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The Florists' Review 



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THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaoxb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

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

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper la a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



OONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 9 



— The Voice with the Smile 9 



— Fashions in Flowers 9 



— A Luncheon Table (illus. ) 9 



— Do You Get What's Due? 9 



— Chopin Pushes Along (illus.) 9 



Manda Gets Damages 10 



Wistaria Not Flowering 10 



Another Carnation Deal 10 



Culture for Karly Tulips 10 



Business Embarrassments 10 



Michigan Ferns (Illus.) 11 



Asparagus and Vincas 11 



The Western Association 11 



5 rouble with Salvias 11 

 rchlds — Seasonable Notes 12 



The Second Album (illus.) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — Easter Lilies 13 



— Canterbury Bells 13 



— Stocks 13 



— Hex Begonias 18 



— Heliotropes 13 



Geraniums — Our First Geraniums 13 



Passion Vines 14 



Warming the Water 14 



Removing Hard Putty 14 



A Texas Acorn (illus. ) 14 



Mums at New Orleans (illus.) 15 



Gardeners' Association 15 



Notes from England 15 



Peter Murray's Plant (Illus.) 16 



Husband, Wife and Asters (illus.) 17 



New York 18 



Nashville, Tenn 18 



Pittsburgh 19 



Peter Reinbcrg (portrait) 19 



Columbus, 20 



A Substitute for Plumosus 20 



Obituary — George F. Kldd 20 



— Samuel Reisner 20 



— Jonas F. Weber 20 



— William S. Fisher 20 



— William J. Young 20 



— Angelo Tassl 20 



Chicago 22 



Philadelphia 28 



Springfield, 30 



Providence 31 



Greenwich, Conn .34 



Glen Cove, N. Y 3C 



Vegetable Forcing— Sterilizing Lettuce Soil... 38 



— A Start in Cucumbers 38 



Bowling— At Chicago .38 



Boston 40 



St. Louis 43 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Seed Trade News 48 



— Disclaimer Again Upheld 54 



— Canners' Peas 56 



— Sues for False Arrest 58 



— The Insecticide Law 58 



Pacific Coast Department 66 



— Cyclamens Damping Off 66 



— Lob Angeles, Cal 60 



— San Francisco, Cal 68 



— Seattle, Wash 69 



— Portland, Ore 60 



— News Notes 70 



American Rose Society 70 



National Flower Show 70 



New York State Federation 71 



American Gladlolns Society 71 



Nursery News^^narantlne Amendments 72 



Toledo, 74 



Detroit 76 



Dayton, 78 



Washington 80 



New Orleans 82 



Brampton, Ont 82 



Impatlens in Full Sun 92 



Lincoln, Neb 92 



Tatrytown, N. Y 92 



Green Fly on Snapdragons 92 



Buffalo, N. Y 93 



Greenhouse Heating — A Small, Cool Lean-To.. 94 



— Three Partitioned Houses 94 



Cincinnati 96 



Omaba 96 



Indianapolis 98 



EvansvUle, Ind 100 



SOCIETT OF AlfESICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Ofllcers for 1913: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farqubar, Boston, Mass.; vice-president, Theo- 

 dore Wirth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Young, 

 54 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. P. 

 Kasting, Bnffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 6 to 12, 1913. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn.. August 19 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 102 



Beaults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The amended regulations for the car- 

 rying out of the Plant Quarantine Act 

 will be found on page 72 of this issue. 



What the trade needs is more young 

 men who can take a task and put it 

 through to conclusion — finish what they 

 undertake. 



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. 



' Every few days The Review receives 

 photographs with no inscription or other 

 mark by which they can be identified. 

 Once or twice distressing results have 

 followed. Please mark all photos. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission will hold an examination Febru- 

 ary 5 to select eligibles for appointment 

 to fill three vacancies as assistant horti- 

 culturist in the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, Department of Agriculture, at sala- 

 ries ranging from $1,500 to $1,800. 



The habit of paying bills in full each 

 month is about the most valuable habit 

 a florist can acquire. It may not be 

 itemized on the bill, but usually the slow- 

 pay customer is charged enough to cover 

 interest on the overdue account, with 

 something more as insurance against the 

 possible loss. 



Watch the classified plant ads in- 

 crease. Ordinarily the issue of Christ- 

 mas week is the lightest of the year, in 

 space occupied by these busy little liners. 

 Now comes the season of steady increase. 

 This spring the classified ads will break 

 records, for they have proved their worth 

 to all who have small lots of surplus 

 stock to be turned into caah. 



The American Gladiolus Society^ L. 

 M. Gage, secretary, South Natick, Mass., 

 has just issued Bulletin No. 6, containing 

 a report of the Chicago meeting, officers'^ 

 reports, several interesting articles and a 

 list of the members with a key to their 

 professional or amateur standing. 



Albeet Pochelon, secretary of the 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery, says that 

 "we florists are not getting as yet ten 

 per cent of the telegraph, cable or mail 

 order business which we will have in a 

 few years, and no one is to blame but 

 ourselves. Do we try to educate the 

 public to this, or do we not? I tell you 

 rit'lit now it is up to us florists to let 

 our customers know what we can do and 

 keep it in front of their eyes. The 

 more retail florists take up this proposi- 

 tion, the more we all gain by it. ' ' 



CUTTING PBICES. 



A soliloquy. 



(With apologies to Hamlet.) 



To cut or not to cut. That Is the question: 



Whether it Is not better in the end 



To let the chap who knows not the worth 



Have the business at cutthroat prices, or 



To take up arms against his competition, 



And by opposing cut for cut, end it. 



To cut — and by cutting put the other cutter 



Out of business — 'tis a consummation 



Devoutly to be wished. To cut — to slash, 



Perchance myself get it In the neck — 



Aye, there's the rub; for when one starts to meet 



The other fellow's prices, 'tis like as not 



He's up against It good and bard. 



To cut and to slash is not to end the confusion 



And the many evils the trade is pestered with: 



Nay, nay, Pauline; 'tis but the forerunner 



Of debt and mortgage such a course portends. 



'Tis well to get the prices the goods are worth, 



And not to be bluffed Into selling them for what 



So-and-so will sell his goods for. 



Price-cutting doth appear unseemly. 



And fit only for the man who knows not 



What his goods are worth, and who, ere long, 



By stress of making vain comparison 



'Twixt bank account and liabilities," 



Will make his exit from the business. 



— Anon. In the H. T. J. 



THEY CEBTAINLY DO. 



While double page spreads are be- 

 coming popular with those who want to 

 attract the eyes of all the trade, still 

 there is no advertisement so small that 

 it does not get readers in The Review. 

 The following letter followed a few in- 

 sertions of a 3-line ad in the For Sale 

 column : 



Please discontinue our For Sale ad; we have 

 sold practically all the good pipe we have on hand 

 at this time. Your ads certainly bring results. — 

 Baur Gas Co., Eaton, Ind., January 10, 1913. 



CHICACK). 



The Great Central Market. 



The general report is that business 

 was excellent in the first week of Jan- 

 uary, but that it let down in the second 

 week. There have been days of wintry 

 weather that had the usual effect on 

 transient trade in the retail stores, but 

 out-of-town shipping also has -been, 

 if not light, at least spasmodic. It 

 was only because receipts of stock were 

 not heavy that an accumulation has 

 been prevented. 



The principal changes in the market 

 have been a strengthening in roses and 

 a weakening in other lines, notably 

 carnations, violets and orchids. Some 

 of the rose growers are completely off 

 crop and few are cutting at all heavily. 

 Short roses are distinctly scarce, for 

 the principal demand is for funeral 

 work. There are enough of the special 

 fancy grades, but most of the houses 

 only are able to fill the orders for 

 medium lengths because the orders run 

 light. The result has been a stiffening 

 in rose values all along the line, but 



