MARCH 31. 1921. 



The Florists* Review 



15 



Packing and Shipping Department of a Business Catering to Cut Flower Buyers for a Thousand Miles Around. 



flower market seven wagons, diglit auto- 

 mobile trucks and forty-two men. A 

 record is kept of the number of boxes 

 taken off the market. It showed: 



For Boxes 



Thursday, March 24 2.3.">4 



Friday, March 25 1.864 



Those were the big days, but t'very 

 day except Sunday, the year around, 

 many hundreds of boxes go out. 



The accompanying illustrations give 

 typical views of the wholesale houses 

 engaged in preparing the flowers for 

 shipment. The photographs were made 

 in the establishments of the Chicago 

 Flower Growers' Association and the 

 E. C. Amling Co. 



DAFFODILS OE JONQUILS. 



Is it honest to sell or advertise jon- 

 quils when daffodils arc meant? Does 

 the buying public prefer to call daffo- 

 dils jonquils! I have read advertise- 

 ments quoting jonquils when I felt sure 

 that the advertiser was offering tJolden 

 Spur narcissi. Am I justified in calling 

 all daffodils jonquils? (J. L. — Wash. 



It is unfortunate that so many of the 

 growers, retailers, wholesalers and buy- 

 ing public will persist in calling all va- 

 rieties of daffodils jonquils. Ignorance 

 is in a great measure responsible for 

 this on the part of all concerned, but 

 it has become such a habit that it will 

 be diflRcult to break. Most retailers 

 probably do not know what true jonquils 

 are, and are no doubt quite honest 

 when they pass out any variety of daf- 

 fodil for them. True jonquils are ex- 

 tremely sweet-scented. They have 

 slender, grassy-like foliage, carry several 

 flowers on a stem and are golden yellow 

 in color. 



It would be to vour credit if vou 



should try to educate your buying pub- 

 lic as to what are daffodils and what 

 are jonquils. At present jjractieally all 

 buyers, when asking for jonquils, mean 

 daffodils, and the vast majority of re 

 tailers, composed of men and women 

 whose knowledge of plant names is 

 limited, have only a \ague idea of what 

 • laffodils and jonquils are. 



Both ar»' varieties of narcissi. I note, 

 however, that on your letterlica<l you 

 offer both narcissi and daffodils. Why 

 not make it read <laffodils and j()n(|uils 

 liereafter, and set a gt)od example? 

 C. W. 



EXHIBITION ECHOES. 



Kchoes from the most successful 

 show, from both an educational and a 

 financial viewpoint, were heard fcdlow- 

 ing the closing of the international 

 tlower show at the Grand Central 

 Palace, Ncnv York. 



Fred Lantenschlager, of KroesclicU 

 Hros. ('(I., Cliicago, observed that to 

 grow such clioic<> stock a real boilei- was 

 essential to produce the steam. 



Simon Dernison, of A. Ilen<ierson & 

 Co., Chicago, was positive that nuicli 

 of the fine bulbous stock was sujiplii^I 

 by Chicago houses. 



S. S. Pennock took a last, lingering 

 look ere de])arting on his erraml of 

 mercy to Berlin, (Jeiinaiiy. in the in 

 terests of a liaiul of Pliil:iclel[ilii;i 

 Quakers. 



A. F. .1. Baur received an iiispira 

 tioii from the lovely amaryllis and an- 

 nounced his intention of devoting a 

 I)art of his time to the raising of com- 

 mercial varieties. 



C. W. Scott dilated uj)on the new 

 type of lily to be sent out by the Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co., an advancement upon 

 gigantcum. 



Charles Tricker, of Arlington, N, .1., 

 s:iid the sale of water lilies was beyond 

 .'ill expectations. 



John Hay, who is the jierpetual rep- 

 lesentative among the private trade for 

 Henry A. Dreer, Inc., Philadelphia, was 

 observed darting hither ;ind thither with 

 order book in hand. 



Fred Cowjierthwaite, of R. H. Macy 

 & Co., received many compliments on 

 his prize-winning self watering window 

 box, tastefully fille<l with assorted 

 plants. 



Fred Michell, of the H. F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, hurried up from the 

 s(mth and felt amply repaid for the 

 trip, observing to Representative John 

 Hochinann that an exhibition along simi- 

 l.ir lines, in Philadelidiia, would be in 

 order and keep up the lively interest 

 aroused. 



Charles Schwake, Fr.'ink Henry, of 

 Henry & Lee, James McHutchison and 

 Fred G. Marquardt formed an interested 

 grou]), admiring a pri/.e- winning entry 

 (if Easter lilies. 



Max Schling, the lone retail exhibitor, 

 was fairly loaded down with honors an(l 

 modestly invited the well i)lease(l public 

 to view the Faster display at his store. 



William Kcrvan, of the Kervan Co., 

 Xew York, made a big hit when, toward 

 tlie close of the show, a fine lot of 

 kunujuat oranges arrived at his booth 

 and sjtrays of the golden fruit were 

 handed out to the crowd that fairly 

 swarmed .ihout the table. W. M. 



ORGANIZING OHIO. 



With the Faster rush attended to, the 

 work of com])leting the organization of 

 the National Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion will be ]>nshed forward. The Ohio 

 district br.inch of this association is 



