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The Florists^ Review 



Jury 10, 1»13. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GRANT. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THUESDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicago, III., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. . . 



CONTENTS 



Dollar Boxes and Summer Sales (illus.) r> 



, Orchids and Valley (lUus.) 6 



- New Parcel Post Rule : 6 



iA Kansas City Decoration (lllus. ) 6 



,Kuta 6 



A Florist's Invention (lllus.) tj 



Winter Qeraniums 7 



Worms in Benches 7 



Cat-liatlons 8 



— Carnations In the South 8 



— Carnations in England (lllus. ) !) 



— The Sou and the Feed n 



Notes of the Hardy Garden 10 



— The Hardy Perennial Garden 10 



Lily of the Valley 10 



— The Lilies' Lament 10 



' • — Valley for September 11 



The Farmington Greenhouses (lllus.) 11 



Bedding Plants 11 



Tomatoes 12 



Society of American Florists 13 



New York 13 



Mrs. Fanny WarendorfT (portrait) 13 



More St. Louis Workers (lllus.) 14 



.Minneapolis, Minn 14 



To Destroy Root Maggots 14 



Obituary 14 



Business Embarrassments 15 



Business and Other Notes 15 



The American Rose Society Ifi 



New York to Minneapolis 16 



Sold Out! 16 



Chicago 16 



Grand Rapids 21 



Philadelphia 24 



St. Louis 26 



Boston 28 



Pacific Coast Department 32 



— Lob Angeles, Cal 32 



— Portland, Ore 32 



— San Francisco 33 



.Seed Trade News .S6 



— Clark Among the Peas .^7 



— Defrauds the Government 38 



— The California Crops 38 



— Wants the Retail Trade? 40 



— Catalogues Received 42 



Providence 50 



Pittsburgh, Pa 51 



Brampton, Ont 54 



Steamer Sailings 66 



Nursery News 68 



— KIrkpatrIck Views Future 58 



I>ancaster, Pa 60 



Baltimore, Md 62 



Rochester, N. Y 04 



Cincinnati 06 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— Piping a Michigan House 7.f 



— A Greenhouse and Lean-to 78 



— The Fuel Market 79 



— Steam for Kentucky Range 80 



— An Alabama Carnation House 80 



— Whitewashed Heating Pipes 82 



Cypress for Farm Use 82 



Kansas City 84 



Milwaukee 84 



Buffalo , 86 



Springfield. Mass. . . .' 88 



Westboro, Mass. — E. O. Stockbridge 

 & Co. will discontinue their business 

 here. Mr. Stockbridge has been ill re- 

 cently. 



Macon, Mo. — Robert R. Shou&h> jjro- 

 prietor of the Macon Greenhouses, ex- 

 pecJif^'t* add two orfMree hotaies^uriiig 

 the summer, as he needs mor^'^pmce for 

 roses, parnations ahd chrystintbemums. 

 He is also making some atttjtctive out- 

 door improvements. 



SOCIETY OF AMZBIOAIT FLOaiBTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Otngresa, March 4, 1901. 

 Officers for 1813: Prealdent. J. K. M. L. 

 Farqubar, Boston, Mass.; Tlce-prealdent. Theo- 

 dore Wirth, 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, 1918. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 90 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



AfI'er the Foaxth the summer is on 

 the wane. Time to be thinking of fall 

 business. 



Have you noticed how many hotels ad- 

 vertise * ' Dining rooms kept at an even 

 temperature by refrigerated air"? Well, 

 why not keep greenhouses* cool in sum- 

 mer the same way? 



The schedule for the fifth annual exhi- 

 bition of the American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety, to be held at Boston, July 12 and 

 13, has been issued. Copies may be had 

 by addressing Harry A. Bunyard. secre- 

 tary, 342 West Fourteenth street, New- 

 York. 



The trade in England has been deeply 

 stirred by the announcement that with 

 the retirement of Sir Harry J. Veitch, 

 who has passed 70 years of age, the fa- 

 mous nurseries of James Veitch & Sons, 

 Ltd., will be sold out and the company 

 cease to exist. 



One of the profit-making poii^ts about 

 the Mrs. Ward rose is the fact that, 

 being largely used for corsages, the 

 short-stemmed flowers sell well. The 

 grower does not have to sacrifice at least 

 half his season's cut to get salable stems 

 on the other half. 



The proceedings of the twenty-second 

 annual meting of the American Carnation 

 Society has been (hailed to members by 

 Secretary Baur. In addition to -a report 

 of the sessions and exhibition at New- 

 York in March, it contains list of mem- 

 bers, list of contributors to the Dorner 

 memorial fund, list of registrations, etc. 



The recent hot weather should do a 

 great deal to boom business among grow- 

 ers for the manufacturers of refrigerat- 

 ing apparatus. The lack of adequate 

 cool storage space coat many growers 

 hundreds of dollars, while the possession 

 of refrigerating apparatus enabled others 

 to put their stock on the market in 

 good shape in spite of the heat. A re- 

 frigerating machine soon pays for itself 

 in any good-sized greenhouse establish- 

 ment. 



AMERICAN BOSE SOCIETY. 



Bose Garden Tests. 



W. R. Pierson and John F. Huss, the 

 judges appointed for the purpose by the 

 American Rose Society, passed on the 

 exhibits of roses in the test garden at 

 Elizabeth park, Hartford, Conn., June 

 28, and now present the following re- 

 port, in addition to the report presented 

 of the work June 21: 



Test No. 2 — Rosemary, Introduced by E. G. 

 Hlli Co.. 1907; parentage not recorded; scored 77. 



S«^No. 6— Seedling 562; E. G. Hill Co., 



acMlhclSlpedling; so»rA»?3. _»" ,. i*.^VjL „ 



■t Te8?«o. 13— Excflsrf, cnbblHlglVl4|*|l*d» 



hybrid: T^onard & Jones Co., 1909: scorM' 90; 



certificate of merit. 



Test No. 24 — Seedling 392; parentage, seedling 

 294x266; John Cook, Baltimore, Md.; scored 80; 

 certlflcater of merit. 



NEW YOBK TO MINNEAPOLIS. 



Harry A. Bunyard, chairman of th 

 transportation committee of the New 

 York Florists' Club, states that arrangt- 

 ments have been made for an "entirely 

 independent special train" from Ch- 

 cago to Minneapolis over the Chicagiv 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. • 



SOLD OUT! 



When you read these letters from flo- 

 rists who have disposed of all the stock 

 they could supply through an advertise 

 ment in The Review, do you realize that 

 you can clean out your stock in the sarnie 

 way? The only value of testimonialg is 

 to show to others the opportunities 

 which they have not yet grasped. If 

 you have heretofore been used to havipj:^ 

 surplus stock on your hands, you know 

 now how to avoid that difficulty in the 

 future. 



Please discontinue our chrysanthemum advet- 

 tlsement in The Review, as we are sold out. The 

 Review Is doing splendid work for us. — C. Eric- 

 son, Princeton, 111., July 1, 1913. 



Today we find we are swamped with orders 

 and must quit advertising for the time being. 

 However, you will hear from us again shortly. 

 —John Schwelchler, North Tonawanda, N. Y. 

 June 29. 1913.' 



Last week, June 26, one order of plants fllle<1 

 one 'entire car and theil some; this customer was 

 gained about a year ago through a small ad in 

 The Review and has been a regular ' customer 

 ever since. He buys all that we are able to- 

 supply. — E. Rawllngs, Oleau, N. Y., July 1, 

 1913. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



There never is more than one story 

 that can be told of the market in the 

 week of July 4: It always is dull. This 

 season the week in which we celebrate 

 the nation's birthday was no worse 

 than usual; there was enough demand 

 to take all the good stock, but scarcely 

 any outlet for the considerable quanti- 

 ties of extremely poor flowers that were 

 the result of the unusually hot and dry 

 weather. 



This week conditions are somewhat 

 improved. There is extremely little 

 first-class stock on the market, but the 

 overload of poor flowers is less heavy 

 than it has been. Following two weeks 

 of excessive heat, the temperature 

 dropped to normal July 6. Conse- 

 quently^ Beauties and roses are reaching 

 the market in much better condition; 

 wide open flowers demanding immediate 

 sale are much less of a problem than 

 they have been. Beauties are extremely 

 abundant. Several houses have good 

 crops and one or two are much more 

 heavily supplied than usual at this sea- 

 son. The buyer who can use quantities 

 is treated with great consideration- 

 There is a fair summer demand for the 

 better grades of roses. The greater part 

 of the receipts are cut from young stock 

 and have short stems. The special de- 

 mand for yellow has subsided; the extra 

 call now is for white. Short white sells 

 much better than short pink. 



Growers are rapidly clearing their 

 houses preparatory to replanting carna- 

 tions and the supply is much smaUc' 

 than heretofore, small in numbers an>1 

 small in size of flower. A few asfeis 

 have appeared and it will not be lon^ 

 before this summer flower will displace 

 the carnation. Gladioli have become 

 .^undant^ut thus, far the eatly pinl< 

 'vSriety is all that i^^^vaila^VTni quan- 

 tity. Wholesalers are somewhat dis- 

 appointed in the prices being realized. 

 b\it one of the largest growers says he 



