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The Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBEU 27, 1919. 



pons are planted outdoors until July, 

 when I bring them in and push them 

 along as I do the large mums. Cultivate 

 them freely, give them plenty of mois- 

 ture overhead and watch your pompons 

 go ahead. I don't want to go into de- 

 tails about varieties; each market has 

 its favorites and few growers agree on 

 any one variety. 



Let us work toward the day when we 

 can truthfully say that we have the 

 mum up in line with the rose. There is 

 no reason why it can't be done. A man 

 devoting his time to growing mums 

 should receive as much for his labor 

 and his investment as a rose grower. 

 But he does not — simply because he is 

 not so careful as the rose grower. 



MUMS FOB ALL TASTES. 



Effort to satisfy the varying de- 

 mands of the flower-buying public is sug- 

 gested by the flourishing collection of 

 chrysanthemums of different varieties 

 shown in the illustration on page 23, 

 which gives a view of the interior of 

 the chrysanthemum house at the range 

 of E. H. Montgomery, Fairfield, la., con- 

 structed four years ago by the John C. 

 Moninger Co. The picture bears out 

 Mr. Montgomery's statement that he 

 has the new fancy mums as well as the 

 standard ones. Mr. Montgomery's 14- 

 year-old daughter is standing on the 

 left of the path. 



OHBYSAKTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



The examining committees of the C. 

 S. A. have submitted reports on new 

 varieties as follows: 



At Cincinnati, C, November 1, Bright Byes, 

 blush pink, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. 

 Smith ic Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: 



Color, 35; form, 18; stem and foliage, 17; full- 

 ness, 19; total, 89. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 1, Baby Doll, yel- 

 low, iwmpon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Oo., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 35; form, 19; stem and foliage, 15; fullness, 20; 

 total, 89. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 1, Anneta, deep 

 yellow, pompon, submitted by Elmer D, Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 37; form, 17; stem and foliage, 18; fullness, 17; 

 total, 89. 



At Cincinnati, O., November 1, Zella, buff 

 yellow, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 38; form, 16; stem and foliage, 18; fullness, 18; 

 total, 90. 



At Cincinnati, O., November 1, Fire Bird, 

 red, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 36; form, 17; stem and foliage, 18; fullness, 17; 

 total, 88. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 1, Angelia, rose 

 pink, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 37; form, 17; stem and substance, 18; fullness, 

 18; total, 90. 



At Cincinnati, C, November 1, No. 108-17, deep 

 pink, Japanese incurved, submitted by Baur & 

 Steinkamp, Indianapolis, Ind., scored as follows 

 on the commercial scale: Color, 17; form, 13; 

 fullness, 8; stem, 15; foliage, 15; substance, 12; 

 size, 8; total, 88. 



At New York, November 5, No. 116 W. D. C, 

 amber bronze, pompon, submitted by the Chaa. 

 H. Totty Co., Madison, N. J., scored as follows: 

 Color, 36; form, 18; stem and foliage, 16; full- 

 ness, 18; total, 88. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 8, White Midget, 

 white, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith A 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 38; form, 18; stem and foliage, 18; fullness, 18; 

 total, 92. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 8, Rose Perfec- 

 tion, rose pink, Japanese Incurved, submitted by 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as 

 follows on the commercial scale: Color, 19; 

 form, 13; fullness, 9; stem, 13; foliage, 14; sub- 

 stance, 14; size, 7; total, 89. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 8, tattle Tot, 

 pale rose, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 35; form, 16; stem and foliage, 17; fullness, 17; 

 total, 85. 



At Cincinnati, C, November 8, Button Rose, 

 deep rose, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 35; form, 17; stem and substance, 12; fullness, 

 18; total, 82. 



At Cincinnati, 0., November 15, Frank Wil- 

 cox, Jr., golden bronze, pompon, submitted by 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as 

 follows: Color, 36; form, 18; stem and foliage, 

 17; fullness, 19; total, 90. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



PERSONAL GLIMPSES 



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COLLEGE MEN. 



Wallace B. Pierson. 



Forced to enter the greenhouses upon 

 completion of the ordinary high school 

 course, the writer has often envied the 

 fortunate young man who began his 

 business career with the inestimable 

 advantage of a college training. Com- 

 mercial floriculture is a dignified pursuit 

 and it is fitting that its devotees should 

 possess cultivated faculties. Many self- 

 made men are inclined to disparage the 

 practical value of advanced study, be- 

 lieving it unessential to success, but un- 

 doubtedly those same men would have 

 achieved earlier in life a more notable 

 degree of prosperity — to say nothing of 

 the greater pleasure derived from their 

 business — had they started out with the 

 broader equipment such as the college 

 course alone imparts. 



In this line of thought the names of 

 a number of florists come perforce to 

 mind, prominent among them being that 

 of "Wally" Pierson, than whom there 

 are few better known young men in the 

 trade. We always admired this stanch 

 young New Englander, because he is 

 known to possess the courage of his con- 

 victions. Trade cooperation receives 

 his best support and he is ever ready to 



assist in the solution of the big prob- 

 lems. He is one of the workers who can 

 always be relied upon to do his share. 

 Forceful in argument, tolerant in de- 

 bate, the constructive impress of his 

 personality is felt at all trade gather- 

 ings. Let us hope that many more busi- 

 ness men of his ilk will be evolved 

 within the ranks of the trade as the pro- 

 fession advances. 



Bobert Pyle. 



When Bobert Pyle, fresh from Swarth- 

 more, elected to make the florists' busi- 

 ness his life work, there was added to 

 the fold a man of the most eminent 

 abilities and splendid ideals. And al- 

 though Mr. Pyle has been a successful 

 florist, the writer cannot escape the 

 feeling that the same devotion to busi- 

 ness in countless other commercial fields 

 would have won for him greater re- 

 wards. Since he is fond of flowers, there 

 is little doubt that the aesthetic side of 

 the business appealed strongly to him. 



During the last twenty years Mr. 

 Pyle has done much to popularize his 

 favorite flower, the rose. In addition to 

 the lavish use of printers' ink, he has 

 labored zealously upon the platform to 

 create in the bosom of the public a 

 greater love of the beautiful as exempli- 

 fied in flowers. "A rose for every 



home ' ' is his slogan. That his ,work, as 

 well as the work of other unselfish men 

 of similar ideals, has borne fruit, is 

 indicated by the unprecedented sale of 

 flowers within recent years. Bobert 

 Pyle's activities in the American Rose 

 Society, of which he is now president, 

 have been untiring and are thoroughly 

 characteristic of the man. He truly 

 loves his work and from its performance 

 derives his greatest pleasure. This, 

 after all, is the truest gospel of life. 



J. W. Qrandy. 



A dozen years or so ago there came 

 to West Grove, Pa., a young man desir- 

 ous of supplementing his college course 

 in horticulture by some practical ex- 

 perience in a commercial greenhouse es- 

 tablishment. He had chosen the florists ' 

 business for his life work. After a few 

 years of preparatory effort, combined 

 with study of the successful methods em- 

 ployed by various up-to-date florists, 

 this young man opened a modern retail 

 flower store in his native city, Norfolk, 

 Ya., and today Grtmdy the Florist is 

 one of the best known members of his 

 profession in the country. 



The secret of J. W. Grandy's signal 

 success is that he prepared himself for 

 his work. In addition to securing prac- 

 tical training before embarking in busi- 

 ness, he was able to bring to bear in his 

 chosen field the enlarged view, the dis- 

 ciplined mind and the developed person- 

 ality typical of the successful college 

 man. The business of the up-to-date re- 

 tail florist is transacted with people of 

 the better walks of life. His clients are, 

 for the most part, men and women of 

 taste and refinement, which makes it all 

 the more to be desired that he be a man 

 of more than average culture. When 

 competition is keen and when merchants 

 are put to their wit's end in devising 

 new ways of moving their wares, the 

 college-trained man has everything in 

 his favor. The notably successful flo- 

 rist of the future will be the man who 

 takes up his commercial career with a 

 broad general education. 



Mark Palmer. 



There is better organization in the 

 business world today than at any pre- 

 vious time in history. It is vitally es- 

 sential for the achievement of progress. 

 The old competitive idea is obsolete and 

 cooperation, instead of competition, is 

 the life of the trade. What was once 

 left to the uncertain solution of person- 

 al initiative is now being solved by the 

 concerted action of trade bodies, the 

 constructive influence of which is now 

 recognized in all branches of the flo- 

 rists' profession. To sustain this great 

 work, leadership must be forthcoming. 



It is extremely gratifying to note the 

 active part taken by that talented young 

 man, Mark Palmer, of Buffalo, in the 

 trade affairs of his city. Blessed by a 

 pleasing personal presence and favored 

 by a natural aptitude for leadership, 

 he will doubtless develop into a strong 

 creative force in the local councils of 

 the organized trade. It is a well known 

 fact that for several years the best 

 young men have been drifting away 

 from the calling of their florist fathers, 

 apparently finding greater remuneration 

 and encouragement in other lines of en- 

 deavor. Now that the war has substan- 

 tially proved the florists' business to 

 be one of dignity and stability, there 

 is no reason for the boy to fear follow- 

 ing in the course of his parents. The 



