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The Florists* Review 



October 27, 1921 



Mr. Reader, should happen to be one of 

 these delinquents, won't you take your- 

 self to task for your neglect, and in the 

 spirit of cooperation, now so manifest, 

 send in your check to the secretary at 

 once? If the memorandum bill sent to 

 you from the secretary's office is incor- 

 rect, you should notify the office to that 

 effect at once, so that the matter may be 

 adjusted. It is not the wish of the com- 

 mittee to carry any accounts on the 

 books tliat are at all incorrect in any 

 detail. John Young, Sec 'y. 



BECENT PAYMENTS BECEIVED. 



The following subscriptions to the na- 

 tional publicity campaign are of record 

 as recently received and applying to the 

 1921 fund. These are cash subscriptions 

 actually received : 



YounK & Lester. Walln WiiUa, Wasli-.S 10,00 



Otto H. Cron, Monroe, Mic|i 10.00 



Salter Bros., Rochester. N. Y .").00 



Frederick Flower Shop, I'lttsburgli. . . . "i.OO 



P. F. O'Keefe. Hoaton 100,00 



Klugman & Schneirow, Hrooklvn. N. Y. 10,00 



W. J. Cowee, Herlln, N. Y 10.00 



H. Lewis Menand, Tro.v, N. Y .5.00 



Stewart Ritchie, New York .">,00 



J. Wade Gayley. Lancaster, Pu ."i.OO 



P. N. Obertin, Racine. Wis 10,00 



Donnelly Floral Co., Wichita Falls. Tex. 3.5.00 

 Stelnhaiiscr Florists & Nurserv Co.. 



Pittsburg, Kan 10.00 



Julius Eppstein, San Francisco, ("ill.... 10.00 

 Sunnyslde Floral Nursery, Favctteville. 



N. C l.'i.OO 



B. F. Barr, I.ancaster, Pa 30.00 



M. O. Nauman. Paris, Tex 20.00 



H. E. Mart, MillersburK. () ,5,00 



Henry Penn, Boston (third installniciit i 1(K).00 



Ellis Floral Co., Blooniiiitfton. Ind.... 10.(M» 



Spriugfleld Seed Co., Springfield. Mo... 10.00 



Oeorge Bischoff. Ann Arlmr. Mich 2.5.00 



Frank F. Crump Estate. Colorado 



Springs. Colo 2.5.00 



Western N. Y. Florists' I'ublicitv 



Fund. Buffalo. N. Y 1.50,00 



Humni & Jones, 01>crliu. 10.00 



Dutcli Bulb Exporters' Assn.. Haar- 



IcMi, Holland 1,000.00 



Bcntcl & Frcilerick. I/)ui«ville. Kv 5.00 



The Onhid, Pasadena, Cil 25,01) 



Total $ l.fiC^I.Oi) 



Total previously re|Kirted 2S.797.15 



Corrections 4.99 



Corrected tot.il 28,792.11! 



Tot.il I" date $;10.452,H; 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



The Market. 



Due to tlic unusually \v;irin, bright 

 we;itliei', clirysaiitlii'inuius are (iiiite jjIimi- 

 tiful and are offered at 18 cents to .30 

 cents each, retailing at $4..")0 to .$7 per 

 dozen. Roses are of good quality and 

 of f.'iir (|uantity at (i cents to 12 cents 

 each, retailing for $1..")0 to $.3 per dozen 

 for tlu' extra loiig-steuniied. The florists 

 have all done r.'ither a good business in 

 fuller;! I designs. Some nice telegr.'i]ili 

 order Imsiness has been done the last 

 week. 



Various Notes. 



After a long delay, the new McTray 

 icebox ordered l)y Kenneth M;ickay has 

 arriveil from Indianaiiolis and workmen 

 are busily engaged jmtting liis new store 

 at the Bond hotel in shape for the 

 opening, October 29. This store is 5vcll 

 ai)])ointed, being cojiied from a ^vcll 

 known Fifth avenue estal)lisliinent in 

 New York city. The jjlans were drawn 

 up by. Lewis & Pennington, architects, 

 who planned the new Hotel Bond. T. C. 

 Kenyon, of Worcester, has been en- 

 gaged as decorator and designer at this 

 new establishment. 



The Hartford Florists' Club held its 

 last meeting at the establishment of 

 Spear & McManus and voted to ask 

 Henry Penn to speak at the next meet- 

 ing. After several unsuccessful at- 

 tempts to have Mr. Penn speak here 



before this })ody, due to other engage- 

 ments, Mr. Penn haa^.promised to speak 

 here November 9, at the Bond hotel, 

 where luncheon will be served. His 

 lecture will be illustrated with stereop- 

 ticon views and he will speak on items 

 interesting to the retail florist. We trust 

 there will be many present to greet him. 



C. B. M. 



MEALY sua ON FERNS. 



Our ferns are troubled with mealy 

 bug and a small, white insect that ap- 

 pears on the under side. Will you rec- 

 ommend a way to destroy these pests? 



C. R. C— Pa. 



IOWA FLORISTS TO MEET. 



The annual meeting of the Society of 

 Iowa Florists will be held at Ottumwa 

 at the Ottumwa hotel, Wednesday, No- 

 vember 9. 



Lay the ferns on their sides, use a 

 fine spray nozzle on the hose and give 

 the ferns a thorough spraying. The 

 force of cold water, carefully directed, 

 is the best remedy for bug on ferns. 

 Ferns are easily injured by insecticides. 



C. W. 



MUMS AT MAYWOOD. 



Hans Jepsen's Houses Full. 



Two benches of Golden Queen have al- 

 ready been cut out at Hans Jepsen's 

 greenhouses, at Maywood, 111., and are 

 now occupied by stevia, but otherwise 

 all four houses are completely filled with 

 as fine a lot of pompons and large-flower- 

 ing mums as one can find in this vicin- 

 ity. The space is about evenly divided 

 this year between ])ompons and the 

 large type, but next year, thinks Mr. 

 Jepsen, he will go in much more heavily 

 on the latter. The man who specializes 

 in mums for a market such as Chicago's, 

 he believes, can take more money out 

 of the same amount of bench spaced with 

 the large-flowering mums than with the 

 ])om])ons, which, though easier to grow, 

 are less remunerative. Mr. .Jepsen 

 ])lants liis ])om])ons in rows ;i foot apart 

 .•md about ten inclies ajiart in the row, 

 ami, calculating about :i bunch to the 

 square foot, the return will .average 40 

 or no cents during tlie se:ison, tliough 

 so far it -is much higher. Tlie large 

 mums are jilantcd six inch<>s apart each 

 way and the blooms will average 25 

 cents each at leiist — they have averaged 

 nearly three times that so far — or .tl 

 ]>er square foot. All the extra i'O cents 

 is not profit, of course; out of it must 

 come the extra labor in tying up the 

 large pl;iiits, the extra feeding, and 

 other items not so expensive in the 

 case of pompons. There is also to be 

 considered th(> quality of the stock; that 

 must be kept liigh to get the greater re- 

 turns. But both !Mr. .Jepsen and Oscar 

 Xelson, his riglithand nirin, are excep- 

 tionally ex)iert in tlie ]iro<luction of 

 liigh-cl;iss mums. 



Leading Varieties. 



^^r. '.Tepsen foiin<l so strong a demand 

 for mniu ctittings Inst spring tliat he is 

 lil;innilig to increase tlu^ luinilier he can 

 send out next yo.nr. planning to use one 

 whole house for that ]iur])ose and filling 

 only three witli sweet peas. He is grow- 

 ing a number of newer varieties that 

 have proved to be of exceptional merit 

 and for which he anticipates a large 

 call. Anions: the ]iompoiis h(> thinks es- 

 Tiecially well of are Fire Bird, a bril- 

 liant red, which he regards as one of 

 Elmer D. Smith's best; Firelight, a bril- 

 liant carmine shaded witli scarlet; Mrs. 

 H. H. Prane, whose mahogany petals 

 with golden reverse form a particularly 

 attractive color scheme; ^liss Anna L. 



Moran, flame-scarlet; Frances Huckvale, 

 gardenia white with creamy shaded cen- 

 ter; Quinola, orange yellow, and an im- 

 proved Quinola; Iva, amber. Among 

 the anemones he thinks highly of God- 

 frey's Perfection, a beautiful, clear 

 white that comes in for Thanksgiving 

 day. Only three singles are grown: Mrs. 

 E. D. Godfrey, light pink; Mrs. Mazey, 

 bronze, and Annabelle, wine color. In 

 the large-flowering varieties Richmond 

 is esteemed highly. So is Thanksgiving 

 Pink, which Baur & Steinkamp intro- 

 duced last season. Golden Queen is the 

 earliest and is now about all cut. Ap- 

 pleton is grown here in a way that 

 shows it is still as fine a yellow as it 

 ever was. Chadwick, Golden Chadwick, 

 Seidewitz and White Seidewitz are 

 prominent. Bonnaffon, Indian Summer, 

 Wells' Late Pink, Marigold, Delight and 

 Mrs. .J. Leslie Davis are well rej)re- 

 sented. A number of newer varieties 

 are being tried out, for Mr. Jepsen be- 

 lieves that there is no profit in growing 

 the older ones unless they can be done 

 better than the recent introductions. 

 There are .30,000 plants of the large- 

 flowering varieties; 12,000 of the pom- 

 pons. 



Keeping Up Quality. 



I'se is made of every available bit of 

 space. Walks not needed have been 

 filled witli boxes of stevia, now being 

 moved to benches vacated by mums. In 

 the ]iroii;igating house are at present 

 3.000 Iris tingitana and Iris filifolia, 

 California bulbs, which are coming on 

 in good shape. 



Part of Mr. Jepsen 's formula for 

 high-grade stock is cleanliness and fa- 

 cilities that make for ease of opera- 

 tion. His houses are as spotless as a 

 good housewife's parlor. The two /)ld 

 houses hiive just been repainted to look 

 as white as the two new Foley houses. 

 The addition of a Kewanee boiler will 

 gi\e anijile lieat for the r.'inge under any 

 conditions and make possible additions 

 Jit any time. A dam in the creek back 

 of the greenhouses, built last spring, 

 provides w;iter to a depth of four and 

 one-half feet, giving ample supply, since 

 a 9-horsepower pump carries a strong 

 ])ressure iill through the houses. Mr. 

 .Jepsen recently purchased three acres 

 across tlie creek, where .alfalfa is grow- 

 ing, with which he expects to form ex- 

 cellent soil. On a corner of the new 

 Jiroperty will arise a bungalow when 

 building conditions will permit. 



