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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANUABT 25, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaokb. 



PX7BU8HXD EVEBT THUBSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



630.560 Caxton BaildinK, 



508 Sonth Dearborn St., Chlcaso. 



Telephone, Uabbison 5429. 



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Sobscriptlon price, $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00 

 To Europe, |2JS0. 



AdTertlsin? rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertlsine; accepted. 



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

 to insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicago. III., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADYEBTISEBS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 9 



— Casket Covers Bostonese (Ulus.) 9 



— A Detroit Decoration (Ulus.) 9 



— Cooper's Store (illus.) 9 



— A Unique Advertisement (illus. ) 9 



— Mr. Gracey'8 New Car (Illus.) 9 



Ttae Popular Primroses 9 



European Notes 10 



LitUe Holland 11 



Harrisil for 1913 11 



Greranlum Stock Plants 11 



Helnl's Polnsettlas (Ulus.) 12 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 12 



Crop To Replace Smllax 13 



Carnations — Black's Carnations (illus.) 13 



— Carnation Rust 13 



— Registration In England 13 



Chrysanthemums — Long Stemmed Mums 14 



— Yellow Sport of Byron 14 



— Felthousen's Start (Ulus.) 14 



— Chrysanthemum Society 14 



Cyclamen Mite 14 



Seasonable Suggestions — Seed Supplies 16 



— Jerusalem Cherries 15 



— Petunias 16 



— Lobelias 15 



— Verbenas 15 



— Hardy Perennials 15 



Roses — Bagatelle Rose Trials 15 



— Field Kalserlns for Forcing 16 



— Roses With Other Plants 16 



— Stock of Hybrid Teas 16 



— Among the Roses in Ehirope 16 



Gardening Staff at Schiller Park (illus.) 16 



Vatter of Marinette (lllns.) 17 



Cincinuati 17 



Obituary 17 



Pate and Fishermen (illus.) 18 



Boston 18 



A. Lloyd Vaughan (portrait) 19 



Indianapolis 19 



Society of American Florists 20 



ChlcaKO 20 



Philadelphia 26 



New York 28 



Lancaster, Pa 32 



St. Louis 36 



Rochester 36 



Providence, E. 1 38 



Janesvllle, Wis 42 



Tarrytown, N. Y 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Commerce in Seeds 44 



— Seed Trade Association 44 



— Loss to Danish Afrriculture (illus.) 46 



— Mild Winter in Holland 46 



— Winter Blooming Sweet Peas 47 



— European Seed Notes 48 



— Seed Time and Harvest 48 



— The Seed Shortage CO 



Vegetable Forcing — New Orleans Truckers.. 52 



— Cyanide On vegetables 52 



Pacific Coast 58 



— Portland, Ore 68 



— San Francisco, Cal 58 



— Where It Always Is Summer (illus. ■> 39 



— Pasadena. Cal. 59 



— Los Angeles 60 



— Ventura, Cal 61 



— Seattle, Wash 61 



Blighted Harrisil Buds 61 



Nursery News — Texas Nurserymen Meet 62 



— A (Cooperative Nursery 62 



Hydrangeas for Easter 62 



Buffalo, N. Y 64 



Pittsburgh 66 



Washington 68 



EvansviUe, Ind • ■ 70 



Bowling J2 



Milwaukee • '11 



Greenhouse Heating , 'ji' S; 



Lilacs for, -Easter. .JK .T- ■ • ^ 



Brampton,^ Ont. . . .•. '• " ' 22 



Hinsdsle, Mass »8 



Mt. KlBCO, N. Y 90 



Freeport, 111 W 



Yonkers, N. Y 92 



South Bend, Ind 92 



SOOIETT OF AXEBICAN FLOBISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of <3ongrem, March 4, 1901. 



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

 White Marsh, Md.; Tlce-prealdent, August Poebl- 

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

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

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Oilcago, III., August 20 t6 

 23, 1912. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



J. A. Peterson's begonia, Glory of 

 Cincinnati, is making its mark abroad. 

 December 5, 1911, it was g^ven an award 

 of merit by the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of England. 



All branches of the business suffered 

 during the severely cold weather that 

 followed the New Year, but there has 

 been a prompt recovery' since the tem- 

 peratures have risen. • '' 



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. 



Yes, there is something new under the 

 sun. The city of Toronto is not content 

 to appoint a politician as park commis- 

 sioner, but is advertising for a man with 

 a floricultural training! Candidates 

 should address E. R. Geary, Mayor. 



The annual volume issued by the So- 

 ciety of American Florists was received 

 January 18. It is unusually large this 

 year, containing, in addition to the re- 

 port of the Baltimore convention and 

 the other usual matter, the full report 

 of the committee which handled the 

 national flower show at Boston last 

 March. 



Subscribers to The Review have 

 learned to expect to receive the paper 

 regularly in a certain delivery of mail. 

 During the last few weeks many com- 

 plaints from all over the country have 

 been received regarding the late delivery 

 of the paper. The fact seems to be that 

 mail trains have been anywhere from a 

 few hours to two or three days behind 

 time on account of the severely cold 

 weather. It is believed the trouble will 

 right itself with the return of normal 

 temperature. 



SOCIETY OF AMESIOAN FIX)BISTS. 



At the special meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Society of American 

 Florists held in Detroit, Mich., Jan- 

 uary 11, there were present President 

 Richard Vincent, Jr., Vice-president 

 August P. Poehlmann, Secretary John 

 Young, Treasurer William F. Kasting 

 and the following directors: W. N. 

 Rudd, E. Allan Peirce, Harry A. Bun- 

 yard, C. H. Totty, John A. Evans and 

 George Asmus. The invitation of the 

 New York Florists' Club to hold the 

 National Flower Show in 1913 in New 

 York was accepted and the matter was 

 turned over to the National Flower 

 Show Committee to carry out the de- 

 tails. The board authorized the offer- 

 ing of three silver and three bronze 

 medals to be awarded at the inter- 

 national exposition in London for 

 plants and flowers of American origin. 

 The committee appointed by President 

 Asmus to have charge of local arrange- 

 ments in Chicago was continued, with 

 tl^ name of George Asmus added. The 

 committee now is Aogurt F. Poehlmann, 

 J. C. yaughan,' "W. N. Hu^d and George 

 Asmus. The report of August F. Poehl- 

 mann, chairman of the committee on 

 hall for the convention, was accepted 



and the committee empowered to lease 

 the Coliseum building on the terms 

 mentioned. John Young, Sec'y. 



USES ONLY THE BEVIEW. 



The point of the following letter is 



that an advertisement in The Review 



is sufficient to sell all the stock this 



florist can produce, without any other 



selling expense: 



Enclosed please find advertising contract for 

 one inch space for one year, from February 1, 

 1912. Keep on with the salvia seed advertisement 

 In said one Inch space until forbid. Discontinue 

 the geranium advertisement in the Classified de- 

 partment, as we are sold out of Rlcard and 

 Presllly, with orders for other varieties t>ooked 

 away ahead; we would better discontinue for a 

 few weeks to catch up. We are also nearly sold 

 out of salvia seed, although we had a good sized 

 crop. We advertise only in The Review. That 

 paper certainly sells the stock. The Mdera keep 

 us hustling early and late. — P. J. Slebold, Lan- 

 caster, Pa., January 19, 1912. 



OHIO AGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has passed through a 

 considerable change since the last re- 

 port. The weather, which had been 

 extremely cold for an unprecedentedly 

 long time, has moderated to something 

 like the normal January temperature. 

 With the arrival of a temperature that 

 would permit the buyers to get out, 

 and the comparatively safe shipment 

 of cut flowers, there came a prompt 

 increase in the volume of business. The 

 use of flowers may not yet have got 

 back to what it usually is at this time 

 of year, but the demand is not only 

 heavier but much steadier than it was 

 during the zero days. 



Coupled with the increase in demand 

 there has come a decrease in the rose 

 crops. Roses are scarce — not so scarce 

 as they were at this time last year, 

 but undeniably scarce. Short roses are 

 not to be had for all the orders, and 

 those who are able to connect with 

 any little lot are required to pay well 

 for them. Medium stems also are short 

 of the demand, but the higher priced 

 grades can still be supplied, the prices 

 for the best roses, indeed, not having 

 advanced in proportion to the advance 

 in the price of the short roses. Most 

 of those interested say it will be a 

 month before all grades of roses again 

 are plentiful, but a few say that a 

 week of mild and fairly bright weather 

 will relieve the situation. Beauties 

 continue fairly plentiful for the 

 present. 



^ In direct contrast to the rose situa- 

 tion, cattleyas are overabundant and 

 have sold at low prices in hundred lots. 

 Valley also has been easier. Bulbous 

 stock has come in much more freely 

 during the last week, and all varieties 

 are plentiful and cheap. White is 

 selling better than colored tulips be- 

 cause of the scarcity of short roses. 

 Paper Whites are slow, and freesia, 

 especially if not of the best, is hard 

 to move. 



Sweet peas have begun to arrive in 

 quantity. Some of them are excellent, 

 and they are selling quite well. Violets 

 have fared in the last week not one 

 whit better than in the cold weeks 

 before. Singles have done even worse 

 than doubles. St. Valentine's day is 

 looked forward to as affording a special 

 call for t£e flower that most needs a 

 boost. 



Carnations are arriving in fair quan- 

 tity and are selling better than they 

 have done, due, probably, to the short 



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