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Makch 13, 1918. 



',\ The Florists' Review 



41 



The Illinois State Florists' Association at its Annual Banquet, at Peoria, March 4, 1913. 



later, but to secure good flowers the 

 planting should be completed by the 

 middle or end of June. C. W. 



I.ATE MUMS FOB POTS. 



Please give me the names of iwo or 

 three of the best varieties of chrysan- 

 themums, white, pink and red, to grow 

 as pot plants for late blooming. S. B. 



In white you might try White Bon- 

 nafifon, Mrs. Jerome Jones, White Helen 

 Frick and December Gem; in pink. 

 Wells' Late Pink and Helen Frick; in 

 red. Harvard, Cullingfordii and Inten- 

 sity. C. W. 



MUM WILLIAM DUCEHAM. 



Kindly advise me how to get the 

 right bud on Chrysanthemum William 

 Duckham. I have planted them two 

 years, growing nice, healthy, single- 

 stemmed stock, but the flowers come 

 single and small and nothing like what 

 I have seen, so it must be the bud. 

 Any help will be thankfully received. 



E. H. 



Select buds as near August 15 to 20 

 as you can and you should get flowers 

 of the best quality. C. W. 



BENCHING EABLY MUMS. 



At what time should Golden Glow 

 and Smith's Advance chrysanthemums 

 be benched, in this Iowa climate, in 

 order to have them at their best Octo- 

 ber If I have been having trouble 

 with my mums growing too tall. What 

 can I do to make them grow shorter? 



G. B. 



Golden Glow and Smith's Advance 

 should be benched not later than June 

 1 and they should be nicf^ stocky lit- 

 tle plants at t hat ^ time, iii order to get; 

 them in flower October 1. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



MILLANG TALKS ON TBAVELS. 



Joseph A. Millang, manager of 

 the New York Cut Flower Co., 

 who is just home from a month's 

 holiday in Europe, is convinced 

 that "Little Old New York" is 

 good enough for him and that the 

 flower shops of London and Paris have 

 nothing on those of Fifth avenue. "I 

 did see one tastefully decorated flower 

 shop on the Rue de la Paix," said Mr. 

 Millang to The Review man, "which 

 reminded me somewhat of McConnell's. 

 In London the only place that im- 

 pressed one particularly was the florist 's 

 shop in the Hotel Savoy. All the 

 other flower shops that I saw were 

 notably deficient in any attempt to 

 make an artistic display. They could 

 not compare at all with the florists' 

 shops of any first-class American city. 

 I was also disappointed in the flowers 

 r saw in the shops, on the streets and 

 in corsage bouquets at the theaters. I 

 presume that the most artistic work in 

 corsage bouquets is seen only at state 

 dinners and such social functions, but 

 those worn at the theater, the opera 

 and in the fashionable restaurants in 

 Paris and London did not compare 

 either in number, richness or taste with 

 what we see at Sherry's, Rector's and 

 Delmonico's, or at the Metropolitan 

 Opera House. 



"In lilacs and bulbs the English 

 I eat us badly. These were a revela- 

 tion to me, and I have spent all my 

 life in the business in New York. I 

 was disappointed, however, in the 

 English roses; the only good roses I 

 saw were some fine Richmonds. The 

 Brunners offered for sale were poor. 

 Indeed, the florists apologized for their 

 roses, saying the season had been poor. 



I had no opportunity to inspect the 

 greenhouses on the large private es- 

 tates, where the ba&t worlc is donp, nor 

 •did I get down to Kew 0a^dens, b.ut I 

 did see some almonds blooming out of 

 doors February .'5. You see I was on 



a pleasure trip, and moreover I had 

 an attack of double quinsy on 1x17 

 way over and the surgeon of the 

 Majestic had to operate on my throat, 

 so I was not in the best condition for 

 sight-seeing. 



"In Paris the flowers are peddled 

 along the curb by old women; they 

 do not solicit you to buy; and they are 

 all old. In London also flowers are 

 peddled on the streets, much as they 

 are here, except that the peddlers are 

 less offensive. 



"I ran into a London particular fog 

 which lasted four days. I had, of 

 course, heard of and read of them, but 

 nothing except an actual experience 

 with one will give any idea of their 

 dismal, depressing effect. London and 

 Paris have their good points, but after 

 all, as a place to liv<{ in, 'Little Old 

 New York ' is good enough for me. ' ' 



C. A. M. 



Battle Creek, Mich. — Joseph Case, on 

 North Jefferson avenue, has moved one 

 door north, into the store formerly oc- 

 cupied by the H. A. Fisher Co. Mr. 

 Case has thus secured more room than 

 he formerly had, and the store has 

 been handsomely remodeled for his use. 



Mitchell, S. D.— Wm. Dethlefs, pro- 

 prietor of the Davison County Green- 

 houses, reports a record shipment of 

 cut flowers. It left February 1, to a 

 customer in Baltimore, Md. February 

 9 Mr. Dethlefs received a letter of 

 thanks for the fine condition of the 

 stock when it arrived. 



Ballston Spa, N. Y.— A. B. Reynolds 

 comments on the fact that when he 

 ordered some fungicide from one of the 

 supply houses the other day it came 

 with express charges of 45 cents, when 

 on taking it to the local postofBce he 

 found it would have cost by parcel 

 post only 17 cents. He thinks the trade 

 is not giving sufficient attention to the 

 economy of the new method of ship- 

 ping. 



