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The Florists^ Review 



Auausx 22, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 70 



CONTENTS. 



The Chicago Conveutlon 23 



— The Opening Formalities 23 



— Next Meeting Place 23 



— John K. M. L. Farquhar (portrait) 23 



— Theodore Wlrth (portrait) 24 



— Golden Gate in 1915 24 



— Secretary Still Elective 24 



— Pioneer Membership 24 



— Express Matters 24 



— The President's Kecommendations 24 



— The Meeting Hall at Chicago (lUus.) 25 



— Nominations 25 



— President's Reception 25 



— Tlie Open Date 25 



— Ladles' Luncheon 20 



— The Judge's Report 2« 



— Stereoptlcon Lecture 2« 



— The Election 2« 



— Routine Work 2^ 



— Snapshots of the Convention 27 



— The Trade's Display (lUus.) 28 



The Allied Societies w 



— Retailers' Section •»« 



— Ladles' S. A. F J» 



— The Hall Association oB 



— American Gladiolus Society 36 



— American Carnation Society 37 



— American Rose Society ;>' 



— (Chrysanthemum Society 37 



— Sweet Pea Society 37 



— National Flower Show i7 



Report on National Show 37 



Among Those Present iS 



Treasurer's Report "lO 



Secretary's Report 40 



The President's Annual Address 41 



Advertising; Some Wrongs to Make Right.. 44 



lireenhouse Foundations 4^ 



( onventlon Bowling 46 



— The Ladles : 4" 



— Men's Individuals 40 



— Inter-City Team Contest 47 



Seasonable Suggestions 4i 



— Freeslas ^7 



— Primulas 4i 



— Marguerites -j7 



— Bouvardlas 47 



— Transplanting 47 



Sterilizing With Acids 4( 



Painting Concrete 47 



Obituary — Harry Danipler 4S 



— John Craig 4S 



— Andrew Johnson 4S 



— Charles E. Keith 4S 



— Peter Erlckson 48 



Dayton. 48 



Cleveland, 4S 



Fort Wayne, Ind 4.» 



Store of C. A. Kuehn nUus.) 4!) 



Polnsettlas Lose Foliage 40 



I.athyrus for Forcing 4!» 



Chicago •'"'*> 



Pittsburgh. Pa >4 



Philadelphia !>5 



Cincinnati " 



New York «<^ 



Railway Gardeners •'4 



Topping Stevlas ''-J 



Mahonlas fji 



House and Bedding Plants 67 



St. Louis i' 



Louisville. Ky i-' 



Steamer Sailings i*< 



Seed Trade News jj^ 



— French Bulbs «2 



— Los Angeles Seed Notes S2 



— Commerce In Seeds S4 



— Harrisll Bulbs S-| 



— (Juaranteed .Seeds '^■* 



Boston ^- 



Paolfic Coast Department !•<> 



— Portland, Ore "'^ 



— Victoria. B. C «« 



— Los Angeles, Cal !**> 



— San Francisco f" 



— Seattle. Wash J'S 



Nursery News 1 •^4 



— Nursery Conditions 104 



St. Paul 108 



Detroit 112 



Providence 116 



Vegetable Forcing— Time Lettuce 131 



— Fort Smith Truck Growers 131 



— Celerv Running to Seed 131 



Greenhouse Heatlne — Two Florida Houses.. 132 



— Larger Pipe Is Preferable 132 



— Steam Heat for Frames 1 34 



— A Massachusetts Range 1.36 



— In Missouri 1.3S 



— Insufficient Piping 140 



— Part of Piping Ineffective 142 



Kansas City, Mo I4ii 



Grand Rapids. Mich 14S 



Glen Cove, N. Y iro 



"vampton. Ont l.''>2 



Richmond. Va 1."2 



Hackensack, N. J l."4 



Ovster Bnv, N. Y I.''i4 



Milwaukee. Wis 1 ."i6 



New Orleans 1 ."S 



Emporia, Kan. — The Emporia Floral 

 Co. is planning to add a new green- 

 house, 20x100, to the range at West 

 and Twelfth streets. With this new 

 house, the firm will have a total of 

 13,000 square feet of glass. 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

 Officers for 1912: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md. ; vice-president, August I'oehl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.; secretary, John Younjt. 

 54 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Officers for 1913: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston, Mass. ; vlce-i)re.sldent, Theodore 

 Wlrth, Minneapolis: secretary, John Young, 54 

 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 5 to 12, 1!)13. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The Review guarantees that no ad- 

 vertiser enjoys any rate or condition not 

 covered by its public rate card. 



The American Gladiolus Society issued 

 Bulletin No. 5 just in- time for the Chi- 

 cago convention. It contains a list of 

 members designated as to their profes- 

 sional or amateur standing. 



XoT a few subscribers save themselves 

 tlie bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Review $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Gladioli have had a wonderful ad- 

 vance in popular favor, but from the way 

 tiie cut flower markets are crowded this 

 season it looks as though production still 

 is a lap ahead of the demand for the 

 flowers. 



Field-grown carnation plants are sell- 

 ing well. If you are so fortunate as to 

 have a surplus, turn the stock into cash 

 by offering in the Classified columns of 

 The Eeview. Don't wait until everybody 

 has bought elsewhere. 



The price of freshly collected plants 

 of Cattleya labiata has advanced fully 

 one-third in the last two or three years 

 and those in position to know predict 

 that in another five years the plants will 

 be so scarce that florists can not afford to 

 buy thera. 



If a florist is located inside a city 

 limits the authorities no doubt require 

 him to keep his fertilizer pile covered 

 with black soil, but if he is outside 

 official jurisdiction he should see to it 

 just the same, in his own interest. The 

 manure pile is where the flies breed 

 most prolifically; and flies carry the 

 germs of typhoid. You can not be free 

 from flies if you leave the manure pile 

 uncovered, or from mosquitoes if you 

 leave stagnant water open. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 this edition of The Review weighed 

 12,320 pounds, or a little more than six 

 tons. The stock used for the Welcome 

 Number a week ago weighed 10,910 

 pounds, or 23,230 pounds for the two 

 convention issues — over eleven and one- 

 half tons of them. 



There will not be many big flower 

 shows next autumn. Last season not one 

 of the shows that depended on gate re- 

 ceipts met its expenses and, almost with- 

 out exception, the florists' clubs in these 

 places are passing the show for 1912. In 

 the west Denver and St. Paul, which had 

 no shows last season, will have a try at it 

 this year, but Chicago, St. Louis, Milwau- 

 kee, Cincinnati and Indianapolis will rest 

 on laurels previously won. In the east 

 there will be the usual number of ex- 

 hibitions not depending to any great ex- 

 tent on gate receipts. 



"OLD MEN FOR COUNSEL." 



An elderly person usually is slow to 

 form an opinion, but^when formed it 

 usually is worthy of respect. Conse- 

 quently The Review prizes the letter 

 printed below: 



In sending the renewal of my subscription I 

 will say that 1 can not do without The Review. 

 I have been a gardener, now, seventy years, but 

 I find much that is new and- helpful to me in the 

 paper. — Charles Long, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 15, 1912. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week closed with an excellent 

 run of business, Friday producing a 

 volume of shipping orders that was cer- 

 tainly as good as anything which has 

 been seen this summer. There was an 

 abundance of stock of all kinds called 

 for, except white roses. These have 

 been scarce for weeks and, as always 

 under such circumstances, the demand 

 ran heavily for them. Beauties also 

 were more or less difficult to supply 

 in just the grades wanted; not that 

 Beauties were especially scarce, but be- 

 cause a large part of the cut from 

 young stock is short-stemmed, while the 

 cut from old plants mostly is long. The 

 demand, on the other hand, ran mostly 

 to medium lengths, of which there were 

 hardly enough to go around. There 

 were not many carnations, nor was 

 there much demand for them. 



This week has been given more to 

 visiting than to business. There has, 

 of course, been something doing all the 

 time, but more has been done in the 

 way of laying the foundation for future, 

 business than in actual sales. The mar- 

 ket has been full of convention visitors. 

 It began as early as Friday, August 16, 

 when the San Francisco and Baltimore 

 delegations met in a wholesale store. 

 Practically everyone who has attended 

 the convention has made the rounds of 

 the wholesale establishments; at times 

 there were so many visitors that the 

 wholesalers have not been able to ac- 

 cord individuals the attention they 

 would like to give their friends. Prac- 

 tically every wholesale house has been 

 putting its best foot forward. All were 

 made spick and span for the visitors, 

 and in most cases some little effort was 

 made to display the stock, instead of 

 putting it out of sight in the ice-boxes 

 as quickly as possible after being re- 

 ceived from the grower. The conven- 

 tionites have evidently been impressed 

 with the resources of the Chicago mar- 

 ket. While the supply is nothing like 



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