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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Apbil 20, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GKANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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 508 South Dearborn St., ChicaKo. 



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Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. ni. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion in the issue of tliat week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 181)7, 

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

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVERTISEBS, FAOE 94. 



CONTENTS 



The Easter Trade Reports 9 



The Retail Florist 9 



— More About Color 9 



— Free Helps (lUus. ) 10 



— The Penultimate Design (lUus.) 10 



Good Plants to Grow 11 



Valley for Memorial Day 11 



Sweet Pe.i Society 11 



Notes on Primroses ■. . . . 12 



— A Grower's Observations (lllus.) 12 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes (lllus.) 14 



Planting Trees and Shrubs 15 



Seasonable .Suggestions — Lorraine Begonias... 16 



— Poinsettias 16 



— Primulas 16 



— Gloxinias 16 



— Calceolarias 16 



Factory for Y^oung Stock (illus.) 16 



Boston 17 



St. Louis 18 



Milwaukee 19 



Lexington, Ky 19 



New York 20 



Glen Cove, N. Y 20 



Dayton, O 21 



Providence 21 



Buffalo 21 



Obituary— Walter H. Knapp 22 



Chicago 22 



Maiden, Mass 2i 



Philadelphia 28 



Denver 31 



Indianapolis 38 



Topeka, Kan 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Waterbury, Conn 44 



Seed Trade News — Lupine Seed Duty I'tee 50 



— Convention for Marblebead 51 



— Imports 52 



— Wild Celery Seed Duty Free 52 



-Vustln, Tex 53 



Toronto 53 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 58 



— Is the Water Injurious? .58 



— Hen Manure (or Tomatoes 58 



Parlflc Coast 58 



— Portland, Ore 58 



— The Meeting At San Jose 58 



— - San Francisco 59 



Nursery News — Inspecting Imported Stock... 60 



Washington. D. C 64 



''olumbus, 66 



Pittsburg 68 



Kansas City 70 



( Jreenhouse Heating 84 



— Fewer Flows, More Returns 84 



— Gate and Check Valves . .'. 84 



— Hot Water In I^rgo Ranges 85 



KvausviUe, Ind 88 



Albany, N. Y 90 



New Orleans 90 



Rochester 92 



Oshkosh, Wis 92 



IMPORTS OF LILY BUDS. 



The steamer Bermudiana, which ar- 

 rived at New York a week before 

 Easter, brought from Bermuda 1,542 

 cases of lily buds, consigned as follows: 



Consignee. Cases. 



Adams Express Co 238 



Crossmond, F. D 2 



Downing'!* Express Co 2 



Outerbrldge, A. E., & Co 51 



Olivet Bros 211 



Rltchey, D. P 6 



Titus Bros 52 



Vandegrlft, F. B., & Co 349 



Wells, Fargo & Co 373 



WaUace, T. P 55 



Ehlers, J. F 9 



McClees, P 3 



Maltus & Ware 191 



Total 1,542 



80CIETT OF AHBBIGAM FLOBISTS. 



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



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmus, 

 Obicago; rlce-presldent, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Domer, Urbana, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Z. 



Annual conrentlon, Baltimore, Md., Angnat 16 

 t* 18, 1811. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The sweet pea was one of the most 

 popular flowers this Easter. 



Queen Mary has designated Carnation 

 Winsor as the ofScial flower for her coro- 

 nation functions. 



There is one business facility the 

 florists of Great Britain now have that 

 is not given to the trade in America: In 

 England insurance is written against bad 

 weather, and for such an occasion as 

 Easter merchants in^many lines protect 

 their investments in perishable merchan- 

 dise by taking out Pluvious policies. 



OBITXJARY. 



Walter H. Knapp. 



Walter H. Knapp, for twenty-six 

 years a florist in Newton and Welles- 

 ley, Mass., died April 11, at Eutland, 

 Mass., after an illness of two weeks, 

 though he had been in poor health since 

 early winter. His body was taken to 

 Newton, where the funeral took place 

 from his home, at 121 North street. 

 He was born in Brookline and obtained 

 his education in the public schools and 

 later at Amherst Agricultural College, 

 from which he was graduated in 1875. 

 His death marks the second in a- class 

 of eighteen in thirty-five years. Aside 

 from his vocation as a florist, he won 

 considerable local prominence as a 

 singer in church choirs in Newton and 

 Wellesley Hills. He was about 56 years 

 old and is survived by his mother. 



In the death of Walter H. Knapp, 

 April 11, ait Eutland sanatorium for 

 tuberculosis patients, Boston has lost 

 one of its most upright and highly re- 

 spected florists. The deceased gentle- 

 man was born fifty-eix years ago in 

 Brookline, Mass., and was educated in 

 the public schools there and later at 

 Amherst Agricultural College. Since 

 1875 he had followed the florists' busi- 

 ness in Newton and Wellesley, growing 

 a miscellaneous line of plants, such as 

 the average florist does not handle. In 

 addition to an excellent home trade, 

 he had a stand at the Boston Flower 

 Exchange, with which he had been 

 identified for over sixteen years. He 

 was at one time a member of the firm 

 of Callender & Knapp, taking over the 

 business himself on his partner's death 

 and continuing it successfully. Mr. 

 Knapp 's was a familiar figure in flower 

 circles, and at the annual dinner of the 

 flower market he has made some inter- 

 esting addresses. 



Mr. Knapp belonged to the S. A. F. 

 and won considerable prominence as a 

 singer in local churches. He never 

 married, but lived with his mother, who 

 survives him, and for whom much sym- 

 pathy is felt. At the funeral services 

 April 14 many of his brother florists 

 attended to pay their last tribute of 

 esteem. Among many beautiful de- 

 signs was one from the Boston Flower 

 Exchange and another from the sales- 

 men and buyers at the wholesale mar- 

 kets. W. N. Craig. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



The Easter trade, both wholesale and 

 retail, turned out better than seemed 

 possible forty-eight hours before the 

 day dawned. Business was slow in de- 

 veloping and the early part of the 

 week did not produce, with many, a 

 volume of sales equal to those of a 

 year ago. April 14 was the big ship- 

 ping day in the wholesale market, but 

 it did not come up to previous high 

 records. The retailers did the bulk of 

 their business Saturday, and it was 

 Saturday evening and Sunday morning 

 that the wholesalers wrote the tickets 

 that made the Easter week compare 

 favorably with last year. Prices were 

 not excessive at any time or on any 

 line of stock, so that the retailers were 

 able to sell at little more than their 

 usual scale of prices, and in the end 

 rounded up an immense volume of cut 

 flower business, in addition to their 

 plant trade. The market undoubtedly 

 handled more flowers for Easter than 

 in any other one week in the history 

 of the business in Chicago. Practically 

 everyone did as much business as at 

 any preceding Easter, and some had 

 nice gains because of the large supply 

 and in spite of lower average prices. 



If lilies are considered the most im- 

 portant item at Easter, no one went 

 without them this year. The supply 

 was much greater than at any previous 

 Easter. Prices were not strong at any 

 time, and among the stock left unsold 

 were some of the best lilies received 

 during the week; the fact seemed to 

 be that the short lilies, for which the 

 wholesalers were willing to take 6 

 cents in large lots, cleaned up, while 

 for the stock held to be worth 10 cents 

 or bett^j there proved to be no buyer. 

 The stock carried over was in no case 

 an important part of the week's re- 

 ceipts, so that on the whole wholesalers 

 and retailers feel satisfied with the 

 outcome, however it may be regarded 

 by the growers. 



Eeceipts of Beauties proved to be 

 considerably heavier than had been 

 anticipated. There were moments when 

 stock was not available for orders, but 

 those who needed Beauties had much 

 less difficulty in obtaining them than 

 had been expected. Of other roses 

 the supply was enormous, the quality 

 in general was exceptionally fine, and 

 buyers were given full value for their 

 money. With so large a supply of fine 

 long roses, the shorts did not fare well, 

 and there were extremely heavy re- 

 ceipts of roses that, while they carried 

 good heads, were short in stem. The 

 buyers who could use this stock in 

 large quantities obtained bargains. 

 Eichmond was the one rose of which 

 more could have been used, and for 

 this many substituted short Beauties, a 

 condition exactly the opposite of the 

 general holiday experience. 



Another item on which this year's 

 experience was the opposite of the 

 usual was white carnations. Ordinarily 

 these are the wholesaler's chief prob- 

 lem at Easter; the supply usually is 

 greater than of any other color and, if 

 any carnations are a glut, it ordinarily 

 is white. This year white was about the 

 only color it was difficult to supply, 

 though red and dark pink also were in 

 request. Enchantress was the carna- 

 tion that piled up and pulled down the 



