The Florists^ Review 



Febkuaky 6, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 110 



OONTBNTS. 



The Art of Flower Arrangement 9 



-—Art &s Applied to Baskets (UIus.) 9 



Cooperative Publicity (Ulus.) 10 



A Unique Advertisement 10 



^he Old-Fasliloned Bouquet 10 



Good Returns 11 



The C!o8t of Space 11 



Violets 11 



— Violets Flowering Poorly 11 



Hydrangeas 11 



Carnations 12 



— Buds Eaten Hollow 12 



— Weak Stems 12 



— Rust on Victory Carnations. . : 12 



"- Poorly Formed Calyxes 12 



— Covered with Red Spider 12 



An Arkansas Exhibition (illiis. ) 12 



A Car of Cannas (illus. ) 13 



The Opener (Ulus. ) 13 



Ohio Gladiolus Growers 13 



Banana In a Greenhouse 13 



Roses 14 



— Beauties Not Flowering 14 



— Swelling on Beauty Stems 14 



— Roses for Outdoor Planting ' 14 



Valley for Easter 14 



The Florist and His Market 14 



Wallace R. Pierson (portrait t 15 



Morgen's Three Essentials (illus.) 17 



Asters for Memorial Day 17 



Seasonable Suggestions 18 



— Verbenas 18 



— Bulbous Plants 18 



— Pentstemons 18 



— Dracaena Australls 18 



— Stevia 18 



— Spiraeas 18 



— Deciduous Shrubs for Easter 18 



— Rhododendrons 18 



Rock Plants 18 



Banquets 19 



— Yonkera, N. Y 19 



— Morristown, N. J 19 



— Oyster Bay 19 



Society of American Florists 19 



Obituary 20 



— Fred Schmeling 20 



— H. M. Walbrldge 20 



— Martin Grady 20 



— Daniel Twoomey 20 



— Dr. Adolph Leue 20 



— Thomas V. Munson 20 



— G. T. Cordua 20 



Bowling 20 



— At Milwaukee 20 



— At Chicago 20 



— Glen Cove Defeats Youkers 20 



News, Notes, and Comments 21 



From Potighkoepsle 22 



Correspondents 22 



Chicago 22 



Boston 26 



Philadelphia 32 



Cincinnati 34 



New York 30 



Washington 40 



Narcissi Not Flowering 42 



St. Louis 44 



Providence 47 



Plttsburgli 4S 



Steamer Sailings 50 



Seed Trade News 52 



— Too Wet in Washington 54 



— Onion Sets 54 



— Seed Importation Rules '. 55 



Pacific Coast Department 64 



— Los Angeles 04 



— San Francisco 66 



— Seattle 67 



— Portland, Ore 68 



Commercial Orris Root 6S 



Nursery News 74 



— Effect of Quarantine Law 74 



Culture of Celoslas 78 



Hartford. Conn 80 



Nashville. Tenn S2 



Cleveland. 84 



Dayton. 8« 



Perennials from Seed 98 



Vegetable Forcing 99 



— Lettuce in Hotbeds 99 



— Mealy Bug in Grapery 99 



Greenhouse Heating 100 



— Boiler Across Alley 100 



— The Fuel Market 100 



Kansas City 102 



Beaumont, Tex 104 



Glenwood. Mich 106 



Waterbury , Conn 106 



Rochester, N. Y 108 



Newark, N. J. — ^Ernest Eadany, for- 

 merly gardener at the country place 

 of E. G. Holhorn, at Succasunna, N. J., 

 has removed to this city, where he has 

 purchased a florist's business. 



The Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth 

 Annual Convention of the Society of 

 American Florists has been mailed to 

 members by Secretary Young, The vol- 

 ume contains the report of the doings at 

 Chicago last August, with lists of mem- 

 bers and other statistics, of the society. 

 The volume is in the usual form. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



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Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertising accepted. 



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

 to Insure insertion in the issue of that week. 



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. 



800IETY OF AHEKIOAN FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1801. 



Officers tor 1913: President, J. K. M. L. 

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

 dore WIrth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Tonng, 

 64 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 6 to 1?, 1913. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Angnst 19 to 22, 1913. 



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 growers who bought Sunburst 

 rose last season are using all the wood 

 for propagating, so that few flowers are 

 reaching the markets. It has acquitted 

 itself so well in its first year that it will 

 be planted extensively for next season. 



The final schedule of premiums for the 

 Third National Flower Show, to be held 

 by the S. A. F. and contributing so- 

 cieties, at New York, April 5 to 12, has 

 been distributed. It is the most compre- 

 hensive premium list ever issued in 

 America. Copies may be had by ad- 

 dressing John Young, secretary, 54 "West 

 Twenty-eighth street, New York city. 



Lent opened this week, but it cuts 

 less and less figure in the flower business 

 as the years roll by. 



Pecky cypress will cost the growers 

 loore this season than it ever has before. 

 When this wood first came to be used 

 for greenhouse benches, it had compara- 

 tively few other uses, but now it is em- 

 ployed wherever lasting qualities are 

 more essential than good looks. Lum- 

 bermen explain that the present scarcity 

 and higher prices are due to the quan- 

 tities that have been used this season in 

 Mississippi river levee work. It is stated 

 that it will be several months before the 

 supply becomes normal again. 



FROM POUGHKEEPSIE. 



One of the peculiar facts about ad- 

 vertising is that an advertiser is more 

 impressed by the receipt of one order 

 from a great distance than he is by a 

 dozen similar orders from close at home. 

 Like this: 



Please stop my advertisement of Spren- 

 gerl, as I am about sold out. To show you 

 what a wide range Review advertisements 

 have, I will say that I shipped Sprengeri to 

 the John Connon Floral Co., of Hamilton, 

 Ont., Can., and have an order on my desk 

 now for the Texas Nursery & Floral Co., 

 Alvin, Texas. The Review certainly is read 

 everywhere and Is a strong puller. — George 

 A. Relyea, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., January 25, 

 191.H. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The Review is in position to use 

 weekly or biweekly news letter from 

 the following cities: 



Baltimore. 



Minneapolis. 



Omaha. 



Buffalo. 



Utica. 



Correspondents should be those whose 

 daily duties take them out among the 

 trade. 



CHICAaO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Little if any change has taken place 

 on this market since the last report, the 

 demand and the supply holding about 

 the same as they were a week ago. The 

 change in the weather, however, has 

 been more pronounced and the tempera- 

 ture has suffered several drops, to near 

 the zero mark, which has not done any- 

 thing to improve the local demand. The 

 large supply of carnations is still in 

 effect and, while bulbous stock is plenti- 

 ful, the only oversupply is in carna- 

 tions. In these there is considerable 

 improvement in the quality of the stock 

 being shipped. While weak stems seem 

 to prevail in the shipments of many 

 growers, there are more of the better 

 ones to be found than heretofore. En- 

 chantress is in larger supply than any 

 other, but there is no shortage reported 

 on any color, there being plenty of red, 

 white and pink. Roses remain on the 

 short side, especially in the shorter 

 lengths. Of the longer ones there is a 

 much better supply, but most whole- 

 salers still find it diflicult to fill all 

 their orders, and it is hardly expected 

 that any heavy crops will be cut for 

 another two weeks at the earliest. Of 

 those now being cut the Killarneys ap- 

 pear to be in larger supply than the 

 White Killarneys, while Richmonds are 

 scarcest. 



Beauties of the longer grades are 

 being cut in fair quantities, but the 

 stems of many are weak and the blooms 



