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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 26, 1914. 



Mex to Advertisers, Ptje 134. 



rORNS CLOSE S:00 P. N. TUESDAY 



-.•CONTENTS..* 



New York's Big Spring Show 15 



— One of the Best Corners (Ulus. ) 15 



— Thlrty-flve Varieties of Nephrolepls (Ulus.) 16 



— Exhibits of Wm. Duckham and J. H. Dodds 

 (Ulus.) 17 



— Group of Azaleas Shown by Julius Roehrs 

 Co. (lllus.) 18 



— Orchid Alley (lllus.) 19 



— Retailers' Booths (lllus. ) 20 



— Anton Schulthels* Rose Plants (lllus.) 21 



— Trade Exhibits (lllus.) 21 



— A Trade Exhibits Corner (lllus.) 22 



— American Rose Society 22 



The Glass Market 22 



Bulbs Now Useless 22 



Orchids 23 



— Seasonable Suggestions 23 



— Cattleyas Flower Freely (illus.) 23 



Stocks for Winter 23 



Spiraeas Do Not Grow 23 



Geraniums 24 



— Leaf Spot on Geraniums 24 



— Geranium Leaves Diseased 24 



— Leaves Turning Brown 24 



— Geranium Leaves Turn Red 24 



The Retail Florist 24 



— Six Days' Work Enough 24 



— All Strangers Not Crooks 24 



— Anna Sawyer's Window (Ulus.) 25 



— Retail Store at Lowell (lllus. ) 26 



— Pushing the Telegraph End 25 



Dracaena Indlvlsa 25 



Scale on Camellia Japonlca 25 



Seasonable Suggestions 26 



— Marguerites 26 



— Bougalnvtlleas for Easter 26 



— Shade for Palms and Ferns 20 



— Violets 26 



Plants for Vacant Lot (lllus.) 26 



Deutzlas for Easter 26 



Dobbs Is Taking Heart (lllus.) 27 



The Tarnished Plant Bug 27 



Baltimore Club Meeting 28 



Columbus, 28 



Detroit 28 



Cincinnati 28 



Louisville, Ky 28 



New Orleans, La 29 



Obituary 29 



— Ernst W. Mack 29 



— Charles Ahrens 29 



— John L. Horn 29 



— Edward Meehan 29 



— Mrs. Geo. T. Elliott 29 



— Isaac W. Hoffman 29 



Indianapolis 29 



Scale on Japanese Quince 29 



Texas Florists' Meeting 30 



It Does, Indeed .30 



More Quick Action 30 



Chicago 30 



Philadelphia 40 



Fort Wayne, Ind 45 



New York 45 



Fort Dodge, la 48 



St. Louis no 



BufTalo, N. Y 53 



Kansas City 65 



Rochester, N. Y 57 



Steamer Sailings 59 



Seed Trade News 62 



— About Face, Double Quick 62 



— "Ouch" Is Right 62 



— Protests Reach Home 64 



— Gladiolus Grower's Loss 66 



— Seven Dead at St. Louis 66 



— Seedsmen Greet Canners 66 



— Keeping Thom in Line 70 



— Catalogues Received 70 



Nashville, Tenn 71 



Vegetable Forcing 74 



— Lettuce Tough and Unsavory 74 



Pacific Coast Department 76 



— Los Angeles 7« 



— San Francisco 76 



— Seattle, Wash 7S 



— Portland, Ore 79 



— Tacoraa, Wash 80 



News of the Nursery Trade S6 



— Kelsey Nurseries to Build 86 



— Nurseries in Suit 86 



— Mail Importations of Plants 86 



— The Cleveland Convention 87 



New England Department 88 



— Boston 88 



— Springfield, Mass 92 



— Newport, R. 1 92 



— Providence, R. I 94 



Davenport, la 94 



Syracuse, N. Y 96 



Lancaster, Pa 9S 



Allentown, Pa 100 



Newburgh, N. Y 100 



Pittsburgh 102 



Greenhouse Heating 122 



— Trouble With Twin Boilers 122 



— A North Carolina House 122 



— One New Jersey House 124 



Milwaukee, Wis 126 



Evansville, Ind 126 



Baltimore 128 



Erie. Pa 130 



Washington, D. C 1.30 



KnoxvUle, Tenn 132 



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Established. 1897, by O. L. aRANT. 



Published every Tharsday by 

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Entered as second class matter 

 Dec. 3. 1897. at the poet-office at Chi- 

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80CIETT OF AMEKICAir iXOHISTa 

 Incorporated by Aot of Oongresa, Mardh 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1914: President, Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; vice-president, Patrick Welch. Bos- 

 ton; secretary, John Young, 53 W. 28th St.. New 

 York City; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Boston, Mass., 

 August 18 to 21, 1914. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. .. 



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. 



The way baskets have come into gen- 

 eral use for cut flowers as well as plants 

 has been one of the interesting develop- 

 ments of the trade. It is safe to say 

 ten times as many baskets now are used 

 as was the case five years ago. 



From the number of inquiries that 

 reach Tho Review, regarding the treat- 

 ment for cyclamens that have gone out 

 of bloom, it appears that there must be 

 considerable quantities of plants that 

 failed to find the expected sale. 



To show what "the sunny south" 

 sometimes is like, C. L. Baum, Knoxville, 

 Tenn., has sent The Review a photo- 

 graph of the roofs of his greenhouses 

 taken March 17, just after a fall of 

 nine and one-half inches of snow. 



Success is not a plant that blooms 

 over night; it is of slow growth. One 

 may work tremendously and not achieve 

 it for the reason that supreme effort 

 usually is spasmodic. Plugging counts 

 for more than plunging — especially in 

 the florists' trade. 



It is impossible to give something 

 for nothing. A florist, or a man in 

 any other line, who seeks patronage by 

 such a method soon finds himself in 

 a position where he must recoup by 

 taking the value out of the customer 

 by indirection. A man who wakes up 

 to the fact that he has paid too much 

 for one thing while getting another 

 free feels far worse about it than as 

 though the free service had been re- 

 fused in the first place and a fair price 

 charged for both. When you get some- 

 thing for nothing look around to see 

 where the "soak" comes in on the arti- 

 cle you pay for; it may not be appar- 

 ent at first glance, but look long enough 

 and you'll find it; it's there. 



TEXAS FLOBISTS' MEETING. 



The meeting to be held at Waco, 

 Tax., May 4 and 5, lor the organiza- 

 tion of the Texas Florists' Association, 

 promises to be the largest and most 

 important gathering of florists in the 

 south. A program is being prepared 

 that will be of interest to the florists 

 of the state and some excellent speak- 

 ers will address the meeting. 



E. J. Kyle, head of the state horti- 

 cultural department at College Station, 

 will speak on "Cooperation of the 

 State Horticultural Department and 

 the Texas Florists ' Association. " J. S. 

 Kerr, president of the Texas Nursery- 

 men's Association, will talk on "Coop- 

 eration of the Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion and the Texas Florists' Associa- 

 tion." Sam H. Dickson, commissioner 

 of agriculture, will tell the florists how 

 his department will cooperate with 

 them. J. H. Arbenz, of Sarita, presi- 

 dent of the State Horticultural Society, 

 will have for his subject, "Cooperation 

 of the State Horticultural Society and 

 the Texas Florists' Association." 



IT DOES, INDEED. 



The following is from the Kallipolis 

 Kronikle, published at Washington, 

 D. C: "Prophet Wm. F. Gude, F. A. A. 

 M., M. O. V. P. E. R., P. of G. F., and 

 the jolliest of entertainers, has ac- 

 cepted the general chairmanship of the 

 committee for the reception of guests 

 from visiting grottoes on their return 

 from Richmond next June; his activ- 

 ity, coupled with the efforts ctf the 

 sub-committees, bespeaks pleasure un- 

 bounded for the visitors." 



MORE QUICK ACTION. 



If you have the right stock The 



Review will sell it for you — quick, 



like this: 



Please cut out my ad; one mail sold me out; 

 seems as though everybody Is hungry for stock. — 

 Charles F. Rohr, Napervllle, 111., March 23. 1914. 



That ad cleaned me out before I saw it. The 

 Review certainly sells the goods. — J. E. Mein- 

 bart, Webb City, Mo., March 22, 1914. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Spring, due last week, must have 

 missed connections, as the weather, fol- 

 lowing one day of unseasonable 

 warmth, was far colder than normal. 

 Some said it was responsible for the 

 extremely dull business in the middle 

 of the week, while others pointed to it 

 as the reason for the greatly improved 

 demand at the end of the week. Look- 

 ing back, however, at other years, it 

 seems characteristic of the spring sea- 

 son that demand is dull on Tuesdays, 

 Wednesdays and Thursdays, but quite 

 active on Fridays, Saturdays and Mon- 

 days. If precedent is followed this will 

 be more or less the case from now until 

 summer, excepting, of course, the weeks 

 ill which Easter, Mothers' day and 

 Memorial day exert an influence. 



Stock continues abundant. The 

 weather has favored the growers who 

 wish to stretch their crops to Easter, 

 but there have been plenty of flowers. 

 There has been some increase in the 

 supply of Beauties and some improve- 

 ment in the quality. Several growers 

 who have cut little since the Christmas 

 crops are beginning to get their stocks 

 under headway again. Roses in gen- 

 eral are of excellent quality. The 



