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,yhe FlorisfjSf^ l^eyiew 



NOVEMBBB 14, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT. Editor and Manaoib. 



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AdvertlsementB muBt reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday 

 to Insure Insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter Decembers, 1897. 

 March 3 'wT? ** Chicago. 111., under the act of 



OOXTBNTS. 



The Autumn Flower Shows 17 



— St. Paul (lUus.) 17 



— Buffalo \\\ 19 



— Tarry town !!!'.!'.!!*.!!!.' 20 



— Boston (iUus. ) ' ' ' ' 20 



— Philadelphia 22 



— Exhibits at San Francisco (lllus.) '...'. 22 



— Providence, R. 1 22 



— New York ! . . i 22 



— Rochester' (lUus.) 24 



Florists' Clubs of America 25 



— J. Otto Thllow (portrait) 25 



Carnations — Ship Them Dry 26 



— Loosening the Soil 26 



— Carnation Rust 26 



— Choosing a FertlUeer 26 



Seasonable Suggestions — Rambler Roses 26 



— Hardy Roses 26 



— Antirrhinums 26 



The Art of Flower Arrangement 27 



— Progress In Art (lllus.) 27 



Pure Air Needed 28 



Flowers and Funerals 28 



The Credit Association 28 



Detroit Visits Mt. Clemens 29 



An Outing at Richmond, Ind 30 



Clausen and the Ducks (lllus.) 80 



The Retailing of Cut Flowers 81 



— Irwin Bertermann (portrait) 81 



Heepes' Store and Auto (lllus.) 82 



New York 82 



Rose Milady (lllus.) 88 



Business Embarrassments 88 



Trouble with Plumosus 88 



Chrysanthemums — Mealy Bug 84 



— Bees on Chrysanthemums 84 



— A Good Commercial Mum (lllus. ) 84 



Kansas City 84 



Sweet Peas at Home (lllus.) 35 



Pittsburgh 35 



Obituary 85 



— J. F. C. Ludemann 35 



— Henry Gresens 86 



Each Copy Nearly a Pound 86 



Graff Contract Ends 86 



Chicago 86 



Cincinnati 43 



Philadelphia 44 



Washington 48 



New Orleans 62 



Boston 66 



Steamer Sailings 62 



EvansviUe, Ind 66 



Seed Trade News 68 



— Valley Pips 72 



— Dickinson's Plans 72 



— Imports from Holland 72 



St. Louis 74 



Nashville, Tenn 76 



Vegetable Forcing 78 



— Ever- Bearing Strawberries 78 



— Diseased Cucumbers 78 



Paolflc Coast Department 80 



— Portland, Ore 80 



— Los Angeles, Cal 80 



— Staff of Hayward Floral Co. (lllns.) 81 



— San Francisco 82 



— Loomis and Vicinity 82 



— California Nurserymen 83 



— Seattle 84 



Nursery News 90 



— The New England Quarantine 90 



— Catalpa Bungel 92 



— Propagation of Berberis 98 



Chrysanthemum Society 94 



Hydrangea Foliage Mildewed 94 



Gardeners' Convention 96 



Spanish Iris Outdoors 96 



Rogers, Ark 98 



Bowling— At Chicago 100 



— At Milwaukee 100 



Sprlngfleld, 102 



Toledo. 104 



Greenhouse Heating 116 



— Natural Gas 116 



— To Create a Pressure 118 



— Heats Too Slowly 118 



— The Coal Market 120 



Providence 120 



Milwaukee, Wis 124 



SOCIETY OF AXEKICAK FLOBISTB. 

 Incorporated by i2t of Congress, March 4, 1901. 

 ^cers for 1012: President, E. Vincent, Jr., 

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

 S^^S* ii??^'* Grove, IlL : secretary, John Young. 

 H W. 28tt St., New York aty; treasurer, W. f. 

 Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Officers for 19 W: President, J. K. M. L. 



Fuqnhar, Boston, llass. ; vice-president. Theodore 



Wlrth, Minneapolis: secretary, John Young. 64 



'i^-J?*'' St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 



Kastinar, Buffalo. 



Third National Flower Show, New York, April 

 6 to 12, 1918. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 126 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Turn the compost heap once before it 

 freezes up. 



To those who never stick to one crop 

 long enough to make a success: "It is 

 always the grass on the other side of the 

 street that, until you get to it, seems to 

 be the greener." 



When one man has the big stack of 

 blue chips all the others play against him. 

 It is so in business. The little fellow 

 isn't noticed; it's the big man who is 

 the target. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



GtooD soil is one of the prime neces- 

 sities. First-class stock can be grown 

 in a variety of soils, but it usually is 

 easier to prepare the compost well and 

 on time than it is to supply the de- 

 ficiencies of neglect. 



Some florists think that because they 

 never have had a printed letter-head 

 they never need get one. But it is an 

 extravagance to use plain paper. Many 

 of the best wholesale firms charge re- 

 tail prices to those who fail to show their 

 connection with the trade. 



Some of the civil service bodies wonder 

 why it is their examinations for florists 

 and gardeners bring out so few candi- 

 dates. Simply because a man may be an 

 excellent craftsman without being much 

 with the pen, and because equally good 

 jobs are to be had with less effort. 



Thebe is said to be an unprecedented 

 shortage in popular priced chiffons. 

 Owing to the prices at which the cheaper 

 grades of florists ' chiffons have been sell- 

 ing, they are said to have not been profit- 

 able for the mills, which have diverted 

 a large part of the production to other 

 fabrics. 



It is all well enough to "put the 

 profits back into the business" if they 

 go back in the right way, but first of 

 all they should go into a cash balance in 

 the bank that will permit the prompt 

 payment of running expenses, and then 

 they should provide a reserve fund that 

 will pay for rebuilding when the green- 

 houses need it. 



EACH CX)PY NEABLY A POUND. 



It is quite the common thing for sub- 

 scribers to write, when renewing, that 

 The Eeview is good value at $1 the 

 year, but here is one better: 



I enclose (1 for renewal of The Review. It Is 

 a paper worth its weight in gold. — A. M. Sour- 

 dry, Independence, Mo., October 31, 1912. 



An ounce of gold is worth several 

 dollars — and each copy of The Eeview 

 weighs nearly a pound. 



GBAFF OONTEAOT ENDS. 



It recently was reported in these col- 

 umns that the estate of William Graff, 

 Columbus, 0., had brought suit against 

 Samuel Graff to enforce a contract 

 made between the two brothers at the 

 time they dissolved partnership. Sam 

 had agreed not to go into the retail 

 florists' business again in Columbus. 

 On the death of William, Sam started 

 again under the name of the Art Floral 

 Co., Sam Graff, manager. The suit fol- 

 lowed. The outcome is told in the fol- 

 lowing, from the Columbus Dispatch of 

 November 10: 



"Charles E, Wheeler, as administra- 

 tor of the estate of the late High 

 street florist, William Graff, has lost 

 his suit against the brother of the de- 

 ceased, Samuel Graff, brought to re- 

 strain the latter from operating a flower 

 store in the Keith 's theater building 

 in violation of an agreement with his 

 brother. 



' ' Some time before his death, William 

 Graff bought out the share of his 

 brother, Samuel, in the florist shop at 15 

 North High street, the contract of sale 

 carrying the provision that the retiring 

 brother should not engage thereafter 

 in the florist business in the city of 

 Columbus. Upon the death of the 

 brother, William, the living party to 

 the contract established a shop in East 

 Gay street, and the administrator of 

 his brother's estate brought suit to en- 

 join the operation of the business. 



"Judge Kinkead, in his decision 

 against the estate, declares that the 

 contract made by the two brothers was 

 merely a personal one and that the 

 death of either party dissolved it. ' ' 



Many people will wonder if "the 

 death of either party" dissolves the 

 personal contract between the florist 

 and his landlord, and many other "per- 

 sonal contracts" that hitherto have 

 been rated either among the assets or 

 liabilities of estates. 



CHICAGK). 



The Great Central Market. 



Favorable weather conditions have 

 helped bring the market around to a 

 more normal condition and prices are 

 holding steady, with the supply becom- 

 ing more plentiful so far as mums 

 are concerned. The crops of later 

 chrysanthemums are now on and hardly 

 anyone is short of stock, except perhaps 

 of the best grade. Eoses, however, are 

 on the short side and regardless of the 

 fact that mums are so plentiful there 

 is hardly any sign of a drop in prices 

 on the medium or better grades of 

 roses. Beauties are extremely scarce 

 and carnations have likewise dropped 

 off until it is hardly possible to fill all 

 the calls for either the colored or white 

 ones. Beauties have been hard to sup- 

 ply for a week or more and all lengths 

 are found to be short of ^ the demand. 

 Other roses are a little more plentiful 

 and some nice Killarney, White Kil- 

 larney, Eichmond and Sunburst are to 

 be had at fairly normal prices. Aaron 

 Ward and Lady Hillingdon are also to 

 be had and the demand for the fancy 

 roses appears to be better than usual. 

 With the start of the week chrys- 

 anthemums began to arrive in large 

 numbers and all the old favorites 

 were among those included in the ship- 

 ments. Bonnaffon has been arriving in 

 quantity for several days. Other fancy 

 mums were also added to the list and 



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