JANDART 26, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



35 



Haute, Ind., where Pot Plants Are Crowding Other Crops Down. 



sports lead in the list of plants in which 

 the company specializes. The aim is to 

 carry all popular varieties in all sizes at 

 all times. In blooming plants, cycla- 

 mens easily take the lead. Last year 

 about 200,000 seeds were sown. Seed- 

 lings are sold at first; later in the season 

 stock in 3-inch and 4-inch pots is of- 

 fered, and after the number of plants 

 has been reduced to 50,000 or 60,000, 

 this remainder is flowered for Christ- 

 mas. Other items for that holiday are 

 begonias, poinsettias, primulas and cher- 

 ries. All these are grown in great 

 quantities. At Christmas time, four car- 

 loads of plants were sold to Chicago flo- 

 rists, and carload lots were sent to sev- 

 eral eastern cities for the holiday. A 

 great number of the shipments go to 

 southern states. 



Foliage plants are grown in important 

 numbers also. Among them are Fan* 

 danus Veitchii, crotons, rubber plants 

 and dracaenas, of the varieties fragrans, 

 terminalis and Mass^ngeana. Mr. Da- 

 vis is devoting some 'of his time in Flor- 

 ida just now to making purchases of 

 Pandanus Veitchii. 



There are now in preparation for Eas- 

 ter thousands of giganteum lilies, hy- 

 drangeas, of both French and otaksa 

 varieties, and rambler roses. 



In addition to the 120,000 square feet 

 of greenhouse space devoted to plants, 

 there are two lath houses, each 50x200, 

 used for hydrangeas, and also five acres 

 of land outside, on which the Skinner 

 system has been installed. 



COAL MINE STRIKE COMING? 



Official Washington holds the opinion 

 that a coal mine strike in the bituminous 

 lields is inevitable when the existing 

 contracts between the miners and coal 

 operators expire in March. Secretary 

 of Commerce Hoover declares the stage 

 is all set for such a strike and adds that 

 it seems quite certain that it cannot be 

 averted. 



In discussing the matter with the cor- 

 lespondent of The Review, Secretary 

 Hoover stated that the strike is already 

 tieing counted on in many of the large 

 industrial centers, and this is being re- 

 'loctcd in contracts that are being en- 

 tered into by many industrial concerns. 



A limited survey made by The Review 

 (orrespondent indicates that the florists 

 •ill over the country for the most part 

 are well supplied with soft coal with 

 'vhich to run their boilers. Some are 

 placing orders for immediate delivery, 

 where it is possible to obtain the fuel, 

 that they may not be caught short dur- 

 ing such a strike. 



The mine owners have declared that 

 they will stand out for a general wage 

 Put all along ^^'^ i'"" while on their part 



the miners have announced that they 

 will not stand any reduction. A dead- 

 lock can be the only outcome. Secre- 

 tary Hoover has had a number of con- 

 ferences with leaders of the miners and 

 others, and has gained the impression 

 that the miners are going to oppose cuts 

 in wages. T. N. S. 



EXPRESS RATES ATTACKED. 



The rates of the American Railway 

 Express Co., charged for the transporta- 

 tion of nursery stock for the reforesta- 

 tion of areas in Maryland, were attacked 

 in a brief filed with the interstate com- 

 merce commission last week by the 

 Maryland state board of forestry. The 

 complaint declared the present charges 



J. V. Davfs. 



are excessive and should be reduced 

 without delay, in order that the work of 

 reforestation in the state may proceed. 

 It is urged that the commission should 

 reduce the rates on forest tree seedlings 

 to encourage reforestation. The rates 

 charged by the express company on 

 young trees and nursery stock from the 

 state college at College Park, Md., are 

 declared to be altogether too high, and 

 the complaint sets forth that if the work 

 of reforestation is to be continued, the 

 cost must be held to the minimum. 



T. N. S. 



BILL TO INSPECT RATES. 



Senator Trammel, of Florida, has in- 

 troduced a bill in congress, directing the 

 interstate commerce committee of the 

 senate to investigate the "present high 

 express rates being charged on citrus 

 fruits, vegetables and other perishable 



farm products, with a view to bringing 

 about early legislation that will result 

 in a reduction of the existing expresa 

 rates on such perishable products." Thb 

 bill was referred to the senate commit- 

 tee on interstate commerce. T. N. S. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Lebanon, Pa. — Clarke M. Seltzer has 

 been appointed receiver of the green- 

 houses and other property of John L. 

 Bernstein, whose liabilities are placed 

 at $18,000. Hearing will be held in the 

 Court of Common Pleas February 4 at 

 10 a. m. 



ANOTHER BOOST. 



The following anecdote, culled from 

 a New York newspaper by B. Eschner, 

 president of the M. Rice. Co., Philadel- 

 phia, was not paid for by the national 

 publicity committee, though it was 

 worth recompense: 



"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS." 



Into one of the best art shops on Fifth aventte 

 this afternoon came an enormously wealthy 

 Gotham lady who has two homes, one here and 

 one in Paris, lx>th storehouses of precious thingrs, 

 paintings and pottery. 



"I want something for a present," she 8«Md. 



She sat in an embrnstire and watched thou- 

 sands of dollars' worth of vases, plaques and 

 what-nots taken from their shelves and rangeA 

 before her. Finally she halted tlie parade of an- 

 tiques and said: "I have changed my mind. I 

 shall send some flowers." 



TRADESMEN SPEAK AT CORNELL. 



Tuesday, January 17, Ivar Ringdahl, 

 of Rome, N. Y., lectured on "The Cul- 

 ture of Christmas artd Easter Plants." 

 Mr. Ringdahl has attained a reputation 

 as a grower of pot plants and was for 

 fourteen years in charge of the pot plant 

 department for Thomas Roland, Nahant, 

 Mass. 



Monday evening, January 16, Alex 

 Lurie, a graduate of Cornell and at pres- 

 ent store manager for the Bool Floral 

 Co., Ithaca, N. Y., addressed the Cornell 

 Florists' Club on "The Organization of 

 a Retail Flower Store." His talk was 

 extremely interesting and instructive. 

 After the lecture Mr. Lurie gave a dem- 

 onstration in flower arrangement, bring- 

 ing out some of the various methods em- 

 ployed by designers in different sections 

 of the country. 



The policy of the department of flori- 

 culture at Cornell is to bring commercial 

 men to the college from time to time, So 

 as to give the students actual contact 

 with the leaders in the profession. 



Brooklyn, N, Y.— The business of S. H. 

 Powell, 850 Jamaica avenue, who died 

 last September after spending more than 

 a quarter of a century in the trade, is 

 being continued by the estate, of whieh 

 Mrs. Powell is executrix. 



