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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 30, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



e. L. OBAKT. Bditob and Mamaqib. 



tVBUBBXD tVtXt TEUB8DAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLI6HINO CO. 



680>560 Gaxton Balldtns* 



liOft South Dearborn St., Chloago. 



TXIJU>HOMK, Habbison 5429. 

 HBl ' mKU OABUe ADDBX88. IXOBVIKW, OHIOAOO 



Niw YoBK Office: 



mo Forty-Ninth St Brooklyn. N. T. 



Tzi.KPBom, 2632 W. Borough Park. 

 J.Austin 8haw, Managkb. 



Sabacriptlon price, |1 JX) a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 ro Korope, $2JiO. 



▲dyertialnff rates qaoted apon request. Only 

 ■trlctly trade adverttelngr accepted. 



AdvertlaementB must reach us by S p. m. Taedday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Ohlcaco, IlL. under the act of 

 March 8. 1819. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trad* 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



Wreath for Criticism 9 



— The Martyrdom Continued (Illus.) i) 



The Bride's MuBf (Ilius.) 10 



The Huntington Estate (Illus. ) 12 



The American Jurors i:{ 



Plan a Publicity Campaign 13 



Relative Values of Manures i:{ 



Peonies 14 



— American Peony Society 14 



Orchids ^ 14 



— Seasonable Notes 14 



— Cypripedium Olivia (Illus.) 15 



Four-Leaved Clovers 15 



Plans for Trade Show (Ilhis.) 1« 



Boston 16 



Obituary 17 



— Joiin Ix>dder 17 



— Thomas Clark 17 



— Lawrence Hay 17 



— Mary E. Strall 17 



— Luther T. Brown 17 



— G. A. Lindsay 17 



— Georges Bruant 17 



Let Everybody Boost 18 



The Crop Prospect 18 



Manda'8 Success 18 



Correspondents Wanted 18 



Chicago 18 



Providence, R. 1 27 



Philadelphia 28 



New York 30 



Compost for Carnations 34 



Bowling 3(i 



— At New York 3(i 



— At Chicago 30 



I^aneaster, Pa 30 



Washington 38 



St. Louis 40 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Pacific Coast Department 40 



— Portland, Ore 40 



— Taooma, Wash 40 



— Lop Angeles, Cal 40 



— Sail Francisco 47 



— Bellingham, Wash 48 



— Visitors at San Mateo (Illus. ) 4S 



Seed Trade News ri2 



— Pea Prospects Not So Bad i>3 



— Tlie Seed Season 54 



— Convention I'rogram 5(i 



— Catalogues Received 50 



— A New Branch Seed House 56 



Nursery News 02 



— Propagating Evergreens 02 



Cincinnati OCi 



Rochester, N. Y 08 



Denver 72 



Evansville, Ind 74 



Vegetable Forcing fi 



Greenhouse Heating 88 



— Heating Hints 88 



— Boiler Worked Poorly 88 



— The Fuel Situation ftO 



Fort Smith, Ark !>2 



Baltimore. Md 02 



Albert Lea, Minn 00 



Stoughton, Mass. — Fred Slye has pur- 

 chased a tract of. ground, comprising 

 fifteen lots, at Tolman Heights, and 

 will engage in business as a market gar- 

 dener. He will build a greenhouse, but 

 will use most of the space for outdoor 

 crops. 



Sycamore, HI. — William Swinbank 

 has decided to tear down, rebuild and 

 enlarge his greenhouses. The work of 

 dismantling the present houses will be- 

 gin as soon as the stock has been 

 planted out in the field. The new ma- 

 terials will be furnished by the Foley 

 Mfg. Co. Concrete and iron will be 

 used as largely as possible. 



SOCIETY OF AKEBICAK FL0KI8TS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1001. 

 Officers foi 1012: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md.; Tice-president, August Poehl- 

 inauii, Morton Grove, 111.; secretary, John Young, 

 fi4 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Coliseum, Chicago, III., 

 August 20 to 23, 1812. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 98 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



There is said to be a scarcity of green 

 magnolia leaves, due to the condition of 

 the raw material, which just at this time 

 is not in shape for shipping. 



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 heat is not nearly so great as it 

 was just before Memorial day last year, 

 but it nevertheless is a handicap on the 

 business of the week. It makes garden 

 flowers too plentiful for the florists' 

 trade and greenhouse flowers too soft to 

 handle to best advantage. 



The way the trade is growing is shown 

 by the fact that the supply houses fre- 

 quently find themselves short on stock 

 of which they thought they had bought 

 to cover any possible demand. Ruscus 

 last Christmas, for instance, green mag- 

 nolia leaves for Memorial day, and cer- 

 tain popular styles of wedding and com- 

 mencement baskets. 



One of the largest growers of first- 

 class peonies says he has progressed to 

 the point of realizing that the retailers 

 must be given a chance to make money 

 on the crop if a satisfactory sale is to 

 be found for large quantities season after 

 season. The proposition is not to charge 

 all the trafiic will bear, but to supply 

 good stock at a price that will afford 

 an inducement to the retailers to push 

 it. 



LET EVERYBODY BOOST. 



If .vou see some member tryin' 



For to make some project go. 

 You can boost it up a trifle; 



That's .vour cue to let him know 

 That you're not a-goln' to knock it. 



Just because it ain't your time. 

 But you're goln' to boost a little. 



'Cause he's got "the best thing gwlne." 



If you know some member's fallln's. 

 Just forget 'em, 'cause you know 



That same member's got some good polnt.s, 

 Them's the ones you want to show: 

 "Cast your loaves out on the waters, 

 They'll come back," 'tis a sayin' true: 

 .Maybe they'll come back "well-buttered," 

 When some member boosts for you." 



— Newspaper Clipplns- 



THE CROP PROSPECT. 



A crop report has been prepared by 

 the vice-president of one of the largest 

 distributing concerns of the country 

 from reports made to him by his many 

 hundreds of salesmen, who have made 

 systematic investigations under his di- 

 rection. It is observed that while con- 

 ditions are certainly backward — the 

 crops being from two to five weeks late 

 as a rule — "a few weeks of warm, fair 

 weather would produce one of the best 

 prospects in general which we have had 

 for a number of years, while a con- 

 tinuance of excessive rainfall will mate- 

 rially reduce the present generally 

 favorable outlook." 



BiANDA'S SUCCESS. 



W. A. Man^ last week cabled to his 

 company's headquarters at South Or- 

 ange, N, J., that he had secured twen- 

 ty-two prizes at the Royal Interna- 

 tional Horticultural Exhibition which 

 opened at London, May 22, to close 

 May 30. The prizes included seven 

 silver cups, six silver gilt medals, five 

 silver medals and one bronze medal. 



CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. 



The Review has a large and extreme- 

 ly efficient corps of correspondents — 

 they get the news, and they see to it 

 that subscriptions are not permitted to, 

 lapse — but there are several good-sized 

 cities that are not so well represented 

 in the columns of The Review as they 

 should be. Among them are the fol- 

 lowing: 



BuflFalo, N. Y. 



Kansas City, Mo. 



Louisville, Ky. 



Memphis, Tenn. 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



Nashville, Tenn. 



Omaha, Neb. 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Perhaps there are others. If you live 

 in any town that is not represented in 

 the news columns of The Review in pro- 

 portion to the importance of the trade 

 interests in the town, why not step into 

 the breach? There will be a monthly 

 check in proportion to the interest 

 taken in the work. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



An abundance of almost every sea- 

 sonable flower is to be had and the 

 market for Memorial day appears, with 

 every passing minute, to be getting 

 easier, with good stock of high grade 

 hard to find, the greater part of the 

 arrivals being affected more or less by 

 the warm weather which came so sud- 

 denly the middle of last week. Fol-, 

 lowing rapidly on the heels of the un- 

 seasonably cold weather, the quick 

 change brought about a sharp contrast 

 and large cuts were reported from al- 

 most every quarter. Whether any ma- 

 terial change in prices will follow is a 

 question of opinion and relies chiefly 

 on the abilities of the weather man to 

 make good with his prediction of cooler 

 weather. Should the warm, hot and 

 stuffy days continue there is some pos- 

 sibility of lower prices, but as yet they 

 have held firm insofar as first-class 

 stock is concerned. Peonies have, how- 

 ever, come in so rapidly with the burst 

 of sunshine that sharp reductions have 

 been considered more than likely after 

 Memorial day, in view of the large sup- 

 ply now on hand in the cold storage 

 warehouses and the ever increasing ar- 

 rivals from the nearby fields. 



Carnations, that were so scarce last 

 week, responded quickly to the heat of 

 the last few days and, while there is 

 hardly any oversupply, the dealers are 

 much worried over shipments of any 

 distance, as the general run of all col- 

 ors is weak and soft, making it neces- 

 sary to exercise the greatest of care in 

 packing, and even then no one will 

 predict that they will arrive in the best 

 of shape. The shipments of May 27 

 and 28 were greater than last year, but 

 a certain amount of apprehension was 

 manifested in all quarters as to the 

 effect of the warm weather, it being 



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