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The Florists' Review 



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Floor Plan of the Hall in Whicii Will Be Staged the Trade Display at the S. A. F. Convention at Kansas City. 



lie the duty of the postmaster-general 

 to present them, to the Interstate Com- 

 mer(?e Commission, so far as parcel post 

 matter is concerned, with appropriate 

 recommendations for changes in rates 

 (if postage thereon, as contemplated by 

 the act of 1912 and the amendatory 

 act." T. N. S. 



FLOOR PLAN AT KANSAS CITY. 



Floor plans of the exhibition hall in 

 which will be staged the trade display 

 in connection with the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Kansas City, August 15 to 17, 

 have been distributed, together with ap- 

 jilication blanks for reservation of 

 space. As will be seen from the repro- 

 duction of the plan on this page, the 

 hall lends itself to a display of this kind, 

 and it is amply large to care for the ex- 

 tensive exhibitions that the convention 

 of the Society of American Florists now 

 annually attracts. 



The floor is oval in shape, with a 

 sunken central area. According to the 

 plan, central position will be given to 

 plants, facing the main entrance, with 

 cut blooms to the right, and bulbs, seeds 

 and garden requisites at the left. Back 

 of the jdants will bo the space allotted 

 to the greenhouse structures and to the 

 right of it will be the exhibits of boilers 

 and heating apparatus. To the left will 

 be florists' supplies. The booths which 

 line the edge of the sunken area and 

 those which occupy the raised circum- 

 ference will be for the use of exhibitors 

 (if florists' supplies, who have become 

 the most numerous of those who stage 

 displays at the convention. 



The rental of trade space has been set 

 this year at 60 cents per square foot, 



with a minimum of $35. As in previous 

 years, Secretary John Young will be su- 

 l)erintendent of the trade exhibitions. 

 Applications for space should be mailed 

 to him, at 43 West Eighteenth street, 

 New York, promptly. An advisory com- 

 mittee of Kansas City florists is com- 

 posed of Vice-president Samuel Murray, 

 William L. Eock and W. J. Barnes. 



What exhibitors may expect in the 

 way of business at Kansas VAty is indi- 

 cated by Secretary Young's remarks, 

 as follows: 



♦ "■Judging from the number of in- 

 quiries received, it is easy to understand 

 that the thirty-eighth annual meeting 

 of the Society of American Florists, to 

 be held at Kansas City, Mo., August 15 

 to 17, will have a record-breaking at- 

 tendance. 



"Many of our members are planning 

 their work so that they will be able to 

 make this their vacation time, where 

 both pleasure and business may be com- 

 bined. 



"All in the trade are cordially invited 

 to join with us at this meeting to be 

 held in Kansas City, and we assure 

 them of our earnest cooperation in any 

 plans they may make towards a suc- 

 cessful and enjoyable trip. ' ' 



sary," or words to that effect, are mail- 

 able at the fourth class (parcel post) 

 rates of postage, according to Postmas- 

 ter-General's order 6281, dated Decem- 

 ber 7, 1921, amending paragraph 5, sec- 

 tion 4(59, postal laws and regulations. 



It is not required that the quantity 

 of contents be indicated on the labels 

 affixed to parcels sealed and mailed un- 

 der the provisions of that section, al- 

 though this information may be shown 

 if desired. In stating the character of 

 i-ontents on the label, a descriptive term 

 of a general nature will suffice, such, 

 for example, as "Merchandise — Fourth 

 Class Mail," "Plants," "Seeds," 

 "Flowers," and the like. 



The required endorsements must be 

 placed on parcels by means of printed 

 labels. Rubber stamps may not be used 

 for this purpose. 



CHECKING WHITE FLY. 



I have mailed you a 2V4-inch cycla- 

 men plant, the steins of the leaves of 

 which are covered with white specks. 

 Can you tell what these spots are and 

 how to remove them? W. F. C. 



MAY SEAL FOyRTH CLASS MAIL. 



Articles embraced in mail of the 

 fourth class (parcel post), which are 

 not in themselves unmailable, when in- 

 closed in sealed parcels bearing printed 

 labels which show the nature of con- 

 tents and name of the manufacturer, 

 l)roducer or shipper, and are endorsed 

 "Postmaster: This parcel may be 

 opened for postal inspection if neces- 



The small, white specks are from the 

 white fly, which attacks cyclamens and 

 many other plants, particularly in the 

 spring and summer, l)eing especially 

 hard on pelargoniums, ageratums, helio- 

 tropes, fuchsias, calceolarias, cinerarias, 

 tomatoes and cucumbers. Spraying with 

 nicotine sulphate, one part to 600 parts 

 of water, to which a little soap has been 

 added to make it adhesive, will discour- 

 age the fly, if the process is continued 

 every second or third day. Fumigation 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas is the best 



