. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Arm I, 2(). 1!)17. The Florists^ Review 21 FLUEOGE'S PANSIES. In addition to liis stand-hy crops of cut Howors, William Plucjjgo, Jr., at I Morton Grovo, 111., yrows a Hjjring crop J, of bedding plants and tliorc is at jyros- I ent a bed of pansics in bloom that makes i everyone who comes within sight stoj) [. for a second look. There are L';),00() '? ])lants in one lot, stiown in the acconi- ' j)anying illustration. A THORN IN BALTIMORE'S SIDE. Get Busy Now, Oriole Florists! Ever since Easter Saturday one thing- has neen up])ermost in my mind, and
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Arm I, 2(). 1!)17. The Florists^ Review 21 FLUEOGE'S PANSIES. In addition to liis stand-hy crops of cut Howors, William Plucjjgo, Jr., at I Morton Grovo, 111., yrows a Hjjring crop J, of bedding plants and tliorc is at jyros- I ent a bed of pansics in bloom that makes i everyone who comes within sight stoj) [. for a second look. There are L';),00() '? ])lants in one lot, stiown in the acconi- ' j)anying illustration. A THORN IN BALTIMORE'S SIDE. Get Busy Now, Oriole Florists! Ever since Easter Saturday one thing- has neen up])ermost in my mind, and that is the difticulties the many grow(>rs in the Lexington market at Baltimore had to contend with on that day. Now, let us l)e honest among ourselves and look the situation s()uarely in the face, and see if we cannot find' some methoil to imi)rove existing conditions at that ]ilace. Let us remember that The Ke- view is a trade journal and wliat we may see in its columns is, in a manner, confidential. I mean by this that it is read only by florists. The object of this article is to start agitation on this question and through this agitation see if we cannot arrange something definite in securing better (piarters for the grower who is obliged to depend on this market for the dis- ])Osal of his ])ro(luct. Take the small' grower, who toils all winter with houses that are not so modern as his more fortunate brother's to jjroduce stock just right forV^'hatever day Easter migjit irall on, and then has weather conditions to contend with. And I think everyone in the market will agree with me that in the last thirty years, for instance, tliere have l)een more Easters like the last one than fine days. The writer maintains that the wear and tear on the nerves of the grower is too imich for him—to work hard all winter over his stock and then see it ruined l)y the wind, and if not entirely ruined, then its selling value diminished. It is just a little too much. Some may ask why these
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