Al'Kll. 7, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



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Spanish Iris to the Left and Irb Tingitana to the Right, in Fields at ^atsonville, Cal. 



ing the effect of warm weather and 

 prices are not really quotable. 



There is an abundance of miscel- 

 laneous flowers, which move fairly well 

 when prices permit their use for win- 

 dow decoration. Snapdragons are in 

 unusually heavy supply and are hard 

 to clear. Yellow and white daisies, 

 calendulas, some fine delphiniums, 

 French marigolds, stocks, gladioli, pan- 

 sies, wallflowers, mignonette, iris in va- 

 riety, myosotis, camellias, alyssum, 

 cornflowers, frjeesias and English 

 daisies about make up the list of avail- 

 able flowers. Southern-grown narcissi 

 are coming in, of fairly good quality. 



Various Notes. 



The heavy frosts of Tuesday and 

 Wednesday nights, March 29 and 30, 

 did an immense amount of damage to 

 fruits and other outside material,, ow- 

 ing to the midsummer weather experi- 

 enced for several days preceding. In 

 New Jersey on the latter night the ther- 

 mometer went down to 24 degrees, while 

 the day shade temperature of March 28 

 was over 80 degrees. 



Temperatures do not seem to have 

 .affected the tulip bods in City Hall 

 square, which are now bursting into 

 bloom. 



It is understood that the greenhouses 

 on the estate of Adolph Lewisohn, Ards- 

 ley, N. Y., are being converted for com- 

 mercial purposes, carnations chiefly to 

 be grown. This will be sad news for the 

 many who have appreciated the numer- 

 ous excellent exhibits from these green- 

 houses seen at our flower shows, which, 

 of course, under the new arrangement 

 will be no longer possible. This estab- 

 lishment alone staged exhibits on fifty- 

 eight entries at the recent international 

 flower show. 



Late reports show that the Easter 

 business was exceptionally good all 

 around. Plants cleaned up well, and 

 cut flowers met a better demand than 

 usual. Not only in New York city, but 

 in the surrounding towns a lively de- 

 mand for plants and flowers was ex- 



perienced. Some of the timid ones who 

 were pessimistic because they did not 

 have a book full of orders a week ahead 

 of the day and consequently cut down 

 their plant orders are now bemoaning 

 a lost opportunity to double the busi- 

 ness they actually did. Pot lilies were 

 in abnormal demand, and the supply 

 was insufficient. Some of the bench lily 

 growers dug up plants in an effort to 

 meet some of the shortage. 



Thomas Eoland, president of the S. 

 A. F., was a visitor April 1 and made 

 a lengthy call upon Secretary Young at 

 administration headquarters. 



The usual display of magnolia bloom 

 in suburban gardens will be missed this 

 year, the frosts having entirely killed 

 the expanding blooms of the Soulan- 

 geana variety, the first to bloom. Len- 

 nei, which blooms later, was little 

 harmed, but trees of this variety here- 

 abouts are not numerous. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held at the En- 

 gineering Societies' building, Monday 

 evening, April 11. Important business 

 is to be transacted, and a report on the 

 recent flower show is to be presented. 

 J. H. P. 



Henry S. de Forest, who for several 

 years was connected with Hitchings & 

 Co. and the Pierson U-Bar Co., is now 

 with the William H. Lutton Co. 



Miss Flora Lins and her methods of 

 building trade at her store, at 126 East 

 Forty-first street, were the subject of an 

 illustrated article in the New York 

 Telegram of March 28. 



An opportunity will be given, in the 

 latter part of May, to visit and inspect 

 the largest collection of Darwin and 

 breeder tulips ever brought together in 

 this country. Through cooperation with 

 the General Bulb Growers' Society, at 

 Haarlem, Holland, a collection of over 

 17,500 tulips, the gift of that organiza- 

 tion, was planted last fall in the New 

 York Horticultural Gardens, located 

 just opposite Fordham hospital on the 

 southern boulevard. Another collection 

 at the same place, the gift of John 



Scheepers, Inc., contains over 5,400 

 bulbs. In the two collections there are 

 about 23,000 bulbs and 241 kinds. An- 

 other collections, more comprehensive in 

 the types represented, is located in the 

 beds in the court of conservatory range 

 1. Here there are over 9,800 bulbs in 

 the seven beds and 167 kinds. The com- 

 bined display represents a total of over 

 32,800 bulbs and, allowing for duplica- 

 tion, 325 kinds. 



IRISES IN CALIFORNIA. 



In the accompanying illustration are 

 shown a field of Spanish iris and one of 

 Iris tingitana grown for bulbs by the 

 H. A. Hyde Co., Watsonville, Cal, H. A. 

 Hyde has planted over one-third of a 

 million bulbs of this stock and reports 

 that the plants are coming along in fine 

 style. The iris looms more and more 

 important each year as a cut flower and 

 7nany growers may be interested in Mr. 

 Hyde's venture. 



The iris finds a suitable environment 

 more readily, perhaps, in California 

 than in most other parts of the country. 

 Coming, as most of the varieties of this 

 genus originally did, from countries bor- 

 dering on the Mediterranean, the iris 

 requires a climate that is warm and dry 

 in summer. 



Planted out in the early fall, the 

 Spanish irises make an early start and 

 produce leaves which persist through- 

 out the winter and are seldom injured 

 in that part of the country. In May 

 and June the blooms appear and are 

 distinctively bright and colorful. This 

 particular type of iris, according to 

 some authorities, does best in ground in- 

 clining to moisture, although the stems 

 will rot if subjected to stagnant water. 

 The nature of the soil does not seem to 

 affect the growth, as plants in heavy 

 soil do as well as those in light soil. 



New Philadelphia, O. — The Endres 

 Floral Co. has purchased an 86-acre farm 

 near Blicktown, and plans to expand its 

 business, giving special attention to 

 roses. 



