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The Florists* Review 



Januaet 13, 1921 



basket that served as a centerpiece on 

 this occasion, mixed golf balls with 

 Crusader roses. On each ball were 

 printed the numerals, "63," indicative 

 of the age of the guest of honor. The 

 basket aroused a great deal of comment 

 at the dinner, an5 Penn the Florist re- 

 ceived due meed of commendation for 

 the original piece. 



NEBRASKA FLORISTS MEET. 



The Nebraska Florists' Society held 

 a meeting Wednesday, January 5, at the 

 Lincoln hotel, Lincoln, Neb., which 

 proved to be interesting and helpful to 

 those present. The program was started 

 with a banquet in the dining room of 

 the hotel at 7:30 o'clock, following 

 which C. H. Frey, of Lincoln, gave an 

 interesting talk on "New Boses. " 

 "Out-of-Town Customers" was the sub- 



ject of an address by Edward Williams. 

 I. F. Frey than talked on ' ' Say It with 

 Flowers," and C. IL Green, of Fre- 

 mont, gave the final address of the even- 

 ing, his subject being "An Experience 

 with Rose Midge." 



The society has as its ofiicers C. H. 

 Green, president, and O. H. Enslow, sec- 

 retary. 



OIiADIOLUS BULBLETS. 



Please advise me how to treat gla- 

 diolus bulblets so that they will break 

 their shell and grow. I have difficulty 

 in starting them. R. L. M. — Neb. 



Keep the bulblets cool during winter; 

 any temperature just above freezing 

 will be suitable. Pack them in any 

 soil, sawdust, dry cocoanut fiber refuse 

 or even sand to prevent shriveling. 



Sow in drills two inches deep, as you 

 would garden peas, about May 1 in your 

 latitude, in good, deep soil. A consider- 

 able proportion of your bulblets should 

 flower the same season. C. W. 



CYCLAMEN MITE. 



I should like to obtain some informa- 

 tion on the cyclamen mite, as to how it 

 can be distinguished and what preven- 

 tives exist. T. L. C. — Minn. 



The cyclamen mite is a tiny insect 

 that is not readily seen with the naked 

 eye, but the effects of it are readily 

 noted in curly and stunted foliage and 

 streaky flowers. Fumigating with 

 cyanide is one of the remedies and a 

 coating of chopped tobacco stems be- 

 tween the pots on the bench is a good 

 preventive. W. H. T. 



i^ GROWERS' MEETINGS 



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ATTENTION, GROWERS! 



First Annual Meeting. 



The time is fast approaching for the 

 first annual meeting of the National 

 Flower- Growers' Association, which 

 v\dll be held at Washington, D. C, 

 Thursday, January 27. 



Much progress has been made toward 

 further perfecting this association 

 since the organization meeting held at 

 Cleveland last August. Several of the 

 principal communities have district or- 

 ganizations perfected and working, 

 which will send regularly elected dele- 

 gates. A few other communities have 

 so far just temporarily organized. To 

 the latter as well as to all growers who 

 are interested in the progress of this 

 movement, we extend a hearty invita- 

 tion to be present at this first annual 

 meeting. While the actual voting 

 power at this meeting is vested only in 

 the regularly elected delegates, we 

 want it understood that this is to be an 

 open meeting for all growers. The 

 officers will welcome suggestions and 

 discussions from any growers who wish 

 to take part in the proceedings. 



Work to Be Done. 



There is a vast amount of work ahead 

 to obtain closer cooperation of the pro- 

 ducers in our trade. We should strive 

 first of all to create a more uniform 

 marketable condition for our stock, not 

 by arbitrarily fixing prices, for this 

 no doubt is farthest from the minds 

 of any of those now connected with the 

 organization, but, as we are living in 

 an age of cooperative advertising and 

 publicitv, we need more and more to 

 give this matter our best thought from 

 the standpoint of the producer. 



Supply and demand are, and always 

 should be, the principal factor in estab- 

 lishing prices for any product. There 

 is a way, however, and it has been 

 clearly proved by statistics from other 

 producers in cooperative advertising 

 campaigns, of stimulating prices by 

 creating an increased demand for the 

 product through judicious advertising. 

 That should be one of the principal 

 factors in the work of this organiza- 



tion. Cooperative advertising of va- 

 rious products has proved not only to 

 increase the demand for such, but it has 

 also proved to be the principal factor 

 in bringing about a uniform grading 

 of those products, which we as growers 

 must admit is essential to our business. 



Cost of Production. 



Another matter of great importance 

 is finding the cost of production of any 

 article. The more systematically this 

 is done, the better the foundation of 

 that industry. This has never yet been 

 accomplished for our business except 

 among a few individual interests. By 

 closer cooperation and through our or- 

 ganization we can disseminate such in- 

 formation as will give the most hum- 

 ble among our trade a plan by which 

 they can work out an intelligent cost 

 system, and the same can also include 

 a simplified system of bookkeeping for 

 the growers. All this is needed, possi- 

 bly not for all the individuals, but 

 truly so for the trade at large as well 

 as for most of the individuals, and we 

 must not lose sight of the fact that the 

 individual greenhouse establishments 

 throughout the country will only meas- 

 ure up to what the average of them sets 

 forth as a standard. Hence, the more 

 we can improve each individual estab- 

 lishment the higher will we raise the 

 standard, for we are, after all, organ- 

 ized or unorganized, measured by the 

 standard of the average. It is a proved 

 fact, however, that through organiza- 

 tion and organization only can that 

 standard be raised in any profession, 

 industry or production. 



As we get along further in this work 

 we shall undoubtedly find now fields of 

 endeavor, and so it is with these few 

 thoughts that we extend to the flower 

 producers of this country a hearty in- 

 vitation to join with us in this new 

 organization with a view of a closer 

 affiliation with other branches of our 

 trade, for the betterment of our whole 

 trade and for the strengthening of the 

 great parent body of all our trade asso- 

 ciations, the grand old Society of 

 American Florists. 



J. F. Anininnii, See 'v. 



ST. LOUIS FLOWER GROWERS. 



First Annual Meeting. 



The first annual meeting of the St. 

 Louis district branch of the National 

 Flower Growers' Association will be 

 held at St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, Jan- 

 uary 18, at the Hotel Jefferson. A pro- 

 gram of the meeting, together with a 

 special request to attend, has been sent 

 to all the growers located in the dis- 

 trict covered by this organization by 

 J. J. Beneke, secretary. 



The program will occupy a morning 

 and an afternoon session, the first open- 

 ing at 10 a. m. J. F. Ammann, of Ed- 

 wardsville. 111., will give the opening 

 address, which will be followed by the 

 reports of the officers and committees. 

 The afternoon session, after a meeting 

 of the executive committee, will com- 

 mence with the election of officers. E. 

 G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., will give 

 an illustrated lecture, after which he 

 will address the meeting on the subject 

 of "Hybridization." J. A. Cole, of 

 Peoria, 111., will give an address on 

 "Systematizing Bookkeeping in the 

 Florists' Business." A general dis- 

 cussion for the good of the new organ- 

 ization will follow. 



Officers. 



The officers at present are: President, 

 Walter Amling, Pana, 111.; vice-presi- 

 dents, L. Jules Bourdet, St. Louis, and 

 Henry Blixen, Edwardsville, 111.; sec- 

 retaryj J. J. Beneke, St. Louis, and 

 treasurer, W. A. Rowe, Kirkwood, Mo. 

 The executive committee consists of A. 

 C. Brown, Springfield, 111.; J. W. Ross, 

 Centralia, 111.; Ludwig Stapp, Rock 

 Island, 111.; W. A. Rowe, Kirkwood, 

 Mo.; Joseph Deutschmann, Kirkwood, 

 Mo., and C. E. DeWever, Olivette, Mo. 

 Associate secretaries are J. W. Ross, 

 Centralia, 111., for southern Illinois; J. 

 A. Cole, Peoria, 111., for western Illi- 

 nois, and W. J. Hembreiker, Springfield, 

 111., for central Illinois. The local en- 

 tertainment committee consists of L. 

 Jules Bourdet, W. A. Rowe and C. E. 

 DeWevcr. The membership committee 

 consists of Joseph Deutschmann, H. 

 Blixen and A. C. Brown. 



