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The Florists' Review 



August 1, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. h, GBANT, Editor and Mamaqib. 



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CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 7 



— Baskets for Funerals (lllus.) 7 



— Oriental Settings 7 



Propagating Impatlens 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Pansies 8 



— Tufted Pansies 8 



— Hollyhocks 8 



— Show Pelargoniums 8 



— Polnsettlas 8 



— Genistas 8 



Roses — The Every-Day Work 8 



— Rose Mrs. Carnegie (lllus.) 9 



Tornado Insurance 9 



Crops ' for Montana 9 



The Outdoor Florist 10 



— The Perennial Garden 10 



Sweet Peas — An English Grower in Canada.. 10 



Plumosus Damaged by Rain 11 



Betscber'B Peony Field (lllus.) 11 



Dayton, 11 



New York 12 



Richard Is Himself Again (portrait) 12 



Obituary 12 



— Casper Abrams 12 



— William Bester 12 



— Chas. Knopf (portrait) 13 



— John W. Richmond 13 



— Albert Bommersbach IS 



Washington, D. C 18 



St. Louis 14 



The Quarantine Bill 14 



Text of Bill to Establish Federal Plant Quar- 

 antines 15 



Boston Club's Picnic (lllus.) 16 



American Gladiolus Society 16 



News Notes 17 



On Dress Parade (portrait) 17 



Beware 18 



Chicago 18 



Cincinnati 25 



Philadelphia 26 



New Orleans 34 



Boston 35 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Pacific Coast Department 42 



— Seattle, Wash 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Los Angeles, Cal 42 



— Portland, Ore 44 



Seed Trade News 46 



— Harrisil Bulbs 60 



— Inveigbs Against Zone Plan 50 



— Conditions In Holland 50 



— Corn Breeding 51 



Nursery News 58 



— The New Quarantine Bill 68 



Bochaster. N. Y 60 



Atlanta, Ga 60 



ProTidence 62 



Pittsburgh 64 



St. Paul, Minn 66 



Lenox. Mass '. 68 



Louisville, Ky 68 



Oreenhouxe Heating 80 



— Providing More Head Room 80 



— The Fuel Market 80 



— A Two-Room Greenhouse 80 



— A North Dakota House 82 



— Yoking Two Boilers 82 



Denver 84 



Somersworth, N. H 88 



Brampton. Ont 88 



Kansas City, Mo 90 



Detroit 92 



Lenox, Mass. — ^The West street green- 

 houses and grounds of M. T. O'Brien 

 are on the main automobile thorough- 

 fare between Great Barrington and 

 Pittsfield, and are much visited by tour- 

 ists, who are attracted by the fine gen 

 era] appearance of the p^ace and the 

 interestiijl variety of the st|ck, w,)uc|l 

 includes roses, bedding plants anfl' 

 vegetables. 



-^Annual Special 



Caiivention Number 



OUT AUGUST 22 



■van larsar and finar than In othar 

 iVaara. It marfca tha apanlns aff tha 

 naw aaaaan. Rasarva yaur apaca 

 now. 



"Every one in the Trade reads The Re- 

 view; the replies to my small advertise- 

 ment prove it."— W. Bay. 



Welcome Number 



(a novelty) 

 will be mailed to the Trade 



AUGUST 15 



80CIETT OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

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

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

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.: secretary, John Tonng, 

 64 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. P. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Coliseum, Chicaxo. 111., 

 August 20 to 23, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 94 



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 growers steadily are narrowing 

 their lists of carnations. Th|ai season the 

 big. establishments will, as 'a rule, be 

 found to have planted only a half dozen 

 varieties in quantity, with another half 

 doz^n in small lots for trial. 



The American Gladiolus Society has 

 issued a schedule of prizes for the exhi- 

 bition to be held at Chicago in conjunc- 

 tion) with the S. A. F. convention. Copies 

 may be had by addressing the secretary, 

 L. Merton Gage, Groton, Mass. 



Bulletin No. 3 of the Western Dahlia 

 and Gladiolus Association has been re- 

 ceived from the secretary, E. S. Thomp- 

 son, Benton Harbor, Mich. It contains 

 the premium list for the Milwaukee exhi- 

 bition. The secretary states that he will 

 mail copies on request. 



The crops in the west generally are 

 the largest ever known, thereby insuring 

 another big season for the florists in that 

 magnificent territory that has shown the 

 greatest gain horticulturally in the last 

 few years. Business is increasing splen- 

 didly with the western florists. 



Foe the second time within the last few 

 years a child has lost his life by drinking 

 a nicotine extract used for fumigating. 

 Those charged with the handling or these 

 potent poisons can not take too great care 

 to see that they are kept out of the hands 

 of the ignorant. It chances that in 

 neither of the deplorable Chicago cases 

 was the poison in the original container, 

 but had it been the word "Poison" on 

 the iibel w»uld hattf'had no meaning for 

 the little ones whose lives were lost. 

 Keep the insecticides under lock and key. 



BEWABE! 



The Subscription Swindler. , 



Once more The Review warns the 

 trade against traveling subscription 

 agents. The Review agents all are 

 well-known men, permanently- located 

 in the territory they represent. Don't 

 pay money to strangers. 



A petty swindler is traveling through 

 the east collecting subscriptions where 

 he can, sometimes signing the name 

 Cook, sometimes Thomas, etc., etc. 

 With him it is anything to get the 

 money, for he is a swindler. Don't 

 pay money to strangers. Mail your 

 subscriptions direct to The Review 

 office and be safe. U 



Tell your friends. ■' 



"DRAWS WELL."— BOCK. 



Why is a widely read newspaper like 



a tall chimney? Let a well known 



Ohio florist answer: 



The stock advertised moved on the first Inser- 

 tion of the advertisement, so you see The Review 

 draws well. — Theo. Bock, Hamilton, O., July 

 25, 1012. 



CHICAOO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business last week showed a tendency 

 to improve, but the change has appeared 

 to be of short duration and a slight 

 decline has again been noted. Demand 

 was considerably heavier during the last 

 week than for some time and, while the 

 supply was fully equal to the call, the 

 stock cleaned up much better. As there 

 was little surplus, prices, in some cases,, 

 averaged a good deal better than they 

 did in the week preceding. Roses prob- 

 ably figured in the attentions of the 

 buyers more than any other one item 

 and toward the end of the week the 

 market took a brisk turn on White Kil- 

 larney and Kaiserin. While there were 

 not so many American Beauties in evi- 

 dence as before, there were a large num- 

 ber of these moved during the week 

 and at fairly good prices, as the stock 

 was mostly in good condition after the 

 cool weather. Short stock was in good 

 supply in almost every variety of rose, 

 while the medium and long were in good 

 demand and fairly good supply, consid- 

 ering the glut that had previously passed 

 out. The medium and long stock of good 

 quality brought good returns, with the 

 White Killarney experiencing a demand 

 that was far above that of the last six 

 weeks. The supply of these was better 

 in . qujE^liJ^y; than ,is usual at this time ot 

 the year. Of the others, My Maryland 

 found a ready market for the best and 

 Mrs. Taf t was not at all slighted in the 

 buying. Aaron Ward, Sunburst and 

 Melody, as well as Lady Hillingdon and 

 Radiance, were moved along with the 

 rest in good shape. 



Asters did not reach the best of qual- 

 ity last week, although there were good 

 ones on the market. The season on these 

 has been somewhat backward and, while 

 the large shipments that have come in 

 contain a share of good ones, they have 

 not yet mounted to the expected degree 

 of quality. It was noted, however, that 

 a steady improvement was being made 

 and better stock is looked for within 

 the next few days. 



Gladioli were to be had in large quan- 

 tities, but the demand during the week 

 seemed to have devel<J|>ed a decline and 

 it was not easy to clear the tables of 

 the surplus, Mrs. Francis King,, , Au- 



