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The Florists' Review 



May 21, 1914. 



..,CONTENTS.« 



Making tbe Most of Memorial Day (Ulus.)-- 21 



To Clean Coleus 22 



Miss Peehlmann's Success 23 



Miss Pocblmann's Success 2'i 



The Ohio Tax Case 23 



Shading for Greenhouses 23 



Retail Store Management 24 



— Flowers at Post Funeral (lUus.) 24 



— The Casltet Cross (lllus.) 24 



— Using Artificial Flowers 24 



— Bon Voyage Table Decoration (lUua) 26 



Dividing U. S. Routes. 26 



A Texas Leaguer 26 



Manda Case Remanded 26 



Orchids 2T 



— Seasonable Suggestions 27 



Peonies 27 



— Cold Storage for Peonies 27 



— American Peony Society 27 



Open Letters from Readers 28 



— High Prices and Holidays 28 



At the Keller Range (lllus.) 20 



A Michigan Florist's Home (lllus.) 29 



Roses 30 



— Better Replant tbe Benches 30 



— Raising Seedling Roses 30 



— American Rose Society 30 



Fishing Florist of Florida (portrait) 30 



Carnations 31 



— Carnations In the South 31 



— Carnations In tbe Southwest (lllus.) 32 



— Tbrlps and Other Pests 32 



Society of American Florists 33 



— The Boston Committees 33 



— The Convention Garden ^ 33 



Who Gets Trade Prices 33 



The Gladiolus 34 



— Cut Blooms for Market 34 



— Earth Worms In Soil 34 



Good Use for Vacant Lots (lllus.) 34 



Aquatic Gardening 34 



California Firm Dissolved (lllus. ) 35 



Templln's Pelargoniums (lllus.) 36 



Llewellyn of Olean (lllus.) 36 



Violets— Field Planting 36 



New York 36 



BuflTalo ^. 37 



Obituary— Mrs. J. W. Glenn >:-w^ 38 



Vegetable Forcing 3S 



— Head Lettuce for Ohio 38 



— Cucumbers Growing Poorly 38 



— Cukes to Follow Tomatoes 38 



News Notes 39 



"Under tbe CThestnut Tree" 39 



"Always Reliable" 40 



Chicago 40 



Philadelphia 48 



Baltimore 51 



Toledo. 53 



St. Louis 60 



Rochester, N. Y 65 



Nashville, Tenn 67 



Steamer Sailings 69 



Business Embarrassments 71 



Geranium Sport 71 



Providence, R. 1 74 



Seed Trade News .. 80 



— Tbe Roll of Honor 80 



— Conners Pass Up Frisco PO 



— Proves Laws Adequate 80 



— Keeping Them in Line 84 



— "Freight and Duty Paid" 84 



— No Legislation This Session 86 



-• Catalogues Received 8*5 



Pacific Coast Department 88 



— San Francisco 88 



— Banquet of Pacific Coast Horticultural 

 Society (illus) 88 



— Los Angeles 88 



— Portland, Ore !>0 



— Spokane, Wash 91 



Belgian Grapes 92 



News of the Nursery Trade 94 



— Non-Resident Nurserymen 94 



— Eucalypti From Seed 05 



New England Department 06 



— A Massachusetts View 96 



— Boston 86 



— Newport, R. 1 100 



— Amherst, Mass 102 



— Pawtucket, R. 1 104 



— Hartford, Conn 106 



Minneapolis 108 



Greenhouse Heating 128 



— Piping a Partitioned House 128 



— The Fuel Market 128 



— Material for Smokestack 130 



— Insulating Underground Pipe 130 



Washington, V. C 132 



Cincinnati 134 



Milwaukee, Wis 1.36 



Pittsburgh 138 



Helena, Mont 138 



Kansas City 140 



Johnson City, Tenn, — Gunnar Teil- 

 mann, proprietor of the Johnson City 

 Floral Co., has a dark pink sport of 

 Jean Viaud geranium that he describes 

 as "a beauty." 



Pittsburgh, Pa. — Ray Daschbach has 

 leased the property at 417 Wood street 

 for five years and after it is remodeled 

 vsnll open a first-class flower^etore. He 

 will take possession July 1. 



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5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



BOOIXTT OF AKEKIOAN FLOBUTB. 

 Inoorporated by Act of Oongrsss, Karok i, IMl. 



Offlcers for 1814: President, Tlieodors Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; rlce-presldent, Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, B3 W. 28th St., New 

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



Thirtieth annual conrentlon, Boston, Mass., 

 August 18 to 21, 1814. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The backward spring has been bene- 

 ficial in nearly all departments of the 

 trade. 



There is the usual big spring demand 

 for good Boston ferns in sizes from 

 4-inch up. 



If you are in a hurry, use a printed 

 letter -head; don't make the man stop to 

 identify you. 



There will be no scarcity of cut gla- 

 dioli this season unless the weather is 

 the worst imaginable. 



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. 



If flower stores get to featuring arti- 

 ficial wreaths and flowers for Memorial 

 day, how long will it be, after the de- 

 mand is created, before the department 

 stores step in and kUl the business? 



If The Review were asked to point 

 out an especially good opportunity in 

 the trade the one cited would be gerani- 

 um growing somewhere in the middle 

 west. There is the chance to build a 

 big business on the specialty basis. 



George Sykes, western manager for 

 the Lord & Burnham Co., comments on 

 the apparent fact that Minnesota is tak- 

 ing the lead in teaching floriculture in 

 the public schools. He says his com- 

 pany now has eight contracts for green- 

 houses for Minnesota high schools, to be 

 used for instruction purposes. 



"ALWAYS BELIABLE." 



Business dealings never can be wholly 

 free from reason for complaint, and 

 where the commodity is a perishable 

 crop the opportunities for dissatisfac- 

 tion are multiplied. Consequently it 

 has been the constant effort of The Re- 

 view to see that those who use its ad- 

 vertising columns are of the strictest 

 business integrity; the paper has aimed 

 to do, and to see that its advertisers 

 are those who do, all that is humanly 

 possible to insure satisfactory service 

 for its subscribers. Therefore such let- 

 ters as the following are received with 

 thanks: 



In renewing my subscription I want to say 

 that we have bought a great deal of stock through 

 advertisements In Tbe Review and always have 

 found those who advertised In The Review per- 

 fectly reliable. — Allen H. Wilcox, proprietor Sher- 

 man Greenhouses, Sherman, N. Y., May 11, 1814. 



There are two reasons why it pays 

 particularly well to advertise' in The 

 Review: One reason is that The Re- 

 view's circulation, although it covers 

 practically the whole trade, has not 

 been forced by the use of solicitors, 

 premiums, and taking a dollar wherever 

 it could be had; and the other reason 

 is that the buyers know that no ad- 

 vertiser can long make use of this 

 paper's space unless he keeps faith 

 with its readers. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



Reports as to last week's market 

 vary more than usually is the case. It 

 is the general report that growers cut 

 comparatively little, but some of the 

 wholesale houses appear to have had 

 more than their ordinary share of the 

 orders. While the market was lightly 

 supplied, there was enough stock so 

 that everyone could be taken care of; 

 any wholesaler who was short could 

 buy for his orders. Prices ruled con- 

 siderably in advance of those that or- 

 dinarily prevail at the middle of May. 

 Some houses report that the unusually 

 good prices more than compensated for 

 the light supply, giving them a better 

 total of sales than ordinarily can be 

 reached at this season, but others say 

 the advance in prices did not make up 

 for the falling off in supply. Keen 

 observers say that all that saved the 

 market going to pieces last week was 

 the fact that thie peonies are several 

 days 1^6 this year, practically none 

 having gone into storage prior to May 

 18. 



The present week opened with a con- 

 siderable increase in supply and an un- 

 usually light demand for a Monday. 

 Ordinarily Monday is one of the most 

 active days in the week. If that proves 

 to be the- case this week, there will 

 certainly be an accumulation of stock 

 to be worked off Saturday. Peonies are 

 coming in heavily. Thus far the stock 

 all comes from southern Illinois, or 

 southern Indiana, but reports indicate 

 that a few days of warm weather will 

 enable the growers in the central part 

 of the state to begin shipping. There 

 will not be so many peonies as usual in 

 cold storage for Memorial day, but 

 there are few fears of any shortage. 

 Orders are coming in heavily. Appar- 

 ently the peony will be more freely 

 used this Memorial day than ever be- 

 fore. 



The principal change in the market 

 situation is on carnations. There were 

 enough for all who were willing to 



