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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 22, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scak which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to suffer 

 interruption of their business^ especially 

 because of that part of the scale wfiich 

 makes overtime practically prohibitivet 

 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. 



The Retail Florist ?»13 



— Alice Iloosevelt's Bridal Bouquet UHus.). 913 



— Valentine's Day !>13 



— The Street Fakirs t»l4 



— The Street Fakers 014 



— Starting the Cannas !tl4 



— Keep Doing Business U14 



— Get Good Seed 014 



— Two Invaluable Plants 914 



— The Lilies !il4 



— Roses for Easter !I14 



— Forcing Valley (Ulus. ) 914 



Jasminum PrlmuUum J)15 



Cold Storage Valley 915 



Chrysanthemums — Propagating 916 



Roses — Repotting Young Stock 916 



— RoPe Miss Kate Moulton (llhis.) 917 



A Roll of Carpet 917 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 918 



— Carnation Notes— East 918 



— A Maywood Place (lllus.) 91H 



— The Carnation of Today 919 



Permanent Benches (illus. ) 921 



Violets— To Grow Violets 921 



Greenhouse Heating — Perfect Apparatus 922 



— Number of Pipes Required 922 



— Size of Steam Boiler 922 



— Rearranging of Pipes 922 



— Natural Gas 922 



The Trend of Trade (lllus.) 923 



Chicago 925 



Philiidelphla 926 



St. Lopis 926 



Cleveland 927 



Toronto 927 



Milwaukee 928 



New York 929 



New Orleans 9.T0 



Twin Citier, 930 



Buffalo 931 



Boston 932 



Manchester 933 



Vegetatle Forcing — Tomatoes 934 



Sithntlons and Wants 935 



Seed Trade News 9.36 



— California Seed Notes 9.37 



— A Crop of New York Lettuce (illus.) 937 



— More Trouble 937 



— The Holland Bulb Crop 9.38 



— Kuropean Seed Notes 938 



— The Cnnners' Convention 939 



Notes from England 940 



Lobelias from Seed 949 



The Renders' Corner 950 



Pacific Coast — Narcissi and Daffodils 950 



— San Francisco 951 



Nursery Notes 952 



Employer and Employee 954 



Kans:i8 City »56 



Cincinnati S^S 



Lenox. Mass 960 



Northern Texas 962 



Pittsburg 974 



W'ashington, D. C 976 



Advertising Rates !>78 



LOVET.AND, O. — Miss Ida Clark has suc- 

 ceeded to the business of Mrs. C. Franke. 



Eaton, O. — W. S. Guckain is looking 

 for greenhouses with the idea of going 

 into the florists' business. 



Ellis, Mass. — It is reported that 

 Peter Fisher will himself disseminate the 

 new carnation, Beacon, in 1907 and that 

 a 300-foot house of it will be planted 

 for next season. 



Toronto, Ont. — The executive commit- 

 tee of the Canadian Horticultural As- 

 sociation held a meeting here February 

 15, during the local club's carnation 

 show, to plan next summer's annual -con- 

 vention. 



Waukeoan, III. — Barwell 'a Agrictil- 

 tural Works is putting up fertilizer in 

 small cans for florists who wish them to 

 give or retail to their ti^de. 



North Platte, Neb. — A $15,000 range 

 of greenhouses is to be built here by the 

 Union Pacific Railway Company to sup- 

 ply flowers for its dining cars. 



PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y. — The annual 

 dinner of the Dutchess County Horticul- 

 tural Society takes place tonight, Wash- 

 ington's birthday anniversary. 



Princeton, Ind. — ^W. J. Eitterskamp 

 has placed John D. Cahill, of Muncie, in 

 charge of the florists' department of his 

 business. Miss Ida Vierling is in charge 

 of the store in town. 



Scio, O. — Tony Toerner reports a very 

 strong demand for dormant plants of 

 Egandale canna. The sale for cannas 

 started in pots promises to be very 

 heavy this spring. 



Saddle Eiver, N. J. — J. G. Esler, sec- 

 retary of the Florists' Hail Association, 

 has returned from a two weeks' trip as 

 far west as Colorado on a tour of inspec- 

 tion of the season's hail losses. 



Girard, Kan. — Sourdry Bros. Plant 

 Co. will build a range of six Dietsch 

 patent short-roofed greenhouses early in 

 the spring. One house is to be used for 

 cut flowers and the others for plants. 



Wilmington, Del. — It is reported lo- 

 cally that H. P. Potter has under con- 

 sideration an oflfer of $10,000 for a seed- 

 ling carnation, a cross of The Queen 

 and Mrs. Lawson, of which he has 

 worked up considerable stock. 



Lima, O. — The incorporators of the 

 Swan Floral Co. are: N. R. Swan, Es- 

 ther A. Swan, Dora Swan, Georgiana 

 Embry and Otilla Swan. The company 

 will conduct its flower and plant grow- 

 ing establishment upon a much larger 

 scale than formerly. 



Chambersburg, Pa. — Fire last week at 

 the establishment of W. B. Reed des- 

 troyed the oflSce building and left five of 

 the nine houses unprotected at one end. 

 A temporary protection of canvas was 

 provided and great loss to growing 

 plants thus prevented. The hot-water 

 heating plant was not damaged. 



Trenton, N. J. — Articles of incor- 

 poration have been filed here for Hitch- 

 ings & Co., of Elizabeth, X. J.; licensed 

 to erect greenhouses; capital, $20,000. 

 Incorporators: William S. Miller, Somer- 

 ville, Mass.; Charies Armitage, Mont- 

 clair, N. Y*; I'rederick Armitage, New 

 York City; Henry C. Griffin, Delos 

 Griffin, Tarry town, N. Y. 



Hitchcock. Tex. — Trade is very well 

 in all lines of plants. Grade raising in 

 Galveston has destroyed many gardens 

 that are being replaced, making the pur- 

 chase of quite a number of flowers as 

 well as shade trees. Cut flowers are al- 

 ways in demand. Cape Jasmine is a 

 favorite; it is field grown with us. Ole- 

 anders are in immense quantity. The 

 banana and palm can be seen on every 

 side. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Herman D. Schil- 

 ling says that he finds the dahlia rapidly 

 growing in favor with the public. 



Des Moines, Ia. — Chris Anderson died 

 suddenly February 14 while working in 

 the greenhouse of Charles Bantner on 

 Walnut street. 



Wichita, Kan. — W. E. Bidleman, who 

 has for eighteen years grown lettuce un- 

 der glass, is planning to enlarge his place 

 and devote part of it to roses and car- 

 nations. 



W. De Pere, Wis.— The Burns Boiler 

 Co. has recently been reorganized, with 

 a large increase in capital stock. Fa- 

 cilities are to be enlarged and the busi- 

 ness extended. 



Independence, Ia. — Dr. D. R. Backus 

 has sold his interest in the greenhouses 

 here to his partner, E. M. Bissell, and 

 will locate at lola, Kan., where he has 

 purchased greenhouses. 



MoNONGAHBLA, Pa. — ^Alfred Engel- 

 mann, formerly with I. Shelby Crall Co., 

 who left here to go to Washington, Pa., 

 is now at Joliet, 111., with the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. 



Eochester, N. Y. — On the night of 

 February 15 fire destroyed the office and 

 service building protecting the ends of 

 John Burling 's two greenhouses, con- 

 siderable stock being destroyed. 



Adrun, Mich. — The first edition of 

 Elmer D. Smith's Chrysanthemum 

 Manual being practically exhausted, Mr. 

 Smith is at work on a revised and en- 

 larged edition, for which the price will 

 be increased to 40. cents. 



Madison, Pa. — John Lyons died on 

 February 16. He was in apparently 

 good health until within a few minutes 

 of his death. He is survived by a wife 

 and two sons, who will continue the 

 business. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — Wm. Scott, 

 foreman on Plant A for Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. at Morton Grove, 111., has sev- 

 ered his connection with that firm and 

 has bought a half interest in the retail 

 business of Wm. Cunningham. The 6ew 

 firm commences operations March 1. 



Canton, O.— Charles Brown, of the 

 Brown Floral Company, is preparing to 

 add 25,000 square feet of glass to the 

 present range of 32,000 square feet. 

 Some of the material is now on the 

 ground and will be put up early in the 

 summer. Roses, carnations and chrysan- 

 themums will occupy most of the space. 



New York, N. Y.— It is stated that 

 Lincoln Pierson. of the Burnham-Hitch- 

 ings-Pierson Co., has severed his connec- 

 tion with that firm and organized the 

 Pierson U-Bar Co., with offices in New 

 York. It would appear that Mr. Pier- 

 son's company intends devoting its ef- 

 forts exclusively to the U-bar construc- 

 tion. For private estates and work of 

 high character the U-bar has won for it- 

 self a most enviable reputation and we 

 wish all success to Mr. Pierson and his 

 associates in their new enterprise. 



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