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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febsuart 9, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



PUBIilSHBD KVXBT THUBSDAY BT 



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530-060 Caxton BuUdlnK. 



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Telephone, Habbison 5429. 



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New Yoek Office: 



Borough Park Brookljm, N. Y. 



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Subscription price, 11.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To Kurope, $2JS0. 



AdvertlBlner rates quoted upon request. Only 

 Itrictiy '■•Tide advertislDK accepted. 



Advertisements must reacli us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure Insertion in tlie Issue of tliat week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 «t the poet-offlce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Ohlcaffo Trade 

 Preas Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEKB, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist ■■■■ ■ ^ 



— Retailers' Adyertising (lllus.) ■> 



— Valentine Tables •/.,•,••.• 5 



— Interior Store Decoration (lllus.) 5 



— Retail Store Management « 



— Irwin Bertermann (portrait) 7 



Glganteums for Easter » 



Flowers for Memorial Day » 



Culture of Snapdragons g 



Time to Sow Zinnias » 



Dahlias at Des Moines (lllus.) » 



Seasonable Suggestions » 



— Bouvardias g 



— Rhododendrons o 



— Lorraine Begonias g 



— Callas 9 



— Gladioli 9 



— Freeslas 9 



Geraniums • 9 



— Seasonable Culture . . • • • • • .q 



lUlnolB State Florists' Association i" 



— Meeting at Champaign :f" 



— President's Address ..•■■• iX 



— The Horticultural Institute iY 



— The Exhibition ,0 



— Those Present • ,1 



Greenhouse Management . , 



C. L. Washburn (portrait) J^ 



Carnations • . •• • • 12 



— Carnations of Today... ••• •• |, 



— Carnation Pocahontas (lllus.) •„••••• ;X 



-A Missouri Carnation Range (lllus.) 13 



Detroit -,•;••,;■• 14 



Gladioli for Memorial Day i* 



News Notes and Comments ^g 



Obituary -la 



— Mrs. Kaber JS 



— John Bauscher, Sr i^ 



— John M. Brown |" 



— Gus Van Velsen J^ 



Chicago 21 



St. Louis no 



New York $2 



Philadelphia 32 



Providence 3g 



"Toronto 3g 



Boston Ao 



Steamer Sailings TT 



Seed Trade News.... ^ 



— Seedsmen are Willing ^2 



— Imports • Aa 



— The Sweet Pea In Commerce *» 



— Catalogues Received Ti 



Dayton. Ohio 22 



Vegetable Forcing 2X 



— Vegetable Markets g5 



— Tomatoes and Cucumbers o^ 



Pacific Coast ^ 



— San Francisco ^x 



— Portland. Ore ^g 



Cortland, N. Y J^. 



Nursery News Sx 



— The American Landscape ™' 



Indianapolis "2 



Columbus, 2JJ 



Baltimore 4'> 



Plttsbnrg. Pa. . . • • ^5 



Crops for Vacant Houses »^ 



Greenhouse Heating 2* 



— Crude Oil as Fuel.... °* 



— An Addition of Six Houses »* 



— One House and a Lean-To »« 



Evansville, Ind S° 



BnfTalo ^ 



CTeveland ^ 



Yonkers, N. Y "^ 



Montgomery ^^ 



Troy, N. Y. — J. G. Barrett, on the 

 hill, reports a continuous run of funeral 

 orders. He keeps his ice-chest always 

 filled with stock and his patrons know 

 he can fill any order of any size at all 

 times. « 



SOCIBTT OF AMERICAN FLOBIRTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, '01. 



Officers for 1011: President, George Asmus, 

 Chicago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Drbana, 

 in.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

 Boston, Mass., March 25 to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 

 to 18, 1911. 



RESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 

 The members of the American Carna- 

 tion Society will wear a special button 

 at Boston and subsequent conventions. 



The southwest has had an unexpected 

 hot wave. At Fort Worth, Tex., Janu- 

 ary 31, 94 degrees was registered. 



Now is a good time to buy cement; 

 prices are said to be based on 85 cents 

 per barrel f. o. b. factory. 



Some of the firms best worth dealing 

 with deny trade prices to those claiming 

 to be florists but who do not use a print- 

 ed letter -head. 



Snow no longer ties up cut flower pro- 

 duction, the way it did before iron gut- 

 ters came into general use. Iron gutters 

 soon clear themselves of snow. 



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. 



A CORRESPONDENT sends a rose bloom, 

 enclosing a scrap of paper on which he 

 has penciled, "Please give me name." 

 There is nothing by which to identify the 

 sender, who evidently has overlooked the 

 fact that anonymous inquiries never are 

 answered. 



The complete premium lists for the 

 National Flower Show at Boston, March 

 25 to April 1, have been issued and may 

 be had by addressing the secretary of 

 any of the special societies cooperating 

 or Chester I. Campbell, manager, 5 Park 

 Square, Boston. 



C. W. Johnson, secretary of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, has sup- 

 plied a tabular report of the work of the 

 committees of the society judging seed- 

 lings and shoots in the season of 1910, 

 which was recorded in detaU in The Re- 

 view at the time. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. Kaber. 



Mrs. Kaber, widow of the founder of 

 the well known Kaber Co., La Porte, 

 Ind., died February 4, She survived 

 her husband by nearly three years. 

 Several children are left, among them 

 W. C. Kaber, who recently retired from 

 the firm and removed to California. 

 There are two daughters. 



John Bauscher, Sr. 



•John Bauscher, Sr., father of the 

 •Tohn Bauscher who conducts a large 

 florists' business on Chicago street, 

 Freeport, 111., died January 26, of pneu- 

 monia. The deceased, also,. was a gar- 

 dener and florist, but retired twenty- 

 four years ago and was succeeded by 

 his son. 



Mr. Bauscher, Sr., was born at 

 Frankf ort-on-the-Main, Germany, March 

 7, 1834, and came to America, with his 

 mother and two brothers, in the fifties. 

 Settling at Freeport, he learned the 

 harness makers' trade, in which he con- 

 tinued for many years, at Freeport, 

 Peoria, 111., and Chattanooga, Tenn. At 



Peoria, in April, 1862, he married Miss 

 Sophia Hoffman. He returned to Free- 

 port in 1865, and ten years later he re- 

 sumed- the business of gardener and 

 florist, which he had learned in Ger- 

 many. He prospered well in this enter, 

 prise, and thus laid the foundations of 

 the business which has been developed 

 to its present large proportions by his 

 son. 



He is survived by his wife, two 

 sons and two daughters, viz.: John 

 Bauscher, Jr., Julius Bauscher, Mrs. 

 Lloyd Aspinwall and Miss Tillie 

 Bauscher, all of Freeport. He also 

 leaves ten grandchildren and two great 

 grandchildren. 



John M. Brown. 



John M. Brown, a florist who had 

 been employed for the last four years 

 at the greenhouses of C. B. Service, in 

 Sharon, Pa., died of pneumonia Jan- 

 uary 27, after an illness of less than 

 one week. He was born in New Jersey 

 thirty-nine years ago. 



&US Van Velsen. 



Gus Van Velsen died at the hospital 

 at Nyack, N. Y., February 3, after an 

 illness of six weeks, contracted from 

 exposure, developing inflammatory rheu- 

 matism. He was a native of Holland, 

 a son of the well known bulb grower 

 of Haarlem, Peter Van Velsen. He came 

 to this country in the early nineties and 

 was employed by Pitcher & Manda, 

 Bobbink & Atkins and other firms near 

 New York. He located in the vicinity 

 of Nyack several years ago and was 

 employed lately by the Palisades Nurs- 

 eries, at Sparkill, up to within a few 

 weeks of his taking sick. 



cmcAOo. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business has been slackening until 

 there is an easier tendency in the mar- 

 ket. When the market is at either ex- 

 treme of supply, either radically short 

 or heavily oversupplied, the shipping 

 demand falls away. When the market 

 is short prices advance beyond the point 

 at which the stores in the smaller cities 

 can use the stock at a profit. This con- 

 dition has prevailed to a certain extent 

 in the last fortnight, but a still more 

 potent factor in reducing demand has 

 been the fact that bulbous stock is now 

 available almost everywhere; nearly 

 every retailer who has any glass at all 

 now has some bulbous flowers of his 

 own, and so does not need to buy in 

 Chicago. A still further factor at the 

 opening of this week was the big storm, 

 which delayed mail and express and in- 

 terfered with retailing everywhere. 



Bulbous stock has felt the changing 

 condition more than any other item. 

 There are now large receipts of fine 

 tulips, better stock than has heretofore 

 been seen, but it is not bringing as 

 much money as a week ago. The same 

 is true of Paper Whites, Romans, jon- 

 quils, daffodils and freesias. Valley also 

 is abundant, though this is one of the 

 items on which no one can predict what 

 the morrow will bring forth. Easter 

 lilies for the moment also are in heavy 

 supply. There are not many callas, nor 

 are they specially good. 



The carnation market has weakened 

 along with that for bulbous stock. There 

 is an adequate supply of all colors of 

 carnations, quality is good and a fairly 

 active business is being done. Prices 

 are no higher than usual at this season, 



