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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Jdnb 15. 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



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Subscription price, (1.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00 

 To Europe, $2JK). 



Advertlslngr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade adTertlslng accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

 at the poet-offlce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADYEBTISESS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS 



The American Peony Society 7 



— The Philadelphia Meeting (illus.) 7 



— President Farr's Address 8 



— Bertrand H. Farr (portrait) 10 



Hall 10 



Advertising 11 



The Lights and Shadows of the Auction 



Bnsmess 12 



Featuring the Bedding (illus.) 13 



Plants for Window Box 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Marguerites 14 



— Smriax 14 



— Asparagus Sprengerl 14 



— Begonia Incarnata . . . ; 14 



— Hydrangeas 14 



— Peonies 14 



Ferns 14 



— Ferns in Coldframes 14 



Sweet Peas . .. ....••......•..• ...... 15 



— Good Culture Well Repaid 18 



Pruning Flowering Shrubs 16 



Who Owns the Air? 15 



Orchids 15 



— Cymbidlums 15 



— Vanda Caerulea 15 



— Oncidium Varicosum Rogers!! 16 



New York 18 



Gladioli ^ 16 



Providence 17 



Obituary 17 



— Chauncey P. Coy...i 17 



— Charles H. Magoon 17 



— Mrs. Mary Hanson 17. 



— Mrs. A. Woerner 17 



— Mrs. A. B. Packard 17 



News Notes 17 



What So Rare? 18 



Imports of Plants 18 



National Sweet Pea Society 18 



Chicago 18 



St. Louis 21 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 26 



Rochester 30 



Denver 34 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Convention Program 42 



— Exports of Seeds 42 



— Commerce In Seeds 43 



— Imports 43 



^ Iowa Seed Dealers Meet 43 



Goo<l Commercial Dahlias 44 



Alum In Water 44 



Flint, Mich 46 



Pacific Coast 60 



— Portland, Ore 50 



— San Francisco ."vO 



Name of Flower Bl 



Vegetable Forcing 51 



— Cantaloupes for Market 51 



Nursery News .12 



— The St. Louis Convention 62 



— The Gulf Coast Meeting 64 



Richmond, Ind 58 



New Orleans 68 



Baltimore 64 



Columbus, 62 



Stattiford, Conn 66 



Charlotte, Mich 66 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— A Michigan Addition 78 



— GreenbouBPs and Residence 78 



— Two Defects In Piping 80 



The Advertisers' Column 82 



— A New Ventilator Arm (illus.) 82 



Albany, N. Y 84 



Chlllicothe. 84 



Indianapolis 86 



Pittsburg ». ►, 88 



Danvers, Mass. — Shirley & Powle'g 

 Memorial day business was about the 

 largest in their experience. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmus, Chi- 

 cago; vice-president, B. Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, 

 Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; treas- 

 urer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August IS to 

 18 1911. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 T^e Beview brings results. 



The St. Louis Pferists' club will cele- 

 brate its twenty-fifth anniversary with a 

 banquet June 28. ■'^ 



Hail storms are frequent agaiji this 

 season. Better get John G. Esler to 

 shoo 'em off or pay your breakage. 



Between drought and the cut worm 

 there will be a scarcity of field-grown 

 carnation plants in some sections this 

 season. 



The parels post isn't within reach, at 

 the moment, but the prospect for con- 

 gressional action grows brighter. The 

 day will come. 



Tell your congressman to introduce 

 and push a bill making it illegal for a 

 railroad company to own the stock of 

 an express company. 



A PRINTED letterhead is almost as nec- 

 essary as a place of business; some of 

 the best firms do not allow wholesale 

 prices to those who write on plain paper. 



There are a great many people who 

 consider the Want Ad department the 

 best index to a paper's circulation and 

 usefulness. And there are a lot of 

 "Want Ads in The Review. 



William F. Kasting, of Buffalo, is 

 a candidate for the office of commis- 

 sioner of agriculture for the state of 

 New York to succeed Raymond A. Pear- 

 son, whose term of office has expired. 



Don't let surpluses of young chrys- 

 anthemum stock go to waste. Offer it 

 in the Classified department of The Re- 

 view. The ready way in which such 

 stock has been moved has resulted in 

 more than one grower changing the 

 direction of his effort. It's easy to 

 work up a wholesale business if one 

 sends out strictly first-class stock. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission announces an examination to 

 establish an eligible register from which 

 to make certification to fill vacancies as 

 they may occur in the position of horti- 

 culturist and assistant horticulturist in 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 at salaries ranging from $2,000 to $2,500 

 per annum. Applicants must have had 

 a university training, or its equivalent. 

 Applicants should apply for Form 304, 

 and special form, to the United States 

 Civil Service Commission, Washington, 

 D. C. 



"WHAT SO BABE?" 



In days of old, when Junes were cold, 



At least not boiling hot. 

 They may have passed for "perfect days," 



But now, b'jing! they're not. 



— B. L. T. In Chicago Tribune. 



In days of old, the florist who stood 

 "knee deep in June" also was pretty 

 well buried with orders. June was con- 

 sidered one of the best months of the 

 year. But that was when Junes were 

 cold. This year it has been different. 

 June 9 over a lar^e''part of the coilntry 

 was the hottest June day in the history 

 of the United States Weather Bureau, 

 some forty years, and over a big stretch 

 of the west the shade temperature ran 

 to 100 degrees or more, a full 40 degrees 



above the highest point reached the 

 same date in 1910. Such weather is 

 bad for the flower business — bad for 

 stock and bad for the customers; takes 

 the ambition out of both. But the one 

 redeeming feature is that it won't last. 

 One rule in all well regulated newspaper 

 offices is: "Don't talk about what the 

 weather IS; it wi21 change before the 

 paper comes out," 



IMPOBTS OF PLANTS. 



The government has given out the 

 figures covering the imports of plants, 

 trees, vines, etc., for April, 1911, as 

 compared with the same month in 1910. 

 The figures are almost the same: 



April, 1910 $163,184 



April, 1911 164,406 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



The National Sweet Pea Society, ow- 

 ing to the slow development of the 

 growth of sweet peas this season, has 

 decided to change the date of the an- 

 nual exhibition to June 29 and 30. The 

 schedules are being mailed to members, 

 and any interested can procure them 

 upon application to David Eust, Horti- 

 cultural hall, Philadelphia, or the sec- 

 retary at 342 West Fourteenth street, 

 New York city. 



Harry A. Bunyard, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week the heat record was broken 

 once more. Not within the history of 

 the weather office has there been a 

 June day as hot as Friday and Satur- 

 day of last week. Naturally, business 

 suffered greatly. It happens that the 

 comparison with last year is made par- 

 ticularly bad by the fact that the first 

 full week in June, 1910, was excep- 

 tionally good. 



The heat brought in an enormous 

 quantity of flowers and it was the 

 cause of a large part of the stock be- 

 ing so poor that it would have been un- 

 salable even with a much better de- 

 mand than existed. The wholesalers 

 were obliged to do an immense amount 

 of sorting to get out the flowers for 

 such orders as came to hand. There 

 has been, and is, a fair run of shipping 

 business, for stock all through the west, 

 and especially in the southwest, has 

 suffered from the same high tempera- 

 tures. The result is that a great many 

 buyers who have enough poor flowers 

 of their own are sending to Chicago 

 when the need arises for something 

 really good. It has not been easy to 

 satisfy these buyers. The present week 

 opened with temperatures more mod- 

 erate, but still above normal. Every- 

 one feels sure that business will revive 

 quickly should normal June weather 

 conditions prevail. 



In the last week the Beauty market 

 has suffered as much as any. Some 

 houses are cutting little more than is 

 needed to supply their orders, but some 

 of the growers who planned summer 

 crops have b'een getting an enormous 

 production, far more than could be 

 markpj;ed in the usual course of busi- 

 ness. Such extreme heat as has 

 brought on these heavy cuts naturally 

 detracts from the quality, but there 

 still are more good Beauties than the 

 demand calls for, which leaves prac- 

 tically no sale for the lower grades. 



