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The Florists' Review 



Januabt 16. 1919. 



SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS 



CARNATION SOCIETY. 



OABDENEBS' CONFERENCE. 



Attention, Exhibitors! 



By request of the Cleveland Florists' 

 Club, the following classes are added 

 to^the premium schedule for the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society exhibition at 

 Cleveland January 29 to 30. Entries 

 for these classes may be made any time 

 previous to the time set for staging, 

 which is 1 p. m., January 29, 



Fifty blooms, any variety, wbite.$8.00 $4.00 $3.00 

 Fifty blooms, any variety, light 



pink, as light or lighter than 



Wlnsor 8.00 4.00 8.00 



Fifty blooms, any variety, dark 



pink, darker than Wlnsor 8.00 4.00 3.00 



Fifty blooms, any variety, red.. 8.00 4.00 3.00 

 Fifty blooms, any other color. . . 8.00 4.00 3.00 



Please bear in mind that entries for 

 all classes except the above should be 

 in the hands of the secretary not later 

 than January 19. This date falling on 

 Sunday, all entries in the mail of Janu- 

 ary 20 will be accepted as having been 

 made within the time limit. After 

 January 20, $2 will be assessed against 

 each class in which entry is made. 



Entries are especially desired from 

 growers in the middle west. For sev- 

 eral years the growers in this section 

 have failed to hold up their end, leav- 

 ing the making of the exhibition largely 

 to the growers from the far east. Cleve- 

 land is centrally located and easily 

 reached from all directions; therefore 

 there is no reason why we should not 

 have entries from all directions. COME 

 and bring an exhibit with you. 



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



S. A. F. DIRECTORS TO MEET. 



President J. F. Ammann has author- 

 ized a call for a meeting of the board of 

 directors of the Society of American 

 Florists at Detroit January 31 and 

 February ]. These are the days follow- 

 ing the meeting of the American Car- 

 nation Society at Cleveland, The name 

 of the hotel or other meeting place is 

 to be announced later. 



The convention in 1919 is to be held at 

 Detroit and this meeting takes the place 

 of the directors' meeting usually held 

 during February or March, 



S. A. F. APPOINTMENTS. 



Arno H. Nehrling, Crawfordsvillc, 

 Ind., has been appointed state vice- 

 president for Indiana, North, vice W. J, 

 Vesey, Jr., previously appointed, who is 

 still in the service of the U. S. army. 



President J, F. Ammann has reap- 

 pointed the committee on memorial 

 resolutions, as follows: Michael Bar- 

 ker, Chicago, 111., chairman; John G, 

 Esler, Saddle River, N, J., and J. A. 

 Peterson, Cincinnati, O. 



PLANNING PUBLICITY. 



Henry Penn, chairman of the publicity 

 committee of the S. A. F,, and George 

 Asmus, chairman of the finance commit- 

 tee, have issued calls for meetings of 

 their committees at Cleveland during 

 the convention of the American Carna- 

 tion Society, January 29 and 30. 



At Pittsburgli. 



A gardeners' conference will be held 

 under the auspices of the Pittsburgh dis- 

 trict members of the National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners at the Hotel Chatham, 

 Pittsburgh, Thursday evening, January 

 30. Following a reception from 6 p, m, 

 to 6:30 p, m., David Eraser, a director 

 of the national association, will intro- 

 duce the speakers of the evening, who 

 will include Robert Weeks, of Cleve- 

 land, president of the National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners; M, C, Ebel, of Madi- 

 son, N, J., secretary; William Falconer 

 and Neil McCallum, of Pittsburgh. A 

 general discussion of the problems con- 

 fronting the gardener and his profes- 

 sion will follow. Gardeners and all in- 

 terested in the profession of gardening 

 will be welcomed. 



A supper will be served at the con- 

 clusion of the business session. David 

 Eraser, of Pittsburgh, is chairman and 

 John Barnet, of Sewickley, Pa,, is secre- 

 tary of the conference committee. 



An executive meeting of the trustees 

 and board of directors of the National 

 Association of Gardeners has been 

 called by President Weeks to meet at 

 the Hotel Chatham, Pittsburgh, at 3 p, 

 m. January 30, 



TENNESSEEANS TO MEET. 



The annual conventions of the Ten- 

 nessee State Florists' Association, the 

 Tennessee State Fruit Growers' Society 

 and the Tennessee State Nurserymen's 

 Association will be held in Nashville, 

 January 28 to 30. 



All interested are invited to write 

 the secretary for information. Pro- 

 grams will be mailed on request as soon 

 as printed, 



G, M. Bentley, Sec'y-Treas, 



BRIEF ANSWERS. 



J. K, P,, S. C. — ^We do not recognize 

 the plant from your description.' The 

 white salvia has little popularity, 



C, F. B., Wash, — A large quantity 

 should go into a commercial cold stor- 

 age warehouse, but small lots may be 

 kept in a cellar, or in the bottom of 

 the icebox. 



L, P. H,, Mich, — Any of the supply 

 houses advertising in The Review will 

 furnish metal liners. 



L, S, H., Ida. — Address the John 

 Henry Co., Lansing, Mich. All the 

 greenhouse material manufacturers ad- 

 vertise in The Review. 



C. B., la, — Address G. P. Read, Inc., 

 199 Duane street, New York. 



J. H. A., Miss. — Mix half a peck of 

 freshly made quicklime with twenty 

 gallons of water; let stand till clear; 

 water the soil and the worms will come 

 out. Nut grass or cocoa grass are not 

 listed. See Georgia's "Manual of 

 Weeds, ' ' New York Experiment Station, 

 1914. 



D. A. M., Pa. — Address Houston Coal 

 Co., Cincinnati, O. It is high-grade 

 bituminous, mined in West Virginia. 



CStN Wrm^y^ READEn^ 



PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM, 



Bay trees are not representative 

 American stock. If the plant quaran- 

 tine continues in efifect for five years, 

 bay trees will become a curiosity in 

 the course of time in the United States. 

 Our soldiers fought to establish de- 

 mocracy. Let us have some expression 

 of it in the trade. Let us work up 

 our native plants, or plants that have 

 been naturalized at least, and invent 

 a trade-mark, "Grown in the U. S. A." 



We should use our own arbor-vitse, 

 magnolias or other native trees instead 

 of bay trees, in landscape work and give 

 the preference to the stock that repre- 

 sents our country that our soldiers 

 fought for, Harry Dubois, 



TROUBLES OF TRANSPORTATION, 



At Prince Albert, Sask,, we had a 

 quiet Christmas on account of scarcity 

 of stock. The demand was as great as 

 usual and we kept our end up with our 

 States brethren as regards prices and I 

 believe we mentioned the exorbitant 

 figures with just as sweet a smile and 

 just as brazenly as we hear they did. 

 But we could not begin to fill the orders 

 offered. We are in the habit of supple- 

 menting our Christmas supply of flowers 



from Chicago, but the express service 

 in the United States is so poor since the 

 government started handling it that it 

 was not safe to place an order. 



Our chrysanthemums got caught with 

 a sharp frost June 10 last year and the 

 buds were all killed. Although it may 

 sound improbable, the plants almost all 

 came on again and we had a splendid 

 crop of fine flowers for Christmas, I 

 know this does not seem reasonable, but 

 it is absolutely true. So fine were some 

 of the blooms that they were snapped 

 up at $8 per dozen, 



I have two or three grievances, but 

 am too far away from the seat of the 

 trouble to be able to air them properly. 

 For instance, it used to take exactly 

 three days from the time a shipment of 

 flowers or plants left Chicago till we 

 got delivery here. Now the best time 

 your government-run express can make 

 is seven days, making it impossible for 

 us to import perishable goods from Chi- 

 cago until a change is apparent. We 

 tried a couple of shipments of asparagus 

 in December just to test it out, and both 

 shipments took seven days from Chi- 

 cago, Now, your big growers are not 

 always going to be running only fifty 

 per cent of their ranges as at present 

 and I have tried to make some of my 



