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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



FBBflDABT 15, 1012. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editob and Mamaokb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 8, 1897. 

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE lOS. 



CONTENTS. ' 



The Retail Florist 7 



— Procrastination 7 



— Simplicity in Windows 7 



— Modem Salesmanship (11;ls. t 7 



— Nugent's Designs (lllus. ) ; ^ 8 



Rbododendrons for Easter 8 



Plants for a Sun Parlor 9 



Storage for Bulbs 9 



Brown Leaves on Cyperus 9 



Colored Roman Hyacinths 9 



Carnations — Stigmonose 10 



— Cuttings or Blooms — Which ? 10 



— Substitute for Harlowardon 10 



— Variegated Carnations (Ulus. ) li 



— Carnations in Lettuce Soil 11 



— Carnations in Open B'rames 11 



Roses — Grafting Roses 12 



— Killarnpy and Richmond 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — -Lilies 12 



— Rambler Roses 12 



— Hybrid Perpetual Roses 13 



— Dutch Bulbs IS 



— Show Pelargoniums 13 



— DeutJsias 13 



^ Schlianthus 13 



D. Fuerstenberg (Portrait) 13 



New Ideas in Production 13 



Glass Manufacturers Me?t 14 



The John Young Property 14 



Farmers' Week at Cornell 14 



To Repair Cracked Cistern 14 



American Gladiolus Society 14 



Florists Buying Glass 14 



Where the Money Goes 14 



Pittsburgh Club's New Head (I'ortralti 15 



Obituary 15 



Oil for Fuel (illus.) 15 



News, Notes and Comments 17 



National Show Schedules 18 



Chicago 18 



Kansas City 24 



Denver 26 



St. Paul, Minn 27 



Boston 28 



New York 30 



Lenox, Mass 33 



Philadelphia 34 



Cincinnati 36 



Detroit 37 



Direction of Houses 37 



Bowling 38 



Double Crimson Cosmos 40 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 42 



— Los Angeles 43 



— Tacoma, Wash 45 



— Seattle. Wash 46 



— Portland, Ore 46 



— Portland's Silverthaw 46 



St. Louis 47 



Indianapolis 54 



Seed Trade News 56 



— Peas at St. Anthony 56 



— Associated Press Hears News 56 



— Peas at Bozeman 56 



— Dating the Packets 57 



— Needed Quantities of Seed 62 



Vegetable Forcing — Aphis on Lettuce 63 



— Fertilizer for Tomatoes 63 



— Sowing Early Cabbage 63 



Nursery News — Oppose the Bill 68 



— Quarantine In Califorala 69 



— Grlffing'B New Nursery 69 



— Record Citrus Order 69 



Pittsburgh, Pa 70 



Brampton, Ont 72 



Eric, Pa 72 



Milwaukee 74 



Washington, D. C i'W 



Dayton, 78 



Pasadena, Cal 80 



Greenhouse Heating— Ml(»hlgan Houswh 92 



— Bums Too Much Coal. 92 



— Returns Too Low / 83 



— A Low House for Lettuce ". 94 



Providence 96 



Greenwich, Conn .-_ 98 



Rochester, N. Y 100 



SOCIETY OF AKSBIOAlf IX0KIST8. 



Incorporated by Act of Coogren, Marcb 4, 1801. 



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

 White Marsh, Md.; Tlce-preaident, AnKOSt PDeU- 

 mann, Morton Grove, III.; secretary, John Toaac, 

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

 BuCralo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, III., Angoat 20 t6 

 23, 1012. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The price of greenhouse glass con- 

 tinues extremely low. 



Many houses send only retail price lists 

 to those who do not write on printed Jet- 

 ter-heads. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 has offered two silvei' and two bronze 

 medals and one grand silver and one 

 grand bronze medal for competition at 

 the National Flower Show to be given 

 in New York in 1913. 



E. H. Wilson, of the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum, Boston, has been awarded the Vic- 

 toria medal of honor, a decoration never 

 before conferred on any one outside of 

 the British isles, because of distinguished 

 services to horticulture. 



We are a hard people to please; our 

 trade never is good in summer, and this 

 winter has been too cold for brisk busi- 

 ness. That's like the iceman who last 

 winter complained that it was not cold 

 enough to make ice and this winter 

 laments that it is too cold to cut it. 



L. Merton Gage, secretary of the 

 American Gladiolus Society, is distribut- 

 ing Bulletin No. 4 of the society, consist- 

 ing principally of the proceedings of the 

 Baltimore meeting, with which is included 

 the preliminary schedule for the exhibi- 

 tion to be held at Chicago in August. 

 Those wishing copies should address Mr. 

 Gage at Orange, Mass. 



While Bradstreet's comparisons of 

 wholesale prices show most of the necessi- 

 ties of life to be et the high point of 

 cost, building materials are- an exception. 

 Lumber is not much changed, but glass 

 and pipe both are considerably cheaper 

 than two years ago and some cheaper 

 than in January, 1911. Bricks are higher, 

 but nails, lime and cement are lower. 



There has been another week of 

 severely cold weather, general throughout 

 the United States. For the greenhouse 

 man long continued below-zero temper- 

 atures make more or less real the slang 

 phrase about "everything goin' out and 

 nothin' comin' in." This has been the 

 hardest winter in many years, but, with all 

 deference to the little aniinal Uiat saw its 

 shadow recently, it can not last much 

 longer. 



Well posted jobbers of window glass 

 predict that there will be a rather sharp 

 advance in the market before the end 

 of the present month. During the last 

 few weeks greenhouse glass has sold at 

 the lowest prices on record and there has 

 been much unrest among tke manufactur- 

 ers, many of whom have been unable to 

 operate their factories at prevailing 

 prices. In spite of the great quantity 

 of glass sold last year, much of which 

 has not yet been used, florists all over 

 the country have been buying in the last 

 few weeks as heavily as ever before, im 

 many cases taking advantage of the low 

 prices to anticipate future needs. It is an 

 old device to hasten buying by the predic- 

 tion of an advance in prices, but this is 

 an argument not heard for many months 

 in the glass trade. 



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. 



NATIONAL SHOW SCHEDUliE. 



The preliminary schedule of plant 

 classes and premiums has just been 

 issued for the Third National Flower 

 Show, to be held in the new Grand 

 Central Palace, Forty-sixth street and 

 Lexington avenue, New York, April 5 

 to 12, 1913. Embracing, as it does, in- 

 cluding the American Rose Society's 

 plant classes, a total of 273 classes, it 

 is the most comprehensive schedule for 

 plants ever issued for an American 

 exhibition, with medals and money pre- 

 miums sufficient to insure that the 

 classes will be well filled. 



The National Flower Show commit- 

 tee consists of Charles H. Totty, chair- 

 man, Madison, N. J.; W. P. Craig, 

 Philadelphia; W. N. Eudd, Morgan 

 Park, 111.; J. A. Valentine, Denver; 

 Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass., and 

 W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J. The 

 local governing board in New York 

 consists of Frank H. Traendly, chair- 

 man; Harry A. Bunyard, Walter F. 

 Sheridan, W. H. Duckham and Joseph A. 

 Manda. 



A complete schedule, which will in- 

 clude all cut flower classes of the 

 American Rose Society, Carnation So- 

 ciety, Sweet Pea Society, Gladiolus 

 Society, National Association of Gar- 

 deners, and kindred associations, will 

 be issued in August, 1912, 



Those wishing copies of the plant 

 schedule, now ready, or information, 

 should apply to John Young, secretary, 

 54 West Twenty-eighth street, New 

 York. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The latter part of the week ending 

 February 10 was again severely cold, 

 and the week, which had started with 

 some increase in demand, gave an un- 

 satisfactory result because of the dull 

 business the last three days. The 

 flowers in heaviest supply were those 

 which require moderate temperatures 

 for their satisfactory sale. 



The present week opened with a rush 

 of business for St. Valentine's day. 

 February 14 has come to be a day 

 that retail florists should reckon with; 

 the demand has increased decidedly in 

 each of the recent years, but the possi- 

 bilities of the day are only beginning 

 to be appreciated. The number of late 

 orders by wire, both for cut flowers 

 and for St. Valentine's day supply 

 specialties, proved that many retailers 

 had underestimated the demand. Both 

 Monday and Tuesday there was a 

 heavy shipping demand, and Tuesday 

 and Wednesday local retailers bought 

 freely. The call was for certain spe- 

 fcialties. Everybody wanted red roses. 

 Violets were the biggest seller, but 

 pink sweet peas were in scarcely less 

 request, and the call for orchids and 

 valley was the heaviest known in 

 weeks. 



Unfortunately, St. Valentine's day 

 demand did not affect the call for car- 

 nations to any appreciable extent. 

 Several bright days, even if cold, have 

 gone a long ways toward bringing on 

 the carnation crops, and the supply 

 in this department has become rather 



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