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The Florists' Review 



August 7, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Founded, 1897. by G. L. GRANT. 



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AdTertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade adyertlsing 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 post-ofilce at Cliicago. 111., under the act of 

 l^ch 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a memlier of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 

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CONTENTS 



Dog Day Doings of the Show Window Artists. 



(lUus.) • 



News k rem the Convention City 1«» 



— Convention Hall All Right 10 



— Convention Preparations 10 



— Ladies' S. A. F 11 



— American Carnation Society 11 



Parcel Post h ound Wanting 11 



Fuchsias and Hibiscus 11 



Seasonable SuggestiouH 12 



— Paper White Narcissi 12 



— Kouian Hyacinttis 12 



^Lillum Harrisll 12 



— Cold Stoiage »peolusuui Lines i^ 



— Lilium Caudlduni 12 



Sweet Peas 12 



— Winter Sweet Peas 12 



— English Sweet Peu Show (ilius.) 13 



Moles in Cucumber .Soil 13 



Geraniums 14 



— Ants on (JeraniiHus 14 



— Maggots on Geraniums 14 



Lettuce CO l^olluw aiuuis 14 



Obrjtiautbemums 14 



— Noniu Mums for Christmas 14 



— Grasshoppers on Mums 14 



— Crops to tollow Late Mums 14 



Express Kates Ordered Cut (illus.) 15 



Lime With Manure 10 



Pots Filled to the Brim 16 



The Freight on Sphagnum 10 



Canadians in isessiou 10 



Prof. E. A. White (portrait) 17 



Bailey Makes Announcement 17 



Boston 17 



PltlbuU.gll ^1 



Indianapolis. Ind 18 



Picnic at Omaha (Illus. ) 10 



Obil..a.y 19 



— Mrs. R. P. Barnette 10 



— Robert Sydenham 19 



— H. O. Thornton 19 



— Airs, hauu.e aiarke 10 



— A. De Lanuey 19 



Packing and Postage 20 



•'One issue Citaiiea Us Out" 20 



Chlcaito 20 



Philadelphia 28 



Washington, D. C 30 



New 1 OIK 32 



St. Louis 38 



Providence 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



News of tile Nursery Trade 46 



— Texas Nurserymen Meet 46 



— Mori' Inspection Probable 40 



— Cavities in Tree Trunks 46 



— Prosperity and the Law 47 



Seed Trade News 50 



— Harrisll Bulbs 52 



— Tomato in California 52 



— Dutch Bulbs 54 



— N. .-.I (ilins.) 66 



— Catalogues Received 56 



Paciuc coast Lepartment 5S 



— Express Kates Cut 58 



— Portland, Ore 68 



— Meiilo Park. Cal 68 



— San Francisco, Cal 68 



— Los .>u^eus, Cal 68 



— Coqultlam, B. C 60 



Bocbester. N. Y 66 



Detroit 70 



Brampton, Ont 72 



ClnclnuMtl 82 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— One Massachusetts House 84 



— Coal at Chicago 84 



— A New Housr and Extension 84 



— Besl'lence and Greenhouse 86 



New Orleans, La 86 



Scranton, Pa 90 



Lanca«ter, I'a 92 



Owatonna, Minn. — The Clinton Fall* 

 Nursefy Co. lost 870 panes of glass by 

 hail July 28, The loss was covered by 

 insurance. 



SOCIETY OF AMSBIOAN FL0BI8T8. 

 Incorporated by Act of Oongr«M, March 4, 1001. 



Offlcen for 1913: President. 3. K. M. L. 

 Farqnbar, Boiton, Mass.; Tice-presldent. Theo- 

 dore Wirtb. Mlnneapolla; Mcretary, John Young, 

 64 W. 28tb St., New York City; treaanrer, W. r. 

 Kastlng, Butfalo. 



Twenty-ninth annnal convention, Mlnneapolla, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22. 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 94 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



H. A. Barnard, of Stuart Low & Co., 

 Enfield, England, is preparing for an- 

 other of his trips to America. He ex- 

 pects to spend September and a part of 

 October here. 



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. 



More pompon mums have been planted 

 this season than ever before, in spite of 

 the fact that the supply last season was 

 so greatly increased that prices on the 

 market were below those previously real- 

 ized. 



There has been an extremely, large 

 business in young chrysanthemum stock 

 this season. If all the cuttings sold by 

 advertisers in The Review are grown to 

 average even two flowers to the plant, 

 the queen of autumn certainly will reign 

 for a space this fall. 



The Californians are closing every ave- 

 nue by which uninspected plants can 

 come into the state. A California con- 

 gressman has introduced a bill to provide 

 for the inspection of shipments entering 

 the state by mail. The bill is printed in 

 full in the Nursery Department. See 

 page 46. 



PACKING AITD POSTAGE. 



In The Review of July 24, page 14, 

 I note an article which is entitled 

 "Carnations for Europe," and which 

 has reference to the packing of plants 

 for shipment across the ocean. Now, I 

 am not specially interested in the pack- 

 ing of plants for Europe, but I am 

 interested in developing the best meth- 

 ods of packing plants for shipment in 

 this country. After a somewhat ex- 

 tended trial of different modes of paakv, 

 ing, and after some close observation 

 of conditions on arrival from other 

 growers, I find that the plants packed 

 in moss with only a trace of moisture 

 a."e the ones that reach their destina- 

 tion in the best condition. 



The rates of postage on seeds and 

 plants under the present regulations of 

 the parcel post make the cost to tne 

 consumer rather burdensome. I do not 

 think that any one of the 10,000 or 

 more small dealers and growers would 

 have any cause for complaint on the 

 subject if they could get regular mer- 

 chandise rates (\f postage, but it looks 

 i* present as if Uncle Sam were favor- 

 ing just a few dealers who do a world- 

 wide mail business, to the detriment 

 of the many small ones who do a local 

 mail business. 



The town of Cantril, la., where I 

 am in business, has three ^rural routes, 

 but the post office department rules that 

 the carriers are not allowed to carry 

 small packages which can go by parcel 



post. Our merchants can and do send 

 out many small parcels of goods to 

 people along the routes, at a small cost; 

 the rate of postage they pay is certainly 

 reasonable. But let us suppose that one 

 of my customers wants, say, 300 sweet 

 potato plants. Of course I can put 

 them up so the customer will get them 

 by parcel post. What is the postage 

 on the 300 plants? The 300 plants, 

 well packed, will weigh four pounds 

 and the postage is 32 cents for a dis- 

 tance of five miles into the country. 

 Any merchant can send three pounds of 

 even more valuable goods for 10 cents. 

 I am at extra expense in packing the 

 plants and must also pay three times 

 the postage and charge the extra cost 

 to the consumer. If the post oflSce de- 

 partment would make the postage rates 

 on seeds and plants the same as on 

 other goods, I -am sure the mail busi- 

 ness in that'line would be increased 

 fourfold. Albert Troth. 



"ONE ISSUE CLEANED US OUT." 



Five days after the date of publica- 

 tion, Ullrich's Greenhouses were so 

 swamped with orders that a telegram 

 was sent to stop the advertisement: 



Discontinue mum ad. One Issue cleaned us 

 out. Thanks. — Ullrich's Greenhouses. Tiffin, O., 

 July 8, 1913. 



Please discontinue fern ad. More orders than 

 I can fill.— Benj. B. Pohlmann, Rockford, 111., 

 July 9. 1913._ 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business has continued to hold iip in 

 good shape since the last report, al- 

 though at the present writing the mar- 

 ket shows a tendency to weaken. Short 

 roses have become more plentiful and 

 are fully equal to the demand, but roses 

 that can be classed as long-stemmed 

 continue scarce. There are hardly any 

 carnations, but of the other stock there 

 is more of the poor grades than can be 

 disposed of by the wholesalers. Asters 

 have come in more freely than hereto- 

 fore and only good stock is bringing re- 

 turns worthy of mention. The same is 

 true of gladioli. They are being cut 

 in large numbers, but the inferior stock 

 is a drag on the market. While the 

 good stock is selling at a fair figure, 

 there is scarcely any outlet for the less 

 desirable grades. Of course, America 

 leads, but Augusta and King are not 

 far behind. 



Beauties are in fair supply, but the 

 wholesalers have no trouble in moving 

 them at good figures in the absence of 

 larger cuts of the Killarneys. Killar- 

 ney is in much better supply than White 

 Killarney, but the special call for white 

 roses has subsided somewhat. Mary- 

 land, Sunburst, Bulgarie and other roses 

 are only in fair supply and almost any- 

 thing in the way of medium stems with 

 good quality flower finds a quick sale 

 at good figures. Radiance does not sell 

 at all well, but Mrs. Russell and Milady 

 are picked up on sight. The cool weather 

 evidently has improved the quality of 

 roses to some extent, for the stock be- 

 ing shipped to the market is of good 

 color. The market was not so strong 

 at the opening of business this week as 

 it was the first two days of the month, 

 when there was a heavy out-of-town 

 demand for roses. 



Lilies are not overabundant and 

 prices are holding firm. Sweet peas ard 

 still being pifked, but they are short in 

 stem and, with no demand, they bring 

 small returns. The outdoor peas have 



