kinds, 

 Dreer's Yellow, is highly valued. 



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The Jacob Schulz Co., Louisville, Ky., 

 made a special feature of dahlias dur- 

 ing the week of the state fair. Espe- 

 cially notable was a window of Dahlia 

 King of Autumn in baskets trimmed 

 with ribbon of Ophelia shade; the com- 

 bination was harmoniously striking and 

 resulted in many expressions of praise 

 and much booking of orders for tubers. 

 George Schulz plans to attend the meet- 

 ing of the F. T. D. in Indianapolis, 

 where he anticipates results for the 

 further benefit of the trade in general. 



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Anders Basmussen, New Albany, Ind., 

 has everything in prime shape. All 

 traces of the hard knocks received a 

 short time back have been wiped out. 

 Supply and demand are both satisfac- 

 tory. Good times ahead are predicted 



by our optimistic confrere. 

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The Lockyear Floral Co., Evansville, 

 Ind., has been strengthened by an in- 

 fusion of new blood, so to speak, and 

 will make considerable improvements 

 in the near future. Its location, facing 

 the entrance to the principal cemetery, 

 is ideal and, as Manager Louis Kletz 

 expressed it, encourages in every way 

 the perpetual decoration of our last 

 earthly resting place. 



Trachelium cseruleum is a recent ad- 

 dition to the not overlarge list of plants 

 suitable to grow for the retail trade. 

 Samuel Murray, of Kansas City, Mo., 

 predicts a future for it when better 

 known. It is grown from either seed 

 or cuttings; the latter method of propa- 

 gation secures stronger plants. 



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A novel method of killing scale by 

 drowning was in course of operation 

 by Robert S. Brown, of Kansas City, 

 Mo., who was observed plunging a 

 batch of scale-infested evonymus in 

 2-inch pots in a big tub of clear water, 

 covering them with sacking and allow- 

 ing them to stay several hours, when 

 the insects would be found dead. 

 "Never found it to fail; it is the only 

 effective remedy," is Mr. Brown's 

 opinion, which is worth knowing. 



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"Service," observed Arthur Newell, 

 of Kansas City, Mo., "is the secret of 

 success; of course, good service." An 

 instance of this was seen when a pa- 

 tron, at the last moment, desired a flo- 

 ral offering sent to a funeral which 

 was on its way to the place of burial, 

 some twenty miles distant. Mr. Newell 

 was equal to the emergency. Jumping 

 to the phone, he called up the local flo- 

 rist and instructed him to have the 

 piece made and delivered at the ceme- 

 tery ere the cortege arrived and also 

 to see that the name of the sender was 

 published in the country paper as evi- 

 dence. The Newell store is the latest 

 in ornateness, Belgian marble being 

 used as outside trimming. A 10-year 

 lease and the splendid location, on two 



The Stuppy Floral Co., St. Joseph, 

 Mo., is well pleased with the increase 

 in business, which is partly attributed 

 to the new location and the attractive* 

 ness of the store now possible. Stock 

 at the houses is in fine shape, Frank 

 Stuppy being constantly at the helm. 



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Manager Mangelsdorf, of the Atchi- 

 son Seed & Flower Co., Atchison, Kan.> 

 is highly pleased with the trend of 

 trade. Julius Dilloff, of Wertheimer 

 Bros., happened in and the topic of 

 conversation was ribbons, Mr. Man- 

 gelsdorf commenting upon the fine - 

 quality now used and the advanced 

 taste in matching colors, so that the 

 idea formerly held by customers of 

 supplying their own ribbon was a 

 thing of the past and properly so. 



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Miss Elizabeth Doak, who has been 

 for five years in charge of the shop of 

 the Seales Flower Co., Birmingham, 

 Ala., in the course of which period she 

 has made many brides' bouquets, in- 

 tends carrying one herself soon. She has 

 resigned her position and carries away 

 with her the hearty good wishes of al) 

 her co-workers. 



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David Hope, superintendent of the 

 J. L. Parker greenhouses, Birmingham, 

 Ala., says this season was the first in 

 his experience when good carnation 

 plants were thrown away. Possibly an 

 advertisement in The Review would 

 have sold them, but help was too scarce 

 to handle them. Even now responsible 

 help is unobtainable at what is con- 

 sidered a liberal wage; "for," added 

 Mr. Hope, "at the good prices stock ia 

 bringing right along, we are able and 

 willing to pay in proportion. ' ' Although 

 handicapped, carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums were noted in tip-top shape. 



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Alex Scott, of the C. A. Dahl Co.,. 

 Atlanta, Ga., when he heard that good 

 carnation plants had been thrown away 

 by David Hope, of J. L. Parker, Bir- 

 mingham, Ala., expressed regret, owing^ 

 to the fact that his firm, being short 

 of stock and seeing none advertised 

 near-by, had been forced to the decision 

 of carrying over some of their old plants^ 

 a second year. 



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Johnson 's Greenhouses, Memphis, 

 Tenn., report excellent business and 

 keep their display up to its usual high, 

 standard. W. M. 



VIRGINIA LUiY BX7I28. 



Home-Orown Longifloruma. 



Attempts of the Department of Agri- 

 culture to grow lily bulbs in this coun- 

 try have been noted in these columns 

 from time to time. The experiments- 

 of Dr. David Griffiths have been fol- 

 lowed by the trade with particular in- 

 terest. Some time ago Dr. Griffiths in- 

 terested a few growers in favorable 

 localities in his efforts and provided 

 bulbs for experiments. The reports of 

 these growers will be the most valu- 

 able result of the trials. One of them, 

 C. W. P. Erdman, proprietor of the 

 Bushy Flower Garden, at Bushy, Va., 

 has sent to The Review two staUu ot 

 longiflorum from some mi niatu re bulb- 

 lets received from Washington. These, 

 though somewhat broken by their trip- 

 through the mails, ^owed clean, healthy 



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