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Mabch 18, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



41 



Couleur Cardinal. Rose Lnisante. Murillo. 



You Can Meet Your Customers' Ideas on Color and Price by Using Tulips to Fill Easter Baskets. 



"Our nursery has suffered severely 

 for the following reason: In the mid- 

 dle of the glasshouses stands our water 

 tower, surmounted by a big white 

 water tank at a height of nearly 100 

 feet, and this gives the German gun- 

 ners a splendid mark, so that shells and 

 shrapnel drop all around. Our big 

 square vinery, a three-roofed house of 

 45,000 square feet, exactly an acre in 

 extent, which has billeted a whole regi- 

 ment of soldiers and is the nearest house 

 to the water tower, has been badly dam- 

 aged. At my departure for England, I 

 counted eleven shells in that one glass- 

 house. Another vinery, a two-roofed 

 one 48x360 feet, received eight shells. 

 Our big carnation house, 42x360 feet, 

 containing nearly 40,000 plants, has 

 been wrecked. A three-roofed carna- 

 tion house, 30x240 feet, has collapsed. 

 Out of six new traveling houses for 

 forcing lilac and roses and chrysanthe- 

 mums, four have been blown to splin- 

 ters. Two big boilers and one chimney 

 have been blown up. Heating pipes, 

 water tanks, iron and wooden supports, 

 all are pulverized. A ten-roofed as- 

 pidistra house is the least injured of 

 the lot, as only one roof has been blown 

 down. With two of our working men, 

 I tried to save the stock, about 250,- 



000 leaves. I had no fuel, no wood 

 (requisitioned by the military), and I 

 fear the stock has been frozen. In all 



1 counted thirty-seven shells inside the 

 houses and twenty over the grounds, 

 but since there have been some more 

 disasters. The water tower still stands 

 upright, and challenges the German ar- 

 tillery. The still-standing glasshouses 

 have thousands and thousands of their 

 panes cracked or holed by rifle bullets. 

 The thousands and thousands of bullets 

 fired from the allies' anti-aircraft guns 

 had to drop somewhere, so that a great 

 many came down upon our glasshouses-, 

 and, together with those fired by the 

 machine guns from the airmen, all these 

 bullets were making a deafening noise 

 upon our greenhouses. Again, when a 

 shell dropped in a big glasshouse, the 

 whole town of Ypres and the surround- 

 ing suburbs could tell that one more 

 glasshouse was gone!" 



LILY BUDS BUBSTINa. 



My Easter lilies, which are Formosas, 

 are bursting their buds quite badly. 

 Will you tell me why this is and 

 whether there is a remedy for itt They 

 are in pots on a bench in a house run- 

 ning east and west. I have grown 



them in this place before and have 

 had' no trouble with them. I am water- 

 ing them as I usually have, and have 

 not fed them heavily. If you can ad- 

 vise me I shall appreciate it. 



S. M.— Kan. 



While the bursting may be due in 

 some measure to incorrect treatment, 

 it is more likely to be caused by dis- 

 ease in the bulbs, or by the bulbs be- 

 ing shipped in an immature condition. 

 Plants which develop this bursting ten- 

 dency usually show signs of disease 

 long before the buds show. The leaves 

 may be green, but they will curl more 

 or less and will lack the vigor of 

 healthy stock. I do not know of any 

 plan which will have a tendency to 

 stop the bursting. Give the plants a 

 temperature of 60 degrees at night, if 

 possible. Spray freely and water 

 abundantly. In spraying use warm 

 water. C. W. 



Kingston, N. Y. — Incorporation pa- 

 pers have been issued to Valentin 

 Burgevin, Inc., florists, with a capital 

 stock of $50,000. The incorporators 

 are G., M. H. and D. Burgevin, who 

 have done business previously under 

 the name of Valentin Burgevin 's Sons. 



Tlie Easter Pan of Hyacinths May be Anything Your Trade Requires* ia Dress and Cost. 



