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The Florists' Review 



Fbbedaby 25, 1915. 



PENN'S STRONG SHOWING. 



On a day in the latter part of Jan- 

 uary, when roses were scarce in Bos- 

 ton, Penn had a display in the refrig- 

 erator that could not but attract the at- 

 tention of those who feame into the 

 store, for every inch was taken up with 

 roses. This refrigerator, 6 x 16 feet, 



annual meeting will be held, at 3 

 o'clock. 



At the New York flower show all 

 pot-grown roses will be staged on Wed- 

 nesday, March 17. All classes of cut 

 roses, except the special class for dis- 

 play of 1,000 blooms, will be staged on 

 Thursday, March 18. This special 



The American Eose Society invites 

 your attendance and your exhibit. 

 Schedules may be obtained from Ben- 

 jamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. We 

 trust that our exhibition will be a 

 credit to the American Rose Society 

 and worthy of the excellent premium 

 list prepared. 



Wallace R. Pierson, President. 



MUSIC AND FLOWERS. 



A combination that ought to work 

 well is found in Huntsville, Ala., 

 where John Scott's flower shop shares 

 a store room with a grafonola parlor, 

 as is shown in ths accompanying illus- 

 tration. It is in the new Twickenham 

 hotel block. Whether the people buy 

 grafonolas or not, or only come in to 

 listen to the music, they evidently buy 

 flowers, for John Scott says it is a 

 "great combination." 



Music and Flowerst the Ideal G>mbiaation, at John Scott's, Huatsvillet Ala. 



with a glass frontage nine feet high, 

 held that day, according to H. S. Rogers, 

 6,000 long-stemmed roses, in twelve va- 

 rieties. They were: Cardinal, Ameri- 

 can Beauty, Hadley, Prince d 'Arenberg, 

 Black Prince, Killarney, Killarney 

 Queen, Killarney Brilliant, Sunburst, 

 Mrs. Aaron Ward, Mrs. Charles Russell 

 and Mignon. How the display looked 

 to visitors may be seen from the illus- 

 tration on the preceding page. 



In the adjoining store, a refrigerator 

 of about the same size held carnations 

 and other flowers. In all, Penn has 

 three display refrigerators on the street 

 floor and three vaults in the basement 

 in which are carried the regular daily 

 stock. That is why this firm maintains 

 that its variety of flowers and plants is 

 larger than in any other retail store 

 in New England. 



class will be staged on Saturday, 

 March 20. 



This arrangement allows an exhibitor 

 the opportunity of exhibiting in New 

 York on Thursday and in Boston on 

 Friday. It allows visitors from a dis- 

 tance the opportunity of participating 

 in both the New York flower show and 

 the American Rose Society's annual 

 exhibition, which, in conjunction with 

 the spring show of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, will be especially 

 attractive. 



PREPARATION OF SOIL. 



Please advise me as to the best way 

 to prepare a piece of ground to have 

 soil suitable to grow a general line of 

 cut flowers under glass. The ground 

 was an old prairie pasture of the com- 

 mon black loam variety, by experts said 

 to be somewhat rich in acid and unfit 

 to grow some kinds of crops in unless 

 limed to some extent. It was plowed 

 the first time in the spring of 1914 and 

 kept free from weeds by harrowing and 

 dragging several times last summer. 

 Early last fall a crop of cowpeas was 

 sowed and turned under late in the 

 jfall, when rye was sowed. This came 

 up nicely and is green now. The loca- 

 tion is Missouri. How shall I proceed 

 with this ground this spring and sum- 

 mer so as to have the best possible soil 

 for the greenhouses in the summer of 

 1916? C. A. C. 



You have been following the best 

 possible course in preparing your soil. 

 You can easily test for acidity with 

 blue litmus paper. Moisten some of the 



EASTER OSTRICH FLOWER FAN. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 a pleasing novelty intended for the 

 Easter season. It is a pure white fan 

 of ostrich feathers, that may be used 

 as a shield. In the picture, it has 

 been made the background for a clus- 

 ter of Sunburst roses, which the in- 

 troducers, the M. Rice Co., of Philadel- 

 phia, selected as the flower that would 

 be especially effective with it. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting and exhibition 

 of the American Rose Society will be 

 held in Horticultural hall, Boston, 

 March 18 to 21. The New York flower 

 show at the Grand Central Palace oc- 

 curs March 17 to 23. 



It has been arranged to stage roses 

 at these exhibitions to conflict as little 

 as possible and the American Rose So- 

 ciety wishes to call attention to these 

 dates: Roses in pots and tubs will be 

 staged at Boston on Thursday, March 

 18. All cut roses will be staged on 

 Friday, March 19, on which day the 



Sunburst Roses Against White Ostrich Feather Fan as Shield. 



