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The Florists' Review 



Fkbruabv 5, 1014. 



in the establishment to which his rec- 

 ords referred and that they were no 

 doubt more exact than any grower could 

 secure where miscellaneous ptock is 

 grown. 



President Brown added an interesting 

 statement with regard to the record of 

 prices obtained in the New York mar- 

 ket. He said that the price varies widely 

 when the records of a single month are 

 compared through a series of years, but 

 that there is little variation when the 

 ayerage price of carnations for a whole 

 year is considered. He said that he 

 had in his pocket the record of the price 

 received for every flower sold by his 

 establishment for the last seven years, 

 and that in no year had the average 

 been less than 3 cents per bloom, or 

 more than 3^^ cents, the average being 

 approximately 3^4 cents per flower over 

 seven years. His point was that the, 

 grower who produces strictly high 

 grade blooms can count with consider- 

 able certainty upon a definite return. 



The Retailers and the Society. 



Sam Seligman started something 

 when he asked what the society pur- 

 poses to do for the retailers — A. Faren- 

 wald was on his feet at once to ask 

 what the retailers purpose to do for the 

 society. Mr. Farenwald said the society 

 has done it about all in the past, the 

 growers doitig about all the publicity 

 work that is" done for flowers through 

 exhibitions. He said the retailers should 

 join the society and then exhibit when- 

 ever they can. He said they now hold 

 aloof from the exhibitions through fear 

 of being beaten. If spirit can be 

 aroused as it is in Cleveland great good 

 will result. He thought it up to the 

 retailers to show the spirit of helpful- 

 ness on a broad scale before asking 

 anything of the society. 



F. H. Lemoin said the retailers are not 

 using carnations in their best work 

 and that there is a big field for the so- 

 ciety in showing that carnations can 

 be employed where any other flowers 

 are used. He said the society should 

 go on record in commendation of the 

 work of the Cleveland retailers, whose 

 demonstrations of the use of carnations 

 in table and vase work had been the 

 most valuable feature of the show. 



M. A. Patten commented that the re- 

 tail sales of carnations always jump in 

 the cities visited by the A. C. S. Messrs. 

 iFisher, Johnson, Guttman and iBaur 

 added their views and President Brown 

 closed the discussion by saying that a 

 non-competitive basis appears to be the 



iy oHe~Qn which the retailers will par- 

 ticipate arid that it probably will be 

 possible toycarry along the work on the 

 lines originVted by the Clevelanders. 



On motiob of S. S. Pennock the 

 Cleveland retailers were given a vote 

 qjt^€hs,nka for their assistance in mak- 

 ng the shpw. 



Miscellaneotis Matters. 



The schedule for the carnation classes 

 at the New York show ih March was read 

 by President Brown. It was decided to 

 recede from the requirement that ex- 

 hibitors there must be members of the 

 A. C. S. The matter of judging was left 

 to the officers and the elected judges, 

 with authority to fill vacancies. 



A straight galvanized iron vase 

 painted a bottle green was adopted as 

 the official exhibition 'vas? of the so- 

 ciety. 



Final resolutions, acknowledging cour- 

 tesies, were written by Wm. Nicholson, 

 E. G. Gillett and Joseph H. Hill. 



The Banquet. 



The exhibition hall was cleared on 

 the second evening and the annual ban- 

 quet spread on the same tables, the 

 flowers being used for decorations. As 

 ^he society had come uninvited to Cleve- 

 land, each person- paid for his own 

 ticket. It was an innovation that is 

 likely to become the rule o^ the future. 

 Nearly 200 were present. Adam Gra- 

 hamj the Nestor of the Cleveland flo- 

 rists, was toaStmaster. Because of the 

 lateness of the hour at which the speak- 

 ing started, and the wish of many to 

 catch night trains, the speakers talked 

 briefly. Among the dozen called on 

 were H. P. Knoble, R. T. Brown, GeorgeS 

 Asmus, Wm. J. Stewart, Ella Gr&nt Wil^-' 

 son, Charles Gibson, F. H. Lemon, W. F. 

 Kasting and S. J. Goddard. 



Seedlings and Sports. 



Peter Fisher 's plants of Gorgeous 

 were nearly all cut down for cuttings. 



Rose Francis Scott K^y. 



so he was unable to supply blooms for 

 a retailer "s displaj'. However, on the 

 second day the management, with Mr. 

 Fisher 's consent, gave one of his com- 

 petitive exhibits to Westman & Getz, 

 who made of- it one of the prettiest 

 tables of the ten on display. 



The three vases entered for the Dor- 

 ner medal were sent as a gift of the 

 society to the McKinley day banquet 

 of the Tippecanoe Club the evening the 

 show closed. 



The Cleveland Lady Florists' Society 

 gave a reception Wednesday evening, 

 January 28, in the parlors of the Hotel 

 Statler, at whii-h forty-six visiting ladies 



were guests. There was a fine musical 

 and elocutionary entertainment by club 

 talent and refreshments were served. 

 The affair was directed by Mrs. George 

 W. Smith, president of the society, and 

 was a splendid success. Thursday morn- 

 ing the visiting ladies were taken for 

 an automobile ride about the city. 



Overheard in a crowd: "Did you ever 

 see that ' Sprinkleproof ' when he wasn't 

 busyl'^ 



Everybody knows what the inspired 

 compositor, and the proofreader, do to 

 a manuscript, but it really shouldn't 

 be mentioned on the same day with 

 what a night operator does to a flower 

 show reported by wire. The Review got 

 off luckily last week — only two bad 

 breaks. The paragraph that said, the 

 Hadley rose is being disseminated this 

 season had tacked onto it th« first five 

 words from the next paragraph, "for 

 John Mclntyre, of Philadelphia, ' ' which 

 of course completely changed the sense. 

 Mr. Mclntyfe has nothing to do with 

 Hadley, which is being sent out by A. 

 N. Pierson, Inc., for Mr. Montgomery, 

 the raiser. But Mr. Mclntyre sent some 

 excellent lilac to the Cleveland show. 

 Also by the omission of a line of copy, 

 the operator made Mr. Fisher say "he 

 should be selected as the recipient of 

 the first Medal of Merit," when what 

 he really said was that he should be 

 honored in either event were he selected 

 as the recipient of the medal — Mr. 

 Fisher wasn't claiming the medal, only 

 expressing a sense of being honored were 

 it awarded to him either as the raiser 

 of Enchantress or of Beacon. 



JOHN COOK'S IiAT^lST BOSE. 



Francis Scott Key is the latest pro- 

 duction of the well known Baltimore 

 :osarian, Joh)i Cook. It is a seedling 

 from Cardinal and an unnamed red 

 seedling also raised by Mr. Cook, who 

 describes Key as a vigorous grov/er, 

 with large red flowers carried on extra 

 long stems. 



UNPACKING FROZEN SHIPMENTS. 



Shipments of soft-wooded plants at 

 this season are occasionally received in 

 a frozen condition; not entirely on ac- 

 count of insufficient protection in pack- 

 ing, but owing largely to unforeseen 

 and severe weather changes. 



When the thermometer suddenly 

 drops below the zero point, as it did 

 recently, plant shipments are liable to 

 suffer while waiting on station plat- 

 forms or during wagon delivery, no 

 matter how carefully packed, and a 

 little judgment in unpacking will in 

 most instances bring the plants out of 

 a frozen condition with little or no 

 injury. 



The undersigned received during the 

 recent severe spell a shipment which 

 included geraniums of various types, 

 fuchsias, begonias and other soft- 

 wooded subjects from pots, with the 

 ball of earth on practically every plant 

 frozen hard, the frost penetrating even 

 to those in the center of the boxes. 

 Although the shipment looked rather 

 hopeless, the boxes were placed imme- 

 diately in a cool shed, with a tempera- 

 ture just above the freezing point, and 

 allowed to remain forty-eight hours, 

 thawing out gradually. The plants 

 were then unpacked, placed in a slight- 

 ly higher temperature, kept well shaded 

 and were soon in condition to be 

 potted. 



The loss on the entire shipment did 



