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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 13, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. GRANT. Editob and Mamagib. 



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CONTENTS. 



Heart Design for Criticism 9 



— Heartless Handling Here (Ulus.) 



Samuelson's New Car (lUus.) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Polnsettias 10 



— Primulas 10 



— Chrysanthemums , 10 



— Cyclamens 11 



— Hydrangeas 11 



— Asters 11 



The Wedding Bunch (lUus.) 11 



The Hardy Perennial Garden 12 



Ferns— Adlantum for Cutting 12 



No Bones Broken 13 



Notes of the London Show (lllus.) 13 



Real Internationalism 13 



Koses — Weak-stemmed Rhea Relds 14 



— Roses In Colorado 14 



Pollworth's Carnations (lllus. ) 14 



Cincinnati 14 



The Scheel Establishment (lllus. ) 15 



Milwaukee 16 



Convention Arrangements 15 



New York 16 



Obituary — Jerome B. Rice 16 



— Charles A. Juengel (portrait) 17 



— George A. Johnston 17 



— Frank Kunz 17 



Another Swindler 18 



Why Review Ads Pay 18 



Chicago 18 



Boston 24 



Philadelphia 26 



Washington 28 



Rochester 30 



St. Louis 34 



Kansas City, Mo 36 



New Orleans 39 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Pacific Coast Department 42 



— Seattle, Wash 42 



— Los Angeles, Cal 42 



-^ San Francisco 44 



Name of Fern 45 



Seed Trade News 46 



— Mr. Northrup Retires 48 



— Grass Seed Men Protest 48 



— Catalogues Received 50 



— Courteen's New Warehouse 50 



Columbus. 60 



Nursery News 56 



— Texas Nurserymen Meet 56 



— Pacific Coast Convention 56 



— The A. A. N. In Session • 56 



— J. H. Dayton (portrait) 68 



— President Dayton's Address 59 



Hartford, Conn 62 



Hall at Junction City, Kans 62 



Pittsburgh, Pa 64 



Providence 66 



Indianapolis 68 



Bowling— At Chicago 68 



Greenhouse Heating 82 



— TJnderground Mains 82 



— The Fuel Market 82 



— Building a Small Rose House 83 



— A Small Dakota House 84 



Denver 86 



Detroit . . .K 88 



Minneapolis 90 



Cleveland 92 



Lancaster, Pa 92 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — S. Heys has 

 sold his greenhouses and five-acre mar- 

 ket garden, on Burton avenue, to Postma 

 Bros., who will continue the business. 

 The price is said to have been $4,500. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — Norvall Kline bus 

 resigned his position at Schurr's Green- 

 bouses, with the intention of going to 

 Lawrence, Kan., and engaging in the 

 florists ' business there on his own 

 account. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

 Officers foi 1912: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

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

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

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

 Kasting, BufTalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention. Coliseum, Chicago, 111., 

 August 20 to 23, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 94 



Eesults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



When a florists' club holds a picnic 

 with tickets at $6 a couple one doesn't 

 expect to hear the members attending 

 complain of a dull market. 



The floods in the south have made 

 trouble, incidentaUy, for florists all over 

 the country. For many weeks shipments 

 of pecky cypress have not moved as they 

 should. 



There is much difference of opinion 

 as to what is good stock — it frequently 

 depends on whether one is buying or sell- 

 ing — but no plantsman can hope to estab- 

 lish a permanent business unless his stock 

 gives uniformly good satisfaction. 



"Nothing heats an energetic person 

 in a hurry like indefinite delay." The 

 writer must have been thinking of plant 

 orders. They should either be shipped 

 day of receipt or a card of acknowledg- 

 ment sent, stating when shipment will be 

 made. 



A MAN who has made a great success 

 in everything he has undertaken defines 

 his method in three words: "Organize, 

 deputize, stipervise. " Think of the con- 

 spicuous successes in our trade and you 

 will find that those three words tell their 

 story. 



The southwest has had three years of 

 small crops that have made collections 

 slow and business extension difScult in 

 that territory, but now that section has 

 the promise of an abundant harvest that 

 insures a business boom in the early 

 autumn. 



Contrary to some beliefs, the variety 

 of roses in the cut flower markets is not 

 being widened. Next se&son the Killar- 

 neys will predominate to a greater ex- 

 tent than any other sorts ever have done, 

 in spite of the increase in yellows; 

 other varieties are being dropped to 

 make room for them, and for more KU- 

 larneys. 



The New Hampshire Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station has issued a bulletin. 

 No. 159, entitled "Fertilizers for Carna- 

 tions." It is from the pen of David 

 Lumsden. In his introduction he says: 

 ' ' Upwards of 10,000,000 carnation plants 

 are annually grown, and upwards of 120,- 

 000,000 carnation blooms are cut and sold 

 in the various markets in the United 

 States and Canada. The flowers are es- 

 timated as selling at $4 per hundred, or 

 $4,800,000 for the annual output." Re- 

 tail prices undoubtedly are meant. 



ANOTHEB SWINDLER. 



A fake subscription agent is operat- 

 ing in Massachusetts, being last heard 

 from in the vicinity of Boston. He 

 sometimes signs the name of M. B. 

 Thomas, on stationery purporting to be 

 that of the Grumiaux Subscription 

 Agency, of Le Roy, N. Y. There is such 

 an agency as the Grumiaux concern, but 



it repudiates Thomas, alias M. B. Cooke. 



Fortunately, few florists can be caught 

 by such a petty swindle. The Eeview 

 has repeatedly published warnings not 

 to pay money to strangers for The 

 Review's account, so the only ones who 

 can be caught are the few who are non- 

 subscribers. 



Tell your friends. 



In every instance where a florist has 

 reported being victimized by this sub- 

 scription swindler, the swindler has of- 

 fered to send a design book, a knife, or 

 some other article of merchandise, free 

 as a premium. The Review never gives 

 premiums to induce people to subscribe. 

 Any such offer is, on its face, a fraud. 



The Review representatives are all 

 well known in their respective terri- 

 tories. Don't pay money to people you 

 don't know. 



WHY EEVIEW ADS PAT. 



Quality circulation — the kind that is 

 bought and paid for at a fair price — 

 that gives full value to the subscriber 

 for the price paid — is what the adver- 

 tiser is looking for — that is the kind 

 that keeps him at it because it pays — 

 Frank B. White. 



The Review carries so large a volume 

 of advertising, and 'such diversified ad- 

 vertising, because it has quality circu- 

 lation, as well as quantity — the trade 

 buys the paper for the paper — no pre- 

 miums, no schemes, no traveling solicit- 

 ors. 



I am well pleased with The Review and think 

 it Is worth more than it costs, so here Is my 

 dollar for another year. — F. B. Eaton, Mlddle- 

 boro, Mass., June 3, 1912. 



I find The Review one of the best accessories 

 to my ofllce, so enclose the dollar for another 

 year. — Alfred Pearce, Rahway, N. J., June 6, 

 1012. 



Here Is the dollar for another year's subscrip- 

 tion to your valuable paper. We enjoy It very 

 much and find many Items that are of value to 

 us. — Geo. W. Coburn & Son, Nashua, N. H., 

 June 7, 1912. 



We have received a sufficient number of orders 

 to exhaust many of our varieties. — Edward A. 

 Stroud, Overbrook, Pa., June 6, 1912. 



Kindly discontinue my ad, as we are sold out; 

 It brought several nice orders and we are well 

 satisfied. — Alfred Engelmann, Marysville, Mo., 

 June 3, 1912. 



CHICAGK). 



The Great Central Market. 



Save for one or two quiet days, last 

 week proved to be somewhat better 

 than the corresponding week of a year 

 ago, and, with moderate June weather 

 in place of the extremely hot spell that 

 ushered in the month last year, the local 

 market still is in fairly good condition, 

 even though business is not exceeding 

 the speed limit. May was far ahead of 

 last year and, if the present conditions 

 prevail until July 1, another month 

 should be added to the improvement 

 side of the ledger. 



Stock is not any too good and, while 

 it is probably holding up as well as 

 could be expected, the market is not 

 oversupplied with high grade flowers, 

 unless it is in peonies. These are in 

 the height of their season and appear 

 to have the run of the market. The 

 local cut, heavier than ever before, has 

 been on for a week and, with the stor- 

 age houses still well supplied with those 

 left over from earlier fields, the market 

 is unusually well stocked. 



Killarney, White Killarney and Rich- 

 mond have suffered a decline in grade 

 following the recent hot days. While 

 there are plenty on the market of indif- 

 ferent quality, there also are more of 



