Jdnb 20, 1913. 



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Th?. Florists^ Review 



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Four Generations of the Thomas Joy Fanaily, of Nashvillet Tenn. 



enjoy frequent syringings during hot 

 weather. There is an old but exploded 

 fallacy about spraying plants over when 

 the sun shines. As a matter of fact, 

 there are few plants which are not 

 greatly refreshed, no matter whether 

 growing under glass or outdoors, by a 

 wetting overhead when the sun shines 

 with tropical intensity. Hard-wooded 

 plants, particularly, like several hosings 

 overhead on hot days and should have 

 a good syringing late in the afternoon. 

 If they have been firmly planted in suit- 

 able soil, and are not allowed to be- 

 come dry, they will make splendid 

 growth and will flower as well as any 

 that can be imported, if not better. 

 This holds particularly true of such 

 ericas as melanthera, Mediterranea and 

 Caffra densa, of acacias like armata, all 

 the Indian azaleas and camellias and 

 some few other varieties. 



FOUR GENERATIONS OF FLORISTS. 



The two elder members of the group 

 in the accompanying illustration, T. C. 

 Joy, Sr. and Jr., moved to Nashville, 

 Tenn., from Michigan and entered a 

 partnership market garden and florists' 

 business in 1878, clearing $3,000 on 

 cabbage alone the first year. Four years 

 later they moved to the present site and 

 bmlt two greenhouses, each 15x60 feet 

 and heated by flues. 



The business prospered from the first, 

 although the vegetable end was the 

 larger for some time. The family has 

 never entirely forsaken market garden- 

 ing, growing several hundred barrels of 

 potatoes each season. At present there 

 is over 200,000 feet under glass, be- 

 sides the large area of hotbeds and 

 coldframes. About eighty acres of land 



are used for outdoor crops, most of 

 which are flowers. 



The company grows a general line of 

 flowers and plants, and disposes of most 

 of the output at retail in the local mar- 

 ket. During the month of May, 1913, 

 a careful record was kept of the roses 

 cut and marketed and it was found the 

 total was 57,800. The cuts of carna- 

 tions and of sweet peas were corre- 

 spondingly heavy. The company has 

 planted 2,500 plants of its new double 

 pink Killamey rose and means to show 

 it widely the coming season and to in- 

 troduce it in 1915. The raisers believe 

 that there is no pink rose in the market 

 today that will approach it as a money- 

 maker. 



The elder Mr. Joy retired from active 

 connection with the business six years 

 ago, .although he is still in the best of 

 health. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Southwestern Market. 



The hot, dry weather last week had 

 a bad effect on the wholesale markets 

 and the bulk of the stock was of poor 

 quality. There was plenty of this poor 

 grade, but first-class stock was hard to 

 obtain. There was an abundance of 

 roses, but they came wide open unless 

 cut in tight buds. Some good Beauties 

 were to be had daily, and plenty of 

 short-stem Killarneys. Sweet peas are 

 short-stemmed and of poor quality. The 

 market was overstocked with them all 

 of last week. Carnations, too, are plen- 

 tiful and are considerably smaller in 

 flower and stem. The demand for these 

 has been good at the wholesale houses. 

 Large, fine Shasta daisies are coming 



in daily and meet with a big call. The 

 large cut of gladioli that was expected 

 by this time has not come as yet. The 

 dry weather has kept them back. The 

 few that come look poor, with burned 

 tips. Asters, too, are of poor quality. 

 The demand for white has been good. 

 Easter lilies, when good, sell well. Val- 

 ley was in good demand all the week, 

 as there were a great many weddings. 

 The big rain storm of Sunday, June 

 22, will do a world of good to the stock 

 in the field. The week opened as though 

 the summer dullness had set in to stay. 



Various Notes. 



Carl Whitinger, representing the A. 

 L. Randall Co., Chicago, and Sam 

 Freund, representing A. A. Arnold, Chi- 

 cago, were callers last week. Both re- 

 ported good trade. 



The Foley Mfg. Co., Chicago, will 

 furnish tljjB building material for the 

 new range of rose houses for Werner 

 Bros., at Clayton, which will be built 

 this summer. The Werners have had 

 great success this season with roses. 

 Their specialties were Killarney, White 

 Killamey and Richmond. They also 

 grow valley, carnations and lilies. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club 

 held a meeting at Smith's wholesale 

 house, Friday, June 20, to arrange the 

 program for the twentieth annual pic- 

 nic at Romona park, July 17. A num- 

 ber of special prizes have already been 

 offered, and Chairman Ossick says that 

 any in the trade who wish to offer a 

 prize for any of the events should make 

 it known to one of the trustees. Prof. 

 H. C. Irish, chairman of the flower 

 show committee, has called a meeting 

 of his committee for this week, to con- 

 fer with Manager Robinson and the 



