Mabch 13, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



47 



, , PLANTING GLADIOLI. . ,., 



Will you please answer the following 

 questions in regard to the culture of 

 gladioli here, in northwestern Ohio? 

 What is the diflference between soft and 

 hard-shell bulbletsf Will bulblets from 

 planting stock do as well as those from 

 blooming bulbs? I have been told that 

 fresh stable manure should never be 

 used on land intended to be planted to 

 gladioli. Part of the land on which I 

 will plant mine for the coming season 

 was manured last season; the other part 

 has not been manured for several years 

 and is not as rich as it should be. How 

 would you manage so as to get good re- 

 sults? Would you use commercial fer- 

 tilizer? If so, how much and what 

 kind? What effect does fresh manure 

 have on them? My soil is yellow sand 

 and rather light. If I plant America, 

 Mrs. Francis King and other varieties 

 side by side in rows, will they run out, 

 or should each be planted separately? 

 I shall appreciate an answer to these 

 questions through The Eeview. 



, ' . . F- J. K. 



So-called soft-shell gladiolus bulblets 

 are not really bulblets, but small bulbs 

 of one year's growth from bulblets. 

 Bulblets from planting stock will grow 

 the same as from blooming bulbs. 



Fresh stable manure spread on 

 ground in winter or early spring is not 

 harmful. It would be fully as good as 

 most commercial fertilizers, if not bet- 

 ter. Fresh manure in contact with the 

 bulbs, however, is too heating. 



Different varieties of gladioli will not 

 "run out" or get mixed when planted 

 closely, if carefully labeled, but it 

 would be better to have them in sep- 

 arate rows. A. H. Austin Co. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



The exceedingly cold weather of the 

 last week — the thermometer register- 

 ing 10 degrees, with a gale from the 

 northwest — has burned up coal and had 

 a depressing effect on the demand, thus 

 affecting the growers unfavorably, both 

 in cost of production and in diminution 

 ■of sales. Violets in particular, being 

 distinctly a corsage flower, have been 

 <Jull and hard to dispose of. Quotations 

 range as low as 10 cents, although for 

 •choice single violets as much as 40 

 cents has been paid. But there are 

 not many of the 40-cent kind. The 

 ■dullness in Cattleya Schroederse, which 

 is almost a drug on the market, is prob- 

 ably attributable partly to the same 

 cause. SchroedersB is quoted at 10 

 «ent8 to 20 cents, but an offer to take a 

 quantity at a shade under the market 

 would find acceptance. C. Trianae is in 

 better shape, bringing 25 cents to 40 

 <!ents. Fancy varieties of orchids, when 

 offered, bring good prices, one small 

 consignment of gigas selling last week 

 at $1 each. 



Beauties are in better supply and the 

 advance noted last week has given way 

 all along the line. The general range 

 may be quoted at 30 cents to 60 cents 

 for specials, 25 cents to 30 cents for 

 fancies, 10 cents to 25 cents for extras, 

 8 cents to 12 cents for No. 1 and 1 cent 

 to 5 cents for No. 2. Some sales of 

 specially fine loog-'Stemnoec^ Beauties 

 nave been made above these figures, but 

 they are the exception. Bride and Maid 

 sell at 1 cent to 5 cents, with few sales 



at the higher figure. Killarneys are in 

 plentiful supply, some selling below and 

 a few choice blossoms selling above the 

 quotations of 2 cents to 6 cents. Sun- 

 burst has declined to 2 cents to 10 

 cents, owing to oversupply. Other teas 

 remain unchanged at 3 cents to 10 

 cents. Carnations of the lower grades 

 are plentiful and cheap. The choice 

 flowers, which are scarce, bring as 

 much as 3 cents, but the general range 

 of values is from 1 cent to 2 cents. 

 Easter lilies are coming in freely and 

 have declined to 6 cents and 8 cents. 

 Valley has been dull ever since Decem- 

 ber 27. The short-stemmed flowers go 

 begging at $1 per hundred, while as 

 much as $4 is paid for exceptionally 

 fine stock. Gardenias are quiet. A quo- 

 tation of 50 cents to $2 per dozen cov- 

 ers the run of the market, but there 

 have been sales both above and below 

 these figures, on the one hand for im- 



perfect flowers and on the other for 

 extra choice stock. Sweet peas have 

 as wide a range in quotations, 10 cents 

 to $1 per dozen bunches, as they have 

 in quality. Some that have been 

 sent in this week are dear at the in- 

 side price. Narcissi, both Paper White 

 and poeticus, are plentiful and cheap, 

 bringing from 75 cents to $2 per hun- 

 dred. Daisies are irregular in demand, 

 bringing from 35 cents to $1 per hun- 

 dred. Callas sell at from 60 cents to 

 $1.25 per dozen, with occasional sales of 

 large flowers at $1.50. A fairly good 

 demand is reported for the better 

 grades. Few hyacinths are offered, 

 but in the absence of demand the pre- 

 vious quotations of $1 to $1.50 per hun- 

 dred stand unchanged. Lilacs have 

 been dull here, partly because of lack 

 of demand and partly because of rather 

 heavy arrivals from Philadelphia. Sev- 

 eral yearts have elapsed since local 

 growers have had to compete with Phil- 

 adelphia. While quotations are 35 

 cents to $1 per bunch, choice bunches 

 have sold a little higher. Daffodils are 

 unchanged at 50 cents to $2 per hun- 

 dred. Southern daffodils have come in 

 during the week and have sold as low 

 as 3 cents per bunch and as high as 

 8 cents. Tulips are unchanged at $1 to 

 $3.00 per hundred. Freesias are not so 

 plentiful, but lack of demand prevents 



any marked change in quotations of 10 

 cents to 20 cents for average quality*. 

 Acacia is scarce and high, the supplies 

 being concentrated. Asparagus and 

 smilax are both in good demand at fair 

 prices. 



Club's Annual Dinner. 



The twenty-sixth annual dinner of 

 the New York Florists' Club will be 

 held in the belvedere, on the roof of 

 the Hotel Astor, April 10. Visitors 

 from distant points who belong to or- 

 ganizations participating in the Inter- 

 national Flower Show will be enter- 

 tained as guests of the club. Subscrip- 

 tions from members of the club will 

 be accepted at $4 a plate. Each table 

 will provide ten seats and subscribers 

 are urged to send in subscriptions early, 

 giving the names of those with whom 

 they wish to be seated. Tables will be 

 assigned in the order in which sub- 

 scriptions are received. The dinner 

 committee is composed of John B. Nu- 

 gent, Jr., Eobert Koehne, Joseph S. 

 Fenrich, Thomas Boothe de Forest, Wal- 

 ter F. Sheridan and Alexander M. Mc- 

 Connell. Subscriptions accompanied by 

 checks should be sent to the secretary 

 of the dinner committee, Joseph S. Fen- 

 rich, 51 West Twenty-eighth street, 

 New York. 



The belvedere, where the dinner is 

 to be held, is the most appropriate 

 place in New York for a florists' din- 

 ner. It embraces the western half of 

 the top of the Hotel Astor, which is 

 covered by an arched iron frame filled 

 with glass, constituting practically an 

 enormous greenhouse. The greenhouse 

 effect is further carried out by a taste- 

 ful arrangement of growing plants high 

 up in the lofty arches which enclose 

 the room. 



Various Notes. 



John Young reports many orders for 

 trade tickets to the International 

 Flower Show. These tickets, good for 

 any day of the show, are sold to the 

 trade at 25 cents each and where 100 

 are bought the name of the buyer will 

 be printed on the ticket free of cost. 



William Elliott & Sons put their 

 opening sale forward a week, so that 

 it occurred March 11, instead of St. 

 Patrick's day, as they had originally 

 intended. 



Morris De Leeuw has opened a store 

 at 1902 Seventh avenue, near One Hun- 

 dred and Fifteenth street. 



March 15 the regular monthly ex- 

 hibition of the Horticultural Society of 

 New York will be held at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. The only 

 class open to non-commercial growers 

 is one in which a silver medal is of- 

 fered for the best new rose not yet 

 in commerce. At 4 p. m. Edwin Jen- 

 kins will lecture on "Koses, Outside 

 Jfnd Under Glass." 



Among the visitors in town last week 

 were: Barney Myers, of Buffalo; Harry 

 Bayersdorfer, of Philadelphia; Patrick 

 Welch and Henry M. Eobinson, of Bos- 

 ton; E. W. McLellan, of San Francisco; 

 James Heacock, of Wyncote, Pa., and 

 Emil Bollinger, of South Bethlehem. 

 Pa. ' 



John Young, the veteran secretary, 

 says he not only got the double cross 

 but got it in the neck. The surgeons 

 at Roosevelt hospital did it with their 

 sharp little knives in removing a deep- 

 seated and obstreperous carbuncle. He 

 is back in his den on Twenty-eighth 

 street and at work, but will not be out 

 on the street for a week or more, al- 





