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The Florists^ Review 



February 27, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



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Entered as second class matter Decembers. 1897. 

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

 March 3. 1879. 



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OONTBNTS. 



The Art of Flower Arrangement 11 



— Clusters and Bouquets (lUus.) 11 



Saltford Says It Pavs 12 



A Georgia Orchid Wreath (lllus.) 12 



Scabiosas and Ccntaureas 12 



Good Dahlias for Cutting 12 



Chloride of Lime in Water 12 



Buifton's Silver Pink 13 



Primula Obconlca 14 



A 9eoria Store (lllus.) 14 



Seasonable Suggestions— Rambler Roses 14 



— Haster Llties 14 



— Dutch Bulbs for Easter » 14 



— Stevla ~ 14 



— The Propagating Beucli 14 



— Cyclamens 15 



— Amaryllis 15 



Jnternational Flower Show 15 



<;harles Loverldge (portrait) 15 



Illinois States Association 15 



-American Rose Society 15 



^oses — Hybrid Teas for Easter 16 



— Roses Badly Mildewed 16 



— Roses In A Small House 16 



— Ramona, The Red Cherokee IC 



Geraniums — Starvation 16 



Greenhouse Insurance 17 



John Bauscher (portrait) 17 



Milwaukee 18 



Evansvllle. Ind 18 



Syracuse, X. Y 18 



Providence, R. 1 18 



Newport, R. 1 18 



Cook County Association 1& 



A. C. Kohlbrand (portrait) 19 



St. Louis 20 



Louisville 20 



Springfield. Mass 20 



Obituary 21 



— Abraham Moltz (portrait) 21 



— Edwai'U Bourque 21 



— Wm. Blacker 21 



— Louis' Spath 21 



— Charles Slebrecht 21 



— Charles Layer * 21 



— Charles A. Mason 21 



Greenwich, Conn 21 



Again The Record 22 



S. A. F. Directors ( 22 



Chicago 22 



New York 28 



Philadelphia 32 



Lancaster, Pa 3« 



Pittsburgh 40 



Astoria, N. Y 40 



Boston 42 



Toronto, Ont 45 



Nashville, Tenn 46 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Seed Trade News 50 



— The Spencer Sweet Peas 52 



— Onion Seed on the Coast 54 



— Catalogues Received 58 



Indianapolis, Ind 60 



Pacific Coast Department 62 



— Portland, Ore 62 



— Los Angeles, Cal 02 



— Seattle 64 



— San Francisco 66 



Pansies for Memorial Day CO 



Nursery News 72 



■ — The Meneray Receivership 72 



New Haven, Conn 74 



Washington 70 



Toledo, O. 78 



Paris, Tex. 78 



New Orlenns 80 



Dayton, Ohio 82 



Hartford. Conn 84 



Tarrytown, N. Y 84 



Cincinnati 86 



Greenhouse Heating 102 



— Relative Sizes of Pipes 102 



— Size of Flow and Return 102 



— From Hot Water to 3t«sm 10.S 



Rochester , 106 



Columbus, O -...«... 100 



Bowling — At Milwaukee 10>< 



— At Chicago , 108 



— At Pittsburgh 1«S 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

 dore Wlrtb, Minneapolis; secretary, John Toung, 

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

 Hasting, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 6 to 12, 1018. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., August 10 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 110 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



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 box manufacturers' national as- 

 sociation was in session last week at Chi- 

 cago. The talk was largely of the in- 

 creasing scarcity of low grade lumber 

 and the certainty of steadily advancing 

 prices for such shipping boxes as whole- 

 sale cut flower dealers use. 



We often are told that life is growing 

 more complex every day, and the truth of 

 the observation is shown by the arrival 

 of the "Proceedings" of the Society of 

 Iowa Florists. It is a well printed vol- 

 ume of 208 pages! What do you think 

 of that for a state society? 



C. W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 111., 

 secretary of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America, last week issued a tabulated 

 report of the work of the society's com- 

 mittees on seedlings for the season of 

 1912. As the work was progressing it 

 was recorded from week to week in The 

 Review. The number of seedlings exam- 

 ined in 1912 was less than in previous 

 years. 



The St. Valentine's day trade reports 

 show beyond a doubt that where the 

 florist individually acted on the sugges- 

 tions contained in the St. Valentine's 

 Number of The Review, or where sev- 

 eral acted in concert, there was a hand- 

 some increase in business — an important 

 number, if not 10,000, enjoyed it — but 

 that where the florist made no effort in 

 his own behalf the business of the day 

 showed little if anv increase. 



AGAIN THE RECORD. 



For the third week in succession the 

 Classified department in this issue of 

 The Review breaks the record. Large 

 ^s has been the volume of classified 

 plant advertising in preceding issues, 

 this week's Review carries more than 

 any preceding issue. The grofwth since 

 the first of the year has been nearly 

 six pages of these busy little, compact 

 liners. 



The best feature of thigV classified 

 plant advertising is that it comes to 

 The Review practically without solicita- 

 tion, being brought in by the knowl- 

 edge the trade possesses that these are 

 extremely efficient advertisements. 

 They cost little, but, what is more im- 

 portant, they do the work. 

 'This is the way it works: 



Please stop my vlnca ad before I get swamped; 

 am all sold out. — W. B. Woodruff, Wcstfield. 

 N. J., February 24, 1913. 



Please cut out the varieties marked In the en- 

 closed list, as these are sold. The Review has 

 put me into business; I must thank you for the 

 nice orders and checks I receive dally. — Theo. D. 

 Kuebler, Evansvllle, Ind., February 24. 1913. 



S. A. F. DIRECTORS. 



The mid-Lent meeting of the directors 

 of the 8. A. F. is being held at Minne- 

 apolis this week and, except for the 

 absence of Secretary Young, there is a 

 full attendance. Those present are: 

 President J. K. M.^L. Farquhar, Boston, 

 Mass.; Vice-president Theodore Wirth, 

 Minneapolis; Treasurer W. F. Kasting, 

 Buffalo; Ex-president R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md., and the following di- 

 rectors: E. Allan Peirce, Waltham, 

 Mass.; Harry A. Bunyard, New York 

 city; C. H. Totty, Madison, N. J.; J. A. 

 Evans, Richmond, Ind.; Thomas Roland, 

 Nahant, Mass., and A. F. Poehlmann, 

 Morton Grov'e, 111. Ex-president George 

 Asmus, of Chicago, also is present, act- 

 ing in place of Secretary Young, who 

 was taken suddenly ill last week and 

 is in Roosevelt hospital in New York 

 city threatened with appendicitis. 



The executive board has before it the 

 routine business affairs of the society, 

 the approval of the final details for the 

 National Flower Show at New York 

 and the preparations for the August 

 convention at Minneapolis. The Minne- 

 apolis and St. Paul florists are offering 

 hospitality to the directors. The meet- 

 ing covers three days — February 25 to 

 27. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Little change has taken place on the 

 local market during the last week and 

 the usual Lenten business is being car- 

 ried on. Stock is more plentiful and 

 roses especially appear to be on the in- 

 crease, although full crops are not yet 

 reported. Shipping trade has been hold- 

 ing up well. The orders are fairly nu- 

 merous, but those from the regular 

 flower stores are not large. Big lots of 

 cheap stock go to the special sales peo- 

 ple. Many, if not all local houses, be- 

 moan the falling off in the out-of-town 

 demand for bulbous stock, which is less 

 than ever this season. The quantities 

 of bulbous stock now coming on the 

 market are finding an exceedingly poor 

 demand and the prices obtained for 

 high grade stock will hardly cover the 

 cost of the bulbs. Local trade has not 

 been rushing sine* St. Valentine 's day 

 and until Easter there is'little expected 

 in the way of a big local demand. 



Strictlv first-class Beauties are scarce. 



