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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



▲UQDST 17, 1911. 



immX TO AOVEBTISESS, PAGE 68, 



CONTENTS 



The Baltimore CoDTentlon 21 



— Opening Formalities 21 



— R. 'Vincent, Jr. (portrait) 21 



— The Bontlne Work 22 



— PrwMent'8 Reception 22 



— Peatli Invades the Society 22 



— Reciprocity with Canada 22 



— Soring; Meetings 22 



— August Poehlmann (portrait) 22 



— Chicago Next 23 



— A Bid from California 23 



— Nomination of Officers 23 



— The National Flower Show 23 



— General View of Plant Exhibit (lllus.)... 23 



— Miscellaneous Business 24 



— Judges' Report 24 



— Rose. Carnation, Sweet Pea Societies.... 24 



— American Gladlolns Society 24 



— John Young (portrait) 24 



— flail Association 25 



— Telegraph Delivery Association 25 



— Meeting of Ladles' S. A. F 25 



— Rleotion of Officers 26 



— Convention Notes 26 



— The Trades' Display (111ns.) 2« 



— George Asmus (portrait) 26 



— Wm. F. Kastlng (portrait) 28 



— R. L. Graham , (portrait) 30 



— William Christie (portrait) 31 



— Pred G. Burger (portrait) 32 



— The President's Address 32 



— N. F. Flltton (portrait) 33 



— The Local Management 35 



— Mnck Richmond (portrait) 35 



— Bowling 35 



— Those Present 35 



— The National Flower Show 37 



— Secretary's Report 38 



— Treasurer's Report 39 



— Tariff and Legislation 40 



— Washington Representative 40 



Railroad Gardeners Meet 41 



Canadian Florists Meet 41 



Obituary 42 



— .Tohn Blrnie (portrait) 42 



— James Joseph O'Leary 42 



Glen Cove. N. Y 42 



Pittsburg's Picnic (lllus.) 42 



Boston 42 



Retail to Wholesale 44 



Chicago 44 



Washington 48 



Philadelphia 50 



Jlochester •. . . 54 



Seed Trade News 64 



— Harrisli Bulbs 64 



— Dutch Bulbs 64 



— French Bulbs 65 



— With California Growers 65 



— Bulb Awards at Haarlem 70 



Dayton 70 



New York 72 



St. Louis 78 



Steamer Sailings 82 



Cincinnati 82 



Pacific Coast 88 



— Portland, Ore ..88 



— San Francisco, Cal 88 



Columbus. 89 



Nurserv News 90 



— Holland Notes 92 



Pittsburg, Pa 94 



Denver ; Sg^ 



Detroit 102 



Greenhouse Heating ...112 



— Return Pipe Under Walk 112 



— Two Iowa Houses 112 



— A House for General Stock 114 



— Heat for a Sash House 116! 



Evansvllle. lud 122 



The Godfrey Calla 124 



Providence 1 26 



Stamford. Conn 128 



New Bedford 128 



Cleveland 130 



Southlngton, Conn 1.S2 



Erie. Pa 134 



Binghamton, N. Y. — C. H. Wilbur is 

 planning to build an ofBce and show 

 house at the entrance to the plant which 

 passed into his possession recently. The 

 fact that he had been sixteen years 

 with the late owner gives him a splen- 

 did opportunity, of which he has taken 

 advantage. The King Construction Co. 

 has the plans for the building men- 

 tioned and also for a new range of glass, 



Bangor, Mich, — A, E. Davis, propri- 

 etor of the South Side Greenhouses, is 

 establishing a business also in Hart- 

 ford, Mich, He has purchased four lots 

 on Linden street, in that town, and is 

 bmlding a greenhouse there, 25x100 

 feet. He believes the opportunities fon 

 development there are good, as there 

 is already a steady demand for flowers, 

 all of which have heretofore been 

 shipped into town. 



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. SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Of&cers for 1911: President, George Asmus, Chi- 

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

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

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



Annual convention. Chicago, 111., August 13 to 

 16, 1912. 



BESTJLT8. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



This issue of The Eeview contains 140 

 pages, including the cover, and is the 

 largest Convention Special Number ever 

 published in the horticultural trade. 



E. Allan Peirce, treasurer of the 

 National Flower Show, sent out checks 

 August 9 for ten per cent dividend to 

 guarantors. The S. A. F. and the guar- 

 antors divided the profit. 



The smallest edition of The Beview 

 during the present summer has consisted 

 of eighty-four pages, and the smallest 

 number of copies printed of any edition 

 has been 10,000. The steady growth of 

 the paper, in size and circulation, is par- 

 allel to the expansion in the horticul- 

 tural trades; anything less than The Ee- 

 view is doing would be a failure to keep 

 in step with the times. 



The W. E, Kirchhofl Co., of Pem- 

 broke, N. Y., has sent to The Beview 

 some splendid spikes of Gladiolus Prince- 

 pine, for which it is offering a gold 

 medal for the best amateur display at 

 the meeting of the American Gladiolus 

 Society. The Kirchhoflfs, who are gla- 

 diolus specialists, are the originators 

 and have this to say of it: "This vari- 

 ety is quite popular with all who have 

 the pleasure of seeing it, and more so 

 yet with those who grow it, as it is a 

 thrifty grower, keeps its color and is 

 an excellent shipper," 



BETAIL TO WHOLESALE, 



The success with which florists doing 

 a local business have moved surpluses 

 at wholesale through advertising in The 

 Eeview has resulted in a number chang- 

 ing from local retail to the wholesale 

 branch of the business. The tendency is 

 shown in the following letter: 



We have sold all our carnation plants that 

 are large enough at present, but will have 

 more in two or three weeks. We are very 

 much pleased with The Review and regret we 

 are not able to fill orders for 100,000 plants, 

 as your paper would bring fine returns. Our 

 greenhouses would be equal to a gold mine If 

 you could develop it for us. — C. B. Flick Floral 

 Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., July 29, 1911. 



Sydney B. Webtheimeb was at the 

 convention, fresh from Switzerland, hav- 

 ing landed at New York August 14. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business was decidedly quiet last week 

 and it shows little if any improvement 

 this week. Convention week is prover- 

 bially a dull one in the wholesale mar- 

 ket, but this year the convention is so 

 far away and there are so few Chicago 

 people there that the convention is a 

 negligible factor. The aviation meet is 

 doing something to increase the local de- 

 mand for flowers, but both local and ship- 

 ping calls are decidedly light. There is 

 too much stock in the market; clean sales 

 are impossible. 



Asters and gladioli are the dominat- 

 ing flowers. Since we have had some good 

 rains the quality of the asters, injured 

 first by dry weather and then by wet, is 

 much improved. Also, quite a few grow- 

 ers have eitcellent asters under glass. It 

 is well within conservative statement to 

 say that the Chicago market never had 

 better asters thaii have been coming in 

 recently and its supply never has been 

 larger. There are all sizes, types and 

 colors, but hardly any of them have rea- 

 lized prices that compare with the true 

 value of such stock. Gladioli also have 

 improved in quality and, although the 

 supply has been large for some time, it 

 has been especially heavy in the last few 

 days, so that the finest varieties in per- 

 fect condition have realized no more 

 money than the poorest glads realized at 

 this time in July, 



There is an abundance of roses and 

 the quality is first-class for the season. 

 Beauties continue in good supply and 

 Killarney, both white and pink, and My 

 Maryland are equal to all requirements, 

 with something to spare. Last week rose 

 prices were most unstable, the buyer who 

 was willing to clean up a quantity being 

 able to dictate his own terms. This week 

 there is little change, especially on the 

 short stock, which is in even heavier sup- 

 ply than the longer grades, for most of 

 the roses now being cut are from young 

 plants. 



Carnations are in light supply, but are 

 not missed. A few are being cut from 

 old plants, a few short ones from new 

 plants, and a few from the field. 



Lilies have occupied a conspicuous 

 place with some of the wholesale houses, 

 there »now being a number of growers 

 shipping large quantities, giganteum, 

 auratum and rubrum. Prices have had to 

 be moderate to move the goods. Few or- 

 chids are arriving and not many sweet 

 peas are seen, the best of these selling 

 quite well. The valley growers are going 

 easy, anticipating a better market later 

 on and having, apparently, no oversup- 

 ply of pips. 



Such garden flowers as rudbeckia have 

 sold only at cheap prices, for window dec- 

 orations, etc. 



There is an abundance of greens, with 

 little demand. 



Various Notes. 



Fred Stielow has his new place at Niles 

 Center completed, all except the heating 

 apparatus, and planted with 35,000 roses. 

 His son is in charge here. The old range 

 also is replanted. It contains 35,000 

 carnation plants. 



The daily papers last week reported 

 the marriage of N. O, Gilpatrick and 

 Gertrude May at the La Salle hotel, , The 



