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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jdnb 21, 1906. 



i NOTICE 



BeOtae of tlie new wage scale which 

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 those employers not willing to simer 

 interruption of tlieir business^ especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of! first importance that the Review 

 obtain^its advertising ^copy'' earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

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 to reajch us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday mom- 

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Contributors also please take heed* 



CONTENTS. 



American ' Teony Society (lUus.) 275 



— The B<?8tou Meeting (illus.) 275 



— The Awards 275 



— The Best Sorts 275 



— Miscellaneous KxUlblts 275 



— Business Meeting 276 



— The Dinner 276 



— The Visitors 276 



— Conrentlon Notes 276 



— Report of the Secretary 277 



Peony Lady Alexandra Duff 277 



Hoses — Black Spot on Roses 278 



Bordeaux Mixture 278 



Carnations — To Stiffen Stems 278 



Chrysanthemum Society 27U 



Boclety' of American Florists 279 



llannbelm Exposition 270 



Anemone Coronaria The Bride 270 



Cbrysantbemums — Seasonable Notes 280 



— Pinching Back 280 



The Retail Florist — Seasonable Suggestions. 280 



ITerns With Other Plants 281 



Wide Flat House 281 



Ecbeverlas 282 



Bostoti 282 



American Rose Society 284 



Obituary — Frank C. Monlnger (portrait).... 284 



Chicago 285 



New York 287 



St. Louis 290 



PhUadelphia 291 



Buffalo 202 



Pittsburg 293 



Twin Cities 294 



Burbank'B Rhubarb 295 



Want Advertisements 205 



Seed Trade News 296 



— Traders' Resources 297 



— English Seed Crops 207 



— California Seed Crops 208 



— Notes from Holland 208 



— Feel Need of Guaranty 208 



— Seed Imports 298 



Columbus. Ohio 300 



Steamer Sailings 307 



Pacific Coast— Victoria, B. C 308 



— San Joee 308 



— San Francisco 808 



Nursery News 310 



— Nurserymen Conrene 310 



— Nurseries Hit By Storm 811 



— Orlando Harrison (portrait) 311 



Washington 312 



The Readers' Corner 314 



ElUabeth. N. J 316 



Ellieron, N. J 318 



Northern Texas 318 



Cincinnati 828 



Oreenhouse Heating 329 



— Tanks and Piping 329 



— Ten New Houses 320 



— Boiler and Piping 320 



— Method of Piping 3.% 



— Boiler Capacity .S30 



Moline. Ill 332 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The executive committee of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society met in New York city, 

 Thursday, June 14. President Alexander 

 Montgomery being unable to be present, 

 Vice-President Eobert Simpson occupied 

 the chair. The others present were 

 Treasurer Harry O. May, Secretary Wm. 

 J. Stewart, Messrs. F. B. Pierson, A. 

 Farenwald, H. A. Siebrecht, W. A, Man- 

 da and Peter Bisset. 



The question of the location for the 

 next meeting and exhibition of the so- 

 ciety, which had been left to the commit- 

 tee to decide, was discussed at much 

 h;ngth. An official invitation from the 

 Washington Florists' Club was read by 

 the secretary and the eligibility of sev- 

 eral other cities was discussed infor- 



mally, the result being a unanimous vote 

 in favor of "Washington, D. C. "Wednes- 

 day, Thursday and Friday, March 13, 14, 

 15, 1907, were selected as the dates for 

 the annual meeting and exhibition. 



President-elect Robert Simpson was 

 authorized to appoint a committee with 

 power to prepare a schedule and the ex- 

 hibition rules were revised so that all 

 exhibitors not members of the society 

 shall pay an entrance fee of $3, same to 

 be applied as membership initiation fee. 



Mr. Bisset, representing the "Washing- 

 ton Florists' Club, as its president, in- 

 formed the committee that it is the in- 

 tention of that organization to give a 

 general horticultural exhibition in con- 



manufacturing as far back as 1849 to 

 1854 sashes for the construction of 

 greenhouses. Sashbars were not made at 

 that time and greenhouses were very 

 scarce, all of them being buijt with 

 sashes. Some of these sash houses are 

 standing today. One house built with 

 sashes for which Mr. Moninger furnished 

 the material is now being used at Dea 

 Plaines, 111., over 45 years old. Geo. 

 W. Miller and George "Wittbold were 

 two of the first customers for 

 greenhouse sashes, and other gardeners 

 and florists in the vicinity of Chicago 

 built with his material shortly after- 

 wards. 



iMr. Moninger early recognized the 



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Frank G Moninger. 



nection with the American Rose Soci- 

 ety's show. Arrangements were then 

 made, subject to ratification by the 

 "Washington Florists' Club, for a joint 

 schedule and joint participation in the 

 net profits, if any, after the expenses of 

 the exhibition have been pai(i. 



"Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



Frank C. Moninger. 



Frank C. Moninger, one of the first 

 men to manufacture greenhouse con- 

 struction material in the west, passed 

 away June 16, at his home at Chicago, 

 at the age of 85 years. He was the 

 father of Lena and Lambert Moninger, 

 and the late John C. Moninger. 



Mr.' Moninger -nas'born in Germany 

 in 1821 and' came to this country when 

 a boy, settling in his early youth in Chi- 

 cago. He was identified from the start 

 with the interests of the truck gardeners 

 and florists located north of the city, 

 in what is now High Ridge, Rogers 

 Park, Bowmanville and Edgewater, 



fact that the increasing demand 

 for better material and lighter con- 

 struction would mean the specializing of 

 the work, with which thought in mind 

 he formed a partnership with the late 

 John L. Diez, making at that time, in 

 1869, the first sashbars for greenhouses 

 manufactured in Chicago. These eash- 

 bars were furnished Geo. "W. Miller. The 

 business flourished under his guidance 

 and when finally succeeded by the son, 

 John C. Moninger, nearly every florist 

 in or around Chicago had been a cus- 

 tomer for his material. The present 

 firm of John C. Moninger Co. is the re- 

 sult of the start made by Frank C. 

 Moninger and the manufacture of ma- 

 terial has now been brought to a state 

 of perfection and the business developed 

 to an extent beyond the most sanguine 

 expectations of the founder of the busi- 

 ness. 



South 



"Weymouth, Mass. — George 

 HoUis reports an unusually favorable 

 season for peonies. He now has a large 

 collection, inej^iding a number of seed- 

 lings of his own I raising. 



