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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



.Tanuauy is, 1912. 



as last season, jn'ovitii'd they arc in 

 solid betls and the soil has lieen liber- 

 ally manured and deeply spaded over, 

 they should do satisfactorily. Some ot 

 the best cultivators under jiliiss do 

 not elian<,fo their soil, and their crops 

 each year are si)len(lid. Of course, it 

 is otherwise in raised benches; ] am 

 Jtresumin;,' that yours are on the j;round. 

 Your nijilit ternper.-iture, ho\ve\er, is 

 decidi'dlx too lii^li for sweet peas. Drop 



it to 4S decrees at nijiht. Air freely 

 on every possible occasion, avoiding 

 cold drafts; keep the surface soil well 

 stirred and your plants should show a 

 steady improvement. Avoid using ni- 

 trate of soda, sulphate of ammonia or 

 other fertilizers high in nitrogen. In- 

 stead, top-dressings of pulverized sheep 

 manure or fine bone, scratched in, are 

 to be jiref erred. C. W. 



CONVENTION 



AFTERMATH 



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.rill^lll^. 



For a full list of awards and an 

 Illustrated report of the Detroit con- 

 ventions and exliibitions of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society and American Carna- 

 tion Society, at Detroit, January 10 

 and 11, see last week's issue of The 

 Review. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Closing Session. 



At tlie closing session of the annual 

 Con\(>ntion of the American Carnation 

 Sociidy, at Detroit, Friday morning, 

 .lanuar_\- 12, the exi»eriment of holding 

 a joint exliil)iti(iii with the American 

 Kose .Society was aiijiroxcil by Peter 

 Fisher, J'aigene Dailledou/.e and l\i(di- 

 ard Witterstaetter, repotting as .-i coru- 

 mitt'c on jiresident 's Md<iress, and by 

 the society tlirougli the adoption of the 

 coniinittcc 's i-cport. 



('. 11. Tolly in\i1(>d the society to 

 hobi its next exhiliitinii .-nul meeting 

 at New York, in Ajiril. IIMM, in con- 

 ntM'tion with the Xatioii;il Flower Show, 

 stating tliat !*;l.o(in will then be offereil 

 for caniatioij classes. On motion of 

 lOugene I'aillcdou/c ilic invitation wa-; 

 acceptc(i unaniiiiously. 



R. T. F.rown. of (|>neens. X. Y., was 

 tlieji nominated I'or \ice-president and 

 olUcers (decteij as reporteii in The Ke- 

 \ lew a week ai;o. 



Secretary I'.aur read the report of 

 the judges. This also ^vas jn'inted in 

 last week's J\(n iew. Two additional 

 awards were inad(> to A. .1. St;ihtdiii, 

 first in class No. 11'. for ariangement 

 of not more than limi blooms, and sec- 

 ond in chiss No. 4;'.. for dis]>lay of car- 

 nation blooms covering eighty to lOd 

 square fcM't, no first being awarded. 



President X'alentine ]>resent(Ml the 

 gold mediil to Peter Fisher, won on 

 Gorgeous; the silver medal to ]{. Wit- 

 terstaetter, won on .1. A. \'alentine, and 

 the bronze medal and Hitching'^ sweep- 

 stakes cup to ('. II. Totty, won on 

 Wodenethe. Ivicli one responded brief- 

 Iv. 



' A. M. Ilerr, S. J. Goddard and W. R. 

 Nicholson were appointed a committee 

 on final resolutions. 



The meeting (dosed with the reading 

 of Hugo Schroeter's ])ai)er, " Every- 

 boiiy's Flower," ^vliich also was jirinted 

 in last week's Review. Mr. Schroeter's 

 point of view is tliat of the retailer 

 and, as most of the audience were 

 growers, the discussion lirought out 

 quite a diversity of opinion. W. N. 

 Rudd started the ball by dissenting 



from the suggestion tliat the growers 

 should take a hand in relieving gluts. 

 He said the law of supidy and tlemand 

 is immutable and that growers and re- 

 tailers alike must ada])t their business 

 methods to it. lie said he does not 

 b(di(>\e the street fakers are an injury 

 to the retailers, because the street 

 fakers' customers are not store cus- 

 tomers, but the faker represents an 

 additional sale for the growers, who 

 must get the money the best way they 

 can. J. T. Scott indorsed Mr. Rudd's 

 remarks and y\. A. Patten said he knew 

 instances wh(>r<> fakers buy the best 

 grade of stock but stdl at close prices. 

 (!ooi[ summer carnations would not be 

 new to the best markets, he said. 



1"\ K'. Pieison c;i1](m1 attention to the 

 dilVerence between what the consumer 

 ]i.iys and Avhat the grower gets. lie 

 said tlie r(^tailers should reduc(> prices 

 a!id stimulate demand when markets 

 are low, adding that this also would de- 

 I)ri\'e the fakers of their best o]>])ortu- 

 nity. lie adile(| tliat he looks forward 

 to seeing growers e\entually retailing 

 their jirodiict. just a--; m;iny already are 

 wholesaling. W. W. Ganimagi^ said 

 that his cinicern formerly wholesahMl 

 its ]iroiiuct, but now retails most of it, 

 and has found that the retailer must 

 k(>ei> up a i^ood a\('r;ige i)rice or he 

 can not exist. 



Philip Hreitineyer said that he re- 

 cently had changed his ideas ajid does 

 Jiot now op{ios(> the f.aker. He said that 

 the institution of ;i Saturday sale had 

 coininced him that the r(>tailcrs must 

 \vake up and adopt the methods em- 

 ]doyed in otlier lines of merchandising. 



.1. A. A'alentine (dosed a very inter- 

 esting discussio7i by saying that if the 

 trade goes to the faker or anyone else 

 it is proof tliat the otlier fidlow is serv- 

 ing the public more nearly as it wants 

 to be served; therefore methods must 

 be (hanged as may be necessary to 

 hold one's own — there can bo no set 

 rule. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The full list of awards at the Detroit 

 exhibition was published in last week 's 

 b'eview, Imt later the judges jilaced 

 two cups wlii(di the socK^ty has had on 

 hiind for some tini(\ These had not 

 been included in the regular premium 

 list, but had been offered in a special 

 list sent out by the secretary a few 

 days before the show. 



The .Alexander Montgomery cup for 

 new rose of American origin was 



awarded to Stockton iS: Howe, Prince- 

 ton, N. J., for Hose Princeton. 



The EUwanger (.^ Harry cup for 

 sweepstakes prize for the choicest ex- 

 hibit of perfect roses was awarded to 

 \. K. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn. 



THE SMOKER. 



Formal ban<|uets are no longer in 

 favor — the smoker's the thing. Thurs- 

 day evening the big dining room of the 

 Cadillac hotel was filled with small ta- 

 bles, witli a long central table carrying 

 a buffet luncheon. There was a corncob 

 jiipe and package of tobacco for each 

 guest, with plenty to keep the wliistles 

 wet. The doings began at 9:;5() and 

 lasted until midnight. George E. 

 Hrowne, ]iresident of the Detroit Flo- 

 rists' Club, introduced .1. F. Sullivan 

 as master of ceremonies. He called on 

 b'ichard Vincent, president of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists; .1. A. Val- 

 entine, ]ircsident of the American Car- 

 nation Society; A. Farenwald, presi- 

 dent of the A"iiierican Hose Society; P. 

 .1. Foley, president-elect of the Chicago 

 florists' Club; ^\■allace H. Pierson and 

 several others, who made brief rem.arks. 

 W. J. Lawrence, of Toronto, who has a 

 splendid tenor voice, was warmly en- 

 cored. His singing was a feature of the 

 banquet given when the American Car- 

 jiation Society last met in Detroit, 

 eight years ago. Further entertain- 

 ment Avas provided by a sextette and 

 several vaudcyillc artists. 



CONVENTION COMMENT. 



The Detroit retailers maintained sev- 

 eral tables during the show. J. F. 

 Sullivan had a rose decoration. Gust 

 Taepke had a fable decorated with bas- 

 kets of spring fiowers. Carey &i Fell 

 used roses and violets. E. A. Fetters 

 used roses. A characteristic English 

 Avedding fable decoration was shown 

 by j\Irs. AV. Munt, the wife of a re- 

 cently arrived gardener. The Bemb 

 Floral Co. put uji a sectional cork b;irk 

 summer house at one end of the hall, 

 used for A. .1. Stahelin's disi)lay of red 

 carnations. 



A. N. I'ierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., 

 wiis the largest exhibitor at the De- 

 troit rose show, also as far from home 

 as any. Over 2,r)t)() cut blooms were 

 staged by this one exhibitor. 



Silver cups, once so popular for ad- 

 vertising purposes, are at a discount. 

 The American K'ose Society had several 

 on hand that it was found dillicult to dis- 

 pose of. 



It was an interesting circumstance 

 that at one of the tables at the smoker 

 at the Cadillac .lanuary 11 sat Wm. 

 Martin, of Portland, Ore., and C. S. 

 Strout, of Biddeford, a suburb of Port- 

 land, Me. There were the extremes- 

 met. 



,]. A. Peterson bought the birchbark 

 pergola that occupied the center of 

 the big hall and will put it up in his 

 front yard at Cincinnati. Mrs. Peter- 

 son intends to cover it with climbing 

 roses. 



The gate receipts were divided, half 

 to the Detroit Florists' Club and a 

 (juarter each to the Hose and Carnation 

 societies, but they amounted to less 

 than $500, which was only a drop in 

 the bucket. The hall cost the Detroit 

 Florists' Club -$600, with .$200 addi- 

 tional for covering the floor. Also, the 

 Cadillac hotel was paid $1.25 a hea<l for 

 those who attendecl the smoker, nearly 

 250, including locals. These are just a 



