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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 23, 1906. 



NiLES, O.— John Dunston has added a 

 house 20x100 to his plant. 



Everett, Mass. — George Marshall has 

 given up the florists' business. 



Lima, O. — The Swan Floral Co. has 

 ordered material for two greenhouses to 

 be put up early in the spring. 



Orange, N. J. — 'The annual installation 

 feast of the New Jersey Floricultural 

 Society will take place February 2. 



Aurora, III. — A new concern, to be 

 known as the Aurora Floral Co., is to 

 open a retail flower store on Downer 

 place. 



Clinton, Mo. — A. Woerner grows car- 

 nations, lettuce and bedding plants all 

 in the same house and with good success, 

 but he says he is badly crowded and 

 needs three more houses. 



Edinburg, Ind. — Thomas Woodard 's 

 business has been very satisfactory con- 

 sidering that it is his first season. More 

 glass will soon be added. Mrs. Woodard 

 is active in the business. 



Salem, Va. — J. Shartzer finds business 

 very good, all stock selling as fast as 

 ready. The holiday trade was very good, 

 carnations being especially in demand 

 and the crop fortunately large. 



Malden, Mass.— E. D. Kaulback & 

 Son have bought the Hecklet greenhouses 

 at Wellington, taken them down and 

 rebuilt them at their place here, giving 

 them a total of 65,000 feet of well con- 

 strueted glass. 



Lafayette, Ind. — It seems to be the 

 fashion these days to withdraw new 

 carnations from the market after having 

 booked a few orders. F, Domer & Sons 

 Co. has withdrawn Tippecanoe, striped, 

 at least for this year. 



Albany, N. Y. — H. L. Menand filed a 

 petition in bankruptcy January 15. He 

 filed a schedule of liabilities to the 

 amount of $2,146.35 and declares that 

 he has no assets. He is the son of Louis 

 Menand, the cemetery florist. 



Colorado Springs, Colo.— J. W. Smith 

 is having excellent success with his car- 

 nations. Enchantress is not done better 

 anywhere. White Cloud is especially fine 

 with him, the stem being very much 

 stronger than it is grown in other locali- 

 ties. 



Harrisburg, Pa.— Mrs. Anna B. Mach- 

 lin, who for a number of years has had 

 a flower store here, died January 14, 

 aged 55 years. The business will be 

 continued "by the estate, managed by C. 

 Uttley, who came from New York and 

 has had charge during Mrs. Machlin's 

 long illness. 



Morris, III. — On the morning of Jan- 

 uary 16 the greenhouse of T. Nelson 

 was destroyed by fire, originating in the 

 boiler shed. All stock was frozen, with 

 a loss of $1,000 and $200 insurance. 

 Mr. Nelson had not been out of the 

 house since New Year's day, when he 

 underwent a surgical operation. 



Pawtucket, R. I. — A. H. Newman has 

 recently opened a place here. 



Brooklyn, 0. — M. L. Euetenik is pre- 

 paring to erect 40,000 feet of glass for 

 lettuce. 



Elyria, O. — Copas Bros, are planning 

 a considerable addition to their range 

 of glass. 



Allegheny, Pa. — Herman Hein has 

 just added another house 20x60 for bed- 

 ding plants. 



Highland, III. — Fred E. Hollard will 

 rebuild in the spring and be in fine 

 shape for next fall's trade. 



TOPEKA, Kan. — I. H. EUenberger will 

 build another house in the spring, 20x60. 

 Business is increasing very nicely with 

 him. 



Marshall, Mo.— Samuel Wittrup, 

 manager of the Marshall Floral Co., re- 

 ports especially good trade in cut 

 flowers during the holidays. 



Des Moines, Ia. — Chas. Gay says it 

 looks, from the orders he is getting, as 

 though everyone must be short on gera- 

 nium cuttings. He is sold out for the 

 time being. 



Dayton, O. — H. H. Hitter has a very 

 neat store in the Algonquin hotel, opened 

 in December, just in time to catch a fine 

 share of the holiday trade. His son, F. 

 W. Eitter, is in charge. 



Dayton, O. — H. M. Altick, vice-presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F. and chairman of 

 the McKinley Memorial committee, will 

 be a candidate for sheriff of Montgom- 

 ery county at the next election. 



Belvidere, III. — The Columbia Heat- 

 ing Co. has removed its general oflSces 

 from Chicago to its manufacturing plant 

 in this city. The oflBce at 40 Dearborn 

 street, Chicago, is to be maintained as a 

 salesroom. 



Clinton, Mass, — Edward W. Breed 

 has a seedling from the Lawson and 

 Prosperity. Mr. Breed has not yet given 

 it a name but denotes it as No. 26. The 

 blooms are of extra large size, white 

 with fleckings of salmon. 



Savannah, Ga. — A. C. Oelschig & Son 

 are equipping a house with the Louis 

 Wittbold watering device to give it a 

 trial on rubbers, it having given good re- 

 sults in a house of these plants at the 

 Wittbold place in Chicago. 



Des Moines, Ia. — W. L. Morris has 

 taken the management of the retail 

 store of the Morris-Blair Floral Co. This 

 company was organized several years ago 

 by Mr. Morris, who sold the business to 

 other parties, with whom he now again 

 identifies himself. 



Plainfield, N. J. — Charles L. Stanley 

 has been having a good business lately, 

 including the furnishing of decorations 

 for weddings, etc. Among the latter 

 was the recent Shepard-Love wedding, at 

 which the artistic grouping and tasteful 

 effects were greatly admired. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not w^illing to suffer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically profubitivet 

 it is of first importance tfiat the Review 

 obtain its advertising **copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 tliat all advertisers mail their **copy^ 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of 'Wednesday morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past* 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



American Carnation Society 617 



— The Boston Convention (lllus.) 617 



— President-elect J. H. Dunlop (portrait) . . . 617 



— President Peter Fisher (portrait) 618 



— President's Address 618 



— Secretary's Report 610 



— Treasurer's Report 619 



— The Awards 619 



— Eugene Dallledouze (portrait) 620 



— Wm. Nicholson (portrait) 621 



— Thursday's Session 621 



— Election of Officers 621 



— Convention Committees 621 



Carnation Breeding - 622 



Carnations in the Rockies 622 



— J. A. Valentine (portrait) 623 



A Wholesaler's Vlev?polnt 626 



From a Retailer's Viewpoint 628 



Making Concrete Walls 629 



Charles Weber (portrait) 620 



Carnations 630 



— Carnation Notes — East 630 



— Carnation Pocahontas (iUus.) 631 



— Picking the Blooms 631 



— For Long Shipment 631 



—Manuring the Field 632 



— Two Fine Houses (lllus. ) 632 



— Carnation Candace (lllus. ) 632 



Violets— In California 633 



— violets In Oregon 633 



— Maggots on Violets 633 



Starting Cannas 633 



Roses— Best Six 634 



— Infested With Eel Worms 634 



— Best Garden Roses 634 



Forced Circulation of Water 634 



Price of Lumber 636 



Darlington on California 636 



Poinsettlas 636 



Forcing Cherry Blossoms 636 



Hydrangea Otaksa 636 



Notes from England 637 



Storage of Bay Trees 637 



Geranium Cuttings 637 



Forcing Spiraea 687 



Daphne Odora 637 



Vegetable Forcing — Rhubarb 638 



Boston 638 



Washington 630 



St. Louis 639 



Business and Other Notes 640 



Chicago 641 



Detroit 642 



Pittsburg 646 



Cincinnati 646 



New York 647 



Philadelphia 640 



Kansas City 680 



Advertising Rates 652 



Want Advertisements 6S8 



Seed Trade News 6S4 



— German Seed Trade 6B4 



— Hollow Stalk of Celery 666 



Milwaukee 667 



Twin Cities 668 



Pacific Coast 668 



— Difficulties of Importing 668 



— San Francisco 660 



Nursery News 670 



— Oklahoma Nurserymen 670 



— Retail Nurserymen Dine 670 



— Southern Association 670 



Toledo, Ohio 682 



Lenox, Mass 684 



New Orleans 686 



To Relieve Condensation 688 



Water Circulation 600 



Boiler 602 



Newmarket, N. H. — G. A. Dudley has 

 added two houses 20x47, with shed, for 

 cut flowers and pot plants. 



Peobia, III. — Cole Bros, have steadily 

 been adding to their plant until they 

 have fifty up-to-date houses. 



Bellows Falls, Vt. — George A. Hal- 

 laday has completed his new greenhouse 

 and is ready to start in business. 



