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The Florists' Review 



June 12, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Founded, 1897, by G. L. GRANT. 



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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 Ketall Florist 7 



— Wedding Flowers (iUus. ) 7 



— Real Flowers on Costumes 7 



— The Vacation Season 8 



Wins Suit for Damages 8 



American Sweet Pea Society 8 



Kasting to Be Postmaster 9 



Aspect and Ventilation 9 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Insect Pests 10 



"As Usual" 11 



Snapdragon and Feverfew 11 



Callas Not Blooming H 



O. J. Olson (portrait) 11 



A Start in Crotous 11 



Carilltions— Alive With Thrlps 12 



— The Soil, Indoors and Out ;. 12 



New Buildings at Leedle's (lUus.) 12 



New York 13 



Whitestone, N. Y 14 



Boston 14 



Certainly Does 15 



The Telegraph Delivery 16 



Still Moving 16 



Obituary — August Kressinger 16 



— Henry GuiUaume 16 



And Then Some 16 



Chicago 16 



Philadelphia 22 



Washington 24 



New Orleans 20 



Springfield, Mass 30 



St. Louis 34 



Dayton, 38 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Pacific Coast Department 42 



— Los Angeles, Cal 42 



— San Francisco 43 



— Seattle, Wash 43 



— Portland, Ore 44 



— San Diego, Cal 44 



Seed Trade News 46 



— Peas in Montana 47 



— As Clark Sees Situation 47 



— Ten Thousand More Orders 48 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Thrlps on Cucumbers 48 



— Tomatoes for Winter Crop 62 



News of the Nursery Trade 68 



— Conditions North 68 



— Conditions In the South 68 



— Too Much in the Dark 68 



— A New Nursery Company 68 



Brampton, Ont 60 



Detroit 62 



Cleveland 64 



Louisville 66 



Cincinnati 68 



Indianapolis .-70 



Columbus, 84 



Greenhouse Heating 86 



— A Partitioned Greenhouse 8t{ 



— The Fuel Market 86 



— Capacity of Boiler 88 



Pittsburgh 88 



Bowling — At Chicago 92 



Sedalia, Mo 92 



Providence, R. 1 94 



.Minneapolis 96 



Decatur, lU. — C. W. Harrold has 

 bought ten lots at a new location and 

 intends putting up houses there for cut 

 flowers, using the old place for pot 

 plants. He mis had an excellent plant 

 business this spring, but plans still 

 larger things. He sold 20,000 geraniums, 

 9,000 salvias and 1,200 baskets of a 

 dozen pansies to the local trade this sea- 

 son. He will have 100,000 pansies for 

 fall and 35,000 geraniums are in the 

 field for cuttings. Silver pink snap- 

 dragon is another specialty into which 

 he is going extensively. 



SOOIETT OF A1I£BI0AV FLORISTS. 

 Incorporated by Act of ConKreas, March 4, 1901. 



Officer* for 1913: President. 3. K. M. L. 

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

 dore Wlrth, Minneapolis; secretary. John Young, 

 64 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. P. 

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Twenty-ninth annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Augnst 19 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



/ Page 98 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Young stock of both Sunburst and 

 Mrs. Ward is selling extremely well this 

 season. Dozens of growers are watching 

 for offers of surplus stock. 



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. 



It is doubtful if the big cut flower 

 markets ever have seen, in two consecu- 

 tive weeks, such widely varying condi- 

 tions as occurred in the week preceding 

 Memorial day and in the week after. 



EOCK gardens are having a wonderful 

 vogue in England. Climatic conditions 

 are somewhat unfavorable in most parts 

 of the United States, but there are op- 

 portunities here that the trade will be 

 glad to see developed. 



The quantity of bedding stock pro- 

 duced this season broke all records, and 

 the quantity already sold has been enor- 

 mous, with the business by no means 

 over. It looks as though everything will 

 clean up as closely as ever. 



It is of special interest to note how 

 many nurserymen say that while the de- 

 mand for fruit trees fell off this year, 

 the call for ornamental stock was un- 

 precedented. There is a tip here for 

 florists as well as nurserymen. 



L. Merton Gage, of Groton, Mass., 

 announces that he will not be a candi- 

 date for reelection as secretary of the 

 American Gladiolus Society. He says he 

 makes his attitude known at this time 

 so that his successor may be selected with 

 deliberation. 



Look around at the concerns you know 

 best and note the way they look after 

 details. Isn't it true that the ones that 

 have the steady, permanently profitable 

 business are the ones that give such close 

 attention to small matters that there 

 never is any question of their ability to 

 handle the big ones! System counts. 



OBITUARY. 



THE TELEGRAPH DELIVEBY. 



A meeting of the Florists' Telegraph 

 Delivery will be held at Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Wednesday, August 20, at 2 

 'clock. Albert Pochelon, Sec 'y. 



STILL MOVING. 



Eeview advertisers wilL not find the 

 season over, by any meAs. The de- 

 mand will continue, in various parts of 

 the country, for weeks. But don't de- 

 lay. Clean up your surplus now. This 

 is how: 



Our stock In spite of Immense quantity of 

 plants and cuttings, Is moving rapidly, even at 

 this late date; we were simply rushed before 

 Memorial day, and all owing to good stock and 

 The Review.— J. P. Slebold, Lancaster, Pa., May 

 31. 1913. 



August Kressinger. 



August Kressinger, of 190 Stegman 

 avenue, Jersey City, N. J,, died recently 

 of heart disease. He was 52 years old 

 and is survived by his mother and two 

 sisters, 



Henry Guillaume. 



KenTj Guillaume, Sr., of La Crosse, 

 Wis,, died at his home, 119 South Sixth 

 street. May 28, after an illness of six 

 months with a complication of diseases. 

 He was 66 years of age and was born 

 in Strassen, Luxemburg, Germany. He 

 came to America with his wife in 1872, 

 settling in La Crosse and opening a 

 flower store, which has been continued 

 up to the present. He is survived by 

 his wife and by three children: Mrs. 

 Katie Freimark, of Dakota, Minn.; Miss 

 Emma, of La Crosse, and Henry, Jr., 

 also of La Crosse. 



"AND THEN SOME." 



A good many letters are more or less 



like this: 



Please cut out our ad. The Review has sold 

 us out, AND THEN SOME.— Le Roy H. Brown & 

 Son, Clyde. O., June 3. 1913. 



The average advertiser would a great 

 deal rather oversell than have stock left 

 on his hands, but The Eeview does its 

 utmost to see that advertising is not 

 continued after the stock is gone. It is 

 purely in the interest of its readers that 

 it so often urges advertisers to cut out 

 their ads, not only promptly after they 

 have served their purpose, but when 

 stock is running low. It is fine to give 

 the advertisers such satisfactory results, 

 but it is better yet to have things 

 come out equally well for every man 

 who orders. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week's market was one which 

 will long be remembered by those who 

 get their livelihood from the wholesal- 

 ing of cut flowers. There are annual 

 spring gluts, but the market never has 

 seen so unwieldy an oversupply in the 

 first week in June. There have been 

 plenty of times when prices have been 

 as low as last week's averages, but 

 there never before was so bad a week 

 following immediately on the heels of 

 a splendid holiday week. Demand and 

 prices for Memorial day were excep- 

 tionally good; the contrast made the 

 week following seem even worse than 

 it was. 



Enormous quantities of stock were 

 moved last week. No less remarkable 

 than where it all came from was where 

 it all went. The week started with 

 the market heavily supplied and get- 

 ting worse from day to day, as the 

 weather warmed up. The quality wa^ 

 beginning to be seriously affected whea 

 there was a sudden drop in tempera- 

 ture. This had the effect of brighten- 

 ing up the stock, but it seems to have 

 had little effect on the quantities com- 

 ing in, although production must hav-- 

 been checked. The demand at the 

 opening of this week was not so good 

 as the demand at the opening of last 

 week. The wholesalers see little pros- 

 pect of normal conditions until after a 

 few days of hot weather run off the 

 present crops. 



The belated crops of carnations came 

 on in full force last week. It is lit- 

 erally true that carnations that were 



