jpjpnp^v'^jiir'!""?*''''''''''*^''"'"?''''''''^^^ 



ji^iwwii 5(i.H»,-«jf< ..,'YT'»^'^t'Tp''TVi'™^^''^'*r" \ ^■■■. r^'^ "^ ••.'■',; 



.'flT^^'^' >-yv 



'^ 



22 



.The Florists' Review 



August 14, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GRANT. 



PUBLISHKD EVKEY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton Building* 

 508 South Dearborn St., Cblcago. 



Telephonk, Habbison 6429. 



beqistkbkd oablk addbxs8, flobyibw, obioaoo 



New York Office: 



1310 Forty-Ninth St Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Tklkphonb!, 2632 W. Borough fark, 

 J . Austin Shaw, Manageb. 



Subscription price, tl-00 a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 To Europe, I2JJ0. 



Advertisingr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade adyertlslng accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure Insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-offlce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS 



New Express Rates Mean Saving for Florists 11 



A Census of Gladioli 12 



Sands Among the Lilies (illus.) 12 



English Grapes Under Glass 12 



I llinois Increases Holdings 13 



News FVom the Convention (Mt.v (illus. ) 13 



— Society of American Florists 13 



— National Gardeners 14 



^ Omaha to Miuneapolis 14 



Coreopsis and Cornflowers 14 



Canadians Elect Officers 15 



l.lttle Rock Shows Speed 15 



Moles in Cucumber Beds 15 



Cucumbers on Solid Beds 15 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 16 



Head Lettuce in Frames 16 



(tld Stock of Foinsettlas 16 



Hoses — Kaiserlns Turning Yellow 17 



The St. Louis Fall Show 17 



Checking Army Worms 17 



Opportunity Knocks 17 



Lancaster, Pa 17 



Pittsburgh, Pa 17 



Greenwich, Conn 18 



Washington-Baltimore Outing 18 



Scranton, Pa 18 



Nashville. Tenn 18 



M. C. Ebel (portrait) 19 



Boston 19 



Providence, R. 1 20 



New York 21 



Obituary— William Squires 21 



— Francis Bachlcr 21 



Gladiolus Society of Ohio 22 



My ! But This Is Strong 22 



Chicago 22 



Philadelphia 30 



Cincinnati 86 



Kansas City 40 



St. Louis 41 



Steamer Sailings , 46 



Seed Trade News 48 



— HarriRli Shipments 48 



— Seed Prospects in Holland 48 



— Seeds and the Parcel Post 60 



— Dutch Bulbs 54 



— French Bulbs 64 



— Seed Crops in Germany 54 



Cleveland, 56 



Newport, R. 1 58 



Black Hall, Conn 58 



Pacific Coast Department 60 



— Portland, Ore 60 



— Los Angeles. Cal 60 



— San Francisco, Cal 61 



A Trailing Coleus 62 



News of the Nursery Trade 68 



— Emphasizing Quality 68 



— Regulating the Supply 68 



— Blight on Maples 68 



Syracuse, N. Y 70 



Hartford, Conn '2 



Detroit li 



Indianapolis, Ind 76 



Greenhouse Heating 88 



— Two Missouri Houses 88 



— The Coal Markets 88 



— Piping In North Oakota 89 



— Yoking Two Boilers 90 



— Piping a Partitioned House 90 



— sue of Smokestack 92 



Rochester, N. Y. • 92 



.Minneapolis 94 



Evansville, Ind 96 



Springfield, Mass 98 



Columbus, 100 



Leavenworth, Kan. — Henry Knipe, of 

 the Sunnyside Floral Co., in common 

 with the florists of this region, is suf- 

 fering from the drought, which has 

 almost totally ruined the outside flow- 

 'ers. The florists who grew asters in- 

 doors are now realizing big profits be- 

 cause of the failure of those outdoors. 



Annual Special 



Convention Number 



OUT AUGUST 21 



Ev«n larsar and fflnar than In other 

 years. It marks tha opsninc off tho 

 naw saaaon. Rasarve your apaca 

 now. 



"Every one in the trade reads The Re- 

 view ; the replies to my small advertise- 

 ment prove it."— W. Bay. 



Advsrtising forms close at 



S p* in* 

 August 19 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated bj Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

 dore Wlrtb, 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. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Next week the convention, the big 

 event in the trade year. 



The Minneapolis newspapers are giv- 

 ing the S. A. F. convention good pub- 

 licity. 



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. 



The extreme heat and lou^ continued 

 drought in the central wost have de- 

 strojed large quantities of florists' stoik 

 in the fields. Carnation plants will sell 

 well in the west in the next few weeks. 



Wm. C. Gloeckner, of Albany, N. Y.. 

 who is in such close touch with Repre- 

 sentative Ten Eyck that it is said the 

 two were the influence that gor the tariff 

 bill phrased to trade liking, has written 

 his friend that the increased weight limit 

 for parcel post shipments, eflfective 

 August 15, is in favor of florists, also 

 that a still further step to the advantage 

 of this trade would be increasing the 

 limit of size to about 100 inches inste:id 

 of seventy-two inches as at present. 



C. W. .Johnson, secretary of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, has mailed 

 to members the pamphlet issued annually 

 by the organization, together with the 

 preliminary premium list for the Chicago 

 exhibition in November. The pamphlet 

 contains the proceedings of the meeting 

 at New York last November, a tabular 

 report of the work of the society's exam- 

 ining committees, which was recorded in 

 The Review from week to week at the 

 time; lists of American and foreign va- 

 rieties disseminated in 1912, and a. list 

 of the ninety-three members. 



Some growers still are planting chrys- 

 anthemums, while others already are bt;- 

 ginning to cut. It's a big trade now. 



Minneapolis is a summer resort citv 

 of many attractions. An attendance of 

 the ladies greater than in any recent 

 year is expected at next week's conven- 

 tion. 



GLADIOLUS SOCIETY OF OHIO. 



The gladiolus growers of Ohio, uf 

 whom there are quite a number, have 

 organized a nice little society for the 

 purpose of fostering the interest in the 

 flower and will hold their first annual 

 show August 15, at 5709 Euclid avenue, 

 Cleveland. There is a comprehensive 

 premium list, with several special prizes 

 offered by novelty raisers. The exhibi- 

 tion committee consists of H. J. Alford, 

 GarrettsviJle; R. E. Huntington, Paines- 

 ville, and Mrs. A. H. Austin, Wayland. 

 W. C. Werner, of Painesville, will be 

 the judge. The officers of the society 

 are as follows: President, C. Betscher, 

 of Canal Dover; vice-president, Mrs. 

 A. H. Austin, of Wayland; secretary 

 and treasurer, Wilbur A. Christy, of 

 Warren. 



IVrST! BUT THIS IS STRONG! 



At the risk of arousing the jealousy 

 of Mr. Hearst, Mr. Munsey, Mr. Curtis 

 and others who lay claim to the pre- 

 eminence in the publishing field, The 

 Review presents the following as the 

 unsolicited opinion of one who speaks 

 from more or less experience: 



I think The Review is the Greatest Paper on 

 Earth and a sure money-getter for its adver- 

 tisers. — H. O. Meikel, Frankfort, Ind.. August o. 

 1913. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The demand let down appreciably 

 August 9 and in the days immediately 

 following, but prior to that there was 

 a rather brisk market, with a good de- 

 mand clearing the tables of almost 

 everything except the lower grades of 

 stock. Not only were roses in demand, 

 but even in the face of the hottest 

 weather of the summer all other flowers 

 moved along in good shape. The good 

 asters have brought excellent returns 

 in the face of a glut of poor stock. 

 Among the logical reasons for the 

 heavy out-of-town demand was the con- 

 tinued drought through the central and 

 western states, which, in connection 

 with the high temperature, caused con- 

 siderable damage to the outdoor crops. 

 With the usual summer supply cut off. 

 the out-of-town buyers had to turn to 

 the Chicago market. Carnations are 

 almost out of the question at present, 

 with roses, asters, gladioli and lilie? 

 about the only flowers worthy of cop 

 sideration. 



Beauties are fairly plentiful, but an 

 well cleaned up each day. They carry 

 good buds, as a rule, and in foliage they 

 are all that anyone could desire. Th( 

 longer grades are least plentifii, Thi 

 Killarneys and Maryland are in larger 

 supply than the other tea roses and 

 those possessing quality have been 

 bringing the growers excellent returns 

 for this time of the year. In the yel- 

 lows there is also a good supply, espe- 

 cially of Sunburst, and with increased 

 popularity they move well. Milady and 

 RiuBMll sell on sight. So many growers 

 noW^re cutting the first crop of the 

 season ^Utat there is a gkit of short, 

 weak roses and only extremely low 



