/Makch 8, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



\Q6l 



The Weiland Family of Florists at Evanston, Illinois. 



served an appropriation. If the fact 

 that floriculture represents an investment 

 of millions of dollars had been well 

 known, the efforts of the committee could 

 have been confined to showing what could 

 be accomplished by the proposed investi- 

 gations. Whether the general public 

 shall remain thus ignorant of the im- 

 portance of our industry remains for the 

 florists to determine. 



It seems possible to spread the present 

 popular interest in flowers and plants 

 by holding exhibitions in some of the 

 larger cities of the state and thus bring 

 to an ever increasing number of people 

 the enjoyment of perfect flowers and 

 pipnts, a pleasure hitherto confined large- 

 ly to the great cities. Every influence 

 which tends to increase the love of orna- 

 mental plants among the people should 

 be fostered and encouraged. Every 

 florist in the state is vitally interested 

 in all these things and the success of 

 the organization is measured by the 

 wnanimity with which the florists rally 

 to its standard. 



Don't miss the finst annual meeting in 

 Peoria, Illinois, March 9, 1906. 



Jas. Hartshorne, 

 Chairman pro tern. 



much decreased. It is too late now to 

 sow the seed for this summer's bedding, 

 whatever temperature you employ, and 

 it must be grown cool to produce useful 

 plants. 



It is also much too late to sow Cen- 

 tauroa candidissima. "When we used this 

 plant for flower gardening we sowed it 

 in October or propagated from lifted 

 plants in midwinter. It went out of 

 fashion because such a large percentage 

 of the plants would die and leave blanks 

 during the summer. Seed sown now 

 would be very small plants at the end of 

 May, and useless for flower gardening. 



Santolina incana is a much better 

 white-foliaged plant in every way. 



W. S. 



ECHEVERIAS. 



How largo will echeverias be June 1, 

 if they are seeded March 1 and kept in 

 a warm house? Will Centaurea candidis- 

 sima be large enough for bedding June 

 1 if seed is planted March 1? Where 

 van I find some Echeveria secunda glauca 

 plants? W. L. 



Echeverias of some varieties are often 

 raised from seed, but secunda glauca is 

 usually increased by off"shoots. \ think 

 a want advertisement in the Review 

 would be sure to bring you offers. Since 

 carpet bedding has declined in popular 

 favor the stock of E. secunda glnuca has 



THE WEILAND FAMILY. 



The Weilands, of Evanston, 111., are 

 a family of florists. The father is Mat- 

 thias Weiland, a veteran grower for the 

 Chicago market. He started in business 

 in Chicago's intellectual suburb more 

 than twenty years ago. He has built 

 up a large retail trade, but produces so 

 much stock in his big range of glass that 

 a considerable quantity usually remains 

 to be wholesaled in Chicago. Mr. Wei- 

 land says that his best year, so far as 

 profits are concerned, was 1893, the 

 year of the World's Fair. 



John Weiland, the eldest son, is a 

 grower on his own account at Evanston. 

 lie has a large range of glass, a retail 

 store and considerable stock to whole- 

 sale. Peter Weiland is the senior mem- 

 ber of the firm of Weiland & Oliiiger, 

 of New Castle, Ind., with a wholesale 

 store at Cincinnati. They have a big 

 i plant, devoted to roses and carnations. 

 George Weiland is in charge of his 

 father's Evanston retail store. 



It has been Mr. Weiland 's practice to 

 assist his sons to a business of their 

 own as fast as they readied the i)roper 



age. He went to Denver a fortnight 

 ago with the avowed intention of buy- 

 ing real estate on which to build a range 

 ot^ glass for Henry, the youngest son, 

 whose health it was tliought would be 

 benefited by the change of climate. All 

 the ))lans were made for erecting the 

 greenhouses but, arrived at Denver, Mr. 

 Weiland changed his mind and when he 

 left for hom.e Henry was installed on a 

 fruit farm purchased for him. 



The eldest daughter is Mrs. John 

 Didior, whose husband was a well-known 

 grower at Rogers Park, growing carna- 

 tions exclusively, but shipping to both 

 Milwaukee and Chicago commission 

 houses. A younger daughter is Mrs. 

 Peter J. Olinger, whose husband is the 

 junior partner of Weiland & Olinger, 

 and who has charge of that firm's Cin- 

 cinnati store. Anna Weiland is the 

 bookkeeper at her father's retail store. 

 There are two younger girls, Margaret 

 and Helen, still in school. 



:Mrs. Weiland is a sister of Peter 

 Reinberg and George Reinberg. She is 

 also a sister of Mrs. Adam Zender, the 

 Rogers Park grower. 



RAILROAD GARDENING. 



[A paper by Paul Huebner, siiperiiitendciit of 

 jrardcTis nnrt grounds o( tlio Heading Uailroad. 

 liefore flie rioiists' Club of Philadelphia, March 

 (>. l!Mir..l 



[ liave been requested by your com- 

 mittee to say something al)out the sub- 

 ject of railroad gardening. I ha<l the 

 pleasure of appearing before you on 

 the same subject a number of years ago 

 and, while I do not know that I can tell 

 you anything further now, I can at least 

 refresh your memories on some of the 

 salient features of this particular phase 

 of horticulture. 



The most important point iu railroad 

 gardening to my mind is how to achieve 

 effectiveness at a minimum of cost. 

 Around this fundamental idea ail our 



