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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBEB 9, 1913. 



Mex to Advertisers, Page 102. 



...CONTENTS... 



CSolonial Bouquets (lUus. ) 9 



Illinois State Fair Show 10 



Veteran Florist Retires 12 



Bedding at Glrard College (lllus.) 12 



Charles W. Cox (portrait) 13 



Peonies in the Copper Country 13 



Chrs'santhemums 14 



— Mums Damping Off 14 



— Dodder Plant, or Cuscuta 14 



— Attacked by Tarnish Bug 14 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Azaleas 14 



— Miscellaneous Hard Wooded Plants 14 



— Canterbury Bells 14 



— Freesias 15 



— Eougainvilleas iri 



— Cinerarias and Calceolarias 15 



— Scbizanthus 15 



George Burton (portrait) 15 



Canterbury Bells 15 



Probably the Same Primula 15 



Montana Florists Elect 16 



Big Fall Show at Cleveland (illus.) 10 



Heavy Plant Shipments Ifl 



St. Louis lU 



Dahlias at Riverview (illus.) 17 



Pittsburgh 17 



New Yorls IS 



Glass Makers' Wages Raised 18 



Providence, R. 1 18 



Obituary 19 



— George R. Oliver 19 



— Christian Binning (portrait) 13 



— E. Fryer 19 



— William Howard 19 



— Matthew A. Butler 19 



Bowling m 



— At Astoria, L. 1 10 



Gardeners' Convention 20 



Making an Album ?0 



Chicago 20 



Fort Wayne, Ind 26 



Philadelphia 28 



Rochester, N. Y 30 



Kansas City 32 



Detroit 34 



Dayton, 36 



Boston 40 



New Orleans, La 45 



Steamer Sailings 47 



Seed Trade News 54 



— Montana Seedsmen Organize 56 



— Seeds in Iowa 56 



— Dutch Bulb Arrivals 58 



— Buying Palm Seeds 58 



— Catalogues Received (K) 



— Vegetable Growers Meet 60 



■ Pacific Coast Department 04 



— Los Angeles, Cal <!4 



— San Francisco, Cal 04 



— San Diego. Cal 00 



— Tacoma, Wash , 60 



— Portland, Ore 07 



— Vancouver, B. C... 07 



News of the Nursery Trade 08 



— Promising Season Ahead 08 



— British Exporters to U. S OS 



— Oklahoma Nurserymen Elect 08 



— W. P. Stark Petition Denied 6S 



Columbus, 72 



Cincinnati 74 



Nashville, Tenn 76 



Greenhouse Heating 90 



— Relative Number of Flows 90 



— Three Pennsylvania Houses 91 



— Boiler and Smokestack 92 



— Virginia Vegetable Houses 92 



Springfield, Mass 94 



Brampton, Ont 90 



Toledo. OS 



Newport, R. 1 100 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Geo. E. Kessler, 

 the landscape architect, is working out 

 a plan for a formal garden in front of 

 the greenhouses at Garfield park. 



Newcomerstown, O. — J. W. Nicode- 

 mus has four greenhouses 25x125 and 

 specializes on geraniums, but this is not 

 his only crop, as he is a breeder of 

 bloodhounds and is widely known in 

 kennel club circles. 



Salina, KaJi. — Edward Tatro says 

 this has been the hardest season the 

 trade in the southwest ever has experi- 

 enced. Hot weather is nothing un- 

 usual, but this year the heat was out 

 of the ordinary, both in intensity and 

 duration, with the result that nothing 

 would grow and the florists lost a 

 great deal of stock. Mr. Tatro says 

 the help question is another great 

 probleni; the florists in the small towns 

 have grqat difficulty in getting help, 

 and gieat^r difficulty in keeping it. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

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This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press AfBoclatlon. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congreii, March 4. 1901. 



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

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

 dore Wirth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young. 

 54 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurtr, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Officers for 1014: President, Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; ylce-presldent, Patrick Welch, Bos- 

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

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



Thirtieth annual conTentlon, Boston, Mass., 

 Angust 18 to 21. 1014. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Why "sell" your stock to those who 

 do not pay? Why not, instead, use it 

 as ammunition for hunting good new busi- 

 ness f 



A SOUVENIR post card from F. H. 

 Kramer, of Washington, D. C, mailed 

 at Interlaken, indicates that Switzerland 

 looks good to him. Adolphus Gude is in 

 the party. 



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 reduction in the duty on boxwood 

 and bay trees is two-fifths, or forty per 

 cent. The chances are two to one that 

 it will be absorbed between producer 

 and retailer, so that retail prices will re- 

 main unchanged. 



If W. J. H., who asks about Harrisii 

 bulbs, had signed his full name or even 

 dated his letter so that his name could 

 be picked out on the list of subscribers, 

 the Editor would have taken pleasure 

 in writing him that his bulbs should be 

 potted as soon as received — or W. J. H. 

 might have looked in back numbers and 

 found the information. At any rate, 

 the correspondent who writes anony- 

 mously would better save his stamp, for 

 he cannot be answered. 



OAEDENEES' CONVENTION. 



The annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners will be 

 held this year in New York city during 

 the fall flower show of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, which takes 

 place October 30 to November 4. The 

 business session of the association and 

 the election of officers for the coming 

 year will take place Monday, Novem- 

 ber 3, at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, where the flower show 

 is held. On the evening of November 

 3 the annual banquet of the associ'b- 



tion will be held at the Hotel Endicott, 

 New York city. 



Members intending to attend the 

 banquet at the Hotel Endicott should 

 notify any member of the following 

 committee so that reservations may be 

 made for them: Thomas W. Logan, 

 Jenkintown, Pa.; James Stuart, Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y.; William J. Kennedy, 

 Chestnut Hill, Mass.; John F. Huss, 

 Hartford, Conn.; John W. Everett, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y.; John Canning, Ards- 

 ley, N. Y.; Peter Duflf, Orange, N. J., 

 and M. C. Ebel, Madison, N. J. Every- 

 thing points to a big convention and 

 the committee cannot give assurance 

 to those who decide on the last day 

 to attend the banquet that they can be 

 provided for. Tickets to the banquet 

 are $2.50. Several men prominent in 

 the horticultural world have already 

 expressed their intention of being pres- 

 ent at the banquet; among them are 

 some able after-dinner speakers; and 

 with the general program a gala night 

 may be anticipated. 



M. C. Ebel, Sec'y. 



MAKING AN ALBUM. 



To each reader The Review is useful 

 in some different, individual way. In 

 last week's issue the table of contents 

 showed ninety-eight separate articles 

 indexed, many of them treating more 

 than one subject. Yes, it does look 

 like 2 cents' worth to anyone who 

 has any use at all for a trade paper. 



Perhaps here is a suggestion for in- 

 creasing its usefulness: 



I think The Review Is getting better all the 

 time. I am making a book from the clippings 

 I cut from it, several each issue. — Fred W. 

 Arnold, Cambridge, O., September 26, 1913. 



CHICAGK). 



The Great Central Market. 



With a little less stock and a slightly 

 improved demand the market at the 

 close of last week was running about 

 even, with no fancy prices being asked, 

 except for choice mums. Of these there 

 have not been enough to satisfy the 

 demand, owing to the backwardness of 

 the crops. Many flowers are seen that 

 should have had another week on the 

 plants, but at the opening of this week 

 there was no trouble in cleaning out 

 on mums, or anything else, for that 

 matter, with the possible exception of 

 roses, a few being left in the iceboxes 

 at the closing hour, but not enough to 

 cut any great figure. 



The supply of roses has been large 

 and steady. The market is well pro- 

 vided in Killarneys, White Killarneys, 

 Riehmonds and Beauties, of which 

 there are enough being cut to take care 

 of the demand without causing any 

 drop in prices. Long Beauties are less 

 in demand than the shorter ones. 

 There is a steady appeal from both 

 local and out-of-town buyers for the 

 short and medium lengths up to thirty- 

 six inches and it is hardly possible to 

 take care of all the calls. On the other 

 hand, the longer Beauties, while not 

 exactly hard to dispose of, do not en- 

 joy the popularity of the medium 

 lengths or move so fast. 



Killarneys are good property and, 

 while there are plenty, they sell fast 

 and bring good returns. White Kil- 

 larney is not in such good supply and, 

 with an excellent demand, orders are 

 not always easy to fill. Mrs. Russell, 

 Mrs, Sharwyer and Milady are being cut 



