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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEH 20, 19l«. 



commeicial purpost's as follows: Color, 

 18; form, I'i; fullness, 10; stem, 15; 

 foliage, To- substance, 13; size, 9; total, 

 90. 



Before the Cincimiiiti conimitteo, Oc- 

 tober 15, Chrysoloia, yellow, .Japanese 

 incurved, scored for commercial pur- 

 poses as follows: Color, 19; form, 13; 

 fullness, 10; stem. 15; foliage, 13; sub 

 stance, 14; size, 9; total, 94. 



C. S. A. Committees. 



PresidtMit Elmer D. Smith has an 

 nounced committees _Jo examine new- 

 chrysanthemums, which are as folfbws: 



Boston — Win. Nicholson, clialnnau; Jnmes 

 Wlit'i'lci-, Ak'X. Montgomery. Flowers sliippeU 

 to cliaiiinan, care manager of Boston Flower 

 Exchange. Inc., C Park street. 



New York — Eugene Ballleilouze, chairman; 

 Wui. Duckham. A. Herrlngton. Flowers shipped 

 to New York Cut Flower Co., 55 Twenty-second 

 street, care Kugene Dailledouze. 



Philadelphia— A. B. Cartledge, chairman; John 

 Westcott, S. S. Pennock. Flowers sliipped to 

 chairman, 1514 Chestnut street. 



Cincinnati - K. Wltterstaetter, chairman; 

 .Tames Allen, Henry Scliwartz. Flowers shipped 

 to chairman, Jabez Elliott Market, care of 

 janitor. 



ChlcHgo — ,T. B. Deaniud, chairman; (Jeo. .\s- 

 mus, W. II. Kldwell. Flowers shipped to J. It. 

 Ueamud, 51 Wabash avenue. 



The committees will he in session to examine 

 such exhibits as may be sul)mitte<I Ociober 29, 

 .\i)vend)er 5. VJ, IS) and 20. 



THE FLORIST'S WIFE. 



[A paper read before the meeting of the St. 

 Louis Ladles' Home Circle by Mrs. John L. 

 Koenlg, Thursday, September 15, 1910.] 



Having been asked to read an essay 

 before this club, I have selected a sub- 

 ject which I consider of great impor- 

 tance to every lady, mistress of a home, 

 and especially to the mistresses or 

 managers of florists' homes. 



The appropriate use of trees, shrubs, 

 vines and herbaceous plants in the 

 adornment of city, village, suburban or 

 country home grounds gives a charm 

 and beauty which are as interesting, in- 

 structive and pleasing to the passers-by 

 as to the occupant of the home. 



Whose duty should it be more than 

 that of the florist's wife, daughter or 

 sweetheart, to foster the idea and give 

 assistance to her neighbors and friends, 

 as to how and when to plant trees, 

 shrubs, vines and bedding plants? You 

 all know how solicitous we are to tell 

 one another how to fashion a new dress 

 or hat, or how to cook a new dish, or 

 hang new style draperies. Why not use 

 as great effort to promote the beau t if y- 

 iug of home grounds? We, standing so 

 much nearer to the craftsman, can ob- 

 tain expert advice as to the proper time 

 and methods to be employed in the 

 work, and I consider it our duty to see 

 that our home grounds stand as an ex- 

 ample to others who have not the ad- 

 vantages we have. 



It is not my aim to tell you how to 

 lay out your grounds or what to plant, 

 for that should bfe left to each one's 

 taste and according to space and local- 

 ity, but what I sincerely expect of all 

 is to keep whatever you plant in a pre- 

 sentable condition at all times, for noth- 

 ing is more deplorable to behold than a 

 place which was nicely laid out and 

 then neglected. Let me warn you now 

 not to make too elaborate preparations, 

 unless you are certain that you will be 

 able to maintain the proposed creation; 

 for a single flower bed in a well kept 

 lawn is preferable to a lot of*flowers 

 scattered over a large area and left 

 to shift for themselves. Think of the 

 alternative of the morning-glory, with 

 its open countenance halfway up the 

 side of your house, nodding a friendly 

 good morning to the rose in her bed. 



with, a blanket of alternantheras cover- 

 ing her feet; or the discarded ketchup 

 bottle making faces at the empty to- 

 mato can among plantain, dock and jim- 

 son weeds. 



Every successful attempt to adorn 

 your home grounds has a valuable influ- 

 ence upon the community in which you 

 are situated. Such grounds furnish an 

 object lesson which others will attempt 

 to follow, and in this way they serve 

 th(^ useful purpose of stimulating in 

 others a love for the beautiful in na- 

 ture. It also has a tendency to increase 

 the income of the florists. Fortunately, 

 the beauty which is produced by orna- 

 mental planting cannot be selfishly kept 

 for the exclusive use of its owner; 

 every passer-by can take the full meas- 

 ure of his capacity without in the least 

 detracting from the value of the plan- 

 tation to its owner. Every person who 

 plants a tree is a public benefactor. 



VIOLETS WITH SWEET PEAS. 



Can you tell me what is the matter 

 with my violets? I am enclosing a few 

 leaves and if you can give me any 

 information regarding them it will be 

 appreciated. I have a greenhouse, 22x 

 70, chiefly in violets, and there is some- 

 thing wrong with them. We also have 

 our sweet peas in the same house and I 

 am enclosing some of them. They are 

 not doing as well as they might. Will 

 you tell us what to do with them? I 

 am located in eastern Missouri. 



S. H. 



The foliage of the single violets for 

 warded was badly affected by leaf-spot. 

 This does not usually attack single 

 violets, as it does doubles, and even 

 when it does the plants will grow out 

 of it. The single violets should not be 

 housed before they have had one or 

 two freezings to check leaf-growth. 

 They should not have gone in, in your 

 climat<>, before the middle of October. 

 Too early planting causes many failures 

 in single violet culture. Your night 

 temperature should be kept as near 40 

 ilegrees as possible in winter, but if you 

 have sweet peas in the same house and 

 are intending to flower them early, the 

 temperature must be raised 6 or 8 de- 

 grees when the peas start to show buds. 

 -This will make it pretty warm for 

 violets, which, however, are usually run 

 out under glass from the middle to the 

 end of March. 



Pick off all diseased leaves. Give the 

 house abundant ventilation night and 

 day. Scratch over the surface soil and 

 keep rubbiflh cleaned up on the paths 

 or under the benches, if you use 

 benches. Never mind if the tempera- 

 ture gets down near freezing; it will 

 not atfect the violets. 



The sweet pea foliage was all brown 

 when received. The haulm apparently 

 is weak. Your rows should not be 

 closer than four feet apart, and are bet- 



ter even wider, provided the head room 

 is ample. Perhaps your seed was sown 

 thickly and the seedlings not thinned. 

 The individual plants should be four to 

 six inches apart to become stocky. As 

 you are growing the two crops, it will 

 be best to run the house cool, to suit the 

 violets, until the middle or end of Feb- 

 ruary; then gradually raise the temper- 

 ature for t'he sweet peas, pulling out the 

 violets as they run out. C, W. 



JOHN BERTEEMANN. 



There are few retail florists who are 

 more widely or more favorably known in 

 the trade than John Bertermann, of the 

 firm of Bertermann Bros. Co., Indian- 

 apolis, Ind. He possesses two qualities 

 which naturally lead to such extensive 

 acquaintance — he is up-to-date in his 

 business methods and is also public-spir- 

 ited, taking an active interest in the gen- 

 eral welfare of the craft and attending 

 an unusually large proportion of florists' 

 gatherings, both local and national. His 

 store in Indianapolis is one of the hand- 

 somest and best equipped in the country 

 and of course handles a high class of 

 trade. At the last convention of the 

 A. C. S., in Pittsburg, he assisted in the 

 organization of the Retail Florists' De- 

 livery Association and was elected a 

 member of the board of directors of the 

 new society, 



John Bertermann was born April 25, 

 1850, at Wilhelmshohe, Hessen-Cassel, 

 Germany. He started to learn the flo- 

 rists' business May 19, 1864, in the gar- 

 dens of the emperor (of Germany. Dur- 

 ing the FranaO'German war, 1870-1871, 

 he was detailed to special decoration duty 

 in the Hessen-Cassel, during the time 

 that Napoleon, emperor of France, was 

 prisoner there. 



His brother, William Bertermann, 

 sailed for America in 1872 and John fol- 

 lowed him in 1876, with the intention of 

 starting a flower business in the new 

 world. They were unable at the time to 

 carry out their intentions, and John took 

 a position at Newport, Ky., where he 

 worked six months with a private con- 

 cern. For some time after that he was 

 employed by B. P. Critehell, at Car- 

 thage, O. 



December 3, 1878, the two brothers 

 moved to Indianapolis and found employ- 

 ment with C. Lange, whose business was 

 located in East Washington street. They 

 worked for Mr. Lange until February, 

 1879, at which time they purchased his 

 business. The next year they built a 

 greenhouse at ^the corner of Liberty and 

 New York streets, and in 1882 moved 

 the store from East Washington street to 

 the present location at 241 Massachusetts 

 avenue. 



In 1891 death called William Berter. 

 mann away, which left the business in 

 charge of John Bertermann, under the 

 present firm name of Bertermann Bros. 

 Co. 



In 1905 John Bertermann purchased 

 a farm containing 103 acres, located at 

 Cumberland, east of the city, and in the 

 following year he erected on this farm 

 a range of greenhouses which are used 

 exclusively for growing carnations. 



Akron, O. — M. Gemind, employee of 

 M. ,T. Gilbo & Sons, reports that this 

 firm is erecting two houses, each 18x110. 

 which, with last year's additions, will 

 give 30,000 square feet under glass. 

 These houses are truss construction, 

 with iron gutters. 



