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The Florists' Review 



August 13, 1914. 



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5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



Index to Advertisers, Pt^ 110. 



•.aCONTENTS.o. 



Cauadian Florists Meet 11 



— H. B. Cowan (portrait) 11 



Retail Store Management 12 



— The White House Funeral (lllus.) 12 



— Novel LJght Fixtures 12 



Business Embarrassments 13 



Supply Men in Conference I'i 



The Kftect of the War IT 



War and the Trade 14 



A Shipper's Ideas 14 



Opening Convention Garden 14 



American Kose Society 14 



Gardeners' Boston Meeting , 14 



Chrysanthemum Society IS 



Ladles' S. A. F 15 



The Convention Sports 15 



Bailey's Cyclopedia (Vol. II) l.l 



Carnations 1" 



— Fish Guano for Carnations 1« 



— Carrying Over Old Plants 1<> 



Soil for Pansles 1« 



Koses l*? 



— Seen In the Markets J<> 



— Pruning Old Plants Ki 



St. I.ouis Club Elects IT 



— Julius Bourdet (portrait) 17 



— W. S. Wells (portrait) 1< 



Seasonable Suggestions IS 



— Llllum Candldum 1« 



— Llllum Formosa 1^ 



— Llllum Speciosum 1^ 



— Japanese Iris 1^ 



— Show Pelargoniums JS 



— Mignonette Jj 



The Dracaena and Croton (lllus. ) IS 



New York 2|) 



Where Is His Araucarla? (lllus.) 20 



Rochester. N. Y ^] 



Kansas City 21 



Obituary ^} 



— Zack Davis ^} 



Any Sarcasm in This? ^^ 



Aid Educational Garden -^ 



Chicago 5" 



Plttsburgh i2 



Philadelphia f* 



Baltimore = ^; 



Buffalo -^f. 



Providence, R. 1 2 V 



Washington ; 4' 



Boston ^^J 



Evansville, Ind ;,'" 



Seed Trade News -'f 



— ITutch Bulbs Will Come -^j 



— Some Dutch Bulbs Here •>4 



— Onion Sets »* 



— French Bulbs Arriving 5« 



— Rocky Ford Recovers ^^ 



— The European Seeds ^« 



— More Formosa Bulbs •^•» 



— Mr. Cuthbertson Talks »«• 



— Olds Doing W<11 «^ 



— Melon Men Indicted ';^ 



Pacific Coast Department •j^ 



— Spray for Tarnish Bug «|2 



— Spokane, Wash •jj* 



— Los Angeles ij" 



Forcing Spiraeas JlI 



Hydrangeas for Next June ;'! 



News of the Nursery Trade 72 



— Ornamental Growers Meet '^ 



— Jones to Meet Obligations 7J 



— Woolly Aphis on Maples <2 



— Permanent Profits 72 



— To Kill Tree Borers 74 



— Pests Collected In June '4 



Denver 4" 



Cincinnati , ]^ 



Lexington, Kv ^' 



Greenhouse Heating •** 



— The Coal Market "4 



— Quantity of Fuel "Jj 



— Heat From Exhaust Steam »<• 



St. Louis 



Crops to Foiiow Mums ' " " J^ 



Scale on Pandsnus y!^ 



Milwaukee. Wis i"" 



Indianapolis JXJ 



Columbus, O • •i''!' 



Pawtucket. U. 1 '"2 



Detroit '"'" 



Austin, Tex. — At a meeting of the 

 Austin Florists' Club at the residence 

 of E. Fredericks, August 3, it was de- 

 cided to hold a local flower show during 

 the last part of October or the first 

 part of November, when chrysanthe- 

 mums are at their best. 



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SOCIETY OF AMEBICAS FLOBUTB. 



Incorporated by Act of OongTMa, Xarok 4, IMl. 



Officer* for 1914: President, Tbeodoro Wtrth, 

 liiuueapoUs; vtceprealdent, Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 tuu: aeiTftary. John Voung, 63 W. 28tb 81.. Now 

 Tork City; treasurer, W. F. KaatlDg. Buffalo. 



Thirtieth annual cooventlon. Beaton, Maaa.. 

 ADguat 18 to 21. 1914. 



BESULTS. 



We give them. Vou get them. 

 We both have thorn. 



At the moment goldfish are one of the 

 scarce items — and thousands of flower 

 s^^tores find goldfish and canaries profit- 

 able side lines. 



Edward Amerpohl, of Janesville, Wis., 

 says the crops in his section of the coun- 

 try never looked so good as now. He 

 thinks it spells a winter of prosperity 

 for all florists there. 



Neither the "Situation Wanted" nor 

 the "Help Wanted" advertisements in 

 The Review are running as heavy as 

 they did last year at this time, indicat- 

 ing less than the usual degree of unrest 

 among the workers. 



All things considered, the florists' 

 trade has come through the summer in 

 excellent shape. There have been no 

 important failures and not so many 

 small ones as usually occur between 

 Easter and autumn. 



Our good friend and philosopher, A. 

 Jablonsky, has taken his pen in hand 

 and is writing a series of letters to his 

 son, who has left home to try the world 

 on his own hook, the epistles being 

 printed in the St. Louis County Herald, 

 published at Wellston, Mo. 



The editor's desk has been adorned 

 for several days by a vase of excellent 

 asters, white, deep pink and lavender, 

 sent by Fred Meyerhoefer, of Salem, O., 

 who has been working at the trade for 

 eight years and growing a patch of 

 asters for market in his spare time, sav- 

 ing his own seed and working up his 

 early strain until it is extra good. 



0{JE of the peculiar incidents of the 

 last year is the way sentiment has 

 swung in the matter of the Russell rose. 

 The first crop cut last autumn brought 

 back the money the growers had paid 

 for the stock as a novelty. Then there 

 began, in the winter, to be head shak- 

 ings and doubts, but the wood was be- 

 ing used for propagating. Since the 

 young stock has begun to bloom nothing 

 but praise has been heard for the rose. 



ANT SABOASM IN THIS? 



Will you kindly help me out by solv- 

 ing the following? I noted in the 

 Country Gentleman an article on the 

 gladiolus, written by Maurice Fuld. 

 The article told what a good market 

 flower this is, and it also gave whole- 

 sale prices on cut flowers. The article 

 was for all, and encouraged everyone to 

 grow the gladiolus. In another publica- 

 tion for the amateur I happened on an 

 article by Mrs. Austin, going Mr. Fuld 

 one better, by encouraging the children 

 to grow gladioli and telling all the 

 little secrets. There are many such 

 articles on other branches of our trade, 

 such as dahlias, cornflowers, etc. 



Through all this popularity I found 

 it a hard matter to sell stock to florists, 

 as they stated the market was over- 

 done. Would it not be -a grand oppor- 

 tunity for. me to offer my entire stock 

 of bulbs of thirty acres and advertise 

 them in farm papers, magazines and 

 newspapers at wholesale prices and sell 

 to anyone who comes along? I think 

 this a grand chance. Please answer 

 through The Review. Hugo Kind. 



AID EDUCATIONAL GABDEN. 



The garden of Frank C, Hargett, at 

 Frederick, Md., which is receiving 

 wide publicity on account of the ef- 

 forts of Mr. Hargett to make it an 

 educational display, as well as on ac- 

 count of the reception to well known 

 persons which is to be held there Sep- 

 tember 17, has received strong support 

 from the members of the trade. In 

 addition to the donations of the vari- 

 ous departments of the government, 

 the garden has received contributions 

 from many eastern firms in the trade. 

 To show the results of the work of Mr. 

 Hargett with these gifts, a large recep- 

 tion will be held at the garden Sep 

 tember 17, and on the following day 

 they will be thrown open to the public. 

 Among the notable people who will be 

 present at the reception are William 

 F. Gude, of Washington; George \^^ 

 Hess, superintendent of the National 

 Botanical Gardens, at Washington; F. 

 L. Mulford, government landscape gar 

 doner, representing Secretary Houston, 

 of the Department of Agriculture; 

 Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, 

 and Viscount Chinda, Japanese ambas 

 sador to the United States. Amon^; 

 the firms which have contributed to 

 the gardens are: 



Bester, Henry, & Sons, Hagerstown, Md. 

 Burpee, W. Atlee, & Co., Philadelphia. 

 Oonard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 

 Cook, John, Baltimore, Md. 

 Craig, Robert, Co., Philadelphia. 

 Groff, David, Frederick, Md. 

 Gude Bros. Co., Washington, D. C. 

 Henderson, Peter, & Co., New York. 

 King, Jesse P., Mt. Airy, Md. 

 Mlchell, Henry F., Co., Philadelphia. 

 Plerson, A. N., Inc., Cromwell, Conn. 

 Vincent, B., Jr., & Sons Co., White Marsh, M 1. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



While the hostilities probably are n 't 

 in any great degree responsible, t.e 

 first week of the European war turn <i 

 out to be so decidedly dull in tl is 

 market that it has led to much d's- 

 cussion as to the effect should the e.i- 

 broglio prove of considerable duratio". 

 The consensus of opinion, however^ i^ 

 that the poor business at the opening 

 of August has been due to local caus-^s 

 more than to the unrest resulting from 

 the upsetting of plans by the trouble 



