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The Florists^ Review 



Mahch 20, 1913. 



sale of their stock direct to the public. 

 These experiments will be watched with 

 keen interest. If they succeed, others 

 are sure to try the plan, and if they 

 fail it is by no means sure that the 

 reason for failure will be rightly ap- 

 praised. One of the peculiar things of 

 this world is the number of people 

 who can put their finger right on the 

 weakness in the other fellow that 

 caused him to fall down, who are sure 

 they can succeed where the first man 

 failed. 



The growers who are going into re- 

 tailing are not, it is thought, trying to 

 take the retailer's occupation or profit 

 away from him. They merely are sav- 

 ing their own bacon, as the saying goes. 

 They see their returns decreasing while 

 their expenses are going up and they 

 fear that the facilities for production 

 have increased faster than the facili- 

 ties for distribution. They think they 

 can see the day when the old methods 

 will no longer serve their purpose and 

 they want to figure out a new method 

 before that day dawns. One grower 

 has a chain of three stores, and several 

 others have two retail stores each. It 

 is simply going back to the beginning, 

 selling, as thousands of successful flo- 

 rists in the smaller cities sell, the 

 product of the greenhouses in one or 

 more downtown stores. 



THE GBAND ABMT EMBLEM. 



The illustration on page 9 shows 

 an especially good reproduction of the 

 G. A. B. badge in flowers. It is the 

 work of C. P. Mueller, Wichita, Kan. 

 Some who have made the badge will 

 note certain variations here from the 

 ordinary design. It is because this was 

 the reproduction of the badge worn by 

 an officer. From the florists' point of 

 view the excellence of the design is that 

 it was made on a broad green back- 

 ground. Usually the florist makes it 

 without a background and he has his 

 troubles in reproducing the flag in flow- 

 ers and getting any sort of recognizable 

 form. Here an actual flag was used, 

 with only the metal parts of the badge 

 in flowers and chenille. The cycas 

 leaves add to the striking character of 

 the illustration, though many will ques- 

 tion the effect in the design itself, 

 thinking they stand too far from the 

 piece. 



HYDBANOEAS. 



C. G. Anderson, of Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., Morton Grove, 111., is not one of 

 those who think that the new French 

 hydrangeas will drive Otaksa out of the 

 running as an Easter plant. In support 

 of his contention that it takes some- 

 thing pretty- good to displace Otaksa he 

 presents the photograph reproduced to 

 accompany this note. It shows one of 

 the hydrangeas -flowered for blaster by 

 Mr. Anderson. 



LISTEN TO 'AEBY! 



This is from the Horticultural Trade 

 Journal (British) of March 5: 



MH. E. Philpott, florist, Winnipeg, 

 Canada, who left Kent thirty years 

 ago, is now on a visit to England, and 

 attended the B. H. S. show yesterday. 

 In the evening he was the guest of C. 

 Engelmann, at the Horticultural Club, 

 and afterwards attended a meeting of 

 the Perpetual Flowering Carnation So- 

 ciety, where he received a cordial wel- 

 come. In the course of his remarks, 

 Mr. Philpott said he arrived at his des- 

 tination in Canada with fourpence in 



his pocket, and had now retired from 

 business with £25,000 to his credit." 



CYFBESSENE. 



Dr. Allan F. Odell, assistant professor 

 of chemistry in the Louisiana State 

 University, has undoubtedly performed 

 a distinct service to humanity in his 

 successful isolation of the essential oil, 

 which he named Cypressene, as the re- 

 sult of a series of experiments with 

 sawdust from cypress lumber and 

 shingles. He claims, and other well 

 known chemists agree with him, that 

 this is the peculiar quality in the wood, 

 cypress, that gives to it the lasting 

 properties for which it has been famous 

 since the earliest times. 



It is now more than two years since 

 Dr. Odell began his search for the prop- 

 erty of endurance in this wood, and 

 after trying other methods, he took as 

 the last one available to chemists the 

 "destructive" process. He placed 275 

 gallons of sawdust in a large iron 

 retort and subjected it to a roasting, 

 distilling the gases and steam. This 



Hydrangea Otakia. 



process produced 125 gallons of dis- 

 tillate — a tar-like liquid composed of 

 wood alcohol, creosote, acid common to 

 all woods, and the much sought Cy- 

 pressene. This latter constituent has 

 never been found in the by-products of 

 other woods when submitted to a like 

 test, and he declares ' it is the peculiar 

 property of cypress. He thinks it is 

 the presence of this oil that gives to 

 cypress its endurance when exposed to 

 trying climatic conditions and the "wet 

 and dry" of boat-building and green- 

 houses. 



In a paper read before the Louisiana 

 section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, Dr. Odell said: "Consider for the 

 moment one use to which this tar oil 

 might be put. In the creosoting of 

 crossties and the like, oil from other 

 woods is used, thereby quadrupling the 

 life of the tie. Now, the crude tar oil 

 from cypress, in addition to the creo- 

 sote, contains a large amount of the 

 sesquiterpens (which he named Cypress- 

 ene) and this pressed into the tie would 

 prolong the life of the tie indefinitely 

 — for example, it should give to a hard 

 wood, such as oak, the everlasting prop- 

 erties of the softer cypress." 



If Dr. Odell is correct in his conclu- 

 sions, and there seems to be no doubt 

 among scientists that he is right, his 

 discovery of the vital principle of lon- 

 gevity in cypress wood means much to 



those who are forced by business con- 

 ditions to use lumber and timbers in ex- 

 posed places. If hardwood may be 

 given the unequaled properties of en- 

 durance known to be present in cypress 

 a valuable discovery has been made. 



It raises then the question of supply, 

 and that is one for the cypress mills 

 of the south to settle. At the present, 

 as we understand it, not a large per- 

 centage of them are equipped for ex- 

 tracting the by-products of the wood, 

 but no doubt they will properly equip 

 to meet the demand, so far as possible, 

 for this new wood product, Cypressene. 



INTEBNATIONAL FLOWEB SHOW. 



The following is the list of jurors 



appointed to pass on the exhibits at the 



show at the Grand Central Palace, New 



York, April 5 to 12: 



Harry A. Bunyard, chairman. 

 Ballentyne, R. E., CanancTalgua, N. Y. 

 Breltmeyer, Philip, Detroit, Mich. 

 Brown, H., Blcbmond, Va. 

 Buettner, Emll, Park Ridge, 111. 

 Burk, Louis, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Butterbacb, Nicholas, Oceanic, N. J. 

 Cameron, Robert, Klngsbridf^e, Mass. 

 Cartledge, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Clucas, R. W., SparklU, N. Y. 

 Cook, Geo. H., Washington, D. C. 

 Cotter, Lawrence, Jamestown, N. Y. 

 CoweU, .7. F., Buffalo. N. i. 

 Craig, W. N., North Easton, Mass. 

 De Oraaff, H. W., Leiden, Holland. 

 Dunlop, 3. H., Toronto, Canada. 

 Redes, Wm., Oyster Bay, N. Y. 

 Engelmann, Carl, Saffron-Walden, England. 

 Eyres, Harry, Albany, N. Y. 

 Falconer, Wm., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Felton, R. F., London, England. 

 Finlayson, Duncan, Brookline, Mass. 

 Fisher, Peter, EUls, Mass. 

 Graham, Robert. Baltimore, Md. 

 Gude, Wm. F., Washington, D. C. 

 Herrlngton, Arthur, Madison, N. J. 

 Hertrlch, Wm., San Gabriel, Cal. 

 Hess, J. J., Omaha, Neb. 

 Hubs, J. F., Hartford, Conn. 

 Keller, Michael, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Knight, Chas., New York. N. Y. 

 Koenig, Otto, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Kruljff, Mr., Holland. 

 Loveless, A. J., Lenox, Mass. 

 Low, Stuart H., London, England. 

 McWUIlams. Geo.. Wbitinsvllle, Mass. 

 Melnhardt, Fred, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Meikle, A., Newport, R. I. 

 Moore, Geo. T., St. Louis, Mo. 

 Murray, Samuel, Kansas City. Mo. 

 Ogston, Colin B., Rochester, N. Y. 

 Papworth, Harry, New Orleans. La. 

 Philpott. H., Winnipeg. Canada. 

 Plumb, Chas. A., Detroit, Mich. 

 Reagan, Edw., Morrlstown, N. J. 

 Robinson, Geo. A., Montreal, Canada. 

 Rock, Wm. L., Kansas Cltv, Mo. 

 Sandlford, Chas., Buffalo. N. Y. 

 Smith, A. J., Lake Geneva, Wis. 

 Turner, Harry, Yonkers, N. Y. 

 Turner, Wm., Oceanic, N. J. 

 Waterer, F. G., Bagshot, England. 

 Wells, W. W., Merstham, Surrey, England. 

 Wilson, E. H., Boston, Mass. 

 Wilson, J. S., Des Moines, Iowa. 

 Wlngett. A. H., Lenox, Mass. 

 Wlrtb, Theodore, Minneapolis, Minn. 



These do not include the special 

 judges for the Bose, Carnation and 

 Sweet Pea Societies. 



Intending exhibitors should bear in 

 mind that all entries in the general 

 section must be in the hands of the sec- 

 retary, John Young, 54 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, New York, not later than 

 March 30. Entries in the sections of 

 the Bose, Carnation, Sweet Pea and 

 Gladiolus societies must be in the hands 

 of the different secretaries on the dates 

 set forth in the prize schedule. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is a little improvement notice- 

 able in cut flower conditions. Prices as 

 yet show small advances only in certain 

 lines, and no striking rise in prices 

 seems probable for Easter. Usually Sat- 

 urday is a good cleaning up day, but 

 March 15 proved an exception to this 

 rule, trade being excessively dull, and 

 many flowers remained unsold. Bosea 

 are decidedly soft and prices are, if any- 



