

The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Apbil 16, 1908. 



BIG CROP or PRIZE WINNING 



AM. BEAUTIES 



We are cutting from 600 to 800 long stemmed Beauties per day. 

 The kind we won silver cup with at recent Rose show. Brides, 

 Maids, Richmonds and Killarney all equally fine. 



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Fancy Carnations in Large Lots 



PLENTY OF GREENS AND EASTER LILIES 



Telegraph us your late orders and we will fake care of fhem 



Bassett & Washburn 



GRKKNHOUSKSi 



HIN8DALX, ILL. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



The cut flower trade showed some im- 

 provement last week and the commission 

 men were able to clean up better than 

 for some time. There is much specula- 

 tion at this time regarding Easter, and 

 while all are making the usual prepara- 

 tions, they are somewhat afraid that the 

 times may affect the trade. 



The retail men look as active as in 

 any other year and are all busy getting 

 plants in sha't>e. From the quantities of 

 blooming plants in sight, one would won- 

 der where there was room for the cut 

 flowers. 



Qub Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting April 7, in the store- 

 room of the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., 

 and it was one of the most enthusiastic 

 meetings of the year. There were about 

 sixty members present and, while the 

 plant display was worthy of a more pre- 

 tentious name than a "regular meeting 

 show," it was nothing in comparison 

 with the enthusiasm shown by the various 

 members in discussing plants during the 

 evening. 



The regular business having received 

 due attention, Ed Reineman — acting as 

 chairman in the absence of President 

 Fred Burki, who was ill — called for re- 

 marks for the good of the club, when 

 J. H. Myers, of Altoona, Pa., after some 

 complimentary remarks, called attention 

 to the new spiraea. Queen Alexandra, 

 which he is growing this year and is 

 just getting into bloom. Mr. Myers 



thought it would be a good thing. There 

 were some who were not so sure, be- 

 lieving it would get white as the flow- 

 ers matured. And then the price, $25 

 per hundred for very small clumps, put 



Don't Forget:— 



That bench of slow-moving stock can 

 be promptly tttmed into Cash (it comes 

 with the order), if offered in the Classi- 

 fied Department of the REVIEW. It 

 costs only 10 cents a line. 



it out of the question for commercial 

 men to make much profit in handling 

 it, as it would take about three plants 

 to make a good pot. 



The subject of lilies was then taken 



up and the bulb growers were criticised 

 severely for their careless way of send- 

 ing out lily bulbs, sometimes having a 

 dozen varieties in one lot and selling them 

 as something select. However, after 

 several had spoken of their failures 

 through receiving poor bulbs, T. Mal- 

 branc, of Johnstown, Pa., took the floor 

 and, after saying he was only a green 

 Dutchman, proceeded to tell them that 

 he had only grown lilies five years, hav- 

 ing taken them up because he saw a 

 profitable crop in sight. He has had no 

 failures up to this time and he believes 

 that many of the growers are respon- 

 sible for their failures and that much 

 of the stock is spoiled with the hose. 

 His loss this year is six plants out of 

 2,000. He pots his bulbs, plunges them 

 under the carnation benches, covers them 

 with cinders and gives about two water- 

 ings. "When they are ready for the 

 bench they come up and are kept cool 

 until ready to force. Then they are 

 kept going until they are in bloom, al 

 ways using water sparingly. His crop 

 this year, is giganteum. The stock, start- 

 ed in 4-inch pots and moved up, grew 

 larger than bulbs started in 6-inch pots. 



W. A. Clarke, the only representative 

 at the American Rose Society show, told 

 what he saw there, mentioning the fine 

 stock shown and expressing some aston- 

 ishment that there was not more enthu- 

 siasm shown by the general public. 



The exhibitors were as follows: 



Kaaeb V. Oullalnen, gardener for R. H. 

 Boggs, showed Salplglossia Empress, a plant 

 which, when grown as those exhibited, wonld 

 malce a good addition to Easter blooming plants, 

 and Mr. Oullalnen thought it might be grown 

 profitably by commercial plantsmen. 



(Continued on page 28.) 



