Jui.y 8, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



purpose $1,500 has been appropriated. It 

 is my experience, liowever, that you can 

 buy cheaper than you can grow the flow- 

 ers. We can go to the local florists and 

 give them a list and buy thorn at a rea- 

 sonable figure. It is almost impossible 

 to get just the right kind of a man; he 

 must have other qualifications to be a 

 good superintendent, besides being a flo- 

 rist. As I figure it, it is cheaper to buy 

 than to raise the plants." 



Saved One-half by Buying Plants. 



"That is the experience of Seattle," 

 said J. W. Thompson. "When I went 

 there they had a small greenhouse and 

 the salary was $900 a year. We adopted 

 the plan of advertising for bids in the 

 fall. We were able to buy the plants at 

 from $800 to $1,000. We bought plants 

 for 2 cents to 2Y2 cents and upward. Wo 

 have not the bother in caring for the 

 plants and I figured we saved one-half." 



"This matter does not seem to be quite 

 settled," said W. II. Dunn, of Kansas 

 City. ' ' It seems to me to be worth 

 while, no matter how small or large the 

 department, to maintain independence by 

 maintaining a greenhouse, and to that 

 should be added a nursery, as .Mr. Wirth 

 says, and you can make your selections 

 and have them adaptable to your purpose 

 and at the same time be independent. I 

 hardly believe it permits of any argu- 

 ment; the saving will be with the depart- 

 ment that establishes its own greenhouse 

 and nursery. ' ' 



"Mr. Dunn is rather out of the con- 

 troversy," said Arthur Hay, "as we are 

 speaking of small cities. As the expense 

 becomes larger it is undoubtedly cheaper, 

 but where a park system does not make 

 an expenditure of over $;')00 or $600 a 

 year it would be cheaper to buy than to 

 grow the plants. ' ' 



The Best, Not the Cheapest. 



' ' Mr. Hay is all the time coming out 

 with 'cheap, cheap,' " said Mr. Wirth. 

 "What the public wants is not the cheap- 

 est but the best thing, and they are enti- 

 tled to it, and the best way to supply the 

 best is to grow it yourself. He says he 

 can order his plants from the local flo- 

 rist. Suppose he orders them in the 

 spring; he has got to take what is left. 

 A good gardener figures out now what 

 he wants for next year. He reads trade 

 papers and gets seeds and cuttings, and 

 next year he has something new to off'er. 

 That is where he has the advantage over 

 the man who buys. The commercial 

 grower grows what he can sell. Lots of 

 people find flowers in our parks they 

 cannot get anywhere from the florist. If 

 you want to keep up with the times you 

 want to have your own greenhouse, and 

 if you can't afford to have a greenhouse, 

 make a hotbed." 



"If :\rr. Wirth 's finger," said C. E. 

 Keith, "had gone off when he pointed 

 it at me I would be dead now. Mr. Pres- 

 ident, I am of the opinion that instead 

 of superintendents giving so much 

 thought to the temjierature and tlu^ soil 

 that plants require in the gveeiiliouse. it 

 is better for tlicin to hunt up hnnlier and 

 -choicer selections of trees and slirulis. 

 Instead of studying tlie temperature and 

 .>ther thiiig:^ of difVorent plants in n 

 '^mall park, he had hotter put in more 

 time in the analyzation of the earth tliat 

 Ills frees outside require, and T bolic\e it 

 will pay him better. Instead of giving 

 so much attention to tlie greenhouse or 

 hotbed, let him learn his trees. The first 

 filing is the vegetable kingtlom as it lies 

 hardy outdoors, winter and snintner." 



"I do not hear aiiv of tlii'in. in ad\ii- 



Greene's Early Hardy Daisy. 



eating the buying (if things, speak of tin' 

 after care of a fornml display," said 

 W. R. Adams, of Omaha, Neb. "A man 

 has to plant them, take care of them duv 

 ing the winter, plant fhem out aiul llirn 

 attend to taking fiiem in .again. Not 

 only that, but Mr. Keith talks about 

 liardy varieties. There are hundreds of 

 them, spira\as, hydrangeas and othrr 

 hardy ])lants not in the grvcnhoiise. ' ' 



"Excuse nu'," said the president, 

 "but I ho]ie yt)U will not take ]Mr. Keith 

 seriously. ' ' 



"I am tliorougldv opposed to Mr. 

 Keith's ideas," said" :\Fr. Adams. "It 

 is an cxpensi\e luxury, but we can gmw 

 hardy stutf in the house." 



"I have prubably grown uHM'e shrubs 

 than "Mr. Adams has ever seen," said 

 ^Ir. Keith. "T was brought up on a 

 ilOO-acre nursery, and I don't believe 

 there is a man in Minnesota that li.as 

 grown as many slirults as I have." 



On motion nt' Mr. Dunn, flic meetiui: 

 adjournt>il. 



AN EARLY HARDY DAISY. 



For flu> last three ye.-ii'^ II. it. Creene, 

 Sagina\v, Mich., has been grewin^ a 

 hardy jierenni.al daisy which Minims murli 

 earlier than the Shasta er ( hrysaiit lie 

 mum maxininm. Mis remi'l I'er die la^i 



tiire(> \('ais, as t<i date of flowering, is: 

 11MI7. June s; UMi.s. May .31; 11>0!), June 

 10. "This is not for the first flower." 

 says Mr. (Jreene, "but f<ir a crop to cut. 

 This ye.nv 1 put a frame .and sash over 

 some plants in tin' enil ot' March and 

 tli(\v were in full bloom .lime 4. The 

 lirst llower openi'd I )i'cor;it ion day, and 1 

 coidd ha-e hail a full cro[) Ity that time 

 it' the plants h;id been carefully watered, 

 as I lirid tiiey are hard drinkers. The 

 plant is extremely \ iedious, nuicli hardier 

 than the Sh.asta daisy, ;ind the flower 

 lasts Weil when cut. The stems are from 

 tit'teen to eiehte<Mi inches long and the 

 plant i-i woinlerfnllx tree llowering. al- 

 thoni:li the lilooni'^ .are >:naller than the 

 Sjiasta. Iieiiig friitii \\\n to two and a half 

 incjie- acros".. They <-;in he c-ut u]i to 

 tlie time tlie Shasta lieyins to tlower and 

 I consider tliem a decidedly valuable 

 tlorisis' llower. The ellidosed ]illOtO. 

 tlioiiL;h iiodp. will L;ive an idi^a of the ap- 

 [learaiice. It was taken .lime \\K when 

 the ihiwer-^ Were all t'lilly out ami there 

 were (i\iT lit'ty salable llowers on the 

 cliiiii|i. They sell r(>adily locally." 



<'iiii,rox. Wis. — -Business is good at 

 Chilton, and W. (i. Schucht is the proud 

 f;itlier of a twelve-jioiind bo\ . Inirn .Tnly 

 1 . <M everyone i'^ liap|i> . 



