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The Florists^ Review 



JULT 20, 1916. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



ErtsbUshed. 189T. by a. L. QRANT. 



Published every Thorsday by 

 Thb Ploeists' Publishing Co., 



SSO-saO Gazton Building, 



SOSSootb Dearborn St., Ohlcaffo. 



Tele.. Wabash 8195. 



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Florriew, OhlcafO. 



Entered as second class matter 

 Dec. S. 1897. at the poet-office at Chi- 

 cago, IIU, under the Act of March 

 «, 1879. 



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 To Canada, $2.00; to Europe, $3.00. 



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 vertising accepted. 



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BT 6 P. M. TUESDAY. 



SOCIETY OF AlfEIUCAir FLOBISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4. 1901. 



Officers for 1916: President, Daniel MacRorie, 

 Ban lYsnclsco; vice-president, R. C. Kerr, Hens- 

 ton, Tex.; secretary, John Young, 63 W. 28th 

 St., New York City; treasurer, J. J. Hess, 

 Omaha. 



Thirty-second annual convention, Houston, 

 Texas, August 15 to 18, 1916. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Though it is no news that The Eeview 

 does not undertake to answer anonymous 

 inquiries, perfectly good stamps continue 

 to be sacrificed sending them in. 



We would laugh at the farmer who ex- 



•pected to get milk from a cow without 



feeding the animal, yet there are many 



growers who have a fit over a fertilizer 



bill. 



Again this summer growers of Amer- 

 ican Beauty are having considerable trou- 

 ble with black spot. With decreasing 

 vitality the variety seems to be increas- 

 ingly susceptible to spot. 



Greatly increased interest is manifested 

 by florists who grow for their own retail 

 business in hardy perennial flowers for 

 cutting. City retail stores are seen to be 

 using these to good advantage and the 

 smaller man in the country is quite gen- 

 erally following suit. 



In England and the Channel Islands the 

 shortage of labor has resulted in a large 

 number of women taking the places for- 

 merly held by men, in greenhouses as in 

 other industries. The women are found 

 to make extremrty capable greenhouse 

 hands in winter, but to stand the summer 

 heat under glass less well than men. 



The scarcity of merchandise, which in 

 many lines was pronounced in the early 

 part of the year, has lieen quite generally 

 : i overcome, but this is not the case with 

 ' the grade of tissue paper used by florists. 

 Mills seldom will promise delivery under 

 six weeks and prices are nearly three 

 times what they were under normal condi- 

 tions. 



Winners of Jubilee Medals. 



The American Carnation Society's 

 silver jubilee medals were awarded to 

 each winner of a first premium in the 

 competitive carnation classes at the Na- 

 tional Flower Show at Philadelphia last 

 March. 



Fifteen of these medals were award- 

 ed and have been distributed to the fol- 

 lowing: 



S. J. Goddard. of Framingham, Mass. 



The B. G. Hill Co., cf Richmond, Ind. 



The Strafford Flower Farm, of Strafford, Pa. 



The J. W. Mlnott Co., of Portland, Me. 



E. F. Lieker, of Lansdowne, Pa. 



The Cottage Gardens Co., of Queens, N. T. 



A. A. Pembroke, of Beverly, Mass. 



Charles Strout, of Biddeford, Me. 



William Klelnheinz, of Ogontz, Pa. 



W. L. Ellis, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



William Graham, of Greenwich, Conn. 



Mrs. W. Austin, of Rosemont, Pa. 



A. Harvey & Sons, of Brandywlne Summit, Pa. 



Countess Bulalia, of Klklns Park, Pa. 



W. E. Lenk, of Halifax, Mass. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec'y. 



REDUCED RATES TO HOUSTQN. 



For the convention of the Society of 

 American Florists at Houston, Tex., the 

 railroads have granted greatly reduced 

 round-trip rates, as follows: 



Chicago to Houston and return $46.65 



St. Louis to Houston and return ,14.65 



Kansas City to Houston and return 32.00 



The Chicago party, occupying special 

 cars, will leave via the Wabash at 11:55 

 p. m., Sunday, August 13, and arrive 

 in St. Louis at 7:40 Monday morning. 

 The special cars will be attached to the 

 Iron Mountain Texas Limited, leaving 

 at 9 a. m., due at Houston, Tuesday, 

 August 15, at 2 p. m., in time for the 

 opening session. 



YOUNG ORPET NOT GUILTY. 



The friends of E. 0. Orpet, formerly 

 of Boston and now superintendent of 

 the McCormick estate at Lake Forest, 

 111., will be glad to learn that the jury 

 acquitted Will Orpet on the charge of 

 murdering Marion Lambert, daughter 

 of Frank Lambert, head gardener on 

 the neighboring Kuppenheimer estate. 

 The girl was found dead in the woods 

 and the chemist made it certlin that 

 she died of poisoning with potassium 

 cyanide. The state endeavored to prove 

 that the drug was administered by 

 Orpet, the defense that it was self-ad- 

 ministered. On each side it was sought 

 to show that the drug was readily ob- 

 tainable from the father's stock of 

 greenhouse fumigating materials, but 

 the defense proved that the accessible 

 fumigant was sodium cyanide, not po- 

 tassium cyanide. The case attracted 

 much attention, the Chicago daily pa- 

 pers devoting many pages to it. That 

 the prosecution had failed to impress 

 the jury was apparent before the close 

 of the trial and the quick verdict of not 

 guilty was not unexpected. 



PRICES COMING DOWN. 



Slowly but steadily commodity prices, 

 which have been adversely affecting 

 the special interests of florists, are 

 coming down. For instance, the sky- 

 rocketing of spelter (zinc) early in 

 the year has caused growers to pay 

 greatly advanced prices for wire stakes 

 and retailers to pay much more than 

 usual for galvanized cut flower storage 

 vases. But spelter recer^Jly has lost 

 "^ve-sevenths of the adrjnree. Cop- 

 per, steel, lead and other markets are 



less strong and prices are falling. The 

 period of inevitable reaction from the 

 boom of the last year appears to have 

 set in. Munitions factories are com- 

 pleting their contracts and are reducing 

 their forces; demands of nearly every 

 nature are less insistent. That a rapid 

 decline is in prospect seems improbable, 

 but that general commodity prices have 

 passed the apex appears sure. On a 

 falling market the rule is to buy only 

 for present needs. 



How the trade will be affected, in 

 the larger way, by a turn in general 

 business is not yet apparent. A reduc- 

 tion in commodity prices vfill be of di- 

 rect and immediate benefit, but a slow- 

 ing up in general business could not go 

 far without affecting the demand for 

 and prices of flowers. 



THE QUICKEST WAY? 



This is by Edward N. Hurley, vice- 

 chairman of the Federal Trade Commis- 

 sion, in an address to the Advertising 

 Clubs of the World: 



"Gentlemen, is there any quicker 

 way to separate friends, or to force cus- 

 tomers- off your books, or to create 

 a break between business men, than 

 to send out cold, sarcastic letters!" 



TROUBLES NEVER COME SINGLY. 



Fire completely destroyed the build- 

 ing of the W. F. Kasting Co., 383 to 

 387 Ellicott street, Buffalo, on the morn- 

 ing of July 19. At nine o'clock tem- 

 porary quarters had been secured at 493 

 Washington street and business was 

 going on much as usual. 



The Kasting company lost its presi- 

 dept by apoplexy only a month ago. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The continuance of sultry weather has 

 resulted in a continuance of the market 

 ' conditions that go with it. The market 

 is well filled with inferior stock that 

 can be moved only at a ridiculously low 

 figure, and even then some of it never 

 sees the retail store. But this is only 

 one side of the matter. There is a 

 fairly liberal supply of young stock 

 coming into the market and this sells 

 readily. So when all the circumstances 

 governing the market are taken into 

 consideration, there is no valid ground 

 for complaint, and in justice to the 

 trade it may be added that little com- 

 plaint is heard; the general report is 

 that the volume of business exceeds that 

 of a year ago. 



New Beauties are coming in more 

 heavily and these sell promptly. Of 

 other roses, good stock is decidedly 

 scarce, but open stock, small stock and 

 stock that is palpably worthless is more 

 than abundant. As usual, but small 

 salesmanship is required to dispose of 

 the really first-class stock, but it re- 

 quires the greatest ingenuity of the 

 wholesalers to get the greater part of 

 the receipts out of the market. Ophelia 

 has lost its favor; it pops open under 

 the heat. Eussell is off color, but still 

 is the best seller. It is too hot for 

 red roses to be in request. * 



He who can use little cftnJtions of 

 indifferent quality can find his oppor- 

 tunity in the -present market, particu- 

 larly if he is inclined to buy in quanti- 

 "ties. It was not to be expected that 

 valley would long continue to meet the 



