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The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



April 6, 1905. 



tion of one to one and one-half ounces 

 per gallon of water, have been found to 

 destroy all of the white flies except the 

 eggs, a small percentage of the nearly 

 mature pupaD, and from twenty-five to 

 fifty per cent of the adults which es- 

 cape the spray by flying from the plants. 

 It is not advisable to syringe tomato 

 })lants in greenhouses at any time, when 

 avoidable, as syringing interferes with 

 pollination and produces a damp atmos- 

 phere which promotes rot, but the in- 

 jury by syringing may be as nothing 

 compared with that which is caused daily 

 by the insects. When the use of hydro- 

 cyanic-acid gas is impractical, an all- 

 night fumigation with a tobacco extract 

 IS recommended, followed during the 

 next day by a syringing with a solution 

 of whale-oil soap or its equivalent. 



Comparative Cost of Treatment. 



"Potassium cyanide costs from about 

 30 to 50 cents per pound, according to 

 the amount purchased. Commercial sul- 

 phuric acid costs from about 2% to 10 

 cents per pound. The entire cost for a sin- 

 gle fumigation of a greenhouse contain- 

 ing 20,000 cubic feet is between 20 and 30 

 cents. The labor required is scarcely, if 

 any, greater than for fumigation with 

 other materials. A single fumigation^ 

 with a suitable tobacco extract would 

 cost, in a house of the same size, at least 

 $1.50, and the cost of labor for the 

 syringing which is recommended to fol- 

 low such fumigation would probably not 

 be less than $1. The soap required 

 would cost only a few cents, though pos- 

 sibly as much as the materials used in a 

 fumigation with hydrocyanic-acid gas. 



Cautions. 



"Hydrocyanic-acid gas is one of the 

 deadliest poisons known, and should al- 

 ways be handled with the greatest care. 

 Never hold the potassium cyanide in 

 the bare hand when pulverizing, but 

 wrap up the lumps in two or more thick- 

 nesses of cloth before breaking with 

 a hammer. Dust or small pieces of po- 

 tassium cyanide should not be thrown 

 away in exposed places, but always bur- 

 ied, as should the contents ox the recep- 

 tacles of the chemicals after the fumi- 

 gation. Never inhale air in a green- 

 house after the generation of gas has 

 begun, and provide against any one en- 

 tering the house before it is properlv 

 ventilated." f t- ^ 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



The relation between supply and de- 

 mand has continued practically un- 

 changed in the past week. There are 

 tremendously heavy receipts in all lines, 

 but each day's receipts of the staples 

 has been cleaned up at some price 

 through the medium of the cheap sales 

 stores scattered through the country. 

 The average returns per flower were never 

 lower at this season, but the aggregate 

 of each day 's sales should be reasonably 

 satisfactory to the wholesaler, if the 

 aggregate receipts from each grower's 

 establishtaent are not all that they might 

 be. If there is anyone who has cause 

 for complaint it is the Beauty grower. 

 Beauties never sold cheaper. All the big 

 growers are coming on with heavy crops 

 and receipts are more than legitimate de- 

 mand can assimilate. The dealers hold 

 the stock until it is too open to ship and 

 then job it off to the boys with the side- 



The Annual Special 



Spring Number 



rOR EASTER, 1905 



Will be issued next week (April 13th.) 



It will be in keeping with the best previous special 

 issues of the REVffiW and that's ''enough said/' 



Advertisers who wish to avail themselves of this oppor- 

 tunity for putting their specialties before the trade should 



. Mail copy at once to be in time. ^ 



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walk stands at prices which have made a 

 good many street corners veritable rose 

 gardens this past week. 



The volume of business increased, es- 

 pecially toward the close of last week. 

 Friday was a heavy day in point of ship- 

 ments going out, many wagon-loads of 

 express boxes leaving the wholesale mar- 

 ket. Saturday was a good local day and 

 Sunday the street salesmen cleaned things 

 out. Monday is always an active ship- 

 ping day and Tuesday the dullest day of 

 the week, but stock moved out fairly well 

 at cheap prices. 



Qualities continue excellent, consider- 

 ing the unseasonably warm weather. Tea 

 roses are soft and somewhat reduced in 

 size and Maids are losing color. Carna- 

 tions are very fine indeed and are coming 

 in in greater quantities than ever before 

 known in this market. There are, how- 

 ever, dozens of buyers all around the 

 country, with new ones springing up 

 every day, who can handle lots of from 

 1,000 to 10,000 or 15,000 any day when 

 the price is to their liking and so no 

 stock goes to waste. Callas do, however, 

 waste badly and so do violets. Some 

 bulbous stock remains unsalable. The 

 outdoor southern stock is coming m by 

 the wagon-load and goes only at slaughter 

 prices. Outdoor lilac has appeared, also 

 trailing arbutus. 



Violets for Easter. 



There is a good deal of difference of 

 opinion as to what the violet supply will 

 be for Easter. Some houses do not ex- 

 pect to have any and others are booking 

 orders right along. Last week the New 

 York violets were "shaking" badly but 

 this week they are doing a little better, 

 probably because of a little cooler weath- 

 er. The chances are that at Easter there 

 will be plenty of shipments, with the 

 small proportion of fair stock readily 



bringing $1 a hundred and the rest go- 

 ing at any price. Singles are already 

 practically done for. 



Help Wanted. 



There is a scarcity of help in the 

 wholesale houses and half a dozen good 

 workers could find jobs ranging all the 

 way from places that pay $12 a week to 

 $40. Capable salesmen, buyers and pack- 

 ers are hard to find and in no branch of 

 the trade is help better paid than in the 

 wholesale houses in Chicago. Depend- 

 ability is the first requisite and then 

 hustle, with a modicum of good manners 

 and a little experience and some natural 

 ability for the work. 



Various Notes. 



Bassett & Washburn have their big new 

 range up and partly glazed. The beds 

 are first a foot of cinders, then a bot- 

 tom of drain tile, then six inches of soil, 

 the side boards of pecky cypress. Their 

 improvements this season will cost close 

 to $70,000. There are no nails in the 

 new range except in the ventilators, over 

 20,000 screws being used. 



George Reinberg says that in spite of 

 the heavily loaded market he is well satis- 

 fied with the last few weeks' business. 

 He is now on with another Beauty crop like 

 the famous one at Christmas. Jos. Foers- 

 ter, who has charge of the salesroom, 

 says shipping business has been especial- 

 ly heavy the last couple of weeks. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. will rebuild some 

 of the older houses this year. The quan- 

 tity of stock they have cut this past 

 winter is something remarkable and they 

 propose to put every house in its highest 

 producing condition for next season. 



E. C. Amling says that he thinks busi- 

 ness decidedly good and prices well 

 maintained, considering the great quan- 

 tity of stock coming into the market, 

 which is certainly prodigious. 



