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The Florists' Review 



AUGDST 21, 1918. 



...CONTENTS... 



The Minneapolis Convention 23 



— The Opening Ceremonies 23 



— Theodore Wlrth (portrait) 23 



— Patrick Welch (portrait) 24 



— The Routine Business 24 



— Boston Next Year 24 



— Report on President's Address 24 



— Nomination of Officers 24 



The President's Reception 25 



Illustrated Lectures 25 



The President's Address 26 



Secretary's Report 26 



The Outdoor Exhibits (iUus.) 28 



Bowling 20 



The Trade's Display (illus.) 30 



Report of Tariff Committee 34 



At the National Capital 85 



The Allied Societies 36 



— Ladies' Society 36 



— Chrysanthemum Society 36 



— American Carnation Society 36 



— American Rose Society 36 



— American Gladiolus Society 36 



— Florists' Hail Association 37 



— Florists' Telegraph Delivery , 87 



Report on Smith Memorial 38 



Among Those Present 38 



Report on Rose Gardens 30 



Report on Publicity 39 



Convention Snapshots 40 



Boston 41 



Business Embarrassments 41 



Obituary 41 



— C. Leslie Reynolds 41 



— Mrs. Amasa Kennlcott 41 



— John K. Hoskln 41 



— Charles Kennedy 41 



— William M. Evans 41 



What Readers Need 42 



Chicago 42 



Philadelphia 50 



New York 54 



Washington, D. C 62 



Providence 65 



Steamer Sailings 68 



Seed Trade News 78 



— More Dutch Bulbs 80 



— French Bulbs • 80 



— Vetch a New Crop 80 



St. Louis 82 



Oyster Bay. N. Y 86 



Greenwich, Conn 88 



Fkclflc Coast Department 90 



— San Francisco 00 



— Portland, Ore 90 



— Seattle. Wash 90 



— Los Angeles, Cal -.., 91 



Glen Cove, N. Y .'. 93 



News of the Nursery Trade 94 



— Llttooy on Production 04 



— The Question of Quarantine 04 



— Working Out the Problems 94 



— Root Gall Not Dangerous 96 



Cincinnati .-. .100 



Terre Hante, Ind 102 



Indianapolis, Ind ...102 



Newport, R. 1 104 



New Orleans, La 106 



Denver 108 



Springfield, 108 



CleveUnd, O 110 



Greenhouse Heating 124 



— Raising the Flow Pipes 124 



— The Fuel Market 124 



— To Improve the Circulation 126 



— Steam or Hot Water? 130 



— A Small Nova Scotia House 132 



— SInggish Circulation 134 



Toledo, 136 



Rochester, N. Y 138 



Springfield, Mass 140 



Scranton, Pa 142 



Franklin, Pa. — Gilson Shaffer is the 

 successor to McElhinney Bros., who 

 have moved to Lakewood, N. J. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — The Cameron 

 Greenhouse Co. has completed three of 

 its greenhouses and Mr. White, the man- 

 ager, is fitting them up for business as 

 quickly as possible. 



Tarrytown, N. Y. — The annual clam 

 bake and outing of the Tarrytown Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Rye Beach, August 

 5, was a complete success. William F. 

 McCord and Edwaid^W. Neubrand, of 

 this city, andk Wj||am Scatt, of Elin;a- 

 ford, were among^those j||io enjoyea 



the day. ^ 



Eokomo, Ind. — A severe hail storm 

 visited this city on the afternoon of 

 July 31. L. A. Coles lost 250 panes of 



flass, W. W. Coles over 2,000 panes and 

 red Kelly 150 lights. The florists in 

 the south end of town, T. L. Knight and 

 W. A. Bitler, suffered no loss, as the 

 storm did not travel in that direction. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

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

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BOOIETY OF AMERICAS FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Conersis. March 4. 1801. 



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

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

 dore Wlrth. Minneapolis; secretary. Jobo Young, 

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

 Kastlng. Buffalo. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolla. 

 Minn.. August 10 to 22. 1918. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 70 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Kansas has had the hottest summer 

 ever known and the florists there, as well 

 as in the adjacent states, have lost a 

 great deal of stock. 



It looks as though five days is too 

 long for a trade convention. The inter- 

 est is not sufficient to hold the attendance 

 at the hall for more than a part of the 

 time. 



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. 



One advertiser in The Review reports 

 having sold 240,000 chrysanthemum 

 plants this season and says many more 

 miglit have been disposed of had the 

 stock been available. 



P. O. Mui£MA, mayor of Leesburg, O., 

 is starting in the greenhouse business. 

 Incidentally, he says he gets "a world of 

 information" out of The Review. The 

 first thing a beginner does is to subscribe. 



Foe those who remember what they 

 read last week it may be stated that 

 last week's edition of The Review con- 

 sumed 7,865 pounds of white paper — 

 and it was no special edition, sample 

 copy circulation, either; just the regular 

 weekly run. Practically four tons of 

 white paper are used each issue the year 

 around, with about six tons on special 

 numbers. 



view to tell him of a fiivorable lo^tion 

 for starting in business of one kind or 

 another. A location may be well or 

 poorly chosen, but success in any branch 

 of the florists' business depends more 

 on the ability and energy of the florist 

 than on any other factor. One man gets 

 rich where other men merely make a liv- 

 ing — but there are surprisingly few fail- 

 ures in this trade. 



WHAT HEADERS NEED. 



Whatever our readers need, they turn 

 to our advertising pages to find. The 

 man whose advertisement is on the spot 

 prepared to supply what readers need, 

 is sure to get the business. If the ad- 

 vertisement is in response to a need, the 

 buyer will look it up. It is for this rea- 

 son that a little Classified advertise- 

 ment is such a wonder-worker. Two 

 lines brought business and satisfaction 

 to this man, for the readers needed his 

 tobacco stems: 



wish to say that we got good results from the 

 classified advertisement and it will not be neces- 

 sary to run it any longer at this time. — L. S. 

 Boucher Cigar Co., JopUn, Mo., Aug. 7, 1913. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



With a steady increase in the supply 

 and an indifferent demand, the market 

 for the last week or ten days has been 

 anything but brisk. Each day has seen 

 large quantities of stock thrown on the 

 market, while the wholesalers were do- 

 ing their best to move the surplus along 

 in the face of an almost discouraging 

 demand. Roses are probably more plen- 

 tiful than they have been for a number 

 of years at this time, and with the ex- 

 ception of the white varieties, which 

 are scarce, there are more than enough 

 to go around. While Killarneys, Mary- 

 lands and the other summer roses are to 

 be had in large lots, the greatest over- 

 supply is in Beauties. Every possible 

 effort is being made by the dealers to 

 force the sale of these. City buyers 

 have taken away large numbers, but 

 there are still enough left for the wants 

 of the out-of-town buyers. They are 

 available in almost any length, but there 

 are more of the medium and long stems 

 than of the shorter ones. Just how long 

 the oversupply will last is a question; 

 the cloudy weather early in the week 

 gave the wholesalers hope that the cuts 

 would decrease until the demand could 

 catch up. Of the other roses, the new 

 crops are all that could be expected in 

 the way of color, foliage and stem, but 

 it is hard to keep the fiowers in condi- 

 tion, as the heat causes them to open 

 quickly, and those that will stand ship- 

 ping are not in abundance. There are 

 increasing cuts in many of the new va- 

 rieties, and Mrs. Russell, Milady and one 

 or two others are more in evidence as 

 the summer advances. 



Asters are being shipped to the mar- 

 ket in larger quantities than before, but 

 the quality is lacking, and the good ones 

 are the only kind that are worthy of 

 attention. There is no outlet for the 

 poor ones, and they hardly bring enough 

 for the growers to pay the express 

 charges. The^ood ones are more read- 

 ily disposed of, although the demand is 

 hardly a brisk one. Gladioli are in the 

 same boat, and only the better grades 

 will bring any price at all. 



Carnations have been cut in larger 

 numbers during the last few days, and 

 in some quarters re^^onably good flow- 

 ers are to be found.-^They do not show 

 the weakness of stem that was the de- 

 fect of the carnations last season, and 

 while most of them are short-stemmed 

 as yet, there are a few good long- 

 stemmed ones. Another two weeks 

 should see the fir^ good cuts of the 

 longer stems. 



Lilies are in fair supply, with a de- 

 mand just strong enough to carry away 

 those that are being cut. Valley is 



