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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JUNB 14, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Becaase of the new wa^e scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stnfer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance tfut the Review 

 obtain its advertising ^copy'' earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers mail their '^cop/' 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Veonesday mora- 

 ine, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist (Ulus.)-.-. 211 



— A Model Flower Store (Ulus.) 211 



— Sprinkling Cut Flowers 212 



Origin of Purity Freesla 213 



Notes from England 213 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 214 



— Stock Kequlrlug Pot Culture 214 



— Fuchsias 214 



— Polnsettlas 214 



— The Rambler Roses 214 



— Mildew 214 



— Cyclamen 214 



— Attention Not Trouble 215 



It Is To Laugh 215 



Boses — Planting Young Stock 216 



— Thrlps on Roses 216 



— Arsenic No Good 216 



— Roses Not Blooming 216 



— Ground on Raised Beds 217 



Ilex Crenata 217 



A New Trouble 217 



Iben's Snowflake 217 



Wateonla Ardernel (Ulus.) 21,8 



German Irises and Shade 219 



Big Insecticide Makers UHiis.) 21U 



Chicago 220 



Cincinnati 223 



Boston 223 



Pittsburg 224 



Copyright BUI Goes Over 226 



St. Louis 226 



New York 226 



Philadelphia 229 



Want Advertisements 231 



Seed Trade News 232 



— European Seed Notes 234 



Washington 243 



Steamer Sailings 243 



New Orleans 243 



Pacific Coast 244 



— Good Growing Season 244 



— Portland, Ore. 244 



— Spokane, Wash. .'. 24i 



— San Francisco 244 



— Loomls. Cal 245 



Nursery Is'ews 246 



— Nurserymen Convene 246 



Detroit 248 



Denver 2,"iO 



The Readers' Corner 252 



— Concerning Photographs 2T>'i 



Preservatives for Benches 2.-)2 



Greenhouse Paint 254 



Easton. Fa 254 



Twin Cities 264 



Greenhouse Heating 265 



— Size of Steam Line 26.') 



— Piping I"'our Houses 265 



— Too Far Away 265 



— Flows and Returns 265 



— Defect Not Apparent 266 



— Care of Apparatus 206 



— A New Establishment 266 



Northern Texas 268 



KIND WORDS. 



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 — H. B. Sullivan, Eockford, 111. 



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 8ue of the Review, as we get a benefit 

 from each copy. — W. G. Moulton, York 

 Village, Me. 



I am more than satisfied with the 

 Review and shall take it as long as 

 I grow a flower. — C. P. Marsh, Well- 

 fleet, Mass. 



Here is my check for $2 for two years 

 in advance. The Review is a welcome 

 visitor; even the ads are interesting. — 

 Albert Koch, Seattle, Wash. 



Saltford's Violet Book mailed by the 

 Review on receipt of 25 cents. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The unwieldy oversupply continued 

 throughout last week. There was no 

 let-up in the receipts until Saturday and 

 the market was stocked on almost every 

 item far beyond the possibility of any 

 satisfactory sale and, indeed, more stock 

 went to the dump last week than in any 

 previous seven days since the memory 

 of man runneth not to the contrary. 

 One wholesaler remarked that it seemed 

 a shame, when one was unable to get 

 express charges out of a shipment, to be 

 called upon to pay $2 to get the stuff 

 hauled to the dump. The hospitals had 

 more flowers than they could use and 

 growers' averages were certainly the 

 lowest of which anyone has recollection. 



Of course there was a large business, 

 money receipts aggregating a very re- 

 spectable sum. The demand was in- 

 variably for the best of stock, so that 

 the grades suitable for shipping re- 

 quirements brought fair money. It was 

 the picked ovar stock, left after legiti- 



me are very well satisfied with the 

 results of our advertising in 



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"We find also that it is necessary to 

 advertise to s^et orders, or in fact a 

 market, and then back it up with 

 good stock. 



STOVER FLORAL CO. 

 Grandville, Mich. 

 June 10, 1906. 



mate needs had been supplied, which was 

 practically valueless. 



The trade seemed to call principally 

 for Beauty, of which there was hardly 

 enough good stock to meet the demand. 

 The houses with the summer roses also 

 did a good business, as Brides and Maids 

 were pretty well finished by the severe 

 heat. Valley and adiantum also sold 

 well. Good sweet peas are in demand 

 and d.iisies do nicely because of wed- 

 ding work. 



This week found supplies consider- 

 ably shortened by a return of cool 

 weather, but still ample for all require- 

 ments, except possibly the calls for roses 

 are more than can be filled with satis- 

 factory stock. There are still plenty of 

 tea roses, but the quality will not do. 

 Beauties are in strong demand and 

 scarce. Carnations are abundant but 

 small in flower. 



Smilax is plentiful, but asparagus 

 strings are not in large supply. For a 

 couple of days this week new ferns were 

 hard to get, but the shortage was only 

 temporary. There are old ferns still on 

 the market, but hardly in salable condi- 

 tion. All the ferns that had kept well 

 cleaned up in good shape, but without 

 the usual advance in price. 



Peonies. 



This market originated the practice of 

 storing peonies, now employed in many 

 places. In no previous year has the local 

 crop come in so quickly as it did this 

 year. The cut was on for hardly more 

 than five days. During that period the 

 glut was something tremendous and the 

 open stock had little value. The ma- 

 terial caught in the bud was put intO' 

 cold storage. More houses have stored 

 peonies this year than ever before. The 

 aggregate in storage runs into many 

 thousands, for one house confessed to- 

 having 12,000 dozen peonies on hand 

 June 11. The cut is over and there i» 

 again a good demand for peonies at fair 

 ])rices. By Monday the cold-storage- 

 stock was coming on the market and 

 selling fairly well. 



E. E. Kennicott, of Carbondale, ha» 

 been in town the past week helping out 

 the Amazi Kennicott crop of peonies. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has the peonie» 

 of the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 

 Minn., again this season and has the- 

 bulk of them in storage. 



Growers^ Losses. 



In view of the unprecedented amounts 

 of stock which went to waste last week, 

 growers feel that they have been com- 

 pelled to bear a loss out, of all proportioi* 

 to what anybody gained by driving the- 

 fruit and flower stands off the streets 

 inside the elevated loop. Had the stands 

 been operating it is not likely that prices 

 would have been noticeably stiffened, for 

 the overstock was too great, but a cer- 

 tain part of what went to the dump 

 would have been sold on the streets. 

 Several houses report missing Greek 

 trade to the extent of $30 to $50 a day 

 last week and a conservative estimate 

 would be $500 a day for the whole mar- 

 ket. And in every case at least eighty- 

 five per cent or this was money directly 

 lost to the growers, without any recom- 

 pense thus far apparent. 



Hail on South Side. 



On June 7 quite heavy hail fell oi> 

 the south side. At the Muir establish- 

 ment, 3530 Michigan avenue, about 80O 

 lights of glass were broken. He was 

 insured. J. F. Kidwell & Bro. lost about 

 500 lights, and others suffered to a slight 

 extent. 



The Building Boom. 



Both the John C. Moninger Co. and 

 the A. Dietsch Co. are figuring on en- 

 larging their factory facilities for next 

 season. The latter had a new building 

 for this year, but both concerns have 

 had all they could do with the present 

 factory equipment. The Foley Mfg. Co. 

 concurs in the opinion that next year is 

 likely to see still another increase in the 

 demand for structural material, and all 

 three firms propose to be so fixed in 

 1907 that no matter how big the busi- 

 ness groAvs, everything can be turned out 

 by the day wanted without special ef- 

 fort. 



N. J. Rupp says that one of the 

 notable features of the present season is 

 the number of inquiries received from 

 bankers and other capitalists whose at- 

 tention has been attracted to the florists '^ 

 business as a profltable field for invest- 

 ment. Mr. Rupp says a number of these 

 inquiries are likely to develop into or- 

 ders in time, but he does not consider 

 it a tendency worthy of special encour- 

 agement, for when the man who con- 

 trols the finances has no knowledge of 

 the special needs of the business it is 



