OCTOBEB 30, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



H. Totty, Madison, N. J., scored as follows: 

 Color, 33; form, 18; substance, 17; stem and fo- 

 liage, 18; total, 86. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



STEBEBL'S FIRST CUT. 



When one cuts his initial crop it is 

 an event that is usually attended by 

 a certain amount of pride. Just so with 

 Steve Steberl, who is cutting his first 

 flowers from the houses he purchased 

 last April from A. C. Rojahn and lo- 

 cated on Yuba street, Forest Park, 111. 

 The plant comprises some 20,000 square 

 feet of glass, devoted to chrysanthe- 

 mums, carnations, freesia and stevia. 

 The picture shown was taken with the 

 first cut of mums and Charles Steberl 

 is standing in the walk holding the 

 blooms, while his brother, Steve Ste- 

 berl, is standing on the benches to the 

 right and on the left is Peter Samuel- 

 son, a grower. This venture is the 

 first for Steve Steberl in the flower 

 business, although his brother, who 

 has charge of the growing for him, 

 was for a number of years connected 

 with H. N. Bruns, the Chicago valley 

 grower. So far Mr. Steberl is well 

 satisfied with his newly adopted busi- 

 ness and says he has acquired a real 

 love for flowers. His stock is sold in 

 the Chicago market, the photograph 

 from which the illustration was pre- 

 pared having accompanied a shipment 

 to Zech & Mann. 



MABTIN WAX IN EUROPE. 



Martin Wax, who, with Mrs. Wax, 

 recently returned from Europe after a 

 honeymoon trip, and whose photograph 

 appeared on page 9 of The Review of 

 October 16, left Boston for Liverpool 

 August 5 on the S. S. Franconia. He 

 spent a week in London seeing some 

 of the leading sights, particularly of 

 horticultural interest, calling at the 

 large flower stores on Regent street and 

 elsewhere. He noticed many handsome 

 baskets, although flowers at that sea- 

 son were not shown any better than 

 here. In Paris, where a week was 

 spent, baskets five to six feet high, 

 containing a foot or so of damp- moss, 

 were filled with long-stemmed pink 

 roses similar to Mme. Gabriel Luizet. 

 At the high-class stores these baskets 

 were much in vogue, and roses were said 

 To keep in them fresh for two or three 

 days. 



About ten days were spent at Paris 

 Plage, a summer resort on the English 

 channel, three hours distant from Paris, 

 and here Mr. Wax entertained his sis- 

 ters and a nephew, who are prominent 

 in musical circles. One day was spent 

 at Cologne on the Rhine, and ten days 

 in Berlin and surrounding cities. The 

 thousands of window boxes in all the 

 suburban sections greatly impressed 

 him, and the gardens seen were far 

 superior to those seen about the same 

 type of residences in America. There 

 were some fine flower stores in Berlin. 

 Schmidt's, on the Unter den Linden, 

 was the largest and finest he had ever 

 seen. He believes there is nothing 

 'ven in New York to approach it. 



While in Berlin he entertained a niece 

 ■ind nephew who train symphony and 

 •pera performers. From Berlin he went 

 to Bremen for a few days. The grounds 

 "f the summer homes there were beau- 

 tifully planted with flowers. Passage 

 ^^as taken home on the Kaiser Wilhelm 

 ' 1. After arriving in New York, a 

 'ew days were spent visiting the promi- 

 "ent retailers there. The trip proved an 



The Steberl Brother! and their First Cut of ChryBanthemumt. 



enjoyable one, and many new ideas for 

 store improvements were gained. C. 



QABDENERS' CONVENTION. 



All arrangements have been com- 

 pleted for the annual convention of 

 the National Association of Gardeners, 

 which, as the guest of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York, will hold its 

 business session and election of ofiK- 

 cers for the ensuing year at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New 

 York city, Monday afternoon, Novem- 

 ber 3, at 2 o'clock. The annual ban- 

 quet at the Hotel Endicott will follow 

 immediately after the business meet- 

 ing. Entries of meritorious exhibits 

 or novelties for the association's 

 award, a certificate of merit, which 

 are to be exhibited at the flower show 

 of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York, which occurs at the Museum 

 during t\ie convention, must be filed 

 with the secretary of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners not later than 

 November 1. 



Many out-of-town members have al- 

 ready signified their intention of at- 

 tending both the convention and the 

 banquet. M. C. Ebel, Secretary. 



PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Nearly all trees and shrubs of a de- 

 ciduous nature can be just as well, or 

 better, planted in fall than in spring. 

 At this season the nurseries are not 

 overcrowded with orders and the stock 

 will be freshly dug and not taken from 

 storage sheds where it has been packed 

 in sand for several months. The 

 ground is usually more moist at this 

 season than in spring, and there is more 

 time to do planting properly. The 

 roots, also, are far less likely to get 

 dried up now than in spring. There 

 are some shrubs, such as weigelas. Vi- 

 burnum plicatum and V, tomentosum, 

 buddleias and ligustrums, which do bet- 

 ter if spring planted. Practically all 

 others, including loniceras, spira?as, 

 philadelphus, syringas, most of the vi- 

 burnums, etc., do much better if fall 

 planted. Fruit trees, except peaches, 

 raspberries and blackberries, do better 

 when fall planted; so do most of the 

 <leoidnous shade trees. 



People are so much in the habit, 

 however, of leaving all planting until 

 spring that they rarely think of doing 

 any now. Possible exceptions to the 

 success of fall planting might be due 

 to too dry a condition of the soil at 

 planting time and the freezing up of 

 the ground while the roots were inade- 

 quately supplied with moisture. Arti- 

 ficial watering would be necessary in 

 such cases as these. 



THE NEW DUTIES. 



In a circular letter sent out last 

 week, accompanying a card showing 

 the new tariff rates, McHutchison & 

 Co. point out some of the changes, as 

 follows: 



"The new tariff eliminates all ex- 

 cept two of the jokers in the horticul- 

 tural schedules of former tariffs; being 

 concise and explicit, it may take some 

 good business away from the lawyers, 

 but this means some saving to import- 

 ing nurserymen, florists and seedsmen. 

 No items have been raised, but there 

 are some substantial reductions. 



"You will see that bay trees, arau- 

 c arias and many other greenhouse 

 plants have been reduced from twenty- 

 five per cent to fifteen per cent ad 

 valorem. Apple, pear and quince stocks 

 are reduced from $2 to $1 per thou- 

 sand. Miscellaneous nursery stock, 

 such as boxwood, rhododendrons, shrubs, 

 vines, etc., are reduced from twenty- 

 five per cent to fifteen per cent ad 

 valorem." 



The writer overlooked the one in- 

 crease: the duty on hyacinth bulbs is 

 advanced 500 per cent, from 50 cents 

 per thousand to $2.50 per thousand, and 

 must affect the price of bulbs to the 

 consumer next season, something none 

 of the reductions in duty are likely to 

 do. 



Davenport, la. — The J. W. Davis Co. 

 is building an addition to its green- 

 houses just east of Bettendorf. 



Des Moines, la. — J. S. Wilson is a 

 member of the executive committee of 

 n bowling league just organized here 

 in which the employees of the Wilson 

 Floral Co. have entered a team cap- 

 tained by J. S. Wilson, .Tr. 



