March 10. 1921. 



The Florists' Review 



41 



of ten weeks' stocks. This is unusual 

 and cannot be accounted for, as snap- 

 dragons in the same bed are healthy. 

 Carnations rooted in 2-inch pots instead 

 of the sand bed are a success and seem 

 to be tlie right idea where large numbers 

 are not desired. 



• • • • 



F. A. Danker, Albany, N. Y., wns 

 found busily engaged in funeral work 

 and declared that, outside of this, busi- 

 ness was dead, for which the traction 

 condition was held responsible. Large 

 stocks of cut flowers with small demand 

 make a discouraging situation, particu- 

 larly when it is doubtful if the quality 

 at this time was ever better. 



• * • * 

 Eosendale Flower Shop, Schenectady, 



N. Y., is experiencing what was de- 

 scribed by Walter Dunning as a prelude, 

 referring to St. Valentine's day, an in- 

 terlude, as applied to a rest following 

 much funeral work, and the postlude, 

 Easter, looked for as the grand climax 

 to what is agreed by Proprietor Henry 

 Eberhardt as a remarkable season. 



• * * • 



"Just a coincidence," observed 

 Henry Penn, of Boston, referring to his 

 firm's window display of the new crim- 

 son Darwin tulip, William Pitt, grown 

 by the W. "W. Edgar Co., Waverley, 

 Mass., and named in honor of the Brit- 

 ish statesman who protested to George 

 III against imposing the tax on tea, the 

 enforcement of which led to the famous 

 Boston tea party. The exhibition being 

 staged upon the date of President Har(l- 

 ing's inauguration made it of more than 

 ordinary interest. 



• • • • 



Edward F. Norberry, of North Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., has acquired the Cameron 

 ranges adjoining his own and intends 

 going largely into bedding plants, the 

 demand for which is always good. 

 While the price of geraniums is ex- 

 pected to be lower than last year, ef 

 forts to increase tlie supply to offset 

 the decrease in value are being made. 



• • • * 



"A good market cleaned up on roses, 

 our specialty," reported A. R. Hutson, 

 salesman for W. H. Elliott & Sons Co., 

 Boston. "Asparagus also sold well." 



• • • • 



William Hastings, at the Boston 

 Flower Exchange, reported little stock 

 left Saturday afternoon, March 5, but 

 a few odds and ends. Staples sold at 

 fair prices. This healthier condition 

 followed two weeks' dullness. 



• • • • 



F. E. Palmer, Brookline, ^Nla.ss., ob- 

 served that business was holding up 

 well and that the recent publicity given 

 to the grand plant of Acacia pubescens 

 brought comments from all parts of the 



country. 



• • • • 



"Undoubtedly we are feeling the ef- 

 fects of the general depression in busi- 

 ness, but we believe that rock bottom 

 has been reached and from henceforth 

 a gradual improvement will be seen,'' 

 observed Al Lange, of H. F. A. I^ange, 

 Worcester, Mass., adding that his firm's 

 stock for Easter was never iu finer 

 shape and the first rays of sunshine seen 

 for a long time raised a spirit of op- 

 timism to correspond. 



• • * * 



H. F. Littlefield, Worcester, Mass., 

 says the trade at large is iu far better 

 shape than the majority of other busi- 

 nesses, if not all of them, and, consider- 

 ing the fact that the last two montlis 

 even exceeded the same jieridd of last 



WHO'S WHO 'A'Z AND WHY 



WILLIAM H. CROUCH. 



NOW the sole owner and manager of the firm known as Crouch, Florist, at Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., which was originally the business conducted by his father, the 

 late Charles W. Crouch, William H. Crouch only recently abandoned music for 

 flowers. He was for twenty years a j)rofessional musician and for years conducted 

 the band and orchestra which was organized by his father. Mr. Crouch was 

 brought up in the floral atmosphere of his father's establishment, but, having a 

 musical temperament inherited from his father, who was a musician of no mean 

 ability, he took up music, with great success. However, succumbing to the lure 

 of the flower shop, he returned to the business during the declining years of his 

 fiither, who needed his assistance. Mr. Croucli was recently elected ]n-esident of 

 the Knoxville Florists' Socictv. 



year with this firm, Mr. Littleliidd is 

 taking advantage of the present lull to 

 prepare for what is hoped to be a rec 

 ord-breaking Easter. 



• • * • 

 Herman H. Bartsch, manager of the 

 W. W. p:dgar Co., Waverley, Mass.. com- 

 mented upon tlie close j)roxiniity of the 

 international flower show to Easter, 

 which would jirevent many growers at-~ 

 tending from a distance. This, in liis 

 opinion, was regrettable. "While the 

 whole show will be a magnification of 

 what may be seen at home, still one i-aii 

 always learn something of value. It is 

 also essential now, when so many are 

 running to specialties. The i)roblem of 

 producing variety becomes yearly more 

 difficult.'' Looking over the Easter 

 stock at the establishment of the W. W. 

 Edgar Co., the force of the foregoing re- 



marks was felt and the excidlent I'ondi- 



tion of the stock bespoke the authority 



of the s])eaker. 



• • • • 



''Thank you; 'tis a ))e;nity,'' com- 

 mented a motornian when handeil a 

 bloom of Carnation Laddie, one of thou- 

 sands of such, with other \arieties, 

 giiiwing at S, .1. Ooddard's establish- 

 ment, .'it Franiingliam, .Mass., wiiicli are 

 bringing: fifty per cent more in the New 

 Vork maiket than in Boston. ''Para- 

 doxical .-IS it may seem," observed Mr. 

 (ioddard, "it is true, just the same, 

 that, while our home town is looked 

 upon as the hub of floriculture, Manhat- 

 t;in h;inds us the highest figures." A 

 display will be made from this place at 

 the international flower show that is ex- 

 pected to eclipse tlie exhibit made at 

 Washiiiiiton recenth'. W. M. 



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