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-The Florists' Review 



;.Ar«iL 17. 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



I > G. L. GKANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



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 To Europe, t2JS0. 



AdrertlBlng rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertlBlnK accepted. 



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

 to insure insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897, 

 at the poet-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chlcaco Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS 



Aftermath of the National Show 9 



— It Was a Success (illus. ) 9 



— Awards to Trade Exhibitors 11 



— Society of American Florists 12 



— The Ladies Entertained 12 



Tests Explosion Theory 12 



New York Florists' Club's Annual Dinner 



(lUus.) 12 



— Seven Thirty Sharp 12 



American Carnation Society 14 



R. T. Brown (portrait) 14 



The Carnation ; its Society 14 



Wallace R. Plerson (portrait) 15 



The Retail Florist 16 



— Ball Diamond In Flowers (lUus.) 16 



— Chain of Flower Stores 16 



— Expense of Delivery 16 



— A New Yorker's Pillow (lUus.) 16 



Society of American Florists 16 



New Parcel Post Rules 17 



Business Embarrassments 17 



Flowering Shrubs and Vines 17 



Strike in Belgium 17 



Greenhouse Glass 17 



Classification Doubles Rate 17 



McHutchlson on the Tariff 18 



— Defects In the Bill 18 



Formosa Lilies for Easter (Illus.) 18 



Asplenium Bulbiferum 10 



Shasta Daisy Alaska 19 



Lilies in Dixie (Illus.) 19 



Wood Lice in Pluraosus Beds 19 



Crego Asters Under Glass 19 



I^eaves on Bay Trees Dying 19 



Boston Has Market Show 20 



— Co-operative Market's Trade Exhibit 20 



Boston 20 



New York 21 



Washington, D. C 22 



New Haven. Conn 22 



Bowling— At New York 23 



— At Chicago 2.T 



— At Milwaukee Xi 



News Notes 2.S 



Flood Notes 2.3 



Obituary— C. W. Gurney 23 



Remedy for Primula Poisoning 2.3 



Another Record 24 



Flood Sufferers' Relief 24 



Chicago 24 



Cincinnati. .31 



Philadelphia ' 32 



Providence. R. 1 33 



Kansas City. Mo 36 



New Orleans 38 



Brampton, Ont 38 



St. Louis, Mo 42 



Newport, R. 1 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Seed Trade News BO 



— Alarm in California 50 



— Interstate Seed Bill Again f,2 



Vegetable Forcing — Diseased Radish Leaves.. .W 

 Pacific Coast Department 58 



— Brittle Stemmed and Sleepy 58 



— Pasadena. Cal ."58 



— Los Angeles, Cal ."iS 



— San Francisco, Cal 60 



— Seattle. Wash 61 



— Portland. Ore 61 



White Ix)rralne Begonia •■62 



To Eradicate Wild Oxalis 62 



Scale on Bay Trees 62 



News of the Nursery Trade 68 



— Parcel Post Inspection 68 



— Nurserymen Win Suit '70 



— Plant Quarantine Decision 70 



Ithaca. N. Y 72 



Milwaukee 74 



Columbus, O '76 



Indianapolis. Ind '78 



Evansvllle. Ind 80 



Springfield. Mass 82 



Grfenhouse Heating 100 



— Sizes of Anthracite Coal 100 



— Slse of Steam Pipes lOO 



— Adding One House 101 



— A Fenngylvanla Addition 102 



Greenwich. Conn 106 



BOOIETT or AlCBSIOAir FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of CongreH, March 4, 1901. 



Officer! for 1918: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston, Mass.; vice-president, Theo- 

 dore Wlrth, MiiMieapolls; secretary, John Toanf, 

 64 W. 28tb St.. New York City; treasurer, W. f. 

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Third National Flowir Show, New York. April 

 S to 12, 1918. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22, 1918. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 110 



What city is anxious to tackle the job 

 of going New York one better in the 

 matter of the Fourth National FloWer 

 Show! Don't all speak at once, please! 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual, renewal by sending 

 The Seview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Sir Trevoe Lawrence has retired 

 from the presidency of the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, London, after twenty- 

 eight years in the chair. He has reached 

 the age of 82. Few men have done more 

 for horticulture. 



Washington retail florists are getting 

 their Hudson river violets by parcel post, 

 packed in eleven-pound boxes. With a 

 special delivery stamp affixed, the serv- 

 ice is said to be much better than that 

 given by the express companies. 



W. F. GuDE, who is the accredited 

 minister plenipotentiary of the S. A. F. 

 at Washington, spent considerable time 

 at the National Flower Show trying to 

 find out what the trade wants in the pres- 

 ent tariff revision. Nothing doing. For 

 every man who had any definite ideas 

 and wants a certain thing there was a 

 man who wants the exact opposite. 



Every little while The Review receives 

 a letter from some florist who finds him- 

 self compelled to compete with a -wealthy 

 resident of the town who is selling the 

 surplus product of his private conserva- 

 tories, and without much regard to mar- 

 ket value. Frequently the florist pays 

 The Review the compliment of asking it 

 to put an end to such unfair competition. 

 Unfortunately, The Review is without in- 

 fluence among millionaires, except with 

 the few millionaire florists. Some day 

 someone may devise a means by which 

 rich .amateurs may be prevented from 

 competing' with none too wealthy florists, 

 but it is a pure waste of breath to talk 

 on the subject; millionaires are pro- 

 verbially deaf except when money talks. 



ANOTHEB RECORD. 



Week after week The Review is 

 breaking records with its classified 

 plant ads. The business carried in this 

 department this season is far exceed- 

 ing the best records of other years. In 

 this issue the Classified ads fill fifteen 

 solid pages and run far onto the six- 

 teenth page. It beats last week's rec- 

 ord by over a page and last year's 

 best record by over two pages. 



It should be borne in mind that in 

 The Review Classified department there 

 are no free reproductions of display ad- 

 vertisements — every ad is charged for 

 at the uniform rate of 10 cents per 

 line each insertion. 



Also, these little Classified liners can 

 not, in the nature of things, be indi- 

 vidually solicited — they come in of the 

 advertisers' own accord, because they 

 have been found to pay, and pay big. 



„,, WORK ThAT COUNTS. ,.. 



It IS results that count; no maticr 



how hard a man, or a newspaper, may 



try, it is what is accomplished that 



establishes value. Like this: 



We are more than pleased with what The Re- 

 view has done for us; we have no words strong 

 enough to use in praising the one paper for our 

 trade. — Charles Werner & Sou, ShelbyvlUe, Inil 

 April 7, 1913. 



Werner & Son have used Classified 

 ads. The strength of these busy little 

 liners is shown by the fact that the 

 nearly sixteen pages of them that are 

 appearing each issue are sent in prac- 

 tically without solicitation; they come 

 in from people who have used them be- 

 fore with satisfaction. 



FLOOD SUFFERERS' RELIEF. 



The Chicago Florists' Club will be 

 glad to receive any information regard- 

 ing fellow florists who have lost from 

 the recent floods and storms. 



The club has a committee in the field 

 investigating the needs of such cases 

 and will arrange to help all in their 

 power. The reporting of the cases will 

 lead to prompt investigation and such 

 help as is possible being extended. 



All florists have some surplus stock, 

 or perhaps some building material, and 

 this, with a little cash, will no doubt 

 help many a man who has lost all he 

 had to regain his feet. Any information 

 concerning those in need of help should 

 be sent to Edward C. Toepel, secretary, 

 Chicago Florists ' Club, at Morton Grove, 

 111. Guy W. French, President. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



A decided change came over the lo- 

 cal market last week, stock becoming 

 scarcely plentiful enough to supply the 

 demand, a complete reversal of the 

 preceding week, when dealers were 

 at their wits' ends to find an outlet. 

 The change came so suddenly that most 

 buyers, as well as the wholesalers, were 

 caught unawares. Weather conditions 

 probably had more to do with the 

 change than anything else. After a 

 number of dark, cold days stock began 

 to shorten up April 10. Within twenty- 

 four hours there was not enough stock 

 to go around. There was hardly any- 

 thing that was not affected and roses 

 as well as carnations, sweet peas, etc., 

 were short of the demand. Prices nat- 

 urally stiffened sharply. The situa- 

 tion would not have been so bad had 

 it come a week before, when shipping 

 was tied up, but hardly had the ex- 

 press companies reported that all points 

 were open before the shortage set in. 



Beauties had an especially strong run 

 and, though plentiful earlier in the 

 week, there were not enough to fill 

 the orders that swamped the market 

 April 11, 12 and 13. Quality was like- 

 wise affected by the change of weather 

 and the buds were of poor color. Other 

 roses also were scarce and only Kil- 

 larneys could be had in any quantity. 

 Carnations were even more scarce than 

 the roses, inasmuch as they are in light 

 crop for the present. Brighter weather 

 April 14 and 15, however, gave the 

 wholesalers hope for an easier market 

 and stock was not so scarce as the 

 preceding days. Sweet peas are not 

 arriving in so large numbers as for- 

 merly and, although there have been 

 ' enough good ones to go around, they 



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