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The Florists' Review 



July 16, 1914. 



NOTICE. 



It i« impossible to guarantoo 

 tlio insortioB, discontinuaDco 

 or altoratioD of any adTortiso* 

 mant unlass instructions ara 

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5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



Index to Advertisers, Page 102. 



a.aCONTENTS.aa 



Live Windows for the Dull Season (Ulus.) 



Maaouic Work at Washington (Ulus.) 10 



Various Bulbous Flowers 10 



Forcing Lilies and Narcissi 11 



Varieties of Vlnca 11 



Roses 12 



— Fink Sport of HllUngdon 12 



— Baby Ramblers for Easter 12 



— Perpetual Flowering Roses 12 



— Roses Becoming Single 12 



— American Rose Society 12 



Open Letters from Readers 12 



— Visiting the Fatherland 12 



The Hardy Garden 13 



— The Hardy Perennial Garden 13 



Northeast, Pa 13 



Ferns 13 



— Thrips on Ferns 13 



— It la Nephrolepls CordifoUa 13 



Sweet Peas 14 



— Expert Adyice on Sweet Peas 14 



Trade Displays at Exposition (Ulus.) 14 



The New Davis Range (Ulus.) 15 



Honorable Mention 15 



Seasonable Suggestions 16 



— Pansles and Violas Ifi 



Cincinnati 1« 



Boston 10 



Mrs. Charles E. Critchell (portrait) 17 



Pittsburgh IS 



Baltimore is 



Paterson, N. J 10 



Building Plans 10 



Business and Other Noti's 10 



Another Pleased Now Yorker 20 



Chicago to Boston 20 



Chicago 2'> 



Buffalo 2fi 



Washington, D. C 2S 



Philadelphia 30 



New York .■!2 



Hutchinson, Kan .34 



Kansas City .3R 



St. Louis 40 



Springfield, Mass 44 



New Orleans 4.'i 



Steamer Sailings 47 



Seed Trade News 5(> 



— Burpee Talks to Britons 5« 



— "Uncle Sam's Seeds" ."lO 



— Mills Stockholders Meet 5S 



— Implied Warranty of Seeds ."iS 



— Freight on Moss 62 



Vegetable Forcing 64 



— Bed for Lettuce 64 



— Soil for Tomatoes 64 



Pacific Coast Department 66 



— Los Angeles 66 



— Spokane, Wash 66 



— Walla Walla, Wash 67 



— Portland, Ore 67 



— Plants for Hot, Dry Climate 68 



News of the Nursery Trade 70 



— Pennsylvania's 1013 Imports 70 



— Verdict in Stark Inquest 70 



— New Federal Rules Issued 70 



— Effect of Quarantine Law 71 



— Golden Privet for Hedge 71 



Newburgh, N. Y 72 



Milwaukee, Wis 74 



EvansvUle, Ind 76 



Greenhouse Heating 88 



— The Ooal Market 88 



— A New North Pacific Range 88 



Saginaw, Mich 92 



Detroit 92 



Greenwich, Conn 94 



Austin, Tex 94 



Toledo, 96 



Providence, R. 1 98 



Reading. Pa 100 



Moline. Ill 100 



Des Moines, la. — Under the heading 

 "Success Stories of Leading Iowa 

 Manufacturers and Jobbers," the Trib- 

 une July 4 told of the growth of the 

 J. S. Wilson Floral Co. Mr. Wilson has 

 made great advancement since he 

 bought the old Morris greenhouses here 

 in 1908. The company now has 75,000 

 feet of glass, and two automobile trucks 

 contribute to the success of the down- 

 town branch. 



Kstabllshed, 1897, by O. L. GRANT 



Published every Thursday by 

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Entered as second class matter 

 Dec. 3, 1807, at the post-office at Chi- 

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 3, 1879. 



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 To Canada, $2.00; to Europe, $3.00. 



Advertising rates quoted upon 

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800IETT or AXEMIOAX FLOXIBTS. 



Inoorpsrstsd ky 4ot of OoBfTsss, XsrA 4. IHl. 



Officers Cor 1914: President, Theodors Wlrth, 

 Mlniiospolis; Tics-prmidsnt, Patrick Welch. Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Yonng, 68 W. 28»h St., New 

 York City; treasiirer, W. F. Ksstins, Buffalo. 



Thirtieth annuel oouTention. Boston, Mass., 

 Ancost 18 to 21. 1914. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



There is considerable surplus stock of 

 bedding plants, but most of it is in the 

 hands of such eastern florists as did not 

 use Eeview classified ads. 



The preliminary schedule of the big 

 spring show to be held in New York in 

 1915 has been issued. Those interested 

 may procure copies by addressing John 

 Young, secretary, 53 West Twenty-eighth 

 street, New York city. 



Some press stuff from the publicity 

 department of the Panama-Pacific Expo- 

 sition informs us that the Society of 

 American Florists will meet in San Fran- 

 cisco in 1915. Possibly, but counting the 

 votes at Boston is a necessary prelim- 

 inary. 



A SCHEDULE has been issued for the 

 eighty-third annual fair and chrysanthe- 

 mum show of the American Institute, of 

 New York, to be held November 4 to 6. 

 Copies may be had by addressing W. A. 

 Eagleson, secretary, 324 West Twenty- 

 third street, New York. 



This is a month of slow collections, 

 but remittances are reported to be com- 

 ing along better than usual in midsum- 

 mer. An increasing number of florists 

 are coming to appreciate the comfortable 

 feeling that follows the monthly liquida- 

 tion of all current bills. 



ANOTHER PLEASED NEW YOBKEB 



It is not where a paper is published, 



but where it is read that counts. The 



Review is published at almost the 



exact center of population of the 



United States, which seems a fairly 



favorable place for any such enterprise, 



but the fact that really counts is that 



it is read from Portland to Portland 



and from Dawson to Vera Cruz. 



I carry a lot of advertising, using something 

 like ten different papers read by buyers of vege- 

 table plants, but I like The Review best of all. 

 It has done Its share to help me move a million 

 and a half of plants this season and I must give 

 yon credit for your good work. Our largest day 

 was 807,000 plants shipped, and next day we 

 shipped 247,000.— P. M. PBttington, SclploTille, 

 N. y., July 11, 1914. 



CHICAOO TO BOSTON. 



Members of the trade west, north or 

 southwest of Chicago will use the Lake 

 Shore-New York Central route to the 

 Boston convention of the S. A. F. 

 Following the action of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club, at its March meeting 

 instructing its transportation commit- 

 tee to select this route, it has been 

 arranged that President Wirth, of the 

 S. A. F., will leave Chicago, Sunday 

 evening, August 16, on a special train 

 over the Lake Shore & Michigan 

 Southern railroad, La Salle street sta- 

 tion, at 8 p. m., with the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club and others desirous of join- 

 ing the convention party on the Presi- 

 dent's Special. This train is due at 

 Niagara Falls Monday noon at 12:04 

 o'clock and several hours will be spent 

 there, the party leaving again at 3:50 

 p. m. the same day and due in Boston 

 Tuesday, August 18, at 7:05 a. m. The 

 fare from Chicago to Boston and re- 

 turn is $30, good for thirty days; 

 berths Chicago to Boston, one way, 

 lower, $5.50; upper, $4.40. The fore- 

 going rates apply only to Boston and 

 return. Many extended tours and side 

 trips may be arranged returning on 

 application to local transportation 

 agents at equally low rates, including 

 New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Thou- 

 sand Islands, Hudson river, etc. 



All members of the S. A. F. and their 

 friends from points north, west and 

 south of Chicago, who wish to join the 

 president's party at Chicago, should 

 secure tickets reading over the Lake 

 Shore & Michigan Southern railroad 

 and New York Central, Chicago to Bos- 

 ton and return. 



Reservations will be made on appli- 

 cation to G. K. Thompson, 100 South 

 Clark street, Chicago, 111., who will 

 cheerfully supply all other information 

 regarding this trip. 



CHICAOO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



The business of the week now under 

 review has not been anything to arouse 

 enthusiasm. There is a fair out-of-town 

 demand, but there is little doing in the 

 city. Probably if it were possible to 

 compile the figures they would show 

 that the shipping business is better 

 than it ever was before in July. Each 

 summer a few more retailers find that 

 it is possible to keep fairly busy by 

 carrying a good show of stock. But 

 the supply this year is so much larger 

 than it has been before that the ship- 

 ping demand, which generally calls for 

 only the better grade of flowers, is in- 

 adequate to consume the increased sup- 

 ply. The job lot, quantity sales that 

 cleaned up the market during the 

 spring now are simply out of the ques- 

 tion. The people who bought great 

 quantities of cheap flowers in May and 

 June are not operating in July, so that 

 the wholesalers find themselves con- 

 fronted by the difficult problem o' 

 cleaning up the low grade stock that 

 is left after the shipping demand has 

 been satisfied. The condition makes fof 

 low averages. 



The special feature of the week has 

 been the increase in the supply of roses- 

 Great quantities of short roses are coin- 

 ing on the market. The best stock sells 

 fairly well, at easy summer prices, but 

 there is little demand for the shorter 

 grades and the man who needs a fe^ 

 flowers for a funeral design can g^* 



