Antii. 7, 1921 



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The Florists^ Reviw 



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Flora Roland Examines Some of Father's Roses> While the President of the S. A, F. Looks on. 



year at the exhibition of the American 

 Carnation Society, at Washington, D. C, 

 four first prizes and one second priz.c 

 •were awarded the Coombs displays. 



The latest development of the Coonib;s 

 business was the opening of Coombs 

 Flower Shop at 978 Chapel street, New 

 Haven, Conn. The opening was last 

 November, when 10,000 visitors viewed 

 the attractive store and display. More 

 than 6,000 chrysanthemums were given 

 away to the fortunate early callers. 

 Music added to the pleasure of the occa- 

 sion. The Coombs Flower Shop at 

 New Haven is under the management of 

 Mrs. Sara Coombs Martin, who was as- 

 sociated with the Coombs Hartford 

 stores for fifteen years before her mar- 

 riage and retirement four years ago, 

 when sh^ieame to New Haven. In four 

 months she has developed a large busi- 

 ness. 



Harry Barnett, for seventeen years a 

 successful grower and retailer on Kim- 

 berly avenue, New Haven, Conn., is now 

 with th«' Coombs Flower Shop. Ho 

 dropped business cares a year ago bo- 

 <auSc of illness and, now that his health 

 is regained, he will be -jwsoeiated with 

 the Coombs store. 



rose exhibition in Boston this week, in 

 which the American Eose Society is co- 

 operating with the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. Inasmuch as Mr. 

 Roland is a director of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society and a 

 member of the committee on commercial 

 interests of the American Rose Society, 

 his connection with the show at Boston 

 this week is close. 



ROLANDS AND ROSES. 



Thomas Roland is known all over the 

 country as one of the at)lest growers in 

 the trade, but more conspjcuous^ly 'fts the 

 president of the Society' of AiBeVi<Jan 

 Florists. The pot plants from his gro«n-:. 

 houses, at Nahant, Mass., aye knowi* all 

 over New England and in some otVer 

 states as well, not to mention those 

 places to which their fame has traveled 

 via visitors returfiing from Boston's big 

 shows. What may be unknown to those 

 who are not, comparatively speaking, 

 neighbors of Mr. Roland's "is the -la.dy 

 of the dimple in the illustration on thig 

 page. She is Flora Roland. She made 

 her appearance in the Roland family in 

 1910, during the last national rose shew 

 in Boston. Now, she, as 'well as' her 

 father, are taking much interest in the 



THE NEW ROSE ANNUAL. 



["The American Rose Aiiuiml: the W2l Ye.ir- 

 book of liose Progress," edited for the American 

 Uose Society Ijy J. Horace McFariand. Contains 

 192 pages of text, besides seventeen pages of 

 fine lialf-tone illustrations and one colored plate. 

 Supplied to all members of the society whose 

 clues are pftid for the cnirent year. To secure 

 additional copies or further information, address 

 the secretary, .Tohn t'. Wisler, GOd Finance 

 Ituilding, I'hiladelphia, Pa.] 



The American Rose Annual is how gen- 

 erally recognized as being pretty nearly 

 the, ideal book for its purpose. One 

 of its chief merits — a merit not always 

 fully appreciated^ — is the fact that it is 

 about equally interesting and valuable 

 to both classes of rosarians, professional 

 and amateur. Since the membership of 

 the American Eose Society consists of 

 both commercial and private growers, it 

 U eminently projier that the subject mat 

 tPi of tlie society's annual should be, as 

 it is, of such a nature as to -meet tlit> 

 wishea of both groups of readers. It 

 '5.'^emaJ>erfectly clear that the contents 

 . of th<e-^ook, like the membership of tlic 

 ^fiflcieHi^ should foe partly commercial in 

 charaeter and partly ajnntcur — no, not 

 afnateurish.' 



. But a point that may not be so clearly 

 understood by everyone is this, that th? 

 book, so planned, not only treats botli 

 bodies of it^ readers, jirofessional and 

 nonprofessional growers, with absolute 

 inii)artiality;" it also renders to alj of 

 them a service that otherwise miglit be 

 impossible. Articles written by well in- 

 formed amateurs, and intended primarily 

 for the pertisal of amateurs, frequentrv 

 »*upply a peculiarly lielpful sort of en- 

 lightenment for trade growers. And 

 amateurs may often derive the same 



unique sort of benefit from a study ot 

 commercial growers' views. Thus a 

 judiciously arranged book, like this an- 

 nual, serves as a means of bringing the 

 amateur and the professional grower 

 into closer acquaintance, to the un- 

 doubted advantage of both. 



The present issue of the annual, the 

 sixth in the series, fully maintains the 

 high standard established by its predc 

 cessors. The editor of the book, in draw- 

 ing attention to some of its most note- 

 worthy features, mentions particularly 

 its description of the world's new roses, 

 the new-rose reviews by E. G. Hill and 

 Courtney Page and the several dis- 

 courses on the handling of commercial 

 roses, written by "leaders in that most 

 important pursuit." Among these com- 

 mercial leaders who contributed articles 

 to the book are Robert Pyle, S. S. Pen- 

 nock, Wallace R. Pierson, Charles H. 

 Totty, W. J. Keimel, Thomas Roland 

 and — as already stated^E. G. Hill. 



Editor McFarland himself wrote for 

 the volume two articles that challenge 

 attention; thoy are entitled "Other Pos- 

 sible Rose Stocks" and "What Roses 

 Nursery Agents Sell. ' ' He also has con- 

 ducted, in the pages of the book, an 

 "editorial inquiry" on "How to Make 

 Roses Grow" and "Rose Protection vs. 

 the Rose-zone Map." Dr. W. "Van Fleet, 

 (if tlie Fnited States Departiiient of Ag- 

 riculture — what florist does not know 

 about Dr. Van Fleet's achievements as 

 a rose liybridizer ? — continues his "prog- 

 ress-records," writing this time under 

 the heading, "Rose Breeding in 1920 at 

 Bell Experiment Plot." And many other 

 noncommercial rosarians have aided in 

 giving liigh quality to the book. 



Memphis, Teim.— Flowers were do 

 natod by the Memphis Floral Co., the 

 Idlewild Greenhouses, the Johnson Floral 

 Co. and the Flower Shop, to be sold on 

 the streets in an effort to raise part of 

 Tennessee's quota for the building of 

 the Victory Memorial building at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



