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The Florists' Review 



JCNI 2, 1921 



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W. E. Peters, Burlington, Vt., reports 

 a banner Memorial day business, in 

 which the natural product took first 

 place, while there was a good sale of 

 artificial goods. 



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The Gove Flower Shop, Burlington, 

 Vt., sold out all salable stock for Memo- 

 rial day. Since the firm possesses green- 

 houses, a great variety of stock is car- 

 ried and that left over is usually 

 cleaned up in later plantings. 



• • • * 



The Montpelier Greenhouses, Mont- 

 pelier, Vt., sold out all salable stock 

 some time before Memorial day, which 

 was the best ever, according to Proprie- 

 tor George Emslie, who stated that his 

 brother, at the Barre Greenhouses, met 

 with the same satisfactory experience. 



• • • • 



"No kick coming," commented F. J. 

 Bixby, Manchester, N. H., while assist- 

 ing in loading several trucks with tuTis 

 filled with geraniums grown through the 

 winter and now selling for $5 and up 

 apiece. ' ' Worth it every time, but 'tis 

 quite an ad for other stock," thinks 

 our farsighted contemporary, and he 

 stated that Memorial day business over- 

 topped former years. 



• • • 



"Pleased to see you, but awfully 

 busy," observed Herman C. Stache, 

 Manchester, N. H.; "in fact, no rest 

 this week, day or night. I believe we 

 are doing larger business for Memorial 

 day and after than ever before. I 

 cannot say positively, yet our stock, 

 which was never better, is going fast at 

 good prices. ' ' 



• • • • 



"It surely pays," observed H. M. 

 Totman, of the H. M. Totman Co., Ean- 

 dolph, Vt., in commenting upon the 

 company's superfine stock of bedding 

 plants, particularly geraniums, attrib- 

 uting it to the fact of continuing fire 

 heat late, with open ventilators. It is 

 conceded that geraniums can be grown 

 at a profit if wholesaled at $20 per hun- 

 dred for 3%-ineh stock. The strain of 

 S. A. Nutt is fine. Carefully selected 

 to type, it heads the list, (tarnations 

 are also of top grade. White Benora is 

 a favorite. Commenting upon the in- 

 crease in wholesale shipping and local 

 retail business, Mr. Totman stated that 

 this season has surpassed all its prede- 

 cessors and warrants expansion. 



• • • • 



What is described as a sight-seeing 

 tour was reccntlv made bv W. W. Han- 

 nell, of W. W. Hannell & Son, Water- 

 vliet, N. Y. In speaking of a visit to 

 the leading eastern growers, on whicli 

 he was accompanied by Mrs. Hannell, 

 he said, "It is essential that growers, 

 both of plants and cut flowers, come to- 

 gether in closer contact to lielp one an- 

 other by the interchange of ideas." 



• • • • 



Fred Goldring, Slingerlands, N. Y., 

 reported everything salal)h> cleanc<l out 

 for Memorial day, sometliing unknown 

 before the advent of the automobile. 



• • • • 



Ed Tracey, of the Rosery, Albany, 

 N. Y., commented upon the setback 



given city trade by the strike of the 

 traction employees. Out-of-town busi- 

 ness has helped to some extent to make 

 what would, but for the strike, be a 

 fine season. 



• • • • 



Christian Dehn, Saratoga Springs, 

 N. Y., pointed with pardonable pride to 

 a gates-ajar costing an even $100 and 

 two wreaths at $50 apiece among other 

 work for Memorial day. For several 

 days previous special sales of plants 

 were advertised with excellent results. 



• ' • • • 



"Fine Memorial day business," is 

 the report from Henry Schrade & Sons, 

 Saratoga Springs, N. Y., "with con- 

 tracts for summer planting equal to, if 

 not surpassing, former seasons." 



• • • • 



The John Ralph Estate, Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., is doing a flourishing 

 business under the able management of 

 the two Ralph sisters. Among the big 

 planting contracts is the laying out of 

 the grounds of the new country club. 



• • • • 



Henry Bensel, manager of the Schaef- 

 fer Estate Greenhouses, Ballston Spa, 



N. Y., had a fine crop of carnations for 

 Memorial day, in which Laddie headed 



the list. 



• • • • 



The CrandcU Flower Shop, Glens 

 Palls, N. Y., reports big business for 

 Memorial day and in planting the 

 grounds of summer residents at Lake 

 George, who have returned to the pre- 

 war desire for elaborate plantings. 



• • • • 



A. J. Binley, Glens Falls, N. Y., 

 scoured the surrounding country for 

 blooming plants to help out their large 

 sales around Memorial day. 



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J. L. Watkins & Son, Hudson Falls, 

 N. Y., had all they could attend to with 

 Memorial day orders. Myron J. Wat- 

 kins, a graduate of the floricultural de- 

 partment at Cornell University, Is an 

 active addition to the firm. He will 

 specialize in landscape work. George 

 M. Watkins has charge of the green- 

 houses. ■ 



• • • * 



While the traction strike must have 

 affected the total volume of business 

 done around Memorial day, F. A. Dan- 

 ker, of Albany; A. D. Carpenter, Co- 

 hoes; J. G. Barrett and Sambrook Bros., 

 Troy, and Henkes Bros., of Watervliet, 

 N. Y., each experienced surprise at 

 the volume shown, evidence that the 

 demand for good stock is increasing and 

 that, under normal conditions, it would 

 have been away ahead of any previous 

 season. W. M. 



WHICH SOIL IS BETTER? 



This is in regard to this year's plant- 

 ing of carnations and chrysanthemums. 

 I have had a large piece of good sod 

 turned under this spring. Will this sod 

 rot enough this spring to be used in the 

 carnation and chrysanthemum benches? 



I also have had some good rotted cow 

 manure put on another piece of ground, 

 (in which sweet corn was grown last year. 

 There was enough manure put in to 

 make a mixture of about one-third ma- 

 nure to two-thirds soil when it was 

 turned linder. Do you think that this 

 ground will be all right to use for car- 

 nations and mums? The manure was 

 well rotted and the ground each year has 

 had good, heavy coatings of manure. 

 Which do you think is the better soil to 



' ^ W. B. v.— Mich. 



Should weeds spring up during the sum- 

 mer, disk it before the weeds get too 

 large or, if you have no disk, turn it 

 with your plow. There is no danger of 

 turning it too o^ten, if you do not handle 

 it too wet. Turn it as late as possible 

 this fall and leave it as rough as possible. 



A. F. J. B. 



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We should prefer to use this year the 

 soil on which you grew sweet corn last 

 year and into which you plowed a heavy 

 coat of cattle manure this spring. This 

 soil should grow high-grade mums and 

 carnations. The sod which you turned 

 under this spring would, undoubtedly, 

 grow good mums, but we prefer it more 

 thoroughly rotted for carnations than it 

 would be by midsummer. Spread a good 

 coat of cattle or stable manure over it 

 and let it lie until fall, at which time 

 it should be plowed again and left to 

 lie until spring and then plowed again. 



WHY NO BLOOMS? 



I have about 500 White Enchantress 

 plants which did not yield more than 

 100 blooms this season. These plants 

 had fine growth and looked as though 

 they were doing well, but they did not 

 make buds. The other varieties did 

 well under the same conditions. Can 

 you tell me the cause! G. G. — Tex. 



Your White Enchantress plants made 

 what we know as "wild growth." If 

 you propagated these plants yourself, 

 you will probably recall that you took 

 the cuttings from plants that were full 

 of thrifty-looking cuttings. They were 

 scattered through the bench and you 

 did not notice that these particular 

 plants had not made many blooms at 

 the time you took the cuttings. 



This is not a new thing. We have 

 seen varieties practically go out of 

 cultivation for this reason and as far 

 back as we know carnation history. 

 Probably you did not propagate from 

 these plants this year, but if you did, 

 throw them out and buy stock from 

 some reliable grower. A. J. B. 



