Mat 23, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



17 



How a Washington Floriit Handl^ His Holiday Plants. 



about when to ship, so of course he 

 sends them the day he receives the 

 order — unless in the meantime he gets 

 a telegram that makes the wires fairly 

 sizzle with the superheated inquiry as 

 to "Where in blankety blank is that 

 stock that should have been on the 

 morning train?" 



If it isn't one customer, it's another, 

 the same thing over again. No allow- 

 ance for a delay somewhere; fre- 

 quently not so much as allowance of 

 suflScient time even if everything goes 

 as it should. And not sufficiently ex- 

 plicit directions so that the writer's 

 wishes are made clear to the one who 

 receives the order. "Ship 1,000 car- 

 nations May 10" is followed by 

 "Why in thunderation weren't they 

 all white?" "Insert this in a two- 

 inch space" proves to have meant a 

 space two inches deep across three 

 columns, not what is said. And so it 

 goes. 



An immense amount of friction 

 would be saved if people would be ex- 

 plicit and give their orders in time. 



STOCKING NEW HOUSES. 



Bert Clippinger, of the Clippinger 

 Greenhouses, Laramie, Wyo., writes to 

 The Eeview as follows, under date of 

 May 11: 



"I thought it would be of interest 

 to you to know that I have finally got 

 my range of new greenhouses com- 

 pleted and am growing stock for the 

 spring business, which ought to be 

 good this year, for we have had such 

 bad weather that the people have not 

 yet been able to plant any seed out- 

 doors, and they will of course have to 

 buy their plants for bedding out. 



"Mr. Westholder, who is conducting 

 a flower store here, has had an excel- 

 lent trade this spring. 



"I have four modern houses, 24x100, 



heated with hot water, and I intend 

 to grow both vegetables and flowers 

 the first year. 



' ' I have been buying stock from a 

 great many different growers and you 

 should see the various kinds of in- 

 sects and diseases .that I have gath- 

 ered together, I think that the grow- 

 ers who have their stock free from 

 such diseases and pests had better take 

 advantage of the fact by stating so 

 in their ads, for they would surely 

 profit by it, as I for one am in the 

 market for a large quantity of stock, 

 but hesitate as to where to buy, for I 

 am pretty well supplied with rust, etc., 

 already, and do not care for any more. 

 I have received some splendid stock, 

 also, from some of the growers, but 

 they can not supply me with some that 

 I wish. 



"We have about five inches of snow 



on the ground tonight and it is snow- 

 ing fast now; the prospect is that 

 there will be several more inches of 

 the white covering before morning." 



AMEBICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



The following prizes have been of- 

 fered for the August exhibition of the 

 American Gladiolus Society, at Chicago, 

 in the open class: 



E. E. Stewart, Rives Junction, Mich., 

 has offered $5 for best vase of Gladiolus 

 President Taft, twenty-five spikes; $5 

 for best vase of Golden Queen, twenty- 

 five spikes; $5 for best vase of Mich- 

 igan, twelve spikes, and $5 for best vase 

 of Purity, twelve spikes. 



A. H. Austin, Wayland, O., has of- 

 fered $5 for best collection of ten new 

 varieties never before exhibited, three 

 spikes each. 



L. Merton Gage, Cor. Sec'y. 



A River Steamboat in Flowers for a Pittsburgh FuneraL 



