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The Florists^ Review 



May 25, 1922 



may bo all of white or a few red may be 

 included. Both arrangements have 

 j?iven much satisfaction to customers. 

 Not many blooms need be used to give 

 an artistic display; too many are apt to 

 make the arrangement seem bulky. 

 Peonies are one of the best additions to 

 the magnolia or galax wreath and have 

 thus been used on Memorial day by 

 many florists. They do as well for fu- 

 neral wreaths. 



The large size of the peony head ex- 

 cludes it from corsages, but presentation 

 bouquets of these flowers, especially the 

 red ones, please both donor and recip- 

 ient. They are fine flowers to give to 

 girl graduates in June. 



For home and church decorations for 

 weddings, be they iu May or in June, 

 peonies can be used as well as, and 

 ])erhaps better than, most other flowers 

 available nt the time. The creamy 

 white or blush varieties are esi)ocially 

 appropriate for this use. Nothing adds 

 more to the festal appearance of a 

 Wedding than a large numl)er of full- 

 blown peonies of this color. 



These are a few suggestions as to 

 how florists can make use of the large 

 supply of i)Conies available at this time 

 of the year. The flowers are too useful 

 to be relegated to Memorial day. Our 

 customers want variety. The easiest 

 way to give them it is by the use of 



flowers in season. The rose crop in 

 many greenhouses is off now that Moth- 

 ers' day is past. Peonies may well be 

 pushed in their place. If you have not 

 tried doing so before, now is the time 

 to begin. 



ELIMINATING TRANSPLANTING. 



I have a method of growing garden 

 plants, especially tomatoes and salvias, 

 which, after several years' experience, 

 I have found eliminates the necessity of 

 transplanting. I was about to discon- 

 tinue a rather extensive- plant trade 

 when I hit upon this scheme, and I be- 

 lieve anyone doing a large shipping 

 business will find this method of value. 

 When the plants are two or three 

 inches high, pot them off, placing six or 

 seven plants in a 2%-inch pot. It is 

 about as easy as potting rooted cut- 

 tings, and the plants never wilt; they 

 harden readily and are ready for sale 

 in about a week. Another advantage is 

 that by withholding water, the plants 

 can be kept for several months, as they 

 do not grow to any great height. They 

 make better looking plants than those 

 that are transplanted; they can be kept 

 on a bench or in a eoldframe. I believe 

 that this method requires only one-tenth 

 of the amount of labor required by 

 transplanting and only one-tenth the 

 space is necessary. F. Fallon. 



same time it was agreed the growers 

 should receive some increase to help 

 compensate for the frequent long pe 

 riods of low prices. W. M. 



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Johp F. Horn, of J. H. Horn & Bro., 

 Allontown, Pa., was ])usiiy ongn^^im in 

 picking out plants for the city, a large 

 annual affair, and commented ujion the 

 value of the contract from the view- 

 jtoint of publicity. The several beds of 

 Darwin and breeder tulips fronting the 

 greenhouses are a source of delight to 

 the thousands of passengers along the 

 Lincoln highway. "Motliers' day was 

 big, Memorial day will be even larger," 

 is the opinion of Charles Horn, in charge 



of the store. 



• • • • 



"We will try to overcome the short- 

 age ('xi)erienced on Mothers ' day when 

 Memorial day arrives," observed Mrs. 

 Ashley, of the Ashley Flower Store. W- 

 lentown. Pa. Ernest Ashley has the 

 greenhouses in fine shape and is beauti- 

 fying the grounds with shrubbery and 

 cainias in four varieties. The President, 

 King Humliert, Gladiator and Eureka. 

 \ fine strike of the new luirdy ciirna- 

 tioii, .\llwoodii, was noted. It is a liighly 

 ]>r(>mising addition to this popul.-ir class 

 of i)lants. A handsome illustration of 

 it appeared in Dreer's annual for this 

 year. 



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.loliu II. Sykes, Allentown, I'a., had a 

 fine, home-grown su]i])ly of carnations 

 for Mothers' d;iy, which sold iit a rea- 

 sonable figure, and he did big business. 

 He now has patrons iu line for Me- 

 morial day, which is quite ]ironiisiiig. 

 both in dem.'ind and sujiply. 



• • • * 



"Oh, boy!" exclaimed Andrew 

 (ieiger, Allentown, Pa., "you should 

 have seen our pile of deliveries on 

 Mothers' day! Then you would realize 

 why we continue in liusiness. Now for 

 Memorial day! ' ' 



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W. W. Kennedv & Sons. Red Bank. 



N. J., had the best Mothers ' day 

 business on record, according to 

 John A. Kennedy, who has charge 

 of the store, and liandled a fine line 

 both in cut flowers and pot plants. Al- 

 terations, including a larger office to ac- 

 commodate more help, are in progress 

 at this store; incidentally, the Pink 

 Part of The Review is credited with 

 bringing about this necessity. Dahlias 

 are a specialty; the soil and atmos- 

 phere appear to be ideal. W. W. Ken- 

 nedy is recuperating from the effects of 

 inhaling nicotine while fumigating; he 

 has been a sick man. 



• • • • 



Charles H. Buenning, Easton, Pa., 

 has a fine stock of bedding jilants. The 

 rush to plant outdoors is on. Mothers' 

 day was perfect in weather, supply of 

 cut flowers and demand. 



• • • • 



Anson V. Norton, Somerville, N. J., 

 commenting upon tiie-new house added, 

 coincident.ul with the entry of his son, 

 Harold, into the business, admitted that 

 the infusion of younger blood is the 

 (■;nise of so much expansion taking 

 ]il;ice. The old-timers naturjiUy are con- 

 st>rvative and somewhat circumscribed; 

 the younger members have a larger 

 vision. Tlie combination works admir- 

 ablv. 



• • • • 



Charles L. Doerrer. Westfield, N. J., 

 is in the conservative class, with two 

 active sons doing the exiianding. The 

 establishment is a model of cleanliness, 

 the delight of the fair jiatron who loves 

 to wander among the flowers, and with 

 whom it often jtays to be a little pa- 

 tient. Commenting ui>on the excellent 

 t)usiness around Motliers' dav, (ine fact 

 that was well known was the slight ad- 

 vanc(> in the jirice of carnations. At the 



A CUBE FOB POISONING. 



I notice that one of The Review 's 

 correspondents in the issue of May 18 

 asks for a remedy for sweet pea poison- 

 ing. I have never noticed the sweet 

 pea trouble particularly, but I have 

 been annoyed with plant poisoning in 

 general, which, I have found, yields 

 to a treatment of witch-hazel and car- 

 bolic acid, used as a wash on the af- 

 fected parts of the skin. I purchase 

 a bottle of witch-hazel and have the 

 druggist mix in a small quantity of car- 

 bolic acid, enough to cause a slight 

 burning sensation when applied. I have 

 never known this to fail to cure the 

 poisoning. I hope this may prove of 

 benefit to the reader. 



G. Wessenauer. 



BOSABIANS TO ABLINGTON. 



June 2 has been set by the American 

 Rose Society as the date for the annual 

 visit of the rosarians to the Department 

 of Agriculture rose gardens, at Arling- 

 ton, Md. The tentative program of the 

 organization calls for the visitors to 

 gather, as in past years, at the store of 

 Gude Bros. Co., about 10 a. m., pro- 

 ceeding from there to Arlington, which 

 will be reached about 11 a. m. 



The rose gardens at Arlington are 

 especially magnificent this year. Ofii- 

 cials of the department declare that the 

 climbers are just coming into full bloom 

 and, while the tea roses will be past 

 their best when the society meets, the 

 gardens will be in considerably better 

 shape than was the case last year. 



T. N. S. 



QUABANTINE NO. 43. 



The federal horticultural board has 

 made a second revision of quarantine 

 4.3, which applies to the European corn 

 borer, effective May 1. This qua»antine 

 applies to florists only as regards cut 

 flowers or entire plants of chrysanthe- 

 mums, asters, cosmos, zinnias, holly- 

 hocks and cut flowers or entire plants of 

 gladioli and dahlias, except the bulbs 

 thereof, without stems, from infested 

 areas in Massachusetts and New Hamp- 

 shire. Although the quarantine extends 

 over the so-called infested areas in New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michi- 

 gan, it applies in those states only to 

 corn and broom corn, sorghums and Su- 

 dan gr.'iss from infested areas and not 

 to the flowers and plants mentioned 

 above. 



HOT OB COLD. 



Some day the equipment of every up- 

 to-date greenhouse establishment will 

 include, ])erhai)s, a cooling plant as well 

 as a heating plant. A future day may 

 see pipes of cooling brine carried 

 through the greenhouses in the same 

 way that pipes of hot water are today. 

 Then the grower will be able to ad- 

 vance or retard his plants at will. He 

 will be able to hold back or advance the 

 jdants so that his blooms will hit a 

 lioliday to the dot, regardless of the ad- 

 verse or favorable conditions of the 

 weather from day to day. 



This possibility is suggested by the 

 way in which Peter Pearson, one of 

 Chicago's leading plant growers, saved 



