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The Florfets' Review 



June 26, 1913. 



THE FLC^ISTS' REVffiW 



Founded. 1897, by G. L. GKANT. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

 at the post-office at Chicago. III., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



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CONTENTS 



Chrysanthemums 7 



— Grub worms In Manure 7 



— Tarnish Bugs on Mums 7 



A Concrete Tamping Block (lllus. ) 7 



Pansy Queries 7 



The Retail Florist 8 



— Send the Flowers Now 8 



— A Prize-Winning Car (lllus. ) 8 



— An Indoor Window Box (lllus.) 8 



— For a Florists' Funeral (lllus. i 8 



Kerosene Emulsion 8 



American Sweet Pea Society 8 



Various Queries 9 



How About Testtmonlals ? 9 



Wintering Pausies 9 



Roaies — The Hartford Kose Gardens 10 



— 1 he Boston Kose Show 10 



Peonies — Popular Taste in Pi-oules 10 



— Conserving the Plants 11 



— Work of the Peony Society 11 



— Bertrand H. Karr (portrait) 11 



Some St. Louis Workers (lllus.) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — !■ reeslas 12 



— Asters 12 



— Show Pelargoniums 12 



— Gladioli 12 



l' ,,— .Callas 12 



'-^— >Hard Wooded Plants 12 



Four Generations of Florists (portrait) 13 



St. Louis « i:{ 



The Record Stem (lllus.) 14 



Pittsburgh 14 



Antirrhinums from Seed (lllus.) 15 



New York 1.'5 



Indianapolis • 16 



Chippewa P'alls. Wis 16 



National Gardeners 16 



The Senate's Tariff Rates 10 



Sohixonthus From Seed 17 



Obituary — Thomas Harrison 17 



— F. W. Brooltes 17 



— Amos Perry (portrait) 17 



Here's Why l8 



Paste as an Insecticide 18 



Chicago IS 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 26 



Dayton. O :«) 



Providence, R. 1 34 



Milwaukee. Wis .37 



Steamer Sailings 40 



News of the Seed Trade 42 



— The Bulb Crops 42 



— Fire at Dunkirk 42 



— .Seed Trade Convention 42 



— Seeds Under Irrigation 40 



Pnclflc Coast Department .IS 



— Victoria. B. C .58 



— I.os Angeles, Cal 58 



— Portland. Ore 60 



— San Francisco 60' 



Inserts on Phloxes 60 



.News of the Nursery Trade (52 



-Henry B. Chase (portrait) 62 



— .T. B. Pllklngton (portrait) 62 



— Peter Youngers (portrait) 62 



— Evergreens In Demand 62 



— Nurserymen's Convention (lllus.) 62 



Washington 66 



Cincinnati 6,S 



Lancaster, Pa 70 



Amherst. Mass 72 



Springfield. Mass 74 



New Orleans 70 



New.* Notes 89 



Greenhouse Heating 90 



— Coke as Fuel 90 



— Steam for Three Houses 90 



— A Small Leak In Boiler 91 



— Heating System a Failure..' 92 



— Coal Call Means Prosperity 94 



Kansas City 98 



Detroit. Mich 100 



Greenwich, Conn 100 



Marshall, m. — Mrs. Minnie B. Talbot, 



formerly of Bellevue, Mich., has re- 

 moved to this town and is in business 

 at" 802 Elm street. 



SOCIETY OF AKERIOAK FLORIBTB. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congresa. March 4, 1801. 

 OfBcera for 1913: President. J. K. M. L. 

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

 dore Wlrtb, Minneapolis; secretary, John Toung, 

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

 Kasting, Buffalo. 



Twenty-nlntb annual convention, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., August 19 to 22, 1913. 



Index to Advertisers 



Page 102 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



AiJBERT E. Mauff, the Denver florist, 

 is secretary of the State Board of Horti- 

 culture. 



A MERCHANT might Hs Well give away 

 his merchandise as to "sell" it to those 

 who do not pay. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



At its commencement this month the 

 Maryland Agricultural College conferred 

 on Richard Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 an honorary degree "for his achievements 

 in horticulture and floriculture." 



The business done by The Review in 

 the month of May, 1913, was the largest 

 of any month in its history and the en- 

 tire season has been the best in the 

 paper's experience. Consequently, em- 

 ployees of The Review are entitled to a 

 holiday and the office will remain closed 

 from Thursday evening, July 3, to Mon- 

 day morning, July 7. 



The guarantors of the National Flower 

 Show have received a dividend of ten per 

 cent on the sums paid in, five per cent 

 on the sums for which they had obligated 

 themselves. Secretary Young, in sending 

 out the checks, wrote: "Chairman 

 Totty desires me to say that after all ex- 

 penses are paid there will be a nice little 

 nucleus for a permanent flower show 

 fund." 



The production and sale of bedding 

 plants this season has greatly exceeded 

 previous years. Those who were ready 

 early and advertising early, wholesale or 

 retail, in general have cleaned up. There 

 are, as always, some surpluses in the 

 hands of those who either were not ready 

 early enough or who simply sat and 

 waited for the buyers. There never is a 

 season that does not see more or less 

 stock left unsold because it was not in 

 salable condition until aft^r the local de- 

 mand had pretty much passed. 



HERE'S WHY. 



Letters like the following reach The 

 Review so frequently as to justify the 

 statement that there is no other means 

 of selling stock that equals The Re- 

 view for effectiveness or cheapness: 



We have sold all the plants advertised 

 In The Review. Your paper certainly sells 

 • the stock. — George B. Morrell. Philadelphia, 

 June 16. 1913. 



We are all sold out. The Review did the 

 work and we want to thank you for It. — 

 W. Bezdek, Cedar Rapids, la., June 17, 1913. 



And here is the other side — the rea- 

 son why: 



In renewing my subscription I want to 

 say we have made several times the price 

 of It In the last season by sending for stock 

 to brother florists we never would have heard 

 of but for their ads in The Review. — L. M. 

 Strader, Maryvllle, Mo.. June 17, 1913. 



PASTE AS AN INSEOTIOIDE, 



A recent circular from the bureau 

 of entomology of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture has some interesting in- 

 formation as to th© effect of ordinary 

 wheat flour on. insects. The writer 

 found that wheat flour made into paste 

 and added to certain insecticides im- 

 mensely increased their effectiveness, 

 especially against red spider. From this 

 he was induced to try its effect alone 

 and found that it was completely suc- 

 cessful against spider without injury to 

 the most delicate foliage. A mixture 

 of four pounds of flour made into paste 

 and dissolved in four gallons of water, 

 and then added to 100 gallons of ordi- 

 nary lime-sulphur wash, was tried on 

 hops affected with red spider/ and was 

 found to have killed ninety-nine per 

 cent. It was also found to add to the 

 effectiveness of nicotine washes. 



For using the flour paste only against 

 spider the recipe is as follows: Mix 

 cheap wheat flour with cold water to 

 a thin paste, then dilute further until a 

 gallon of paste contains one pound of 

 flour. Heat until the mixture becomes 

 pasty, stirring well to avoid burning; 

 then add water sufficient to make up 

 for loss by evaporation, so as to bring 

 it to the original volume. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A pronounced change has taken place 

 since last report, for, with the con- 

 tinued heat of the last two weeks, the 

 crops have just about worked off. Roses 

 of good quality are exceedingly hard to 

 obtain and the demand, while not un- 

 usually heavy, exceeds the supply. Al- 

 though it was to be expected that the 

 crops would suffer from the warm 

 weather, the change wa^ rather sudden 

 and the wholesalers were caused some 

 trouble as a consequence. Hardly 

 enough of the best can be obtained to 

 fill all of the shipping orders and the 

 local demand is also for the better 

 grade of stock. Prices have naturally 

 advanced. 



Carnations are not only plentiful in 

 the less desirable grades, but there is 

 more good stock than can be sold to ad- 

 vantage. The receipts of carnations 

 average unusually good quality for this 

 time of year, but the demand has fallen 

 off, as it always does when hot weather 

 arrives. It is possible that with the 

 passing of the peony carnations will 

 strengthen. There is hardly any out- 

 let for poor stock, as the local retailers 

 show no desire to handle carnations in 

 quantity at any price and unless sold 

 to the street men for whatever price 

 they will pay it is necessary for the 

 wholesaler to consign them to the ash 

 heap. 



In Beauties the cut has fallen off 

 sharply. The sun has been at work on 

 these and those that have not been 

 affected by the excess heat are bringing 

 a better price than has been noted for 

 some time. The buds on most of those 

 coming on the market are small and 

 bleached and the wholesalers are glad 

 to move them at most any price. Some 

 are affected more than others. Killar- 

 neys show fairly good quality, but the 

 supply of the first grade is limited. 

 The same can be said of Richmonds and 

 the yellows. Most of the cut this week 

 is from young stock and is short in 

 stem. Marylands and Mrs. Taft are 



