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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 23, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. QRAIiT, Editob and Manaqer. 



PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BY 



The Florists* Publishino Co. 



5S0-S60 Caxton Building, 

 508 Soath Dearborn St., Cblcaso. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



ksoibtxbxd cable addbkas, flobvibw, ohioaoo 



New York Office: 



BorouKb Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, IIamaqer. 



Sabocriptlon price. $1.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 To Europe. t2JS0. 



^Adrertlsingr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advei-tising pcoepted. 



AdvertlsementB muBt reacli ug by 5 p. m Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the issue of that weeK. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

 »t the poet-of&ce at Chicago, III., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 PreM Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTIBEBS, PAGE 106. 



CONTENTS. 



The Autumn Flower Show 19 



— Milwaukee (Ulus. ) 19 



— Poehlmann's Prize Beauties (lUus.) 20 



— Cincinnati 23 



— Chrysanthemum Chadwick Supreme (Ulus.) 24 



— Toronto 24 



— Pollworth'8 First Prize Batons (lUus.) 26 



— At Fairmount Park 25 



Gladiolus No. 312 25 



Scale on Nephrolepsis 25 



The Retail FlorUt 20 



— Where Verses Pay 26 



— For a Fireman's Funeral (Ulus.) 20 



— Vapor on Show Windows 26 



— Watering Plants in Store 26 



Spanish Iris 26 



Mum Mrs. Drabble (Ulus. ) 27 



Chyrsantheraum Ramapo (Ulus.) 27 



Sulphur on Pipes 27 



Erratic Temperatures 27 



Seasonable Suggestions 28 



— Hardy Ldliums 28 



— Primulas 28 



— Bouvardlas 28 



— Callas 28 



— Deciduous Shrubs for Forcing 28 



— Pansies 28 



— Freeslas 28 



Detroit 28 



Dennis Connor (portrait) 29 



Rochester, N. Y 29 



Obituary 30 



— William H. Moon 30 



— John Siebentlialer 30 



— Frank Klelnhans 30 



— John J. Fonta 30 



— Mrs. J. Odgers 30 



— Edouard Andre 30 



News, Notes, and Comments 31 



The Early Bird 32 



Sim Urges Co-operation 32 



What is the Matter? 32 



Chicago 32 



Philadelphia 38 



New Orleans 39 



Washington 40 



Boston , 42 



Dayton, o 45 



New York 47 



New Castle, Ind 51 



Steamer Sailings 52 



Wichita, Kan 56 



Louisville, Kt 57 



Brockton, Mass 57 



Vegetable Forcing 58 



— Diseased Lettuce 58 



— Mushrooms in Old Tunnel 58 



Ashtabula, 58 



Wakefield Kan 68 



Seed Trade News 60 



— GoTernment Seed Testing 62 



— Imports 64 



Nursery News 70 



— The Freeze at Alton 70 



— Horticultural Imports 70 



Tarrytown, N. Y 71 



Rochester Club Doings 71 



Pacific Coast 72 



— San Francisco 72 



— Portland, Ore 72 



Cincinnati 73 



Davenport, la 73 



Baltimore 76 



Columbus, 78 



Providence 80 



Indianapolis 82 



Bowling 84 



— At Chicago 84 



— At New York 84 



Snow's Concrete Bench (illus.) 94 



Plants For Small Houses 94 



Greenhouse Heating 96 



— Sluggish Circulation 96 



— A Partitioned Greenhouse 96 



St. Louis 97 



p;ttsburgh 100 



Evansville, Ind 102 



New Bedford. Mass 102 



Cleveland 104 



SOCIETY OF AMZaiCAK FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmna, 

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

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

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



Officers for 1012: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

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

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

 Bedford Hills, N. Y.; treasurer, W. F. Easting, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, 111., August 20 to 

 23. 1912. 



BesultB bring advertising. 

 The Keview brings results. 



The only reason that no reply can be 

 given to A. J., who asks about Spanish 

 iris, is that there was nothing about his 

 letter by which his identity could be as- 

 certained. 



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. 



After swinging around the circle of 

 the fall flower shows, Eichard 'Vincent, 

 Jr., president-elect of the S.A.F., has re- 

 turned home declaring that he has * ' more 

 friends than any other man in the United 

 States. ' ' 



Since cut flowers as a rule were in full 

 crop just before the middle of Novem- 

 ber, one would be justified in predicting 

 only moderate cuts for Thanksgiving and 

 another full crop just in time for 

 Christmas. 



If B. p., who asks about Enchantress 

 carnations, recalls that there was nothing 

 about his letter by which he could be 

 identified, it will explain his failure to 

 receive a reply. Anonymous inquiries 

 can not receive the attention that would 

 be freely given if the writer's full name 

 and address were signed. 



THE EABLY BIRD. 



The first 1912 calender arrived No- 

 vember 21, from the land of galax and 

 leucothoe. It was sent by the North 

 Carolina Evergreen Co., F. M. Richards, 

 manager, and is not only handsome 

 but shows, if this is any indication, 

 1912 is to be a big year. 



SIM URGES CO-OPERATION. 



Knowing full well the interest you 

 always have taken in sweet peas, I 

 hope if space permits you will insert 

 in the columns of your valuable paper 

 this letter to the members and friends 

 of the National Sweet Pea Society of 

 America. 



Plans have been made to hold our 

 annual meeting and exhibition jointly 

 with the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, July 13 and 14 next. As presi- 

 dent of this society it is my desire 

 that this should be the finest show of 

 its kind ever held. Features are al- 

 ready assured which have never before 

 been attempted. If you have a piece 

 of land available where you could grow 

 some sweet peas for this show you 

 would be helping, at slight expense, a 

 good cause. A committee is now at 

 work on a preliminary schedule which 

 should be ready for distribution about 

 December 1, so that those interested 

 may have ample time to study the fea- 

 tures for which they wish to compete. 

 There will be special prizes for seeds- 

 men, gardeners, commercial growers, re- 

 tailers, amateurs, school children and 

 school gardens. In behalf of the Sweet 

 Pea Society T would like to have vou 



stir enthusiasm in your vicinity. If 

 you could get the cottagers and schools 

 and your local paper interested it would 

 mean for you increased business in 

 time to come. We have already re- 

 ceived the support and cooperation of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, the Gardeners ' and Florists ' Club 

 of Boston, the gardeners of Lenox, North 

 Shore, Bar Harbor and other places. 

 There is no doubt as to the outcome of 

 this event, but every little done now 

 means a much greater success. Trust- 

 ing you will act favorably in this mat- 

 ter, I am. 



Respectfully yours, 



William Sim. 



WHAT IS THE MATTER? 



"Rather looks as though it was time 

 to lay off for a couple of years." The 

 speaker was the manager of probably 

 the most successful flower show of the 

 season and the idea he expressed is 

 pretty much the idea of all those who 

 handled the large volume of work that 

 was necessary for the shows — the pub- 

 lic response was not enough to make 

 the work worth while. Just where the 

 trouble lies can never be settled, but 

 the fact remains that from the point of 

 public attendance and gate receipts 

 none of the principal shows this year 

 can be called successes. The people 

 can not be expected to attend where 

 they are given little to see, but some 

 of the shows this year were a first-class 

 success artistically and from a trade 

 standpoint, and yet the people did not 

 respond. To many it appears that the 

 only trouble is that the interest has 

 waned and that an entirely new plan 

 of holding exhibitions will have to be 

 evolved before the people can be won 

 back; that the shows are an old story 

 and that the story must be made new 

 again before a big show can be self- 

 supporting. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A change for the better was appar- 

 ent Monday morning, November 20, but 

 there is little cause for felicitations 

 over the business for the week ending 

 November 18, The hot weather at the 

 close of the preceding week, followed 

 by the sharp cold wave, produced con- 

 ditions which operated to depress the 

 market all through the week. The way 

 the hot spell made the Bonnaffons jump 

 was something the growers long will 

 remember. It brought in enormous 

 quantities of this most popular of chry- 

 santhemums; quantities so great that, 

 in spite of excellent quality, some of the 

 houses found it impossible to effect a 

 clearance at any time during the week, 

 even though prices were made in ac- 

 cordance with buyers' ideas. The glut 

 of chrysanthemums had the effect of 

 depressing prices on all other flowers. 

 The only exceptions were Beauties, 

 which were scarce and advanced stead- 

 ily. Orchids to a less degree were in 

 request and values firmed up. Single 

 violets also showed an advancing tend- 

 ency, but carnations suffered from the 

 oversupply of mums, as did roses, 

 double violets and the many miscel- 

 laneous items now in stock. Extremely 

 large quantities of flowers were moved, 

 but the average prices were so low that 

 on the whole the week was a disap- 

 pointment to growers and wholesalers. 



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