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The Florists^ Review 



21 



How One of the Trade's Exhibitors Met the Difficult Conditions at the Qeveland Convention. 



any unaalable plant. This is sown in 

 Jaauary. When they are ready for pot- 

 ting, the seedlings are put into 2-ineh 

 pots, then are shifted to 3-inch pots and 

 then to 4-inch pots; by this time it is 

 August. Then they are allowed to rest 

 a while, after which they are grown into 

 6-inch and 7-inch pots. In this way, 

 seed that is sown in January will pro- 

 duce plants slightly over a year old at 

 Easter, averaging from five to eight 

 flowers. 



Figure Cost of Growing. 



Now note that a great di-al of the 

 growing time is in the summer, when 

 you are not cramped for room. For in- 

 stance, take your imported Easter stock 

 today and pot it up, say, as late as 

 October; the only diflForonec between 

 these and your own production is that 

 yours will be a little farther advanced. 

 From October on the cost of both, as 

 far as room and labor arc concerned, 

 will differ but little. Now figure out 

 what your plants have cost you up to 

 this time and compare this with the 

 cost of your imported bulbs. If you will 

 <lo this honestly, you are going to have 

 your eyes opened. It is a grand and 

 glorious feeling to know that you will 

 have bulbs no matter what the bulb 

 market may be, whether there is a 

 crop failure in Japan or Uncle Sam has 

 discovered some Japanese pest which 

 is invading the United States and places 

 an embargo. We have not yet forgotten 

 a cargo that went to the bottom of the 

 ocean. And then we all know that the 

 Jap is something of a scrapper and may 

 have a war on his hands at any time. 

 While this may sound pessimistic, any 

 or all of these things may happen, and 

 any of them is a good reason why every 

 American florist should be in a position 

 to produce his own lilv bulbs. 



' Tate. 



RESOURCEFUL FLORISTS. 



One of the qualities of a good decora- 

 tor is resourcefulness; without it a flo- 

 rist would get nowhere. The exhibition 

 hall at Cleveland was a case in point. 

 Every exhibitor who sought to show his 



goods to advantage had to devise some 

 sort of stage setting. The problem was 

 especially important for those who had 

 been assigned space next the walls; 

 \yith them the light was on the wrong 

 side, the goods between the customer 

 and the window. To meet this condi- 

 tion some of the exhibitors set their 

 tables at right angles to the wall and 

 windows instead of against them, while 

 others built artificial backgrounds to 

 block out the windows. Of the latter 

 class was T. E. Waters, of Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., who erected a beaver-board 

 background on which Miss Groeh, one 

 of his assistants, painted a garden 

 scene. The management forbade flash- 

 light photography because of lack of 

 ventilation, but Mr. Waters left his 

 display in place until after the conven- 

 tion had closed, when the accompanying 

 picture was made. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



To Hold Show in Washington. 



The annual convention of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America and the 

 national capital chrysanthemum show of 

 the florists of Washington, D. C, will 

 be held .jointly November 10 to 14 

 in the old Masonic Temple, Ninth and 

 F streets, N. W., Washington. 



The schedule shows fifty-five regular 

 classes for chrysanthemums, classes A 

 to P of special prizes offered by the 

 C. S. A. for chrysanthemums and a 

 number of classes for roses, carnations, 

 violets, begonias, growing foliage plants 

 and growing palms and ferns. All cor- 

 respondence should be sent to F. H. 

 Kramer, chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee of the show, 916 F street, N. 

 W., and all exhibits to O. A. C. Oehmler. 

 superintendent of the exhibition, old 

 Masonic Temple, Ninth and F streets. 

 N. W. 



Officers and Committee. 



The present oflScers of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America are as fol- 

 lows: President, Thomas W. Head, 

 Lake Forest, 111.; vice-president, Z. D, 

 Blackistone, Washington, D. C; secre- 



tary, Charles W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 

 111., and treasurer, Charles H. Totty, 

 Madison, N. J. Mr. Blackistone, as the 

 officer of the society on the ground 

 for the convention, will have plenty of 

 work to do, and his reputation gives as- 

 surance that it will be well done. 



The local executive committee for 

 the chrysanthemum show is as follows: 

 Chairman, F. H. Kramer; vice-chair- 

 man, Z. D. Blackistone; secretary, 

 George Schultz, 1206 H street, N. W,; 

 treasurer, A. f]. Gude; superintendent 

 of show, O. A. C. Oehmler; hospitality, 

 William F. Gude; finance, C. L, Jen- 

 kins; judges and awards, Adolph Gude; 

 program, J. Harper Hetherington; en- 

 tertainment, George C. Shaffer; private 

 gardeners' exhibit, G. E. Anderson. 



VEGETABLE GROWERS MEET. 



At the twelfth annual convention of 

 the Vegetable Growers' Association of 

 America at Ohio State University, Co- 

 lumbus, O., August 2") to 28, action was 

 taken which will lead to the associa- 

 tion's affiliation with the American 

 Farm Bureau Federatidn. The associa- 

 tion, however, will continue to exist 

 and exercise all its regular functions. 

 As suggested by Murray D. Lincoln, 

 executive secretary of tlie Ohio Farm 

 Bureau Federation, the association and 

 the federation will each appoint five 

 members of a committee on plans. 



E. A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, O., presi- 

 dent of the association, responded to 

 the address of welcome of Wendell 

 Paddock, professor in the Ohio State 

 University, and delivered an interest- 

 ing and stimulating presidential ad- 

 dress. 



Following a committee report by F. 

 C. Stokes, of the Stokes Seed F.arms 

 Co., Moorestown, N. J., the association 

 declared in favor of efforts to stand- 

 ardize varietal names of vegetables 

 and to buy of only those seedsmen who 

 correctly name their varieties. Mr. 

 Stokes brought up this same subject at 

 the last annual convention of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association, at Mil- 

 waukee, and the action of the Vegeta- 

 ble Growers' Association is a further 



