. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. MmBrica is "the Prow of the UessbI; tbere may he marB comfort Rmidships, but wb srs the lirst to touch Unknown Esas,' Vol. III. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1888. No. 66. f LHllE iAlMlS3§m« f fc©igi!@f Copyright, 1SS7, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and istli of each month by TUB AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. Gkneral Offices, 54 La Salle Street, Chicago. Eastern Office, Room 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York. All communications should be addressed to the gen
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. MmBrica is "the Prow of the UessbI; tbere may he marB comfort Rmidships, but wb srs the lirst to touch Unknown Esas,' Vol. III. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1888. No. 66. f LHllE iAlMlS3§m« f fc©igi!@f Copyright, 1SS7, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-class Mail matter. Published on the ist and istli of each month by TUB AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. Gkneral Offices, 54 La Salle Street, Chicago. Eastern Office, Room 81, Vanderbilt Building, New York. All communications should be addressed to the general office at Chicago. Society OF American Florists.—K. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind., president; John N. May, Svim- mit, N. J., vice-president; M. A. Hunt, Terre Haute. Ind., treasurer ; Wm. J. Stewart, 67 Broni- field street, Boston, Mass., secretary. The fourth annual meeting at New York, August 14, 15, 16, 1S88. Easter Plants. We wish to particularly call the atten- tion of our readers to the article under this head by Robert Craig in another col- umn. As was noted in our report of the Easter trade in last issue, the call for blooming plants at Easter has been rap- idly becoming more general ; and it will undoubtedly become larger each succeeding year. Florists will do well to make preparations to supply this de- mand, and to foster the same by placing upon the market at that time a good quantity of plants of the first quality; plants which are not only well covered with bloom, but which have been suffi- ciently hardened to stand delivery with- out serious injury to the flowers then open. The excellent prices which can be ob- tained for plants of the first quality at that time is not the only inducement to the grower ; the great value of a crop which can be made in itself very profita- able, and then be cleared out of the houses early in April—so early that the houses may be easily refilled with bed- ding stuif—is at once manifest. But do not attempt to grow second or t
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