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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Februaby 22, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manages. 



PUBUSHED EVEBT THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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 608 South Dearborn St., Chtcaso. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



1310 Foity-Nlntli St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Telephone, 26;{2 W. liorouKli hark. 

 J.Austin Sshaw, Manager. 



Subscription price, Jl.OOa year. 

 To Kurope. 12.50. 



To Canada. $2.00 



Advertlslnir rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ttrlclly trade adveitlsinjr accepted. 



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

 to insure insertion in the issue of tliat weeli. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897. 

 at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTIBEBS, FAGE 106. 



CONTENTS. 



Whoir Sdino of Us Arc L.anip 7 



The Itetail I'lorist 8 



— Mrs. Taft's Basket (illus. i 8 



— The Involution of BotallinK (illus. i 8 



— Well, lln Invited Criticism 10 



Who Gets Trade Trices? K) 



A Northeast lOxposure (illus. » 11 



Temperature fur Ismenes. 11 



Can the Water Be I'urined V 11 



Roses — Roses DyiuK 12 



— Rose Koliage Diseased 12 



Seasonable Sugsestlons — Stevias 12 



— Canterbmy Bells 12 



— Cannas 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— Allauiamliis 12 



— Tuberous Beffoiiias 13 



— Hydraiiseas 1.'! 



— Gladioli 13 



— Shamrocks 13 



— Candvtuft 13 



— Lily of tlie Valley 13 



— Annuals for Memorial Hay 13 



Kopper Is rroRressinfr (illus. ) 13 



Orchids — Orchids In Europe 14 



— Fine Spike of Cattleya (illus.) 14 



I'Dttin"; I'alnis 14 



Scale on Rubber Tlants 14 



("ariiations — Cuttings Do Nnl Itoot iri 



- Stocli to Go to Kurope 15 



— The Worry Ended 15 



fJermain Seed Co. (illus.) 16 



Notes on Gladioli — Gladiolus I'rimulinus IC 



Opening Frozen Ventilators 17 



Too Cool for Sprengcri 17 



Electricity to Aid Growtli 17 



Spanish Iris 17 



Obituary 18 



Business '1 roubles 18 



Chicago 20 



St. Louis 2(i 



I'rovidence 28 



New Orleaii> 29 



Boston 30 



Rochester 34 



Philadelphia 36 



Cincinnati 38 



Cleveland 40 



Vegetable I'orclng 42 



— Who Knows of This Lettuce? 42 



— A Stunted I>ottuco Crop 42 



Ottawa, III 43 



Columbus, Ohio 44 



Vonkers. N. V 4G 



racific Coast Department 48 



— California Yellow Bell 48 



— San Francisco 48 



— Seattle, Wash 49 



— Los Angeles 51 



— Portland, Ore 52 



— Tacoma, Wash 52 



New York 53 



Seed Trade News 60 



— Commerce in Seeds 62 



— Exports of Lily Bulbs 62 



— I'eas In Idaho 62 



— Ix)s Aiigflcs Seed Notes 64 



— Stock Seed of Sweet Corn 64 



Plttsburgli 66 



Nurserv News 72 



— Miami Valley Nurserymen 72 



— Nurs( ry Stock Scarce 72 



Dayton, Ohio J4 



Detroit J6 



Kvansville, ind <8 



Baltimore |0 



Lancaster. Pa 82 



(Jlen Cove, N. Y 84 



Greenhouse Heating 96 



— Cost of Fuel; a Comparison 96 



— Heat for Bedding Plants 96 



— About Air Valves 98 



— In Eastern Pennsylvania 98 



Bowling 1«0 



BnlTalo 102 



East Orange, N. J 102 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAK FLOBISTa 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, Marcb 4, 1901. 



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

 White Marsb, Md.; rice-president, Angost Poehl- 

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

 Bedford Hills, N. Y.; treasurer, w. F. Kastlng, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Ohlcago, HI., Aagost 20 t6 

 23, 1912. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



To do business without a printed letter- 

 head is to raise a question of one's own 

 standing. 



Caenations have been in full crop for 

 some days and the rose crops are not far 

 away. It is high time plans were being 

 made for the spring campaign. 



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. 



Having raised $450 by popular sub- 

 scriptions of $2 each, the Fred Corner 

 Memorial Committee of the American 

 Carnation Society now is accepting sums 

 of $20 from enough subscribers to bring 

 the fund to $1,000, the interest on which 

 is to be used to offer a medal each year. 



Ko one, no matter what branch of the 

 industry he is engaged in, likes to turn 

 down late orders merely because they are 

 inconvenient, or must be executed with- 

 out profit; but, on the other hand, one 

 would not as a rule wish his stock and 

 service to be judged by what can be done 

 on orders received late. Still, we all put 

 off till the last possible moment doing 

 the things we know we shall wish to do 

 in the end. Nothing is lost by giving the 

 men we patronize a little time for their 

 part of the work. 



THEY HAVE BEEN SHOWN. 



it is quite the usual thing for sub- 

 scribers, in renewing, to write a word 

 or two regarding the satisfaction their 

 paper is giving, like this: 



Herewith is the dollar to pay up 'for another 

 year's subscription. The Review Is a hustler and 

 every florist needs it. — Alfred Englcmann, Mary- 

 ville, Mo., February 16. 1912. 



After reading which it is right in line 



to find the following from an advertiser 



iu the next letter opened: 



Your paper has brought me good returns with 

 orders.— -James Wheeler, Natick, Mass., February 

 14, 1912. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Meeting of Directors. 



1 have been instructed by President 

 Richard Vincent, Jr., to notify the 

 directors of the S. A. F. to meet in Chi- 

 cago March 13, at 10 a. m. The hotel 

 where the meeting will be held will be' 

 announced later. The meeting is called 

 for the purpose of making arrange- 

 ments for the next convention, which is 

 to be held in that city in August, and 

 to transact any other business that 

 may come properly before the meeting. 



At this meeting of the board of di- 

 rectors, all arrangements, rules, rates, 

 etc., will be made for the next con- 

 vention, and immediately after this 

 meeting I will send out full particulars, 

 diagram, etc. 



I publish this notice in reply to the 

 many inquiries I am receiving regard- 

 ing space. To the members outside of 

 New York city I would say that if your 



secretary can be of any service to you 

 in New York, do not hesitate to make 

 any request. I will carry out any com- 

 mission to the best of my ability. 

 John Young, Sec'y. 



THE ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION. 



The Illinois State Florists' Associa 

 tion will hold its seventh annual con- 

 vention and trades' display at Masonic 

 hall, Joliet, March 5 and 6. The pro- 

 gram is as follows: 



TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 

 Afternoon Session, 2 P. M. 



Introductory Remarks — W. N. Budd, Morgan 

 Park. 



Address of Welcome — Hon. Edmund A. Allen, 

 Mayor of Joliet. 



Response — George Asmus, Chicago. 



President's Address — C. D. Washburn, Hint- 

 dale. 



Report of Secretary — J. F. Ammann, Edwards 

 vine. 



Report of Treasurer — F. L. Washburn, Bloom 

 Ington. 



Report of Advisory Committee, Illinois Flori- 

 culture Experimental Station — W. N. Rudd, sec- 

 retary, Morgan Park. 



Evening Session, 7:30 P. M. 



Report on the Work at the Experimental Sta- 

 tion — H. B. Dorner, Urbana. 



Unfinished Business. 



New Business. 



Question Box. 



Nomination and Election of OflJcers. 



Adjournment. 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 0. 



In the hands of Joliet florists. 



Luncheon at noon at the greenhouses of the 

 Chicago Carnation Co. 



Peter Olsem is in charge of the ex- 

 hibition, which is expected to be the 

 largest yet held. 



CHICAGK). 



The Oreat Central Market. 



For the week intervening between 

 St. Valentine's day and the advent of 

 Lent, business has been decidedly ac- 

 tive, but the activity has not been 

 sufficient to firm up the prices on the 

 lines that have been weakening. Roses 

 have come in a little more plentifully, 

 but not in such quantity that prices 

 have been affected. Beauties are in 

 unusually small supply, and short roses 

 such as can be used for funeral work 

 also are extremely scarce, though they 

 are not in as great demand as before 

 carnations and bulbous stock were so 

 cheap. The supply of the medium to 

 long grades of Killarney, White Killar- 

 ney and Richmond is equal to the re- 

 quirements, since there are many more 

 buyers who limit their price to 8 cents 

 than there are who are willing to pay 

 from 10 cents to 15 cents per rose. 



Some of the carnation growers are 

 cutting heavily, while others have only 

 inconsiderable crops. The result is that 

 some houses find themselves with few- 

 carnations, while others have at least 

 an abundance; consequently, there is 

 considerable variation in the reports as 

 to the situation in the carnation mar- 

 ket. The general quality of the stock 

 is first-class and there has been an im- 

 provement in the shipping quality since 

 the weather has become mild enough 

 to permit the growers to ventilate 

 freely. Following the severely cold 

 weather of the first six weeks of the 

 year, the daily temperatures now are 

 running considerably above normal, 

 bringing along carnations rapidly and 

 hastening production in all other lines, 

 though the effect on roses has not yet 

 been specially apparent. The special 

 sales people are operating in carnations 

 and violets. 



Bulbous stock is coming in quite 

 heavily, but has sold fairly well at 





