. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OME years ago, when the idea of commemorating Mothers' day by wearing a carnation was origi- nated by Miss Jarvis, a great deal of publicity was obtained. The ladies' clubs, churches, etc., catch- ing the idea, took it up and followed her lead, with the result that the first year found Wichita exceedingly short in the sup- ply of carnations and long in the de- mand for them. Being some twenty- four hours away from any large market, we have tovplace our order early to get carnations. We were unfortunate in receiving tjie first cut of carnations and
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OME years ago, when the idea of commemorating Mothers' day by wearing a carnation was origi- nated by Miss Jarvis, a great deal of publicity was obtained. The ladies' clubs, churches, etc., catch- ing the idea, took it up and followed her lead, with the result that the first year found Wichita exceedingly short in the sup- ply of carnations and long in the de- mand for them. Being some twenty- four hours away from any large market, we have tovplace our order early to get carnations. We were unfortunate in receiving tjie first cut of carnations and by the time they reached us the poor things were so tired that they went to .sleep, which* all florists know is most discouraging. I do not blame the grow- ers for holding their flowers as long as they possibly can, and I do not blame the commission houses for disposing of the first cut first. But the poor florists, twenty-four to thirty-six hours away from the market, had to take the sleepy carnations, pay for them, smile and try to make the best of a bad matter. The second and third years seemed equally bad, if not worse, for the demand for . carnations had in- creased. I took up the matter of increas- ing our cut with my carnation g r o w- e r and told him that I thought we could do it. By carefully watching the flow- ers at the time of development we came to the conclu- sion that we could increase the yield. Our method has been this: On or about February 1 we select a bench or two of carnations which are begin- ning to show many shoots coming on. disbudding. By February ;) the buds begin to show. Wc disbud the lower two, as these two have a rather weak stem. Then we watch the development of the remaining buds. If the terminal bud is developing rapidly, we leave that on, as it holds the next bud back somewhat. W li c n the terminal bud has opened, we take it off and use it in design work. If the terminal bud is not developing rapidly, The paper by Charles P. Mueller,
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