March ao, 191G. 



The Florists' Review 



37 



CON'CESSIONS. 



Louis Burk, clialrman. 

 Henry r. Mlcliell, Walter 1*. Stokes. 



A. T. Moore. 



LECTURES. 

 J. Otto Tbllow, chairman. 

 Cnas. E. Meehan, Robert Fyle. 



PRINTING. 

 Samuel S. Pennock, chairman. 

 Fred J. Mlchell, Jr., FVank M. Ross. 



LEASE, CONTRACTS AND HALL. 

 A. Farenwald, chairman. 

 W. P. Craig. Louis Burk, 



S. S. Pennock, W. F. Kasting. 



TRADE TICKETS. 

 E. J. Fancourt, chairman. 

 Mark P. Mills, K. C. Dungan, 



David Burpee, W. K. Harris, 



Alfred Burton. 

 ADMISSION. 

 John Young, P. Welch, 



W. F. Kasting. 

 of the N. F. S. -committee, 

 and the committee on trade tickets. 

 SPECIAL PBSadlUMS. 



Wm. P. Craig, chairman. 

 Frank Babcock, W. F. Therkildson, 



Louis Btnk. 



INFORMATION. 



Fred Cowperthwalte, chairman. 

 n. F. Michell II, Dennis Keohane, 



John C. Gracey, Harry S. Betz, 



John Berger, D. B. Edwards, 



M. C. Wright, L. H. Dudman, 



David B. Colflesh, Wm. H. Engler, 



Anthony Waterer. 



ADVERTISING. 

 Chas. Henry Fox, chairman. 

 Montgomery Wright, J. Otto Tliilow, 

 Wm. Warner Harper 

 and the committee on publicity. 

 DECORATIONS. 

 John P. Habermehl, chairman. 

 William Graham. Robert Kift. 



SPECIAL FEATURES. 

 Chas. H. Grakelow, chairman. 

 Harry S. Evans, Fred Cowpeithwaltp, 



Edward A. Stroud, Harry S. Betz, 



Hon. W. Freeland Kendrick. 



MUSIC. 



Leo Niessen, chairman, 



and the committee on special features. 



AQUARIUMS. 

 Franklin Barrett, chairman. 

 Dr. Herman Bergin, Harry Peters, 

 W. L. Rosenberger, Wm. Peek, 

 Hiram Parker, Robert Schaeffer. 



Wm. T. Innes, Jr. 



NURSERYMEN. 



Wm. Warner Harper, chairniiin. 

 Thos. B. Meehan, Adolph Mullir. 



James Krewson. 



S. A. F. DIRECTORS MEET. 



The S. A. F. directors have again 

 departed, as they did last year, from 

 the custom of holding the annual mid- 

 Lenten meeting in the convention city 

 and met at the Hotel Walton, Philadel- 

 phia, holding the first session on tho 

 afternoon of March 28 at 2 p. m. The 

 meeting has the largest attendance in 

 the history of the S. A. F., for the full 

 elected and appointed board as present 

 in Philadelphia this week, as are all 

 the directors under affiliation except 

 the presidents of the Pacific Coast 

 Horticultural Society and the Florists' 

 Hail Association. Those present are: 



President Daniel MacRorie, of San Kraiiclsco, 

 Oal. 



Vice-president Robert C. Kerr, of Houston, 

 Tex. 



Secretary John Young, of New York. 



Treasurer W. F. Kasting. of Buffalo. 



Director .T. J. Hess, of Omaha. 



Director J. A. Peterson, of Cinrlniiatl. 



Director W. R. Nicholson, of Framlnghnm, 

 Mass. 



Director W. J. Keimel, of Elmhurst. 111. 



Director A. J. Rossi, of San Francisco. On!. 



Director Charles L. Baum, of Knoxvllle. Tenn. 



Ex-offlcio Director Patrick Welch, of Boston. 



S. S. Pennock, of Philadelphia, president of 

 the American Rose Society. 



Joseph H. Hill, of Richmond. Ind., president 

 of the American Carnation Society. 



Irwin Bertermann, of Indianapolis, president 

 of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery. 



Henry Weston, of Elmhurst, L. I., president 

 of the New York Florists' Club. 



George Burton, of Chestnut Hill, Pa., presi- 

 dent of the Florists' Club of Philadelphia. 



Alex. Henderson, of Chicago, president of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club. 



The routine work of the S. A. F. now 



is done at the meetings of the board of 



Adolph Farenwald. 



(Chairman Local Executive Committee for the National Show.) 



directors and there is a large volume 

 of detail to be put through before the 

 board can adjourn. The plans for the 

 thirty-second annual convention the 

 third week in August are being put 

 into shape. 



STATE WORKERS GET TOGETHER. 



At the call of W. N. Rudd, of Hli- 

 nois, a meeting was held at the Hotel 

 Walton, Philadelphia, Tuesday evening, 

 March 28, for the purpose of prelimi- 

 nary steps to bring the various state 

 floricultural experiment stations into an 

 organization that will tend to coordi- 

 nate their work. The meeting was at- 

 tended by representatives of the flori- 

 cultural experiment stations in Illinois, 

 New York, Massachusetts, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio and New Jersey, as well as 

 by a number of those in the trade 

 who are interested in the work being 

 (lone at these institutions. The plan 

 is to form an organization which will 

 assist in making the work of each in- 

 stitution available to all, to prevent 

 duplication and to develop the full pos- 

 sibilities that lie in such funds and 

 equipment as are available. 



CASTLE GOULD CELOSIAS. 



I want to grow some Celosia Pride 

 of Castle Gould and any information 

 in regard to growing them will be ap- 

 preciated. Can they be grown in 

 benches for cut flowers, or would you 

 grow them in pots? L. L. — Mo. 



sown in a shallow pan about May 1, 

 and the seedlings are transplanted into 

 flats and later kept potted along, using 

 at all times a light but rich soil, they 

 will make splendid plants for flower- 

 ing from September until November. 

 They will succeed in any ordinary 

 greenhouse through the summer, but 

 as the nights become cooler give them 

 a minimum temperature of 55 to 58 

 degrees. Splendid plants may be had 

 in 8-inch pots. Never let the plants 

 become potbound before giving them 

 the final shift. Feed with liquid ma- 

 nure when they are well established in 

 the flowering pots. C. W. 



AN OVERDOSE OF SULPHUR. 



Perhaps a word of caution about the 

 use of sulphur on the steam pipes 

 might be of benefit to some of your 

 least experienced readers. I am quite 

 well convinced that one would better 

 go slowly with the application of sul- 

 phur in that way. My sweet peas were 

 affected with mildew and I, like an 

 ignoramus, gave four of the six heat- 

 ing pipes on each side of the house a 

 light painting with the stuflf, a little 

 more than the extent of the bed, and, 

 lo! I lost every blossom on the vines, 

 but the mildew is still "dewing" 

 business. F. G. — 111. 



I have had no experience with 

 Celosia Pride of Castle Gould in 

 benches, but as a pot plant for late 

 summer or fall blooming it is excel- 

 lent. I have found that if seed is 



You have overdone the sulphuring 

 business. Painting a single pipe on 

 each side would have proved ample. 

 Painting so many could not fail to ruin 

 the buds. If this has not killed the 

 mildew, spray with Fungine and care- 

 fully avoid drafts from the ventilators, 

 which are usually the cause of mildew. 



C. W. 



