. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. f. -^^?- May 29, 1913. The Florists^ Review. The Latest Imported Paris Fashion, Hats Trimmed with Natural Flowers. pletely. Try it in your old, leaky gut- tors, after you have scrubbed them clean. B. J. Passaiore. AS OTHERS SEE US. Notes of a British Traveler. I'erhaps what foreign visitors write of us may not be particularly helpful, for it almost always is laudatory insteatl of critical, but it usually is interesting, es- pecially when the notes arc by such a keen observer as W. Wells, who came over from p]ngland for the National Flower Show. Mr.
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. f. -^^?- May 29, 1913. The Florists^ Review. The Latest Imported Paris Fashion, Hats Trimmed with Natural Flowers. pletely. Try it in your old, leaky gut- tors, after you have scrubbed them clean. B. J. Passaiore. AS OTHERS SEE US. Notes of a British Traveler. I'erhaps what foreign visitors write of us may not be particularly helpful, for it almost always is laudatory insteatl of critical, but it usually is interesting, es- pecially when the notes arc by such a keen observer as W. Wells, who came over from p]ngland for the National Flower Show. Mr. Wells not only sees, but he asks; he gets down to figures. He has paid previous visits to eastern trade tenters, but his April trip to Chicago was his first journey west. On his way he wrote copious notes and impressions for home consumption. Here are a few of them: A Visit to Poehlmannville. "There are three brothers in this gi- gantic business, and it was the youngest that started out when 17 years of age, and got rough work around the district where their nurseries now stand. Later he went into a nursery as a worker un- til he had amassed a fortune of rather less than $100. The two brothers had a little more cash, so the whole of the nnount was pooled, and the nursery was started. This was twenty-two years ago. Now the glass area covers thirty-eight i<res and there are about five acres of -heds and roads forming the entire site, riiey have enormous boilers, with ma- 'hiues of every description for green- liouse rejiair, and the boring, drilling, "unching, sawing, electrical and hauling •hints of the establishment are big vorks apart from the nursery. Any- hing that can be d, the ridges filled with ma- nure, then jilowed with a special i)low crossways, bone meal is added, and from this the soil is plowed again and again. In The winter this gets frozen and splen- did results are obtained. "With all this machine work, tlie wages bill of the firm is well ove
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