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The Florists^ Review 



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plants you have will probably not 

 bloom before early spring. You 

 should have planted the winter-flower- 

 ing Spencer type of sweet peas. The 

 seed is somewhat high-priced, but the 

 plants would have started flowering 

 with you early in November. Be sure 

 to grow these another season. You will 

 find offers of them from a number of 

 seed merchants in The Eeview. 



C. W. 



DISTANCE BETWEEN" PIiANTS. 



How many 'rows of sweet peas should 

 be planted across a 5-foot bed and how 

 far apart in the row should the plants 

 stand? E. C. 



On a bed five feet wide you cannot 

 grow more than two rows and get satis- 

 factory results. The best growers run 

 their rows lengthwise of the houses 

 and five to six feet apart. If you set 

 the plants' four inches apart in the 

 rows they will be sufficiently thick. 

 Even if you allow six inches they will 

 easily fill the space.^ C. W. 



EAST MICHiaAN niEETINa. 



Florists Visit the Boebringers. 



The meeting of the Saginaw-Bay City 

 Floricultural Society, Monday evening, 

 February 1, at the establishment of 

 Boehringer Bros., Bay City, was well 

 attended considering the blizzard that 

 was raging. Some of the officers were 

 stalled on a derailed interurban car and 

 for that reason the meeting was post- 

 poned for one week, to Monday, Feb- 

 ruary 8, at the same place. This meet- 

 ing is important and all are asked to 

 be present. 



The rose display was far better than 

 expected. All the exhibits were staged 

 and some choice roses were seen, with 

 Killarneys in the lead. The honors fell 

 to J. B. Goetz Sons, first; Wm. Boethke 

 Floral Co., second; Boehringer Bros, 

 third. 



Bay City Notes. 



Boehringer Bros, should be proud of 

 their Primula obconica, as they are 

 easily the best in the valley. JBusiness 

 with them has been better than ex- 

 pected. 



Richard Irvine is iagain busy shipping 

 small plants for spring sales, in which 

 he has worked up a big trade. 



The busy man is John Marsh; he has 

 always an overdose of funeral work. 



Martin Keit, who has a store on 

 Center avenue, is more than pleased 

 with his move; the transient trade 

 keeps him busy. 



Saginaw Notes. 



Chas. Frueh & Sons are cutting some 

 exceptionally choice carnations this 

 winter, which are picked up before the 

 day is over. 



Grohman the Florist has booked many 

 party orders and wedding decorations 

 for this month. 



Wm. Eoethke Floral Co. i3 constantly 

 kept short of stock, as business is good 

 ■n its three stores. 



J. B. Goetz Sons say Rose Jonkheer 

 J. L. Mock commands the same price as 

 Beauties. Gee. 



HYACINTHS FOR EASTER. 



I have several hundred hyacinths 

 in mjr cellar in 3-inch pots, which are 

 showing a half -inch of growth. When 

 should I bring them into the green- 



GEl^TING BETTER ALL THE TIME. 



'VANOAl." FHILAOKLCMIA 

 A. ■. C. CODC U»CO 



Co. 



Ol^taiNATORS- 



PHMAMEIiPMM. 



January 39, 1915. 



riorletB* Publishing Co., 

 508 S. Dearborn St., 

 Chloago, Illi 

 Gantlemen:- 



Last. neek we ran aji advertisement in The 

 Review on Golden Red Heart Baskets and Cupid's Golden 

 Arrows. We osuinot help but write you in reference to 

 same, as we are pleased to tell you we received more 

 results (and when we say results we mean orders) from 

 this advertisement than we have ever received from any 

 single advertisement in ajiy trade paper as long as we 

 have been in buelnes». 



Wa wish to compliment you on the wide dis- 

 tribution and the number of resuiers you have. 



RB/lfW 



Very respectfully yours, 

 M. RICE CO. 



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house to have them in flower for 

 Easter f P. B. 



Easter does not come until April 4. 

 Keep your hyacinths as cool as you 

 can, short of actual freezing, until the 

 first week in March. Place them in 

 a cool house, and they will be in ample 

 time. If March should prove warm, 

 they may be a trifle early, but can 

 easily be retarded in a cool cellar. 

 Keep them well supplied with water. 



C. W. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



Dana R. Herron, Olean, N. Y., says 

 the temptation to hold on to good 

 money is strong, but he has a system 

 by which he has built up a flrst-class 

 business in the mailing department en- 

 tirely through the medium of the clas- 

 sified ad section of The Review, which, 

 as he well remarked, was not to blame 

 if he oversold, but rather the contrary. 

 At the time of my- visit he was figuring 

 on a carload of glass and a White auto 

 truck. 



W. A. Wettlin, Hornell, N. Y., has 

 made many improvements in his re- 

 cently acquired suburban property of 

 fourteen acres, which was formerly a 

 farm. The location caught the eye of 

 our worthy fellow craftsman and a fine 

 residence is being erected, to be fol- 

 lowed by a range of glass. 



T. J. Brush, Hornell, in addition to 

 being a selling agent of the White auto 

 truck, has several of the machines in 

 operation. He is also a celery grower 

 of repute and oflfers consolation to the 

 cut flower growers by stating that the 

 entire yield of Golden Self-blanching 

 on 700 acres, at Arkport, N. Y., in 

 which he is largely interested, brought 

 50 to 75 cents per crate this winter, 

 in comparison with $2 to $2.50 per 

 crate for the same quality at the same 

 time last. year. 



C. E. Gunton, manager of the G. R. 



Oliver estate, Bradford, Pa., says Car- 

 nation Philadelphia pleases him. It 

 came into crop late, when prices were 

 better, and so far it is a promising 

 variety. 



George A. Heelas, Jamestown, N. Y., 

 believes there is some truth in the 

 common assertion that carnations have 

 not sold so well of late, owing to the 

 excellent counterfeits on sale. Certain 

 it is that the day of the sleepy eye 

 and split calyx is past, and the raiser 

 of new varieties, the grower and ship- 

 per of others, must eliminate these 

 faults. The new store is attractive, and 

 business since it was opened has far 

 exceeded the most sanguine expecta- 

 tions of Mr. Heelas. 



Lawrence Cotter, of Lakeview Rose 

 Gardens, Jamestown, was reminiscent, 

 harking back to the days when, as a 

 member of the old guard, he grew roses 

 that helped make Boston famous. He 

 truly asserted that it is not quantity 

 but quality that counts, and the grower 

 who makes quality his aim is bound to 

 succeed in the long run. 



Eliot Worden, Jamestown, says his 

 new house almost paid for itself the 

 first season and he figures on rebuilding 

 the old range at the first opportunity. 

 He has a snug local trade. 



Benjamin Dorrance, Dorranceton, 

 Pa., commented that the fates decreed 

 a phenomenal rose crop for the holi- 

 days, when 30,000 blooms brought 

 smaller returns than the cut of 22,000 

 of similar quality in the previous year. 

 The crop is now off, but the plants are 

 vigorous. 



W. M. 



BULBOUS FLOWERS FOB EASTER. 



We have 100 pots, also a few flats, 

 of tulips and Golden Spur and Von 

 Sion narcissi. These have just been 

 planted and put under a bench in our 

 propagating ]&ouse, in a temperature of 



