May 5, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1279 



IVIEIVflORIAL DAY 



SOON BE HERE 



CYCAS LEAVES and WREATHS, 



Of Finest Oualltv. 



RUSCUS WREATH, A Soft Green, like Smilax 



METALLIC and FRENCH BEADED WREATHS, 



ArtlHtic and Appropriate. 



WE 

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WHEAT SHEAVES, 



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WORLD'S FAIR ROSE SHOW. 



There will be an exhibition of cut 

 roses at the St. Louis World's Fair May 

 21 to 25. Medals and certificates will be 

 awarded. The entries must be received 

 by the superintendent not later than 

 May 18. Following are the classes: 



Vase of 25 blooms The Bride. 



Vase of 25 blooms Bridesmaid. 



Vase of 25 blooms S<:iiivenir de Wootton. 



Vase of 25 blooms Meteor. 

 ; Vase of 25 blooms Golden Gate. 



Vase of 25 blooms Liberty. 



Vase of 25 blooms Kaiserin. 



Vase of 25 blooms American Beauty. 



Vase of 25 blooms Madame Testout. 



Vase of 25 blooms D«:)rothea. 



Vase of 25 blooms Lii Frauco. 



Vase of 25 blooms Perle. 



Exhibit of varieties introduced in 1900 and 

 1901. 



General display of tea and hybrid tea varieties. 



General display of Noisette and tender climl> 

 ing varieties. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Treatment for Tender Stock. 



Apropos of your correspondent ' s 

 trovible with coleus dying and Mr. 

 Scott 's reply that insufficient heat might 

 be the cause, I would like to say that it 

 is very easy for men with large, well 

 equipped plants to regulate heat to the 

 requirements of the various houses, but 

 for men like me, small country plants- 

 men doing a local retail business in pop- 

 ular plants, a great variety with no great 

 quantity of any one thing, it is a diflR- 

 cult matter to keep the temperature higli 

 enough for coleus and low enough for 

 geraniums. Much may be done, however, 

 with a little thoughtfulness. As we 

 slack up on firing and the temperature 

 falls to -50 degrees or lowtr at night, to 



pot off coleus, seedling salvias, etc., in a 

 thoughtless manner, cold soil, cold pots 

 and cold water, and expose them to full 

 sun or cool draughts, means death to 

 many of them. But warm the soil, pot 

 them when the house is warm, in pots 

 both moist and warm, water them lightly 

 with decidedly warm water, cover them 

 with paper and keep them. C'-vcrcd night 

 and day for about a weak, wlien root 

 action -n-ill havo started, and ihe plants 

 will be safe. Thoy will not grow very 

 fast but will make short-jointed stocky 

 plants, large enough at th3 planting time 

 if the man with the hose has brains. The 

 same treatment for egg plants and pop- 

 pers works well. This is not mere the- 

 ory. I formerly lost at least half of my 

 cuttings and tender seedlings; now I lose 

 none. J. Xhornilet. 



OBITUARY. 



John Kunzler. 



At Eockford, 111., April 24, John 

 Kunzler died at the age of 85 years, 

 after a brief illness of pneumonia. He 

 had been a resident of Eockford many 

 years and during the active period of 

 his life was engaged in the florists' busi- 

 ness. 



John H. Wade. 



John H. Wade, of Evansville, Ind., 

 died April 2.5 after a long illness. He 

 located in Evansville in 1866 and was 

 a florist, on Fulton avenue. Mrs. Wade 

 surrives. 



Wm. E. Lanning. 



At Waterloo, la., Wm. E. Lanning. the 



well-known nurseryman in the neighbor- 

 ing township of Spring Creek, died 

 April 2.5 of typhoid fever. He was born 

 at Spring Creek in 1858 and had lived 

 there all his life. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Thomas Devoy & Son, Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., submit for registration the zonale 

 geranium. Telegraph, a seedling of 1900; 

 parentage, E. G. Hill x The Wonder; 

 flowers, single, two and one-half to three 

 inches in diameter, deep orange-cerise, 

 large and borne in immense compact 

 clusters five to six and one-half inches 

 across; foliage dark green with heavy 

 zone ; habit very robust : height two 

 feet ; a profuse blooming bedder. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec 'v. 



DEPRECIATION. 



A gentleman named A'arnum Frost, 

 who hails from Middlesex County. Mas- 

 sachusetts, is quoted as follows in the 

 Massachusetts Ploughman for April 16: 



"No property is more subject to de- 

 preciation than old greenhouses. The 

 land would often be worth more with- 

 out them. The greenhouse men will yet 

 come to grief. Drop greenhouses like 

 hot potatoes." 



That would look as though Mr. Frost 

 had already encoitntered the grief which 

 ho predicts will eventuate for us all. but 

 grief is the due portion of one who lets 

 his greenhouses, or any other buildings, 

 depreciate to the point where "the land 

 would be worth more without them." 



