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The Florists' Revic\\ 



Septembbb 15, 1921 



from William Schumann, of the High- 

 lands, and also good cosmos and dahlias 

 from Frank Schumann, of Delhi. 



Gus Adrian, Jr., of Clifton, has been 

 having some excellent ferns of the 

 Eoosevelt, Boston and Scottii varieties, 

 of which he reports good sales. Mr. 

 Adrian, Sr., and Mrs. Adrian are still at 

 Les Cheneaux islands, in Michigan. 



A visitor last week was J. F. Keller, 

 of the John A. Keller Co., of Lexington, 

 Ky., with his son, who won a scholar- 

 ship in St. Xavier's College here. 



Richard Mayer, of Lion & Co., New 

 York, and A. J. Obengerber, of the 

 United States Foil Co., Louisville, Ky,, 

 were here last week. 



Among the visitors was Prof. W. 0. 

 Cook, of the Polytechnic Institute, of 

 Auburn, Ala. He was an ardent friend 

 of the late C. P. Critchell and E. G. Gil- 

 lett. He holds a number of positions in 

 the state of Alabama, including that of 

 professor of floriculture, professor of 

 landscape gardening and deputy state 

 inspector. Mr. Cook is about 80 years 

 old, but is still as spry as a man much 

 younger. He came through with the 

 Dixie Highway delegation, of which he 

 is a member and which held its annual 

 convention in this city last week. 



G. H. K. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The market conditions are bad. Out- 

 door flowers are more plentiful than 

 they have ever been at this season and 

 there is only a moderate amount of 

 business. The flowers sold bring fair 

 prices, but many remain unsold. With 

 indoor flowers the situation is a trifle 

 better. The rose crop is going off. There 

 is some demand for Beauties, valley and 

 orchids. The better roses sell more 

 readily than the shorter grades. Car- 

 nations have come. 



Indications point to a gradual im- 

 provement, but with such a heavy over- 

 supply of flowers, the wholesalers are 

 unwilling to allow many dahliaa to 

 come. They feel that it would be a 

 mistake. Better wait a few days for 

 cooler weather and a little business. 

 Golden Glow chrysanthemums have 

 come and Smith's Advance are promised 

 in a few days. 



Down East. 



Those interested in matters horti- 

 cultural may recall that it was chron- 

 icled in The Review last spring that 

 Charles P. Rich, secretary of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, spent 

 several days in this city and that, dur- 

 ing his stay, he called upon some of 

 our leading men. 



Just why did not appear at the time. 

 Now there is the strongest kind of cir- 

 cumstantial evidence to warrant the be- 

 lief that this visit had something to do 

 with the coming show of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, to be held 

 in Boston, September 22 to 25, and that 

 a. close scrutiny of the exhibits may 

 show that some fine ferns and orchids 

 have reached there from this neighbor- 

 hood, which simply goes to show that 

 Secretary Rich, like many successful 

 men, believes that if you want some- 

 thing you must go after it. 



An Overdose. 



The question came up about a certain 

 lot of plants that it was thought might 

 have had too much bone meal, when one 

 of the growers spoke up: "My boss 



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Of Unusual Quality 



Russell - Columbia 



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You will find our Roses much better than the average 

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CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Golden Glow and Smith's Advance 



VALLEY and ORCHIDS 

 GOOD ASTERS 



we will have until the end of September. 



DAHLIAS 



in varieties and of a quality you will not find elsewhere. 

 Our growers have over a hundred acres of Dahlias, 

 varieties that are especially good for cut-flowei- purposes. 

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was a graduate of Kew Gardens, in 

 England. He knew a lot about plants. 

 He said you could not give a plant too 

 much bone meal. It is like giving 

 cracked oyster shells to a chicken. It 

 just takes what it wants and comes 

 back for more when it is ready. It 

 won't take too much. Now I will show 

 you." So saying, the speaker took a 

 strong, healthy plant from a 3-inch 

 pot, potted it into a 4-inch pot, using 

 a mixture consisting of one-half bone 

 meal and one-half loam, remarking that 

 you will admit that is an overdose. 

 The plant died. 



The Chair Parade. 



The parade of roller chairs on the 

 board walk at Atlantic City September 

 8 proved to be an even more important 

 affair than had been expected. There 

 were an immense number of chairs in 

 the procession and they were tastefully 



decorated, usually with garlands of 

 flowers. The promoter was tremend- 

 ously pleased with the interest taken in 

 the affair, a pleasure that was increased 

 by the fact that his chair won first 

 prize, a gold cup, because, as he naively 

 explained it, the judges just had to 

 give the prize to the most beautiful 

 lady in America and that was his wife, 

 who was in the chair. The names of 

 Habermehl and of Edwards were on 

 every lip and the star of flora was in 

 the ascendant. A description of the 

 individual chair decorations would be 

 quite superfluous, because you can get 

 the ideas much better by just strolling 

 over to the movies and there viewing 

 the Atlantic City chair parade on the 

 board walk. When you have done that 

 a vista of possibilities -will pr^ent 

 itself to your alert business mind and 

 you will bring about snch a show in 

 your own bailiwick. 



