May 21, 1014. 



The Florists* Review 



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these flats so they would not cast more 

 shade on^'the carnations than necessary. 

 Our house is 30x100. On the whole, we 

 have had a fine cut of carnations 

 through the winter. Can you tell us 

 what is the matter with these plants? 

 H. C. V. 



^ The larger buds show plainly the rav- 

 ages of thrips. It is now rather late 

 in the season to start a warfare on 

 these pests. They multiply with great 

 rapidity during this warm weather, and 

 if the house is badly infested you can 

 hardly expect to exterminate them be- 

 fore it will be time to replant. In 

 dealing with these pests, the best plan 



is to prevent their spreading from the 

 beginning of the season. By spraying 

 with nicotine or fumigating regularly 

 through the winter, when they multiply 

 slowly, one can keep them in check so 

 effectively that they will not get the 

 upper hand before replanting time. 



The small buds do not show anything 

 abnormal; in fact, they are too young 

 to show anything definite in regard to 

 the petalage. A close examination 

 failed to reveal any eating. At this 

 time of the year there is considerable 

 trouble from a variety of cutworm, 

 which hides during the day and climbs 

 up to the buds at night, eating a hole ' 



into the side of the bud to get at the 

 young petals inside. Snails will do the 

 same .thing. For both of these pests we 

 use a poison mash, made of bran, mo- 

 lasses and Paris green. Mix the bran 

 with enough molasses to make a mash; 

 then add enough Paris green to make 

 the mixture deadly. Drop a little of 

 this wherever you think the pests will 

 find it readily, along the edgeboard and 

 in convenient places between the 

 plants. If you still have a night man 

 on. instruct him to go through the 

 house before daybreak with his lantern. 

 He will be able to catch many of them 

 at work on the buds. A. F. J. B. 



THE BOSTON COMMITTEES. 



BUREAU OF INFORMATION 

 A. P. Calder, chairman 



Handling Convention Preparations. 



The following is the full list of the 

 committees appointed to handle the 

 local preparations for the Boston con- 

 vention of the S. A. F. next August: 

 EXECUTIVE 



Patrick Welch, chairman 

 J. K. M. L. Farquhar, secretary 

 Thomas Roland, treasurer 

 William J. Kennedy E. Allan Pelrce 



William J. Stewart James B. Shea 



Thomas 

 Henry Penn 

 N. F. McCarthy 

 William J. Kennedy 

 William Sim 

 M. A. Patten 

 William Downs 

 George Wyness 

 William Anderson 

 John D. Duguid 



Budlong 



William Swan 

 Thomas P. GalTln 

 Henfy M. Robinson 

 Peter M. Miller 

 Julius A. Zlnn 

 William H. Elliott 

 Alex. Montgomery 

 Paul F. Burke 



FINANCE 



Roland, chairman 

 N. M. Silverman 

 Philip L. Carbone 

 W. W. Castle 

 Harry Quint 

 George Barker 

 William Rosenthal 

 John L. Smith 

 D. F. Roy 

 Edward Kirk 

 Joshua Lawson 

 A. H. Wlngett 

 EXl. Jenkins 

 Fred Heermanns 

 A. H. Loveless 

 W. Breed 

 Jos. F. Brlry 

 A. K. Rogers 

 Fred J. Elder 



EXHIBITIONS 

 James B. Shea, chairman 

 J. K. M. L. Farquhar James Wheeler 

 Robert Cameron William N. Craig 



Duncan Finlayson John Klrkegaard 



Julius Huerlin John H. Dillon 



A. E. Robinson T. D. Hatfield 



ENTERTAINMENT 

 E. Allan Pelrce, chairman 

 Duncan Finlayson George Cruickshank 



Edward J. Welch Richard Ludwlg 



J. P. A. Guerlnean J. J. Cassldy 



A. Leuthy John H. Dillon 



H. Bartsch - Nell S. Casey 



Paul F. Burke Fred C. Becker 



is},',".' ^•,„^'°° William J. Kennedy 



W 11 am Thatcher William R. Nicholson 



William Penn j. Frank Edgar 



James Methven James L. Miller. 



PUBLICITY 

 _ _ „ J. K. M. L. Farquhar, chairman 

 W. J. Stewart Peter Miller 



W Percy Edgar Fred J. Elder 



Robert Cameron William P. Rich 



W. N. Craig 



SPORTS 



mm. ^IJ'!?,'" "• Nicholson, Chairman 



S "™ i- 9?M °« William J. Thurston 



William F. Molloy Joseph McCarthy 



Barney B NIcGlnty Fred C. Solarl 

 I\"U"^,^- Hastings Joseph Margolos 



o •«?-J5^"'^'* William A. McAlpine 



v^^A^^S.^^, Hugh C. McGrath 



Fred E Palmer Thomas J. Clark 

 Boer Holmes 



LAD1I-: 



William J. 

 George M. Anderson 

 James Wheeler 

 John J. Cassldy 

 William E. Fischer 

 Frank H. Houghton 

 George B. Anderson 

 William Cahlll 

 Stephen J. Quinn 

 Martl^Vax 

 LoulaSKuter 

 WllHaltJ». Craig 

 Arthur E. Thatcher 

 F. N. Sanborn 



S* RECEPTION 

 Kennedy, chairman 

 Peter Fisher 

 Jos. Fuller 

 H. Huebner 

 John Barr 

 Edmund Wfflch 

 William C. Rust 

 Kenneth Finlayson 

 William A. McAlpine 

 ^*t. Ham miMrtL Tracy 



Chhrles Robinson 

 Jnmes Methven 



Thomas J. Grey 

 F. N. Sanborn 

 William P. Rich 

 B. Hammond Tracy 

 .Charles Sander 

 Robert Montgomery 

 William C. Stickel 

 M. H. Norton 

 Richard Calvert 



Heiiry R. Comley 

 William E. Doyle 

 J. J. Casey 

 Edward Rose 

 Jackson T. Dawson 

 Frank Murray 

 William H. Elliott 

 Ed. MacMulkin 



HOTELS 

 Patrick Welch, chairman 

 Henry M. Robinson Patrick Donahue 



Donald McKenzle Sam J. Goddard 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar James B. Shea 

 John McFarland >v M. H. Norton 

 Norrls F. Comley Sidney Hoffman 



Thomas F. Galvin, Jr. Hon. Charles W. Holtt 

 FROM HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



R. ML Saltonstall David R. Craig 



Edwird B. Wilder Jackson Dawaon 



WJJMkm P. Rich Peter Fisher 



WnUam Downs George B. Dorr 

 James Wheeler 



THE CONVENTION OABDEN. 



James B. Shea, deputy park commis- 

 sioner at Boston, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on convention garden for the 

 1914 S. A. F. meeting, May 12 ad- 

 dressed the following letter to pros- 

 pective exhibitors: 



"The outdoor convention garden to 

 be held in connection with the Society 

 of American Florists' 1914 convention 

 is now ready to plant, and will be un- 

 der the direct supervision of the park 

 department of Boston. The garden is to 

 be located in one of the beauty spots of 

 Boston, bordering on the Fens pond and 

 within a few minutes' walk from Hor- 

 ticultural hall. 



"This will be one of the greatest 

 events for floriculture and horticulture 

 ever held in the east and will attract 

 enormous crowds of the right people. 

 We cannot eee how you can afford to 

 miss this opportunity of displaying 

 your specialties, more especially as the 

 cost will be small and the exhibit will 

 require no care on your part. 



"There will be no charge for spaces, 

 as the land is owned by the city of Bos- 

 ton, and its ordinances forbid this; but 

 for preparation, care and maintenance 

 a small charge will be made to cover 

 cost of preparation and care throughout 

 the summer. This will be 10 cents per 

 square foot for spaces up to and in- 

 cluding 2,500 square feet; from 2,500 

 square feet to 5,000 square feet at 8 

 cents per square foot, and over 5,000 

 square feet at 6 cents per square foot. 



"We are enclosing a diagram of the 

 lay-out (reproduced in The Eeview of 

 April 9) and your preference for posi- 

 tion will baise everjjc, consideration, Ag 

 tne time is now short, an early de(*ilion 

 IS necessary for best results. The gar- 



den is all ready for trees, shrubs, vines, 

 conifers and hardy herbaceous plants. 



"For tender plants it will be safer to 

 defer planting to May 20. Let us hear 

 from you at once and we will be glad 

 to do everything in our power for your 

 success. All plants should be addressed, 

 express prepaid, to Boston park de- 

 partment. Back Bay Fens, Boston, Mass., 

 and marked "Convention Garden," 

 care James B. Shea, and advise us of 

 shipment through mail. 



"Do not waste time on this, but help 

 make the 1914 convention the greatest 

 in history, and also reap the benefit of 

 the large amount of advertising and 

 sales that will come to you. 



' ' Checks for the full amount of space 

 must accompany the order and be drawn 

 to James B. Shea, chairman. ' ' 



WHO GETS TRADE PRICES? 



When The Eeview receives a new 

 subscription from someone whose con- 

 nection with the trade is not known, 

 the rule is to ascertain the prospective 

 subscriber's status before entering the 

 name on the mailing list — a form letter 

 is sent, explaining that The Eeview is 

 a trade paper only and asking informa- 

 tion as to how the would-be subscriber 

 is connected with the trade. Usually 

 satisfactory information is furnished 

 promptly; sometimes the not-to-be sub- 

 scriber writes appreciatively of the pa- 

 per's fairness in not grabbing the dol- 

 lar from one who thought it a gar- 

 dening journal, and now and then it 

 develops that the purpose was only to 

 obtain information of wholesale prices 

 and sources of supply in the hope of 

 cutting the local florist out of his legiti- 

 mate retail profit. Though it is a well- 

 known fact that practically all the 

 firms that advertise in The Eeview will 

 not sell at wholesale except to those of 

 recognized standing in the trade, out- 

 siders who seek to subscribe frequently 

 claim to be buying at wholesale. Like 

 this: 



In reply to your notice I will say that I buy 

 hundreds of plants and cut flowers from patronff 

 of your paper, for my own gardens and houses, 

 also for use in my hotel. I buy everything whole- 

 sale and for cash. I have received The Review 

 Indirectly anyway and will continue to do so. 

 If you do not choose to accept my subscription, 

 kindly refund my money. — W. S. Sherman, The 

 Broadlands, Kansas City, Mo., May 7, 1914. 



Of course The Eeview returned the 

 money in this case. It is not for this 

 paper to decide who is and who is not 

 entitled to trade- prices; that is up to 

 the seller to determine on each indi- 

 vidual order. But The Eeview hopes 

 its subscribers will da their part in 



