. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. October 21, 1920 The Florists^ Review 23 within that time shall be forfeited and paid into the general fund of the asso- ciation, is to be enforced. Hill Tells of Travels. At the morning session E. G. Hill spoke so interestingly in the brief time at his disposal that a special period was allotted to him in the afternoon. His remarks were regarding the leading British growers whom he had visited on his recent trip. Lowe & Shawyer, he declared, were the largest growers in the world. He spoke of their having 450,000 chrysanthemum plants on their p
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. October 21, 1920 The Florists^ Review 23 within that time shall be forfeited and paid into the general fund of the asso- ciation, is to be enforced. Hill Tells of Travels. At the morning session E. G. Hill spoke so interestingly in the brief time at his disposal that a special period was allotted to him in the afternoon. His remarks were regarding the leading British growers whom he had visited on his recent trip. Lowe & Shawyer, he declared, were the largest growers in the world. He spoke of their having 450,000 chrysanthemum plants on their place. They send to America for their boilers, however, using the Kroeschell make. At the establishment of W. E. Wal- lace he found 1-year-old carnation plants as high as his shoulders and 3- year-old plants as much as eight feet high. Small bits of colored cord mark the best plants and from these cuttings are taken. Pink Delight, Cerise and Mrs. C. W. Ward are grown. Enid, an English variety, free from splits and as large as Laddie, is as popular as that variety is here. It is a maroon suffused with scarlet. The method of packing, twenty-five blooms to a box, insures these splendid blooms arriving in the best condition. Carl Engelmann goes in for quantity production of carnations for the cut flower market and ships blooms all over Europe. He has some good seedlings, especially of scarlet. Praise President's Address. The committee on the president's ad- dress, in reporting its consideration of it, called that document the best and most carefully prepared ever presented at the association's meetings. Its reso- lutions, which were adopted, were as follows: Observance of the second week in October as F. T. D. week by florists throughout the United States and appointment of committee to pro- mote it, appointment of committee on retail store refrigeration, another on standardized boxes and another on de- livery costs, the association's endorse- ment of Sunday closing, publication of
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