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The Florists' Review 



July 17, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' KgVffiW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GRAjer. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

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CONTENTS 



American Sweet Pea Society 7 



— Fifth Annual Exhibition (Ulus.) 7 



— Arthur T. Boddlngton's Exhibit (Ulus.).. 7 



— Exhibit of K. & J. Farqubar & Co. (Ulus.) 8 

 -Exhibit of W. Atlee Burpee & Co. (Ulus.) 9 



Portland Sweet Pea Show (Ulus. ) 9 



Wni. Sim (portrait) 10 



A Few Notes on Sweet Peas 10 



Max Smith's Arrangement (Ulus.) 10 



A Comer In the Portland Show (Ulus.) 11 



Sweet Pea Trials at Cornell 11 



A Flag in Sweet Peas (Ulus.) 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Amaryllis 12 



— Ptmaies 12 



— Cold Storage Lilies 12 



Chrysanthemums 12 



— Slow Growth. Small Foliage 12 



— Cyanide for Mums 12 



The Phone and the Auto (Ulus.) 13 



Hall Storm at Columbus 13 



A Florist in Gettjsburg ];', 



Busim-HK Embarrassments 13 



New Orleans 14 



Pittsburgh 14 



John Burton (portrait) 15 



New York 1.5 



— Greek Florists' Outing (Ulus.) 10 



White Fly In Plant House 1(1 



Toledo J'lorists' Outing (Ulus.) 17 



Obituary 17 



— .Mrs. Annie .M. Smith.... 17 



— Robert I.elthead 17 



— Kobert J. 'Irumbull 17 



— John Faber 17 



Young at Minneapolis .' IS 



The Canadian Convention IS 



Cause and Effect 18 



Chicago 18 



Cincinuutl 25 



Columbus, 26 



Cleveland 27 



Philadelphia 28 



Providence. R. 1 30 



Yonkers, N. Y 31 



Greenwich, Coun 31 



Lancaster, Pa 32 



Boston 33 



8t. Louis 36 



Steamer .Sailings 42 



Pacific Coast Department 44 



— Sau Francisco 44 



— Ix)s Angeles 44 



— Seattle, Wash 45 



— Portland, Ore 4li 



Evansville. Ind 47 



Seed Trade News 48 



— Field's Year 48 



— The First Harrlsll Bulbs 50 



— Page's Plant's Prosperity 50 



— Limitations in Adaptation .'lO 



Rochester, N. Y 53 



Newport, R. I .">«> 



Nursery News 62 



— In Iowa 62 



— Duty on .\pple Seeds 62 



— Inspection In Colorado 62 



Glen Cove. N. Y...- 64 



Detroit, Mich 66 



Indianapolis, Ind <i8 



Greenhouse Heating 80 



— A Closed System 80 



— Boiler Inspection 80 



— The Coal Situation 82 



Washington. D. C • 82 



NashvUlf. Tenn 86 



Muncie, Ind i .88 



Albany, N. Y 88 



Louisville, Ky. — The Dilston Nursery 

 J9 the name under which three women, 

 Mrs. Mason Maury, Mrs. Harry Bishop 

 and Dr. Anna Lawrence, of this city, 

 are engaged in growing peonies for the 

 cut flower market. The stock at pres- 

 ent covers three acres. » 



BOOIZTT OP AMEBIOAH FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congreaa, March 4, 1801. 



Officera for 1813: President. J. K. U. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston, Uaas.; Tlce-president, Theo- 

 dore Wlrth, MlaneapoUa; Mcretary, John Young, 

 64 W. 28th St.. New York City; treasurer, W. V. 

 Kastittg, Buffalo, 



Twenty.nlntb annual convention, Minneaj^U. 

 Minn., Aognat 19 to 22. 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 90 



EESULTS. 



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. 



F. W. Fletcher & Co., Aubumdale, 

 Mass., have issued a neat booklet, ' ' The 

 Story of Nelrose, ' ' containing the history 

 of the variety of that name and some 

 general notes on snapdragons. 



Almost anyone can sell goods — the 



difficulty is to obtain business on a profit- 



» able basis. A florist^ to be permanently 



successful, must not only sell at prices 



that pay, but to customers who pay. 



The tariff bill was- reported to the 

 Senate July 11 in the exact form in 

 which the trade paragraphs were printed 

 in The Review of June 26. It is thought 

 there will be no further changes before 

 the bill becomes law. 



One of the English trade papers com- 

 ments that "the ever-rising cost of fuel 

 is a sore point with all glass proprie- 

 tors," and adds that a good coal for 

 greenhouses that formerly cost 4 shillings 

 now costs 10 shillings per ton. 



Now that the Killarneys are the prin- 

 cipal roses there is not the hiatus between 

 seasons that was so regular in the days of 

 Bride and Bridesmaid. Not only do most 

 growers carry their plants of Killarney 

 more than one year, but they run them 

 right through without drying off and rest- 

 ing, as was done when the old favorites 

 were carried over. 



YOUNG AT MINNEAPOLIS. 



John Young, secretary of the S. A. F., 

 is at Minneapolis to take up the work 

 of the convention. Those who wish to 

 communicate with him should write 

 care of the Hotel Andrews. Mr. Young 

 says he is "delighted with the arrange- 

 ments already made; all details have 

 been well taken care of; all of the 

 Minneapolis boys deserve great credit. 

 The vice-president has done wonders 

 with the outdoor planting exhibits and 

 at convention time it should be at its 

 best. This exhibition will be a pleas- 

 ant surprise to many." 



THE CANADIAN CONVENTION. 



The sixteenth annua.1 convention of 

 the Canadian Horticultural Association 

 will be held in Peterboro, Ont., August 

 5 to 7. It is expected that the trade 

 exhibit will be an exceptionally good 

 one. A large greenhouse concern will 

 have a display of its form of green- 

 house construction and R. W. King, of 

 the King Construction Co., and R. M, 

 Cobb, of the Lord & Burnham Co., will 

 speak on greenhouse construction, the 

 latter with lantern-slide illustrations. 



Cecil Hopton, of Montreal, will pre. 

 sent a paper particularly valuablo to 

 retailers on "Retail Store Manage- 

 ment." Charles Craig, of Ottawa, will 

 give a paper on "Christmas Plants". 

 Tom McHugh, of Montreal, on "IVhat 

 Native Plants Have Proved Most Use- 

 ful for Conservatory Purposes?" and 

 G. Trussel, of Montreal, on "What 

 Ten Perennials Have Proved the Most 

 Useful for the Hardy Border?" 



Elaborate plans are being arranged 

 by the Peterboro committee for the 

 entertainment of the members of the 

 association and include a trip around 

 the Kawartha lakes, a moonlight ex- 

 cursion and an evening banquet at a 

 summer resort on Clear lake. 



The superintepdent of the trade ex- 

 hibit is Frank Wise, of Peterboro, Ont. 



CAUSE AND EFFECT, 



The Review brings together the ad- 

 vertiser with the stock to sell and the 

 reader who wants to buy. The reason 

 for its great value as an advertising 

 medium is that it has so many of both 

 classes and covers a large field thor- 

 oughly and completely. The two letters 

 following show why both classes are so 

 well satisfied: 



I enjoy reading your paper yery 'much. Could 

 not do business without It, as I can always find 

 the stock I want. Yours Is the most complete 

 trade paper I ever subscribed for. — L. E. Davis, 

 Hartford, Mich., July 5, 1913. 



I most certainly appreciate your paper and 

 would advise every florist to advertise surplus 

 stock In The Review. — Fred Ziegeler, Jr., New 

 Orleans, La., July 3. 1913. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has been extremely quiet 

 through the week now under review. 

 Weather conditions have been such that 

 the old stock has run out earlier than 

 usual, while the outdoor summer flowers 

 have not come forward so early as they 

 ordinarily do. The result has been a 

 hiatus, a period during which there i8 

 scarcely any stock on the market. While 

 there is little to sell and no special de- 

 mand, still at the end of the day the 

 wholesalers find they have made an ex- 

 cellent record for summer sales; the 

 business is running quite a bit ahead of 

 last year, when there was much more 

 stock on the market. 



The special feature this week is the 

 sharp decrease in the supply of carna- 

 tions. The hot weather in June hit 

 them so hard that practically all the 

 growers have thrown out and are re- 

 planting simultaneously. There are 

 scarcely any carnations on the market 

 this week, and most of those received 

 are poor. The decrease in shipments is 

 specially apparent because the asters in 

 the field have had to contend witli so 

 much dry weather that they are not 

 blooming so early as usual. A few 

 asters are coming in, but the quantity 

 is not enough to cut much figure. 



There is an abundance of American 

 Beauties. ^Vhile some growers are "U*' 

 ting little, others have fine crops on. 

 The quality generally is all that could 

 be eiq)ected in the middle of summer' 

 Stems and foliage are fine, the bud is 

 as large as the season would warrant 

 one to expect and the color is fair to 

 good, weather conditions in the last I'eW 

 days having been favorable. Prices iV^ 

 slightly better than earlier in the 

 month, but the buyers who can use 

 quantities still can get liberal treat- 



