October. 24, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



27 



FANCY CHRYSANTHENUMS 



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Choice Cattleyas Wild Smilax 



In Quantity. 



Unrtvaled In Decorative Kffeot. 



If you want the best in the market send to us for these and all other 

 Varieties of Choice Cut Flowers and Greens. 



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 the refrigerator for, and whether for display or 

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loyal is the company that it is doubtful 

 whether the combined eflforts of every 

 commission man east of the Blue Moun- 

 tains could shake its loyalty. 



Dahlias at Dreet't. 



I think it was late in the summer ot 

 1905 that a meeting of the Dreer com- 

 pany was called to decide an important 

 question, whether they should continue 

 having their dahlias grown by special- 

 ists or should add a dahlia depart- 

 ment of their own. After considerable 

 discussion it was decided in favor of the 

 (iahlia department, for several reasons, 

 chief among which was their inability to 

 secure stock that was absolutely true to 

 name. Sending out roots under a name 

 or color that proved deceptive was an 

 annoyance not to be borne by a flrst- 



elass house. Ttere were other reasons, 

 some financial, some expedient," that de- 

 cided the point, but these it is not neces- 

 sary to dwell upon. Suffice it to say 

 that in November of that year, J. D. 

 Eisele, vice-president of the company, 

 looked about to secure a representative 

 to gather the nucleus for their dahlia 

 department. After due consideration 

 James T. Clark was selected for this im- 

 portant mission and was dispatched 

 forthwith to the scene of his activities. 

 Mr. Clark brought with him strong qual- 

 ifications for the work, determination to 

 go through fire and water to secure his 

 object, untiring energy, snarp eyes and 

 an excellent memory. His task was a 

 difficult one, but it was finally accom- 

 plished and in January, 1906, the dahlia 

 house was filled with the first batch of 

 cuttings. The purchase of the Locust 

 farm followed, and here the dahlias were 

 planted out the next summer. The stock 

 was found to have been mixed and the 

 work of truing commenced in the fall. 

 So well was this work done that this 

 year the immense stock of over 200,000 

 dahlias, in over 1,000 varieties, is prac- 

 tically true to name. Mr. Clark, who has 

 been in charge of this department since 

 its inception, spent over a we^ this fall 



tramping up and down the dahlia rows 

 truing the stock. Practically the only 

 serious mistake occurred through the 

 carelessness of a workman, who, last 

 fall, threw a single basket of one variety 

 into the bin belonging to another va- 

 riety. The method of truing the stock 

 consists in pulling out any plant that is 

 not true to label, thus preventing the 

 possibility of future mixing. Mr. Clark 

 has become so expert in this work that 

 he prefers truing the dahlia by leaf 

 rather than by flower, claiming that 

 there is less danger of error by this 

 method, because where one is loo^ng at 

 the flowers a single plant that may not 

 be in bloom is much more easily over- 

 looked. 



The Largest Greenhouse. 



Every florist has an uncle, some poor, 

 some rich, some real, live relations, oth- 

 ers only uncles pro tem., who do busi- 

 ness under three gilded balls. Phil's 

 uncle is a real, live relation, whose path 

 lies in pleasant places and who takes an 

 amateurish interest in horticulture. This 

 uncle read an article in a paper — it was 

 not in the Review — the figures of which 

 ran something Uke this: "The largest 

 greenhouse in the world is planted in 

 American Beauty roses. The owners will 

 cut 228,000 flowers during the coming 

 season. These flowers sell at the aver- 

 age price of 50 cents each and will bring 

 $114,000. The running expenses of the 

 plant for a year will be about $14,000, 

 leaving $100,000 for profit." Phil's 

 uncle had always talked of starting a 

 gnreenhouse and getting Phil to mn it; 

 the only difficulty was that the uncle 

 wanted a fabulous percentage assured; 

 but the greenhouse was never built. A 

 trip to North Wales was arranged 

 through the courtesy of D. Peurstenberg, 

 president of the Florex Gardens. Re- 

 view readers are familiar with the di- 

 mensions of the mammoth greenhouse 

 at North Wales; it looked larger than 

 ever when compared with the smaller 

 greenhouses now standing beside it. In 

 front, the brick office with packing and 

 cooling rooms, dimensions about 40x60, 

 is nearing completion. In the rear, the 

 large boiler-shed, containing one marine 

 and two sciple boilers, aggregating 500 

 horsfe-power, is also nearing completion. 



