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The Florists' Reviev/ 



Septemuicu 22, 1U21 



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The florist* whose cards appear on the pages carrying this head, are prepared to fiU o rders 

 """"•■•"— from other florists for local deUvery on the usual basis. 



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MOIT-LY 



MUSINGS 



R. S. Brown, of K. S. Brown & Son, 

 Kansas City, Mo., was found at the 

 bench, potting coleus. "Same old spot 

 for fifty-three years," observed the 

 veteran of eighty-four summers, who, 

 with a merry twinkle in his eyes, harked 

 back to the time when the sight from 

 where he stood included immense herds 

 of buffalo roaming through the valley, 

 while as many as 10,000 Indians gath- 

 ered upon the bluffs. "We are to be 

 lionored next summer with the conven- 

 tion of the S. A. F., of which I am 

 ])roud to be a charter member, and I 

 hope that our convention hall, which 

 has a capacity of 15,000, will be filled." 

 The business has practically been handed 

 over to son Nathan. The greenhouses 

 are upon land too valuable to warrant 

 rebuilding and arc kept running await- 

 ing a real estate purchaser. 

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Samuel Murray's houses, at Kansas 

 City, are not new, yet remarkable is 

 the quality of stock produced, chiefly 

 l)ot-grown. Colonel William Sharp, 

 who is putting in the thirty-second sea 

 son at this place, has two houses con- 

 taining .some 2,000 Begonia Melior, that 

 are in superb shape, and when it is 

 understood that every plant will be 

 sold at the retail store, one gains some 

 idea of the jjopularity of this one plant. 

 They run from 4-inch to 6 inch pots 

 and 7-inch and 8- inch azalea pots. These 

 were jiotted by Vice-President-elect 

 Murray, who gives his grower credit 

 for the result, claiming it is all in the 

 watering and ventilating. It was noted 

 that the English varieties on trial are 

 not so satisfactory. They are of a dif 

 ferent type and not so free. When the 

 l)egonias are gone, the space is occupied 

 with lilies, then gloxinias, fancy-leaved 

 caladiums and tuberous-rooted begonias, 

 for which a sale has been created be- 

 yond comiiutation, the result of persis- 

 tent ])ublicity through the medium of 

 the store window, which is a gem. Ily- 

 <lrang('as will soon be potted up and 

 housed cold for Mothers' day, which 

 last year took all that were grown. 

 The (luantity is limited only by space. 

 A house filled with ('ibotium Kchiedei 

 and Polyi)odium Mandaianum, these in 

 (!-inch pans, with Adiantum gloriosum, 

 are rich ])roperty for any retailer. The 

 South African violet, saintpaulia, is 

 proving a good seller and deserves to 

 he more widely known. It projtagates 

 freely from the leaf cuttings. No at- 

 tempt is made to grow cut flowers be- 

 yond a house of cattlcyns and these 

 are really not jjrofitable, owing to 

 inability to increase the supply and so 

 keep up stock. A large stock of the 

 decorative Sansevieria zeylanica Lau- 

 rent ii is grown. It is the finest thing 

 of its kind, far surpassing the variegated 



aspidistra at its best. 



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The W. L. Rock Floral Co., Arthur 



Newell, the Alpha Floral Co. and Miss 



Murray are making attractive window 



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Members 



of the 



P. T. D. 



Members 



of Xht , 



F. T. D 



GUDE BROS.COl 



FLORISTS 



12i4PST.N.W, 



•WASH1NGTON.DA 



TO OUR BROTHER FLORISTS: 



FLOWERS AND CO-OPERATION 



Let us learn from the flowers the lesson of co-operation. A single 

 flower, growing alone, makes no gn^eat show. Many flowers, grow- 

 ing in harmony, will transfigure even a desert. 



Member F. T. D. 



14th and H St«., N. W. 



WEishinglon, D. C. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Louise Flower Shop 



Connecticut Ave. at N St, N. W. 



Ml88 Louise W. Daugherty. - - Proprietress 



Phones— Franklin 3579, 3841, 3842 



Member Florists' Telesraph Delivery 



displays, suggestive of the season. The 

 commission houses are planning with 

 the growers to cooperate with the re- 

 tailers to make this a banner season and 

 to stamp the impression upon the out- 



ORDERS IN OR AROUND 



Washington, D. C. 



MEMBER F. T. D. 



GEO. C. SHAFFER 



900 Fourteenth Street 



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side world that there is nothing lack- 

 ing here in push, pep and hustle. 

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 "A stellar attraction is the 60-acre 

 farm of the S. Bryson Ayres Co." So 



