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The Florists^ Review 



June lo. 1922 



muiiity was conceived recently, with the 

 result that in one small district more 

 than 400 plants, besides flowers, were 

 taken, with gratifying results to the 

 neighborhood florists. 



An organization composed of women 

 got out a number 6f dodgers, which 

 were distributed in one school. They 

 read as follows: 



HEY, KIDS! 

 Tlioy'ri' Boiiig to send a lot of flo«ors and 

 pliiiils to the sick soldiers at Spoodway hospital 

 lu'xt Sunday, .June 11. Every boy and girl in 

 Portage Park can send a flower or plant. Ask 

 pa or ma to let you get one, and then put youf 

 own name and address on a card and fasten it 

 to tlie (lower or plant and then take it to one 

 of the following idaces and they will take them 

 to tlie sick soldiers. 



Below was a list of five places where 

 the plants might be left by the children 

 — a confectionery, an art shop, a coffee 

 shop, an alderman's residence and a 

 local paper's office. The instructions 

 stated that all of the flowers and plants 

 must be at the places mentioned not 

 later than Saturday, June 10. The 

 dodger ended, in boldface type: "Get 

 busy, kids! Do a good thing for our sick 

 soldiers! ' ' 



The "kids" evidently "got busy," 

 for more than 400 plants were collected 

 and taken to the sick soldiers. Peter 

 Pearson, president of the Commercial 

 Flower Growers of Chicago, on discover- 

 ing the source of the local demand for 

 plants, praised the idea. He believes it 

 is one that can be applied in almost any 

 large community in the country. The 

 trade, through the proper cooperation, 

 can aid in a good cause and at the same 

 time add to the demand for its products. 



less lawn treatment makes use of the 

 discovery that our finest lawn grasses, 

 either Rhode Island bent, or creeping 

 bent, will thrive in a soil more acid 

 than that which is favorable to the 

 ordinary weeds. Hence, by using fer- 

 tilizing materials, especially sulphate 

 of ammonia, which make the soil acid 

 and at the same time supply the needed 

 plant food, a favorable condition is 

 produced to give the handsomest vel- 

 vety lawn, without the fear of intrusion 

 of undesired weeds. 



The greatest number of inquiries have 

 come from New York, with over 500 

 letters ' coming to the offices of the 

 Rhode Island State College from that 

 state. Illinois and Ohio are next in 

 order, with Massachusetts following, 

 but Michigan, Pennsylvania, Califor- 

 nia, Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri 

 are not far behind. Over thirty letters 

 of inquiry regarding the weedless lawns 

 have come from Canada and inquiries 

 have been received from Panama, South 

 America and South Africa. 



The most satis^Lctory feature of all 

 this, the college officials say, has been 

 the success of the treatment as tried 

 by many people in many places. Wher- 

 ever it has been possible to obtain the 

 true bent grass seed and the sulphate 

 of ammonia has been used according to 

 directions, the lawns are slowly but 

 surely freeing themselves from the un- 

 pleasant mixture of weeds. 



W. H. M. 



A WEEDI.ESS LAWN. 



Rhode Island has scored again — this 

 time with the weedless lawn. The se- 

 cret was disclosed by the experiment 

 station at the Rhode Island State Agri- 

 cultural College, at Kingston, a year 

 ago. Since then hundreds of inquiries 

 have been received at the institution 

 from all over the world and the treat- 

 ment h;is hcvu widely suliscribed to as a 

 success. 



As originally iiniiouiucd, the weed- 



VALUATING BIRTHDAYS. 



A few days ago a pedestrian, strid- 

 ing rapidly down a street of St. Louis, 

 Mo., glanced at the posters on the end 

 of a street car to sec what time the 

 afternoon 's baseball game was to be 

 called. He glanced and his eyes re- 

 mained glued to the poster, for what he 

 read was : 



I'oday is my liirlliday. 



I am not working. 



Vinc<'nt Gorly. 



"Well, who gives a hoot?" thought 

 the ]iodostriaii, or words to that effect, 

 but tliis was onlv the first thought in 



a series that brought him to the con- 

 clusion that birthdays, after all, mean 

 something and are worthy of being re- 

 membered. And when the following day 

 the same pedestrian sought to take an- 

 other look at "the good idea," he saw: 



Whose birthday is it today? 



"Say It with Flowers." 



Grimm & Gorly. 



' ' Why, next week is the wife 's birth- 

 day and, thanks to Grimm & Gorly, I 

 will 'Say It with Flowers,' " deter- 

 mined the convinced pedestrian. 



This is the way that Grimm & Gorly 

 convinced thousands. Mr. Gorly an- 

 nounced his birthday June 3 in the man- 

 ner described, and all the next week the 

 second-mentioned sign followed. The 

 illustration on this page shows exactly 

 how it was done. 



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St. Louis Street Cars on Vincent Gorly's Birthday and on Succeeding Days. 



PROBABLY APHIS. 



My rose bushes and snowballs are in 

 some way affected. I sptayed the snow- 

 balls with a nicotine solution and I ex- 

 pect to spray the rose bushes with Bor- 

 deaux mixture or Paris green. Is that 

 all right? F. C. P.— la. 



Viburnum Opulus and roses are sub- 

 ject to the attacks of aphis; the black 

 aphis attacks the former and green 

 aphis the roses. Spraying with a nico- 

 tine extract containing a little soap to 

 make it more adhesive is an excellent 

 remedy. C. W. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



WasMngton, D. C. — One of his cred- 

 itors having begun suit, Z. D. Blacki- 

 stone is asking all his merchandise cred- 

 itors to grant an extension of time by 

 accepting for open accounts ten equal 

 notes, the first of which will become due 

 December 1, 1922, and the others one a 

 month until all are paid. Mr. Blacki- 

 stone purposes not to include in this 

 arrangement those whose claims are for 

 filling telegraph delivery orders, "be- 

 cause if these are not paid monthly I 

 shall lose the business and the efficiency 

 of my business may be impaired to such 

 an extent that it would be difficult for 

 me to carry out the above arrange- 

 ment." 



Salem, Ore. — C. B. Clancey has filed 

 a petition in bankruptcy in the United 

 States District court. Liabilities, which 

 he lists at $14,117.08, consist largely 

 of unsecured claims, held by IS."} credi- 

 tors. His assets are listed at $3,577.21 

 and consist almost entirely of stock in 

 trade and store fixtures. 



Fort Dodge, la. — C. W. Gadd, to 

 whom E. E. Nordwall made a common 

 law assignment for the benefit of cred- 

 itors last December, has mailed checks 

 to creditors amounting to thirty per 

 cent of their claims. Upon estimating 

 the liabilities and assets a month ago, 

 Mr. Gadd estimated the total dividends, 

 provided the sale of the Nordwall prop- 

 erty to Otto A. Schrocder was consum- 

 mated, at somewhere between thirty 

 and forty per cent. 



Oneonta, N. Y. — The greenhouse prop- 

 erty on River street lately owned by 

 Arleigh C. Hendry, who for the last two 

 years has conducted the business, was 

 sold recently in foreclosure proceedings. 

 There were three or four bidders and 

 the price was gradually advanced to 

 $9,000, at which figure it was sold to 

 Antonio Angellili, the former propri- 

 etor and the holder of the mortgage. 



