. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Joseph Bennett. President Montreal Gardeners'and Florists' Club. (See page 913.) Stock for the Christmas rush, but that should be no reason why we should run the houses at from 90° to 100° to get a quantity. The quality will not be there and the plants will be perhaps for weeks practically at a standstill. Do not keep back the stock until it loses color and freshness and then rush a lot of it in at the last minute. The store man may have troubles of his own about that time and the fancy prices you may have been fi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Joseph Bennett. President Montreal Gardeners'and Florists' Club. (See page 913.) Stock for the Christmas rush, but that should be no reason why we should run the houses at from 90° to 100° to get a quantity. The quality will not be there and the plants will be perhaps for weeks practically at a standstill. Do not keep back the stock until it loses color and freshness and then rush a lot of it in at the last minute. The store man may have troubles of his own about that time and the fancy prices you may have been figuring on will surely fail to materialize. Get right after the little details syste- matically, it is the small things that count. If a thing needs doing to-day do it to-day, tomorrow you will find other things to attend to. E. THE CARNATION. Ladles of the Trade. MRS. MAHY WURMELL, INDIANAPOLIS. Mrs. Mary Wurmell has been connected with the retail flower business almost all her life. About eight years ago she came to Indianapolis from Peoria, 111., and, with the exception of a short time, has since managed the flower department of Huntington & Page's seed store. Never tiring and always good humored, she holds the esteem and confidence ot her employers as well as of her large circle of customers and, as purchasing agent for her department, she has earned the respect and friendship of the wholesale trade. Mrs. Wurmell ranks high as a decorator. One of her latest achieve- ments, highly praised and admired by many, was the table and hall decoration of the annual convocation of the Mystic Shrine. Champlin, —Irving Kimball is completing a new greenhouse 16x60 feet which will be used for pansies. Burlington, Vt.—A. J. Taylor's retail store was flooded December 13, by the bursting of a large water main and many plants were damaged. Carnation Notes. R. C. Pye, of Nyack, N. Y., is growing some of the new seedling, Senator Crane, lor E. Dolby, Dalton, Mass., the origina- t
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