Fkbruary 5, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



^ A NEAR-SUNLESS JANUARY AT CHICAGO ^ 



DURING the thirty-one days of January, in the latitude 

 of Chicago, the sun is above the horizon 296 hours and> 

 forty -eight minutes. In a normal January the sun is obscuredji 

 by clouds for over half the time it is above the horizon, so 

 that the average number of hours of sun in January at 

 Chicago is 124.65. But in January, 1914, there was but 



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twenty-five per cent of the possible duration of sun, or 

 aeventy-four hours and twelve minutes, only a little more 

 than half the normal. It was a January that put a severe 

 strain on the growers at Chicago. The accompanying diagram 

 shows the month at a glance. The white shows the per- 

 centage of possible , the figures the actual hours of sun. 



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not exceed five per cent. The begonias 

 suffered no more injury than the gera- 

 niums and the plants are now well es- 

 tablished and in a growing condition. 

 A. N. Pierson, Inc. 



STOBAGE OF PAPER WHITES. 



Here is a nut for some of you brother 

 florists, which I wish you would crack 

 for me. 



Last fall the writer got in about 

 20,000 Paper Whites for winter forcing. 

 I planted about 1,000 right away, and 

 they did finely. Then I placed some 

 of the remaining bulbs in a cold room 

 on board shelving — I should say about 

 half of the lot. The other half were 

 put in a basement on a cement floor. 



Those I put in our cold room are all 

 planted and all have done well. Then I 

 started planting from the basement, and 

 from the 8,000 to 10,000 bulbs which 

 were stored there we have not had, to 

 date, a single good flower. In fact, the 

 vitality seems gone; they do not make 

 foliage as Papei» Whites generally do, 

 and the flowers come with from two to 

 four bells on each stem and not over 

 eight or ten inches tall. It is.surely a 

 failure. I was priding myself on the 

 good place I have in which to keep my 

 bulbs from growing, as they generally 

 do in storage, but in all my twenty-five 

 years' experience in storing and plant- 

 ing Paper Whites I have never seen the 

 like of this before. The bulbs from the 

 cement floor look as dry and dormant 

 today as when taken out of the boxes 

 last fall. 



The basement where I put these bulbs 

 is a clean and airy place, with a tem- 

 perature of 45 to 50 degrees. Nothing 

 else is stored there except a few sacks 

 of potatoes, and the bulbs are stored 

 in a dark corner of the basement. The 

 bulbs have all been treated in the same 

 way as regards soil and planting, and 

 after planting tlioy have had the same 

 place in the j;i\ ,'iihouse, from the first 



planting last fall- untit. now. I have 

 2,000 or 3,000 more to plant, but I have 

 removed them from the cbment floor to 

 cold storage, where I\ have kept 

 for years with good results. 



be pleased to hear from other 

 'of The fteview, if any ^ them 

 have had an experience similar i(>, mine 

 and if they will bfc so good as to 'etate 

 what they believe to be the cause of the 

 trouble. . A. B. 



FOURTH NATIONAL SHOW. 



At Philadelphia Two Tears Hence. 



The location of the fourth national 

 flower show givqn under the auspices 

 of the Society of Apierican Florists was 

 fixed at a meeting at Cleveland Janu- 

 ary 29, when the national flower show 

 committee reorgatiized by the election 

 of George Asmus,* of Chicago, as chair- 

 man to succeed Charles H. Totty, of 

 Madison, N. J. Mr. Asmus will have 

 the general ^i|B^migement of the next 

 show, which will be held at Philadel- 

 phia in the spring of 1916, the exact 

 date to depend upon the ability to se- 

 cure a suitable hall. The big Saenger- 

 fest hall at Broad street and Allegheny 

 avenue will be used, providing the de- 

 tails of the lease can be closed satisfac- 

 torily. It will afford the largest and 

 best hall the S. A. F. has yet used for 

 its show. 



John Young, secretary of the S. A. F., 

 will continue to act as secretary for the 

 national show committee. Chairman 

 Asmus has appointed the "following 

 working committees to get busy at 

 once: 



Schedule— C. 11. Totty, Madison, N. 

 J.; A. Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa.; Thomas 

 Roland, Nahant, Mass. 



Hall — A. Farenwald. Roslvn, Pa.; 

 Wm. F. Kasting, Buffalo; W. P. Craig, 

 Philadelphia. 



Special prizes — W. F. Kastiug, Buf- 

 falo; Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis; W. 

 N. Rudd, Morgan ParU. HI. 



Publicity— W. N. Rudd, Morgan Park, 

 111.; John Young, New York; C. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J. 



Those present at the meeting were 

 Messrs. Totty, Young, Asmus, Kasting, 

 Rudd and Farenwald. The absent mem- 

 bers were Messrs. Roland and Craig. 



In an official report of the meeting, 

 received since the above was put in 

 type, Secretary Young says: 



"Mr. Totty was accorded a hearty 

 vote of thanks for the great work he 

 had done as chairman of the committee 

 and for the extremely successful man- 

 ner in which he had arranged for and 

 carried out all the arrangements for the 

 recent successful show held in New 

 York city. 



"The meeting was most enthusiastic 

 and stirring addresses were made by W. 

 N. Rudd, Wm. F. Kasting, Chas. H. 

 Totty and A. Farenwald, showing that 

 the experience gained in the recent ex- 

 hibitions would help to make the Phil- 

 adelphia show the grand success that 

 it should be. It was the unanimous 

 opinion of the committee that no city 

 in the United States is better able to 

 conduct a national -flower show suc- 

 cessfully than the city of Philadelphia. 

 It is doubtful if many of the members 

 of the society realize the great amount 

 of hard work which is being done by 

 the national flower show committee 

 at their meetings and during the time 

 that the arrangements for the show are 

 being made, and if every member will 

 assist and do his little bit, there is no 

 question but what this exhibition will 

 be the b^st^e^er. ' ' 



De Kalb, III — J. Leonard Johnson is 

 planning to erect another greenhouse 

 next spring to accommodate his grow- 

 ing business. Beginning with a hotbed 

 eight years ago, Mr. Johnson has built 

 up a large trade and now has eleven 

 houses, comprising 15,000 feet of glass. 



