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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 11, 1912. 



INDEX TO ASVEKTISEBS, FAOE 110. 



CONTENTS. 



The Rose and Carnation Show (iUus. ) 11 



— Officers Klocted 11 



— Joint Meeting a Success IJ 



— 'Die Carnation Show 12 



— The Uose Show 12 



— Miscellaneous Exhibits 13 



— American Carnation Society '. . 13 



— American Rose Society 14 



— Society of American Florists 14 



— Local Hospitality 14 



— Ladles' Entertainment 14 



— Those Present 14 



- American Carnation Society 15 



— A. C. S. Secretary's Report 15 



— A. C. S. Treasurer's Report 16 



— American Rose Society 16 



— A. R. S. Secretary's Report 16 



— A. R. S. Treasurer's Report 17 



— Mr. Valentine's Address 17 



— Mr. Farenwald's Address! 18 



— Philip Breitmeyer (portrait) 18 



— A. Farenwald (portrait) 19 



— Fred E. Dorner (portrait) 19 



— Franls. H. Traendly (portrait) 20 



— Roses In The Middle West 20 



— J. A. Valentine (porbait) 21 



— Benjamin Hammond (portrait) 21 



— Everybody's Flower 22 



— Irwin Bertermann (portrait) 22 



— A. F. J. Baur (portrait) 22 



— Hugo Schrocter (portrait) 23 



— Eber Holmes (portrait) 2;j 



Rose Sunburst (lllus. ) 24 



New S. A. F. Directors 24 



— John A. Evans (portrait) 25 



— Charles H. Totty (portrait) 25 



Salvia Seeds 25 



Antidote for Rhus Poison '.'. 25 



CarnationB 2o 



— Soil for Carnations 26 



— The Begerow Seedling (illus.) 26 



The Use of Cyanide 26 



Plants for Memorial Day 27 



Dutch Bulbs for Easter 27 



House of Carnation St. Nicholas (illus.) 27 



House of New Seedling Carnation Delhi 



(lllus.) 27 



Roses 28 



— Eelworms on Roses 28 



— Roses Drop Their Foliage 28 



Seasonable Suggestions 28 



— Propagation 28 



— Lorraine Begonias 29 



— Spireeas 29 



— Polnsettlas 29 



— Fuchsias 29 



— Lily of the Valley 29 



E?mil Buettner (portrait) 29 



Richard Witterstaetter (portrait) 29 



Vancouver's Largest Place (iilus. ) 30 



Obituary 30 



— Mrs. Ella Meinhardt '. . 30 



— Mrs. Agnes C. Ludemann 30 



— Michael Murphy 30 



New Yorli 31 



Renter Malies Announcement 31 



Philip J. Foley (portrait) 31 



Moving the Christmas Stock 32 



Chicago 32 



Cincinnati 36 



RvansvlUe, Ind 37 



Columbus, 38 



Philadelphia .' . 40 



Boston 44 



Detroit ! ! 48 



Tarry town, N. Y 49 



Pittsburgh, Pa .' . 49 



St. Louis 51 



Steamer Sailings 54 



Indianapolis 58 



Seed Trade News 60 



— Los Angeles Seed Situation 62 



— Japanese Lily Bulbs .62 



— Gladioli In Holland 64 



— Value of Immortelles 66 



— Catalogues Received 66 



ProTld«nce 66 



Albany, N. Y 68 



Nursery News 74 



— Tennessee Nurserymen 74 



Washington 74 



Pacific Coast 76 



— Santa Cruz, Cal 76 



— Portland, Ore 70 



— Seattle, Wash 76 



— San Francisco, Cal 76 



— Tacoma. Wash 77 



— Los Angeles 77 



Vegetable Forcing 70 



— Forcing Tomatoes 79 



Montgomery 80 



Rochester 84 



Bowling 86 



— At Chicago 86 



— At New York 86 



— At Astoria 86 



Brockton, Mass 86 



New Orleans 88 



Springfield, Ohio 88 



Dayton, Ohio 90 



Greenhouse Heating 100 



— Coal or Natural Gas lOO 



— Copper Flues In Bollerti 100 



— Boiler Under Residence 102 



Baltimore 104 



Louisville, Ky 106 



New Bedford, Mass 106 



Cleveland 108 



Pougbkeepsie, N. Y 108 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

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SOCIETY OF AMEHICAN FL0KIST8. 



Incorporated liy Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

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

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

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Cliicago, III., August 20 to 

 23, 1912. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



If you don't get your Richmond crop 

 for Christmas, and if you do get it but 

 do not get metropolitan pric(jp, then 

 Richmond does not pay. 



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. 



Unless this season's iufusiou of yel- 

 low be taken into account, the tendencies 

 are toward narrowing the rose supply to 

 pink and white. In carnations white and 

 flesh-pink are in overwhelming pre- 

 dominance. 



The flower business ever is an affair 

 of the weather. The severe cold wave 

 that marked the arrival of the new year 

 shut off trade almost as did the record 

 heat of last July. Please, Mr. Weather- 

 man, go lightly on the extremes. 



Don't let February 14, St. Valentine's 

 day, find you unprepared. The last few 

 years the St. Valentine's day demand for 

 flowers has increased several fold. Pre- 

 pare your stock, trim your windows and 

 advertise in your local newspapers. 



It seems strange that men who appear 

 to want only perfectly innocent informa- 

 tion or legitimate advice will take such 

 infinite pains to conceal their identity 

 when writing for it. It should be ap- 

 parent that full names never are used in 

 replying through The Review and that 

 without them no reply whatever is pos- 

 sible. 



The growers who sell their cuts in the 

 wholesale markets had by last season 

 nearly all dropped Maid and Bride, be- 

 cause they found they could not get the 

 extra money necessary to make these vari- 

 eties pay as well as the Killarneys do. 

 By next planting time the small local 

 growers who retail their own cut, and 

 who do not figure so closely as do the 

 growers who wholesale, will have seen the 

 point and these two old varieties that 

 were ubiquitous ten years ago will have 

 practically disappeared from American 

 greenhouses. 



It will interest the retail florists to 

 know that in the textile journals dis- 

 cussion is going on 'as to how ribbon 

 manufacturers can get prices back to a 

 profitable level. It is the general opin- 

 ion that the loom capacity has become 

 so great that production exceeds normal 

 demand and that prices now, and through 

 1911, were too low to leave the margin 

 necessary to insure the stability of the 

 ribbon manufacturing business. 



MOVING THE CHRISTMAS STOCK. 



That The Review did its part in dis- 

 tributing the Christmas stock has been 

 apparent from the letters that have ac- 

 companied remittances from the adver- 

 tisers. Like these: 



That page advertisement surely turned the 

 plants; could not keep the packing up. Had 

 an immense stock, but cleaned out and refused 

 orders on some varieties. — C. H. Frey, Lincoln, 

 Xeb. 



We think The Review rendered us exception- 

 ally valuable service In selling our Christmas 

 plants. Business began to be good from the 

 first appearance of our short paragraphs in your 

 classified columns, and continued to increase 

 up to the last issue in which they appeared. 

 And it did not cost us much, at that. — W. H. 

 (Jullett & Sons, Lincoln, 111. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Xever in the history of Chicago has 

 the mercury remained below zero so 

 long as in the last week. It passed zero 

 on the way down at 6 p. m. Thursday, 

 January 4, and it was seventy-four 

 hours before it got that warm again, 

 at 8 p. m. Sunday, January 7. 



Cold snaps there are in numbers every 

 winter, but usually they are of brief 

 duration. Only once before is there 

 record of three consecutive days on 

 which the mercury did not get above 

 zero, and that was many years ago. 

 This time not only were all duration 

 records broken, but time after time 10 

 degrees below zero was touched, and 

 just before the cold wave broke 15 de- 

 grees below was registered. This was 

 in the city; in the country it went to 22 

 degrees below. 



So long a paragraph is given to the 

 weather because it at the same time 

 describes to the knowing ones the state 

 of the cut flower market. In severely 

 cold weather the demand for flowers i» 

 erratic and the supply still more un- 

 stable. Such business as there is can 

 be handled only at great inconvenience 

 and mental discomforts are added to 

 the physical ones< 



All comparisons between the first ten 

 days of this year and last are upset by 

 the cold. No one can tell if business i» 

 starting off as strong as a year ago, or 

 whether the supply is taking the same 

 course as in 1911. The tendency of 

 prices during the cold wave has been 

 downward, for the sun has been bright 

 most of the time and cuts, especially of 

 roses, have not been reduced as much 

 as one might suppose. There have been 

 enough Beauties, roses and carnations. 

 Violets, of course, have suffered most 

 of all, because of the impossibility of 

 street wear. Cattleyas have come in 

 strongly in the face of the cold, splen- 

 did TrianaB now being available in 

 quantity at lower prices than have pre- 

 vailed for a month. Jonquils, tulips 

 and fuchsias have come in more abun- 

 dantly, but have scarcely been needed; 

 the outlet has not been such ag to occa- 

 sion any special request for flowers, the 

 principal call being for stock for work. 

 Valley has been scarce and at the open- 



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