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The Florists^ Review 



March 6, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. GRANT, Editoe and Mamaokb. 



PUBLISHED XVKRT THURSDAY BT 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO 



S80-560 Cazton Building, 



508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



Tklephone, Harrison 5429. 



bxqibtbbed cabub address, tlobview, ohioaoo 



New York Office: 



mo Forty-Ninth St Brooklyn, N. Y. 



TXUEPHOMX, 2632 W. Borough Park. 

 J. Austin !Shaw, Manaqkb. 



Sabscrlptlon price. 11.00 a year. To Canada. 12.00 

 To Europe. |2JS0. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trlctly trade advertislnf; accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter I>ecember 3. 1897. 

 at the post-office at Chicago, Hi., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



The Hetall Florist 19 



— A Negative Suggestion 10 



— Easter Plants 19 



— Sweet Peas In Sprays (iUus.) 19 



— Her Twenty-fourth Birthday 19 



— A Complete Record (lUus.) 20 



— Need Law to Close Sundays 20 



Parcel Post Changes 20 



Frey Turns Publisher 20 



International Flower Show 21 



William Duckham (portrait)....-.-. 21 



lUlnoIs State Florists Meet 22 



Landscaping by Florists 23 



Floriculture at Urbana 24 



Experiments on Stem-rot 24 



Hugh Will (portrait) 25 



Cool House for Hot Climate (illus.) 26 



Fertilizers for Carnations 26 



Carnations — Just a Few Knocks 28 



— Stunted Carnation Plants 28 



— Short-stemmed Enchantress 29 



— Stlgmonose 29 



Lawson of York (illus. ) 29 



In North Carolina (illus.) 20 



Sweet Peas — Sweet Peas Under Glass .30 



— Sweet Pea Leaves Dying 30 



Root-knot on Pot Plants .30 



Seasonable Suggestions — Mignonette 30 



—Palms 30 



Llpman's Success (illus. ) 31 



Asters for Inside Culture 31 



Cornflowers for May 30 31 



Roses — Hardy Everblooming Roses 32 



— Roses for Memorial Day 32 



— For Both Inside and Outside 32 



Planting and Training Smllax 32 



Geraniums — Diseased Geranium Foliage 32 



McAlplne Bros, (illus.) 33 



With Near-Boston Growers 33 



Variegated VInca 34 



New York 34 



Minneapolis 35 



Obituary 35 



Business Embarrassments 36 



Again the Record 36 



Chicago 36 



Kansas City 44 



Philadelphia 46 



Florists Meet at Austin 49 



St. Louis 50 



Boston 66 



Washington 60 



Steamer Sailings 62 



Seed Trade News 66 



— "Off Ag'ln, on Ag'ln" 66 



— The Free Seeds 68 



Pittsburgh 70 



Springfield, Mass 72 



Vegetable Forcing — Blossom-end Rot 74 



Pacific Coast Department 76 



— Everblooming Baby Roses 76 



— Cuttings do Not Root 76 



— Los Angeles, Cal 76 



— Pasadena, Cal 78 



— Portland, Ore 78 



— San Francisco 80 



Nursery News 86 



— Will Return Duties 86 



— New England Association 86 



— Fight Proposed Nursery Law 86 



Dayton, 88 



New Haven, Conn 00 



ETvansvUle, Ind 92 



Tyler, Tex 94 



Indianapolis 96 



Buffalo 98 



Oyster Bay, N. Y 100 



Detroit 102 



Cincinnati 104 



Greenhouse Heating 120 



— Firing With Hard Coal 120 



Providence 122 



Newport, R. I » 124 



Milwaukee 128 



Bowling 128 



— At Milwaukee 128 



— At Pittsburgh 128 



— At Chicago 128 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBIBTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1001. 



Officers for 1913: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farqnhar, Boston, Mass.; vice-president, Tbeo- 

 dore Wirth, Minneapolis; secretary, John Yonng, 

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

 Kuttng, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 B to 12, 1013. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22, 1013. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 130 



Eesults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



Azaleas will not be abundant this 

 Easter. 



Shipments now may be made C. O. D. 

 by parcel post. The collection, return 

 charge and insurance are to be prepaid 

 by affixing 10 cents in parcel post stamps. 



This is not the special number of The 

 Be view; this 132-page issue is all in the 

 day's work. The Easter Number comes 

 out next week. It promises to set an- 

 other new mark for trade journalism in 

 this field. 



The fall show at Cleveland was so suc- 

 cessful that the Ohio Horticultural So- 

 ciety announces a spring exhibition June 

 12 to 14, to be held at Gray's armory. 

 Copies of the premium list may be had 

 by addressing John N. Stockwell, 218 

 City Hall, Cleveland. 



For the last few weeks there has been 

 an exasperating increase in the com- 

 plaints of the non-arrival of The Review. 

 The cause has not yet been found. The 

 papers are mailed regularly every 

 Thursday; they should be delivered as 

 unfailingly. It will be considered a fa- 

 vor if subscribers will write any time 

 the paper has not arrived forty-eight 

 hours after the usual hour of delivery. 



Your package by mail will get spe- 

 cial delivery, just like a letter, if, in ad- 

 dition to the parcel post stamps, you 

 put on the 10-cent special delivery 

 stamp or aflBx 10 cents of ordinary 

 postage stamps, marking the package 

 "For Special Delivery." It is an ex- 

 tension of the parcel post service that 

 should be the means of largely increas- 

 ing its value to retail florists. 



BUSINESS EMBABRA.8SMENTS. 



Albuquerque, N. M. — The judge of 

 the district court has issued an order 

 for the sale of the property of the 

 Albuquerque Floral Co. A receiver for 

 the company was appointed a short 

 time ago, as reported in The Review 

 of February 20. The property for the 

 most part is plants and shrubs that 

 require constant attention, according 

 to the petition for a sale, and to con- 

 duct the business on a paying basis 

 it would be necessary to replenish the 

 stock of flowers and make repairs on 

 ihe buildings. Sufficient funds for this 

 work are not at hand, so the judge or- 

 dered the receiver to sell the property 

 at public or private sale. 



Fort Wayne, Ind. — J. E. Hauswirth, 

 formerly of Chicago, has filed a petition 

 in bankruptcy here, scheduling liabili- 

 ties of $3,769.85 and assets of $237. 



AGAIN THE RECORD. 



The classified ads still increase — 



each week since January 1 there has 



been a handsome increase in these busy 



little liners in spite of the fact that a 



good many stay only a few insertions, 



like this: 



Discontinue the geranium advertisement 

 for the present; It has done great work for 

 me. — H. M. Totman, Randolph, Vt., February 

 23, 1913. 



Or is it because of such letters as 

 the above that the department grows? 



At any rate, last week's issue con- 

 tained thirty-seven columns of classi- 

 fied plant advertisements, practically all 

 sent in unsolicited by advertisers who 

 had tried them before with good results; 

 in fact, a good many florists now grow 

 stock specially to wholesale through 

 the use of these liners. It makes possi- 

 ble a neat increase in a prosperous local 

 business. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business has continued to improvQ 

 during the last week, as it usually does 

 as Lent draws out of the first half. 

 There has been an abundance of stock 

 of every kind, but it has been possible 

 to clean out most of it at a price, so 

 that the waste has been slight. 



The special feature of the market has 

 been the small supply of strictly first- 

 class Beauties, the large supply and not 

 too brisk demand for sweet peas, and 

 the overwhelming arrivals of violets, 

 with no possibility of selling them all 

 at any price. Violets never have sold 

 in the last week in February so cheaply 

 as they did this year. There appears 

 to be no explanation except increased 

 supply and decreased popularity. The 

 singles have been blooming prodigiously 

 and the New York growers evidently 

 find the Chicago market one of their 

 best, even if it is lower than ever be- 

 fore at this time of year. There are 

 heavy supplies of sweet peas of all 

 grades. The best bring as much as $2 

 per hundred, while it is difficult to 

 clear the shortest peas at 30 cents per 

 hundred. In fact, the supply of all 

 grades is so large that the buyer who 

 will take a quantity can get a conces- 

 sion on almost any grade or color. 



If a buyer needed 100 long-stemmed 

 Beauties, every one perfect, he would 

 have trouble finding them; indeed, to 

 get a dozen perfect flowers of one 



