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The Florists' Review 



SSPTHMBEB 10, 1914. 



hdex to AdYertisen, Htjt 110. 



NOTICE. 



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S P. M. TUESDAY. 



«,CONTENTS... 



FLORIST INDEX CHANDLER 



The Up-to-date Flower Store (illiis.) 11 



Those Light Fixtures Agoiu (Uliis.) 12 



Florist's Prize-winning Float (illus.) 12 



Kansas City's Rosery (illus.) 12 



Straight Talk 12 



Wood Ferns for Winter Use 13 



Watering When Sun Shines 13 



Giganteums for Easter i:> 



.Vntlrrbinums In Benches 13 



Open Letters From Readers 14 



— Lesson of the War , . . . . 14 



— Exterminator for Ants It 



— The Aster Grower's Troubles 14 



Asters Doing I'oorly 14 



News From Abroad 14 



— Trade Interests at (Jlient 14 



— Good-bye to the Azaleas 14 



— The Flower Trade In I'arls 15 



Holland Bulbs In America (illus. ) 15 



Woerner Wire Works' Outing (illus.) 16 



The Hardy Garden 16 



— The Hardy Perennial Garden 10 



Insist on the Plant Rate 17 



A Pink Canna 17 



A Progressive Phlladelphian (portrait) 17 



I'ublleatlons Received 18 



Fertilizers for Lawns 18 



Doubly a Veteran (portrait) 18 



To Exterminate Wood Lice 18 



Buffalo, N. Y 18 



Grand Rapids 10 



Danville Florists' Outing (illus.) 10 



Griffin, Ga 19 



Catalogues Received • 20 



Syracuse, N. Y 20 



Mrs. Smith's Success (illus. ) 20 



Obituary 20 



— Olaf Peterson 20 



— Thomas Pepperdine 20 



— Hiram T. Jones 20 



— P. R. Quinlan 20 



News, Notes and Comments 21 



Infection of the Hands 22 



Honorable Mention 22 



Here's Prosperity 22 



Chicago 22 



Milwaukee 26 



Boston 28 



Visiting Berkshire Estates W 



Philadelphia -'2 



Cincinnati 34 



Washington, D. C 35 



Pawtucket, R. 1 37 



St. Louis 40 



New York 43 



Providence, R. 1 47 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Seed Trade News »6 



— Japan's Lily Bulb Exports 58 



— Bulb Market Recovering 5b 



— In California w 



— Another Pure Seed Bill w 



— More Dutch Bulbs <'2 



— Conditions In Holland 62 



Detroit X4 



Vegetable Forcing »•' 



— Onions for Forcing t,b 



— Cyanide on Cukes "• 



Paciac Coast Department ^'^ 



— Tacoma, Wash J" 



— Los Angeles J^ 



— Spokane, Wash ''J 



— Seattle, Wash J" 



News of the Nursery Trade i- 



— England Still Busy if 



— Phoenix Receiver Reports l^ 



— Who Must Bear the Loss? if 



Pittsburgh i» 



Lexington, Ky ^» 



Greenhouse Heating »* 



— Material for Smokestack J* 



— A Small Ohio Range Jj 



_ Plpos Clogged With Water •»» 



— A Range of Four Houses •»< 



Rochester, N. Y 100 



Denver j"g 



Newport, R. I J^f 



Baltimore |X« 



Columbus, O JV« 



Lincoln, Neb {'JS 



Evansvllle, Ind i"" 



Saginaw, Mich « 



.108 



Lincoln, Neb. — Yule 'a Landscape 

 Nursery is just finishing a greenhouse 

 25x100, for propagating purposes, using 

 material furnished by the John C. 

 Moninger Co., Chicago. 



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80CIETT OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Confess, 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, BufTalo. 



Officers for 1915: President, Patrick Welch, 

 Boston; vice-president, Daniel MacRorle, San 

 Francisco; secretary, John Young, 53 W. 28th 

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

 Buffalo. 



Tblrty-flrst annual convention, San Francisco, 

 Cal., August 17 to 20, 1015. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



Those who have valley pips in storage 

 are holding them, either as an insurance 

 or a speculation. 



There is nothing that so facilitates 

 the success of a business as does the 

 prompt payment of its bills. It takes 

 an effort to accumulate working capital 

 to permit cleaning up one's obligations 

 monthly, but it is worth all it costs. 



Plantsmen who have had the experi- 

 ence of having shipments lost through 

 the actions of a horticultural inspector 

 outside their own state will be interested 

 in the article, "Who Must Bear t\ifi 

 Lossf'i in the Nursery Department of 

 this week's issue. 



Should the European war be of con- 

 siderable duration, one of the results no 

 doubt would be that the United States 

 would develop a domestic supply of a 

 large number of trade necessities for 

 which heretofore reliance has been placed 

 on some foreign country. 



THJ21E are those who consider that the 

 automobile has been the strongest ob- 

 stacle to the growth of the flower busi- 

 ness the trade has encountered in the last 

 decade. The family with the auto lives 

 too much outdoors to require many cut 

 flowers during a large part of the year. 



INFECTION OF THE HANDS. 



I am often troubled with infection 

 upon my hands. Do you think it comes 

 from handling bone meal or nitrate of 

 soda? F. A. P. 



Fertilizers containing much potash 

 will take skin from the hands. Bone 

 meal and nitrate of soda should not af- 

 fect you unless you already have cuts 

 on your hands. Some plants, such as 

 Primula obconica and P. malacoides, 

 frequently cause irritation. If you 

 have been handling these, they may be 

 the guilty parties and not the fer- 

 tilizers. C. W. 



HONORABLE MENTION. 



Not a few subscribers save the a- 

 selves the bother of annual renewal .v 

 sending The Review $2, $3, or sor o- 

 times $5, instead of the dollar-bill tl it 

 insures fifty-two visits of the pap r. 

 Among those who have this week i i. 

 rolled themselves for more than c e 

 year in advance are: 



TWO YEARS. 

 Ay res Co., S. B., Independence, Mo. 

 Clody, Edward, Chicago, 111. 

 Melde, Hem-y, Eureka, Cal, 



The Review stops coming when to 

 subscription runs out. The new gre. ii 

 notice with the last copy tells the stor ; 

 no bills are run up; no duns sent. 



HEBE'S PROSPERITY. 



It is on the big crops that the trane 

 in the middle west pins its faith in a 

 busy season. Nearly all crops are a 

 record for quantity and the prices lo- 

 ceived by the farmers are excellent. 



The government published, Septemb'^r 

 8, its estimate of the crops as of Sep- 

 tember 1. The comparison with the 

 final outturn in 1913 is given in the fol- 

 lowing table: 



Crops. Sept. 1. Final l^n. 



Winter wheat 675,000,000 523,000,000 



.Spring wheat 221,000,000 240,000,000 



All wheat 896,000,000 763,000,000 



Corn 2,598,000,000 2,446,000,000 



Oats 1,116,000,000 1,122,000,000 



Barley 200,000,000 173,000,000 



Rye--, 43,000,000 41,000,000 



Buckwheat 17,000,000 14,000,000 



Potatoes 371,000,000 332,000,000 



Tobacco (lbs.) 862,000,000 954,000,000 



Flax 15,000,000 18,000,00o 



Hay (tons) 69.000,000 04.000,<J<10 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



With Labor day in the past we may 

 consider that the fall season is at hand. 

 Indeed, the arrival of cooler weather 

 last week caused a prompt acceleration 

 in business and September 4 and 5 were 

 much the best days the market has ex- 

 perienced since the tide turned. The 

 first three days of September were 

 about as quiet as anything the market 

 experienced during the summer, but this 

 week brings a quite appreciable in- 

 crease in the shipping demand. It is 

 the general report that city trade is 

 quiet. Although the retailers agree 

 that the edge has been off for weeks, 

 most of them will admit that the sum- 

 mer has given them about the usual 

 financial results, it having been pos- 

 sible to pick up the stock needed at 

 lower average prices than in previous 

 years, this being specially true of 

 Beauties and roses. 



The special feature of the market at 

 present is the abundant supply of fir-it- 

 class roses. The market never has had 

 a longer list of varieties or a larger 

 cut at this season. Heretofore the bi.lk 

 of the roses have run to short stems. 

 and there still is a plentiful supply of 

 this grade, but the earlier planted 

 houses now are giving some fine long 

 stems. Russell is specially good and m 

 excellent seller. Sunburst and Bulgarie 

 also are fine and in good request, but 

 not at prices one would expect to r^ a- 

 lize for such good stock. Killarncys 

 show splendid color, almost as good as 

 Killarney Brilliant, which is being c it 

 in considerable quantity. Hadley is 

 seen, but the supply is not large. Wa^d 

 is not yet in the usual autumn reque-t) 

 because the corsage business h-^^ 

 scarcely started. Shawyer has lo^* 



