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The Florists^ Revi^ 



JVNB 18, 1914. 



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•.CONTENTS. 



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Nifty Novelties Made to Order (lllus.) n 



Brass Bands for Business 10 



The Gardener's Wages 10 



Do It Now 11 



Seasonable Suggestions : . 12 



— Marguerites 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



Stocks Doing Poorly 12 



Plants for Large Bed 12 



Open Letters From Readers 12 



— Double Profit Crops 12 



— Unique Habit of Bloom .• 12 



Chrysanthemums 13 



— Fertilizers for Mums 13 



— Motli Bulls for White Ants ; 13 



— Nematodes on Mum Cuttings 13 



Carnations 13 



— Stem-rot on Field Plants 13 



— Thrips on Carnations 14 



— Benching Cuttings 14 



— Germinating Carnation Seed 14 



New Methods in Germany (lllus.) 14 



A Boost for Us 15 



New York 15 



Purely Personal 16 



Buffalo 16 



St. Louis 16 



Milwaukee, Wis 17 



Toledo, 17 



Washington, D. C 18 



Dayton, 18 



Kansas City 18 



Obituary 19 



— Charles H. Sleek 19 



— Mrs. Elizabeth Young 19 



Convention City Hotels 19 



Stem-rot on Asters 20 



Chicago 20 



Cincinnati 26 



Philadelphia 28 



EvansvlUe, Ind 32 



Boston 3G 



Baltimore 41 



Lancaster, Pa 44 



Seed Trade News 62 



— Oppose Louisiana Bill 52 



— Iowa Seedsmen Meet 54 



— Cantaloupes at Rocky Ford 56 



— Adulternted Seed Report 56 



— Seed Crops in Germany 57 



— Walt Mason on Free Seeds 57 



Vegetable Forcing 58 



— Green Aphis on Cucumbers 58 



— Copenhagi-n Market Cabbage. 58 



Pacific Coast Department 60 



— Los Angeles, Cal 60 



— San Francisco 60 



— Seattle, Wash 62 



— Spokane, Wash 63 



— Portland, Ore 63 



Nows of the Nursery Trade 64 



— Meeting at Vancouver 64 



Rochester, N. Y 64 



Pittsburgh 66 



Moberly, Mo 66 



Greenwich, Conn 6S 



St. Paul, Minn 70 



Indianapolis, Ind 72 



Cleveland, 72 



Pawtucket, R. 1 87 



Greenhouse Heating 88 



— Coal Trade Not Prospering fX 



— Greenhouse and Workroom 88 



— Small House for Pot Plants 90 



— Forecasts by Coal Men 90 



Columbus, 92 



Amherst, Mass 92 



«}len Cove, N. Y 94 



State College, Pa 96 



Davenport, la fS 



Reading, Pa 100 



Lowell, Mass. — John McMenamin has 

 decided to add a house, 50x200 feet, to 

 the range of five on Marshall avenue. 

 He expects to have it ready for his 

 October opening. A dwelling, also, will 

 be erected shortly on land adjoining 

 the greenhouses. 



Berlin, Mass. — Otis Chester Wheeler, 

 son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Wheeler, 

 and engaged in the florists' business in 

 Boston, will be married to Miss Marion 

 Estelle Corey, of this town, June 20. 

 After October 1 the couple will be at 

 home at 77 Mountfort street, Boston. 



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BOOIETY or AXEKIOAS XX0BI8T8. 



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Offlcers for 1914: President, Theodore Wlrth. 

 Minneapolis; Tice-president. Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Youdk, 68 W,. 28tb St.. New 

 Tork Oltr; tieasarer, W. F. Kasttnc, Buffalo. 



Thirtieth annaal oonTentloa. Boston, Mass., 

 Angnst 18 to 21. 1914. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Use business stationery, always. 



Stem-rot again is appearing among 

 the asters. Has anyone found a reliable 

 remedy ? 



Not a few sulbscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewari)y sending 

 The Review $2, |3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Those who have surpluses of spring 

 stock should not forget that this is a big 

 country and that somewhere someone 

 probably is short of just that stock. 

 Don't let surpluses go to waste — offer 

 them at once in the classified columns of 

 The Review. 



Trade advertising is too much bare 

 price list. A little description of the 

 quality of the stock, or the uses that can 

 be made of it, would help nine out of 

 ten of the ads one florist prints for the 

 perusal of another. But, after all, the 

 most important thing is for the stock to 

 turn out good value for the money. 



One of the questions frequently asked 

 of The Review concerns the equitable 

 division of the profits of a greenhouse 

 business where one partner supplies the 

 capital and the other the experience. 

 Tradition makes it appear that in such 

 a case the positions of the partners re- 

 verse in the course of a little time, yet 

 it is not always so and it appears that 

 a constantly increasing number of 

 places are being run successfully on 

 shares. 



System, especially in the oflBce part of 

 the business, is something many green- 

 house men know too little about. Cor- 

 respondence frequently is neglected, 

 orders sometimes are treated as some- 

 thing to be filled when convenient, bills 

 lie where they fall and no books are kept. 

 Those who are on their way to the front 

 are as careful of all business detail as 

 they are of cultural requirements. Per- 

 manent financial success usually calls for 

 as close attention to the office as to the 

 growing end. 



STEM-BOT ON ASTESS. 



I am sending some aster plants under 

 separate cover, hoping that you can 

 help me out with them. As you will 

 see, they start to rot in the center of 

 the stem at the ground. They have 

 been doing this for three years in the 

 field, being nearly ready to bloom when 

 they wilt. The rot starts in the green- 

 house when they are about half grown. 

 They are in good, fresh soil, the same 

 as we use for carnations and mums. 

 I have only watered overhead enough 

 to keep down red spider. The seed has 

 been obtained from different firms. The 

 soil is a clay loam sod, rotted, with 

 some rotted cow manure added to it. 



W. C. S. 



If you have planted the asters on 

 the same ground each year you are 

 fairly certain to get stem-rot once you 

 have had it, as the spores stay in the 

 ground, ready to fasten on the next 

 plant of similar character which is near 

 them. Asters should have a change of 

 soil each year and the ground should be 

 liberally manured and broken up in the 

 fall. Stem-rot usually has its inception 

 in the seedling frames or flats in the 

 greenhouses. If seedlings are left too 

 crowded and, when pricked off, the 

 stems are too deeply buried, as is often 

 done, stem-rot is likely to develop. 



You cannot do anything now which 

 will stop the stem-rot, but another year 

 change the location for the plants. 

 Prepare it in the fall and, with care 

 given the seedlings, you should have no 

 trouble. There is little stem-rot on 

 asters sown in coldframes, and usually 

 none on such as are raised outdoors. 

 I would give tlie land now occupied by 

 the asters a liberal liming in the fall 

 and sow with winter rye. Plow this in 

 next spring and use for some other -crop 

 than asters. C. W. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



As early as June 12 there began to 

 be signs of the hoped for change in 

 market conditions and by Saturday 

 night the situation had become in 

 marked contrast to the conditions which 

 had prevailed for the preceding three 

 weeks. The midsummer heat was fol- 

 lowed by weather colder than normal 

 for the date. The high temperatures 

 had run the crops off and the cold 

 weather served to check the production 

 to a point even less than it ordinarily 

 would have been expected to be. The 

 market was fairly clean on the night 

 of June 13, for the first time since the 

 last week in May. 



The opening of the present week 

 brought active business. Apparently 

 conditions have changed over a wide 

 stretch of country. Every buyer has 

 had a local supply since the hot weather 

 struck, but now the home supplies are 

 cut down, just as the Chicago supplies 

 have been reduced. The result is that 

 buyers who have not been heard from 

 for a fortnight are ordering again this 

 week. This is school closing week, and 

 its effect is being felt. There is much 

 call for stock of special colors, as well 

 as for decorating material. 



The enormous waste the last two 

 weeks is at an end. Also, the bargain 

 sales are past. Such flowers as are com- 

 ing in can all be cleared if of usable 

 quality. There is considerable stock 

 that is not good enough to be salable,. 



