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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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August 23, 1006. 



Partial View of the Trade Exhibits at Dayton. 



where it is not needed, and leave the 

 soil beneath loose where it should be 

 in close contact with the active roots. 



Watering. 



One good solid watering of the newly 

 potted cutting is necessary, but that can 

 be deferred for a few hours to allow the 

 succulent cutting to evaporate some of 

 its sap. After the one good, thorough 

 watering it is not easy to say when 

 water is needed again. It will de- 

 pend on how much sun they receive and 

 on the weather, but don't water again 

 until they are decidedly dry. In three 

 or four weeks most all of them will 

 have started roots and then can absorb 

 more water, but until the roots are 

 formed water only when quite dry. This 

 may be once a week or twice a week. 

 Use your eyes and brain. 



Another reason why it is advisable to 

 take oflf a lot of cuttings early in Sep- 

 tember is that the strong growths you 

 cut back will make a lot of lateral 

 growth, which in early October will give 

 you lots of the very best of cuttings, 

 which with cooler weather will root with 

 ease, and if you wish to lift a lot of 

 plants for winter propagation, these cut 

 back plants will be in excellent order 

 to lift and put in pots or~ plant on a 

 bench. 



Some may think this is a long ynru 

 about such a common plant. We were 

 overwhelmed last winter with specimens 

 of foliage and accounts of diseased 

 geraniums. We believe most of the trou- 

 ble arises from not realizing what a 

 geranium needs and often they are given 

 poor ventilation, too high a temperature, 

 insuflBcient sunlight and too much water. 

 The opposite of all these conditions is 

 what will grow healthy, robust gerani- 

 ums and early September is the time to 

 begin right. 



Ferns. 



1 notice with benches of nephrolepis, 

 the old Boston, Scottii and Whitmani, 

 they are growing very fast of late and 

 will soon need more room. It is rather 

 early just now to lift all your plants. 

 Another ^ix or seven weeks' gjpowth in 

 the bed will greatly increase -them in 

 size. Lift now if crowding every other 

 row or every other plant in the row. 

 These early lifted plants will become 

 established and make fine plants for 



early fall sales. ±"ill up all the holes 

 where you have lifted the plants and 

 over the surface of your beds spread one 

 inch of sifted rotten manure. Decayed 

 spent hops would be an excellent mate- 

 rial, or the remains of an old hotbed. 

 The ferns will be sending out numerous 

 runners now, which will find this mulch- 

 ing congenial material to root in. You 

 never will have an overstock of these 

 most useful ferns. Wm. Scott. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The market was fair last week on 

 most of the items, but little could be 

 done with gladioli, the poorer grades be- 

 ing almost unsalable at any price. As-- 

 ters became a tremendous overstock as 

 the week progressed, so that prices went 

 down to unquotably low levels. The ex- 

 tra value which had attached to white 

 also was affected by increasing suppli^B 

 of outdoor carnations. 



This week finds the wholesale section 

 quiet. Everybody is away, at convention. 

 Many of the local retailers and a large 

 proportion of the country buyers are 

 also there, so that home activities Kt4 at 

 a low ebb. Supplies are above require- 

 ments. The new Beauties are more 

 abundant and each day adds a fraction 

 of an inch to the length of stem of the 

 best grade. The cut from young teas 

 also is increasing and improving. Chate- 

 nay is particularly plentiful, and doubt- 

 less will be for the next few weeks. 



Asters still are in large supply; every- 

 body has some good stock, but the low 

 eradea are again strongly in evidence. 

 Gladimi still are a great trial; soon it 

 will be dahlias. The sweet peas are 

 about all* in. Auratum lilies are passing, 

 but longiflorum is abundant. Garden 

 flowers do not sell with gi*sat rapidity. 

 Tuberoses are more plentiful and sell 

 slower. Valley is in fair supply. Greens 

 of all kinds are abundant. 



Need More Spac/. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. finds the sup- 

 ply department already crampe^^ for 

 space, vdth several car-loads of stock 

 coming as the result of Miss Tenner's 

 trip to Europe. A portion of' the third 

 floor of their building has been secured 

 and shortly the entire floor will be occu- 



pied. They say the supplies are helping 

 business in the cut flower department. 



Safesfuards Accounts. 



C. M. Dickinson states that E. H. 

 Hunt is a member of an association 

 • which insures rated accounts ; that is, in 

 the event of a rated creditor failing to 

 pay, the insurance company makes good. 

 Charles A. Shaeffer, Kansas City, was 

 rated and upon his failure the insurance 

 people promptly paid Hunt some $665, 

 several times the yearly cost of insur- 

 ance for all rated accounts. Shaeffer 's 

 other local creditors received a 15 per 

 cent first dividend last week. 



Violets in Request. 



Bhinebeck violet growers are shortly 

 to have the opportunity of making the 

 personal acquaintance of several Chicago 

 wholesalers without going off their own 

 front steps, for Bhinebeck violets are 

 wanted for this market for the coming 

 season. A few seasons ago this would 

 have been considered notice to unchain 

 the bulldog, but. in view of the recent 

 expansion of the violet industry and the 

 showing Chicago has made in comparison 

 with other markets, the westerners feel 

 assured of a hospitable welcome. W. E. 

 Lynch, of Hunt's, who is now in Massa- 

 chusetts, was the first Chicago whole- 

 saler to visit Bhinebeck, and G. H. Pie- 

 ser, of Kennicott's, was there last year. 

 Some of this year's visitors may be 

 lighter physically, but they will be none 

 the less eloquent. 



Various Notes. 



At Morton Grove the Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. is installing big cooling rooms and 

 making other preparations for shipping 

 their standing orders direct from the 

 greenhouses. This not only will place 

 the stock in the customers' hands with 

 the least possible handling, but it will 

 relieve the pressure on the city sales- 

 room. When cuts are at their height 

 at the Poehlmann plant the store is 

 badly crowded. The glass area has 

 doubled since it was possible to obtain 

 more room for the selling end. 



The George Wittbold Co. is erecting 

 an apartment building on its property 

 at Edgebrook. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kessler, of To- 

 peka, Kan., are in town for a two weeks* 



