. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OCTOBBB 13, 1921 The Florists' Review 33. OROwnra easly mums. Yesterday and Today. The chrysanthemum is of Japanese origin, symbolic with the Japanese. It has come to this country and found a host of friends; yes, it has become the most popular flower in its season. I do particularly well remember when I was a boy, my father used to grow a large quantity of a certain white chrysanthe- mum in pots, which would grow at their will without disbudding. To get as many flowers as possible from a plant was the main object. These plants would be grown in po
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OCTOBBB 13, 1921 The Florists' Review 33. OROwnra easly mums. Yesterday and Today. The chrysanthemum is of Japanese origin, symbolic with the Japanese. It has come to this country and found a host of friends; yes, it has become the most popular flower in its season. I do particularly well remember when I was a boy, my father used to grow a large quantity of a certain white chrysanthe- mum in pots, which would grow at their will without disbudding. To get as many flowers as possible from a plant was the main object. These plants would be grown in pots, plunged in beds about four feet wide. They were grown outside in this manner during the sum- mer months, with all attention to water- ing and tying, and once a week an ap- plication of liquid manure would help to grow these plants about thirty inches high, bushy and with buds literally cov- ered. When the top or center buds were de- veloped, the chrysanthemum season had opened. These would be pinched out or cut off with their short, little stems and packed into a chip-basket. Such a bas- ket would hold about 100 to 150 blooms. After covering this basket with a news- paper, tied with raffia, it was ready to be sold or delivered to the city florist. Telephones at that time were not much known and were few, but postal cards would reach us from one or the other florist in the city every day with orders for 100 or more of these chrysanthe- mums. To pick up the necessary quan- tity and affix to each basket the proper address was then quickly done. It was my job to deliver these flowers, not all the way to the city, but a few squares to the street car line, awaiting the horse-drawn street car. I would jump in, go right through the car to the driver, who was motorman, or bet- ter, street car driver and conductor both. The basket of chrysanthemums I would place on the front platform, the tip I would place in his hand and he would do the rest. He knew all the flower stores along his
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