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The Florists' Review 



July 23, 1914 



NOTICE. 



It U impossibU to guarant** 

 th« inasrtion, dUcoBtinaaBC* 

 or altaratioD of any adTortiso- 

 moat naloa* iDstructions aro 

 rocoivod hj 



5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



hiex to Advertisers, Pi(e 102. 



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CONTENTS... 



Inland Florists Reap Profits From Ocean 



Trayel (lUus.) .Jf 



Lagtring Behind J}* 



Why We Go Ahead... ••••••,• }n 



Kew Idea in Window Boxes (iUuS.) 10 



In a KeiWfuee District (lllus.) JO 



The Perry Florists }} 



Indiana Florists' Outing... 11 



Combating the Army Worm 11 



W. J. Kramer, Visitors and Asters (lUoB.).. 11 

 Sweet Peas .• J* 



— Exnert Adrlce on Sweet Peas 12 



— Basket of Peas by Hendee Bro«. (Ulus.). 12 

 Henry Clemmen's Sweet Peas (Ulus.) 13 



\ Grasshoppers J* 



Violets Jl 



— Plants for Violet House 13 



— Violets for Small House !« 



Seasonable Suggestions l* 



— Freeslas J* 



— Genistas J* 



— Gardenias J* 



— Transplanting Biennials }* 



— Double Daisies and Myosotis 14 



Cinerarias From Seed 1* 



Carnations }* 



— Carnations to Follow Mums 14 



— Hardening of the Stems 14 



— Planting In the Open 15 



— Carnation Alice (lllus.) 15 



Cyclamens in Frames 15 



When to Sow Stocks 15 



Bed Gladioli for Christmas 15 



Stocks for Winter Blooms 15 



Snapdragon From Seed 15 



Ferns J2 



— Fern Runners in Solid Bed i« 



— Fern Grower In Florida (lllus. ) 18 



Asparagus Lutzl J° 



General Stock for Beginner 18 



Use of Commercial FertiUiers IT 



News Notes 1° 



The Convention Program l» 



Obituary }» 



— Mrs. Frank Beu (portrait) !» 



— Andrew Harth }« 



— H. S. Laundy 19 



Where They Fall J9 



Calendulas In Greenhouse i» 



Honorable Mention *0 



To Start the Ball 20 



No "SouTcnlr" Album 20 



Chicago ^ 



New York 26 



Chattanooga, Tenn ^ 



Lancaster, Pa £^ 



Philadelphia gg 



St. Louis %i 



Beading, Pa 3g 



New Orleans ^ 



Boston *\ 



Baltimore *5 



Steamer SailinRS 47 



Seed Trade News 54 



— Cantaloupe Came Cucumber 66 



— Catalogues Received 58 



— Those Government Seeds 58 



Vegetable Forcing o9 



— Club Root on Cucumbers W 



— Leaf Curl on Tomatoes 60 



Indianapolis 82 



Pacific Coast Department «4 



— Spokane. Wash 64 



— Loa Angeles 64 



— San Francisco 60 



— Onr Mr. Richards (lllus.) 66 



— Seattle, Wash 66 



News of the Nursery Trade 68 



— Fire at Graham Nursery 68 



— Texas Nurserymen to Meet 68 



— Nuraery Trade's Disclaimer w 



Washington, D. C 69 



Milwaukee, Wis 72 



Buffalo li 



Greenhouse Heating 86 



— Steam for Two Houses 86 



— The Coal Market 86 



— Piping In Tenuewfe 87 



— P'.ping Not Satisfactory 87 



— Poor Draft |8 



Cleveland w 



Providence. R. I "0 



Clnrlnda, la "i 



PawtmkPt. R. 1 52 



St. Jolin's. Mich 52 



St. Paul W 



Columbus, 55 



Highland. N. Y 86 



Des Moines. la •JS 



Prince Alliert. Sask M 



Cincinnati ^OO 



Newport, B. 1 100 



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800ZXTT or AKEUOAV fXOUITa 

 laovunUl ky Aot «f OaaciMs, XarA «. IMl. 



Oflcan tor 1914: PtMldnt ThMdor* WIrth. 

 ll linw po H i; vlM-pra«td«Bt. Patrick Welch, Boa- 

 ton: SMraUry, John Yonng, 88 W. S8»h St.. Maw 

 Ton Oltj: tnararar, W. T. Kaatlac, Boffalo. 



Thirtieth annnal eoBToitloB, Bostoo. Mass., 

 Angnat 18 to 21, 1914. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The early bird will catch the worm 

 in the matter of marketing surplus field- 

 grown carnation plants. Not many grow- 

 ers are ready to sell, and the demand is 

 strong. Later there will be a lot of 

 stock, after everybody is planted up, for 

 the plants have done well in the field ex- 

 cept in one or two localities where the 

 weather has been too dry. 



A VASE of Gladiolus Rochester White 

 has adorned the editor's desk for the 

 last five days and the blooms still are in 

 fair condition in spite of the heat and 

 the fact that they made the trip from 

 Rochester in a paper box. The flowers 

 were sent by James Vick's Sons, who say 

 the prospect for a large crop of bulbs 

 this season is encouraging. 



Time after time The Review receives 

 a package, usually containing a fragment 

 of a plant, but frequently soil or some 

 other article used in the trade, but with- 

 out any accompanying communication re- 

 garding the specimen; sometimes there 

 is not even a mark that will show the 

 identity of the sender, much less let us 

 know what he wants to find out about it. 

 It is a pleasure to be of service, but 

 friends will please remember that such 

 mind reading stunts as are done are in- 

 cidental to office duties, not the regular 

 occupation of any of the office force. 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Not a few subscribers save them- 

 selves the bother of annual renewal by 

 sending The Review $2, $3, or some- 

 times $5, instead of the dollar-bill that 

 insures fifty-two visits of the paper. 

 Among those who have this week en- 

 rolled themselves for more than one 

 year in advance are: 



f THREE YEARS. 

 Tonng, John, Windier, Pa. 



TWO YEARS. 

 Phelns. Henry, Remington, Ind. 

 Sciivell, W. C, Malta, O. 



The Review stops coming when the 

 subscription runs out. The new green 

 notice with the last copy tells the story. 

 No bills are run up; no duns sent. 



TO START THE BALL. 



One by one florists^ who are not con- 

 tent with the limited retail trade in 

 their local field are awakening to the 

 possibility of supplementing it with 

 :wholesale mail-order business worked 

 up by means of inexpensive yet cfft. 

 cient little Classified ads in The Ke- 

 view: 



You may stop my ad and send bill, as the stock 

 Is sold out. It Just goes to show that If yon 

 can't start the baU rolling. The Review tMU btart 

 it for you.— J. N. Spanabel & Sons, Rockford, 111 

 July 20. 1914. ■ '■• 



NO "SOUVENIR" ALBUM. 



The following circular letter, issued 

 by the committee on sports for the Bos- 

 ton convention, speaks for itself: 



"Knowing that you will be greatly 

 disappointed when you find out that 

 the committee in charge of arrange- 

 ments has decided not to issue the usual 

 souvenir program for the coming S. A. 

 F, convention at Boston, and instead 

 of holding you up for an ad, where 

 the returns are often problematic, we 

 suggest that you offer a suitable prize 

 for one of the sporting events. 



I* "We are in need of about eighty 

 prizes, including ones suitable for the 

 bowling, baseball, swimming and for a 

 variety of children's and grown-up peo- 

 ple's games and sports. 



"If you have no special choice, you 

 may send us a check and the committee 

 will make a selection of a prize in your 

 name. Due credit will be given to 

 those who send prizes or make contribu- 

 tions in the trade papers and the offi- 

 cial program of events." 



The address of the chairman of the 

 sports committee is Wm. R. Nicholson, 

 Framingham, Mass. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



With few exceptions Chicago whole- 

 sale florists report that business now 

 is running behind last year, referring 

 to the totals of the daily sales. At the 

 same time most of them say they are 

 handling quite a little more stock than 

 was the case in July last year. Con- 

 sequently the average price of flowers 

 must be considerably below the prices 

 obtained last summer. Last week and 

 the first part of the present week have 

 been especially quiet. The city busi- 

 ness amounts to little more than funer- 

 al work, the reliance of the market be- 

 ing placed in shipping trade. If it 

 were not for a constantly increasing 

 volume of out-of-town business ^he mar- 

 ket would be in decidedly bad shape. 

 The present situation is especially un- 

 comfortable for the houses that do not 

 do much shipping. Those who are for- 

 tunate in having worked up and l;cpt 

 the out-of-town patronage have enr igh 

 stock to fill all their orders, so mat 

 there is little need for one wholesaler 

 to buy of another. This leaves the 

 wholesalers who have no shipping trade 

 dependent upon the local retailers, who 

 are buying hardly anything more Hia"^ 

 the stock needed for the occasional 

 funeral order. An established shipi''"? 

 business never was of greater value to 

 a wholesale house. 



The principal change in the ma;|<6t 

 has to do with the supply of Beaut ieSj 

 The crop has been extremely heavy 'ina 

 the iceboxes of the principal Beauty 

 houses have been full of stock for 

 weeks. About July 17 there waf • 



