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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



AUQOST 16, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Bcotiie of the new wage scale which 

 the Printen' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to simer 

 Interruption of their business^ especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 oiakes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising ^copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore eamesdy requested 

 (hat all advertisers mail their **Cfypy** 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday mom- 

 log^ as many liave done in die past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 757 



— Bouvardias « 757 



— Cyclameu 757 



— Begonia Lorraine 757 



— Show Pelargoniums 757 



— Weeds 757 



— Pertinent Paragraphs 757 



Chrysanthemums — iSeiectlug the Buds 757 



— Chrysanthemums Outdoors 758 



— Bud Selection 768 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 758 



— Hints for a Beginner 7r>S 



— Carnation Bust 759 



— Malmaison Carnations (lllus.) 759 



Plants for Park 759 



Nephrolepls Amerpohlii (lllus.) 70U 



The Cyclamen 7B0 ■ 



Notes from England ~761 



All Keady at Uayton (lllus.) 761 



Trouble with Smllax 761 



Eoses— Black Spot • 762 



— Trouble with Nematodes 762 



S. S. Pennock, Meehan Co. (portraits) 762 



New York 763 



PhUadelphta 764 



The New Toneware ( lllus. ) 764 



Greenhouse Heating — A Modern Heating 



Plant 706 



— Solves Heating Problem (lllus.) 760 



ClnclnnaU * 766 



St. Louis 766 



Prof. H. C. Irish (portrait) 767 



Summer Flowers South 768 



St. Swlthln 708 



In Memorlam 768 



Chicago 768 



Buffalo 769 



Detroit 771 



Boston 772 



Baltimore 774 



Want AdTcrtlsements 775 



Kansas City 776 



Seed Trade News 777 



— A Hair Line on Bulbs 777 



— Oerman Valley Crops 778 



— Seed Imports 778 



— Annual Gladioli 778 



— Publications Keceived 778 



— European Seed Notes 778 



— Free Seeds Again 779 



Streator, 111 780 



Twin Cities 780 



Columbus 782 



Steamer Sailings 789 



Northern Texas 789 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 790 



— Care of Seedlings 790 



— San Francisco 791 



Nursery News 792 



— Southern Nurserymen 792 



Youngstown, Ohio 792 



Jamestown, N. Y 794 



Chicago to Dayton 796 



Dayton, Ohio 798 



OMftuary— Alexander Emslie 800 



Dayton Hotels 800 



Indianapolis 810 



Pittsburg 810 



Notes of Eastern Rambles 812 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Summer Flowers South. 



L. J. in the Beview for August 9 has 

 well said that rose culture as described 

 July 26 by D,, in answer to S. B. S., is 

 too expensive and that carnations are 

 what we need. We are located in central 

 North Carolina and have had the highest 

 temperature for the last five days of any 

 place in the United States, yet we are 

 cutting blooms from old stock indoors 

 of May Naylor and John Young, white 

 carnations, but as yet we have not found 

 a pink that will hold out, as thrips takes 

 full possession of them. We have fin- 



ished housing all but a few benches of 

 the varieties named, which we cannot 

 afford to throw out yet. We have some 

 thirty varieties benched now. Many of 

 them are the new ones on trial, but Wol- 

 cott is our money-maker. For white, 

 White Lawson is the best. 



J. L. O'QUINN. 



ST.SWITHIN. 



For the benefit of the * * crude western- 

 ers, " we shall say, after much delving 

 in histories, books on mythology, etc., 

 that St. Swithin, he whom the enlight- 

 ened east holds responsible for its 

 weather at this time of the year, was 

 bishop of Winchester in the ninth cen- 

 tury. When he was canonized in the 

 next century, the monks wished to trans- 

 fer his remains from the Winchester 

 churchyard, where he had been buried at 

 his own request, to the cathedral, and 

 they set July 15 as the date. Heavy 

 rains lasting for forty days delayed the 

 transfer; hence the popular belief (in 

 the east) that if it rains on St. Swithin 's 



Enclosed is the price of another 

 year of 



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which I consider the best dollar's 

 worth that any florist can get if he 

 wants the latest news and methods of 

 culture. 



HUGH SEALES. 



Birmingham, Ala. 

 ' Aug. 7, 1906. 





day, it will rain for forty days there- 

 after. 



The groundhog for ours, here in the 

 west. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



It was with great surprise and still 

 greater grief that we learned of the 

 passing of our good friend, Jimmy 

 Hartshorne. He was well known in Buf- 

 falo, as in all large cities of this conti- 

 nent, and was on particularly close and 

 friendly terms with the writer. He was 

 all gold and full measure. Mr. Harts- 

 horne came into prominence like a me- 

 teor, with the great renaissance of the 

 carnation, and no one did more by his 

 enthusiasm and industry to make the di- 

 vine flower the leading feature of flori- 

 culture in tliis great country. His bi- 

 ography and achievements were well but 

 modestly written up in the pages of the 

 Review of last week. 



Only once did I have the pleasure of 

 visiting Jimmy at his home and in- 

 dustry, and no place that I have seen 

 was better managed or in more perfect 

 order. We loved him as a wholesouled, 

 honest gentleman and, as the writer in 

 the Review said, if he was deceived in 

 the qualities of any of the varieties he 



sent out, no one regretted it so much as 

 Mr. Hartshorne. But what matter all 

 his achievements or disappointments? 

 The sad fact is that he is no longer with 

 us to give us his cheery smile at our 

 annual gatherings. Deep is our sorrow 

 that we shall see Jimmy no more, yet 

 light is our grief compared to the great 

 grief which hovers over Joliet. 



A countryman of mine by birth, ar- 

 riving in this country a poor boy, he was 

 a glorious example of what integrity, in- 

 dustry and intelligence can gain without 

 graft or injury to another fellow-being. 

 I am no believer that we shall have 

 wings in the future world, and most 

 skeptical on the teachings of orthodoxy, 

 but I believe the great Creator through 

 evolution has not endowed us with the 

 character and intelligence which good 

 men possess unless there is a future and 

 higher destiny, and, therefore, I confi- 

 dently believe that Jimmy Hartshorne, 

 in some blessed and pure realm, will be 

 given an honored seat and, in spirit, if 

 not in flesh, meet again his loved wife 

 and children. William Scott, 



[We have received, from S. S. Ski- 

 delsky and others, other tributes which 

 lack of space compels us to forego the 

 pleasure of printing. — Ed.] 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Ctotril'Market. 



Last week was quiet, but business 

 started in briskly Monday morning, 

 nearly every house in town reporting an 

 excellent day's sales. Local buyers took 

 hold stronger than at any time in the 

 last fortnight and shipping demand was 

 good. Monday is nearly always a good 

 day in this market, and Tuesday a dull 

 one. Wednesday and Thursday are quiet, 

 and Friday and Saturday brisk. 



Beauties from new plants are becom- 

 ing more plentiful. Quality is good, but 

 of course stems are short. The cut of 

 tea roses from new plants is also in- 

 creasing, but quality is not yet anything 

 to brag of, stems being short and ,buds 

 small. There are few indoor carnations 

 and those from the fields are not of good 

 quality, the rains having served to rot 

 the blooms. 



The early crops of asters have passed 

 off and receipts are now of the later and 

 better varieties. Quality has much im- 

 proved, large flowers and long stems be- 

 ing now the rule. White was scarce early 

 this week and commanded a premium. 

 The supply of auratum lilies is not so 

 heavy as it has been and not many 

 lougiflorums are seen. Gladioli continue 

 to be a tremendous glut. Sweet peas 

 are not abundant and if received are of 

 poor quality, almost unsalable. 



The retail vrindows are full of hydran- 

 geas, phloxes and other garden flowers, 

 the water lily being a feature with many. 

 Green goods are abundant but selling 

 slowly. 



Out in Time. 



Two men well known and liked in the 

 trade are Messrs. Weiler and Pontius, 

 of the Superior Machine and Boiler 

 Works. The bank nearest their place is 

 the Milwaukee Avenue State and they 

 formerly did business there. About a 

 year ago they heard rumors of the rot- 

 tenness since brought to light and re- 

 moved their account. Their friends tell 

 them they are glad they got out in time, 

 "but they're not half as glad as we 

 are," says Mr. Pontius. 



A. F. Kohr, the pot-maker, was not so 



