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The Florists' Review 



August 1, 1912. 



probably at Great Falls, announcement 

 of which will be made at a later date. 

 The Grotto held a few running races on 

 the veranda of the Casino and some 

 of the boys and girls braved the ele- 

 ments for short dashes in the open. In 

 the paArilion a program of fancy danc- 

 ing wsLS presented by a group of fan- 

 tastically dressed children, whose ex- 

 hibitions were of merit. 



Some 3,000 people attended the out- 

 ing, going down to the beach in sev- 

 eral special trains chartered for the 

 occasion. Had it not been for the ex- 

 tremely inclement weather, the affair 

 would have been one of the most suc- 

 cessful of its kind ever held here, but 

 aside from this, everyone was sorry 

 when it came time to board the cars for 

 the return trip to Washington. A large 

 number of the members of the Florists' 

 Club are also members of the Grotto 

 and among the former who served on 

 the important committees of the latter 

 were: Fred H. Kramer, entertainment; 

 Edward S. Schmid, chairman, George 

 Dalglish and "Walter "W, Kimmel, pro- 

 gram; and William F. Gude, of the ex- 

 cursion committee. The committee of 

 the Florists' Club was composed of W. 

 W. KimjHel,- chairman, George Dalglish, 

 N. S. <Hammer, Harry Louis, Elmer C. 

 Mayberry and O. A. C. Oehmler. , 



Various Notes. 



Adolphus and William F. Gude spent 

 last week at Norfolk and Old Point 

 Comfort. 



Harry Robey has purchased the hand- 

 some residence formerly occupied by 

 James F. Feddon, at 1223 W street, 

 Anacostia, D. C, and is now located 

 therein. 



F. L. Mulford, landscape gardener of 

 the Department of Agriculture, deliv- 

 ered a,n interesting lecture before the 

 members of the Ehode Island Avenue 

 Suburban Citizens' Association on the 

 beautifying of home grounds. Land- 

 scape gardening has been given a great 

 impetus in the section this organiza- 

 tion covers, and prizes have been of- 

 fered for beautiful grounds around 

 stores and other places of business as 

 well a. 8 for home gardens. Mr. Mulford 

 discussed, among other things, the good 

 and bad points of the winners of pre- 

 vious seasons. C L. L. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Th© wholesale market last week had 

 plenty of good stock, and also a lot 

 of stock that was not good. The ex- 

 tremely hot weather caused shipped-in 

 stock to come in wide open. The re- 

 tail florists say that, outside of funeral 

 work, there is little going on and they 

 are putting in these dull hours in 

 brightening up their places with new 

 decorations. 



Th© wholesale market is receiving 

 daily a big lot of fancy gladiolus 

 spikes and, in order to dispose of them, 

 they "were sold as low as $10 per thou- 

 sand. Asters are becoming more plen- 

 tiful, but there are only a few of the 

 fancy grades. Sweet peas, too, are 

 selling at a low figure. Considering 

 the hot days, carnations are holding up 

 well and some splendid stock was seen 

 last Aveek. Killarney, Maryland and 

 Kaisorin are among the best roses that 

 oome in. White and pink Cochets meet 

 with a good demand. Ferns were a 



little scarce last week, but this week 

 they are plentiful again. 



Various Notes. 



L. K. Condon, representing Condon 

 Bros., seedsmen, of Eockford, 111., spent 

 a few days with the trade here last 

 week. 



Fred H. Weber, state vice-president 

 of the S. A. F., says that his arrange- 

 ments for the trip to the Chicago con- 

 vention are complete and that notices 

 have been mailed to all. The list of 

 those going is still incomplete. The 

 prospects, however, are that when the 

 time comes the party will number 

 seventy-five. All arrangements will be 

 reported at the club meeting this week. 



Robert Thomson Co., local greenhouse 

 builders, say they have a number of or- 

 ders for new houses to be built this 

 summer in and around St. Louis. 



The New York Belting & Packing Co. 

 has had a good demand for greenhouse 

 hose through the local branch, which 

 is located at 218 to 220 Chestnut street. 



A. Jablonsky, of Olivette, is sending 

 to H. G. Berning a fine lot of cut car- 

 nations. Mr. Berning is also handling 

 a fine lot of Killarneys and Beauties. 



Max Herzog reports an excellent sum- 

 mer trade. He has a great deal of 

 pleasure with his automobile, on fishing 

 ■trips in the country. 



The business of the late Chas. A. 

 Juengel, on South Fourteenth street, is 

 being conducted by Mrs. Juengel, as- 

 sisted by her son and daughters. 



Fred Kyan, of the F. A. Ryan Floral 

 Co., is spending the dull summer 

 months attending to the rehearsals of 

 a new play he has written, in which 

 he takes a leading part. 



Albert Gums, after a vacation of ten 

 days, has returned to his post at Anger- 

 mueller's. He and Fred Alves have 

 their bands full while the boss and 

 Harry Schlechter are on their western 

 automobile trip. 



Arthur Kring, of the Berning force, 

 started his two weeks' vacation July 

 27. He didn't know where he was go- 

 ing, but was on his way. Herman Nie- 

 haus will follow. 



W. C. Smith, Will Ossick, Frank A. 

 Windier, Billy Patton and the entire 

 force spent Saturday afternoon, July 

 27, as guests at C, E. De Wever's place 

 at Olivette. A large touring car car- 

 ried the party out. 



Nicholas Hock, formerly assistant to 

 William Bouche, landscape gardener, is 

 now private gardener for W. S. Brook- 

 ings, president of the Washington Uni- 

 versity, at a handsome salary. August 

 Miller, head gardener of the university, 

 has the surroundings in splendid shape. 



Frank Windier, vice-president of the 

 W. C. Smith Wholesale Roral Co., is 

 off for a two weeks' vacation. 



Miss R. Zender, daughter of Adam 

 Zender, of Chicago, is visiting her sis- 

 ter, Mrs. R. J. Windier. Miss Zender 

 expects to return home sometime this 

 week. 



The Riessen Floral Co. force has lost 

 two of its members — Miss Ella Nehring, 

 who has been with the firm for the last 

 eight years, and Miss Tillie Winter, 

 with the firm for the last three years. 

 Both will be married sometime this 

 month. Mrs, Bueehel says both were 

 good and faithful workers. 



Pictures of the establishment of the 

 Bentzen Floral Co., on Grand avenue, 

 were taken recently, to be used at a 

 local moving-picture show. 



William Nichol, president of the St. 



Louis Seed Co., is sporting a large red 

 touring car, out of which he gets a 

 great deal of pleasure during the sum- 

 mer months. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club win 

 meet Thursday afternoon, August 8, at 

 2 o'clock. This meeting is of great iia- 

 portance to its members. The features 

 will be S, A. F. convention matters and 

 the election of ollicers. A large attend- 

 ance is looked for. J. J. B. 



THE QUABANTINE BIU.. 



All field-grown florists' stock is in- 

 eluded in the definition of nursery stock 

 in the so-called federal quarantine bill 

 printed in full on page 15. 



This is the bill that has given the 

 nurserymen so much concAru for months. 

 It was originally introduced in the 

 Senate January 15, 1912, and referred 

 to the committee on agriculture and 

 forestry. It was reported July 17 

 with amendments and recommitted to 

 the committee. As reported exclusively 

 in The Review last week, the com- 

 mittee reported the bill to the Senate 

 July 23 with the recommendation that 

 it pass. The original bill was discarded 

 and an entirely new phraseology sub- 

 stituted, but the general provisions are 

 identical with those of the first bill, 

 which had the approval of the commit- 

 tee on legislation of the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen. 



The purposes of the bill are to em- 

 power the government to prevent, by 

 means of quarantine, the introduction 

 or spread of any new or not widely dis- 

 tributed plant disease or insect enemy. 

 The quarantine may be against foreign 

 countries or it may be against a Ipcali- 

 ty in the United States. A federal 

 horticultural board is established to ad- 

 minister the law, which provides fully 

 for the details of importation of all 

 nursery stock, which "shall include all 

 field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, 

 vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, 

 fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and 

 ornamental trees or shrubs, and other 

 plants and plant products for propa- 

 gation, except field, vegetable, and 

 flower seeds, bedding plants, and other 

 herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots." 

 Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture 

 considers that it is necessary to apply 

 the restrictions of the act to plants or 

 plant products not regularly subject 

 to it, it gives him the power to do so. 



The interests of the horticultural 

 trades are supposed to be safeguarded 

 by the requirement that before any 

 quarantine shall become effective a 

 public hearing shall be given to all in- 

 terested parties. 



It is expected the bill will be pushed 

 for passage, and the assertion is made 

 by the sponsors for the bill that there 

 will be no opposition. 



TOBACCO SOLUTION. 



Kindly inform me how strong a to- 

 bacco stem solution may be used on 

 small cineraria plants without fear of 

 injury to the foliage. C. G. J. & 3. 



If you will take one-half bushel of 

 fresh tobacco stems and steep them i^ 

 a 32-gallon barrel of water, the liqui" 

 will not injure the foliage of you^ 

 cinerarias and will at the same tiffl* 

 kill green aphis, which attacks these 

 plants a great deal. You can use any 

 of the nicotine extracts for the sanie 

 purpose. C. W. 



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