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OCTOBBB 21, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



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them with American ways. Their visit 

 to the gardens of Versailles, with its 

 wonderful landscape work and the va- 

 riety of shrubbery, was also a surprise. 

 Mr. Moon will have a new vision of hor- 

 ticulture when he returns to America. 



W. T. Usinger. 



FLOWER STORES IN GERMANY. 



To an American Visitor. 



For the last ten days I have been in 

 Gt^rmany. I have visited Trier, Cologne, 

 Hamburg and Berlin, and now I am 

 rtady for central Germany. The flower 

 siores in the above-mentioned cities 

 resemble our own United States stores 

 nwre than do the French. Berlin espe- 

 cially has several fine flower stores, the 

 biggest being J. C. Schmidt's and 

 Kothe's, both on Unter den Linden. 

 Kothe's also carries an art line of 

 Japanese ware, mostly large pieces of 

 jjottery and other pieces of bric-a-brac 

 that go well with flowers. . 



Huge baskets were seen, fully filled, 

 mostly with chrysanthemums, with 

 small clusters of other flowers placed 

 here and there for color. Wide ribbons 

 are used (our chiffon is seldom seen), 

 and the two-tone flower shades predom- 

 inate, with a good share of silver and 

 gold ribbons. The baskets used are of 

 tlie style imported by one of our large 

 wholesale houses, and they are well 

 adapted for work, being dark in color. 

 Little in light or two-tone baskets is 

 seen, either in Germany or in France. 

 French florists, I might add here, use 

 few baskets, except for table decora- 

 tions and gift purposes. The German 

 flower stores are conspicuous for the 

 large number of made-up wreaths on 

 display, both natural and artificial. 

 These are sold ready-made in most in- 

 stances, and people can be seen carry- 

 ing them off unwrapped to fulfill their 

 mission of sympathy. 



Many natural greens are used in all 

 of the work. I do not mean ferns and 

 so forth, but pine, raspberry foliage and 

 many other wild shrubs that grow along 

 the roadside. All varieties of plants 

 are in abundance and some especially 

 fine cyclamens were seen. 



Prices in Germany. 



I might add a few sidelights on the 

 economic question in Germany. At pres- 

 ent the people are worried over another 

 winter of the low-value mark. At this 

 time 68 marks are equivalent to one 

 United States dollar; so, of course, 

 everything costs many marks. A rail- 

 road ticket that used to cost 10 marks 

 is now 60 marks. A room in a hotel — 

 rooms are hard to find — costs from 40 

 to 150 marks a day. A lunch costs from 

 15 to 50 marks, with bread, sugar and 

 milk out of sight but not out of mind. 



I saw floral wreaths on 16-inch 

 frames, made solidly of dahlias, sell at 

 15 marks, while some of a variety of 

 flowers sold at 20 to 25 marks. At Dres- 

 den I saw two large wreaths easily 

 thirty-six inches in diameter, on 6-foot 

 easels, made of dahlias for a famous 

 Dresden musician. Each one had three 

 streamers of 12-inch ribbon printed in 

 gold with the greetings and best wishes 

 of the town. 



Germany today is most interesting. 

 Its political history is by no means com- 

 pleted and a change might take place at 

 any moment. But the country is work- 



ing and building and a greater Ger- 

 many may emerge out of the ruins. 



Meets Americans. 



It was my good fortune on the trip 

 over to have as company three people 

 well known to the florists and horticul- 

 turists of the United States. One of 

 these was Mrs. Robert Pyle, the wife 

 of President Pyle, of the American 

 Rose Society, and of Conard & Jones Co. 

 Mrs. Pyle was with a party of Quakers 

 going to England to attend the Friends ' 

 Peace Conference. 



With the party also were Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. Edward Moon, of the William 

 H. Moon Co., of Morrisville, Pa., who 

 are now in Essen, Germany, doing chil- 

 dren's relief work under the direction 

 of the Quakers, and who will stay over 

 there for six months. 



I had the pleasure of the rail trip 

 from the harbor to Paris with them and 

 saw that they had headed right in that 

 city. Mr. Moon's appreciation of the 

 wonderful French highways lined with 

 trees, and the fruit and flower gardens, 

 was manifested by his comparison of 



PINCHING EARLY CYCLAMENS. 



We have some nice cyclamens that are 

 showing buds. Should we pinch them 

 out if we want large plants! And will 

 they bloom as freely in the future as if 

 they were let go? E. B. & S.— Ind. 



It hardly pays to attempt to market 

 'really early cyclamens. I would pinch or, 

 rather, pull out any of the flowers or 

 buds showing color, but would not re- 

 move any of the smaller buds. The pull- 

 ing out (upwards) of a few premature 

 flowers will be a benefit, rather than a 

 detriment, to the plants and they can be 

 relied upon to flower just as freely at 

 the proper season. C. W. 



LAMBERT'S LOCALS. 



The York Floral Co., York, Neb., has 

 just completed two new houses. One is 

 25x100 feet and the other 14x100 feet. 

 They will be in peas, violets and plants. 

 The walls are built of concrete, with 

 partitions of 4-inch building tile, which 

 proves both successful and economical. 

 This company is cutting fine Premier 

 roses and splendid carnations. Mums 

 are looking well. J. A. L. 



TWO CASES OF RUST. 



I am sending a few carnation leaves 

 which I think are affected with rust, 

 but, being new in the growing business, 

 I am not sure. Would you kindly in- 

 form me if such is the case and state 

 the remedy for it. A. B. H. — Neb. 



I am sending three carnation leaves 

 from a bench of Enchantress, which is 

 affected with what seems to me to be 

 rust. Would Bordeaux mixture be ef- 

 fective, and how should I use it? What 

 causes rust? None of the other benches 

 has it. F. LaB.— Neb. 



stimulating fertilizers until the plants 

 are making a clean growth. 



A. F. J. B. 



BRANCH ROT ON CARNATIONS. 



I am sending a carnation plant and 

 I should like you to tell me what is the 

 matter with it. This plant is one of a 

 beijch of Herald and all the plants on 

 the bench are affected as is this one. 



C. S. N.— O. 



Your carnations are affected with 

 carnation rust. This disease is brought 

 on by improper growing conditions, 

 either in the field or after benching. A 

 severe check of any kind is liable to 

 start it, especially if accompanied by 

 too much moisture. Bordeaux mixture 

 is the standard remedy. You can buy 

 it in powdered form, and if used ac- 

 cording to directions on the container, 

 it will give good results. Dispense 

 with overhead spraying until you are 

 rid of the rust, unless red spider should 

 appear. Scratch the surface of the 

 soil about once in two weeks and water 

 carefully, but not too sparingly, at the 

 roots. Keep the surroundings clean 

 and give abundant ventilation on all 

 occasions, producing ideal conditions 

 for f strong, sturdy growth. Apply no 



The specimen was rather badly dried 

 up when it arrived and little could be 

 determined about the condition of the 

 foliage. Examination of the stem re- 

 veals an attack of branch rot. The 

 Herald has been discarded by most 

 growers because it has lost vitality to 

 such an extent that it falls an easy 

 prey to almost any disease that happens 

 along. It seems esi)ecially susceptible 

 to the branch rot disease. 



If your plants are badly affected, I 

 should suggest that you tear them out, 

 refill the bench with new soil and plant 

 with healthy plants of some variety 

 that is more vigorous in constitution. 

 The high temperature which has pre- 

 vailed throughout this section during 

 the last two weeks has no doubt ag- 

 gravated the trouble somewhat. Hold 

 your temperatures as low as possible 

 and keep the plants as dry overhead as 

 possible without inviting an attack of 

 red spider, A. F. J. B. 



