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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuabt 15, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to sdffer 

 interruption of their business^ especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitivct 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising ^copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

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 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 momingt instead of "Wedaesd&y mom- 

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CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 841 



— Genistas ,, 841 



— Chorlzema Uicitoliutn 841 



— Salvia Splendens 841 



— The Vincas 841 



— Indian Azaleas 841 



— Cyclamens — 841 



— Sweet Peas 841 



Skimmia Japonica (illu8.) 841 



Azalea Firefly (illus.) 842 



Erica Melanthera (iUus.) 842 



Council of Horticulture 842 



Illinois Florists' Association 842 



Daphne Odorata 842 



A Roll of Carpet 843 



Temperature and Blind Wood 843 



Carnations — Notes on New Sorts 844 



— Carnation Notes — West 844 



— A Free Bloomer 845 



The Central Market (iUus.) 846 



The Uetail Florist— Mult and Bouquet 846 



Vegetable Forcing — Mushrooms 846 



Greenhouse Heating — A Frame 847 



— Will Heat Three Houses 847 



— Piping for Hot Water 848 



— Pipe Needed 848 



The Readers' Corner 848 



Philadelphia 848 



William K. Harris (portrait) 849 



Boston 850 



Buffalo 850 



Washington (IUus. ) 851 



Business and Other Notes 852 



Chicago 863 



Pittsburg 864 



Detroit 856 



New York 856 



Twin Cities 856 



Cincinnati 859 



St. Louis 860 



Kansas City 862 



Seed Trade Notes 864 



— Those Free Seeds 866 



— Indianapolis Seed Notes 866 



— European Seed Notes 866 



Notes from England 868 



Water Lilies from Seed 868 



Louisville, Ky 870 



A Few Questions 877 



Pacific Coast «78 



— Decorative Hardy Stock 878 



— Victoria, B. C 878 



— San Francisco 879 



Poultry Manure 879 



Nursery News 880 



— Jamestown Exposition 880 



Lilies for Fall Cutting 882 



Moles or Micp 884 



Society of American Florists 886 



Polnsettias 888 



Packing Plants 890 



Northern Texas 902 



Denver 904 



Advertising Rates 906 



Toledo, O. — The Swan Floral Co. has 

 been incorporated with $10,000 capital 

 stock, by N. R. Swan and others. 



Wilmington, O. — Mrs. Geo. H. 



Moores, wife of the proprietor of the 



Wilmington Floral Co., is spending the 

 winter in Florida. 



Omaja, Cuba. — Con Plant, formerly 

 proprietor of the Le Grande Nurseries, 

 Le Grande, Ore., is spending the winter 

 here and may go into business. 



Raleigh, N. C. — In their efforts to 

 find out what are the best carnations for 

 them to grow, J. L. O'Quinn & Co. find 

 .that their list now incliides over twenty 

 varieties and they are buying several 

 more this season. 



Marietta, O. — Dyar Selby has pur- 

 chased the Schoepen greenhouse on Fair- 

 view Heights. 



Jacksonville, Fla. — George Just, 

 formerly in business here, is now at 

 Charleston, S. C. 



Yalaha, Fla. — Mr. James, of Gillett 

 & James, proprietors of the Yalaha Con- 

 servatories, died recently. 



Harrisburg, Pa. — C. G. Papsch has 

 gone to Chicago to enter the employ of 

 D. W. Brant, who will add largely to 

 his range of glass the coming season. 



Pleasant Hill, Mo. — At the George 

 M. Kellogg estabUshment a freak calla 

 was recently found, one of those which 

 occasionaly are seen with a double spathe. 



RocKFORD, III. — C. W. Johnson, who 

 for about five years has been superin- 

 tendent for H. W. Buckbee, has resigned 

 and wUl about March 1 remove to Seat- 

 tle, Wash., to enter into partnership in 

 a business there. 



Mansfield, O. — The Berno Floral 

 Co. has begun the erection of a block 

 of short-span houses to cover a ground 

 area of 112x180. The gutters are to bo 

 seven feet high, the place is to be heat- 

 ed by steam and is to be strictly up-to- 

 date in all its features. 



Carthage, Mo. — Perry Finn 's sport of 

 Enchantress is about the color of the 

 F. R. Pierson Co. 's sport named for 

 Helen Gould, but the outer petals shade 

 toward the Daybreak pink, which is also 

 the color of the variegations, while in 

 the Gould the markings are a still darker 

 pink. Mr. Finn 's flower is large. 



RiDGEFiELD, CONN. — Piuchbecii Bros, 

 have dissolved partnership and the busi- 

 ness is continued by William Pinchbeck, 

 Jr. This is the best year the firm has 

 yet experienced at this location. Carna- 

 tions are fine. Enchantress and Harlo- 

 warden are well liked. May Nay lor is 

 the best white. Of- the older varieties, 

 Genevieve Lord and Maceo arc very 

 good. 



Louisville, Ky. — The third annual 

 carnation and rose show of the Ken- 

 tucky Society of Florists will be held in 

 Louisville Wednesday, February 21, and 

 everybody is invited to send whatever 

 they might have of interest. .V large 

 number of the craft will view the show, 

 besides the public. Flowers should reach 

 here the 20th, or the morning of the 

 2l8t. Address exhibits to Fred L. 

 Schulz, secretary, 644 Fourth avenue, 

 Louisville, Ky. 



Rhinebeck, N. Y. — Under ordinary 

 circumstances few violets are shipped 

 from this locality on Sunday, but this 

 week a very heavy shipment was dis- 

 patched on Sunday night to be in time 

 to reach Chicago for the St. Valentine's 

 day demand. It is said the shipments 

 made practically a car load. It has not 

 been such a bad season for the violet 

 growers as many expected, the opening 

 of the western markets serving to re- 

 lieve the congestion in New York. Quite 

 a, little building is planned for the early 

 spring. 



Johnstown, Pa, — William Schmidi 

 has leased the building on Franklin streei 

 recently purchased by the United States: 

 National Bank. 



Peoria, III, — The meeting of the Illi 

 nois State Florists' Association, at first 

 announced for February 27 &,nd 28, will 

 be held here March 3, 



Danville, III. — Rhoten Bros. & Co., 

 who grew violets a few years ago but 

 who have lately been growing carna- 

 tions, have sold out to B. Bi Wadsworth. 



Felton, Del. — Henry Austin has been 

 granted a patent on an apparatus for 

 heating hotbeds and propagating beds. 

 It consists of a bed with a chamber un- 

 derneath, heated by a furnace outside the 

 bed with a longitudinal heat conduit 

 passing through to a chimney at the other 

 end of the bed. 



MoNTANDON, Pa. — The dwelling and 

 boiler house connected with the green- 

 houses of John C. Wenzel were destroyed 

 by fire at two o 'clock on the morning of 

 February 6. The fire originated in the 

 boiler house and the direction of the 

 wind saved the greenhouses^ but much 

 of the stock was ruined. 



Nbw York, N. Y. — The Johns-Man- 

 ville Co. held its annual convention of 

 salesmen here the past week, 150 being 

 present. The purpose is to discuss op- 

 portunities and methods of extending the 

 business. The use of fuel saving pipe 

 and boiler coverings was reported largely 

 on the increase among greenhouse own- 

 ers. 



Sharon, Pa. — The heating apparatus 

 at the establishment of Harry Clark 

 broke down aurin^ the recent cold spell 

 and all the stock in six greenhouses was 

 frozen up. Mr. Clark had purchased the 

 business a couple of years ago from Ed- 

 win McConnell and had just got things 

 to running nicely. He is very greatly 

 discouraged at his loss, which puts him 

 out of business, temporarily at least. 



St. Joseph, Mo. — The Stuppy Floral 

 Co. has prepared plans for a range of 

 greenhouses soon to be erected at Lo^t^ers' 

 Lane and Ashland avenue, where the 

 company owns thirteen acres. There will 

 be 30,000 square feet of glass and the 

 cost will be $10,000. The new houses 

 will be devoted to roses and the present 

 establishment at Mount Mora cemetery, 

 comprising 55,000 square feet of glass, 

 will be used for carnations. 



Washington, D. C— Peter Bisset, a 

 member of the S. A. F. peony committee, 

 reports that the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture last fall purchased 

 from Kelway & Son, Langport, England, 

 one plant each of seventy-six named va- 

 rieties of peonies. These were planted 

 at Arlington Farm, under the care of 

 Prof. L. C. Corbett, and will, when in 

 bloom, be open to the inspection of the 

 8. A. F., its peony conxmittee and the 

 public. Mr. Bisset advises Edwin Lons- 

 dale, of the committee, that he hopes 

 to get the Department to add largely to 

 its list of varieties and that the trials 

 will be of the utmost value. 



