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The Weekly Rorists' RevieWf 



JuLT 26. 1906. 



: NOTICE 



^ecuiieof the new 1r^^« scale wfiidi 

 Af PriotetB' Union ha^ enforced ttpon 

 Ihpie efflployen not v^rflUng to stmer 

 inteiTuption of Iheif ixoSxiess, especially 

 bebauKof that paitd dieicale wblch 

 maket oviertime prttkskJSly prohibitive, 

 It is of tirrt impoctaoce tXiat the Review 

 obtain its advertisine '^omypf earlier. 



It Is therefore eame=«tly requested 

 IbiU all advertisen maKil their '^copy^ 

 to readi'^os ' by Moada».y or Tuesday 

 vaoniog, instead of Ve^uoday moro- 

 fn^ as many have done inChepast. 



ContrOnstors also pka^se take heed. 



dONTENTT'S. 



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Hltcellaneoug Seasonable Bti 



— Mignonette _ 



— SntUax _ 



— COMIMM 



— Asaleas _ 



— Gardenias 



— Hydrangeas _ 



— BoKuing Stock Planti 



— Painting 



Sontbem Summer Flowen 



Bosca — Summer Pests 



— Grubs in Bose Soil 



— The Bose 



All Busy it Dayton (lUui.).. 

 Cariuitions — Carnation Notea 



— Temperature 



Jcbn Westcott's Waretonn Bu :s 

 Scene at liutibink & Atkiis' «. 

 Concrete Walls and Bencliei. . 



Spots on Lawns 



Fertilizers (or Peonies 



Best White Peonies 



Peony Pictures (iUus.) 



Two Small Ureenbooaes 



Cbrivtmas Sweet Peas 



New Orleans 



Otto Abele (portrait) 



Gladiolus Nanus 



Geraniums from Seed 



C«D?ention Date 



Cyanide Fumigation 



Tbe Dayton Souvenir 



PbiUdelphia 



Cblcago 



Boston 



8t Louis 



New York 



Want Advertisements 



Seed Trade News 



— Seed Crops 



— European Seed Notes 



— Lily of the Valley - 



Obituary — lioois Goepplnger... 



Moles _ 



UHoa. N. Y . 



Dayton, O . 



Tlte Readers' Comer ^ 



Pacific Coast— Budding Nuiki 



— San Francisco _ 



Nursery News _ 



— Pacific Coast Nurserymen.. _ 



Delphiniums . 



dnclnnatl _ 



Canadian Association _ 



Omaha _ 



Twin Cities _ 



llberon. N. J _ 



Greenhouse Heating — Home toxr' 



— Piping _ 



— B<Mler Capacity and Pipes _ 



— Alcohol as Fuel _ 



Springfield, _ 



it« 675 



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675 



676 



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675 



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676 



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676 



677 



"West 678 



678 



agalow (lUus.) 678 



lUus.) 679 



679 



679 



680 



580 



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681 



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684 



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691 



692 



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683 



694 



686 



606 



608 



6»9 



006 



Stock 606 



608 



608 



608 



• • oos 



610 



612 



614 



616 



624 



Lettuce 625 



626 



626 



627 



628 



CONVENTION 1I3ATE. 



The S. A. F. conrea'tion opens at 

 Dayton, 0., Tuesday, A»agust 21, and 

 continues until Friday, August 24. 

 Every indication is that "the attendance 

 will be probably the lar^ eet in the his- 

 tory of the society. 



CYANIDE FUMG-^TION. 



I notice on page 515 cz>t the Betvikw 

 for July 19, that A. F_ J. Baur en- 

 dorses my formula for usL ixg or generat- 

 iBg cyanide gas, for whi <:h I am very 

 thankful, but Mr. Baur goes on to cau- 

 tion people to be careful in tbe method 

 of use, and advises that "the little par- 

 cels of cyanide be droppe<3. into the jars 



through a hole in the roof by a string. 

 This plan is tedious and awkward, and 

 may deter some readers from using this 

 excellent remedy against the minute 

 •white fly and other troublesome insects. 

 I can assure ^r. Baiir and others that 

 there is not th& slightest danger if you 

 follow directions given on page 461. 

 For instance, if your house tc&es six 

 or ten jars, a jar -for every 2,000 cubic 

 feet of atmosphfere, they should be set 

 on the paths and equally distributed. 

 "When the sulphuric acid and water are 

 mixed and the jars are in place, you 

 go to the end of the house farthest from 

 the door and drop the parcel of cyanide 

 into the first jar, then walk to the next, 

 and so on until you reach -the door. In 

 fact, you scarcely even smell the gas. 

 Don't stop between jars to light your 

 pipe, tell a story, '<>r dance the highland 

 fling, and there will not be the slightest 

 danger. I am positive of this, for 

 frequently we have operated nine or 

 ten jars, and then stood with our noses 

 inside the house and legs outside, wait- 

 ing to inhale the fumes and contemplat- 

 ing the glorious massacre that was go- 

 ing on among our little enemies. The 

 hole in the roof and string are quite 

 unnecessary. Of that I am absolutely 

 positive. WiLLUM Scott. 



THE DAYTON SOUVENIR. 



To offset a wrong impression, created 

 by a communication from a member of 

 this club, recently published in the trade 

 papers, we wish to state that the refer- 

 ence made to the publication of the Day- 

 ton Souvenir being left to "private en- 

 terprise," was ma<te without knowledge 

 of the actual conditions and does an 

 injustice to H. M. Altick, in charge of 

 this work. 



We therefore, by action of this club, 

 fully endorse H. M. Altick 's statelnent 

 of facts published in a recent issue of 

 this paper, as correct in every respect, 

 and herewith assure the patrons of the 

 Souvenir and the members of the S. A. 

 F. that their support of this publication 

 will aid the Dayton Florists* Club in 

 making a successful convention.' 



Dayton Florists' Club, 



By 



J. B. Heiss, Pres. 



Charx.es LtJTZENBERGEE, V. Pres. 



H. H. RiTTER, Treas. 



Horace M. Frank, Sec. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The feature of the market this week is 

 the increase in asters, now of excellent 

 quality, in every shade of color that is 

 favored by this summer beauty. Valley 

 is also an important factor. Carnations 

 are scarce, really fine blooms command- 

 ing high prices. Sweet peas are not 

 abundant. Album and rubrum lilies are 

 seen, as well as auratum. The New 

 England roses continue to be the best in 

 the market. Greens are plentiful. Busi- 

 ness is good for midsummer. 



Variofts Notes. 



Harry Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayers- 

 dorfer returned home on the steamer 

 New York, arriving last Sunday. They 

 went at once to Atlantic City. Mr. Bay- 

 ersdorfer, when seen at his oflSce on Mon- 

 day, said they had brought the crew 

 of a wrecked vessel safely to port. He 

 spoke with pleasure of his trip, promis- 

 ing to show the fiorists of America some 



beautiful novelties of which his firm has 

 exclusive control. 



W. J. Sherry, of the Johnson Seed Co., 

 reports an encouraging local ax4 oi^t-of- 

 towif demand. Grennan millet is an ex- 

 ception, there being next to no demand, 

 owing to the. rainy season. 



Hooert H. Glass is no longer with the 

 Leo Niessen Co. 



J. Liddon Pennock is the hero of a 

 yacht race sailed at Ocean City, N. J., 

 last Saturday. He took his brother, 

 Samuel Sellers, along as ballast. Brother 

 being a novice in the art of yachting, un- 

 luckily in the excitement of the race 

 the ballast fell into the water, where, 

 when the clever skipper described a cir- 

 cle, he rescued the ballast, and won the 

 race amid applause. 



M. Eice & Co. closed the best year in 

 the history of the house on June 30. 

 July is away ahead of the same month 

 last year. 



The Henry F. Mlchell Co. has in- 

 stalled a new private branch telephone 

 exchange, both Bell and Keystone, the 

 operator on the platform in the center 

 of the store connecting the caller with 

 any person desired, on any flpor of the 

 main building or in the annex. 



Leo Niessen has been visiting the rose 

 houses of some of the growers who ship 

 such fine roses to his company. Frank 

 P. Myers has over 25,000 Beauties 

 planted. All are in fine conditibn. 

 George Burton's place promises to up- 

 hold his high reputation of the past sea- 

 sons. All the houses are in Beauties 

 save one planted with Golden Gate. John 

 C. Andre has a house of Killamey worth 

 going miles to see. His Brides and 

 Maids are also fine. Joseph Beavis & 

 Son have three houses in Maids, two 

 each in Liberty and Kaiserin and one 

 each in Bride and Bichmond, all in ex- 

 cellent condition. George C. Campbell 

 has his new house finished and planted 

 with Bichmond. His place shows the 

 effect of conscientious work. 



Now is the time to buy rubber hose. 

 The rainy season has caused a break in 

 the market of 2 cents a foot on some 

 good brands. 



Lilium Harrisii are arriving in good 

 shape. 



The Stokes Seed Store has some nice 

 celery plants grown on Mr. Stokes' place 

 at Moorestown. 



Answers to GMrespondents. 



Review readers are Inrlted to send any ques- 

 tions relating to cultnre or marketing of plants 

 and Sowers in Philadelphia, to Phil, In care of 

 the leading aeed or commission bouses or tbe 

 Flower Market. Each question will be submitted 

 to a competent person and answered under num- 

 ber. Correct name and address must always 

 accompany inquiry, but will not be published. 



54.— I notice over your pen name of 

 "Phil," you and Mr. F., and possibly a 

 few others, are trying to claim a dis- 

 covery, that the growing of plants 

 is a profession. Am sorry, for at 

 best it may only be claimed as a re- 

 discovery, for said occupation was known 

 as a profession when I was an appren- 

 tice and how long before that time the 

 necessary history is not at hand in aid- 

 ing in determining. All horticulturists, 

 I oelieve, who gleaned some inkling as 

 to the intricacies of plant life in Great 

 Britain pride themselves as belonging to 

 a profession. 



I said, "Who had the courage to say 

 profession!" Nearly all our writers and 

 public speakers use the word "trade," 

 sometimes "business." I am sure you 

 will join with me in doing the utmost to 

 elevate our calling to the rank of a pro- 

 fession. Phiu 



