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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jdlv 5, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale whkh 

 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 prohiHtive, 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising ''copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 tlut all advertisers mail their '^copy^ 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Vednesday morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Meu We Meet— H. B. Beatty (portrait) 399 



Large or ijmall Bulbs 399 



Miscellaneous 400 



— Laucifollum Lilies 400 



— roiiisettias 400 



— Begonias 400 



— Primulas 400 



— Pruning Hedges 400 



— CultlYate 400 



The Ubiquitous Spiraea 400 



Spiraea Japonlca 401 



Chrysanthemums — The First Break 401 



Chrysanthemum Society 401 



Roses — Beauties 401 



— The Rose Beetle .' 402 



— Bugs on Roses 402 



— The Rambler Roses 402 



A Unique Store Succumbs (lUus.) 403 



Miltonia Vexlllaria (lUus.) 403 



Carnations — Seasonable Notes 403 



The Youngest Florist (lUus.) 404 



D'Alcorn on Peonies 404 



GalUardias (lllus.) 405 



Leaf Blight on Geraniums 405 



Notes from England 406 



Establishment of H. H. Cotton (lllus.) 406 



Oriental Poppy 406 



The East and the West 406 



Best Sweet Peas 407 



Delphiniums and pigitalls in Italian Garden 



of Larz Anderson (lllus.) 407 



Lilies for November 407 



Moles 408 



Twin Cities 408 



Chicago 409 



St. Louis 410 



Boston 411 



Buffalo 412 



New York 413 



Philadelphia 415 



Want Advertisements 416 



Seed Trade News 417 



— Seedsmen Adjourn 417 



— European Seed Notes 420 



Washington 422 



Louisville, Ky 422 



Rochester 422 



Steamer Sailings 429 



The Readers' Corner — Crimson Winter 



Rhubarb 430 



Manchester, Mass 430 



Paclflo Coast 4.30 



— Good Growing Season 430 



— Santa Cruz, Cal 430 



— A Chlcagoan's Views 431 



— San Francisco 431 



George Ellwanger (portrait) 432 



Columbus, Ohio 434 



Detroit 436 



Charlotte, Mich 438 



Pittsburg 438 



Des Moines, la 438 



Toledo, Ohio 440 



Classified Advertising 441 



Dayton, Ohio 450 



Lenox, Mass 450 



Cincinnati 452 



Advertising Rates 454 



MOLES. 



"Will some one -help me out of serious 

 trouble? The moles are destroying my 

 rose garden. The runs are almost all 

 over it. I have tried everything that 

 I can hear of, but have not succeeded 

 in killing a single one. Have watched 

 all day, but they work at night and the 

 beds look like they worked all night. 

 I have tried to poison them, but they 

 don't touch the corn that I put in. 

 Would castor oil beans do any good, and 

 if 80 do you pull them up when they 

 begin to grow! Would not want them 

 in my rose beds, of course. Have not put 

 any manure on the beds this spring be- 



cause I thought it had a tendency to 

 cause moles to frequently run through 

 the beds. Does it? J. S. 



This amusing inquiry is from a lady. 

 We can sympathize with her on the mole 

 question. We have been troubled with 

 them in violet beds, solid beds and also 

 in some plantings of hollyhocks and 

 dahlias. They make the beds very un- 

 sightly, but we never noticed that in- 

 jury was done to the plants. Our mole 

 is not the true mole of Europe. It is 

 not so broad but has the same broad feet 

 and hog-like snout, and has the national 

 character for activity and what it lacks 

 in size it makes up for in energy. Miss 

 J. S. wasted time in watching for it 

 while the sun was above the horizon. 

 It is nocturnal in habit, like some 

 of the Chicago florists. It may not be 

 generally known that the mole is 

 carnivorous and does not eat the roots 

 of plants. He is blindly pushing his 

 way through the soil to discover worms 

 and the larvae of insects that are found 

 in the earth. There is little doubt that 

 while his eyes are only rudimentary, his 

 sense of smell must be wonderfully de- 

 veloped. So it is little use to put 

 poisoned vegetable matter in the ground. 

 He will pass it by and prefer a piece 

 of Chicago canned corn-beef and, with- 

 out a joke, small pieces of fresh meat 

 that have been dipped in a solution of 

 strychnine or arsenic and then buried in 

 the soil where the moles are busy is likely 

 to bring their Waterloo. The only thing 

 we have found of use to destroy them 

 is a trap advertised in the Eeview. We 

 caught two of the rodents in short order 

 and that seemed all the crop. One mole 

 is so energetic it would lead you to 

 think there were a score. 



I never have heard of ricinus beans 

 being of any use to destroy moles. They 

 are not vegetarians and if they do eat 

 the beans the worst results would be a 

 violent and an acute attack of summer 

 complaint, which is not always fatal, 

 even in higher mammals. Try the 

 poisoned flesh and do not bury it more 

 than three inches beneath the surface. 

 If it were embalmed beef they might re- 

 ject it, so use fresh beef that has been 

 inspected before and after killing. 



W. S. 



TWIN QTIES. 



The Market. 



Business the last week has been slight- 

 ly better than is to be expected at 

 this time of the year. It appears that 

 the majority of the June weddings came 

 in the latter part of the month, and 

 without exception all of the trade had 

 considerable work in that Une. Stock 

 has been scarce with the growers, and 

 the dealers who grow none themselves 

 were able to keep their stock up, as 

 they could purchase from a great many 

 different places, getting enough from 

 all. The growers with stores had some 

 trouble in getting enough of certain 

 varieties to fill orders. 



Prices have kept up remarkably well. 

 Roses are still selling at $1.50 per dozen, 

 carnations at 50 cents and 75 cents per 

 dozen. We have had a heavy demand 

 for peonies, but they have been very 

 scarce and of inferior quality. White 

 ones have been held at premium prices. 

 White sweet peas have helped out won- 

 derfully for weddings and funeral work. 

 Large quantities of wild ferns have 

 been brought in, and we have been 



favored with a variety very similar to 

 the Farleyense which was a great help. 



SuPauL 



C. F. Yogt says that he has had a 

 good trade and is now checking up to 

 ascertain the amount of the profit for 

 the last year. He claims the best plant 

 trade he has had in many seasons. 



L. L. May & Co. 's force is now busy 

 taking stock, both in the retail depart- 

 ment and the wholesale seed department. 

 Trade has been good the last year, their 

 retail sales showing a material increase. 

 Straggling plant orders still continue 

 to come in, but not in large numbers. 



The Eamaley Floral Co. has done a 

 nice business, and is still enjoying a 

 small plant trade. 



August Vogt reports a good trade in 

 his new store and is much pleased with 

 his move. His present location for resi- 

 dent trade is undoubtedly a good one, 

 and being on the best car line in the 

 city, trade will undoubtedly be brisk. 



The plant growers, including Haugen 

 & Swanson, Henry Puvogel and Christ 

 Bussjaeger, are pretty well cleaned out 

 of plants, and all report a good trade. 



Minneapolis. 



O. G. Swanson still continues to have 

 the bon ton trade and reports a good 

 June business. 



A meeting of the Twin City florists 

 to discuss their annual picnic was held 

 at Nagel's greenhouses. The following 

 ofiicers were reelected: O. J. Olson, 

 chairman; E. >Jage], treasurer; Balph 

 Latham, secretary. Arrangements were 

 made to start a subscription list among 

 the fl(yrists to defray expenses. It was 

 also arranged to hold another meeting 

 to decide what they would do, have a 

 picnic or enjoy a steamboat ride down 

 the Mississippi. Last season St. Paul 

 florists contributed $80, while Minneap- 

 olis florists contributed but $40. Come 

 up, boys, and look pleasant. 



Oscar Amundson is doing a good busi- 

 ness; his location is a good one, although 

 he is bothered to some extent by the 

 Greeks. Felix. 



The Minnesota Bose society held its 

 annual show at Plymouth church, St. 

 Paul, June 30. Eighteen awards were 

 made for roses, and Mrs. D. W. C. Buff, 

 of St. Paul, took first, which was given 

 for the best collection of roses exhibited 

 by an amateur. Mrs. Buff was also win- 

 ner of first in the second class, nearly 

 all of the prizes in the third and in the 

 fourth classes for roses. She won the 

 prize for the best collection of sweet 

 peas. 



The best sweepstakes and largest col- 

 lection of roses grown by the exhibitor 

 was secured by J. P. Brown, of Eureka, 

 with the Eosehill Nursery second. The 

 second prize for the best floral display 

 also went to J. P. Brown, while the Bose- 

 hill Nursery captured first. 



Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, of Eureka, was 

 successful in several classes, winning the 

 prize for roses in the largest and best 

 display of any one variety, the best col- 

 lection of peonies by an amateur, etc. 

 The best floral display for an exhibitor 

 outside of the Twin Cities went to J. P. 

 Brown. The premium for the most beau- 

 tiful rose on exhibition went to the Bose- 

 hill Nursery, which also secured a prize 

 for the largest rose on exhibition, ^ven 

 prizes in peonies went to the Bosehill 

 Nursery. 



