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The Florists' Review 



August 28, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Pace 102 



The Conveution Aftermath * 



— Cauna Display of Couanl & Joues Co. 



(Ulus.) » 



— The Outing UHiis.)-^- JV 



— Tlie Conveatlou BowljBg 11 



— Florists' Hall Assoflatioii 11 



— Ladles' S. A. V 12 



— Snapshots of the Convention 1^ 



— Treasurer's Report 1^ 



— Front of Conveution Hall (lUus.) 1.5 



— ChlcaKoans Enroute to Minneapolis (lUus.) 14 



— Atflllatlon '15 



— A(lol|ih Fnrenwahl (iwrtralt) !•> 



— The Local Management l<j 



— Hugh Win (portrait) l<j 



— Cnnllnal Climber, Exhibited by Henry A. 

 Dreer (lUus. ) 1< 



— \Vm. Trlcker's Exhibit (IUuh. » 1^ 



The tJheut Flower Show 1 • 



Seasonable Suggestions l*^ 



— Early Snapdragons 1*^ 



— Sc-hlzanthus 1** 



— Biennial Seeds ]^< 



Propagation of I'rlnuilas i^ 



Erult Trees In Voti IS 



A Novel Power Plant (lllus. 1 1» 



Another Prlze-Wlunlng Car villus. ) !!» 



Lancaster, Pa 10 



Violets — Violet Governor Herrlek '<ii) 



— Violet Koot Rot ^t) 



Hartford, Conn 20 



Huslness Embarrassments 20 



Washington, 1». C 20 



lirampton. Ont 20 



Nashua. N. H 21 



Itoehester, N. Y 21 



New York 21 



Ot>ituary — Charles M. Hooker 22 



— Richard Hopps 22 



— Charles Krombach 22 



.— Paul Kase *. 22 



— Russell Allyn West 22 



— Mrs. (1. W. Vreeland 22 



News Notes And Comments 23 



Death to Sow Bugs 24 



Exceeds Expectations 24 



Chicago 24 



St. Louis 28 



ITilladelphla 32 



Ronton 42 



Nashua. N. H 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



See<l Trade News 50 



— Harrlf^U Bulbs 52 



— Senate Passes S<-he<lnles .'•2 



— High Heat at Sacramento Wl 



— Dutch Bulb Arrivals ."56 



— Dutch Bnlbs 66 



— Catalogues Received 57 



IMttsburgh 57 



Paciac Coast Department 60 



— Portland, Ore «0 



— Ix)» .\ugele8 . . . 60 



— i flan Francisco 60 



— I'resldent Van Kirk's Address 61 



News of the Nursery Trade OS 



— Georgia Society Meets (W 



— A New Quarantine /Decision fts 



— Mllliuns of Trees Importeil OB 



Detroit. Mich 70 



EVansvlIIe, Ind 72 



SpringHeld. Mass 74 



Kansas City, Mo 76 



Providence 78 



Greenhouse Heating 00 



— Return Water fnusnally Hot 90 



— Piping Sweet Pea Uouses 00 



— Missouri Vegetable Houses 91 



— A Minnesota R<i«e House 92 



— Heating System a Failure 92 



— Painting the Piping Kl 



— Remedy for Boiler Scale 93 



Cincinnati 90 



New Orleans 9K 



Naslivllle. Tenn KH) 



Behoboth, Mass. — Albert E. Brownell 

 is preparing to build a violet house 

 16x100, to be heated by a Wilks boiler. 



Ionia, Mich. — The Ionia Pottery Co., 

 of which Harvey E. Kidder is manager, 

 is completing an addition to the fac- 

 tory which, with new machinery, will 

 not only make the establishment the 

 last word in pot making, but double 

 the present output. 



Warren, O. — Adgate & Son are pre- 

 paring to move to their new location 

 on the west side of the city, where they 

 have about four acres of land. They 

 are building four houfes 27x200 feet 

 and one 28x100 feei, and a boiler house 

 and pottJJir i*«d'^ 28x100, which will 

 be of brick and tile. 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Concreis, March 4, 1901. 



Offlcera for 1013: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Karquhar, Boston, Mans. ; vice-president, Theo- 

 dore Wirth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young. 

 .'54 W. 28th St., New Yorli City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Officers for 1914: President, Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; vice-president, Patricli Welch, Bon- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, 64 W. 28th St., New- 

 York City; treasurer, W. V. Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Boston, Mass., 

 August 18 to 21, 1U14. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



An account of the passage of the seed, 

 plant and bulb schedule by the Senate 

 appears in the Seed Trade Department 

 of this week's issue. 



Alexander Gumming, Jr., superin- 

 tendent of parks at Hartford, Conn., will 

 join the staff of A. N. Pierson, Inc., 

 Cromwell, Conn., September 1. 



The St. Louis Mid-Continental Flower 

 Show has been declared off. Frank M. 

 Robinson advises that the present plan 

 is to hold it in the autumn of 1914. 



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 Tisita of the papw. 



There was not a latania in the trade 

 exhibition at the S.A.F. convention this 

 year. Only one exhibitor had Livistona 

 rotundifolia. The kentia, areca and 

 phoenix have the field practically to them- 

 selves. 



The date for the next annual meeting 

 and exhibition of the American Carna- 

 tion Society is January 28 and 29. Since 

 Cleveland was selected as the meeting 

 place, Adam Graham was placed in 

 charge of the local arrangements. 



DEATH TO SOW BUGS. 



About once or twice a year we think 

 it about time to reduce the number of 

 sow bugs that are hiding in the benches 

 and damp places around the green- 

 houses. So we take fifty pounds of 

 granulated sugar and ten pouiids of 

 Paris green, mix the entire quantity 

 thoroughly and put it in cornucopias 

 made out of stiff brown paper, with a 

 half-inch hole in the bottom to allow 

 the mixture to run out slowly along 

 the top edge of the bench board. Then 

 w« sftnd a gang all over the place, to 

 run the mixture along every bench in 



the houses; it is all done at the same 

 time, so as to give every bug a chance 

 to help himself. 



We have just got through with one 

 of our semiannual cleanings and you 

 will please note the result. As the bugs 

 were lying close together on the walks 

 in the houses, we estimated that there 

 were six bugs to a square inch, which 

 is a conservative estimate. This would 

 make 144 to the inch on a 2-foot walk, 

 1,728 to a foot and 345,600 to a 200- 

 foot walk. And, as there are 105 such 

 walks on the place, the grand total 

 would be 36,288,000 dead sow bugs from 

 fifty pounds of sugar and ten pounds of 

 Paris green, not counting those that 

 crawled back into or under the benches 

 before they died. Such a systematic 

 campaign as this disposes of most of 

 the sow bugs, notwithstanding the fact 

 that they do not show themselves until 

 after dark and hustle for cover as soon 

 as the first streak of dayliglit appears. 



W. J. K. 



EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. 



Expectations are apt to be high, and 



especially so in regard to returns from 



money paid out. The man who pays for 



advertising wants to get his money's 



worth, and usually expects a great deal 



more. What must be his rating of the 



paper in which a classified ad brings 



a call that "exceeds all expectations"? 



Will have to ask you to discontinue fern ad. 

 More orders than I can fill. Call exceeds all 

 expectations. — L. B. Humiston, Parsons, Kan., 

 August 11, 1013. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



As a result of several days of cool 

 weather, the local supply has decreased 

 somewhat since the last report. While 

 there are enough roses to go around, 

 the situation is much better and the 

 wholesalers find it possible to clean up 

 on all grades except, perhaps, shorts. 

 The cuts hardly exceed what have 

 usually been the case at this time of 

 the year, when the first cuts are made 

 from the newly planted benches. Car- 

 nations have again become a factor, 

 small quantities of outdoor flowers, as 

 well as the first cuts from the young 

 stock on the benches, now being 

 offered. There are enough to fill all 

 needs at present, when there are so 

 many asters and gladioli around. The 

 carnations, however, show excellent 

 quality and, while they are, of course, 

 short-stemmed, they are nice, clean 

 flowers. 



Beauties remain plentiful, but mostly 

 in the short and medium lengths. The 

 longer ones are most easily sold and for 

 anything around three feet there is no 

 trouble in getting a fair price. In the 

 shorter lengths large numbers are being 

 cut and, while they have moved well 

 last week, there are more than enough 

 to go around. The glut that was in 

 effect just previous to the last report 

 has moderated to some extent and with 

 the cool weather putting a check on the 

 crops the wholesalers have not been 

 forced to make the sacrifices that were 

 necessary ten days ago. 



In roses, Killarneys and Marylands, 

 especially, the supply is not any too 

 larg» and the demand is fully heavy 

 enough to enable the dealers to secure 

 gotfft returns on the better grades of 

 stock. The new roses are finding a 

 popular demand from (he local retailersi 



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