Makch 23, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



41 



jier hundred from No. 2 upward. Anier 

 ican Beauty has declined a little, (juo- 

 tations being $35 to $7") per hundred 

 for specials. This may be due to the 

 excellent offerings of Premier and ('o- 

 Inmbia, showing now .exhibition form, 

 at slightly advanced prices. 



Carnations are plentiful, and prices 

 jockey from day to day. They move 

 at $3 to $5 per hundred, while iSaturday, 

 March 18, the range was not so good. 

 Offerings, generally, are pretty good in 

 (|uality, and selected flowers bring a lit- 

 tle more than the range. 



Tlie orchid condition continues about 

 the same, the range for cattleyas l)eing 

 about $2.5 to $75 per hundred," with hy- 

 brids $1 to $1.25 per flower. Spray 

 orchids are not i)articularly abundant, 

 but the demand for them is small. 



White lilies are plentiful, and good 

 tlowers are available at $12 to $15 per 

 hundred, with perhaps a few l)ringing 

 $20. Lily of the valley is druggy, the 

 supjily being larger than the demand, 

 and the top jirice is $5 per hundred 

 sprays. 



There is an avalanche of soft ma- 

 terial, sweet i)eas being particularly 

 abundant. Pansies, calendulas, stocks, 

 cornflowers, irises, violets, inyosotis, 

 bouvardia, buddleia, and many other 

 items vie with tulips, narcissi and free- 

 sias for sales, which, at best, are slow. 



Annual Banquet. 



The annual dinner of the New York 

 Florists' Club, held at the Hotel Hilt- 

 more Wednesday evening, March 15, 

 was a gi»eat success, the company num- 

 bering nearly 300, including about a 

 dozen sj)ecial guests. The menu was 

 a fine ont;, and the report was enlivened 

 l)y music from an excellent orchestra. 

 Dancing was the chief form of enter- 

 tainment, although there was some 

 vocal music from a professional on the 

 Keith circuit. An elimination dance 

 was a feature, the prizes, handsome 

 pocketbooks presented by IMiilip F. 

 Kessler, being won by Mrs. (J. E. M. 

 Stumpp and Mrs. Edward Hrenner. 

 Every lady received an interesting sou- 

 venir of the occasion. The function 

 ended at a late hour, everyone ])resent 

 voting it a most enjoyable one. 



Various Notes. 



The Allied Florists ' Trade Associa 

 tion is accomplishing much work. Au- 

 brey Nash, the genial secretary, was 

 strongly in evidence at the ninth inter 

 national flower show, and was in touch 

 with many of those rej)resenting retail 

 interests. Of course, the association is 

 now depending largely on the retail in- 

 terests for support and Mr. Nash says 

 lie is going to get it. The organizjition 

 has much work laid out, all in the direc 

 tion of those wonderful advertisements 

 in the daily press, which our retail in 

 terests endorse so highly, .'ind, it is un 

 derstood, a new series is to start immc- 

 di.'itely. To accentuate the work of the 

 orgaiiiz.-ition, a mass meeting of trade 

 interests is under consideration and in 

 early April all in the trade will be in 

 vited to take i)arl, in a meeting, which 

 ought to be conducive to the ]Mibli<'ify 

 interests of the New York trade. 



Plower show week, just endeil, brought 

 all our local trade together at the Grand 

 Central Palace, and it goes without say 

 ing that it was a week of reminiscences 

 and a gathering of souls more or less con 

 genial in character. 



A. L.. Miller, <'. H. Totty. Joseph 



Walter BerteimaDn. 



(('liHlriiiiin of Coinnilttfc on Kxtcrlor iH'coratlons for tin- Niitioiial Flower Show. J 



Maixla and several others are arranging 

 to attend the national flower show, at 

 In<iianaj:olis. .T. H. P.. 



Out' of the novelties shown at the 

 New York flower show was the \'anity 

 Pair cors;ige shield invented by Syd- 

 ney H. Wertheimer and exhibited by 

 Wertheimer Bros, at the show. This 

 is a corsage shield with an invisible 

 pocket containing iill the necessary 

 vjinity case re([uisites, such as a powder 

 puff, mirror and ]>erfumeil p(iw<U'r all 

 readv for use. 



treatment, but you cannot go far wrong 

 in holding the plants cool. C. W. 



LILIUM MAGNIFICUM. 



Will you please gi\e us ;i few direc- 

 tions on how to grow Lilium magnificuni 

 in the greetihouse? 



W. N. A: S.— Wis. 



FORGET-ME-NOT CULTURE. 



I ani growing some 7-inch forget-me 

 nots in a night temjierature of about 5(i 

 degrees. Is it iK'cessary to trans]ilant 

 these plants into larger jiots in (>rder to 

 have the flowers for Kaster, or shall I 

 permit the roots to become ])otboiMid .' 

 .\ny advice you may give me will be 

 a|)|preciatt'il. K. I'. I'".. Kan. 



Porget nie iiots in 7 inch |pots should 

 m;ike comiiaratix el y l;irge plants l)efore 

 Kaster and if you will give them an 

 abundant stijiply of water aiicl, in aildi- 

 tioii to this, some ili|uid manure once a 

 week, the pl.Muts will be much better. 

 It is ;i l(Mig cry to Kaster yet and 

 I would .advise running your plants a 

 little lower tluin 50 degrees at night. 

 A better temperature woldd be 45 de- 

 grees. Some varieties of forget-me not 

 bloojn much earlier th:in others. If I 

 knew the p;irticular sort you ;ire grow- 

 ing, I could .•idvise you better as to tln' 



Lilium magniticum is one of the best 

 forms of L. speciosum. The bulbs of all 

 the speciosunis come mainly from .Ja- 

 pan and usually arrivt' in .\merica from 

 November 15 to December 1. Rome 

 American-grown bulbs ;ire jiroduced ami 

 sold, and there is no reason why one or 

 more enterprising growers shoubl not 

 make a tinan<'i;il success of such a vbu- 

 ture, provided they have suitable soil 

 and (dimatic conditions. Bulbs of niag- 

 niflcum and other forms of speciosum 

 do better if j)otted as soon after arrival 

 as possible, although they are often 

 kept in a cold cell.ar until the following 

 spring. You will find that you can get 

 better results by growing several bulbs 

 in S-inch or lO-inch jiots than by grow 

 ing individu.'d ones iti smaller sizes. 



I'se ;i com|)ost m.ainly composed of 

 well decayed fibrous loam, with a litt C 

 old lUiinure and sa)i<l addeil, and keep 

 the bulbs well down in the pots, as the 

 roots are emitted from the base of the 

 shoots, from the tops of the bulbs, and 

 not .at the bottom, as in the case of 

 c.'indidum, for instance, .\fter potting, 

 stand the ])ots on the floor of a cellar 

 or below the bench in a greenhous? 



