The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
THOUsAND-DOLLAR BOUQUET

Blackfoot has one bouquet worth
more than a thousand dollars, and
yet little use is being made of it.
Some people came from Pocatello and
Idaho Falls to enjoy it, and many of
those living close by have not seen
iit.
In determining the value of this
bouquet we have taken low market
value and left room to trim it severe
Ily. 1t is made up of seven rows of
Ipeonies, each row over 500 feet long
and constitutes wave OF beauty 1t
is at o. F. Smiths, west of town, and
nearly back of his house. Besides
the main crop, there are lot of them
in the front yard, enough to start
ecstatics in lovers of floral beauty.
A careful estimate of the rows and
their contents showed them equal to
one row three-quarters of mile long
and containing enough blooms to
reach two miles If placed side by
side with the edges touching; enough
blooms to line both sides of Shilling
avenue from one end to the other
with solid rows of deep red alternat-
ed with white or pink every few
inches II gathered and placed in
floats in procession of a thousand
in each float, it would make a close
procession two plocks long If made
into bouquets of a dozen in each, it
would be enough to place one at a
front window and dining room of
each home in Blackfoot, and If kept
protected from the sun and supplied
with fresh water each day they would
maintain their exquisit beauty for
about week from the time of CUT
ting. If the grower were to receive
pay for them at the low market price
LOT SO cents dozen, they would bring
about $3.50 besides the cost of pick
ling. If paid for at the top of the
market price they would bring over
two thousand dollars. aa
| Mrs. Smith is business woman,
and she is filling orders for peonies
but only a very few. people, in the
community know what beauties she
Ehas waiting, and the peony season
Twill close in week. or two. Who
fever invented peonies made them so
beautiful and so dainty that they do
not last long, and one has to hurry
if they do not miss this passing
tbeauty Mrs. Smiths phone number
lis 317r3, and she sends the peonies
fright to your door if you ring for
them.
But we have digressed; we wanted
ITO suggest that thousand families
[get peony roots in October and pro-
Fceed to raise their own. If people
Ion Shilling avenue want to make
their street famous they can set a
fine pace by lining 1t with peonies in
,plenty. II some other street is am
bilious to be more beautiful than
SHILLING, the way is open to do it
by setting peonies and other things
land do 1t next fall. II somebody
wants to make lot of money on
their back yard they can do so by
lgetting the earliest peonies possible,
land then stimulating them in the
Espring so they will bloom a little
earlier than the others and have
them on sale for Decoration Day.
The regular crop does not bloom until
just after that event, and the price
drops and the demand is not great,
though that is largely matter of
custom and appreciation. If people
were more accustomed to having
flowers in their homes the demand
would double up rapidly.
Now II you don't have peonies at
your house tomorrow, and If you
don't have them blooming in your
yard next June it will not be our
fault. We have told you where to
get them, and we have reminded you
of their rare beauty as well as we
could.
We charge one-half more II re-
4 niles to adyertising have TO come IN