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The Florists^ Review 



July 11, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. OBAHT. Editob and Manaokb. 



PUBLUBKD XTSBT THUBSDAT BT 



The Florists* publishing Co. 



680>560 Oaxton BoUdlnSt 

 60S Sooth Dearborn St., Chloaso. 



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AdyertUlng rates quoted apon reqaest. Only 

 ■trlctly trade advertlalng accepted. 



AdvertUementB must reach us by 6 p. m. Tneaday, 

 to Inaare Uuertlon in the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 8. 1897, 

 ■i the post-office at Ohlcaco, 111., under the act of 

 March 8, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Ohlcaso TiM* 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 7 



— A Casket Shower Spray (illus. ) 7 



■ — Uses for Summer Foliage 7 



— Gracey's Second Car (lUus.) 7 



— The Basket of Roses 8 



Carnations — Stem-rot 8 



— Where to Cut the Stem 8 



— Wants a Good Red 8 



■ — Gypsum as a Fertilizer S 



Convention Hall 8 



The Godfrey Calla 8 



Roses 10 



— The White Rose 10 



— Rose Leaves Scorched 10 



— KlUarneys Outdoors 10 



Asparagus In Lath Houses (Ulus.) 10 



Disease Germs In Soil 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Sowing Biennials and Perennials 12 



— Lorraine Begonias 12 



— Spray Plants Freely 12 



— Sowing I-ate Annuals 12 



— Rambler Roses 12 



— Dalilias 12 



Chicago Trade Committees 13 



A House of Cyclamens (illus. i 13 



Yellow King Humbert Canna l.*{ 



Horned Toads In Greenhouses 13 



Obituary 14 



— John Algood Pettigrew (portrait) 14 



— Mrs. S. Mulr 14 



— WlUlatn R. Smith (portrait ) l.-« 



— George Farrant 15 



The Shipping Department Ifi 



— Packing Plants for Shipment 36 



Asbury Park, N. J 16 



News. Notes and Comments 17 



Two Sides to the Job 18 



Society of American Florists 18 



The Special Plant Rate :h 



Chicago 18 



St. Louis 22 



Springfield 24 



Philadelphia 2(i 



Cincinnati 28 



Boston 28 



Milwaukee .SO 



St. Paul 32 



Dayton, Ohio .32 



Indianapolis .34 



New York .3ti 



Steamer Sailings 41 



Pacific Coast Department 43 



— Tacoma. Wash 43 



— Portland. Ore 43 



— Los Angeles, Cal 43 



— San Francisco 4." 



Seed Trade News 4(5 



— The Outside View 48 



— The Henry Field Seed Co 48 



— Northrup-KIng Doings .""lO 



— Corn Breeding Wi 



Nursery News 58 



Name of Shrub 58 



Grand Rapids, Mich 58 



Providence, R. 1 60 



Buffalo 62 



Columbus, 66 



Manchester, Mass 66 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— A Pipe coll Boiler 78 



— The Fuel Market 79 



Fort Wayne, Ind 80 



Washington, D. C 82 



Cleveland 84 



Pittsburgh 80 



Kansas City, Mo S8 



Winfield, Kan. — J. L. Vaughan is the 

 present owner of the greenhouses at 619 

 East Fourth street, which were for- 

 merly conducted by E. H. Gilbert. Mr. 

 Vaughan has also opened an uptown 

 store at 120 East Ninth street. Mr. Gil- 

 bert has retired from the trade and is 

 now residing at Coronado, Cal. 



SOCIETT OF AMESICAN FLOSISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

 White Marsh, Md. ; Tlce-president, Aujrust Poehl- 

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

 54 W. 28th St., New York Olty; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Coliseum, Chicago, 111., 

 August 20 to 28, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Paee 90 



Results bring advertising. 

 ^ The Review brings results. 



Now is the time to advertise your sur- 

 plus of field-grown carnation plants. 

 Don't wait until everyone is all planted 

 up. 



A BOX should be strong enough to 

 carry safely, but not so heavy as to dou- 

 ble the cost of the stock because of high 

 express charges. 



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. 



Possibly as good an evidence as any 

 that the trade at large has had an ex- 

 cellent year is the fact that the whole- 

 sale firms dealing with florists report 

 unusually good collections during June 

 and thus far in July. The early response 

 to July statements was exceptionally 

 good. 



Evidently Mr. Manda did some busi- 

 ness while exhibiting at the big English 

 flower show a few weeks ago, for we 

 read in a British trade paper that at the 

 Yorkshire Gala June 19 to 21 W. A. 

 Manda, "of St. Albans and New 

 Jersey, ' ' showed some choice ferns, in- 

 cluding a fine specimen of Polypodium 

 Mandaianum. 



TWO SIDES TO THE JOB. 



The publisher is the man with a 

 two-sided job, but, unlike some other 

 men who have more than one set of 

 people to satisfy, if he pleases his read- 

 ers the advertising side of the business 

 will take care of itself. This is how 

 it works out for The Review: 



Enclosed Is $1.75, for another year of The 

 Review and an Album of Designs. I would as 

 soon keep bouse without bread as to run my 

 range without The Review. — W. M. NIcol, 

 Watertown, S. D., June 29, 1912. 



Please discontinue my advertisement. After 

 tlie one Insertion, 1 was swamped with orders 

 Saturday and they are still coming in Monday 

 I feel sorry to disappoint so many. — Simon 

 Dumser, Elgin, 111., July 1, 1912. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 



Henry F. Michell Co., 518 Market street, 



Philadelphia, offers for registration the 



following new geranium. Any person 



objecting to the registration or to the 



use of the proposed name is requested 



to communicate with the secretary at 



once. Failing to receive objection to 



the registration, the same will be made 



three weeks from this date. Raiser's 



description : 



Variety originated with John L. North, Sewell, 

 N. J.: cross l>etween Jean Viand and Alphonse 

 Ricard; habit semi-dwarf, bushy and erect in 

 growth, bearing from four to five clusters of 

 Immense flowers on well grown 4-Inch plants; 

 color bright. Intense scarlet, without any tend- 

 ency to scald in bright sunlight, and showing 

 no traces of pink; a great Improvement on all 

 scarlet varieties. Name: Helen Michell. 



June 28, 1912. .John Young, Sec 'y. 



The Railway Gardening Associationr 

 will hold its sixth annual meeting at 

 Roanoke, Va., August 13 to 16, with 

 headquarters at the Hotel Roanoke. 

 Patrick Toy, of Roanoke, is president, 

 and J. S. Butterfield, of Lee's Summit, 

 Mo., is secretary-treasurer. 



Growers who can not get all the cow 

 manure they need are finding horse man- 

 ure vastly better than no fertilizer at 

 all. In heavy soil it gives excellent re- 

 sults, the only trouble being that much 

 of the horse manure, instead of being the 

 product of the stable, is street sweepings 

 and has lost a most valuable content. 



THE SPECIAL PLANT RATE. 



Referring to the article in The Re- 

 view of July 4 regarding the action of 

 the agent of the American Express Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y., withholding the spe- 

 cial rate on shipments of plants if in 

 paper pots, which had the support of 

 his district superintendent, the general 

 agent at Chicago, C. E. Finch, writes: 



"We have investigated this case to 

 the best of our ability in Chicago, and 

 as far as we are able to ascertain, the 

 correct special rate is being applied on 

 shipments of plants properly packed ac- 

 cording to our classification when re* 

 moved from the earthen pots and 

 placed in the paper containers. 



"We thank you for bringing this 

 matter to our attention and will take 

 the matter up and see if we can not 

 have our classification made plainer. '' 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Stock for the last week has been 

 greatly in oversupply and directly in 

 contrast with this time last year, when 

 the demand was more than equal to the 

 supply, which was exceedingly short. 

 With the first hot weather, July 5, the 

 cuts increased to such an extent that 

 by July 6 and the following days the 

 market became flooded, especially with 

 roses, and it is probable that such large 

 quantities of stock have never before 

 been seen in this market during the 

 month of July. Continued hot weather 

 has not helped the situation any and, 

 while large quantities of flowers are 

 being moved daily, the demand is far 

 from being equal to the heavy cuts 

 that are being made. Almost every 

 flower is in big supply and the heat 

 makes it unusually hard to handle them 

 with any degree of success. Flowers 

 can be cut tight enough, but quick dis- 

 posal is necessary in order to prevent 

 their popping open and going into the 

 trash corner. Short-stemmed stock is 

 largely in evidence, but there are 

 plenty of good long and medium roses 

 to be had and of good quality. In fact, 

 the heat seems to have had little effect 

 on the quality of roses in general, with 

 the exception that the best of care 

 must be exercised in order to hold them 

 in good condition. Beauties are abun- 

 dant and, with cuts being made from 

 young plants as well as old, the market 

 is well provided with these. Richmond, 

 too, ia in big supply and good conditioi.', 

 as well as Maryland, Killarney and 

 White Killarney. Mrs. Aaron Wafd, 

 Melody, Mrs. Taft and the new Sun- 

 burst all are more plentiful than a week 

 ago. The condition of these flowers is 

 about the same, all holding up well 

 until hit by heat, when they open 

 quickly. 



