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The Florists^ Review 



August 16, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 67 



OONTBNTS. ^ 



Chicago Is Ready for tbe S. A. F 27 



— President Vincent (portrait) 27 



Great is Chicago — In the Trade 28 



— The Metropolis of the West 29 



The Local Committees 80 



— Chairman Poeblmann (portrait) 30 



The Coliseum (illus.) 81' 



Ust of the Exhibitors 82 



The Trade and tbe Public 32 



President P. J. Foley (portrait) 82 



Ladles' S. A. F 82 



Rhode Island to Chicago 82 



Convention Program 83 



Points of Trade Interest 34 



Chicago's Cut Flower Section (map) 35 



Those S. A. F. Amendments 36 



Chicago Hotel Rates 86 



Convention Sports 86 



Good Spanish Irises 37 



At Pilgrims' Landing (illus.) 37 



Park Men Meet 37 



The Retail Florist 38 



— Galveston Gates (illus. ) 88 



— Baskets for Funerals 88 



— Use of the Easel (illus.) 89 



— Beall's Decorated Auto (illus.) 39 



— Why Ask the Editor? 89 



Sowbug Exterminators 39 



Seasonable Suggestions 40 



— Lilium Candidum 40 



— Lllium Harrlsii 40 



— Summer Lilies Under Glass 40 



— Outdoor Lilies 40 



— French Bulbs 40 



Ferns 40 



— Scale on Ferns 40 



— To Clean Ferns 40 



— Caterpillars on Bostons 40 



Geraniums 41 



— Propagating 41 



— Scented Geraniums 41 



— Winter-Flowering Geraniums 41 



Use for Charcoal 41 



Plants for American Flag 41 



Sweet Peas 41 



— Keeping the Stems Long 41 



— Soil for Winter Sweet Peas 41 



— Sweet Peas in Mum House 41 



Bailroad Gardening 42 



— Work on the Reading 42 



— Railway Gardeners Meet 42 



Concrete Construction 42 



— Save Sacks and Save Dimes 42 



— Concrete Hotbeds (illus.) 43 



Name of Plant 43 



Harrlsii for Easter 43 



Failure In Propagating 48 



The Canadians' Annual Meeting 44 



— Conclude Convention 44 



Boston 44 



Canfleld's Bunch (illus.) 45 



Removing Hard Putty 46 



Nashville, Tenn 45 



St. Louis 46 



Fred H. Weber (portrait) 46 



News, Notes and Comments 47 



Chicago 48 



Cincinnati 54 



Philadelphia 56 



New York 58 



Want Ad Department 64 



Pacific Coast Department 68 



— Tacoma, Wash 68 



— Los Angeles, Cal 68 



— Spokane, Wash 69 



— San Francisco 70 



— Portland, Ore 71 



— Seattie 71 



St. Paul 76 



Dayton, 78 



Steamer Sailings 82 



Seed Trade News 84 



— McGiU's Seed Report (Ulus.) 86 



— Olds' Big Increase 87 



— The Vick Consolidation 88 



— Seed Trade Committees 90 



— Crops to Break Records 90 



— Dutch Bulbs 90 



— Com Breeding 90 



— Catalogues Received 94 



The Catting Bench 95 



Nursery News 100 



— Receiver for Meneray 100 



— Connecticut Nurserymen (illus.) 100 



— Propagation of Clematis 100 



— Clematis from Seed 102 



Minneapolis 104 



Pittsburgh J06 



Indianapolis ''^08 



Providence 110 



Greenhouse Heating — Smokeless CorIb 122 



— Pocahontas Coal 122 



— A General Purpose House 124 



— A Storeroom in a Hillside 126 



— For Violets and Lettuce 127 



— The Fuel Market 128 



Employee Arrested 180 



Madison, N. J 182 



Kansas City, Mo 184 



Eransvllle, Ind 186 



Lake Forest, 111 138 



Rochester 140 



Greenwich, Conn 142 



Springfield, lU.— Miss Bell Miller is 

 planning to remove her headquarters 

 to First and Canedy streets as soon as 

 the building at the new site is ready. 



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Advertising rates quoted open request. Only 

 •trlctly trade advertising accepted. 



AdvertlsementB must reach us by S p. m. Tuesday . 

 to insure insertion In the issue of that week. 



entered as second class matter December 8, 1897, 

 •t the post-office at Chicago, IlL. under the act of 

 March 8. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOOZETT OF AMEBICAN FL0BIBT8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

 OlBcera for 1912: President, B. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md.; vice-president, August Poehl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.: secretary, Jaitn Young, 

 64 W. 28th St., New York Olty; treasurer, W. F. 

 Easting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention. Coliseum, Chicago, HI., 

 August 20 to 28, 1912. 



The Wants and For Sales in last 

 week's issue of The Review made a new 

 record — nearly three full pages of them. 



There are those who believe that ex- 

 press shipments of cut flowers can hope 

 for no lower rates through the general 

 agitation now going on; that, in fact, 

 the trade may consider itself fortunate 

 to hold the present rates. The claims 

 arising from cut flower shipments loom 

 large in the view of express officials. 



Charles W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 

 m., secretary of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of Ajnerica, has just mailed to 

 members the pamphlet containing the 

 proceedings of the tenth annual meeting, 

 held at St. Louis, November 8, 1911. 

 It also contains lists of varieties dis- 

 seminated in 1911 and a list of members 

 of the society. The frontispiece is a 

 portrait of Charles H. Totty. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 this issue of The Review weighed 10,910 

 pounds, or almost exactly five and one- 

 half tons. And this is just a little extra 

 edition, not a regular special number at 

 all. The real special, the annual Con- 

 vention Number, comes out next week, 

 with a full report of the Chicago con- 

 vention. Advertising forms close Tues- 

 day at 5 p. m. Is your copy in? 



BEWABE! 



The Subscription Swindler. 



Once more The Review warns the 

 trade against traveling subscription 

 agents. The Review agents all are 

 well-known men, permanently located 

 in the territory they represent. Don't 

 pay money to strangers. 



A petty swindler is traveling through 

 the east collecting subscriptions where 

 he can, sometimes signing the name 

 Cook, sometimes Thomas, etc., etc. 

 With him it is anything to get the 

 money, for he is a swindler. Don't 

 pay money to strangers. Mail your 

 subscriptions direct to The Review 

 office and be safe. 



Tell your friends. 



Annual Special 



Convention Nnmber 



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OUT AUGUST 22 



Ev*n larsar and finer than In othar 

 yaara. It marfcatha opanlnsoff tha 

 naw aaaaon. Raaarva your apaea 

 now. 



"Every one in the Trade reads The Re- 

 view; the replies to my small advertise- 

 ment prove it."— W. Bay. 



Advertising forms close at 



5 p« m* 

 August 20 



WHY BEVTEW ADS PAT. 



To become a profitable advertising 

 medium a publication must do more 

 than scatter its copies; it must gain the 

 confidence and esteem of the people 

 to whom the paper is sent. These let- 

 ters show why The Review pays ad- 

 vertisers : 



Your Review is one of the papers of a life- 

 time; I need it in my business. — T. H. McCann, 

 Warren, Pa., August 1, 1912. 



Rustled to beat the band, but here is your 

 money for two years more. — Cbas. J. Pass, Nortb 

 Platte, Neb., July 26, 1912. 



It's a paper I could not get along without. — 

 E. R. Reese, Frankfort, N. Y., July 28, 1912. 



And here is the result: 



It will probably be interesting for you to 

 learn what results one can have from a three- 

 line classified ad; I had a number of good sised 

 orders and one amounted to |116. — F. O. Fransen, 

 Chicago, August 6, 1912. 



CHICAaO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The cool, rainy weather that prevailed 

 for a week or more has affected the lo- 

 cal market conditions, but not to any 

 great advantage to anyone. Indoor 

 stock has been given a check and the 

 frequent rains have injured the quality 

 of the outdoor stock. Asters and gla- 

 dioli have dropped off considerably and 

 the really good stock is disposed of at 

 fair prices. Short roses from young 

 stock are in good supply, although long- 

 stemmed grades are few and far be- 

 tween. White roses, which have been 

 scarce for the last two weeks, are more 

 frequently noted in the arrivals, but the 

 demand is still excellent and fully capa- 

 ble of cleaning up the supply at con- 

 sistent prices. The demand on these, es- 

 pecially White Killarney, is far in ad- 

 vance of any summer of recent years 

 and the ones fortunate enough to have 

 good cuts are well entitled to the 

 prices that are being obtained. A more 

 steady demand for the colored varie- 

 ties has been noted and the retail de- 

 mand has without doubt picked up sev- 

 eral degrees since the advent of the 

 cooler weather, which has been more 

 favorable to the florist than the sum- 

 mer resort hotel man. Beauties, Kil- 

 larney, Maryland and Richmond are 

 moving in much better shape than for 

 some time, but while the blooms are 

 good, the majority are short in stem. 

 Some good medium stock is to he 

 found, but a good price and quick sale 

 are effected without much trouble. Of 

 Aaron Ward, Lady Hillingdon and 



