780 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Fbbbdabt 8, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Beca u se of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has |ui{orced upon 

 those employers not willing to suffer 

 interruption of their business; especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitivct 

 it is of first iqiportance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising **coTpy" eztUa, 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers mail their '^copy'' 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 momingt instead of Wednesday morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed* 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 769 



— The Geranium 769 



— Narcissus Golden Spur 769 



— Azalea Hexe 769 



— Forcing Valley 769 



Society of American Florists 769 



Pansles and Forget-me-nots 769 



To Exterminate White Fly 770 



The Retail Florist — Basket Arrangement... 770 



— A Lansing Store (lUus. ) 770 



— A McKlnley Window (lllus.).- 771 



Time to Sow Alyssum 771 



Boses— Carry Ing Beauties Over 772 



— Best Red Rose 772 



— The Sow Bug 772 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 772 



— Carnation White Enchantress (lllus.) 773 



— Adhering of Shoots 773 



— Carnation My Maryland (lllus.) 774 



— Carnation White Cloud (lllus.) 774 



— Carnation Ruth Morgan (lllus^) 774 



— Neatness (illus.) 774 



— Carnation Helen M. Gould (lllus.) 775 



Exterminating Moles 775 



Rat> In Greenhouse 775 



Mignonette 776 



Plant Breeding 776 



Vegetable Forcing — Lettuce 778 



Greenhouse Heating — To Clean PI pes. j-... 778 



— Steam or Hot Water 778 



— Should Have Single System 778 



— Boiler Capacity 779 



Twin Cities 779 



Business and Other Notes 780 



Chicago 781 



Pittsburg 782 



Washington 783 



Cincinnati 783 



New York 784 



St. Louis 786 



CleTeland 787 



Philadelphia 787 



Beaton 790 



Want Advertisements 790 



Bnffalo 792 



Wichita. Kan 793 



Seed Trade Notes 793 



— HoUow Stalk of Celery 794 



— Catalogues Received 794 



— How to Grow Amaryllis 796 



Peoria, HI 798 



Perry Florists' Association 806 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 806 



— Oatdoor Rases for Cutting 806 



Nursery News — Council of Horticulture 808 



— Texas Nuriery men Meet 808 



Sanborn, N. Y 810 



Kansas City 812 



Wniiamsvllle, N. Y 814 



Detroit 816 



Lynn, Mass 818 



Northern Texas 830 



Lancaster, N. Y 832 



Advertising Rates 834 



Newburgh, N, Y. — Yuess, the florist 

 in "Water street, refuses to confirm the 

 rumor circulated locally that they are 

 going out of business. They are planning 

 to enlarge their business. 



PioDEs Crossing, Mass. — F. E. Cole 

 says that the business prospects are im- 

 proving every year. Quite a few green- 

 houses have been built on private estates 

 and many more are in contemplation. 



lOLA, Kan. — A. L. Harmon has sold 

 his greenhouses to R. D. Backus, of In- 

 dependence, la. Mr. Backus will add 

 several new houses to the plant and grow 

 cut flowers and spring bedding plants 

 exclusively. Mr. Harmon will seek a 

 new location in California. 



Denison, Tex. — A. W. Hopkins, mar- 

 ket gardener, is • preparing to build a 

 greenhoiise for forcing lettuce. 



Washington, 0. — Mrs. M. J. Moore, 

 wife of M. J. Moore, is spending the 

 winter at Merritt's Island, Fla. 



Vincennes, Ind. — John Friz is pre- 

 paring to experiment with electric light 

 in accelerating growth in his vegetable 

 houses. 



Needham, Mass. — The business of the 

 late Denys Zirngiebel, who had become a 

 noted pansy specialist, will be continued 

 by his son, Augustus Zirngiebel. 



St. Petee, Minn. — William Nicol, the 

 florist at the St. Peter State Hospital, is 

 popular at Scotch entertainments, and en- 

 joys the distinction of being the cham- 

 pion Scottish dancer of the northwest. 



I enclose a dollar for another year's 

 subscription to 



I find your paper too valuable to be 



without it and unquestionably 



the beat florists' paper of the day. 



F. a WALRATH. 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 Jan. 14, 1906. 



J 



Houston Heights, Texas. — 'W. H. 

 Hawkins grows roses outside for cut 

 flowers with good results. He will soon 

 plant 32,000 bushes, giving a total of 

 46,000. Beauty does well with him. 



Savanna, III. — J. Y. Lambert reports 

 trade very fair, but weather too warm 

 for propagating. His carnations are 

 blooming well, but the stems are not as 

 strong as he would like. 



New Orleans, La. — At the meeting 

 of the Louisiana State Horticultural So- 

 ciety held February 2 and 3, C. W. Eich- 

 ling was elected president of the organ- 

 ization for the ensuing year. 



MuRPHYSBOEO, ILL. — Claude Wisely is 

 probably the youngest florist in the state 

 who is conducting his own establishment 

 of over 2,000 square feet of glass. He is 

 only 17 years of age and has been active- 

 ly engaged in the business for three 

 years. He began with a house 8x10, 

 which was later torn down and replaced 

 by the two structures he is operating 

 at present. He has carnations in one 

 house and a stock of miscellaneons plants 

 in the other. Business has been good 

 with him, McKinley day especially so. 



Franklin, Pa. — McEthinney Bros, ire 

 building a rose house' 18x135. . 



Montrose, Mich.— Otto H. Cran ■ is 

 figuring on a house 28x100 feet for clar- 

 nations". . ..•.;_ ' 



Albion, Mich. — M. & S. L. Dysinger 

 report 1905 the best business year they 

 have ever enjoyed and they have been 

 very busy with funeral work during 

 January. 



Constantine, Mich. — H. C. Drake's 

 greenhouse is idle, he having abandoned 

 the business. He says it seems that the 

 place is too small to maintain even one 

 greenhouse. 



Columbus, O. — Graff Bros, report that 

 McKinley day 1906 was not to be com- 

 pared with 1905 or 1904. They did some 

 extra business but not as much as they 

 had prepared for. 



Lafayette, Ind. — F. Dorner & Sons 

 Co. reports having booked more orders 

 for White Perfection than they had 

 booked to a corresponding date on any 

 white carnation they ever sent out. 



OwATONNA, Minn. — Four greenhouses 

 each 30x180 feet are soon to be added to 

 the plant of the Clinton Falls Nursery 

 Co. An eighty-five horse-power boiler is 

 to be added to the present equipment. 



KoKOMO, Ind. — Thos. L. Knipe, who 

 has been working for leading growers 

 over a wide section of country, has re- 

 turned to his home here and will put up 

 a house 14x150 for violets for the whole- 

 sale market. 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — The Pikes 

 Peak Floral Co. will more than double 

 its glass in the coming season, the bosi- 

 ness in their first year having exceeded 

 expectations. W. H. Evans has been in 

 the east the past week buying material. 



Port Huron, Mich.— C. W. Asman 

 has a miniature forest for a window 

 display and it is attracting much atten- 

 tion. In the foreground is a pool of 

 water in which are a number of gold 

 fish. Additional life is given to the dis- 

 play by means of canary and other 

 birds which fly about among the' trees. 



Whitehall, Mich.— W. E. Pew has 

 succeeded Whitehall Floral Co. Mr. 

 Pew says he has proved that $1 carna- 

 tions can be sold in what has been 

 known as a thirty-cent town. He found 

 that when the $1 carnations were pro- 

 duced the customers were found and 

 that he could get all the customers he 

 wanted for them by going after them. 



Belleville, III. — A. S. Hatetead has 

 just finished a new house 25x100 and has 

 bought material for six others, four of 

 them 15x100, one 20x100 and one 25x100. 

 He has a set of four fine new geraniums 

 which he is planning to distribute to the 

 trade. He also has several seedling car- 

 nations, one of which, a white which has 

 made a favorable impression on many 

 who have seen it, will be disseminated 

 in 1907. One of its merits is that it 

 will stand as low as 40 degrees without 

 injury. Dr. Halstead has a bright scar- 

 let he proposes to send out in 1908. 



