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The Florists^ Review 



November 3, 1921 



Nashville has always been a good 

 bulb market, but, as the price has gone 

 up year by year, the demand has grown 

 loss and less. There will be more home- 

 grown bulbs forced here this year than 

 ever before in the liistory of the city. 

 It would be a safe estimate to say that 

 Nasliville' is not using more than one- 

 third of the Holland bulbs at present 

 that she was using five or six years ago. 



Recent frosts have killed the tops of 

 cannas and similar plants and the grow- 

 ers and park men are busy harvesting 

 their crop. 



Various Notes, 



This week the State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation meets at Chattanooga and a 

 good representation of Nashville flo- 

 rists will attend. It is expected that 

 the membership of this association will 

 reach 400 before the meeting closes this 

 year, 



Oscar Geny, who was ill at the time 

 of our last report, is again able to spend 

 a part of each day at the greenhouses. 



Those who have been digging cannas 

 and other tuberous plants report that 

 the yield is unusually light this year, on 

 account of the excessively dry weather. 



Mr. Connell, superintendent of the 

 city parks, has been assembling a won- 

 derfully good collection of bearded iris 

 in Centennial park, and they have made 

 a marvelous growth. Such varieties as 

 Catcrina and others that are reputed to 

 bo poor growers and shy bloomers are 

 making most wonderful growth, fully 

 as good as any variety. This should be 

 of exceptional interest to southern flo- 

 rists. Our personal experience with 

 some two or three hundred iris confirms 

 the fact that even the varieties that do 

 not do well in the greater part of the 

 United States are a real success here. 

 We have had .as fine Iris Susiana as ever 

 were grown and they appeared to bo 

 perfectly thrifty. Mr. Connell lias two 

 or three hundred seedlings grown from 

 hybrids made from the ])ark collection 

 that should do their first blooming next 

 year. F. B. 



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