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The Florists^ Review 



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laid over them when the sun is shining 

 brightly. The winter season is the best 

 time to sow the seeds and, as they are 

 large in size, they should be covered 

 to the depth of half an inch. Do not 

 allow the pans to become dry and do not 

 pot the plants off until they have made 

 their second leaves. A temperature of 

 55 degrees is ample in the winter and 5 

 degrees lower will answer. When the 

 plants are established in small pots they 

 can be grown somewhat cooler, and 

 repotted as required. C. W. 



BEGONIAS LOSING FOLIAGE. 



Will tuberous-rooted begonias lose 

 their foliage when transplanted if they 

 are lifted when in bloom? 



H. G.— Wash. 



Tuberous-rooted begonias lifted from 

 the open field while in full bloom will 

 suffer only a slight check if a reasona- 

 ble-sized ball of earth is taken up with 

 the plant, and if the potting is carefully 

 done. If, however, all of the soil is 

 shaken from the roots of the plants in 

 the digging process, they are bound to 

 wilt and lose some of their foliage. 

 They must also be protected from the 

 strong sunshine and the drying winds. 



C. W. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



After-Easter conditions prevailed in 

 this market last week. There was plenty 

 of stock for everyone and not much busi- 

 ness. If it had not been for funeral 

 work, we should have seen an excep- 

 tionally dull week. 



Stock is generally good, especially 

 roses. The demand for these seems 

 heaviest. The varieties include Premier, 

 Angelus, Madame Butterfly, Ophelia, 

 Columbia and Hoosier Beauty. All these 

 varieties are in good condition at 

 present. 



A number of growers report missing 

 lilies at Easter. There are not many 

 arriving at this market. 



Carnations are arriving in large quan- 

 tities, but they clean up fairly well; the 

 price now is $4 per hundred on the best 

 and $3 per hundred, or $25 per thousand, 

 for the poorer grades. 



Snapdragons are arriving in quantity 

 and move well, bringing $6 to $12 per 

 hundred. A nice lot of fancy Darwin 

 tulips arrived on the market last week 

 and moved out fairly well. Sweet peas 

 are now done, until a new crop comes. 



VarlouB Notes. 



C. E. Critchell is only on the job occa- 

 sionally these days, but his establish- 

 ment is readily handled by his ef&cient 

 force. 



H. W. Sheppard's shop is now minus 

 one of the force. H. E. Klunder, who is 

 always there through the winter months, 

 has left for his home, in Toledo, where 

 he grows outdoor stock for the trade. 

 Things have been brisk at this store the 

 last week. 



Julius Baer reports the best Easter 

 business ever. He says that stock, ex- 

 cept peas and valley, was ample and in 

 good condition. 



The William Murphy Co. is receiving 

 some good home-grown roses. 



E. A. Forter reports a good week in 

 plant sales. His window displays lately 

 have been distinctive. 



8. Urlage, of the Peebles Comer 



Flower Shoppe, reports that Easter busi- 

 ness with him far surpassed that of pre- 

 vious years. He says funeral work last 

 week caused a continuation of the pre- 

 vious week's rush. 



R. G. Kootz, formerly located here and 

 late of Indianapolis, has been in town, 

 helping Mickley the Florist. The latter 

 has been ill since his slight stroke of 

 paralysis last December. 



L. H. Kyrk reports a good week on 

 green goods sales and also on basket and 

 chiffon sales. 



J. H. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., was in 

 town last week. He had just returned 

 from a visit to Utah and was at once 

 confronted with misfortune on his re- 

 turn. His foreman on the dairy farm 

 was electrocuted when he went to pick 

 up a live wire that had been struck by 

 lightning. 



The visitors last week were George 



Andrew C. Benson. 



Bryan, Roanoke, Va. ; F. Fallon, Blue- 

 fields, W. Va., and John Elder, Indian- 

 apolis. G. H. K. 



SELLING SIDE LINES. 



The folks who sell florists the side 



lines get many evidences as to how 



closely The Review is read; sharp eyes 



of buyers find even the smallest ads, like 



this: 



We hare found your publication Yerj good to 

 brine !■ the orders and plan to use It again in 

 tlie autumn. — Oriental Ooldflsh & Supply Co., 

 Gary SUtlon, 111., April 14, 1922. 



If you hear a man complain of the 



cost of advertising, you can be pretty 



certain he spends a good bit of money 



elsewhere than in The Review. 



lola, Kan. — A hail storm Eaater Sun- 

 day destroyed all the glass in the Odor 

 Greenhouses and damaged a large part 

 of the stock. A tornado followed the 

 hail April 17 at 1 a. m., wrecking the 

 garage and blowing down a smokestack 

 into the boiler room. 6. F. Odor plans 

 to rebuild immediately and possibly 

 make some additions. 



Andrew C. Benson. 



Andrew C. Benson, widely known in 

 the trade, particularly among the older 

 generation, as superintendent of the 

 Bassett & Washburn greenhouses, near 

 Chicago, died suddenly of heart disease 

 about breakfast time April 26, at his 

 home, at Hinsdale, 111. He had enjoyed 

 his usual good health up to that time 

 and his demise was entirely unexpected. 



Mr. Benson was born in Sweden, in 

 1860, and came to America and Hins- 

 dale in 1888. He had received some 

 training in gardening in Sweden and 

 Germany and entered the employment 

 of Orland P. Bassett as general care- 

 taker at his residence. Mr. Bassett at 

 that time had a greenhouse 14x26, which 

 eventually developed into a range of 

 about 900,000 feet of glass at Hinsdale. 

 The establishment has recently been re- 

 moved and rebuilt in modern style at 

 the adjoining town of Westmont. 



Beginning with the small private con- 

 servatory, as the commercial enterprise 

 of Bassett & Washburn evolved, Mr. 

 Benson remained continuously in charge 

 of the greenhouses. In the early days 

 the range was nationally known for its 

 American Beauties. It was a variety 

 with which Mr. Benson was exception- 

 ally successful, the establishment was 

 for a long time the trade's largest pro- 

 ducer of Beauties and growers used to 

 come long distances to see how Mr. 

 Benson did it. In those days he was a 

 prominent figure at Chicago and other 

 flower shows, and it was at one of these 

 The Review snapped the photograph 

 shown herewith. 



Next to the American Beauty, Mr. 

 Benson's greatest success was with Mrs. 

 Lawson carnation. One of the first to 

 grow it, he was one of the last to admit 

 by discarding it that it had had its day. 

 The well known red. Belle Washburn, 

 originated in the houses under his su- 

 perintendence, as did the O. P. Bassett 

 and other widely disseminated carna- 

 tions. 



November 14, 1921, Mr. Benson com- 

 pleted his thirty-fourth year with Bas- 

 sett & Washburn. In that time he had 

 grown about everything classed as com- 

 mercial cut flowers and had led or at 

 least assisted in the evolution and de- 

 velopment of present day growing 

 methods. 



Mrs. Benson and a daughter, Miss 

 Edith Benson, survive. 



The funeral will be held Saturday, 

 April 29, at 2:30 p. m., from the resi- 

 dence at 98 South Grant street, Hins- 

 dale. 



W. H.HaU. 



April 22, at 11:30 a. m,, W. H. Hall, 

 proprietor of the Iowa Falls Greenhouse, 

 Iowa Falls, la., passed away. The de- 

 ceased had been a member of the florists' 

 trade for a great many years. Early in 

 1916 he purchased the building and 

 equipment at the Riverside Greenhouses, 

 at Iowa Falls, and used the equipment 

 to construct new greenhouses. Previons 

 to this, from 1909 on, he had rented the 

 Riverside Greenhouses. Mr. Hall was 

 an expert at his trade, and was an active 

 member of the F. T. D. 



