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The Florists' Review 



July 24, 1911; 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Foimded, 1897. by G. L. GRANT. 



PUBLISHED KVEBY THUBSDAT BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-66O Caxton Baildlng, 



608 South Dearborn St., Cbicaso. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



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 J . Austin Shaw, Managek. 



Subecriptlon price. 11.00 a year. 

 To Europe. I2JS0. 



To Canada. t2.00 



Only 



Advertlalngr rates quoted upon request. 

 Btrlctly trade advertising 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 8, 1897, 

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

 March 3, 1879. 



Tills paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS 



Commercial Floriculture ..^r 7 



— Vocational School Planned (iUus.) 7 



— College Work for Florists 8 



Hart's Prize Winning Float (iUug.) 9 



Port Allegany Otaksas (illus. ) 9 



Sweet Peas — The Best Sweet Peas 10 



— Table Decoration of Sweet Peas (illus.).. 10 



Business Enibarrassments 10 



St. Louis Fall Show 11 



Changes in Parcel Post 11 



Basket of Sweet Peas (Illus.) 11 



Roses— Probably Dry at the Root 12 



— Black Spot 12 



— Rose Leaf Roller 12 



Outdoor Chrysanthemums 12 



Seasonable Suggestions— Cinerarias and Cal- 

 ceolarias 12 



— Mignoiiette 12 



Dutch Bulbs 18 



— NarolBSi in Tennessef 13 



Camattons — Carnations for Europe 14 



— Time to Bench 14 



Housing Antirrhinums 14 



Planting Freesias 14 



Insects on Geraniums 14 



Aviation (Illus.) 14 



An Bnglisb Rose Show 14 



A Basket From New York (illus- ) 15 



Indiana Florists 16 



Obituary- Peter Morel 16 



— Joseph Clarke 16 



— E. B. Sutton 17 



— Julius Roebrs (portrait) 17 



— J. M. Gleason 17 



Duty on Greenhouse Glass 18 



American Gladiolus Society 18 



A Sleepless Florist 18 



Chicago 18 



New Orleans 23 



Omaha 24 



Kansas City 24 



Washington, D. C 26 



Philadelphia 28 



New York 30 



Some Good Gladioli 32 



To Propagate Polnsettias .32 



Hardy Vienna Carnations 34 



Catalogues Received 34 



Boston 38 



Cincinnati 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Seed Trade News 46 



— More Harrlsil Bulbs 48 



— The Minnesota Seed Law 48 



St. Louis 48 



Pacific Coast Department 54 



— Pomona, Oal 54 



— San Francisco, Cal 54 



— Los Angeles, Cal 54 



— Portland, Ore 55 



— Seattle, Wash 56 



Sow Bugs 56 



Coleus for Hanging Baskets 56 



News of the Nursery Trade 62 



— Maine Law Is Changed 62 



— Texas Society to Meet 62 



• — Storage of Nursery Stock 62 



— Wool& Aphis on Trees 6.3 



Rochester, N. Y «4 



Lancaster, Pa 6C 



Indianapolis, Ind 68 



Zanesvllle, 70 



Greenhouse Heating 80 



— A Massachusetts Lean-to 80 



— Use of a Generator 81 



— The Fuel Sltuatton Bhst W 



— Piping to Washllgton State M 



— Steam Boiler for Hot Water 85 



— Coal at Chicago 86 



Cleveland 88 



Toledo, O ; 90 



Batavia, N. Y ,►...90 



Springfield, Mass i 92 



Onmberland, Md. — John A. Bopp to- 

 portfl the season just closed as one of 

 the best he has experienced and he 

 looks forward to a good fall business. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOSIBTB. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congresa, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1913: President. J. K. M. L. 

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

 dore Wirtb, Minneapolis; secretary, John Tonng, 

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

 Kaatlng, Buffalo. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Mlnneapolia, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22, 1913. 



index to Advertisers 



Page 94 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings resulte. 



Better push along the carnation plant- 

 ing, so as to be ready for the S. A. F. 

 convention. 



The scarcity of sphagnum moss is at 

 an end, at least for a time. The market 

 is unsettled. 



Note the way the advertisements of 

 field-grown carnation plants are increas- 

 ing in the Classified section of The Re- 

 view. 



Did you ever stop to think of the many 

 evidences that the slow-pay customer, 

 whose long overdue account is worrying 

 you, also owes your competitors f 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dc^ar-bin that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



This year in greater degree than usual 

 one can combine business and pleasure 

 by attending the S. A. F. convention. 

 There will be many new faces among 

 those in attendance and Minneapolis is 

 almost a summer resort. 



The premium list for the Illinois State 

 Fair, Springfield, has been issued. The 

 classes for florists are to be Htaged Octo- 

 ber 6 to 9 and include 117 classes, with 

 adequate premiums. J. E. Taggart, Free- 

 port, 111., is superintendent of floriculture 

 this year. 



A PRELIMINARY Schedule for the plant 

 classes of the International Flower Show 

 to be held at New York March 21 to 28, 

 1914, has been issued. Those wishing 

 copies can get them by addressing John 

 Young, secretary, 54 West Twenty-eighth 

 street, New York. 



DUTY ON OBEENHOUSE GLASS. 



The pending tariff bill, which seems 

 almost certain to become the law, re- 

 duces the duty on the greenhouse sizes 

 of window glass from 1% cents per 

 pound to 1 cent per pound. Double- 

 strength 16 X 18 and 16 x 24 is imported 

 on the basis of eighty pounds to the 

 box of fifty square feet, so that the 

 present duty is $1.50 per box and the 

 new rate will be 80 cents per box, a 

 reduction of 70 cents. 



There are at present no large quanti- 

 ties of greenhouse sizes in stock, either 

 in this country or in Belgium, where 

 conditions have bee» such that produc- 

 tion has been curtailed i, for many 

 montl^ The present dispo^Ltiotii of^.tjhe 

 factories, therefore, is to hold prices 

 tQ ^e level that has existed throughout 

 tlie early spipmsr, but there is a feel- 

 ing on the part of jobbers that some 

 important changes are impending. It 

 is thought that business conditions 

 may not be such as fo consume all the 

 foreign glass that will be manufactured 

 in the next year and that it can be mar- 



keted in this country at an excel- 

 lent profit at present prices after paying 

 a duty of only 80 cents per box. It jj 

 asserted by those who have made a life. 

 long study of the glass trade that the 

 cost of production in the United States 

 is more than the freight and 80 cents 

 per box greater than the cost in Bel- 

 gium. No wage agreement has thus fat 

 been made for the autumn fire in this 

 country, and none will be until the tar 

 iff law has been signed. The manufac- 

 turers feel that with nearly half their 

 protection removed the wages will have 

 to come down to more nearly the Euro- 

 pean scale. 



On the whole it looks as though 

 greenhouse glass may sell somewhat 

 cheaper than it has, at least for a time 

 after the new tariff law goes into effect. 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



Additional Prize. 



The following prize offer was received 

 too late to be printed in the schedule of 

 the Minneapolis exhibition: 



By Jacob Thomann & Sons, Rochester, 

 N. Y., first prize of $10 for twenty-five 

 spikes of the best white gladioli; second 

 prize, $5; open class. No. 19. 



L. Merton Gage, Cor. Sec 'y. 



A SLEEPLESS FLORIST. 



This florist has been kept awake 

 nights by his business, but he got the 

 business by keeping awake in the day 

 time. It is as clear as day that the 

 way to sell the most stock is to offer 

 it to as many people as you can who 

 buy your kind of stock. That is what 

 it means to advertise in The Review. 

 Have you seen daylight yetf 



Please take those fern and mum ads out of 

 your most valuable paper. They don't let me 

 sleep nights. Too much work. — B. B. Fohl- 

 mann, Rockford, 111., July 15, 1918. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There are those who say that not in 

 years has the Chicago market been so 

 bare of stock as it was at the opening 

 of the present week. There always 

 comes a time in summer when receipts 

 are light. Possibly the supply is as 

 great as it was at its lowest ebb last 

 season, but certainly the supply is not 

 now so large as it was at this date 

 last year. Carnations are almost out 

 of the market and asters, because of 

 the long spell of dry weather, are not 

 coming in as early as usual. Indeed, 

 the receipts of asters have not yot ht 

 conie large enough to cut any figure i" 

 this market. Local wholesalers, in t*"* 

 hope of augmenting their supply, have 

 been telegraphing eastern ma kets, 

 where asters have been reported ilenti- 

 ful, but the replies received early this 

 week have not been such as to affor'' 

 the prospect of a profitable speculiitio"- 

 Neither are gladioli coming in so ato"' 

 dantly as was the case at this dato last 

 year. There are increased shipments) 

 .put the generaV-* shortage of Jp»ck r^ 

 suits in the gladioli cleaning up prompt' 

 ly, and more could be sold if good. 



Cool weather has resulted in a ^^ 

 duction in rose crops. Beauties esp«' 

 cially. The oversupply which has cn>\ 

 acterized the situation for some wee* 

 is now a thing of the past. There a^^ 

 Beauties to be had, but not always F 

 the grade the buyer wants. Prices i»> 



