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The Fbrists' Review 



OCTOBBB 3, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



PDBUSHED EVEBY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co- 



530-560 Caxton Building, 

 608 Soath Dearborn St., Chicago* 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



1310 Forty-Ninth St Broolclrn. N. Y. 



Telephotb, 2632 W. Borougrh Park. 

 J . Austin 8haw, Manager. 



Subscription price, $1.00 a year To Canada, $2.00 

 To Kurope, $2JS0. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



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

 to Insure insertion In the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter I>eceml>er 3. 1897. 

 at the poet-ofBce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 7 



— The Clerk's Problem 7 



— Showered Wreaths (illus. ) 7 



— The Use of Autumn Foliage 7 



— A Spokane Opening (illus. ) 8 



— Hansen's Funeral Work (illus.) 9 



— A Prize Design (Illus. ) fl 



Is This a Just Ruling? 9 



Chrysanthemums 10 



— The Early Buds 10 



— Mildew on Mums 10 



— Vitality is Low 10 



Carnations 10 



— Tomatoes as Pest Preventers 10 



— Larvae on Carnations 10 



— Concentration (illus.) 10 



Ramsburg's Summer Quarters (illus.) 11 



The Glass Situation 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Lilies 12 



— Canterbury Bells 12 



— Rambler Roses 12 



— Berried Plants 12 



— Spring Bedding Plants 12 



Wilmore, of Denver (portrait) 12 



Dahlias : By a Specialist 12 



New Regulations for Importing Fii Id-Grown 



Stock IT 



— Horticultural Board Rules l.'J 



Roses 14 



— The Newer Roses Outdoors 14 



— Spot on Outdoor Roses 15 



Cincinnati 15 



St. Louis 15 



Dayton, 1« 



Boston 10 



Cuttings 17 



Obituary 17 



^- George T. Carpenter 17 



— William Baylor Hartland 17 



— W. B. Miller 17 



— Richard E. Evans 17 



— William McLean 17 



— Frederick Jacquemin 17 



— Benjamin Chase 17 



Cause and Effect 18 



National Flower Show 18 



The International Show 18 



Information Wanted 18 



No Longer Pioneers 18 



Chicago 18 



Philadelphia 26 



Washington 29 



White Marsh, Md 32 



New York 3« 



Providence, R. 1 39 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Rumor Denied 46 



— Catalogues Received 46 



— Dutch Bulbs 46 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Peppers, Spinach, etc 48 



Pacific Coast Department 56 



— San Francisco 56 



— Seattle 56 



— Portland, Ore 57 



— Los Angeles, Cal 58 



Godfrey Calla 59 



Nursery News 60 



— Notice of Quarantine No. 1 60 



Kansas City 64 



Minneapolis 66 



Pittsburgh 68 



Business Embarrassments 70 



Columbus, 70 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— The Fuel Market 84 



— From Steam to Hot Water 84 



— A General Purpose House 84 



— Piping an Ohio Range 85 



— Hot Water or Steam 86 



— Piping In Southern Texas 88 



Rochester. N. H 90 



Jewett City, Conn 92 



Council Bluffs, la 94 



Bowling 96 



— At Chicago 96 



SOCIETY OF AM£KICAN FLORISTS, 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

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

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

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

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

 Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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

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

 WIrth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young, 54 

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

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 5 to 12, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 98 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal bj sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The express companies complain that 

 the additional work caused by the new 

 Interstate Commerce Commission regula- 

 tion as to labels and registering is re- 

 sponsible for delays in shipments. 



The memorial to Ernest Calvat, sub- 

 scribed for by chrysanthemum growers 

 all over the world, has now been erected 

 on the tomb of the great French chrys- 

 anthemum raiser in the cemetery at 

 Grenoble, where he lived. 



The regulations for carrying out the 

 plant quarantine act will be found on 

 page 13 of this issue. The law itself 

 was pjinted in full, prior to its enact- 

 ment, in The Review for August 1, 1912. 

 It is important that all who import nurs- 

 . ery stock or plants familiarize them- 

 selves with the regulations. A permit 

 must now be obtained before plants can 

 be imported. 



The clearing house reports show a 

 larger volume of money passing through 

 the banks than ever before in the history 

 of the country, but a good many florists 

 are asking for further time on their ac- 

 counts, stating that their own collections 

 have been unusually slow through Sep- 

 tember. It is a condition for which 

 there appears to be no explanation ex- 

 cept a failure on the part of the florists 

 to get after their money. 



CAUSE AND EFFECT. 



In all the affairs of business there 

 usually is a" quite apparent cause and 

 effect. It pays to note them: 



Enclosed find |1 for the renewal of our sub- 

 scription to The Review. It is a business In- 

 vestment for us well worth the cost Just to read 

 the advertisements, if for nothing el.se. — L. M. 

 Smith & Co., Laurel, Del., September 19, 1912. 



Please discontinue our advertisement, as we 

 are all sold out. Your paper certainly reduces 

 stock for its advertisers. — Felscb Bros., May- 

 wood, 111., September 21, 1912. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW, 



John Young, manager of the trade ex- 

 hibition to be held in connection with 

 the National Flower Show next spring, 

 reports the following as having already 

 taken exhibition space to the rental 

 values set after the names: 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York $1,000.00 



A. N. Plerson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn 600.00 



Revere Rubber Co., Boston, Mass .^25. 00 



W. E. Marshall & Co., New York 220.00 



John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y.. 200.00 



The Weathered Co., Jersey City, N. J.. 270.00 



Hltchlngs & Co., Elizabeth, N. J 300.00 



Reed & Keller, New York 300.00 



Work on the official program is ac- 

 tively progressing and a considerable 

 number of pages of advertising already 

 have been sold. 



THE INTERNATIONAL SHOW. 



It is learned from one of the English 

 exchanges that "the European address 

 of the National Flower Show of the 

 Society of American Florists, to be held 

 in the Grand Central Palace, New York 

 city, April 5 to 12, 1913, is A. Staines 

 Manders, 75 Chancery Lane, London, 

 W. C, England." 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



In a number of instances florists 

 have made purchases of the Royal Co., 

 Iowa City, la., which have turned out 

 unsatisfactorily; the florist having 

 given a note, collection has been at- 

 tempted by the Iowa City State Bank, 

 claiming to be the innocent holder of 

 the note. In several cases suit has been 

 brought or threatened by the bank. 



The Beview is asked to supply the 

 names of florists or attorneys who have 

 successfully defended the suits. 



If florists who have fought the mat- 

 ter out will write to The Beview they 

 may be of assistance to others of the 

 craft. 



NO LONGER PIONEERS. 



In accordance with the action taken 

 at the Chicago convention of the S. A. 

 F., Secretary Young is mailing to some 

 of those heretofore classed as Pioneer 

 members notices to pay dues — and to 

 pay dues from January 1, 1912. 



There was a mix-up on this Pioneer 

 membership. Action establishing it is 

 said to have been taken at the Cin- 

 cinnati meeting, but it escaped the re- 

 porters, including the official stenogra- 

 pher. The board of directors gave 

 Pioneer membership, carrying with it 

 exemption from the payment of dues, 

 to all when they had paid for twenty- 

 five consecutive years. It developed 

 that this was not in harmony with the 

 intent of President Valentine, on whose 

 recommendation the Pioneer member- 

 ship was established, and at the Chi- 

 cago convention in August the society 

 was asked to correct the record. This 

 caused a long discussion, ending in 

 action limiting the Pioneer class to 

 those who attended the first conven- 

 tion held by the society and who had 

 paid dues for the succeeding twenty- 

 five years. Therefore there will be no 

 further addition to the list of Pioneers, 

 who in effect are life members. Those 

 who attended the second and third con- 

 ventions and who had continued to be 

 members for twenty-five years had 

 been exempted from one or two years' 

 dues, reiSpectively. They are now asked 

 to pay for 1912, beilig replaced in the 

 list as annual members. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market, 



Little change has taken place in the 

 market during the last week, unless it 

 was the increased demand for carna- 

 tions that brought a firmer price than 

 has been in effect since last spring. 

 Stock may have been a little more 

 plentiful, but the demand also became 

 more brisk. White carnations came 

 in for quite a run and on these as 

 well as Enchantress the local wholesal- 

 ers were able to get good prices for 

 stock of fair length of stem. Beauties 

 and white roses also found the demand 

 greater than the supply, although the 

 Beauties appear to be coming in more 



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