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The Florists' Review 



Mat 29. 1918. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GRANT. . 



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PUBUSHKD BVKEY THUESDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



680-560 Caxton BnildlnK, 



508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



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Subflcription price, $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00 

 To Europe. t2JiO. 



Advertislngr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements 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 post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS 



The Retail Florist 7 



— The Latest Flower Fashion (lUus.) 7 



— No Fathers' Day 7 



— Merely a Choice of Words 7 



—Flowers and Fruits (Ulus.) 8 



— Don't Misplace the Cards 8 



Primula Poisoning 8 



To Repair Cracks 8 



As Others See Us 



Roses — Repeated Attacks of Mildew 10 



— Is There Enough Head Room ? 10 



— Good Yellow Roses 10 



News from the Convention City 10 



— Preparations Progressing 1(» 



— The Minneapolis Conveutlon 11 



Charles H. Plumb (portrait) 11 



'Twas Ever Thus 11 



Saving Bother 11 



Peonies — Retarding Peonies 12 



— Peonies for Cut Flowers 1'2 



Chrysanthemums 12 



— Yellow Mums for Retail 12 



— Early Budding of Mums 12 



Modern Plant in Texas (lllus. ) l.'i 



AUamandas l.S 



Formula for Weed Killer 13 



Use of Bordeaux Mixture 13 



Carnations 14 



— Yellow Tips on Enchantress 14 



Plants Do Not Thrive 14 



Bnlb Queries 14 



Sweet Peas 14 



— Sweet Peas Dying Off 14 



Kansas City 15 



Appreciation 1.5 



Obituary 16 



— William C. Trimble 16 



— Samuel D. Wlllard 16 



— James F. Dwyer 16 



— Jean R. Trumpy 16 



— Henry Wlnfleld 16 



Boston 16 



Boston Florists' Club at Madbury (lllus.) 17 



To Beautify Slopes 17 



Catalogues Received 17 



The Subscription Swindler 18 



From 'Way Down East 18 



Chicago 18 



Philadelphia 26 



New York .30 



St. Louis .36 



Nashville, Tenn 30 



Newport, R. 1 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Maule Is Satisfied 46 



— Conditions in Iowa 46 



— The Parcel Post 46 



— The Cleveland Program 48 



Cypress for Cooperage 48 



Pacific Coast Department BO 



— Los Angeles, Cal 50 



— San Francisco Til 



— Portland, Ore .52 



Nursery News 58 



— Amend Quarantine Rules 68 



— Tennessee Nurseries Bft 



— Kelsey Nurseries Building 60 



— Pruning Berry Plants 60 



Providence, R. 1 62 



EvansvlUe, Ind 64 



Cleveland 88 



Detroit 68 



Cincinnati . . .i 70 



Columbus. 72 



Pittsburgh 74 



Many Uses for Cypress 76 



Secretaries Please Write 76 



Plants for American KJag 91 



Greenhouse Heating 92 



— The Fuel Market 92 



— Inadequate Piping 92 



— In British Columbia 94 



— Heat from Residence Cellar 94 



Indianapolis 96 



How to Plant Asparagus 96 



Lancaster, Pa 98 



News Notes 100 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLORISTS, 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress. March 4, 1901. 



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

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

 dore Wlrtb. Minneapolis; secretary, John Young, 

 64 W. 28tb St., New York City; treasurar, W. F. 

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention. Minneapolis, 

 Minn.. August 19 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Pase 102 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



It is said that the increasing use of 

 raffia for the manufacture of artificial 

 flowers threatens to affect the price of 

 the article for horticultural purposes. 



It is the annual experience that Bos- 

 ton ferns in salable condition are well 

 cleaned up in the spring. Wlien frost 

 approaches there probably will be an- 

 other oversupply. 



American growers who have visited 

 Perry's Hardy Plant Farm, at Enfield, 

 Middlesex, England, and they are many, 

 will learn with regret that the proprietor, 

 Amos Perry, is seriously ill. 



The daffodil is occupying a place close 

 to the center of the stage in England 

 these days. The prices asked for stock 

 of some of the novelties reminds one of 

 the tulip craze in Holland. 



Don't accept a check for a purchase 

 and give cash change. Such a proposi- 

 tion from a stranger should be regarded 

 by a florist just as a railroad engineer 

 would regard a red. light in the dark- 

 ness. Danger! Watch out! 



This has been a peculiar season for 

 outdoor work. Except for occasional 

 brief hot waves, the weather has held 

 steadily cool over a large part of the 

 country and Memorial day finds the sea- 

 son decidedly backward in many places. 



Bedding stock is cleaning up in splen- 

 did shape. Although the supply was 

 much larger this year than ever before, 

 it looks as though everything will be 

 sold except, perhaps, stock that was not 

 ready in time. Each year there usually 

 is some surplus of stock that would have 

 met with good sale had it been ready 

 earlier. 



THE SUBSCRIPTION SWINDLER. 



The Review wishes it could reach the 

 few florists who are not subscribers with 

 a warning not to pay money to strang- 

 ers in the belief that they are subscrib- 

 ing to this paper. 



Notices similar to this have been 

 printed so often that nearly all in the 

 trade are safe from the swindler who 

 thinks his operations so petty as to be 

 safe — his success is among the few who 

 haven't seen the paper in the last year. 



Nearly always the subscription swin- 

 dler offers a gift of some sort, a book or 

 a knife to lure the unwary. Any such 

 offer in conjunction with The Review 

 is evidence of fraud. The Review is 

 worth its subscription price to anyone 

 whom the advertisers would care to 

 reach, and no premiums ever are offered 

 with it. 



When last heard from the false sub- 

 scription agent was working in Pennsyl- 

 vania. At Sharpsburg he gave a receipt 

 signed G. McClellan, Agent, American 

 Subscription Agency, New York City. It 

 was on a blank such as can be bought in 

 any stationery store for a nickel a pad. 



Review representatives are all well 

 known members of the trade in their 

 respective localities. Those who do not 

 know them should mail their subscrip- 

 tions direct to the ofSce in Chicago in- 

 stead of intrusting the dollar to a 

 stranger. 



This is a long screed, but the swindle 

 should be checked, to save annoyance 

 to the trade. 



If there are any who have been swin- 

 dled without making complaint, The Re- 

 view will be glad to hear from them. 



FROM 'WAY DOWN EAST. 



Chicago has become almost the cen- 

 ter of population of the United States — 

 it is the ideal location for a publishing 

 business. The great bulk of the people, 

 including florists, can be reached in a 

 shorter time from Chicago than from 

 any other city in the United States. It 

 shows in the volume of advertising car- 

 ried in The Review. No matter where 

 the advertiser is located, the results are 

 the same, as is shown by the following 

 letter from an advertiser almost as far 

 east as one can be from Chicago: 



We have sold every plant we can spare. The 

 Review certainly will do the business; the only 

 thing is we never have enough stock to fill all 

 orders. — F. A. Wlllard, Hope Greenhouse, 

 Providence, R. I., May 13, 1913. 



CHICAGO, 



The Qreat Central Market, 



The business of the early part of last 

 week was nothing to boast of, stock 

 being plentiful, demand light and aver- 

 age prices low, but as the week pro- 

 gressed conditions improved. The 

 weather was unfavorable for the pro- 

 duction of stock and as receipts went 

 down demand increased. The result 

 was that the end of the week found the 

 market extremely active, stronger than 

 it has been since Mothers' day. 



The present week opened with Memo- 

 rial day prices in effect. An extremely 

 large volume of business was on the 

 books for the three days, May 27 to 29, 

 with the heaviest shipments going out 

 May 28. Wholesalers unite in saying 

 that there never has been so large a 

 volume of business booked in advance. 

 The greater part of the orders were for 

 carnations, but other flowers also shared 

 in the increased demand. It is remark- 

 able that with the price of carnations 

 doubling up for Memorial day and the 

 prices of other flowers advanced little, 

 if at all, still the demand is principally 

 for the carnations. At the opening of 

 this week a good carnation cost as 

 much as a medium length rose, or as 

 much as a good peony. The indications 

 are that there will be enough roses, 

 especially of the longer grades, and an 

 abundance of peonies, but that it will 

 be impossible to fill anywhere near all 

 the orders for carnations. The weather 

 has been decidedly unfavorable for the 

 carnation growers. The majority of 

 them did not have their houses in full 

 crop at Mothers' day and have been 

 unable to bring them in during th^fort- 

 night which has elapsed. It is the gen- 

 eral report that the houses are a sea 

 of buds but that several days of bright 

 sun will be necessary to bring on any- 

 thing like the full cut. The crops made 

 scarcely any progress last week, the 

 weather being unseasonably cold, with 

 several days of rain, and scarcely any 

 sun. It undoubtedly reduced the Memo- 

 rial day supply by tens of thousands of 



