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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 9. 1022 



all phases, resulting in a subscription 

 paper being passed, each florist pledg- 

 ing the yearly amount he was willing 

 to pay in quarterly payments in ad- 

 vance toward a general advertising 

 fund. 



Harry Heinl suggested a regular club 

 be formed. Mr. Metz suggested as a 

 name the Toledo Florists' Advertising 

 Club. The name was adopted. 



The election of oflScers resulted as 

 follows: President, A. A. Slider; vice- 

 president, Edward Bayer; secretary, F. 

 E. Thompson. The advertising commit- 

 tee is composed of J. L. Schiller, H. 

 Heinl, Mr. Magee. H. Heinl is treas- 

 urer of the advertising committee. The 

 entertainment committee is made up of 

 the following: Mr. Metz, William Krue- 

 jUiT and Mr. Avery. 



A motion was made and carried that 

 all of the out-of-town shippers submit 

 one-half of one per cent of value of 

 their shipments toward the advertising 

 fund, which directly benefits them. 



We have twenty-eight stores and four- 

 teen growers, making a total of forty- 

 two in the business, or an average of 

 about one for each 6,000 people, includ- 



ing Thompson's Flower Store, at Mau- 

 mee, a suburb of Toledo. 



F. E. Thompson, Sec'y. 



BRITISH OROWEBS' CAMPAIGN. 



An advertising campaign is being in- 

 augurated by growers of tomatoes under 

 glass in England, having been set on 

 foot by the Lea Valley and District 

 Nurserymen's and Growers' Associa- 

 tion, which called a meeting March 2 in 

 London of all associations of greenhouse 

 tomato growers and independent grow- 

 ers as well. The purposes of the cam- 

 paign are set forth as follows: 



(1) To flght foreign competition in the British 

 greenhouse industry. 



(2) To procure a larger demand for British 

 greenhouse produce. 



(3) To mitigate, as far as possible, the serious 

 slump anticipated in the prices of British green- 

 house produce during the present and future 

 years. 



(4) To encourage and facilitate the use of non- 

 returnable packages for all British greenhouse 

 produce. 



In order to carry out tljis campaign 

 on a national scale, it has been decided 

 to form a new association of greenhouse 

 growers under the title of the British 

 Glasshouse Produce Marketing Associa- 

 tion, litd. 



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NARCISSUS BULBS 



IS THERE A LARGER PLANTING? 



Lawler's Narcissus Bulbs. 



On the outskirts of Tacoma, Wash., 

 (reorge Lawler grows, on a lO-acre tract, 

 principally bulbous flowers for the city 

 market. Approximately one-half the 

 acreage is devoted to narcissi. The soil 

 is particularly favorable for these and 

 Mr. Lawler has gradually increased his 

 plantings year by year until today he 

 has more than a million narcissus bulbs 

 in the ground. Hitherto, Mr. Lawler 

 has grown the plants for cut flowers to 

 ship to florists of the city of Tacoma. 

 Of late, however, he has been making 

 tests to determine the value of the bulbs 

 he is able to grow for greenhouse forc- 

 ing. One of the leading bulb men, who 

 has traveled all over the country, de- 

 dares that Mr. Lawler's planting of nar- 

 cissus bulbs is the Isrgest in the United 

 States. \r 



Mr. Lawler is located- four miles east 

 of Tacoma on the tide flats in the valley 

 of the Puyallup river. The soil is silt, 

 formed by washings from the mountains. 

 It is hundreds of feet deep and finely 

 drained, although but a few feet above 

 sea level. There is abundant moisture 

 in both the soil and atmosphere, with 

 no extremely hot summers or cold win- 

 ters. Two degrees above zero is an ex- 

 ceptionally cold night temperature. The 

 soil and climate at Tacoma are peculi- 

 irly favorable to bulb growing. 



In a test of the forcing qualities of 

 the narcissus bulbs grown by Mr. Law- 

 ler, made by a Tacoma grower, it was 

 found that, with the same treatment as 

 that given Holland bulbs, the home 

 {jrown bulbs bloomed ten days to two 

 weeks earlier and produced a better crop 

 of blooms, according to Mr. Lawler. 



Bloom Earlier. 



Sir Watkin placed in flats last fall, 

 two weeks after Holland bulbs of Golden 



Spur, bloomed two weeks earlier than 

 the Holland Golden Spur and bore twice 

 as many blooms. Golden Spur bulbs 

 grown at Tacoma bloom much earlier 

 than imported bulbs, says Mr. Lawler. 

 He adds that Emperor blooms about the 

 same time as Holland bulbs, but has 

 much better blooms in both size and 

 substance. 



Mr. Lawler believes there will be 

 rapid growth of the bulb-growing in- 

 dustry in the United States. He asserts 

 it to be the patriotic duty of Ameri- 

 cans to produce bulbs of all sorts in the 

 country as fast as men and money are 

 available. He thinks an association of 

 those interested in the actual growing 

 of bulbs would be a good thing. 



Plantings by Variety. 



The plantings of narcissus bulbs by 

 George Lawler, at Tacoma, include the 

 following varieties and numbers of each: 



Double Von Sion 4,000 



(iolden Spur 35.000 



I'rintepH 48.000 



.Sir Watkin 90.000 



Emperor 120.000 



Empress 9.000 



Van Waveren's (liaiit 1,500 



Olympia I.OOO 



Hicolnr Victoria 90.000 



Sulphur Phoenix 35.000 



Orange Phoenix 9.000 



Horsfleldii 45.000 



Glory of Leiden 18,000 



Mndiime Plemp 45.000 



Minnie Hume 3.600 



M. M. De GraalT 4.000 



Barril Conspicun^ 95.000 



Elvira 9.000 



Mme. De Graaff 5.000 



Grandee 10,000 



.Tonquils 8.000 



King Alfred 10.000 



King George 10.000 



Minister Talma 1,000 



.\prlcot Phopnix 100 



Glory of Sassenlicini 1.000 



Lucifer 1,000 



Mrs. langtry 1.000 



White I>ady 1.000 



Masterpiece 100 



Poeticug ornii tus .35.000 



Pheasant's E.ve 150,000 



Alba plena odora ta 105.0Q0 



Total 1.000.200 



There .ire nlsn small plantings of Bed- 



ouin, Bernadino, Lady M. Boscawen, St. 

 Olaf, Peter Barr, King Lear, Croesus, 

 Silver Giant, Bicolor Latonia, Firecre.'-t, 

 Macebearer, Miss Wilmot, Madonna, 

 Boyal Sovereign and a few other va- 

 rieties. 



If there are other plantings of nn,-- 

 cissus bulbs in this country in such 

 quantities as these. The Review wouul 

 like to learn of them. 



ILLINOIS FLORISTS' PROGRAM 



At Urbana Next Week. 



The seventeenth annual convention 'f 

 the Illinois State Florists' Associativa 

 will be held March 14 and 15, at the 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, in the 

 Horticultural building. Headquarters 

 for the convention will be at the Inmnn 

 hotel. The opening session will take 

 place Tuesday afternoon, March 14, ut 

 2 p. m. The program for the convention 

 will be as follows: 



MARCH 14, 2 P. M. 



.\ddre8s of welcome, by Professor J. C. Blair, 

 head of the department of horticulture. 



President's address, by Joseph Kohout, Liberty- 

 vllle. 111. 



Keport of treasurer, by F. L. Washburn, 

 Bloomington, 111. ' 



Keport of secretary, bf Albert T. Hey, Ma.v- 

 wood, III. 



"More Cooperation among Producers," by .1. 

 P. Ammann. 



"Perennials for Cut Flowers," by Prof. H. 

 B. Dorner. 



Address by B. O. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



Unfinished business, new business and elec 

 tion of officers. 



MARCH 14, 8 P. M. 



Entertainment by Horticultural Club of the 

 University of Illinois, at Morrow hall. Agri- 

 cultural building. 



MARCH 15, 9:30 A. M. 



"Wliat Florists Ought to Know," by Dr. P. A 

 Lehenbauer. 



Open forum concerning the greenhouse on topics 

 of vital interest to growers, conducted by Prof 

 H. B, Dorner and Dr. P. A. Lehenbauer. 



Bates and Arrangements. 



At the Inman hotel a single room 

 without bath costs $1.50 to $1.75; a 

 double room without bath costs $3; a 

 single room with bath costs $2.25, $2.7r) 

 or $3.25, and a double room with bath 

 costs $4, $5 or $6. 



At the Beachley hotel the rates are 

 as follows: Room without bath, $1.50 

 per person, and room with bath, $2.50 per 

 person. 



Luncheon can be had on the campus, 

 either at the university or at the Illinois 

 cafeteria. 



Trains leave the Illinois Central de- 

 pot, Chicago, at 8:45 a. m. The fare one 

 way costs $4.56. 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



New York, March 13 to 19. 



On the eve of the opening of the ninth 

 international flower show, preparations 

 are fully complete, and the 1922 show- 

 bids fair to eclipse in quality and num 

 ber of exhibits all its predecessors. 



The committee is to be congratulated 

 on a number of phases of the show this 

 year, all tending to make the general 

 ensemble different and more attractive 

 to the public. The committee all along 

 has fought against any approach to 

 sameness, and it is believed that when 

 the show opens on the afternoon of Mon- 

 day, March 13, it will be found that the 

 plan of the show will create a forgetful- 

 ness of its predecessors. 



The space set off for trade exhibits 

 has been practically all sold. One or 

 two late comers might, however, still 



