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The Florists^ Review 



May 4. 1922 



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HOSPITAL DAY. 



All florists' organizations should 

 make it a point to get behind Hospital 

 day, May 12. Kenienibor the mothers 

 in the hospitals. Adopt some plan of 

 cooperation that will encourage this 

 day. 



While the day at present comes at an 

 inopportune time, being so near Moth- 

 ers ' day, plans are now under way, and 

 progressing favorably, to induce the 

 hospital association to postpone Hos- 

 pital day to some time in June. I be- 

 lieve that with the right kind of ag- 

 gressive work along this line, this can 

 be brought about next year. 



Hospital day lends itself to sentiment 

 to an unusual degree. It has the same 

 qualities that Mothers' day has and, if 

 promoted by the florists, can be made 

 another big holiday. 



For this reason, it is urged that all 

 florists and florists' organizations do 

 what they can to cooperate this year, 

 in order to hold the interest of the pub- 

 lic, 80 that we can make something out 

 of the day, if it is postponed until June 

 next year. George Asmus. 



GROW BETTER STOCK. 



After reading the advertisement 

 written by John Davey, in The Review 

 of April 20, on tlie theme, "Do It Right 

 or Not at All," I am convinced that it 

 is a good motto. If all florists would 

 try to do it right, they would soon see 

 that it would pay to grow less and bet- 

 ter stock. 



I have been a grower and foreman 

 for eighteen years and have found that 

 a great many florists try to produce too 

 much .stock, with as little help as possi- 

 ble, with the result that the stock is 

 neglected and the quality is resultantly 

 inferior. For more than a year I have 

 been chief gardener at the National 

 Military Home, at Danville, 111., and I 

 have had a greater chance to do things 

 right, to my way of thinking, than ever 

 l)efore. And I am proud of my success 

 in growing, both in quantity and qual- 

 ity. 



Surprising have been the quality and 

 quantity of roses from 1-year-old plants. 

 And for sweet peas — I feel reluctant to 

 state the number of blooms obtained 

 from so small a space as I have, for fear 

 that I should not be believed. Carna- 

 tions have been away ahead of my ex- 

 ]>ectations. I have nine varieties; 

 many of the blooms measured four and 

 one-fourth inches across and Ijaddie, 

 four and one-half inches. All the car- 

 nations were grown in four and one-half 

 inches of soil. They began to bloom 

 early; they are good, healthy and clean; 

 they have not been off crop all winter. 



?](}ually surprising success have I had 

 with blooming plants and bedding 

 plants. And the secret of it all is do- 

 ing it right from the start; first, in tlie 

 making and mixture of tln> soil; then 

 in the proper feeding and watering, etc. 

 When all these details are carefully at- 

 tended to, good stock will be the result. 



My success in producing better stock 



has caused me to love flowers more than 

 ever before. The increase of love for 

 the flowers and nature makes one desire 

 to grow better stock. L. B. Hensley. 



KEEP THE PRICES DOWN. 



Mothers' day is close upon us, and all 

 florists look toward that day with a 

 smile. It is, indeed, a great day in sen- 

 timent, as well as for the florists. But 

 the candy men are going out after the 

 business in a strong way. They are ad- 

 vertising, "Make Mothers' Day a 

 Candy Day." 



It seems to me that these men will 

 succeed to some extent, and, in a few 

 years, the day will be lost to the flower 

 growers. The prices for cut flowers and 

 plants, in my opinion, have been too 

 high for Mothers' day in previous years. 

 The flower buyers are kicking, and I do 

 not blame them. They can buy carna- 

 tions for 50 cents and 75 cents per 

 dozen from now until a few days before 

 Mothers' day, and then suddenly they 

 find that the prices have been increased 

 to $2 and $2. .'50, while the day following 



Mothers' dav buyers are again able to 

 procure flowers at the first rate men- 

 tioned. 



I am confident that the candy men 

 will not run the price of candy up for 

 Mothers' day. It is true that candy 

 and flowers are different. Florists can- 

 not speed up production on flowers for 

 one day, as the candy makers do. I also 

 agree that the supply and demand for 

 flowers governs the price, but it is 

 wrong to double or triple the price on 

 anything just for one certain day. 



I hope that the growers, wholesalers 

 and retailers of our trade will view this 

 matter in the same light as I do and 

 stabilize prices before it is too late; 

 before Mothers' day has slipped away 

 from the florists' business, after we 

 have all worked so hard to make this 

 dav a national day for flowers. 



J. Ewart. 



Summerville, S. C— Though J. W. 

 Heisenbuttel has been in the florists' 

 trade but a short time, he is doing 

 a fine business. 



Waynesvllle, N. C. — F. M. Lindfors 

 anticipates opening a small florists' 

 shop here. He was formerly manager of 

 the Eau Claire Greenhouses, of Colum- 

 bia, N. C. 



Summit, Miss. — Karl Fach, Jr., is 

 planning to erect another greenhouse 

 in the fall. His calla lilies are in the 

 height of their blooming season and his 

 Easter lilies are looking well. 



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DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS. 



Note Differences in Time! 



Daylight saving began Sunday, April 

 30, in more than 500 of the nation's 

 largest cities, in about 200 smaller cities 

 or rural communities and in every nook 

 or corner of several states, notably on 

 the Atlantic seaboard. Florists who 

 telegraph to the wholesale markets in 

 large cities should remember that the 

 time in most of them is an hour ahead 

 of standard time. Those who send re- 

 tail telegraph orders, particularly for 

 funerals, should be mindful of the dif- 

 ference of an hour made by the adop- 

 tion of daylight saving in many com- 

 munities. 



Railroads will operate on standard 

 time unless a bill now before Congress, 

 which would give them permission to 

 use daylight saving timetables, is 

 passed. 



New York state, after an active year 

 of organized farm opposition, is not 

 following in the footsteps of its large 

 cities. New York, Albany and Buffalo 

 will be on daylight time, but such places 

 as Syracuse and Rochester, agricultural 

 as well as industrial centers, have re- 

 pealed local ordinances and will con- 

 tinue to live by the old clock during 

 the summer. 



Clocks Ahead in Cities. 



In New York city, Philadelphia, Buf- 

 falo, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, 

 Wasliington and Chicago the clocks have 

 gone ahead an hour. And in all these 

 cities action bv the local councils was 



unanimous, except where state laws 

 took care of the change. 



Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mary- 

 land and New Jersey, however, will be 

 on daylight time on a practically state- 

 wide basis. 



Connecticut last year passed a law 

 providing for daylight saving only by 

 local ordinance. New London and New 

 Haven alone adopted such ordinances, 

 but this year Hartford has joined their 

 ranks and daylight saving will become 

 almost statewide by action in cities 

 and rural districts all over the state. 



The principal seaboard summer re- 

 sorts will be on the new time. Atlantic 

 City, Newport, Narragansett and Bar 

 Harbor will save daylight. 



Chicago is the center of a middle 

 west belt which will have daylight 

 time. The city decided last year to 

 change its clocks by a vote of the peo- 

 ple and the ordinance has not been at- 

 tacked since. To keep pace with the 

 largest city on the lakes, such places 

 as Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Racine 

 and Milwaukee have adopted time sav- 

 ing ordinances. Lansing, last year on 

 regular central time, will change this 

 year. 



Most of the leading business centers 

 of Europe have adopted daylight sav- 

 ing permanently. Paris will continue 

 It this year, but discard it in 1923 under 

 a now law. London took to saving day- 

 light on March 26, while all the cities 

 of Belgium and France have done so. 

 Germany, by a national law, holds aloof 

 and will conduct all its business and 

 trade on its usual time standard. 



