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The Weekly Florists' ReviewV 



JANUART 19, 1906. A*' 



Rudd, Wm. Scott and Wm. Nicholson. 

 Mr. Scott has been quite ill for several 

 weeks and writes that he has abandoned 

 hope of attending. 



The Chicago Florists' Club will be the 

 host at a banquet as the closing feature 

 of the convention. Many of the visitors 

 will remain a day or two to visit the 

 well-known carnation growing establish- 

 ments in the vicinity of Chicago. 



McKINLEY^ FAVORITE FLOWER. 



On McKinley day, January 29, a great 

 many people will insist on having a car- 

 nation of a certain color, in the belief 

 that it was Mr. McKinley's favorite. As 

 a matter of fact it was the carnation that 

 Mr. McKinley loved, without regard to 

 color. An evidence of this is the fact 

 that different people will argue that he 

 wore a red flower or a pink or crimson, 

 not agreeing at all as to color. Each 

 may have had the evidence of his own 

 eyes, for Mr. McKinley wore them all, 

 and white. 



If McKinley day is to become of value 

 to the florists it is of importance that all 

 colors of carnations be recognized as ap- 

 propriate for the purpose of the occasion. 

 There is a little story which may serve 

 to turn many people from a belief that 

 they must have a color: Not long since 

 a well-known florist chanced to be in 

 Canton and was accorded the privilege bf 

 entering the vault in which McKinley's 

 body lies. There upon the casket lay a 

 great bunch of white carnations with the 

 card of Mrs. Roosevelt. Surely had Mr. 

 McKinley's favorite been pink or red 

 iMrs. Roosevelt would not have sent 

 white. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



The Chicago Meeting. 



The meeting and exhibition of this so- 

 ciety will be held in the Auditorium Ho- 

 tel, Chicago, January 25 and 26. Every 

 one interested in carnations is invited to 

 come and meet with us. Special rates 

 of a fare and one-third, on the certificate 

 plan, have been granted from all points 

 east of and including Denver. The small 

 sum of $2 makes you a member of the 

 society and pays one year's dues. This 

 entitles you to exhibit any new or old 

 carnation you may have to show. 



The Auditorium Hotel can take care of 

 all members at reasonable rates, espec- 

 ially where two will occupy the same 

 room. This puts all under one roof, 

 lodging, the meeting and exhibition and 

 weather need not be taken into account. 



There are so many sports of Lawson 

 coming into the field that this societv 

 would like, for the sake of uniformity 

 and to avoid the introduction of the same 

 variety under different names, to have ev- 

 ery carnation grower who has a sport from 

 Lawson, of any color, to exhibit the same 

 at this meeting, and especially so if he 

 intends placing it on the market. Where 

 the grower does not accompany the box 

 it should be marked as follows: "The 

 American Carnation Society. Chicago, 

 111., care of P. J. Hauswirth, Auditorium 

 Hotel; Prepaid." 



Department of Registration. 

 Patten & Co., Tewksbury, Mass., regis- 

 ter Mikado; color white, overlaid with 

 crimson, a seedling of 1902, a cross of 

 Gov. Roosevelt and Prosperity, style of 

 growth like Gov. Roosevelt, size of blooms 

 three to three and one-half inches. Pink 

 Patteh; color clear dark pink, a sport 

 from Mrs. M. A. Patten. 



Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



CARNATION DAY. 



The accompanying portrait is that of 

 Lewis G. Reynolds, of Dayton, O., to 

 whom the trade is indebted for the idea 

 of the Carnation League of America, with 

 its three millions of members, each of 

 whom will wear a carnation on January 

 29, the anniversary of President McKin- 

 ley's birthday. The Florists' McKinley 

 Memorial Fund committee has at differ- 

 ent times detailed the objects of The 

 Carnation League of America, and the 

 benefits already derived, and to be de- 

 rived, from this popular movement and 

 it now feels that the time has come for 

 prompt action. 



The committee has expended consider- 

 able effort to place this question before 

 the trade ; a fair number have subscribed 

 to the fund; a greater niunber have 

 pledged themselves; but the greatest 

 number have failed to respond. Those 

 who have paid, the committee heartily 

 thanks; to those who have subscribed, 

 but not paid, the committee would urge 

 prompt payment, so that they may re- 

 ceive their certificate before January 29, 



Lewis G. Reynolds. 



(Originator of Carnation League of America.) 



and to the great number who have failed 

 to respond, either through neglect or in- 

 difference, the committee would urge 

 prompt action. 



The g^rower and the wholesaler are 

 equally interested and benefited with the 

 retailer; therefore it behooves all, from 

 the employee to the proprietor, to have a 

 part in a movement ^at will bring mani- 

 fold good to our profession. A gener- 

 ous response will easily attain our object 

 and obtain for our profession a fund for 

 the National McKinley Memorial that 

 will prove a lasting monument to the 

 florists' profession and that will bring 

 back to us many times the amount in- 

 vested. 



Any donation (the committee terms it 

 investment) of $1 or more entitles the 

 member to a handsome steel engraved 

 certificate, fit to be framed, which when 

 displayed in your place of business will 

 prove a lasting appeal to the sentiment 

 and patriotism of your customers, and an 

 indication of your own loyalty to, and 

 your interest in, our great republic. 



"Do it now," and send your remit- 

 tances to the undersigned. 



H. M. Altick, Chairman. 



Dayton, Ohio. 



Vegetable Forcii^. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Jan. 18. — Cucumbers, 50c to 

 $1.75 per doz.; leaf lettuce, 20c to 25q 

 case; head lettuce, $2 to $3.10 bbl. 



Boston, Jan. 17. — Cucimibers, $13 to 

 $20 box; seconds, $3 to $10 box; rad- 

 ishes, $2.50 to $3 box; mint, $1 to $1.25, 

 doz.; tomatoes, 35c lb.; mushrooms, 

 50c to 75c lb. ; lettuce, 50c to $1.25 box 

 of three doz.; asparagus, $3 to $4 doz. 



SUCCESSIONAL SOWINGS. 



Keeping the benches full is a matter 

 of much importance. It only requires a 

 little foresight but carelessness or pro- 

 crastination in the matter may cause 

 quite some delay, which at the year's 

 end results in considerable shortage in 

 receipts. The thoughtful grower always 

 has plants ready to fill up his benches 

 just as soon as a crop is harvested. 



It is useless to try to lay dpwn any 

 hard and fast rule or to say just how 

 many days or weeks should elapse be- 

 tween sowings of the different subjects. 

 It is pretty much of an individual mat- 

 ter, so few are placed just alike in re- 

 gards to space or demand. If a con- 

 stant supply of all or any of the several 

 vegetables employed for forcing is to be 

 kept up they will naturally have to be 

 kept coming along in all the different 

 stages, so that when one bench is fin- 

 ished another is ready to begin on and 

 the time between the sowings must be 

 regulated by the length of time the sup- 

 ply in the bench will last. In such cases 

 there is little danger of a shortage, as 

 sowings would be regularly made every 

 week or ten days with such subjects as 

 cauliflower and lettuce and about every 

 four weeks with tomatoes and cucumbers. 



Cauliflower heart up pretty much to- 

 gether and in about a week from the 

 time of starting to cut, the bench would 

 be pretty well cleared. Lettuce would 

 take about the same time, although the 

 time could be extended a few days with- 

 out danger of loss if necessary. The 

 length of time tomato or cucumber 

 plants will b€«r, depends pretty much 

 on the space the plants are allowed to 

 cover but from four to six weeks is 

 about the average time that they can 

 be depended on to keep up a supply. 



It is usually in the smaller places that 

 we see time lost, where there is no at- 

 tempt made to keep up a steady sup- 

 ply, but where a house or bench may 

 be used to grow one thing now and an- 

 other thing again. A growe/ often 

 finds that he can grow such crops as 

 lettuce and cauliflower through the cold- 

 est of the winter days but cannot com*- 

 mand enough heat to grow cucumbers 

 or tomatoes, though he may be so placed 

 that the latter crops are the more profit- 

 able; then through the warmer spring 

 months the changed conditions make it 

 possible for him to grow the other crops. 

 In such cases it is well for him to look 

 well ahead and have his seed planted in 

 good time so that his plants will be 

 coming along and be in the best pos- 

 sible stage for planting by the time hid 

 space is ready for their accommodation. 



There is, of course, a medium to be 

 struck. It would be just as bad to have 

 the plants too large as to have them 

 too small. If tomatoes are under way a 

 little too soon they can be kept moved 



