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The Florists^ Review 



Ai'iuL 7, 1921 



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MOTT-LY MUSING^ 



K. V. B. Felthousen, Sehcuectaa.v, N. 

 Y., recently rounded out his twentieth 

 year at the postoffice stamp window, 

 which was favorably commented upon by 

 the local press. Between the acts, so to 

 s])eak, a flourishing business has been 

 worked up, whether it be a stock of 

 geraniums for Memorial daj' or young 

 chrysanthemums, in both of which 

 the stani]) of good culture is seen. Mr. 

 Felthousen humorously commented upon 

 the fact that he is the first to see The 

 Review upon its arrival at the postoffice. 

 This may in some measure account for 



his success. 



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"The sun had hardly set upon what 

 was our finest Easter business," ob- 

 served Henry Eberhardt, of the Rosen- 

 dale Flower Shop, Schenectady, N. Y., 

 "when we received a funeral order 

 which compelled us, owing to our being 

 entirely sold up, to scour the surrounding 

 country for flowers. We roused Fred A. 

 Danker, of Albany, out of bed at 11:30 

 p. m. Sunday night, just as he had 

 retired following the Easter rush. With 

 his customary good nature he obtained 

 a lantern and together we made a round. 

 Finally we wound up with a supply that 

 enabled us to furnish a number of pieces, 

 including a blanket of orchids, roses and 

 valley, the effort of Walter Dunning." 



• • • • 



"Paul's Scarlet Climber rose and 

 Hydrangea Trophee were real troj)hies 

 with us this Easter," observed F. A. 

 Danker, Albany, N. Y. "They headed 

 the list in our sales and were mascots for 

 what was the finest business in our 

 experience. The elusive dollar did not 

 purchase much florally, but was the basis 

 and ranged up to a fiver, little beyond. 

 Quality and less quantity counted. 

 From inquiry among our neighbors we 

 learn their experience was similar." 

 Mr. Danker incidentally mentioned that 

 Paul's Scarlet Climber sliould be propa- 

 gated and grown in pots to insure 

 blooming. He has a fine batch of young 

 stock for future handling. 



• • • • 



Shin Suzuki, of the Nippon Nursery, 

 Woodside, N. Y-, was overliear 1 advising 



a customer to buy lilies liberally this 

 year, as they would probably be dearer 

 next season. The drop from 50 cents to 

 30 cents per bloom was an added incen- 

 tive. The result proved the shrewdness 

 of our worthy confrere. 



• • • • 



G. Mossebcrg, Flatbush, N. Y., had a 

 fine lot of pot roses for Easter and at 

 the same time he deplored missing a 

 batch of hybrid perpetuals, which can 

 be held back for Memorial day, an event 

 already engaging the attention of both 

 wholesale and retail grower. 



• • • • 



Fred W. Wagenfohr, Mount Vernon, 

 N. Y., owing to forced removal just 

 before Easter, was put about some, but, 

 as he expressed it, "We were Johnny on 

 the spot just next door and worked like 

 Trojans to get straightened out and had 

 fine results." His seed business is open- 

 ing up well in the new store. 



• • • • 



Victor Dorvall, of Victor S. Dorvall & 

 Sons, Woodside, N. Y., attributes the 

 brisk Easter demand to the few warm 

 days the week previous, when much 

 bulbous stock suffered and but little re- 

 covered or was aided by the later cool 

 weather. Tlie perfect system of cold 

 storage stood in good stead, so that 

 though the late delivery meant a big 

 rush at the end, the holiday trade fin- 

 ished in a wind-up that satisfied every- 

 one interested. 



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August Buckholz, Woodside, N. Y., 

 commented upon the many blind tulips 

 and the excellence of narcissi and 

 hyacinths, with a general total that 

 excelled anything experienced in the last 



ten years. 



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"How would vou feel," asks Charles 

 Zeller, of Charles Zeller & Son, Flatbush, 

 X. Y., "if a load of blooming plants 

 were refused by your liest store customer 

 early in the week on account of the fear 

 that, owing to the warm spell, the stock 

 would not hold up over Easter? This 

 was an actual circ\imstance and we know 

 of another grower who was not even so 

 casilv liandlecl as onrselvcs. In our case. 



being a retailer as well as a grower, we 

 disposed of everything salable. The 

 cool weather preceding Easter day stiff- 

 ened up the stock and helped hold prices 

 firm and on a moderate level. " W. M. 



PUTTING PARK RANGE RIGHT. 



You recall the illustration on page 20 

 of The Review for March 24. It pur- 

 posed to show the greenhouses in the 

 new park of that remarkable little town, 

 of Hibbing, up in Minnesota. It didn't, 

 however. It showed, instead, the green- 

 houses on a large and well known estate 

 in the east, far from Hibbing. A 

 wrongly labeled photograph, sent by 

 the contributor without realizing the 

 error, was responsible for the wrong 

 first impression, among Review readers, 

 of the new greenhouses at Hibbing. 

 Here is the right photograph of the Hib- 

 bing houses which resulted from the en- 

 terprise and effort of Superintendent of 

 Parks Conrad B. Wolf and Mayor Vic- 

 tor L. Power. 



GROWERS AT SPRINGFIELD. 



The St. Louis district branch of the . 

 National Flower Growers' Association 

 will meet at Springfield, 111., Tuesday, 

 April 19. This meeting is of great im- 

 portance to all flower growers in this 

 district, says the secretary, J. J. Beneke. 

 The meeting will open promptly at 2 

 o'clock. The excutive committee will 

 meet at 1 o 'clock to transact such busi- 

 ness as may come before it. W. J. 

 Hembreiker, chairman of the entertain- 

 ment committee, has arranged an inter- 

 esting program. 



St. Louis and St. Louis county have 

 promised a large representation. The 

 party will leave St. Louis via the Chi- 

 cago & Alton railroad 8:40 a. m., April 

 19, arriving at Springfield at 11:25. 

 Fare is $4.04 one wav. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Market. 



Easter business seemed to exceed that 

 of all other years. 



Stock at the beginning of the week 

 was plentiful, and it looked as if the 

 market would be flooded for Easter. 

 Sweet peas and lilies were especially 

 plentiful, but by the night of March 

 25, sweet peas were scarce and lilies 

 were not to be had at all. American 

 Beauties were plentiful, but the supply 



Here Is Really the'New Range In That Remarkable Town of Hibbing. 



