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The Florists' Review 



Adocst 27, 1014. 



NOTICE. 



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5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



hlex to Al¥ertisen, Paf^ 102. 



The Convention Aftermath 



— The Ckjnventlon Outing 



— General View of Indoor Plant Exhibits 

 (lllus.) 



— The Convention Bowling 



— Ladies' S. A. F 



— Catalogues at Washington 



— Snapshots of the Convention 



— Erhlblts of R. Craig Co. and F. R. Plerson 

 Co. (lllus.) 



— Entomologist's Report 



The Retail Florist 



— Capturing Rolling Dollars 



— Ocean Lines Resume Sailings • . 



Retail Advertising Booth of Fenn the Flo- 

 rist (lllus.) 



To Destroy Cutworms. . .v 



Hydrangea Otalssa •^- • 



Spray for Beetles • ^••y 



General View of Trade's Display at Boston 



(lllus.) 



Diseased Dracaenas 



Violets 



— Removing Violet Runners 



— Club Root on Violets 



Will Some Reader Reply ? 



Asters Not Opening Well 



Orchids 



— Seasonable Notes 



Forcing Azaleas 



Shasta Daisies for Market 



Buddleias 



Seasonable Suggestions 



— Poinsettias 



— French Bulbs 



— Cinerarias 



— Freeslas 



— Schizanthus Wisetonensls 



— Genistas 



— Transplanting Seedlings 



— Violets • • • • • • • 



Gladiolus Exhibits at Boston (lllus.) 



Chrysanthemums 



— Asters and Mums Blighted 



— Infested With Thrlps 



— Mums for Pot Culture 



Wistaria Not Flowering 



Geraniums 



^ Propagating Geraniums 



— Tailing Cuttings 



Gullett's Record Range (lllus.) 



New York 



Pawtucket, R.I 



Selling by Sample (lllus.) 



Obituary 



— Mrs. J. M. Keller 



— Nelson Hyde 



News Notes 



War's Alarms 



Business Embarrassments 



Spray for Red Spider 



Chicago 



Baltimore 



Philadelphia 



St. Louis 



Buffalo 



Boston 



Nashville, Tenn 



Seed Trade News 



— America n Diimiiing (irouml 



— Pappr Whites a Problem 



— French Bulb Receipts Large 



— Big Shipment of Dutch Bull)s 



— Seed Crops in California 



— From the Sent of War 



— Clark on Seed Crops 



— Mont.inn I'eii Crop 



New ( )rleans, Iji ; 



Pacific Const Department 



— - Wlint to Grow 



— l.os ,\ii!{cles 



• — Sun 1- "in II Cisco 



— Seattle. Wnsli 



- Spokane. Wash 



News of the Nursery Trade 



— Montann Law n Dead Letter 



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Glen Cove. N. Y ^^_ 



St. I'niil. Minn '- 



Austin. Tex '^ 



Milwaukee 



Kochester, N. Y 



Lake Geneva, Wis 



Greenhouse Ileatintr 



-Planning a Sninll House !»<• 



— The Coal Market »« 



PipinK for One New House U'2 



— Cannot Get EnouRh Heat 02 



Pittsburgh "^ 



Saginaw, Mich •!•' 



Providence ^ 



Cincinnati '"" 



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SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOKISIS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1914: President, Theodore Wlrth, 

 Minneapolis; vice-president, Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, 53 W. 28th St., New- 

 York City; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Officers for 1915: President, Patrick Welch, 

 Boston; vice-president, Daniel MacRorle, San 

 Francisco; secretary, John Young, 63 W. 28th 

 St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, 

 Buffalo. 



Thirty-first annual convention, San Francisco, 

 Cal., August 17 to 20, 1915. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Following the precedent set at Balti- 

 more, Minneapolis and Boston, the Cali- 

 fornians will be justified in sending the 

 S. A. F. back east in care of the same 

 man as president who takes it west as 

 vice-president. And they can do it. 



This surely has been a good summer — 

 not one important failure in any branch 

 of the trade. Perhaps this is due to the 

 greater attention now being given to 

 credits, but, on the other hand, the good 

 luck may be due to business being better 

 than usual. 



The S. a. F. convention really marks 

 the opening of the autumn season. After 

 the convention the store men get busy. 

 Any incomplete remodeling or redecorat- 

 ing must be finished at once. Supplies 

 ordered for autumn delivery will be com- 

 ing in early in September — and any pur- 

 chases that have been postponed must be 

 attended to at once. 



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Cycas leaves come from Japan, in a 

 dried state, but the Germans aro ex- 

 tremely handy at preparing them for 

 florists' use. Probably we shall not he 

 able to import prepared leaves this 

 year, hut Americans have learned liow 

 to turn out a good article. The big 

 dealers have picked up all the present 

 available aupplj", but .Japan will send 

 more dry leaves in the course of time. 



Gold letters, such as hatters and flo- 

 rists use, come from Germany. There 

 are a lot of letters still in the hands of 

 the supply houses, but no immediate 

 prospect of getting any more. 



Ruscus in the bleached state comes 

 from Italy. Some houses dye it here — 

 with German dyes — while others import 

 the dyed article from Germany. There 

 seems little chance of the German rus- 

 cus getting here before Christmas and 

 if the raw material arrives from Italy, 

 how about the dves? It is said there 



are practically no stocks of dyes in 

 this country. To show to what a bulk 

 the ruscus now runs, one of the jobbing 

 houses that does its own dyeing tore 

 states that it has twenty tons of rus- 

 cus on hand and forty tons more or- 

 dered from Italy. 



BUSIBrBSS EMBARRASSMENTS 

 Waco, Tex. — A voluntary petition in 

 bankruptcy was filed by M. W. Nt;>d- 

 ham, proprietor of the Waco Nurseries 

 in the Federal court August 18. lUs 

 liabilities were given as $18,440.52 imd 

 his assets as $2,725, with exemptions 

 amounting to $2,695. 



SPRAY FOR RED SPIDER. 



Referring to the query of R. a[., 

 headed "Red Spider on Hardy Phlox.'" 

 in The Review for July 30, I wish tf> 

 say that if he will use the spray the 

 formula for which is given in the article 

 on "Spray for Tarnish Bug," in The 

 Review for August 13, he will have no 

 further trouble. Use the spray as 

 directed, and then give another spray- 

 ing three days later, using as much 

 force on the spray pump as possible, lii 

 order to get the best results, the plants 

 should be as dry as possible before tiny 

 are sprayed. 



Do not dissolve the cyanide indoors, 

 as the fumes are injurious to the health. 

 For this reason, if the spray is used in 

 the greenhouse, the ventilators and 

 doors should be bpen while the sprayinjj 

 is done. In preparing the spray, dis- 

 solve the three teaspoonfuls of pow- 

 dered cyanide of potassium in one quart 

 of boiling water, and add one pound of 

 brown sugar; after mixing these thor- 

 oughly, add two gallons of cold watov. 

 The spray can be used in any eo?u- 

 pressed air sprayer. A. Hallott. 



CHICAGO. 

 The Market. 



The market gives only slight evi- 

 dence of the fact that this is the closing 

 week of summer. There is a steady 

 improvement in the demand, but noth 

 ing to indicate that in a few days it 

 will be September and time for tlio 

 market to awaken to ten months oi 

 activity. The schools will open in about 

 a week, but that does not seem to V)e 

 the stimulating factor it once was. in 

 the early days of the business it was 

 a common remark that the opening of 

 the schools brought the flower buyers 

 home and started trade for the season. 

 Now it seems to take weather that is 

 too cold for automobiling. 



If the flower buyers had come home 

 a little earlier than usual this year, the 

 market would have been ready f<'r 

 them. Rose crops, especially, ha^i' 

 come on earlier this year than usuil 

 The end of August never saw this mar- 

 ket so well supplied with first-cla s 

 roses. To be sure, the stems, with fc*^ 

 exceptions, are not yet long, but t! e 

 flowers are of excellent summer qu; t 

 ity and the supply is considerably ahe; 1 

 of the needs of the hour. Beauties ha e 

 been abundant all summer. They st'll 

 are. The shorts are not quite so ple.i- 

 tiful as they were, for the growers ha" e 

 been cutting from the young plants f r 

 several weeks. There can be no con- 

 plaint this season of lack of variety i" 

 the rose offerings. The market nev-r 

 before has offered a choice of so many 

 good varieties. Taking the offerings rs 

 a whole, there probably still are '^ 



