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INDEX TO AOYERTISERS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS 



Convention Aftermath 9 



— The Cluse at Baltimore U 



— C. M. Wagner (portrait) :• 



— •'Our Day" 10 



— John J. Perry (portrait) 10 



— iteorge Morrison (portrait) ]•• 



— Convention Bowling 11 



— P. B. WolHh (portrait) V2 



— Robert Halliday (portrait) 12 



— Reciprocity with Canada 12 



— Fred C. Bauer (portrait) la 



■ — Isaac H. Moss (portrait) lU 



— Albert O. Fiedler (portrait) 14 



— George Talbot (portrait) l'< 



— William Johnson (portrait) 15 



— J. L. Towner (portrait) 15 



— G. O. Bro-vn (portrait) 15 



— CharleR L. Seybold (portrait) ir> 



Seasonable Suggestions 16 



— Show Pelargoniums lli 



— Bouvardias 16 



— Rambler Roses 18 



— French Trjmpet Majors 10 



— Sweet Peas 10 



— Frceslos 17 



— Calceolarias 17 



— LiUum Caodldum 17 



— Berried Solanums 17 



John Cook (portrait) 17 



Robert Pyle In Europe (lllus.) 18 



Stem-rot of Asters 19 



Robert J. Windier (portrait) 20 



Pansies for Spring Trade ; 20 



Rawlings Pansies (lllus.) 21 



Wintering Dutch Bulbs 21 



(iigmteum Plants Die 21 



\ Wind Storm in Indiana (illus.) 22 



Hardy Annuals 22 



The Needed Number of Men 23 



Geraniums 24 



— Geranium .Stems Eaten 24 



— Diseased Geranium Leaves 24 



Winter in Midsummer (iUus.) 24 



Time to Water Plants 24 



News Notes and Comments 25 



Society of American Florists 26 



Obituary 20 



— Archibald Smith 20 



— Fred C. CUiapman 26 



-~ Mrs. Jane Buxton 26 



— S. A. Ix>ve 26 



— A. P. Kauotzor 20 



— Herman Goertzhaln 20 



Chicago 26 



.New York 29 



Philadelphia 32 



Washington 34 



Boeton 36 



Pittsburg 42 



Rochester 43 



. Steamer Sailings 46 



Seed Trade News 48 



— Impoi ts 52 



St. Louis 52 



Providence 54 



Pacific Coast GO 



— Portland, Ore 60 



— Tacoma, Wash GO 



— San Francisco 60 



Nursery Ne^vfc ."82 



— Wintering ^Jjay Trees,^ <v/ 02 



— Rooting California Privet 62 



Fall Sowing of Annuals 64 



Detroit 66 



Toronto 08 



New Orleans i . . . . 70 



New Bedford 72 



Cincinnati 72 



Buffalo 74 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— The Cheapest Fuel 84 



— A Kansas Carnation House 84 



— Paint for Steam Pipes 86 



— Position of Heating Pipes 86 



— A House in Southern Texas 88 



Baltimore 00 



Milwaukee 92 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Ck>ngre88, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1911: President. George Asmus, Obl- 

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

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

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



Annual convention, Chicago. III.. August IS to 

 16, 1912. 



Besults briog advertising. 

 -The Beview Brings results. 



Bed riiscus is having a "big sale with 

 the supply houses and pi-omises to be 

 widely popular the coming season. 



Was there even one plant, in the great 

 Baltimore exhibition, of that old favor- 

 ite, Latania Borbonica? If so, nobody 

 noticed it. 



What city wants the third triennial 

 National Flower Show? The question 

 was asked in April, but has had no an- 

 swer. No one appears to care for the 

 job of equaling F. K. Pierson's record 

 at Boston. 



While the S. A. F: was in convention 

 the Director of the Census issued a bul- 

 letin giving the population of Baltimore 

 and suburbs as 647,884. Baltimore is 

 the Monumental City to the rest of the 

 United States, but the people there pre- 

 fer it to be called "the Metropolis of 

 the South." The florists of Baltimore 

 certainly have demonstrated that they 

 do things in a metropolitan manner, as 

 well as in open-handed southern style. 

 All those who were at Baltimore last 

 week agree that Baltimore and Balti- 

 moreans are all right, all right! 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the begonia, Betty An- 

 derson, by S. A. Anderson, of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., becomes complete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



August 24, 1911. 



OBITUARY. 



Archibald Smith. 



Archibald Smith, the English seeds- 

 mail, died at Oxford, Kngland, August 

 2, at the age of 51 years. He had 

 suffered for some time from heart 

 trouble. He was born at Stranraer, 

 Scotland, where his father carried on 

 a nursery and seed business. In early 

 life he came to America, where he lived 

 for many years and was widely and 

 favorably known in the trade. He re- 

 turned to his native island a few years 

 ago and commenced business on his 

 own account at Oxford. 



Fred C. Chapman. 



Fred C. Chapman, one of the pioneer 

 florists of Grand Rapids, Mich., and 

 one of the oldest residents of Madison 

 Squifre, died August 17, at his home at 

 Madison avenue and Crawford street, 

 at the age of 75 years. He was born 

 jNt Stamford, England^^^nd came to the 

 United States in 1880, making his home 

 at Crand Rapids. He established the 

 first greenhouses in that city, which 

 were located on Madison avenue, on the 

 site of the greenhouses of Crabb & Hun- 

 ter. In 1882 he moved his place of 

 business and residence to MaHison ave- 

 nue and Crawford street. The same 

 year he opened a downtown retail store 

 on Monroe street. He continued to be 

 one of the most successful florists in 



the city until he retired from business 

 about eight years ago. He is survived 

 by a widow and a son, F. C. Chapman, 

 of Madison, Wis. 



- Mrs. Jane Buxton. 



Mrs. Jane Buxton, who for many 

 years condutited the Riversid^ Green- 

 houses, at Bridgeton, R. I., died at her 

 home in that place August 16, in the 

 sixty-ninth year of her age. She w^ 

 the widow of Reuben A. Bj^ton and 

 had carried on the business Wtablished 

 by him. She was taken suddenly ill 

 in the morning and expired at 8 

 o'clock in the evening. She was active 

 in social and religious circles. 



S. A. Love. 



S. A. Love, of Centerville, la., died 

 at the home of his father in Washing- 

 ton township, August 8, after an ill- 

 ness of two or three months. He was 

 born May 1, 1874, on the farm where 

 his death occurred. He spent the ear- 

 lier part of his life in that neighbor- 

 hood, and was married in Washington 

 to Miss Nellie Ewer, about nine years 

 ago. After his marriage the fam- 

 ily moved to Centerville, where Mr. 

 Love engaged in the florists' business. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Love were the parents of 

 but one child, a daughter, Jessie, who, 

 with the wife and mother, survives. 



A. P. Kanotzor. 



A. P. Kanotzor died of paralysis at 

 his home in Centralia, Mo., August 14, 

 after a long illness. He was 62 years 

 old. He had formerly conducted a 

 nursery and sosae-iyears ago he laid 

 out the Kanotzor JWdition to the <nty. 



Herman Goertzhain. 



Herman Goertzhain, of the Redwood 

 City Nursery, Redwood City, Cal., died 

 of heart trouble, August 12. Although 

 he had complained of not feeling well, 

 he had not been confined to bed and 

 his sud^n death was a severe shock 

 to his family and friends. He had re- 

 sided at Redwood City for twelve years 

 and, in association with his sons, had 

 carried on a prosperous business. He 

 was a native of Germanv. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Market conditions continue quiet; 

 there is some improvement simply be- 

 cause trade scarcely could have been 

 duller than it was in the early part of 

 August, but the improvement is not 

 great and wholesalers are looking for- 

 ward to no sharp revival in business 

 until something happens to the aster 

 and gladiolus crops. These were slow 

 in coining in this year, and as a re- 

 sult July saw an exceptionally good 

 demand for stock, especially from out 

 of town, but when the asters and gla- 

 dioli once got under way they- made 

 up in quantity for anything thft wft| 

 lacking earlier in the season. In the^ 

 aggregate the market is handling a 

 great deal more stock this month than 

 it did in August last year. Prices for 

 small quantities of selected stock are 

 as good as they were at this time last 

 season, but the greater part of each 

 day's receipts has for three or four 

 weeks been moved only by offering 

 tempting prices to the buyers, and even 

 then it was impossible to clean up, 

 with the result that averages have been 

 extremply low. 



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