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The Florists' Review 



A DOUBT 6, 1911. -r 



NOTICE. 



It is impossibl* to guarants* 

 th* inaartioB, discontinuanea 

 or altoratien of aajr adTortiso- 

 moDt ualoM instructions ara 

 raeaiTod hj 



5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



Index to Advertisen, Paje 110. 



•..CONTENTS... 



Business Building Rules for Retailers 11 



Advertising in Tampa (iUus.) 12 



Pierson's Palace 12 



Eastern Star Kmbieni (illus.) 12 



Put« a Ban on Flowers 12 



Business Kmburrassments i:'> 



Wintering Delphiniums V.i 



The Illinois Kquipment 1-" 



Open Letters From Readers 14 



— Snapp's Relations Wanted 14 



— Notes on Outdoor Plants 14 



From the Otlier Side 14 



t:has. D. Ball (portrait) 14 



ChrysantUfmums 15 



— Taking Buds for Kxhibitiou 15 



— Fertlll»ers for Mums 15 



The Rainbow Sprinkler (illus.) 15 



Carnations It! 



^ After Benching Is Finished l(i 



— Should Plants Be Topped? 16 



A Start In Snapdragons It! 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Heliotropes It! 



— Outdoor Crops It; 



Two Tank Queries 17 



Mrs. Charles II. .Mu.vnard (portrait) 17 



Orchids 18 



— Seasonable Suggestions is 



Sweet Peas IK 



— Sweet Peas Fail to Open IS 



-Origin of Winter Sweet Pea 18 



Baltimore lit 



New York to Washington (illus.) 1!» 



Obituary 20 



— Henry Schlaack 20 



— - Alexander McKerichar 20 



.Vmcrican Carnation Society 2<i 



The Convention Program 2ti 



Society of American Florists 21 



— The Standard Flower Pot 21 



— Affiliation for Co-operation 21 



— Secretary's Announcements 22 



— Chicago to Boston 22 



— New York to Boston 22 



— Call to Dahlia Growers 22 



— Convention City Hotels 22 



News Notes and Comments 2:! 



War and the Trade 24 



Honorable Mention 24 



Chicago 24 



The Farmers' Friend ."{tt 



Philadelphia :t2 



New York .'!."■ 



Seedling Perennials .'i8 



Poinsettias In Benches 38 



St. Louis 441 



Boston 44 



Steamer Sailings 4!) 



Seed Trade News 5S 



— The War and the Seed Trade 5S 



— First French Bulbs Arrive «!2 



— Seed Crops in Holland i>4 



— Harrisii Arriving t!4 



— Shipments of Formosa Lilies (i4 



— When Is Seed Merchantable? <:4 



— Catalogues Received <>t> 



Vegetable Forcing US 



— Red Spider on Cucumbers CH 



— Keeping Celery in Trenches «8 



— Nitrate of Soda «i!t 



Pnciflc Coast Department 7tt 



— Plants for Hot, Dry Climate 7f) 



— Los Angeles , 70 



— San Francisco 70 



News of the Nursery Trade 74 



— Park Superintendents MeeU 74 



— Railway Gardeners to Meet 74 



— Cbase Names Committees 74 



— Frozen After Purchase 74 



— Census of Trade in England 7S 



Providence. R. I SO 



Newport, R. I m 



Nashville, Tenn 82 



Greenhouse Heating IM 



— Freight on Fuel Unchanged 'M 



— One-Inch Pipe too Small !)4 



— The Coal Market »5 



— Piping for Hotbed Range fit! 



— Using Only 2-Inch Pipe m 



— - Cannot Get Sufficient Heat 9« 



Buffalo 9S 



Detroit 100 



Cincinnati 102 



Milwaukee 104 



Denver lOt! 



Diseased Asters lOt! 



Washington, D. C 108 



Indianapolis 108 



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800IETT or AXEKIOAV IX0BI8T8. 

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. Offlc.™ 'or 1914: Preoldont. Tlieodors Wlrtta, 

 MlnneapoUs; Tlce-presidont, Patrick Wotch, Boo- 

 t«>n; •jcr?**'^' 'o**" Younf, S8 W. 28»h St., Now 

 fM*. City: treararor, W. F. Kutlmr. Baffalo. 



Thirtieth annnal oosTention, Bootoo. Mass.. 

 Ansmt 18 to 31, 1914. 



BESULT8. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



"War, or uo war, this week's issue of 

 The Keview, a regular edition, all in 

 the day's work, eats up 8,932 pounds 

 of white paper — practically four and 

 one-half tons. 



C. W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 111., 

 secretary of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America, has mailed to members the 

 annual volume containing the report of 

 the 1913 convention, lists of American 

 and European varieties disseminated in 

 the year, tabular record of the work of 

 the seedling committees published in 

 The Eeview from week to week during 

 the season, list of members, scales for 

 judging, and other data. 



You can say the summer is over. And 

 that it has been a not half bad summer. 

 With the arrival of August the green- 

 house men are finishing the work of get- 

 ting planted and snugged up for the new 

 season, and the store men are busy with 

 redecorating and the purchase of fixtures 

 and requisites against the reawakening of 

 the retail demand. Conditions might be 

 Itetter than they are today, but, for flo- 

 rists, they might be far worse. 



Tewksbury, Mass. — A. Roper is add- 

 ing another large greenhouse at his 

 range. 



WAE AND THE TRADE. 



What effect will the European war 

 Itave on the business of florists in the 

 United States? The probability is that 

 general business in this country will be 

 good so long as the big exporting na- 

 tions of Europe are occui>ied with more 

 urgent matters, and there never has 

 been a time when florists did not get 

 their opportunity to handle their part 

 of whatever money general business 

 activity put in circulation. 



But the efiFect of the war will be di- 

 rect and quickly apparent in the matter 

 of the supply of such trade articles as 

 are imported. A large part of our flo- 

 rists' supplies come from Germany and 

 France. For the present these imports 

 are suspended and there is no prospect 

 of the early resumption of transporta- 

 tion. A long conflict will mean a famine 



in retailers' requisites and a suspension 

 of business for even thirty days will 

 result in many shortages, for a large 

 number of staple articles are brought to 

 this country in small lots, the importers 

 carrying no great stocks, but relying 

 on the arrival of frequent shipments. 

 An interruption of only a few weeks 

 will see the present stocks cleaned up. 

 The great quantities of material de- 

 signed for the holiday trade are, for the 

 most part, still in Europe; indeed, the 

 iVench immortelles are still unharvest- 

 ed. A war that lasts more than a few 

 weeks will put America on its own re- 

 sources for the approaching Christmas, 

 insofar as florists' supplies are con- 

 cerned. 



French bulbs are either in port or 

 afloat. There should be no trouble on 

 that score. But the Dutch bulbs for the 

 most part still are in the exporters' 

 warehouses. The call to arms has taken 

 the young men, leaving only the old men 

 and the women to finish cleaning and 

 packing the crop. Then will come the 

 tjuestion of transportation. At present 

 the Holland-American line boats are 

 running, but it seems impossible that 

 the bulbs can get through on time un- 

 less the war is settled within a few days,, 

 which nobody dares hope. 



The supply of valley pips now in cold 

 storage in this country would, under 

 normal conditions, last until December 

 or perhaps January. By not crowding 

 the market it will be possible to stretch 

 the supply over another couple of 

 months, but after that the trade will 

 have to get along without forced valley 

 unless England raises the blockade of 

 Hamburg. Even if the crop now ma- 

 turing can be harvested by the few 

 hands available, it will be impossible to 

 put the new pips afloat so long as hos- 

 tilities last. 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Not a few subscribers save them- 

 selves the bother of annual renewal bv 

 sending The Eeview $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: 



SKVKN YEARS. 

 Coe, Asher .M., North Olmsted, O. 



THREE YEARS. 

 Koenlg, Wm. J., Weehawken, N. J. 



TWO YEARS. 

 Klenahs, Theo., La Crosse, Wis. 

 Ruble, A. D., Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Woerner, A., Siloam Springs, Ark. 

 Walker Peony Farms, Hamorton, Pa. 



The Review stops coming when the 

 subscription runs out. The new green 

 notice with the last copy tells the story. 

 Xo bills are run up; no duns sent. 



CHICAQO. 



The Market. 



During the last few days everyone 

 has been too busy talking European war 

 to have time for much business. The 

 condition holds good in all lines; gen- 

 eral business has been reduced by the 

 excitement, but this is expected to wear 

 off in a few days, when conditions will 

 become normal. 



There is no appreciable change in the 

 market. The supply of stock is ade- 

 «iuate; there is no scarcity in any de- 

 partment. Weather conditions have been 

 unusually good, with the result that 

 roses are of excellent quality. There 

 has been some increase in the supply of 



