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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JiLY 12, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the aew wage scale 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 which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance tlut the Review 

 obtain its advertising '^copy'' earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers mail their "copy 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday mom- 

 'ng, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Eetiill Florist 450 



— Artillelal Itofrlgeratiou (llliis.) 450 



— Ribbons 46D 



California Palm House 460 



The Breltineyer Store (illus.) 4«1 



Calla Lilies In Solid Beds 4«1 



Six Best Geraniums 461 



The Small Wliite Fly 461 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 462 



• — Ix>rraine Betronias 462 



— Impatleus Holstll 462 



— Pansies 462 



Flowers in Meat Markets 462 



Itoses — Dickson's Irish Uoses 46;{ 



— Mauian Coc-liet Uoses 46^5 



Dickson, of Newtovvnards 463 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 464 



Philadelphia 465 



St. Louis 466 



Oeorge Waldliart's Daisy Farm (illus.) 466 



New Vork 4<;6 



The Yearbook 468 



Society of American Florists 468 



Boston 4tl8 



Chicago 460 



Kansas City 470 



Cse of Steam Trap 472 



Boiler and Heating 472 



Want Advertisements 472 



Milwaukee 474 



Indianapolis 474 



Orange. N . J 474 



Seed Trade News 475 



— Henry W. WoikI (|)orlralt) 476 



— Seeds in the Yearbook 476 



— French Seed Crops 477 



Cincinnati 48<) 



Steamer Sailings 487 



Washington •. . . . 48S 



Mollne, 111 488 



Pacific Coast 488 



— Pacific Const Bulb Market 488 



— San Francisco 489 



Nnrsei-y News 490 



Catalogues Kecelved 490 



Texans Hold .Joint Meeting 490 



Heating Small Houses 490 



Twin Cities 492 



Dayton. Ohio 494 



Omaha 494 



Topekn 496 



Pittsburg 49S 



Northern Texas 5<17 



Springfield. Ohio 508 



Lowell. Mass 508 



THE YEARBOOK. 



The Yearbook of the department of 

 agriculture is being distributed and may 

 be had by addressing a request to your 

 congressman. It is a vohime of 815 

 pages and serves to give an idea of the 

 extent of the size of this branch of 

 government service, and its rapid growth, 

 for in it in 1905 was expended the huge 

 sum of .$«,000.000, there being 5,446 em- 

 ployees as against 2,443 in 1897. 



The volume shows also the wide scope 

 of the work undertaken by the depart- 

 ment. As usual, reports show the sub- 

 jects taken up and the results achieved 

 in the past year. There are also a num- 

 ber of papers by department scientists, 

 some one of which at least will interest 

 every man who lives by the soil, no mat- 

 ter what lie grows. 



Kvery year 500,000 copies of the Year- 

 book are published, and all but 30,000 

 are at the disposal of congressmen. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Cliarle? (!. Koelding, Trenton, N. J., 

 submits for registration C^attleya Charles 

 (}. Koebling, a stray seedling; tiower 

 pure white, *ix inches across with slight 

 trace of yellow in throat ; probably 

 raised from Cattleya Harrisona; alba x 

 C. Mendelii Bluntii, which parents it re- 

 sembles very much ; bulbs are eighteen 

 inches long and two-leaved; quite strong 

 growing; flowers are of good substance. 

 Also Cattleya Kinkora (C. Mendelii 

 Morganii x C. intermedia alba) ; flowers 

 pure white, with richly colofed lip; 

 bulbs are two-leaved, slender, about ten 

 inches long. 



Paul Niehoff, Lehigh ton, Pa., submits 

 for registration Kose Aurora, seedling 

 from Bon Silene x Souvenir du President 

 Carnot; flowers large and full; color 

 light pink with a deeper shading in the 

 center; growth very strong; foliage dark 

 green; stems four to five feet long; very 

 prolific with no tendency to go dormant 

 during the winter. This is the rose 

 which Mr. Niehoff recently exhibited un- 

 der the name of Columbia. On being 

 informed that another rose had already 

 been registered with the S. A. F. as 

 Columbia he withdrew his claim and the 

 rose will be disseminated as Aurora. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. ~ 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Business is at a low ebb. Much of 

 what is brought in cannot be sold or is 

 disposed of at very low prices. A num- 

 ber of flowers are now out of the market 

 for the present, but too much stock comes 

 in for the light demand. The best sell- 

 ing flowers are sweet peas. These bring 

 20 cents to 25 cents per hundred and are 

 now abundant, white being the only color 

 in rather short suply. Outdoor roses are 

 now over and there is only a very spas- 

 modic call for indoor ones, mostly for 

 funeral work. 



Carnations coming in are mostly of 

 very poor quality. Prices have varied 

 from 25 cents to $2 per hundred, far 

 more selling at the former than the lat- 

 ter price. Lily of the valley is in less 

 request and the demand for other season- 

 able flowers is light. At the stores 

 quantities of good Liiium candidum are 

 seen, also L. auratum, pond lilies, gladi- 

 oli, delphiniums and coreopsis. In or- 

 chids, Cattleyas gigas, Harrisonias and 

 Vanda coerulea are noted. 



Exhibition. 



The first of the summer Saturday 

 shows on July 7 brought out a fine lot 

 of exhibits which filled the main exhibi- 

 tion hall. There was a keen tussle be- 

 tween Bay State Nurseries and Blue Hill 

 Nurseries in the class for thirty varieties 

 of herbaceous plants, the first named 

 eventually coming out ahead. Each of 

 these exhibitors also staged large addi- 

 tional collections of perennials. William 

 Whitman, M. Sullivan gardener, had the 

 best collection of har^y perennial roses. 

 He was also first for a tao.e of Canter- 

 bury bells and for thirty vases of del- 

 phiniums, three spikes to a vase with a 

 magnificent lot of Kelway's named vari- 

 eties. Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Wm. Thatch- 

 er, gardener, was second in the two latter 

 classes and first for twenty-five vases 

 Iris K^mpfcri ; W. "Whitman second, 

 each showing finely. 



In the way of miscellaneous exhibits, 



the Boston park department had a fine 

 display of cut sprays of Farquhar roses 

 which were tastefully arranged. George 

 Hollis had a collection of double zonal 

 pelargoniums; Mrs. Ayer tuberous be- 

 gonias and Marguerite Queen Alexandra; 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill, Thomas Doliber, M. 

 Byrne gardener, and Mrs. J. B. Law- 

 rence, general displays. Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens staged a collection of eighty- 

 four varieties of herbaceous plants. A. 

 Ouimet had a well flowered double pome- 

 granate in a tub. Mrs. A. W. Blake, J. 

 L. Smith gardener, had Brassia verru- 

 cosa and Larz Anderso , Duncan Finlay- 

 8011 gardener, a capitally bloomed Den- 

 drobium tuvi -rum awarded a cultural 

 certificate. 



There was a «;>.'.ii(lid display of fruits 

 and vegetables, competition being un- 

 usually keen. The display of produce 

 from chil'lver ' gardens was very inter- 

 esting an<i .acted many visitors. The 

 Boston .- ■ \'Tical Club had a good 

 collection »i Tungi. 



Various Notes. 



Herbert C. Tyler is in Canada for a 

 few weeks' vacation. 



Samuel Wax has gone as far away as 

 Labraaor and ^^opes to catch some big 

 salmon there and perhaps bag a polar 

 bear or two. 



Frank White, of Holbrook, reappeared 

 at the Park Street Market on July 6 

 after an enforced absence due to a 

 honeymoon trip. 



Charles E. Robinson, of H. M. Robin- 

 son & Co., is enjoying his vacation in 

 the wilds of Maine. 



George H. Butterworth, of South 

 Framingham, sailed on the S. S. Iver- 

 nia on July 10 for Liverpool. He will 

 visit some of the noted orchid collectors 

 in Great Britain and will attend the 

 international hybridization conference 

 in London. 



Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Finlayson also 

 sailed on the Ivernia. They will make a 

 tour of the leading horticultural estab- 

 lishments in Great Britain, including 

 Skibo Castle, Andrew Carnegie 's Scotch 

 home, over the gardens of which Mr. 

 Finlayson 's cousin is presiding genius. 

 William Nicholson and Miss Nicholson, 

 of Framingham, and H. L. Cameron, of 

 North Cambridge, were also passengers 

 on the Ivernia. 



July 21 will be sweet pea day at Hor- 

 ticultural hall. Ten classes are allotted 

 to them this season. 



Interest continues to grow in the com- 

 ing club picnic on July 2f5 &t Caledonian 

 grove. The sports committee is hard at 

 work and will present a very attractive 

 program for contestants. 



We are getting an unusual amount of 

 rain this summer, which, while not to the 

 liking of haymakers, is promoting a 

 splendid growth on practically all garden 

 crops. Carnations and violets are look- 

 ing unusually well in the fields. 



James Wheeler, who for a number of 

 years has been a valued member of the 

 plant and flower arrangements commit- 

 tees of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, has, owing to pressure of other 

 duties, resigned from these committees. 

 It will be very difiicult to secure one 

 who will adequately fill Mr. Wheeler's 

 place. W. N. C. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Godfrey Ascn- 

 mann is planning to go to Europe the 

 latter part of the month, on business 

 connected with his large importations 

 of plants. 



