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The Florists' Review 



SUITBMBKK 3, 1914. 



^ i ^ 4b^^ ^ Advertisers, T^jt 106. 



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5 P. M. TUESDAY. 



...CONTENTS... 



SUowlng 'Eui Who You Are (illuH.) It 



Stevla for Winter Cutting Id 



Black Hollyhocks W 



Insects on Dahlias 10 



White Grubs In Soil 10 



Business Embarrassments 10 



Mrs. William F. Gude (portrait) . ..r, 10 



M jSew Milt«nU (Hlus. ) Jl, 



.itblllea Perty's White (lUus.) 11 



Daisies for Winter ^ 11 



Paper White NardsM !. .' : . . (t-T.' -^Jl 



Jerusalem Cherries 11 



Sweet Peas 12 



— Time Required to Bloom 12 



— Lengthwise or Crosswise , 12 



— Origin of Winter Sweet Pea 12 



Anton C. Zvolanek (portrait) 12 



Banker Turned Florist (iUus.) 13 



Passlflora Incarnata 13 



Poor Express Business 13 



Carnations 14 



— Soil for Carnations 14 



— Bad Case of Leaf spot 14 



— Hints on Transplanting 14 



Itoses J4 



— Own-root or Grafted? 14 



— Pruning Hardy Hoses 15 



— Outdoor Roses In Michigan 16 



Mrs. A. H. Austin (portrait) 15 



Violets 18 



— Violets a Second Year lo 



Phoenix From Seed 18 



Rochester, N. Y 16 



Milwaukee 18 



Travelers Are Snapshot (Ulus.) lo 



Kansas City Club's Picnic (lllus.) 17 



Brattleboro. Vt 17 



At Lancaster Club's Outing (lllus.) 18 



Obituary If 



— J. M. Brunson 1° 



— George Dickson (portrait) Ij 



Baltimore }^ 



News Notes and Comments i" 



Honorable Mention ^ 



Another Judge's Report ^ 



Chicago ^» 



New York ^8 



BufTalo, N. Y 27 



Pittsburgh ^ 



Austin, Tex ^ 



Philadelphia 5» 



Washington. D. C 3.3 



NashTlllo, Tenn J'! 



Cincinnati '^J 



Boston ?2 



St. Louis, Mo *i 



Pawtueket, R. I 46 



Steamer Sailings 4( 



Seed Trade News »8 



— Hollanders Got Real Busy 58 



— The War Scare In Holland «<• 



— Clover and Vetch Prices 81 



— Keeping Them Down 61 



— Effect of Trade Customs 82 



— Dutch Bulbs Coming Fast 83 



— Catalogues Received 84 



Vegetable Forcing - "2 



— Cucumber Blight 8^ 



— Tomato Leaves Diseased J* 



— Trouble With Cucumbers 86 



— Black Fly on Cucumbers. 87 



Pacific Coast Department 8S 



— Los Angeles 88 



— Spokane, Wash 88 



— Seattle, Wash 89 



News of the Nursery Trade 7^ 



— Southern Assoclntion Meets 72 



— CflUfornlans Getting Ready 72 



— Park Siiperlntpiidcnts Elect 7.S 



— Mali Restrictions 74 



Detroit. Mich 78 



Columbus, 7S 



Rrnmpton. Ont JJ" 



Greenhouse Hentlne «4 



— Better Use 2%-lnch Flows 94 



— The Coal Markt t fl4 



— Adding a Carnation House 9« 



— Extra Boiler for Rose House ||« 



Hartford. Conn 98 



Providence i"" 



Kansas CTty, Mo W2 



Baralwo, Wis JOJ 



Denver '"] 



Newitort, R. 1 '"4 



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Greenfield, Ind. — L. H. Haney, of 

 Kokomo, Ind., has purchased the green- 

 houses of H. M. Pearson and has moved 

 here to conduct the business. 



SOCIETY OF AXERICAN'TiO&ISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1914: President, Theodore Wlrth, 

 Minneapolis; vice-president, Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, 63 W. 28tb St., New 

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



Officers for 1916: President, Patrick Welch, 

 Boston; vice-president, Daniel MacRorle, San 

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

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

 Buffalo. 



Tblrty-flrst S^nual convention, San Francisco, 

 Cal., August 17 to 20, 1915. 



BESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Field-grown carnation plants are sell- 

 ing unusually well this year, in spite of 

 the fact that the supply seems to be 

 larger than generally had been expected. 



General business conditions are im- 

 measurably better in the middle west 

 than in any other section of the country. 

 This is a farmers' year and the west is 

 full of farmers. 



The mails from England and Holland 

 are coming through in about the usual 

 time. A number of letters written in 

 those countries August 17 and 18 reached 

 The Eeview August 31. 



British trade papers are reconiniend 

 ing that all growers in doubt as to a mar- 

 ket for their stock turn their glass into 

 vegetable crops, which will serve an 

 economic purpose if it does not result in 

 a profit during the war. 



With the right wing of the German 

 army occupying Ghent there seems re- 

 mote prospect of receiving this fall any 

 of the stock that usually is imported 

 from Belgium. Azaleas and bay trees 

 are about the only items that will be seri- 

 ously missed. 



The preliminary schedule of the inter- 

 national flower show, to be held at New 

 York March 17 to 23, 1915, now is avail- 

 able in pamphlet form. Anyone desiring 

 a copy will receive it by addressing John 

 Young, secretary, 53 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. New York. 



A SUBSCRIBER reports having received 

 a circular ' ' from some person oflFering to 

 send for a dollar a system of accounting 

 for greenhouses. ' ' The subscriber adds : 

 "We mislaid the circular and do not 

 seem to find anything like it in the 

 'Bible.' Have you any idea who it was, 

 or can you direct us to something simi- 

 lar?" Perhaps some reader will be able 

 to supply the informj?tion wanted. 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Not a few subscribers save thim- 

 selves the bother of annual renewal in- 

 sending The Review $2, $3, or so?' »> 

 times $5, instead of the dollarrbill tl.at 

 insures fifty-two visits of the paj/tr. 

 Among those who have this week en 

 rolled themselves for more than one 

 year in advance are: 



TWO YEARS. 



Fraudsen, E. H., Independence, Mo. 

 Maler, C. F., Denver, Colo. 

 Moss, Isaac B., Baltimore, Md. 

 Jaenlcke. A., St. Ix>nl8, Mo. 



The Review stops coming when tlie 



subscription runs out. The new gr<( n 



notice with the last copy tells the story ; 



no bills are run up; no duns sent. 



ANOTHER JUDGE'S REPORT. 



At the S. A. F. convention in Boston 

 there were four sets of judges and the 

 report of one of the boards failed of 

 record with the rest. It WHS as follows: 



'*We have ex%minedUh«r' boltJed Btcoi 

 purlin clamp exhibited and used in t)ie 

 construction of John C. Moninger Co. 

 greenhouses, and after carefully con- 

 sidering the good features of this fit- 

 ting, we do recommend that a certifi 

 cate of award of the highest mention 

 be given to the John C. Moninger Co., 

 Chicago and New York, for this fitting. 

 This fitting is made for jiny sized pipe, 

 and is of steel, galvanized. This bolted 

 clamp fitting takes the place of the old 

 style split tee, and is a great improve 

 ment. The pipe support is placed di 

 rectly underneath the pipe purlin and 

 the split fitting goes around the pipe 

 purlin and down on the sides of the 

 support. A bolt then passes througli 

 the split fitting and the pipe support. 

 When this bolt is tightened and oou 

 sidering that the pipe support is close 

 to the purlin, there is no possibility of 

 the support swaying. The fitting can 

 not loosen and thus makes a tight 

 clamp. " 



The report is signed by W. H. Sie 

 brecht, F. H. Traendly and J. A. Mnn 

 da, judges. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business has been extremely quiet, 

 and yet some houses state that their 

 sales for the last week of August ex 

 ceeded the sales for the similar period 

 of last year, and many others report 

 business about the same as usual. 



The supply of stock is not so heavv 

 as it was earlier in the season and it is 

 the general opinion that there would he 

 interesting results should there be only 

 a moderate increase in the present ligl't 

 demand. It is the general report thnt 

 city trade is less active than usual, I'l* 

 that shipping business is proceeding it 

 fully as active a pace as ever is tiie 

 case in the opening days of September. 

 Years ago it was considered that tic 

 active season opened September 1, 1'^ 

 of recent years the trade in the larj-tr 

 cities has not opened before October 1 



The Chicago market never has had o 

 many good roses at this time of yp *"• 

 The stock is excellent almost evc^' 

 where and the list of varieties is Ion;.' r 

 than it ever has been before. Pink pi" 

 dominates; a half dozen pink sorts n "^ 

 offered in quantity, with only one whi**" 

 variety available in only moderate nu: i 

 bers. Red and yellow also are offer 1 

 in greater quantity than white. M^' 

 Russell continues the most popular \ ' 

 rity on the list and it is said that i<^ '^ 



