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April 6, 19«2 



The Florists' Review 



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Rose Plants Are in Constantly Greater Vogue, Especially When Attractively Adorned. 



and hoino-grown clumps are giving good 

 satisfaction. You can scarcely overwa- 

 tor spirsRas, but go lightly on tobacco 

 snioke, as they scorch easily. 



A nice Easter plant is the schizan- 

 tlius, sometimes known as the "poor 

 man's orchid." Here is something 

 light and airy, a plant doing well in the 

 house, and the cut sprays last remark- 

 ably well in water. 



Yellow marguerites do not make good 

 jiot plants, but the white varieties make 

 perfect ones and can be easily timed for 

 either a late or early Easter. Mar- 

 guerites are thirsty subjects, need much 

 feeding and make the finest and most 

 satisfactory of Easter plants. 



Still Some Azaleas. 



Azaleas of the indiea type are occa- 

 sionally seen. They will not become 

 extinct, like the dodo, but are likely 

 to remain high in price for years. A. 

 Kaempferi makes a fine Easter plant. 

 It can be flowered as early as the mid- 

 dle of February; in fact, I have had 

 nice plants in flower in January. The 

 Kurume azaleas will in the not distant 

 future be popular with growers, as they 

 seed and germinate freely and also prop- 

 agate quite readily from cuttings. At 

 one time the beautiful Pink Pearl rho- 

 dodendron and its companion, White 

 Pearl, were abundant and could be sold 

 at a reasonable price. Some are still 



offered, but prices show a tremendous 

 advance over pre-war days. 



Flowering Shrubs. 



There will be, as usual, some lilacs, 

 magnolias, prunus, laburnums, deutzias 

 and other flowering shrubs. These will 

 require but little forcing this season, 

 and the cooler they are grown the more 

 satisfactory service will they give. 



For critical customers, some healthy 

 and well budded gardenias will come 

 in. These i)lants do well in the average 

 warm American home. 



Pots of lilies of the valley, well flow- 

 ered and carrying dark green foliage, 

 siiould sell on sight. 



It is too late for primulas, and cycla- 

 mens, unless grown cold, will be on the 

 wane. Outside of Cattleya MossisR, few 

 orchids are available, but we can well 

 dispense with them. 



Although novelties are neither nu- 

 merous nor startling, we shall have, nev- 

 ertheless, the usual fine assortment of 

 Easter-flowering plants, and nothing 

 but atrocious climatic conditions will 

 prevent Piaster, 19212, from being a rec- 

 ord-breaker. W. X. C. 



BUSINESS LOOKING UP. 



To florists estimating the probable 

 purchases of the public at Easter time, 

 the evidences of better business condi- 



tions set forth in Dun 's review of trade 

 last week will have interest. It stated: 



''Despite various uncertainties and 

 inijx'dinients, the first quarter of the 

 year has been productive of definite 

 revival of business and a further 

 strengthening of confidence. Much of 

 the gain has come so slowly as to be 

 barely perceptible, but recent weeks 

 have brought more positive improve- 

 ment in certain (|uarters, and continued 

 irregular progress is foreshadowed. 

 Some Ijasic industries in which activi- 

 ties have long been repressed are emerg- 

 ing from their condition of lethargy, 

 notably iron and steel and construction 

 lines, and the recovery in manufactur- 

 ing would be more decisive if strikes 

 in the textile field and elsewhere were 

 al)sent. Notwithstanding existing labor 

 troubles, however, unemployment of 

 workers is gradually diminishing, with 

 a consequent lessening of the restric- 

 tions on public buying power, and in- 

 dications of a broadening retail move- 

 ment are multiplying. 



"While seasonal influences account 

 for much of the present enlargement 

 of merchandise distribution, signs are 

 not lacking that consumers are more 

 disposed to purchase goods at the lower 

 ]irices prevailing, and the depleted 

 state of many dealers' stocks is re- 

 flected in the more frequent placing of 



