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The Florists^ Review 



September 4, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 102 



Screening Glass Against Hall (lUus.) 9 



Koses 10 



— White Cochets for Winter 10 



— KlUarney Losing Foliage 10 



— Rose Plants Dying 10 



— Sulphur and Other Remedies 10 



To Kill Worms and Grubs Iti 



Diseased Antirrhinums 10 



O'anlde for Mixed Crops 11 



Heated by a Hot Spring (lUus.) 11 



A Well' Grown Schizanthus (lllus.) 11 



Chrysanthemums *12 



— Should Leaves be Removed V 12 



— Scale on Outdoor Mums 12 



— Caterpillars on Mums 12 



Liming the Garden 12 



The Retail Florist 12 



— Those Fishin' Windows 12 



— Palm Leaf Trimmings (lllus.) 13 



— "Messengers of Sentiment" l."f 



— Flowers of the Months l.'i 



Variegated Salvias 13 



Gladioli Dying i:5 



Carnations 14 



— Mulch for Carnations 14 



— Bordeaux for Stem-rot 14 



— Carnations After Housing 14 



Culture of Calceolarias 14 



Orchids 14 



— Seasonable Notes 14 



Wallace J. Pilcher (portrait) 1") 



Soil for Potting 15 



Gladioli in the East ' lt« 



Time to Bud Orange Trees 10 



Making a Hotbed 10 



Primulas With Carnations 10 



The Hardy Perennial Garden 10 



When the Pier Went Down (lllus.) 1« 



Rescuing the Victims (lllus.) 17 



Hlinois Florists' Meeting 18 



Iowa Florists Meet 1*^ 



Barnard's Young Ladies (lllus. ) IS 



Obituary 18 



— W. H. Sawvel IS 



— Frank Zettler IS 



— Charles Crawford IN 



Business Embarrassments 18 



News Notes 10 



Who Has a Good Cost System? 20 



New York State Federation 20 



Stock, Not Location, Counts ,. 20 



Chicago 20 



Kansas City 27 



Philadelphia 28 



New York 30 



Rochester, N. Y 32 



Cleveland 34 



Boston 30 



St. Louis 38 



Lancaster, Pa. j 41 



Columbus, 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Pacific Coast Department 40 



— San Francisco, Cal 40 



— Portland, Ore 40 



— Dayton, Wash 40 



— Los Angeles 47 



Seed Trade News 50 



— Wheeler's Plans 57 



— French Bulb Shipments 58 



— Dutch Bulb Shipments Heavy 58 



— Postage on Seeds and Plants 5S 



— Dutch Bulb Trade 00 



— German Grass Seed Crops 02 



— Catalogues Received 04 



News of the Nursery Trade 60 



— A. A. N. Committees 00 



— Southern Nurserymen Meet 60 



— Foreign Countries Inspect 00 



— Park Superintendents 07 



— Uniform Laws 07 



Pittsburgh. Pa 08 



Scranton, Pa 70 



Cincinnati 72 



Washington, D. C 74 



Denver 70 



Greenhouse Heating 88 



— The Fuel Market 88 



— Relative Size of Mains 88 



— Greenhousfe and Goldframes SO 



— One Nebraska House !'0 



— Boiler Above Ground Level . . # 90 



— Piping a Hotbed 92 



Providence 94 



Minneapolis, Minn 90 



Springfield. Mass 98 



Atlanta, Ga 100 



Albany, Oa. — Frank Smith has pur- 

 chased ten acres of land here and plans 

 entering the florists' business. 



Brockton, Mass. — A permit to erect a 

 greenhouse has been issued to A. B. 

 Carding, 90 Walnut street. 



Hagerstown, Md. — William Bester is 

 adding a house for carnations, 30x150 

 feet, making a total of nearly 150,000 

 feet of glass in operation. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897, 

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This paper is a memlier of the Chicago Trade 

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SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 

 Iiicori)orated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

 dore Wirth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young. 

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

 Hasting, Buffalo. 



Officers for 1914: President, Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; vice-president, Patriclt Welch, Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, 54 W. 28th St., New 

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



Thirtieth annual convention, Boston, Mass., 

 August 18 to 21, 1914. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



There will not be a big trade flower 

 show in the United States this autumn. 



Next season, from present indications, 

 will see all the rose growers planting 

 Mrs. Russell. There will be few flow- 

 ers of it in the market after the propa- 

 gating season arrives. 



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. 



Possibly it is true that the sale of 

 palms is decreasing as rapidly as the sale 

 of ferns is increasing, but we doubt it. 

 The way the fern business has increased 

 of late years is one of the marvels of the 

 trade. 



The increased quantities of sweet p'eas 

 that are being started under glass indi- 

 cate that the crops must have been 

 profitable last season in spite of the 

 lower average prices that were ob- 

 tained. 



There were eighty-seven cases of im- 

 mortelles on the Marseilles boat that 

 reached New York August 29. The crop 

 is said to be the lightest in many years 

 and prices already are as high as were 

 asked in December last year. 



It has been a poor season in many 

 places for carnation plants in the field, 

 and the stock housed has not in all 

 cases been up to the usual standard. 

 Also, the surplus is not so large as 

 usual, and the growers who can offer 

 ^ood plants are finding a quick market. 



WHO HAS A GOOD COST SYSTEM? 



The writer would like to know if any 

 practical cost system has ever been de- 

 vised and successfully used, applicable 

 to greenhouse and store work; a system 

 that will keep track of the cost of pro- 

 duction and marketing of pot plants, 

 cut flowers, shrubs; in fact, all the gen- 



eral run of stock raised in and around 

 a greenhouse? We grow about 150,000 

 pot plants during the season, besides the 

 general run of cut flowers. If we could 

 find a practical system, we would be 

 glad to adopt it. We have a retail 

 store in connection with the green- 

 houses and cater mostly to a local re- 

 tail and shipping trade. J. W. D. 



If any reader will tell The Review 

 about a cost system that will fill the 

 need above described, this paper will be 

 quick to spread the news. If there is 

 one thing more than another the aver- 

 age florist needs to know it is what it 

 is costing to do business. 



NEW YORK STATE FEDERATION. 



The members of the State Federation 

 of Floral Clubs are urgently requested 

 to attend the annual meeting at Syra- 

 cuse, at 2 p. m. Tuesday, September 

 9, which is during the week of the 

 state fair. All florists are urged to be 

 present. Important business will 

 come before this meeting, which will be 

 of great interest to all florists in the 

 state. The election of ofiicers for the 

 ensuing year also will take place. 

 There is to be an extensive exhibition 

 of plants and flowers in Horticultural 

 hall, under the able supervision of 

 Charles H. Vick, of Rochester. All 

 exhibits which are sent to Mr. Vick, 

 express charges prepaid, will be prop- 

 erly staged. Florists of the state, in 

 addition to having a pleasant day or 

 two at the state fair, will assist by 

 their presence at the meetijjg of the 

 state federation. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



STOCK, NOT LOCATION, COUNTS. 



It does not make any difference where 



the florist is located if he has the stock 



the trade wants — an advertisement in 



The Review will put him the same as at 



the center of population. This is the 



way it works: 



Please do not Insert my advertisement any 

 more, as I am sold out and it seems I have done 

 nothing for the last week but answer telegram.s 

 and letters and send back good money, much as 

 It breaks my heart to do so. I am enlarglni: 

 my place and perhaps I can take care of som^' 

 of these people next year. — R. E. Moss, Vinita. 

 Okla., August 2.3, 1913. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



An abundance of roses on this mar- 

 ket has been the order of affairs for 

 the last few days and prices have been 

 anything but steady. The supply in- 

 creased rapidly with the return of hot 

 weather and there are plenty of good 

 roses of almost every description. The 

 greater part of the receipts are of the 

 medium and short lengths, but each 

 day finds shipments of the longer 

 grades increasing. The long-stemmed 

 stock has been cleaning up with le^s 

 trouble than the short or medium 

 grades and those of the highest ship- 

 ping qualities are bringing fair returns. 

 It has been the shipping stock that the 

 wholesalers have been short of, as it i? 

 necessary for the roses to be cut tight 

 in order to stand transportation during 

 the hot weather. 



The last few days of August were 

 fairly good and on the two big ship- 

 ping days of the week, August 29 and 

 30, there was a demand from out-of 

 town trade that provided an outlet for 

 all good stock and gave the dealers a 

 chance to clean their ice-boxes whcP 



