. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Septembeb 22, 1921 The Florists^ Revkw 23 H•v:lv?^'tWJLv»J^v•y.'lVfyJlv•y|^«y^. .?/'«sir?ixiif*\iirsvir?svir?s?ir/*\ii^^^ FLOBICULTUBE IN GERMANY. Wax Halted Rapid Progress. Before the war the florists' trade in Germany was making rapid and great progress. Fruitful stimulation had been drawn from the observations made by German florists when pursuing their profession abroad and in the course of their visits to foreign exhibitions and to famous growers. Another fruitful cause of progress was the extraordi- narily well conducted technical school
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Septembeb 22, 1921 The Florists^ Revkw 23 H•v:lv?^'tWJLv»J^v•y.'lVfyJlv•y|^«y^. .?/'«sir?ixiif*\iirsvir?svir?s?ir/*\ii^^^ FLOBICULTUBE IN GERMANY. Wax Halted Rapid Progress. Before the war the florists' trade in Germany was making rapid and great progress. Fruitful stimulation had been drawn from the observations made by German florists when pursuing their profession abroad and in the course of their visits to foreign exhibitions and to famous growers. Another fruitful cause of progress was the extraordi- narily well conducted technical schools for gardening, as was also the intense degree of activity developed by an ever-increasing number of investiga- tions on questions pertaining to culture. Fruitful also was the stimulation result- ant on the increasing wealth of friends of gardening. A further important aid to progress was lent by the increasing wealth of the country, with the attend- ant increased buying capacity of the inhabitants. German growers supplied the whole world with lily of the valley pips. The seed growers of Erfurt and Quedlinburg had a firmly established reputation. German tree nurseries sent their pro- ductions to every European country and even as far as Patagonia. The ambi- tion to acquire as much knowledge as possible drove young German florists to England, France, Belgium and Hol- land. Limitatious. Judged by American standards, the average German florist's establishment may not have appeared to be on an extensive scale, and the methods may have seemed primitive, but the reason was lack of means, or failure to invest existing means. As a general rule, the German gardeners earned but little, and the movement towards specialization was not yet sufficiently developed. These conditions were the natural re- sult of the peculiar position of the coun- try. On the west, in Belgium and Hol- land, special cultures were flourishing, and the whole of Germany's require- ments in these lines were
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