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Ma¥ 4, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



Bronze Dahlias Were Used on Pews and Blue Larkspurs Between Distant Flowers, for Wedding. 



and laymen, flowers are and always will 

 be an inspiration. 



Hitch to a Star. 



In closing, I remember a little incident 

 from my childhood. I was only a little 

 tot, when late one afternoon I wandered 

 away. An old man, who was my first 

 teacher, found me a mile distant from 

 the house, in the fields. He asked me, 

 "Where did you think of going?" And 

 I showed him a big red ball, the de- 

 scending sun, on the horizon. He said, 

 ' ' That 's right. Always try to catch up 

 with the sun, and never give up." I 

 cannot help comparing that admonition 

 with our object. The farther we go in 

 our work, the higher our aims in our art, 

 the greater our accomplishments. The 

 more effort we florists make, the more 

 art, the more knowledge we put in our 

 work, that much more beauty, more har- 

 mony and more love it will mean to the 

 world. 



COAL FREIGHT MAY GO DOWN. 



The freight on the florist's coal next 

 season will be lower than it was this 

 year if an expected decision is handed 

 down by the interstate commerce com- 

 mission. The rate reductions are ex- 

 pected to include a ten per cent cut in 

 the freight rate on coal, the continua- 

 tion as a permanent feature of the ten 

 per cent cut made in the rate of agri- 

 cultural products and a similar reduc- 



tion in rates on certain building ma- 

 terials. 



The cut in coal rates will save con- 

 sumers approximately $110,000,000, ac- 

 cording to estimates made by operating 

 officials figuring up on an annual move- 

 ment of about 450,000,000 tons of coal 

 in the United States. The saving will 

 average about 25 cents per ton. The 

 voluntary reduction in rates on agri- 

 cultural products made by the railroads 

 last December is expected to be con- 

 tiBacd despite possible objections from 

 carriers in the northwest. This cut 

 was estimated to save the farmers 

 about $55,000,000 a year. In addition, 

 it is believed that the commission will 

 declare for a ten per cent cut on cer- 

 tain building materials, such as brick, 

 structural steel and stone. It is con- 

 ceded that this item may run as high as 

 $90,000,000. 



It is explained that the reductions, if 

 announced immediately by the commis- 

 sion, will not become effective with the 

 necessary thirty days' notice until June 

 1 at the earliest. Any further delays 

 on the part of the rate-making body may 

 result in the postponement of the ef- 

 fective date until July 1, when it is 

 thought that the labor board may be 

 ready with its decision in the appeals 

 of the managers for reductions in the 

 going rates of pay for all classes of 

 railroad labor. It is thought the saving 

 afforded the railroads bv the reductions 



in wages will about approximate the 

 loss of revenue in these rate cuts, which 

 total in amount $250,000,000 a year, it 

 is estimated. 



That there will be no horizontal re- 

 duction in freight rates by the commis- 

 sion is a foregone conclusion, it is said. 



A COMPETITOR FOR LADDIE? 



A most delightful young lady is tour- 

 ing America, calling on leading concerns 

 from coast to coast, and soon is to be 

 followed by a carnation bearing her 

 name, the variety to be offered as a 

 competitor and probable successor of 

 Laddie. The young lady is Miss Eileen 

 Low. She is the daughter of the head 

 of the internationally known firm of 

 Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Mid- 

 dlesex, England. Stuart Low & Co. 

 have grown American varieties of car- 

 nations for many years and have raised 

 numerous novelties which have become 

 standard sorts in England. In the seed- 

 ling they have named for Miss Low 

 they believe they have a successor to 

 Laddie. The flower is of maximum size, 

 resembles Laddie in color and, as grown 

 in England, possesses a freedom of 

 bloom much greater than the American 

 variety grown under similar conditions. 

 American carnations occupy a leading 

 position in England, but no English 

 carnation ever has come to America and 



(Concluded on page 40.) 



