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The Florists^ Review 



July 3, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GRANT. 



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 ■trlctly trade advertlalng accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the poet-oSlce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



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OOXTEXTS 



Cool Windows for Hot Weather 7 



— Window on Main Street, Buffalo (lUus.).. 7 



— A Cool Window In Washington (lllus.).. 8 



Bentzen's Store (illus.) 8 



Caie in Small Things 8 



An Early Closing Movement I* 



Business Embarrassments 9 



Any Stamps for Any Use 9 



Stevia in Solid Beds 9 



Greenhouse Insurance 9 



Roses — Temperature for Roses 10 



— Red Spider on Roses 10 



— Color of Rose Mrs. Russell 10 



— The Depth of Soil 10 



— Summer Propagation 10 



Antisdel's Hydrangeas (lllus. ) 10 



Cost and Overhead Expense 11 



Ferns 12 



— Growing Ferns in Florida (lllus.) 12 



— Scale on Nephrolepls 13 



"Thanks to You" 13 



Plants Attacked by Thrips 13 



Cyclamens Turning Yellow 13 



Notes of the Hardy Garden 14 



— The Hardy Perennial Garden 14 



The Typical Florist Again (lllus.) 15 



New England Quarantine 15 



Wrong Sort of Hydrangea 15 



Zamia IntegrifoUa (illus.) 16 



Thrips on Snapdragons 16 



More St. Louis Workers (lllus.) l»i 



New York 17 



Thomas H. Jackson (portrait) 17 



Pinching Mums 18 



News Notes 18 



Gasser's Good Word 19 



We Will, With Pleasure 19 



Obituary — Edward Schumann 19 



— Samuel M. Sibley 19 



The Convention Program 19 



The Thing That Counts 20 



A Long Wanted Rime 20 



Minnesota Peony Society 20 



Chicago 20 



Detroit, Mich 28 



Washington 29 



Philadelphia 30 



Cincinnati 32 



News of the Seed Trade 40 



— C. C. Massie (portrait) 40 



— Seed Trade Convention 40 



— Heat in Older Pea Districts 46 



— The Peas Are Hit 46 



Pacific Coast Department 48 



— Los Angeles, Cal 48 



— San Francisco, Cal 48 



— Portland, Ore 49 



— Seattle. Wash .W 



Pecky Cypress Lives Long 50 



Glass Cutters by Million 51 



American Sweet Pea Society 51 



St. Louis 54 



Boston 56 



Nashville, Tenn 59 



Steamer Sailings 61 



\ News of the Nursery Trade 68 



— Retailer's Protective Association 68 



— Good Autumn Coming 68 



— Missouri Inspection Law 68 



— Good Mall Order Season 68 



— Floods Held Responsible 68 



— A Good Season at Bryant's 68 



— Conservatism in Order. 68 



— The Pennsylvania Bill 68 



Cleveland, 70 



♦ Columbus, 72 



Pittsburgh. Pa. 74 



Dayton, O .• , 76 



Newport, R. I • 78 



Greenhouse Heating 90 



— The Fuel Situation 90 



— Building and Piping 91 



- —One Additional House. 9« 



Kansas City 94 



Springfield, Mass 96 



Providence 88 



Greenwich, Conn 98 



Lancaster, Pa 100 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

 Officers for 1918: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston, Mass.; vice-president, Theo- 

 dore Wirtb, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young, 

 54 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 102 



RESULTS. 



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We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Review $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Most of the big growers are in a posi- 

 tion, and inclined, to celebrate the Glori- 

 ous Fourth, having completed replanting 

 operations. The smaller growers do not 

 plant so early. 



It will be necessary for many New 

 England florists to have their places in- 

 spected by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. The new quarantine regulations 

 are summarized on page 15 of this issue. 



The American Gladiolus Society has 

 issued a schedule of premiums for the ex- 

 hibition to be held in connection with 

 the S. A. F. clibyention at Minneapolis 

 in August. Copies may be had by ad- 

 dressing L. M. Gage, secretary, South 

 Natick, Mass. 



With temperatures running 20 degrees 

 above normal, as they have day after day 

 in the latter part of June over wide 

 stretches of the country, it is not to be 

 wondered at that the flower business has 

 been dull. Trade will pick up again with 

 the other swing of the weather pendulum. 



Certain publishers object strenuously 

 to the newspaper law recently sustained 

 by the U. S. Supreme Court. The Review 

 does not object to the law; it is by no 

 means so drastic as the measure by which 

 other businesses are regulated. And the 

 gaudy literature of some of the publish- 

 ers slow to comply with the law makes 

 it appear desirable to compel weekly 

 papers to publish sworn statements of 

 average circulation, just as daily papers 

 now are required to do. 



THE THING THAT COUNTS, 



Practically every mail brings The 

 Review a letter expressing some adver- 

 tiser's satisfaction with the results ob- 

 tained through the purchase of Review 

 advertising space. The purpose of re- 

 producing some of these letters each 

 issue is to inspire others who have not 

 yet awakened to an appreciation of the 

 opportunity The Review affords. There 

 is an old saying that the only way to 

 judge the future is by the past, and the 

 only way to judge what advertising will 

 accomplish for a non-advertiser is by 

 what it has accomplished for those who 

 have been consistent users of space. 

 It makes no difference what is adver- 

 tised in The Review; results almost al- 

 ways are excellent. Like this: 



The results obtained from our advertisements 

 of palms were extremely satisfactory. — Avenue 

 Floral Co., per E. W. Eichling, New Orleans, La., 

 June 27, 1913. 



We get good results from our advertisement of 

 fiower pots In The Review. — Mt. Gllead Pottery 

 Co., Mt. Gllead, Ohio, June 27, 1913. 



. A LONG-WANTED RIME. 



We found today, we're pleased to say. 



The only rime for "bulb." 

 Down In Augusta, Georgia, 



There lives a florist, Stulb. 



— B, L. T. In Chicago Tribune. 



MINNESOTA PEONY SOCIETY. 



The Minnesota State Peony Associa- 

 tion was organized June 24 at the home 

 of B. T.. Hoyt, Hamline and Hoyt ave- 

 nues, St. Paul. Only temporary officers 

 were elected, B. T. Hoyt being desig- 

 nated as acting president. L. J. Bough- 

 ner and Henry Patthey, of Minneapolis,, 

 and Mrs. H. C. Tillotson, of Lake Min- 

 netonka, were appointed a committee 

 to draft a constitution and by-laws to 

 be presented at a second meeting within 

 a few days. C. S. Harrison, of York, 

 Neb., was present and was the principal 

 speaker. 



The organization will include both 

 amateur and professional growers. It 

 was announced that a determined effort 

 will be made at the national association 

 meeting, to be held in Chicago June 

 10 and 11, 1914, to secure the 1915- 

 peony convention for the Twin Cities. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The closing week of June was any- 

 thing but an active one for this mar- 

 ket, due mostly to the extreme heat of 

 the last ten days. This section seldom 

 experiences the continued torrid weath- 

 er that has crippled the local market. 

 The ^igh temperature was in direct 

 contrast with a year ago, when cool 

 weather prevailed throughout the 

 month. Both the demand and the sup- 

 ply have been light for the last ten 

 days, as a result of the heat. As to- 

 supply, there is little good stock on 

 the market and the shipping stock is. 

 decidedly short of the present demand. 

 Not that the demand has been heavy,, 

 but weak as it has been, the supply of 

 first grade stock has dwindled steadily 

 until it is hard for the wholesalers to- 

 get enough that will hold up. This ia 

 due solely to the heat, for there are 

 quantities of roses of the inferior 

 grades that are not easy to move with- 

 out selling to the street men and ele- 

 vated-railroad-station operators. It 

 has been almost an impossibility for the 

 growers to get the stock into market 

 before it opened. While it might be 

 cut tight, it suffered on the way to the 

 city. 



Carnations are about in the same 

 class, only the good carnations are hard- 

 er to find than the good roses. Still,, 

 there have been quantities of the poor 

 ones that could be handled only with 

 difficulty and at such prices as the 

 buyer cared to offer. For the few good 

 ones that came in the returns have 

 been all that could be expected. Carna- 

 tions were in much lighter supply June 

 30, indicating the approach of the end 

 of their season, hastened by heat. With 

 both asters and gladioli a matter of 

 future consideration, the roses and car- 

 nations are the only flowers on the mar- 

 ket and will continue popular. There 

 are some odds and ends in the way of 

 miscellaneous stock, but they are 

 worthy of only brief mention. 



American Beauties continue to come 

 on the market in numbers and there is 

 some excellent stock obtainable, al- 

 though the majority of the Beauties 

 seem to have been reached by the 



