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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 8, 190& 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stnfer 

 interruption of their business^ especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitivet 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

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It is therefore- earnestly requested 

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 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of We«iesday morn- 

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Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1055 



— Seed Sowing 1055 



— Transplanting Seedlings 1055 



— Firming the Soil 1055 



— Care for the Asters 1055 



— Starting Dahlias 1055 



— Geraniums for Memorial Day 1055 



— Buy Easter Stock Now 1055 



Roses— Liquid Food 1055 



— Old or Young Stock. 1056 



— Flf f Beet Roses 1056 



American Rose Society 1056 



The Retail Florist — Seasonable Suggestions. 1056 



— Engllah Floral Fashions 1056 



— The Armful Bouquet (lUus.) 1057 



Valley for Storage 1057 



Society of American Florists 1058 



Carnations — Green Carnations 1058 



— A New Bedford Seedling (illus.) 1058 



A Peculiar Season 1058 



The Readers' Corner 1»V58 



Growth of Petunias 1059 



Diseased Geraniums 1059 



With the Growers (illus.) 1060 



The Florists of Illinois 1060 



The Wetland Family (lllys.) 1081 



Railroad Gardening 1061 



Greenhouse Heating — Heater for Hotbeds 



(Illus.) 1062 



— Piping for Extra House 1063 



— Size of Boiler 1063 



The Windt Place (illus.) 1063 



Vegetable Forcing — Green Lice on Lettuce. 1064 



New York 1064 



Boston 1065 



'Chicago 1067 



Philadelphia 1069 



Davton, O.— Death of F. W. Rltter 1071 



Buffalo 1072 



St. Louis 1073 



Jollet, 111 1074 



Cincinnati 1074 



Plttsbiirg 1075 



Sitiiations and Wants 1076 



Seed Trade News 1077 



— The Wedge Has Entered 1077 



— Rochester Seed Notes 1078 



— European Seed Notes 1Q78 



— Handling Seed Corn 1078 



Catalogues Received 1079 



Notes From Enpland 1079 



Grand Rapids. Mich 1082 



Northern Texas 1089 



Twin Cities 1090 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 1091 



Nursery News 1092 



— Albertson's Ambition (portrait) 1092 



— Fumigating Nursery Stock 1093 



Topeka, Kan 1094 



Kansas City 1096 



Baltimore 1098 



Washington 1100 



Dubuque, la 1102 



Detroit 1104 



Rochester 1116 



Brandon. Man 1118 



Lenox, Mass 1120 



Advertising Rates 1122 



Chattanooga, Tenn. — R. W. Zobel has 

 sold his place at East End and McCallie 

 avenues for building lots and will move 

 away. 



Denver, Colo. — Maler & Dankworth 

 are growing very good violets, but are 

 endeavoring to still further improve 

 their stock. 



Oxford, Mich. — A building 30x40 feet 

 is to be added to the Oxford Green- 

 houses this spring and will be used as a 

 palm room, show room and office. 



Concord, N. H. — E. H. Whitney says 

 that the grass-growing heads, sometimes 

 referred to as Uncle Theodore, have made 

 quite a hit. 



Winnipeg, Man. — The movement to 

 have the anemone adopted as Manitoba's 

 floral emblem has been again revived by 

 the presentation to the legislature of a 

 memorial on the subject by the Natural 

 History Society. 



Geoton, Mass. — S. H. Shattuck says 

 he had considerable trouble with moles 

 eating the tips -of the fronds on Aspara- 

 gus plumosus, but that rat bis-kit left at 

 the base of the plants caused them to 

 give him no further trouble save that of 

 collecting the dead moles. 



Newcomerstown, O. — J. W. Nico- 

 demus has a white carnation that he has 

 not been able to identify. The plant 

 appeared in a bench of Lawson and won 

 his solicitude by the fact that the flow- 

 ers were not only large but nineteen buds 

 were in sight at one time. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — Fisher & Eock- 

 lin is the style of a new firm which has 

 established a place in the Boudeman 

 block on South street. The members of 

 the firm have each had a number of 

 years' experience in Chicago among 

 wholesalers and retailers. They will con- 

 duct a general business. 



St. Cloud, Minn. — Paul Trzewik, 

 formerly florist at Lakewood cemetery, 

 Minneapolis, Minn., has purchased thirty 

 acres of land across the road from Cal- 

 vary cemetery, for $1,950. He will be- 

 gin construction of his houses as soon 

 as weather permits. He plans to supply 

 flowers for grave decoration and for city 

 trade. 



Rhinebeck, N. Y. — There are ap- 

 proximately 100 establishments growing 

 violets here. Ackert & Brown, who are 

 themselves violet growers as well as con- 

 tractors and builders, report that they 

 have a number of orders booked for new 

 places to be started in the spring, as well 

 as several extensive additions to existing 

 places. 



Aurora, III. — The Aurora Greenhouse 

 Co. is advertising a warning to its 

 patrons to the effect that a Chicago 

 * ' cold storage concern, ' ' by using a simi- 

 lar name, has endeavored to mislead the 

 customers of the former company. The 

 Aurora company announces that it has 

 no interest in the flower stand on 

 Downer place. This company has five 

 greenhouses and J. H. Newhall is man- 

 ager. 



Durham, N. C. — Fred'EoU says busi- 

 ness has been all right so far, but he, 

 too, is living in a 30-cent town and the 

 people expect from a florist almost any- 

 thing from cabbage seed to a bridal 

 bouquet. He has 4,000 square feet of 

 glass and grows^ mostly carnations, Cru- 

 sader, Flamingo and Eetelle for red; 

 Indianapolis and Lawson for dark pink. 

 Lord and Enchantress for light, Wolcott, 

 White Lawson and White Cloud for 

 white. He would grow more of a good 

 white one, but has first to try for one 

 that will do well. 



Edwardsville, III. — J. T. Ammann 

 has leased the Barnett building on St. 

 Louis street and will establish a city 

 retail department, stock being supplied 

 daily from his greenhouses. He wiU 

 open about March 15. 



Orion, Mich. — Preparations are being 

 made to improve the Orion Greenhouse 

 by the addition of several more houses, 

 bringing the total up to fifteen houses. 

 A large wholesale business is conducted 

 with roses and carnations as specialties. 



New Castle, Ind. — Ivan Margason, a 

 grower for the South Park Floral Co., 

 was highly indignant when arrested re- 

 cently charged with being drunk. He 

 proved that he had had only one bottle 

 of beer and considered the charge a re- 

 flection on his capabilities. The justice 

 discharged him. 



Shippensburg, Pa. — The Byer Floral 

 Co. has changed its name to The Ship- 

 pensburg Floral Co. The change was 

 deemed advisable as mail intended for 

 this company was often misdirected to 

 Byer Bros, in Chambersburg, Pa., and 

 vice versa. There is no change in the 

 personnel of the company. 



Ft. Wayne, Ind. — Mrs. Anger had a 

 fine vase of the new rose Miss Kate 

 Moulton on exhibition in her store win- 

 dow and it was much admired by aU 

 local florists. The trade thinks very 

 highly of it. The Glendale carnation, 

 grown by W. J. & M. S. Vesey, has 

 proven itself an excellent keeper and 

 shipper. 



Butte, Mont. — ^Victor Siegel, chief 

 gardener at the Columbia Gardens, and 

 Wm. Cockayne, the florist, have been 

 trying their hands at raising seedling 

 carnations and have a white, as a result 

 of a cross of Enchantress and Higin- 

 botham, which they think has a com- 

 mercial future. It has been named for 

 the daughter of the manager of the 

 Gardens and street railroad, Miss Jessie 

 Wharton. 



Fremont, Nebr. — C. H. Green has 

 been cutting much good stock, but the 

 demand ha's been a little more than equal 

 to the supply. Prices are satisfactory. 

 He is planning to build some new houses 

 this summer and put in a larger boiler. 

 He has at present 16,000 square feet of 

 glass, in bedding stock and cut flowers, 

 also 200 sash and seventeen acres in 

 truck and small fruit. Everything 

 points to a big season 's business. 



Cadillac, Mich. — D. Kleinhans, of the 

 firm of Kleinhans & Mason, has sold his 

 interest to Henry^ S. Mason, of Ithaca, 

 Mich, father of the junior member of 

 the firm. R. A. Mason, associated with 

 his father, will continue the business 

 which has grown rapidly since it was 

 first established two years ago. The 

 new firm expects to enlarge the plant the 

 coming season and to otherwise make im- 

 provements. The firm name will be K. A. 

 Mason & Co. Mr. Kleinhans has located 

 in St. Louis, Mich., and is making prepa- 

 rations to erect about 4,000 square feet 

 of glass this year with necessary addi- 

 tions as the trade demands. He will< 

 grow a general stock. 



