Februahv 12, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



23 



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NEWS NOTES 



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McHenry, 111. — John F. Miller has 

 let a contract for the erection of two 

 additional greenhouses on his Rosedale 

 property. 



Nashua, N. H.— G. E. Buxton returned 

 from Cleveland with a big batch of or- 

 ders for his snapdragon, the sales of 

 which and space required will necessi- 

 tate more glass. 



Union Grove, Wis. — C. W. Strout and 

 Mr. Burris, of the Meredith Flower & 

 Vegetable Co., of Libertyville, 111., 

 were in town recently preparing for 

 the erection of the company's green- 

 house here next spring. 



Denison, la. — Charles Bartscher sent 

 out some mimeographed postal cards to 

 suggest the use of flowers for greet- 

 ings for St. Valentine's day. He gets 

 out similar cards for the various holi- 

 days and finds them a help in getting 

 early orders. 



Averill Park, N. Y.— Charles A. Hall 

 suffered a loss of over $1,000 January 

 29 when a fire caused by, the explosion 

 of gasoline in an adjoining garage 

 spread to his greenhouse and burned 

 the young vegetable plants in the 

 house. 



Somerswortta, N. ■ H. — Commenting 

 upon the snapdragon bting popular for 

 Avinter cutting, G. S. Eamsburg men- 

 tions that his shipments of young plants 

 last year numbered 60,000. He has 

 25,000 potted up for spring delivery. A 

 photo of a plant with forty-four shoots 

 shows a fine specimen, although the 

 average shows up nearly as good. He 

 reports good returns from his ad in 

 The Review. 



Washington, D. C. — Representative 

 Slayden, of Texas, has introduced a 

 bill to remove the botanic garden from 

 near the capitol to Rock Creek park 

 and for the further development of 

 the garden under the direction of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. The bill sets 

 aside 400 acres in Rock Creek park for 

 the purpose of establishing and main- 

 taining a national arboretum and bo- 

 tanical garden. 



Malta, O. — W, C. Scovell reports that 

 business is running ahead of the corre- 

 sponding dates of last year, a condi- 

 tion extremely welcome after the local 

 experiences of last March. He has 

 some unusually fine cyclamen this sea- 

 son, some of the orchid-flowering type 

 having developed flowers which, he 

 averS, are four and three-quarters 

 inches across. Among his Primula 

 malacoides, several plants with white 

 flowers have been found, and he thinks 

 this will prove a decided acquisition. 



Tampa, Fla.— The honor of being the 

 first to regularly transport cut flowers 

 by aeroplane goes to the Knull Floral 

 Co., which sends daily shipments forty- 

 five miles across Hillsboro bay to its 

 branch at St. Petersburg, Fla. This 

 airship is the only one following a defi- 

 nite schedule and makes two trips a 

 day. The garden annex of the company 

 on the opposite side of the street, which 

 has just been enlarged, is a good ad- 

 vertisement, as it is on the loop that is 

 traversed by every car on each trip. 

 The company is busy booking orders 

 for the Gasparilla ball, February 24, 

 now the largest flower day in this state. 



UND£R THE 

 SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE' 



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 someone, but the fresher the better. No bar 

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 name of the paper.] 



"Uneasy rests the face that wears a 

 frown. ' ' — Ward. 



Perhaps some reader can send a few 

 clippings of "Rest in Peace on Both 

 Sides" funeral design joke that appeared 

 weeks ago in this column — we have re- 

 ceived only about one copy a day so far 

 this year. 



C. W. Johnson says carnations ship 

 better when the boxes are lined with 

 manila paper than when old newspapers 

 are used. Guy French says he never had 

 thought of it before, but that the idea 

 seems quite reasonable, as he has noted 

 many newspapers contain considerable 

 hot air. 



Or Cackle When a Bloom Is Bipe? 



"Joe Hill has his carnation plants 

 trained down so fine that pretty soon 

 he'll insist they punch a time clock 

 night and morning." — Toastmaster Gra- 

 ham at the Cleveland carnation banquet. 



Didn't Her Flowers Keep? 



A customer tells us she considers it a 

 'fortunate thing that the flowers in 

 heaven are of the everlasting variety, 

 as it is obvious that there will be no 

 florists there to look after them. — B. P. 



Eight Weeks Awash? 



A retailer is reported to have put this 

 tag on his Christmas azaleas: "You can 

 keep me in bloom eight weeks by placing 

 me in the bath tub and letting the water 

 run over my pot. ' ' 



But the family might need the tub be- 

 fore the azalea was out of bloom. 



Something Bare. 



The recent scarcity of good bulbous 

 stock inspired the following quip: 



Wealthy young man, entering flower store: "I 

 wrfnt to give a young lady a bouquet; something 

 swell." 



Florist: "What about giving her a daffodil? 

 We -heard of one being In bloom this morning. 

 Of course If you didn't want to give anything 

 quite so expensive, we could make you up a bunch 

 of about a dozen orchids." 



Insulted the Irishman. 



In the days when the American Pro- 

 tective Association was thoroughly 

 hated by every good Irishman, for the 

 organization's anti-Catholic policy, a 

 warm son of Erin, whose father had 

 died, placed an order with a florist 

 for a pillow with the word "papa" 

 inscribed on it in large gold letters. 

 As the Hon. Patrick Casey was a per- 

 son of some importance and influence, 

 the florist outdid himself in his effort 

 to make good. 



On the day of the funeral the pillow 

 was packed and delivered with the 

 utmost care. Imagine the surprise of 

 the florist, therefore, when not ten 

 minutes after the order had been de- 

 livered, the Irishman came into the 

 shop in a great rage, threatening to 

 wreck the place. When he had some- 

 what subsided the florist was able to 

 examine the pillow and read on it in 

 large gold letters, A P A. The first 

 letter of the word had dropped off. 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Woodfords, Me.— L. C. Goddard finds 

 ten weeks' stocks a paying crop for 

 Memorial day and gives as much space 

 as possible to them. 



Des Moines, la. — Dr. Wm. Carpenter 

 is closing out the stock of gladioli, etc., 

 of the W. K. Fletcher Bulb & Plant 

 Co. He reports the demand excellent. 



Wellesley Hills, Mass. —J. Edison 

 Smith, florist at the iVcademy of the 

 Assumption, was married .lanuaiy 28 

 to Miss Bessie C. Dunton, at the 

 bride's home in Dorchester. 



Orange, N. J. — The prize-winners on 

 exhibits staged at the nineteenth an- 

 nual dinner of the New Jersey Flori- 

 cultural Society, which was reported 

 in last week's Review, were Joseph A. 

 Manda, first; Max Schneider, second, 

 and William Reid, third. 



Omaha, Neb. — Articles of incorpora- 

 tion have been filfed for the Morgan- 

 Shawler Co., by James W. Shawler and 

 Howard R. Morgan, whose entrance 

 into the florists' business was noted in 

 a recent issue of The Review. The 

 capital stock is placed at $10,000. 



St. Paul, Minn. — Mrs. Henry A. 

 Boardman, whose greenhouse plant, 

 known as the Riverside Greenhouses, is 

 one of the largest in the city, opened 

 a retail store in the St. Paul hotel 

 about February 10. J. A. MacLellan, 

 formerly of the Flower Shop, Minne- 

 apolis, will have charge of the new 

 store. 



Houston, Tex. — The Houston Florists ' 

 Club inaugurated a week of cleaning 

 up and planting February 11 with a 

 banquet at the Rice hotel, to which citi- 

 zens of Houston were all invited. The 

 president of the Chamber of Commerce 

 acted as toastmaster and prominent 

 men of the cityi^spoke. The florists of 

 Houston are boosting trade with the 

 slogan "Clean Up and Plant Some- 

 thing." 



Mobile, Ala. — At its January meet- 

 ing the Mobil s Floral and Horticultural 

 Society adopted the suggestion that a 

 question box be placed in the down- 

 town section in which questions on 

 floriculture might be dropped and later 

 answered oy the society. George E. 

 Kittle, of G. Van Antwerp & Son, 

 seedsmen, who is secretary of the so- 

 ciety, is to receive the questions sent, 

 by mail. H. P. Loding, president of 

 the society, believes this plan will 

 arouse the interest of the public to 

 the benefit of the trade. 



Biddcford, Me.— C. S. Strout returned 

 well pleased with his success at the 

 Cleveland show. One might call this 

 the home of Pink Delight, for it proves 

 more productive when carried over the 

 second season than some varieties of 

 carnations do during the first. White 

 Winsor is a favorite with the commis- 

 sion men, as it is an excellent shipper. 

 Enchantress Supreme is supplanting the 

 old variety. White Wonder, Benora and 

 Pocahontas complete the list. Prospects 

 look rosy, as three acres of adjoining 

 property have been secured with the 

 view of erecting more glass. There is 

 no propagating ^ouse, as the method of 

 growing cuttings in the same house 

 with equal temperature is most satis- 

 factory. 



