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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 15, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to suffer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitivct 

 it is of first importance that the Review 

 obtain its advertising ^'copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 that all advertisers mail their ''copy^ 

 to reach us by Monday or Tuesday 

 morning, instead of Wednesday mom- 

 *ng, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



Carnations — Personal Opinions 1127 



— Victory's Longest Journey 1128 



Chicago Club Doings (lllus.) 1128 



Society of American Florists 1129 



— Meeting of Board of Directors 1129 



— National Flower Show 1129 



— Outdoor Trade Exhibition 1130 



The Retail Florist (illus.) 1130 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1130 



— A Wilcox Work (lllus.) 1130 



Roses — Mulching 1130 



— Carrying Over iTory Roses 1131 



— The Garden Roses 1131 



The Coal Strike 1132 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1132 



— A Chapter on Orchids 1132 



— Shifting the Cattleyas 1132 



— Coelogyne Crlstata 1132 



— Stage of Easter Stock 1132 



Profitable Publicity (lllus.) 1133 



Greenhouse Heating — Natural Guf 1133 



— Natural Gas Versns Coal 1133 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Miirkets 1134 



— Planting Tomatoes 1134 



— Mushrooms Under Glass 1134 



Destruction of Ants' Nests 1134 



Death of F. Boulon (portrait) 1134 



Chicago Premium List 1134 



With the Growers — Jensen & DL-keum, Chi- 

 cago (lllus.) 1135 



Boston Ferns 1135 



Value of Slaked Lime 1135 



The Readers' Corner — About Price Ctitliii!;. 1136 



Galax Leaves 1136 



New York 1136 



Illinois Florists' Convention 1137 



— President J. F. Ammnnii i piirtrait i 1137 



Detroit 1138 



Chicago 1139 



St. Louis 1140 



Plttsburji; 1141 



Cleveland 1142 



Philadelphia 1144 



Cincinnati 1145 



Kansas City 1146 



Washington 1147 



Boston 1148 



Want Advertiseni' Ills 1150 



Seed Trade News- I'p to the (Jraiisers 1151 



— Seed Notes from ICnuliin'l 1152 



— Adaptation to l-oiiiliiy 1152 



Notes from Englan'l 1154 



Berlin. Ont 1163 



Twin Cities 1164 



Pacific Coast — Exifiiniimtinir (ireenfly 1164 



— Mums with Carniitions 1164 



— San Francisco 1165 



Nursery News 1166 



— Peter Blsset (portnilt i 1166 



— To Control the Sci'lc 1168 



— Free Nursery Stock 1168 



Hartford, Conn 1 168 



Milwaukee 1170 



Tarrytown, N. Y 1172 



Toronto 1174 



Columbus, Ohio 1176 



San Angelo, Tex 1178 



Northern Texas 1190 



Hnntington. N. Y 1102 



Advertising Rates 1194 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Detroit is having winter at last. More 

 snow has fallen the past two weeks than 

 since last November, about five inches. 



Funeral work! funeral work! That is 

 is the general cry among the retailers. 

 Never have the daily papers reported 

 so many deaths as in the last few 

 months. This is really a sad state of 

 aflPairs, but as it is the florists' bread 

 and butter, we must * ' grin and bear it. ' ' 



The market prices remain about t]ie 

 same as in the past few weeks. 



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ror Easter, 1906 



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Variottt Notei. 



Miami avenue is fast becoming the 

 ideal florists' street. The high rent of 

 property on Woodward avenue is tend- 

 ing to drive such firms as florists, hair 

 dressers, milliners, etc., into the side 

 streets. A magnificent new arcade build- 

 ing will soon be erected on Miami ave- 

 nue. As it will be devoted entirely to 

 the sale and manufacture of goods for 

 Avomen's wear and kindred industries, it 

 will draw just the people the florists 

 want. 



Since the annexation of the vmage 

 of Woodmere to Detroit, several impor- 

 tant events have taken place, among 

 them the incorporation of the Woodmere 

 Floral Co., with Charles Warncke, Jr., 

 as manager. About $o,000 has been in- 

 vested in several new houses and show 

 house, all iron framework and cypress 

 oars, located at 228, 230 and 232 Wood- 

 mere avenue. Hot-water under pressure 

 is used for heating. 



The Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 has just received about a car-load k.^ 

 sphagnum moss. 



Club Meeting:. 



At the regular meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club, held March 7, about thirty- 

 five per cent of the boys turned out to 

 hear what Jas. Taylor had to say about 

 hot-water heating with a forced cir- 

 culation. Having looked into this meth- 

 od thoroughly, Mr. Taylor is one of its 

 strongest advocates. 



In the discussion which followed, it 

 was shown that the piping could be ar- 

 ranged so that in case of a breakdown 

 of the circulating pump, or in mild 

 weather, the heating could be done on 



the gravity system by simply sending the 

 water through a by-pass. 



The question box was next pressed 

 into service. In answer to a question 

 on the best coal, Pocahontas in lump or 

 egg size was thought the best. The 

 prices of coal were compared and it was 

 shown that the price varied a great deal 

 at different dealers, some consumers pay- 

 ing twenty-five per cent more than 

 others for the same coal. 



A letter, addressed to the club, from 

 Mr. Wittbold, of Chicago, relative to 

 his new mechanical watering device, was 

 next read by our secretary. We are in 

 hopes that Mr. Wittbold will make a 

 practical demonstration in Detroit one 

 of these days. ' 



A committee, previously appointed, to 

 arrange for a meeting of the growers, 

 was disbanded, as it was found impossi- 

 ble to get the growers together. 



Harry van Koolbergen, of Holland, 

 being present, was called upon for a 

 few words. 



One flower of a new seedling carna- 

 tion was shovra by J. K. Stock. It is of 

 a pleasing pink shade, somewhat deeper 

 than Lawson, large flower, fringed edge 

 and fairly strong stem. 



The combined efforts of B. Schroeter 

 and Hugo Schroeter are to be put into 

 an essay on "Seasonable Preparations 

 for Eaater Trade," to be read before 

 the club at its next meeting, March 21. 



After the meeting was adjourned most 

 of the boys partook of refreshments, 

 the occasion being Albert Bemb's birth- 

 day. H. S. 



Chetopa, Kan. — Henry Born is to 

 close up and go away. 



