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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 27, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Mamaoeb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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INDEX TO ABVERTISEBS, PAGE 46. 



CONTENTS. 



The I'lttsbing Convtiitioii 13 



— The Exhibition 13 



— The Novelties 13 



— Fred Burki (portrait) 13 



— The Awards 14 



— Albert M. Herr (portrait) 14 



— Local Hospitalities 15 



— First Business iSesslon 15 



— A. F. J. Baur (portrait) 15 



— Fred E. Dorner, Jr. (portriiit) 15 



— President's Address 10 



— P. S. Randolph (portrait) lU 



— H. P. JosUn (portrait) lU 



— Charles S. Crall (portrait) 17 



— H. L. Blind (portrait) 17 



— Secretary's Ueport 18 



— Thomas P. Jeukinson (portrait) 18 



— B. L. Elliott (portrait) 18 



— Treasurer's Keport I'J 



— Nominations 19 



— De Forest W. Ludwig (portrait) I'J 



— August Frisbkorn (portrait ) I'J 



— S. A. F. Directors Meet 20 



— A. W. Smith, Jr. (portrait) 20 



— E. C. Relneman (portrait) 20 



— National Flower Show 20 



— Thursday Morning Session 20 



— Argues for Joint Meeting 20 



— John Bader (portrait) 21 



— W. A. Clarke (portrait) 21 



— T. P. Langhans (portrait) 22 



— J. W. Ludwig (portrait) 22 



— Closing Session - 22 



— Election of Officers 22 



— The Banquet 22 



— E. C. Ludwig (portrait) 23 



— W. O. Potter (portrait) 23 



Summer Culture Indoors 23 



W. T. Bell (portrait) 24 



Carnation Culture 24 



Joseph H. Hill (portrait) 25 



Seasonable Suggestions 28 



Calendar of the Carnation 29 



The People's Flower 30 



Boston 30 



CoriKjratlon Tax 31 



The Carnation Lass 32 



Obituary 32 



— Joseph A. Dlrwanger 32 



— John J. Kuratle 32 



— George Milne 32 



— Itichard Shannon 32 



— John Pugh Burn 32 



— George P. Bloomer 32 



Chicago 32 



Providence 36 



St. Louis 38 



Philadelphia 40 



New York 43 



Moving Narcissi in Flower 45 



Catalogues Kecelved 45 



Vegetable Forcing 47 



— Vegetable Markets 47 



— Coniniercial Fertilizer 47 



— Building a Mushroom House 48 



Milwaukee 52 



Steamer Sailings 54 



Seed Trade News 60 



— Imports 60 



— Disclaimer is Upheld 60 



Nursery News 76 



— Harrison's Nurseries 76 



Pacific Coast 78 



— San Francisco 78 



— San Francisco Polnsettias 78 



New Orleans 80 



Denver 82 



Detroit 84 



Pittsburg 86 



Greenhouse Heating 94 



— A Six-Section House 94 



— Boiler Steams Poorly 96 



Rochester, N. Y 98 



Buftalo 100 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBIHTS. 



INCOBPOBATED BY AOT OF CONQBESS MABOH 4, '01 



OfDcers for 1910: President, F. R. Plerson, 

 Tarry town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vick, 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Ur- 

 bana. 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, PittBbnrg, 

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



BesultB bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



The shortage of roses is general 

 throughout the west. 



It is getting to be always a feast or a 

 famine in most of the big cut flower 

 markets. 



The fourth annual convention of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association will 

 be held at Champaign-Urbana, February 

 15 and 16. C. E. Gullett, of Lincoln, 

 president of the association, states that 

 complete programs will be ready to mail 

 to the florists of the state in a few days. 



THE CARNATION LASS. 



The little lady with the barrow-load of 

 carnations on the front cover of this 

 issue of the Review is Alma Lorch, 

 daughter of A. T. Lorch. The picture 

 was supplied by George F. Hofmeister. 

 Mr. Lorch and Mr. Hofmeister are the 

 members of the firm of A. T. Lorch & 

 Co., carnation growers at Allison Park, 

 Pa., where many visiting growers re- 

 ceived a hospitable welcome this week. 



OBITUARY. 



Joseph A. Dirwanger. 



Joseph Anton Dirwanger, who was at 

 one time among the leading florists of 

 Portland, Me., but who had been laid 

 aside by iUness for a number of years, 

 died January 14, at his home, 145 High 

 street, Portland, from a complication of 

 disorders which had sorely afflicted him 

 for a long time. 



Mr. Dirwanger was born in Bavaria, 

 Germany, eighty-three years ago and 

 learned the trade of a florist in the royal 

 gardens of the king at Bavaria, then a 

 separate country. He came to America 

 in 1851 and was first employed as private 

 gardener by John M. Wood, of Port- 

 land. On closing this engagement, Mr. 

 Dirwanger went into business for him- 

 self, with greenhouses in the rear of the 

 old Dow mansion at 717 Congress street. 

 He was located there for a long time, 

 nearly forty years in all, and was highly 

 successful. Of late years, since age and 

 infirmity grew upon him, he had with- 

 drawn from business entirely, and for a 

 considerable period he had been almost a 

 helpless invalid. 



He is survived by his widow and sev- 

 eral children, including Miss Elizabeth 

 Dirwanger, Mrs. George N. Coyle, Mrs. 

 J. E. Richards, all of Portland, and a 

 son, Joseph A. Dirwanger, Jr., whose 

 home is in California. He is also sur- 

 vived by his brother, Albert, who has 

 also been a florist in Portland for many 

 years. 



John J. Ktiratle. 



John J. Kuratle, of 1613 Franklin 

 street, Wilmington, Del., died at his 

 home January 14, after a year's illness, 

 as the result of a cancer. Mr. Kuratle 

 was 51 years of age and was one of the 

 best known florists of his city. 



He was born in Switzerland and came 

 to this country in 1883 and located at 

 Edge Moor. Later he removed to Wil- 



mington, where he had lived for the last 

 fourteen years. He is survived by his 

 wife and three children, Eleanor, Rich- 

 ard and Henry Kuratle. 



George MUne. 



'George Milne, a well known florist of 

 Winchester, Mass., died recently at his 

 home in that city and the funeral took 

 place Thursday, January 13. Mr. Milne 

 was formerly in business at Marlboro. 

 Mass. 



Richard Shannon. 



Richard Shannon, long a prominent 

 florist of Greene avenue, and of Parkway 

 avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., died at his 

 home, 172a Clifton place, Sunday, Janu- 

 ary 16. He was born in Ireland in 1837, 

 and had been a resident of Brooklyn for 

 nearly fifty years. He was a member of 

 Hill Grove Lodge, F, & A. M. ; Evening 

 Star Chapter, R. A. M. ; Clinton Com- 

 mandery, K. T. ; the Brooklyn Masonic 

 Veterans; the Aurora Grata Bodies of 

 the Scottish Rite, of Brooklyn, and Kis- 

 met Temple, of the Mystic Shrine, in all 

 of which he was prominent and popular. 

 He was also a member of the IJnqua 

 Corinthian Yacht Club, of Amityville, L. 

 I. He leaves a widow, Margaret, and six 

 children. 



John Pugh Bum. 



The funeral of John Pugh Burn, aged 

 49 years, took place at Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Wednesday, January 19. Mr. Burn was 

 a well-known member of the firm of 

 Thomas Meehan's Sons, florists, of Ger- 

 mantown, and died suddenly January 14, 

 of acute indigestion while riding on a 

 train near Columbia, S. C. On the train 

 with Mr. Burn were his wife, son and 

 daughter and Boyd Lanning, a friend. 

 Mr. Burn was destined for Melbourne, 

 S. C, where he owned property. A phy- 

 sician on the train was summoned, but 

 Mr. Burn died before he could be taken 

 to a hospital, having burst a blood-vessel. 

 He was a son-in-law of Thomas Meehan 

 and resided at Chew and Phil-EUena 

 streets, Germantown. 



George P. Bloomer. 



George P. Bloomer, of Bellmore, L. I., 

 was making his way through the storm 

 of January 14, when he became exhaust- 

 ed and died on the veranda of a hotel. 

 He was 82 years old. For many years 

 Mr. Bloomer Uved at Herkimer and Sack- 

 man streets, Brooklyn. He was a builder 

 and had been prominent in politics in the 

 East New York section. For some years 

 he had been in business as a florist at 

 Bellmore. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business was extremely good last 

 week, at least extremely good by compar- 

 ison with the supply of roses. It was not 

 possible to fill all orders in this depart- 

 ment. The way the orders poured in by 

 mail and wire indicated that the shortage 

 in rose crops was general from the AUe- 

 ghenies to the Rockies, and between the 

 shipping demand and the needs of local 

 buyers prices advanced rather sharply. 

 Beauties, which have been more nearly 

 equal to the call than other roses, ad- 

 vanced rather more abruptly than did 

 anything else. Orders for white roses 

 were most difficult to fill. The largest 

 part of the demand was for short stock, 

 and the price on this grade went up to 

 where the local buyers refused to pay it 

 and resorted to other flowers. The 



