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Habch 9, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



33 



be accommodated, through limitations 

 which the management has power to 

 make. Personal inquiry as to this is 

 uow necessary. 



The big gardens will remain the 

 "piece de resistance" of the show, and 

 there are five of them this year. 



Innovations will be plentiful this year. 

 Realizing that the public is always in- 

 terested in anything showing possibili- 

 ties for a more extended use of flowers, 

 the flower show committee is sparing 

 no effort to create interest. A feature 

 to be inaugurated this year will be 

 found in altar and pulpit decorations. 

 Liberal space has been apportioned to 

 ail exhibit demonstrating floral decora- 

 tions in churches, confined, of course, 

 to the altar and pulpit. Clergy of all 

 denominations have for a number of 

 years regretted the absence of flowers 

 in the services of their different 

 churches, and it might be said that the 

 suggestion for this form of exhibit came 

 directly from pastors. The decorations 

 will be carried out by florists, different 

 decorations for each day of the show. 

 The auxiliaries for the different settings 

 will be somewhat standard in charac- 

 ter, but the series of exhibits will be 

 wholly undenominational in character. 



Other Features. 



Another feature will be a duplicate 

 representation of the wedding bouquet 

 of Princess Mary, used at her nuptials 

 in Westminster abbey, London, Febru- 

 ary 28. The committee has been in 

 touch by cable with the proper source, 

 and photographic details are expected 

 to be in their hands in time for the ex- 

 hibit to be staged on the opening day of 

 the show. 



The office of the International Exposi- 

 tion Co. has been moved from the Cana- 

 dian Pacific building to the Grand Cen- 

 tral Palace, and all orders for trade 

 tickets should be sent to the company at 

 tha new address. The rate is 50 cents 

 per ticket in quantities from fifty to 100, 

 and tor 100 or more 40 cents each, with 

 a full rebate for tickets not presented. 

 These tickets all bear the general admis- 

 sion price 01 $1. 



The tea garden this year, operated for 

 the benefit of the Girl" Scouts, Inc., and 

 the Virginia Day Nursery, offers unusual 

 attractions, and will be an important 

 feature of the show. 



The musical program has been placed 

 in the hands of the Wolfsie orchestra, 

 and Miss Gertrude J. Van Deinse will 

 again be the prima donna soprano. 



The exhibits of the Garden Club of 

 America promise to be on a greater 

 ''(■ale than expected, the interest shown 

 by the different membership clubs be- 

 ing rather remarkable. The list of en- 

 tries in this section insures that all the 

 space allotted to the section will be 

 "'led. John Young, Sec 'y. 



FOLIAOE TURNTNO YELLOW. 



We are sending you two specimens, a 

 primula and a Cecile Brunner rose. You 

 ■Will notice that the leaves have turned 

 yellow and have the appearance of being 

 burned. We shall feel greatly obliged if 

 you can advise us as to what causes 

 '^"is. F. S.— Cal. 



The plants were so completely dried 

 "P on receipt that it was not possible 

 |o determine what your trouble had 

 peen. If only a few plants are affected, 

 u may be due to sunburns through the 

 S'ass. Fungoid affections may be re- 



HUOH SEALES. 



OLD England has long been famous for her lovers of the garden and of the hound. 

 So it is not strange to find in Hugh Scales, of Birmingham, Ala., who was born 

 in Manchester, England, a combination of florist and dog fancier. The dogs from Mr. 

 Scales ' kennels have won him praise and blue ribbons from many points of the country. 

 Mr. Scales, by the way, is a sportsman in an absolutely uncommercial way. Among his 

 many winners have been Seales ' Workboy, Honest Joe, Honest Bob, Scales' Harry, 

 Puritan Mary and Parmitchie Fritz, the marvelous English setter which is today pull- 

 ing in the ribbons for his master and which appears with his master above. Besides 

 being one of the founders and for a long time vice-president and then president of the 

 Birmingham Kennel Club, Mr. Seales is head of the Alabama Field Trials Club, char- 

 ter member and director of the Southern Field Trials Club, a member of the Atlanta 

 Kennel Club and the Georgia Field Trials Club. He has been connected with the 

 florists' trade since he was 10 years of age. 



sponsible. Primula malacoides and ob- 

 conica sometimes have diseased foliage. 

 It is usually due to the water supply or a 

 too damp and close atmosphere. The 

 rose may have developed a form of leaf- 

 spot; in this case try spraying occasion- 

 ally with Bordeaux mixture. If only an 

 occasional plant is affected, do not wor- 

 ry; better discard the plants right away 

 and burn them. C. W. 



but has a wide distribution in southern 

 rairope. It is regarded as a hybrid be- 

 tween N. Tazetta and N. poeticus. It 

 is of little value from a commercial 

 standpoint. George H. Pring. 



NABCISSUS BIFLOBUS. 



Will you kindly identify the narcissus 

 plant which we are mailing to youf We 

 have lifted one in the bud stage, with 

 the hope that the flower will be open 

 when it reaches you. We have a num- 

 lier of these bulbs, but do not know to 

 what variety they belong. They bloom 

 in this latitude in January and Febru- 

 ary, but never come in so tliat they 

 could be used for Christmas. 



W. L. H.— Tex. 



The specimen submitted for identi- 

 fication is Narcissus biflorus. It is not 

 frequently met w^ith in this country, 



GEOGRAPHY IN FLOWERS. 



Each summer at Lansing, Kan., at 

 the National Military Home, there is 

 an attraction of beauty that annually 

 draws many spectators. It is a lesson 

 in colors, composed of bedding plants, 

 bearing a geographical trend. There is 

 a huge globe towering over a brilliant 

 bed. And so carefully is the idea car- 

 ried out that on the globe can be dis- 

 tinctly seen North and South America, 

 the Isthmus of Panama and other geo- 

 graphic points in the hemisphere. 



A sphere with wooden surface, about 

 eight feet in diameter, is covered with 

 nine inches of soil. This sphere stands 

 on raised ground and covering it, in geo- 

 graphical arrangement, are alternaii- 

 theras and red and yellow santolina.s. 

 On the raised ground about the globe 

 is .-1 mass of S. A. Nutt geraniums, single 



