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The Florists' Review 



Seftbmbeb 12, 1012. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



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

 to Insure insertion in the Issue of that week. 



■ntered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 Bt the post-offlM at Chicago. IlL. under the act of 

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CONTENTS. 



Retail Flower Store Management 9 



— The Use of Smilax (lUus.) 9 



— An Intelligence Department 9 



— Designs for Criticism 10 



— Some Local Adyertlsing 10 



— Fireproof Decorations (illus.) 10 



— At McConnell's (illus.) 10 



Referring to tlie New Pest 10 



Pansy Kollage Spotting 10 



Use of Arsenate of Lead 11 



Fly on Pansies 11 



Otahelte Oranges 11 



A Great EuKlish Show 11 



Cbrysantlieuiums 12 



— White Ants on Mums 12 



— Yellow Mum Foliage 12 



— Parasitic (Jrowth on Mum 12 



— Diseased Winter Cheer 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — Marguerites 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— Nerlnes 12 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 13 



Sweet Peas — To Sweet Pea Growers 13 



— Sweet Peas Dropping Buds 13 



New York 14 



Primulas 14 



Business Embarrassments 15 



The Wild Smilax Industry (illus.) 15 



Puts Benches on the Pipes (illus.) 16 



Boston 16 



Thousand-Foot Houses (illus.) 17 



Providence 17 



Springfield 18 



Cincinnati 18 



Grand Rapids 18 



Kentucky Society of Florists on its Recent 



Outing (illus.) 19 



Nashville, Tenn. . , 19 



Obituary 19 



The Youngest Life Members 20 



National Flower Show 20 



Chicago 20 



Philadelphia 26 



Lincoln. Neb 32 



Pittsburgh 32 



St. Louis 36 



Washington. D. C 88 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 48 



— Import Permit Regulations 48 



— Texans In Session 48 



— Rust on Crataegus 49 



Seed Trade News 52 



— Threshing Sweet Peas on a California Seed 

 Farm (illus.) 52 



— French Bulbs 56 



— Dutch Bulbs 56 



— Peas in Idaho 56 



— Record Crops 58 



— Vegetable Growers 58 



— Catalogues Received 58 



Pacific Coast Department 62 



— Portland. Ore 62 



— Seattle. Wash 62 



— Los Angeles. Cal 62 



— San Francisco 63 



— News Notes 65 



Louisville. Ky 66 



Cleveland 68 



Society of American Florists 70 



Norfolk, Va 70 



St. Paul 72 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— Piping a Carnation House 84 



— Install a Separate Main 84 



— With Steam or Hot Water? 85 



— In New York State 86 



— A Greenhouse Lean-to 87 



Indianapolis 90 



Minneapolis, Minn 92 



Evansville, Ind 94 



Milwaukee 96 



Natick, Mass. — James Fitzpatrick has 

 purchased the large greenhouse which 

 was the property of Bernard Darling, 

 and will also enlarge his poultry farm. 



SOCIETY OF AMEaiCAN FLOBIBTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

 maun. Morton Grove, 111.; secretary. John Young, 

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

 Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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

 Farqubar, Boston. Mass. ; vice-president, Theodore 

 WIrth, MinueauoUs; secretary, John Young, 54 

 W. 2xth St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kasting. Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 6 to 12, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 98 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



An extremely well written and inter- 

 esting, if not altogether accurate, illus- 

 trated feature story of the origin of the 

 American Beauty rose has been going the 

 rounds of the Sunday supplements. 



The florists* supply houses complain 

 that they cannot get the stock to meet 

 the demand. The staple lines of baskets, 

 for instance, are not only higher in 

 price but are positively hard to keep in 

 stock. 



FiELD-GEOWN carnation plants sold 

 splendidly early in the season, but are 

 not going so well now that nearly every- 

 one is planted up. A little later small 

 lots again wUl be in request to replace 

 the plants that have failed on the 

 benches. The early bird catches the 

 worm in this as in other matters. 



One thing that pretty nearly dis- 

 courages the Query Editor is the number 

 of questions that are received with no 

 means of identifying the sender. After 

 all the times the statement has been pub- 

 lished, it seems as though everyone who 

 reads this paper should know that no at- 

 tention is paid to anonymous inquiries. 

 The reference to it is simply because it 

 is not desirable that even those so 

 thoughtless (or thoughtful) as to not 

 sign their names should feel that they 

 were ignored. This is specially for Sub- 

 scriber, who writes about sweet peas, 

 and C. F., who asks about heating and 

 wood ashes. 



THE TOUNGEST UFE MEMBEBS. 



In The Review, page 19, dated Au- 

 gust 29, appears a paragraph stating 

 that R. E. Jones, of Richmond, Ind., 

 became a life member of the S, A. F. 

 at the recent convention, also stating 

 that he is 18 years of age and, except 

 for F. H. Traendly's son, is the young- 

 est person who ever joined the S. A. F. 

 as a life member. This statement is 

 incorrect, for the reason that Ernest F. 

 Gude, 3800 New Hampshire avenue, 

 Washington, D. C, became a life mem- 

 ber of the S. A. F. at 12 years of age 

 and Adolphus Gude, Jr., Gudemont, 

 Anacostia, D. C, became a life member 

 of the S. A. F. at 16 years of age. 



Wm. F. Gude. 



NATIONAL FLOWEE SHOW. 



The Third National Flower Show of 

 the S. A. F. is to be held at the new 

 Grand Central Palace, New York city, 

 April 5 fo"T^,\ 1913. The exhibition 



will occupy several floors of the build- 

 ing. The trades' display was one of 

 the most successful features of the Bos- 

 ton national show and will be elabo- 

 rated for the New York exhibition. 

 John Young, secretary of the S. A. F., 

 is manager of the trades' display for 

 the New York affair. He has had plans 

 made showing the first, second and 

 third floors of the building and the 

 spaces allotted to trade exhibits. Space 

 on the main floor is being sold at $1.50 

 per square foot. On the second floor 

 the charge is $1 per square foot, and 

 75 cents per square foot on the third 

 floor. Anyone interested in the plans 

 can secure copies and reserve space by 

 addressing John Young, 54 West Twen- 

 ty-eighth street. New York city. 



The National Flower Show Commit- 

 tee is working on the final schedule. 

 The committee respectfully requests of 

 business houses or individuals who may 

 be considering the offering of special 

 prizes that they make decisions at once, 

 so that they may receive due publicity 

 and the growers have a chance to grow 

 specimens for the prizes offered. 



THE MARKET PLACE. 



The Review is the universal market 

 place for all florists and all florists' 

 products. This is the way it works 

 when the offer is a seasonable one: 



We sold all the carnations immediately, so 

 please discontinue the advertisement. We will 

 have other stock to offer later. — Phoenix Nursery 

 Co., Bloomington, III., August 29, 1912. 



Will you kindly cut out the Beacon from our 

 ad, as we are entirely sold out of that variety? 

 We can assure you that we are much pleased with 

 the results of the ad In The Review. — D. T. 

 McCarthy & Sons, Lockport, N. Y., August 30. 

 1912. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A decided change took place in the 

 market during the last week and, al- 

 though the heat has worked its worst 

 on the quality of the goods, prices have 

 jumped back to meet the increased de- 

 mand that began with the last two 

 days of last week, September 6 and 7. 

 The heat has for a time worked around 

 in favor of the wholesaler, inasmuch as 

 the continued torrid weather has al- 

 ready taken off practically all the sur- 

 plus stock, while the supply of field- 

 grown goods is slowly but surely being 

 wiped off the slate. Asters have sud- 

 denly worked themselves out and while 

 there still are plenty on the market, 

 there are indications that the season 

 for these is over, with the exception 

 of the few late varieties. Gladioli has 

 suffered to the same extent and the 

 supply is not anywhere near so abun- 

 dant as was the case last week. The 

 demand, too, has picked up consider- 

 ably during the last week on these, so 

 that, while the wholesalers are not able 

 to realize any fancy prices, they are 

 getting a much better average for the 

 growers than was the case a week ago. 



Roses are in big supply, but the con- 

 tinued hot weather has not improved 

 the quality by any means, and the 

 wholesaler finds a difficult problem on 

 his hands to keep them from popping 

 open before they can be shipped. 

 American Beauties still are in heavy 

 supply and are being cut mostly in 

 medium and short stems. Long stems 

 are to be had, 'however, but not in as 

 large supply as a week ago, when there 

 was an overabundance of first-class 

 stock on hand. On these as with other 



