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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jlxe 28, 1006. 



CONTENTS. 



Floral Funeral P'ashlons 339 



MiHoellHiH^uuM Seasonable Hints 34<» 



— Small Ferus 340 



— Azaleas 340 



— Hydrangeas 3'*0 



— Camellias 340 



— Gardenias 340 



— Syringing 340 



— Show I'elargonlumS a4l 



— Culla Lilies 341 



— Heating Apparatus 341 



Some Uood Peonies (iUus.) 341 



Peony Nomenclature • ■ • 342 



Storage o( Peonies 343 



The (Jlass Market 343 



Movable Concrete Benches 343 



The Newer Uichurdias 344 



Carnations — Fungicide Solutions 344 



— Bone Meal '. 344 



Koses — Seasonable Culture 344 



Notes from England 345 



Vegetables for Exhibition 345 



About Cutworms 346 



Greenhouse Heating — Radiation Required... 346 



— Overhead Piping 346 



Boston 347 



General Business 348 



Duty on Birch Bark 348 



Caterpillars on Ferns 348 



Liliuni Longittorum 348 



ChlcajiO 349 



St. Ix)ula 351 



Obituary— J. P. Coen, Jr 352 



Glen Cove, N. Y 352 



Scarboro, N. Y 352 



Philadelphia 353 



New York 354 



Northern Texas 355 



Not Nematodes 355 



Want Advertisements 356 



Seed Trade News 357 



— Seed Trade Convention 358 



— German Seed Crop 358 



— European Seed Notes 359 



— French Seed Crops 360 



— Japanese Bulb Crops 360 



— Western New York 36(> 



Fort Worth, Tex 362 



Madison, N. J 369 



Steamer Sailings 369 



Pacific Coast — Pacific Const Prospects 370 



— San FrancKco 370 



— Ventura, Cal 371 



Nursery News 372 



— Texas Nurserymen 372 



— Southern Nurserymen 372 



— Bud and Scion Supply 372 



Denver 374 



New Orleans 374 



Twin Cities 376 



Pittsburg 378 



Rochester 380 



Cincinnati 300 



Indianapolis 392 



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GENERAL BUSINESS. 



"Trade in general merchandise whole- 

 sale and jobbing lines," says a financial 

 review, "showed more activity the last 

 week, in many instances, than is cus- 

 tomary at this season. The large volume 

 of reorders as well as the unusual 

 amount of forward bookings caused an 

 abnormally brisk business in many lines 

 which as a general thing are dull at this 

 season. 



"Sales of fall goods were satisfactory 

 in nearly all branches of business, and 

 there was no let-up reported in the dis- 

 tribution of seasonable goods. Railway 

 earnings showed a marked increase com- 

 pared to the same week last year, indi- 

 cating a continued heavy movement of 

 general merchandise. Grain marketings 

 were larger, especially corn. The move- 

 ment of this cereal, both from first hands 

 and for shipment east, was particularly 

 heavy, and indications pointed to a still 

 heavier business the coming week. 



' ' The wholesale trade in provisions 

 was active, shipments of cured meats 

 being about fifty per cent larger than 

 during the corresponding week of last 

 year. Lard shipments also were large. 



SPECIAL 



NOTICE 



FOURTH OF JULY 



Because the Glorious Fourth, 

 when every one celebrates, falls 

 on 'Wednesday, the Review will 

 go to press one day earlier than 

 usual next week— on Tuesday 

 instead of Wednesday. 



Advertisers and correspond- 

 ents will please take "Special 

 Notice.** 



Live stock was received in larger num- 

 bers than recently. 



• ' The inquiry for all kinds of build- 

 ing supplies, glass, and paints and oils 

 showed no abatement, the demand being 

 almost unprecedented. ' ' 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The secretary would like to procure 

 for the use of the society, copies of the 

 annual reports of the following years: 

 1885, Cincinnati; 1886, Philadelphia; 

 1887, Chicago; 1888, New York; 1892, 

 Washington; 1896, Cleveland; 1900, 

 New York. Members having spare 

 copies of any of these will confer a great 

 favor by sending them to 



Wm. J. Stewakt, Sec'y. 



DUTY ON BIRCH BARK. 



F. B. Vandegrift & Co. protested at 

 the rate of duty assessed at Chicago 

 on an importation of birch bark, and 

 have established their contention that the 

 rate should be ten per cent of the value. 



The protest related to birch bark in 

 bales, the bark being cut in sizes con- 

 venient for shipment. It was classified 

 as wood unmanufactured under para- 

 graph 198, tariff act of 1897. One of 

 the contentions made by the importers 

 was that it was dutiable under section 6 

 as an unenumerated unmanufactured 

 article. 



McClelland, general appraiser, June 15 

 held that "considering the common un- 

 derstanding which exists regarding the 

 distinction between bark and wood, the 

 provision distinctly made for these two 

 materials in the wood and drug schedules 

 of the tariff act and the^ board decisions 

 that bark is not wood, we think the claim 

 in the protest that the merchandise is 

 dutiable at the rate of ten per cent ad 

 valorem is well taken. ' ' 



CATERPILLARS ON FERNS. 



I am having trouble with caterpillars 

 on my ferns. The worms are about an 

 inch long, and are similar to the common 

 cabbage worm. Most of them are light 

 green; a few are brown or jet black. 

 They attack the young ferns first, and 

 then eat the tips of the young fronds. 

 What insecticide should I use, and in 

 what form? Should it be an arsenical 

 solution of some kind! B. E. 



almost any kind of tender vegetation. 

 There would be much risk of injury to 

 the ferns in the use of arsenical prepara- 

 tions for this trouble; either solutions 

 or powders containing arsenic in suf- 

 ficient quantity to kill the worms would 

 be liable to burn such tender foliage. I 

 would suggest dusting the ferns with 

 powdered hellebore, this being a vege- 

 table poison that has little or no effect 

 on the foliage, but is sure death to 

 the currant worm. It is most likely to 

 prove effective in this case. 



W. H, Taplin. 



LILIUM LONGIFLORUM. 



What will be the right time to plant 

 Lilium longiflorum multiflorum? I want 

 them for cold storage, to be used at 

 Christmas, also some for Easter. The 

 house will be kept at 58 to 60 degrees 

 at night. H. F. 



It is not very often that this diflSculty 

 is met with, but these caterpillars are 

 hungry feeders, and are liable to attack 



This will depend on the temperature 

 you give them, but as all cold-storage 

 plants and bulbs are anxious to flower 

 as soon as released from the arrestment, 

 it should not take more than from ten 

 to twelve weeks to have them in flower 

 at Christmas. We have never tried to 

 flower cold-storage bulbs as late as that 

 date and believe the bulbs are not satis- 

 factory when kept in cold storage after 

 August. To have this popular lily in 

 bloom in August, September and October 

 we must depend on the cold-storage 

 bulbs, but for December and later the 

 new bulbs are quite satisfactory, and 

 bulbs (the new crop) received in July 

 will force easily for Christmas. Pot as 

 soon as received and get them well 

 rooted out of doors and covered with 

 some decayed light material to keep 

 them from continual drying out. Re- 

 move to the houses in early September 

 and during October and November they 

 should be given a temperature of 70 de- 

 grees, and if you want them by Thanks- 

 giving they will bear 10 or 15 degrees 

 higher; most of them in 70 degrees will 

 be in flower at Christmas. 



For Easter the Japan grown bulbs are 

 now used almost exclusively. They 

 seldom arrive too eatly and can be 

 potted at once, placed in coldframes and 

 protected from heavy rains by sashes or 

 shutters. The first of December is soon 

 enough to give them the heat of the 

 greenhouse. The temperature you quote 

 is about right for the last two months 

 before Easter. As Easter is a movable 

 date and varies as much as thirty days 

 you must use judgment about tempera- 

 ture and condition of your plants. 



W. S. 



Tajieytown, N. Y. — The annual rose 

 and strawberry show of the Tarrytown 

 Horticultural Society took place June 

 14. Most of the private estates contri- 

 buted and the result was a most pleas- 

 ing exhibition. 



Milwaukee, Wis.— The C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co. has recently received four car- 

 loads of palms imported direct. J. E. 

 Pollworth says that in all their expe- 

 rience they never have received imported 

 stock in more satisfactory condition. 



Bound Brook, N. J.j— Anton C. 

 Zvolanek reports a heavy hailstorm 

 June 23, coming from the northwest. 

 The stones were an inch and a half in 

 diameter, and did much damage to green- 

 houses around Plainfield, N. J. At 

 Bound Brook, the town is protected by 

 mountains to the northwest, and the 

 storm did little damage. 



