Mat 2fl. 1910. 



The Florists' Review 



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decided to meet only once a month dur- 

 ing the summer months. Secretary Kuflf 

 says that the next meeting will be held 

 June 9 and that all members will be 

 notified of the place of meeting. 



Several of our leading seedsmen made 

 a special trip to Jeflferson City, Mo., 

 May 22, to confer with Governor Gard- 

 ner on the new state seed law which 

 was passed by both houses last week. 

 Governor Gardner had not signed the bill 

 as yet. Those who made the trip were: 

 li. I. Bushnell, E. W. Bommer, Adolph 

 Cornelli, Clifford Cornelli, August H. 

 Plummert, "William Smith, Charles 

 prunty and A. W. Schisler. They re- 

 port a splendid reception by the gov- 

 ernor. 



Grimm & Gorly and Mullanphy, lead- 

 ing downtown florists, are looking for- 

 ward to a record-breaking Memorial day 

 business. Their Memorial window dis- 

 plays are a big attraction. 



Charles Young, head of the C. Young 

 & Sons Co., spends most of his time at 

 their greenhouse range in Olivette, sup- 

 erintending the shipping plant orders, 

 which, he reports, are far ahead of any 

 season in past years. 



Frank Sanders is again with the Grand 

 Leader as head of the nursery and 

 plant department and reports business in 

 this line bigger than ever. 



The trade was pleased to see Harry 

 Schlechter back at his post with the An- 

 germueller Co., assisting Fred Alves 

 in the supply department, where ship- 

 ping orders have been heavy. 



H. G. Berning has been receiving large 

 consignments of fancy peonies. Ad- 

 vance Memorial day orders are the 

 heaviest in years. 



W. A. Eowe's fancy snapdragon, St. 

 Louis, has been in good crop and the 

 demand for this splendid variety has 

 been large. 



Recent visitors were Julius Dilloff, 

 representing Wertheimer Bros., New 

 York, and Allen N. Humason, of Chi- 

 cago. Mr. Humason is traveling in the 

 interests of the national publicity com- 

 mittee. 



F. H. Weber is preparing to plant sev- 

 eral thousand cannas on a corner lot op- 

 posite his place at Olive and Taylor 

 streets, which attracted so much atten- 

 tion last summer. A large sign will be 

 erected in the rear with the slogan, 

 "Say It with Flowers." 



George Waldbart- was again confined 

 to his bed with sickness last week. His 

 many friends wish him a speedy recov- 

 ery. 



President Rowe, of the St. Louis 

 County Growers' Association, says that 

 there will be a big meeting of the asso- 

 ciation June 4, at Eleven Mile House. 

 The feature of the meeting will be the 

 installation of the new ofiicers and a 

 general review of the season's business. 

 All members are requested to attend. 



Joseph Witek's pretty west end estab- 

 lishment experienced a busy week with 

 society and school graduation work. A 

 splendid window of fancy blooming 

 I'lants was noticed. 



F. C. Weber, Sr., informs me that he 

 will take his usual northern trip early 

 in July and attend the convention at 

 Detroit in August. Every day is a busy 

 one at this establishment. 



Among the south side florists who re- 

 port a busy week are W. H. Kruse, who 

 h'l'l several large weddings; F. W. Brue- 

 ^'ig, Diemer Floral Co., A. Meyer and 

 ^Irs. M. Pelletier. All are preparing 

 for a big Memorial day business. 



'A ^rip through the establishment of 

 the J. IV^njmann Co., of Edwardsville, 

 111., disclosed roses and carnations all 

 in excellent shape and producing a splen- 

 did crop under the 60,000 square feet of 



glass. Mr. Ammann says that they will 

 grow only roses next season — Russell, 

 Premier, Columbia, Ward and a few 

 Hoosier Beauties. A pleasant afternoon 

 was spent. J. J. B. 



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AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



The seventeenth annual meeting and 

 exhibition of the American Peony Soci- 

 ety will be held in the Board of Com- 

 merce building, Detroit, Mich., June 17 

 and 18. This exhibition will be managed 

 by the Detroit Florists' Club as a result 

 of a meeting of some of the members at 

 Detroit, May 21, and the approval of the 

 officers of the society who were unable 

 to be present. 



This announcement is made in ad- 

 vance of the premium list, which will 

 soon be sent to the members and grow- 

 ers, who are requested to make prepara- 

 tions to send flowers for competition 

 and exhibition. Members of the society 

 are especially requested to urge growers 

 in their immediate vicinity to attend 

 this meeting if possible and also to 

 make an exhibit of blooms in competi- 

 tion or otherwise. Those who cannot 

 come with their flowers and all shippers 

 may send them by express, prepaid, to 

 the Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, 264 

 Randolph street, where a competent 

 committee will receive and properly 

 care for them. This will include stag- 

 ing them in the exhibition hall. 



It is the desire of the society to make 

 this exhibition the largest and most 

 interesting in its history and to that end 

 the Detroit florists are working hard 

 and giving wide publicity through the 

 daily press to the event. This will as- 

 sure a big attendance of all lovers of 

 peonies at the exhibition. The prizes 

 will be sufficiently attractive to encour- 

 age growers from all parts to make 

 exhibits, which may be entered in 

 whichever class the grower may choose. 



Some of the rewards will consist of 

 roots of the most valuable varieties 

 extant, and amateur and professional 

 growers will thus have a chance to add 

 some rare sorts to their collections, 

 which are not available by purchase. 

 Among these may be mentioned Le 

 Cygne, offered as a prize by President 

 James Boyd; the sensational variety, 

 Jubilee, shown at the Philadelphia meet- 

 ing two years ago, by Lee R. Bonne- 

 witz, Van Wert, O., and the celebrated 

 varieties Elwood Pleas and Lady A. 

 Duff, offered by Charles F. Wassenberg, 

 Van Wert, 0. 



All correspondence in reference to the 

 meeting and exhibition should be ad- 

 dressed to J. F. Sullivan, 361 Woodward 

 avenue, Detroit, Mich. 



PEONY PEOPLE PROTEST. 



At a recent meeting of the directors 

 of the American Peony Society in New 

 York city, a protest was drafted against 

 Quarantine No. 37 and the document re- 

 cently has been sent to members in the 

 form of an 8-page pamphlet with the 

 suggest! n that the members transmit 

 it to their congressmen. The protest 

 states: "It is apparent from the prog- 

 ress of events that the trade has no 

 effective way of making its protests 

 heard in this matter unless, indeed, it 

 shall prove possible to bring about con- 

 gressional action." 



The peony is one of the plants which 

 cannot be imported after May 31, 1919. 



The directors of the Peony Society 

 comment that "unfortunately, the Fed 

 eral Horticultural Board does not seem 

 to be very well informed," and goes 

 on to quote from a communication from 

 the chairman which indicates that he 

 does not know the condition in which 

 peony roots are imported. 



"The impression can hardly fail to be 

 produced that the board, instead of in- 

 telligently selecting for exclusion only 

 those plants most likely to introduce 

 pests, sought rather to exclude every- 

 thing, whether involving any serious 

 danger or not, in the belief that by 

 spreading their net wide enough they 

 would be sure to catch what they were 

 after. They were then apparently in- 

 duced in some way to make a few ex- 

 ceptions to the general rule of exclusion. 



"The directors of the American 

 Peony Society therefore respectfully 

 present the following recommendations 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the 

 Federal Horticultural Board and to the 

 members of the Senate and House of 

 Representatives: 



"That Quarantine No. 37 should be 

 at once suspended, 



"That a new quarantine measure 

 should be framed with the cooperation 

 of the nursery and greenhouse interests, 

 which should contain only such provi- 

 sions of exclusion as are demonstrably 

 and convincingly necessary, and such as 

 would be really effective, 



"That where important classes of 

 foreign plants are to be excluded, sev- 

 eral years' notice of such exclusion 

 should be given, in order that the cul- 

 tivation of stock in this country may 

 have reached a fairly adequate develop* 

 ment before the foreign sources of sup- 

 ply are cut off." 



