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The Florists^ Review 



August 3, 1916. 



fEatebllahed, 1897. by Q. L. QRANT. 



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BT 6 P. M. TUESDAY. 



SOCIETT OF AKERICAN FXOKISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress. March 4, 1901. 



Offlcers for 1916: President, Daniel MacRorie, 

 Ban lYancisco; rice-president, B. C. Kerr, Hens- 

 ton, Tex.; secretary. John Teuag, 63 W. 28tli 

 St., New Tork 01^; treasurer, J. J. Hess, 

 Omaha. 



Thirty-second annual conTenti<m, Houston, 

 Texas, Augnst 16 to 18. 1916. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The newer delphiniums are winning 

 wide popularity. Get some and watch 

 the way your customers take to them. 



Growers are taking the safe course by 

 filling their coal bunkers during August. 

 An acute car shortage is predicted for the 

 autumn. 



The man who can offer a good batch 

 of 6-inch to 8-inch Bostons in summer 

 wUl bank a nice bit of quick money. 

 Everybody has the stock in the autumn, 

 and none in summer. 



The Floridans have gained nearly a 

 monopoly of the asparagus business; 

 while many growers still produce sprays 

 in waste corners, few men can make 

 asparagus pay its way as a greenhouse 

 crop. 



The premium list for the exhibition of 

 the Horticultural Society of New York, 

 to be held November 9 to 12, has been is- 

 sued and may be obtained by addressing 

 George V. Nash, secretary, Bronx Park, 

 New York city. 



"With business good, why sell to the 

 man who makes one wait unduly long for 

 the money? There are plenty to sell to 

 who pay promptly." It is a line of rea- 

 soning that has been heard of with in- 

 creasing frequence in the trade of late. 



Thomas Knight, of Knight & Struck 

 Co., New York, states that the reoent sale 

 of the entire orchid collection of George 

 Field, of Washington, D. C, to W. J. & 

 M, S. Versey, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was 

 negotiated by Mr. Struck, of his concern. 

 It was the largest deal in orchids ever 

 consummated in America. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Clinton, Mass. — Hollis E. Pease has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy, in which 

 he states that his assets are $40.23 and 

 his liabilities $2,500. 



St. Paul, Minn.— The E i v e r a i d e 

 Greenhouse Co., H. A. Boardman, pro- 

 prietor, has filed a voluntary petition 

 in bankruptcy. The liabilities of the 

 concern are placed at "$5,744.54 and the 

 assets at $200, the latter being exempt. 

 The owner for a number of years con- 

 ducted the greenhouses and about four 

 years ago operated a store in the Hotel 

 St. Paul, later moving the store to 

 East Sixth street, near Robert street. 

 This store was discontinued about a 

 year ago. 



TEXAS STATE CONVENTION. 



L. J. Tackett, secretary-treasurer of 

 the Texas State Florists' Association, 

 asks The Review to remind its readers 

 that the third annual meeting of the 

 state society will be held at Houston on 

 Monday, August 14, the day preceding 

 the opening of the S. A. F. convention. 

 The morning and afternoon sessions of 

 the state body will be held in the ban- 

 quet hall of the Houston Ci^y Audi- 

 torium. The evening session will be 

 held in connection with a banquet in 

 the roof garden of the Rice hotel. 



"All florists," says Mr. Tackett, '.'in 

 or out of the state, who contemplate at- 

 tending the convention of the S. A. F., 

 are invited to come early, so as to be 

 with us August 14, to attend the con- 

 vention of the Texas florists." 



The, program is as follows: 



rriLST SESSION, 10 A. M. 



Meeting called to order by President U. C. 

 Kerr, Houston. 



Invocation — Dr. Peter Gray Sears, Houston. 



Address of Welcome — Hon. Ben Campbell, 

 Mayor of Houston. 



Response — E. B. Stone, Dickinson. 



Reading' of Minutes of 191.5 Convention. 



President's Annual Address — R. C. Kerr. 



Report of Secretary-Treasurer. 



Reports of Committees. 



Report on the 1915 Flower Show. 



Appointment of Committees. 



"Better Preipht Rates for Texas Florists" — 

 W. J. Baker, Fort Worth. 



"Importance of Meml)er8hip in tlie S. A. F." 

 —Henry Oreve, Dallas. 



SECOND SESSION, 2 P. M. 



Selecting of Place for 1917 Convention. 



Selecting of Place for 1916 Flower Show. 



Election of Officers. 



"Progress That Is Being Made Toward Secur- 

 ing an Experimental Range of Glass" — Prof. B. 

 J. Kyle, C?oilege Station. 



"The Difficulties of Retailers With Wholesal- 

 ers on Shipments of Cut Flowers Unfit for Use 

 and How to Overcome Them" — A. F. Koelhe, 

 Sherman. 



THIRD SESSION, 8:30 P. M. 



"Practical Use of Our Wild Flowers"— C. E. 

 Papworth, Fort Worth. 



"The Need of More Wholesale Glass in Tex- 

 as" — H. O. Hann.ih, Sherman. 



"What the ladles Are Doing for the Florist 

 World"- — Mrs. Annie Wolfe Brpgance, Waco. 



"The Outlook for Texas Florists for the Com- 

 ing Tear, With Some Suggestions on What to 

 Expect" — Otto Lang, Dallas. 



JULY BUSINESS EXCELLENT. 



Perhaps nothing is so indicative of 

 the condition of business as the record 

 for July, normally one of the dullest 

 months of the year in this trade. The 

 report is quite general that sales in 

 July set a new high mark for the 

 month. The demand has been notice- 

 ably steady, in contrast to the spas- 

 modic condition we have grown to ex- 

 pect during the summer. 



And one of the curious features has 

 been that business has improved as 

 the weather grew hotter — the first part 

 of the month was normal as to weather 

 and nearly so as to business, but the 

 latter part of the month was marked 



by one of the most prolonged heat 

 waves, general over the country from 

 the Rockies to the Alleghenies, that 

 ever has been known. At many places 

 heat records of from five to fifteen 

 years' standing were broken, and yet 

 business, comparatively speaking, was 

 excellent, better and better as the 

 month progressed. Notably, business 

 was better than usual in the better class 

 of stores, where flowers are sold at 

 good prices. 



The impression prevails that the busi- 

 ness of August also will exceed all pre- 

 vious records for the month. 



S. A. F. OPPOSES DUMPING. 



William F. Gude, chairman of the 

 tariff legislation committee of the 

 S. A. F., at the request of Secretary 

 Young, has taken up with members of 

 the Senate finance committee the mat- 

 ter of that section of the. new general 

 revenue bill providing against the 

 dumping into the American market of 

 foreign merchandise. He told those of 

 the members whom he saw that it was 

 the desire of the florists of the United 

 States that this section be enacted into 

 law in its present shape. Supplement- 

 ing these remarks, Mr. Gude has sent 

 the following letter: 



To the Finance Committee, 



Hon F. M. Simmons, Chairman, 



U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C. 



Gentlemen: As national representative of the 

 Society of American Florists and Ornamental 

 Hortlcnlturists, I wish to endorse "Title VII. 

 — Unfair Competition," contained in the so-called 

 "General Revenue Bill," now under consideration 

 by your committee, and to urge that it be favor- 

 ably recommended to and adopted by the Senate 

 in its present form. 



In this provision we see protection from unfair 

 competition, of a type not generally known — 

 where foreign producers of the various kinds of 

 nursery stock, bulbs in particular, sell to growers 

 in the United States on individual orders at rul- 

 ing market prices, only to later "dump" into the 

 auction houses the same class of merchandise at 

 much lower prices. There then arises in respect 

 to these a competition, unfair and detrimental 

 to our interests. 



Respectfully, 



William F. Gude. 



In addition to preventing, or rather 



prohibiting, dumping of such foreign 



merchandise and providing penalties for 



misdemeanors thereunder, the proposed 



law gives to any American business 



men whose interests are damaged by 



dumping of foreign goods the right to 



sue and to recover threefold damages 



for injuries. C. L. L. 



OHIOAGK). 



The Matket. 



The latter part of last week broke al 

 records for heat in Chicago since July- 

 21, 1901. Ordinarily the heat of sum- 

 mer means dull days for the florists, but 

 when the mercury hits the extreme it 

 is quite another matter. As stated last 

 week, the market has been on the short 

 side, but up to July 29 there was enough 

 stock to supply the demand. With the 

 culmination of the heat wave, however, 

 the volume of funeral orders began to 

 increase to a bulk never before expe- 

 rienced at this season. As a result 

 everything and anything that can be 

 used in funeral work has been snapped 

 up at once, and it must be poor stock 

 indeed that fails to clear. Not only the 

 shipping trade, which is seldom other 

 than good, but the local trade is active. 



There are comparatively few good 

 Beauties to be had, but these sell read- 

 ily and at a fair price. Russell has en- 

 joyed an even greater popularity than 

 usual, because of its superior keeping 



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