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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 1Q, 1911. 



IHPEX TO ADYEBTISERS, PAGE 87. 



CONTENT& 



The Autumn Flower Shows 2S 



— Cincinnati (lllus.) 28 



— Detroit 2« 



— St. Ix)ul8 27 



— Milwauliee 28 



— Lake Geneva, Wis 28 



— Hartford, Coun 28 



— I'hiladelphia 29 



— Boston 29 



Flower Show Admissioug 30 



Bouvardia on a Wienhoclici- Table (llius.)... .10 



Finest Plant of the Season (illus.) 31 



(lompetltion 31 



Ix)cal Advertising (illus. ) 31 



The Retail Florist .32 



— Good Display (illus.) .32 



— Warding Oft the Kicks 32 



— Mr. Sangster's Window (illus.) 32 



A Trip to Riehmond 32 



Gladiolus Topics .33 



Antiii'hinums .34 



Two Display Baskets (Illus.) .34 



Wlenhoeber's Exhibition (Illus.) .35 



Oranges in Tubs .3.1 



A New French Table Decoration (illus.) .3(1 



Seasonable Suggestions 3(i 



— Azaleas .3(1 



— Camellias .30 



— Spiraeas .30 



— Cyclamens 36 



— Marguerites 38 



— Bulbous Stock , .36 



— The Comfort Pile 57 



Buffet Luncheon (illus.) .37 



That Letterhead .37 



The Use of Lime Water 37 



Roses ;J8 



— Rnmbl'T Roses 38 



— Rose Society Premiums 38 



Cost of Delivery .38 



Chrvsanthemums .39 



— Best Varieties at New York .39 



Nic Grelvelding (portrait) .39 



('amatlons 40 



— Propagating 40 



— Trouble With Hard Stems 40 



— Eaters of Carnation Foliage 41 



The Plant Special 41 



Why Sphagnum Is Scarce 42 



Washington, D. C 42 



New York 42 



Max Schllng (portrait) -. 43 



Rochester 4.3 



News Notes 44 



Peter Devoy Near Deatli 4.'5 



Obituary ^.T 



— Gabriel n. Pleser (portrait) 4.") 



— Stephen Taplin (portrait) 4.'> 



Chrysanthemum Society 46 



Chicago 40 



Cleveland 52 



Pittsburgh, Pa '.'.'.'.'.'.'. -,2 



Buffalo r\^ 



Philadelphia '....'.'.'. Hi 



Boston 5({ 



St. Louis .^S 



Providence 02 



Society of American Florists O.l 



Bulbs a Second Year iVt 



Vegetable Forcing 0<i 



— Stem-Rot of Lettuce 06 



Fungus In Cutting Bench 70 



The Department Pays 7t 



Denver 71 



Erie. Pa \'. .... .".'.'.['.[ 7.") 



Steamer Sailings 76 



S«'ed Trade News 78 



— Disclaimer t ■ phold Again 78 



— German Seeds Arriving 84 



— Valley Pips 84 



— Vine Seeds in Illinois 84 



— Seed Acreage Not Changed 8.5 



— Catalogues Received nn 



A Horticulturnl Shipload 86 



Nursery News 02 



— Apple Tree Not Fruiting 92 



— The Nurseryman 92 



Pacific Const 94 



— Portland, Ore 94 



— Tacoma, Wash 04 



— Snn Francisco ] _ _ n'l 



— Nurseries in Washington .........'. O.t 



Polnsettia Leaves Dropping 90 



That Tree Stump Again 96 



New Bedford, Mass • 98 



Toronto 100 



Glen Cove. N. Y '.'. .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.^n2 



Dnyton. 104 



Cincinnati ......'. lOO 



Detroit 108 



Bowling 110 



— At Chicago 1 10 



— .\t New York 110 



Springfield, O. *. 120 



Greenhouse Heating 122 



— Heat From Residence Colliir , 122 



— A Wrong System of Piping 1^2 



— Which Kxpanslon Tank? 124 



— An Addition of Two Houses 124 



— (Jas or Coal as Fnel? 120 



News Notes 128 



Kiivo Plates on Concrete ]:!') 



Kills. Mass i:fa 



Austin, Tex i:{2 



Bismarck, N. Dak ]:{4 



New Canaan, Conn. — S. B. Hoyt lield 

 his third annual opening (Juring the 

 week beginning November 4, at his 

 greenhouses on South Main street. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

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 March S. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chlcaco Trade 

 Preaa Aaaoclatton. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAK FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of CoogresB, March 4, 1901. 



Odlcers for 1911: President, George Aemus, 

 Chicago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Drbana, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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

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

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

 Bedford HUls, N. Y.; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chlcaao, 111., August 20 to 

 23, 1912. 



BESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



This issue of The Review contains 140 

 pages — the largest Autumn Number thus 

 far issued. 



It still takes a really first-class 

 chrysanthemum to beat old Bonnaffon 

 for commercial purposes. 



The fall shows do not seem to be 

 starting any conflagrations this year. 

 What can the matter laef 



The cold wave was general over the 

 greater part of the United States this 

 week and interrupted the flower busi- 

 ness just as it was getting into its 

 autumn stride. 



The Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Pitts- 

 burgh, has issued a handsome booklet 

 entitled "Boxwood Sprays," that tells 

 in text and picture the history of box- 

 wood in America. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the 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. 



With this issue The Review starts its 

 fifteenth year. Fifteen years is a long 

 time to look ahead, but a short time to 

 look back. For ourselves the publishers 

 ask nothing better than the past has af- 

 forded, but it is our hope that The Re- 

 view's usefulness to the trade may in- 

 crease as steadily in the next fifteen 

 years as we are told it has in the last 

 fifteen. 



It is just as well to remember that, 

 after "the butcher, the baker and the 

 candlestick maker" have charged the 

 iiousekeeper their prevailing rates for the 

 Thanksgiving dinner, she may not be in 

 a irood to pay fancy prices for flowers 

 for the table. Thanksgiving is like May 

 ^W, a day when everybody can use flowers 

 if the prices are within reach. What 

 florists nowadays need is volume of sales 

 and large volume and high prices do not 

 ordinarily go together. 



With chrysanthemums early and 

 Thanksgiving late, it looks as though 

 there will be less than the usual supply 

 of mums for the feast day. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The examining committees have re- 

 ported as follows: 



New York, November 1, exhibited by 

 Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. J.: Ram- 

 opo, yellow, Japanese incurved, scored 

 commercial scale 87 points; Wm. 

 Turner, white, Japanese incurved, 

 scored commercial scale 93 points, ex- 

 hibition scale 93 points. Exhibited by 

 A. C. Van Gaasbeck, Orange, N. J.: 

 Seedling No. 1, pink, Japanese, scored 

 commercial scale 85 points. 



Chicago, November 4, exhibited by 

 Hartje & Elder, Indianapolis, Ind.: 

 Seedling No. 59, pink pompon, scored 

 93 points. 



Cincinnati, November 4, exhibited by 

 Hartje & Elder, Indianapolis, Seedling 

 No. 59, pink pompon, scored 93 points. 



Chicago, November 4, exhibited by 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., 

 Clea, single, scored 85 points. 



St. Louis, November 9, exhibited by 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Manhattan, light 

 pink, Japanese, scored commercial scale 

 86 points, exhibition scale 83 points. 

 Charles W. Johnson, Sec 'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The 6reat Central Market. 



As last week progressed the tempera- 

 ture advanced steadily, Saturday being 

 the warmest November day in the his- 

 tory of the weather bureau, followed by 

 the coldest day of the season, an un- 

 precedented drop of 61 degrees within 

 sixteen hours. Both extremes, of course, 

 were bad for the flower business. 



The heat wave, accompanied by more 

 sun than has been the rule in recent 

 weeks, accelerated the production of 

 flowers and caused the quality to de- 

 teriorate. A large volume of sales, at 

 declining prices, did not serve to move 

 the receipts and before the weather 

 changed there was an embarrassing ac- 

 cumulation of stock, a large part of 

 which was of none too good quality. 

 The severe cold snap curtailed the cuts, 

 but it also cut off a considerable por- 

 tion of the local demand, there being 

 few buyers out Sunday, so that the load 

 was not materially lightened. 



Last week for the first time this sea- 

 son the chrysanthemum became some- 

 thing of a problem. Mums have made 

 no specially high prices this season, 

 but the good stock made an excellent 

 average up to last week, especially the 

 latter part. It was Bonnaffon week, this 

 favorite sort coming in with a rush. 

 Chadwicks in both colors also were 

 abundant and fine, with well finished 

 Eaton to keep them company. The 

 supply was so large it was impossible 

 to clean up even at concessions in prices 

 that made a decidedly poor market for 

 the less well liked varieties and the 

 indifferently grown stock. Diana, the 

 queen of the pompons, also came in so 

 heavily that the price fell one-third, 

 and other small varieties suffered worse. 

 The fear is expressed that the mums 

 were pushed along so far that few will 

 be left for Thanksgiving. 



Roses were in heavy crop when the 

 summer days came and the wholesalers' 

 cold rooms were full of them Saturday 

 night — all but Beauties; there were not 

 enough of them to cause trouble at any 



