OCTOBBB 13, 1921 



The Florists' Review 



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show and theater patty at Tlvoll theater, as 

 guests of the Chattanooga Florists' Club. 

 WBDNBSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 9 A M 



"Pot Plants," by Robert A. Craig, of the Rob- 

 ert Craig Co., Philadelphia. 



"Necessary Essentials for Pot Plants in the 

 South," by Wallace B. Patterson, of the Bose- 

 mont Oardens, Montgomery, Ala 



"F. T. D." by M. Bloy, Detroit, Mloh. 



"National 'Say It with Flowers' Week," by 

 Z. D. Blackisto^e, Washington, D. C. 



"What Our eovernment Thinks of the Flo- 

 rists' Business," by William F. Gude, Washinic- 

 ton, D. C. 



Opening of question box, discussions and in- 

 spection of displays. 



Announcements. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1:30 P. M. 



Assemble at convention hall for trip to Look- 

 out mountain as guests of the Cbattunooga Flo- 

 rists' Club. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7 P. M 



Dinner dance at Patton hotel as guests of the 

 Chattanooga Florists' Club. 



CLEVELAND CLUB ACTIVE. 



The first meeting of the Cleveland 

 Florists' Club under the new adminis- 

 tration, held at the Alhambra October 

 3, was signalized by the admission of 

 twenty-four new members to the club. 

 President James A. McLaughlin ap- 

 pointed the following standing commit" 

 tees for the year: 



Executive committee — Herman P. Knoble. 

 rliairman; Carl Hagenburger, Fred Witthuhn, 

 C. B. Russell, W. H. Temblett. 



Entertainment — J. W. Wilson, chairman; Paul 

 Buckofen, Albert Bamow. 



Membership — Raymond Kester, chairman; 

 Lloyd Mercer, Jack Qualllch. 



A recommendation to consider the pur- 

 chase of a permanent home for the club 

 was made to the executive committee, 

 whose report will be handed in at the 

 November meeting. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Examining Committee. 



The committee appointed by the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America to exam- 

 ine new varieties of chrysanthemums 

 has submitted the first reports of the 

 season in those that follow: 



At New York, October 1. Mrs. Woodrow Wil- 

 son, white, Japanese, submitted by the Charles 

 H. Totty Co., Madison, N. J., scored as follows: 

 Color, 18; form, 14; fullness, 10; stem, 14; fo- 

 liage, 12; substance, 13; size, 10; total, 91; com- 

 mercial scale. .:.'. 



At New York, October 1, Private Merile Hay, 

 bronze gold reverse, Japanese, lubmitted by tlie 

 Charles H. Totty C<& Madison, N. J., scored as 

 follows: Color, 19; form, 14; fullness, 10; stem, 

 13; foliage, 14; substance, 14; size, 10; total, 94: 

 commercial scale. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



NEW YORK SHOW S^EDULE. 



The preliminary schedule of the ninth 

 annual international flower show, to be 

 held in the Grand Central Palace, New 

 York, March 13 to 19, 1922, has been 

 issued. The annual event of the New 

 York Florists' Club and the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York will assume 

 the same extensive proportions that it 

 has in preceding years. Again there 

 will be a special class providing for an 

 exhibit covering 1,000 square feet and 

 including lawns, flower beds, gardens, 

 shrubbery borders, rose beds, bulb beds 

 or anything of similar nature, the widest 

 latitude being allowed. 



The committee in whose hands is the 

 management of this flower show con- 

 sists of T. A. Havemeyer, chairman; 

 John Young, secretary; Frederic E. 

 Newbold, treasurer; F. R. Pierson, 

 James Stuart, Joseph Manda, John Can- 

 ning, F. L. Atkins, John G. Scheepers, 

 Charles H. Totty, Frank H. Traendly, 

 Wallace R. Pierson, Max Schling, A, L. 

 Miller, W. H. Duckham, I. S. Hendrick- 

 son, Arthur Herrington and F. W. 

 Payne. 



The schedule committee consists of 



Charles H. Totty, chairman; F. B. Pier- 

 son, F. L. Atkins, W. B. Pierson, John 

 Canning, F, H. Traendly, James Stuart, 

 Joseph Manda, Max Schling, W. H. 

 Duckham, A. L. Miller, John G. Scheep- 

 ers and Arthur Herrington. 



Copies of the schedule may be ob- 

 tained from John Young, 43 West Eight- 

 eenth street, New York. 



DOING THE WORE. 



There are reports from certain locali- 

 ties that florists are not moving their 

 stock as fast as they should. Appar- 

 ently this is due to a failure to use the 

 proper means of letting the trade know 

 what stock is for sale. It should be 

 done like this: 



Our success with our peony ad In The ReTlew 

 is more valuable than we have expected. — W; F. 

 Schneider, Elmhurst, 111., October 4, 1921. 



Please omit S. A. Nutt from our advertisement 

 without changing its form. We are completely 

 out of Nutt and wish to avoid returning checks. 

 We win say that the advertisement has surely 

 done its work. — J. N. Spanabel & Sons, Colum- 

 biana, O., October ij, 1921. 



If you hear a man complain of the 

 cost of advertising, you can be pretty 

 certain he spends a good bit of money 

 elsewhere than in The Review. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Business, which opened up auspiciously 

 with September, has not shown the im- 

 provement that was expected, although, 

 on the whole, the month has been an 

 unusually good one for the season. Last 

 week, because of the Jewish holidays, 

 there was a noticeable falling off in 

 trade, but the social calendar carries a 

 number of early weddings that will ac- 

 celerate the market. Funeral work de- 

 mands about the usual amount of flow- 

 ers and there is some call for cut flowers. 

 Weather conditions have been favor- 

 able for outdoor flowers, there having 

 been no frost. Field asters continue to 

 interfere with the sale of carnations, 

 but are almost at an end and are 

 I giving way to the first of the chrysan- 

 ^ themums, which will be at their height 

 after the middle of this month. Roses 

 have gained in quality and price. Me- 

 dium and short roses are the most active. 



Various Notes. 



Waukesha Gardens, at Scituate, re- 

 ceived first prize at the Fiskeville fair 

 for cactus and fancy silver dahlias. 



Martin Schoonman, maitager of the 

 Quidnick Greenhouses, fractured his leg 

 Sunday, October 9, when he fell while 

 working in one of the houses. 



Hannah E. Olsen, proprietor of Olsen's 

 Greenhouses, 3304 Pawtucket avenue. 

 East Providence, is having a two-family 

 dwelling house and garage erected on 

 Willett avenue. Riverside. 



William A. Bowers, of Washington 

 street, took a business trip by auto 

 through the Connecticut valley last 

 week. 



Maenair the Florist, corner Chestnut 

 and Broad streets, continues to put up 

 window displays that are the talk of 

 the town. 



John Johnston, of Johnston Bros., 

 Dorrance street, was a business visitor 

 in Boston and vicinity last week. 



Peter S. Byrnes, of the Homeganset 

 Greenhouses, Wickford, was one ef the 

 judges at the firemen 'a muster at Biver- 

 side last Saturday, October 8. 



Charles Smith, of the Eastern Wreath 



Co., was a business visitor in Worcester 

 and vicinity last week. 



Mrs. Otis P. Chapman had charge of 

 the decorations for the Burdick-Lang- 

 worthy wedding at Westerly last week. 

 Southern smilax and white dahlias were 

 used at the church and smilax and pink 

 and yellow dahlias at the house. 



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NEWPORT, R. I. 



The Ritchie Greenhouses had the order 

 for; decorating the United Congrega- 

 tionajl church at the recent Weeks-Speers 

 weeding. 



Patrick R. Casey, who was seriously 

 injured by being thrown from his wagon 

 a month ago and was operated upon at 

 the Newport hospital for a fractured 

 skull, was, removed to his home on 

 Spring street last week. 



The gardens of Fred P. Webber at 

 Home Acre, on East Main road, Mid- 

 dletown, have been luxuriant with beau- 

 tiful dahlias of all hues, including many 

 rare ones in this country. 



Members of the Newport ITranch of 

 Joseph G. Leikens went to New York 

 recently to assist with the floral ar- 

 rangements in connection with the ar- 

 rival of the bodies of the American 

 naval ofiicers and men who lost their lives 

 in the destruction of the British dirigi- 

 ble some weeks ago, Leikens having 

 charge of the flowers. 



John Samuels is serving as a petit 

 juror, in t;h«v^umjrior coiirt this week. 



Andrew S/Meikle designed and had 

 charge of the decorations at the First 

 Presbyterian church last week for the 

 Salvation Army wedding of Captain 

 William S. Addy and Captain Margaret 

 O. Smith. 



Miiss Janet' Sherman, bookkeeper for 

 the Rhode Island Nurseries, of Middle- 

 town, had a narrow escape from serious 

 injury a few days ago. She was motor- 

 ing into the city when the cape she was 

 wearing was blown by the wind into the 

 steering wheel of the machine. In her 

 endeavors to extricate the garment. Miss 

 Sherman pressed her foot on the accel- 

 erator of the machine instead of on the 

 brake, with the result that the machine 

 crashed into the rear end of a wagon, 

 pushing the vehicle through the display 

 window of one of the stores. Miss Sher- 

 man was not injured, but the driver of 

 the wagon was thrown from the wagon 

 and severely cut about the head. 



W. H. M. 



WINTERING CALADIUMS. 



Will you inform me as to how I can 

 care for caladiums during the winter? 

 The plants I have S^ere in 6-inch pots 

 when I got them last spring, but they 

 are now in the ground and three or four 

 feet high, C. A. Q.— Mich. 



Dig the roots up carefully after the 

 first frost. Cut back the leaves after 

 allowing the plants to dry out well in 

 the sun. It will not do any harm to 

 leave one or two partly developed 

 leaves on. Pack the roots in boxes of 

 sand or dry loam and store them on a 

 shelf in a warm, frost-proof shed or on 

 a greenhouse shelf. They can be kept 

 over hot water pipes in an ordinary 

 greenhouse, if there is no drip from the 

 bench above them. The tubers are so 

 inexpensive that most growers do not go 

 to the trouble of attempting to winter 

 tbem. Q, W. 



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