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The Florists' Review 



Jaxuaky lis, 1917. 



usually has eight petals. The flower is. 

 not large and the habit is not what we 

 desire, but we hope to breed something 

 desirable from it, though it has been 

 sterile thus iar. But culture will tell, 

 and the double canna is not far i^i the 

 future. Floyd Bralliar. 



Easter are only an inch out of the 

 ground. We have moved them into a 

 temperature of 70 degrees. Do you 

 think they are run warm enough to be 

 in time for Easter? T. N.— S. D. 



GIGANTEUMS BEHIND TIME. 



Some of our giganteum lilies for 



The lilies are rather late, but you may 

 get them in if you give them 70 degrees 

 until you find they are safe. Buds 

 should show by the end of February, or 

 they are late. C. W. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The aniuiiil meeting and exhibition 

 takes place at the Olaypool hotel, next 

 wepk Wednesday anil Thursday, Jan- 

 uary o\ and February 1. As this is one 

 of tlie great centers of carnation grow- 

 ing, and is accessible from Chicago, 

 Cleveland, St. Louis and other populous 

 centers, and as good delegations are ex- 

 pected from the east, it looks like be- 

 ing a record meeting. 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



A meeting of the executive committee 

 was held at the Hotel Breslin, New 

 York, January 18, there being present 

 President Geo. W. Kerr, Wm. Gray, W. 

 A. Sperling and J. Harrison Dick. A 

 letter was read from Harry A. Bunyard, 

 who has been secretary of the society 

 from its inception, tendering his resig- 

 nation. This was accepted with regret. 

 Wm. Gray, Newport, R. I., was appoint- 

 • ed secretary to carry on the work until 

 the annual meeting in July. As this 

 left a vacancy on the executive com- 

 mittee, J. H. StalTord, Bar Harbor, Me., 

 was named. The schedule and bulletin 

 were discussed, and these will be issued 

 as one jaiblieation by March 1 at the 

 latest. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The regular weekly meeting of the 

 National Rose Festival committee was 

 held in the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, 

 Philadelpliia, January 18. The attend- 

 ance was large and enthusiastic. A 

 committee of five was appointed to take 

 charge of a rose garden to cover 1,000 

 square feet of space in the center of the 

 First Regiment armory hall at the com- 

 ing rose festival. This garden will be 

 known as the American Rose Society's 

 Garden and is intended to be educa- 

 tional ami beautiful. The committee 

 consists of John P. Habermehl, chair- 

 man; Robert Kift, Ernest F. Zieger, 

 William K. Harris, Robert A. Craig and 

 the presidents of the Florists' Club and 

 Rose Society ex-officio. Mark P. Mills 

 made a ringing speech in support of the 

 festival that sold 1,300 trade tickets 

 right then and there. Phil. 



National Flower Show. 



Under the direction of Chairman 

 George Asmus, of the National Flower 

 Show committee, the work of the Fifth 

 National Flower Show is well advanced. 

 Floor plans of the Coliseum are being 

 prepared, showing the location of the 

 trade exhibits, and will be sent out at 

 an early date. The first preliminary 

 plant schedule has been distributed and 

 extra copies may be procured upon ap- 

 plication to the secretary, 53 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, New York. The 

 schedule committee will be pleased to 

 receive suggestions as to how and where 

 this schedule may be improved, and 

 such suggestions and recommendations 

 will be acted upon by the schedule com- 

 mittee at their next meeting, and in- 

 cluded in the final schedule, if approved. 



The guarantee fund, which is to be 

 $10,000, will soon be completed. Any 



member desiring to subscribe to this 

 fund should do so at once. 



The committee would also esteem do- 

 nations of special prizes, the same to 

 be offered under the names of the 

 donors. Kindly, if possible, select the 

 subject for your award from the pre- 

 liminary schedules, thus relieving our 

 obligations to the prize fund to that 

 extent. 



Special prizes have been received 

 from the Cottage Gardens Nurseries, 

 Eureka, Cal., for the best display of 

 American-grown Azalea Indica. The 

 plants must have been growing at least 

 three years in the United States. The 

 collection must consist of not less than 

 six plants, five plants of each variety. 

 The premiums are $50, $30 and $20. 



John Lewis Childs. Flowerfield, L. I., 

 offers for Calla Elliottiana, twenty-five 

 plants in bloom, premiums of $20 and 

 $12; for twelve plants in bloom, $10 

 and $6. 



Hail Insurance. 



Secretary J. G. Esler, of the Florists' 

 Hail Association, calls my attention to 

 a typographical error which appears in 

 the "Suggestions to State Vice-Presi- 

 dents," sent out from this office a few 

 days ago. The paragraph reads that 

 the Florists' Hail Association now un- 

 derwrites risks on 4,000,000 square feet 

 of glass. This should read 44,000,000 

 square feet of glass. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — As the dates of the 

 carnation convention at Indianapolis 

 conflict with that of the Milwaukee 

 Florists' Club's meeting. President W. 

 A. Kennedy has postponed the club 

 meeting from February 1 to February 

 8. A number of club members expect 

 to attend the Indianapolis convention. 



ODEN LETTEI^^^ DEADEn^ 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Secretary C. W. Johnson, 2134 West 

 One Hundred and Tenth street, Chicago, 

 reports having received from trade 

 firms and others interested donations of 

 special prizes for nineteen classes, let- 

 tered A to S, for the annual exhibition 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America, to be held at Cleveland, No- 

 vember 6 to 11. 



THE NEW BEGONIAS. 



WMth reference to the article in The 

 Review for January 11, entitled "Mrs. 

 Heal Begonias for Holiday Sales," 

 this type of begonia, the result of cross- 

 ing B. socotrana and the tuberous varie- 

 ties, is known all over Europe as "win- 

 ter-flowering begonias." 



The first of the winter-flowering be- 

 gonias to receive recognition was the 

 variety named John Heal, October 13, 

 1885, and it was not until ten years 

 later that the variety Mrs. Heal was 

 recognized. While a highly recommend- 

 able variety of the winter-flowering be- 

 gonias, still there are, at the present 

 time, so many varieties that are much 

 more beautiful and much more desir- 

 able, that it would not at all do to call 

 these begonias, as you did, Mrs. Heal 

 begonias. To do so would tend to de- 

 ceive the readers into believing that 

 the two types are distinctly two dif- 

 ferent types. We are enclosing one of 

 our pamphlets giving some further facts 

 about winter-flowering begonias. 



Since this country seems to have be- 

 come wide-awake to the enormous pos- 

 sibilities of these new types of begonias, 

 it is to be regretted that you used, in 



your otherwise interesting article, the 

 misnomer. John Scheepers, Inc. 



PRIMULA POISONING. 



The inquiries and answers in The Re- 

 view dealing with poisoning from Prim- 

 ula obconica plants and giving reme- 

 dies for this trouble, have been of spe- 

 cial interest to me, as I have had some 

 experience along these lines. I have 

 grown primulas for the last thirteen 

 years, but have never been poisoned. 

 One of my assistants, however, was 

 poisoned and suffered severely on the 

 hands, arms and neck. He made sev- 

 eral calls on the doctor, but the medico's 

 methods failed. At this time I recalled 

 that I had had a severe case of poison- 

 ing from the common ivy, and that a 

 complete cure had been effected by the 

 use of sugar of lead, one teaspoonful 

 to three quarts of water. I took this 

 recipe to my employee, and in a few 

 days the mixture stopped the irritation 

 and stamped out the poison. Since then 

 I have often used this sugar-of-lead 

 solution after working with Primula 

 obconica, and I think every greenhouse 

 operator ought to keep some of it on 

 hand. W. W. Walker. 



