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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 6, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stufer 

 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 morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist (lUus.) 1395 



— Easter Arrangements (Ulus.) 1395 



— The Plant Display 1395 



— Azaleas for Easter (lllus.) 1396 



Treatment for Azaleas 1396 



Violets — Close of the Season 1397 



The Coal Strike 1398 



Doubts Value of New Bill 1399 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1400 



— History of Easter 1400 



— Kespects to Constantlne 1400 



— What Matters It 1400 



— The Modern Easter 1400 



— State of Stock 1400 



— Need for Space 1400 



— Be Prepared 1401 



— The lletaller's Troubles 1401 



The Gladiolus 1401 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 1402 



— Carnation Notes — West 1402 



— Plants Need Feeding 1403 



— Snails In Carnations 1403 



Chrysanthemums — For Exhibition 1403 



Potting Shed Idyls— The Prodigal Keturns. 1404 



Philadelphia Spring Show 1405 



Fumigating — Hydrocyanic Acid Gas 1406 



With the Growers (lllus.) 1406 



— Budlong, Sons & Co., Providence 1406 



Society of American Florists 1407 



Vegetable Forcing 1407 



— Notes on Lettuce 1407 



— Tomatoes (illus.) 1408 



Pipe for Hot Water 1408 



Shading a Palm House 1408 



Boston Club Field Day 1409 



— W. W. Edgar's, Waverly (illus.) 1409 



— Peirce Bros.. Waltham (lllus.) 1409 



That Dayton Picture 1410 



Obituary — Thos. Devoy, Poughkeepsle. , 1411 



— Henry C. Riedel, Brooklyn 1411 



— Benjamin Love, Toledo 1411 



With the Advertising Man (lllus.) 1411 



Buffalo 1411 



Twin Cities .'.'.■■ ". [ 1412 



New York 1412 



Boston ]] 1414 



ProTldence, R. 1 1414 



St. Louis 1415 



Northern Texas 1415 



Rochester 1415 



Chicago 1416 



Philadelphia 1419 



Situations and Wants 1423 



Seed Trade News 1424 



— That Trade-Mark Bill 1424 



— California Seed Crops 1424 



— New Eschscholtzias 1424 



— Mr. Maule on Advertising 1426 



PrUetaker Onion 1428 



Notes from England 1432 



Waahlngton 1432 



Cleveland I434 



Pacific Coast 1444 



— Potted Plants in the Shop 1444 



— Portland, Ore 1444 



— San Ftancisco 1444 



DeuTer I445 



Nursery News 1446 



— School of Horticulture 1447 



— The Codling Moth I447 



Spraying With Acetylene 1448 



Pittsburg 1454 



Cincinnati 1456 



Indianapolis 1458 



Springfield, Mo 1460 



Detroit 1462 



Dayton, Ohio 1464 



Baltimore 1466 



W. P. Kasting writes, after the first 

 forms had gone to press, that the words 

 "somewhat heavier" after Cut Lilies in 

 bis advertisement of March 29, which 

 appears again this week, apply to the 

 kind of type he wanted the words 

 printed with and not to the lilies them- 

 selves. He says his supply of lilies this 

 year is more than "somewhat" heavier. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The market took a brace in the later 

 days of last week and by Saturday had 

 a quite vigorous tone. Monday opened 

 good, but hardly as strong as Saturday. 

 By Wednesday a glut had developed, 

 but there is a prospect of fair activity 

 between now and Easter. The shipping 

 business does not show much increase, 

 but local trade is more active since we 

 have had a return to pleasant weather. 



Roses had not stiffened in price to so 

 great a degree as other items in the mar- 

 ket. There are no very heavy supplies of 

 Beauties, but an abundance of other 

 roses. The cold weather and a few days 

 of bright sun .have served to give the 

 roses a quality unusual at this season. 

 All the stock is crisp and firm and trav- 

 els well. The average quality of most 

 growers' cuts is exceptionally good. The 

 spring crops of Liberty appear to be 

 coming on, Chatenay is also more in evi- 

 dence than in the past few weeks. Uncle 

 John is especially good. Some early crops 

 of Kaiserin are at hand. 



The spring crop of carnations is on 

 and the quality is exceptionally good in 

 all varieties. The weather has been ideal 

 for the production of first grade carna- 

 tions. On Friday and Saturday the mar- 

 ket advanced sharply with a slight in- 

 crease in the demand, because the grow- 

 ers are already beginning the process of 

 accumulating the supply for Easter. 

 There continue to be receipts of Lawson 

 almost, if not quite, equal to the com- 

 bined receipts of other varieties. En- 

 chantress is not quite so plentiful as it 

 was a while ago. 



Saturday the violet market had unex- 

 pected strength. At the beginning of last 

 week it was almost impossible to get rid 

 of the violets at any price, but by Satur- 

 day they were first-class property. The 

 receipts are somewhat lighter than usual 

 and the demand heavier. The local sin- 

 gles are about done for. The miscellan- 

 eous items, including Easter lilies, callas 

 and all varieties of bulbous stock, are in 

 lighter supply than heretofore, as the 

 growers are holding them for Easter 

 wherever possible. Some very fine sweet 

 peas are now seen. 



Smilax is quite scarce and the advance 

 in price has had a tendency to turn the 

 demand toward asparagus. There is an 

 abundance of all other greens, including 

 common ferns, which usually begin to 

 grow scarcer at this season. 



The Easter Prospect. 



Without exception the wholesalers are 

 counting on the largest Easter demand 

 in history. The volume of business is 

 steadily increasing in this market and a 

 great many early inquiries have been re- 

 ceived for very large quantities of stock. 

 The prospect is that there will be an 

 abundance of Easter lilies but that quite 

 a proportion of them will be of indiffer- 

 ent quality. On roses there are varying 

 reports.' A few growers state that they 

 will be at the height of their crops but 

 others report crops going off. The carna- 

 tion plants seem at their prime, with ev- 

 ery prospect of large supplies. But the 

 carnation is now the most popular flower 

 and there will be no surplus. Reports 

 from Rhinebeck are to the effect that 

 there will be violets to burn, and doubt- 

 less some will deserve no better fate, but 

 the good ones will all sell at a first-class 

 price. The storing-up process is appar- 

 ently in progress all along the line. 



Easter Plants. 



There are more plants ready for Easter 

 than in any previous year. The single 

 exception to this may be tulips, hyacinths 

 and daffodils. While there are consider- 

 able quantities of these, they are no more 

 plentiful than last year. Lilies which are 

 too short to sell well cut are plentiful. 

 There are many azaleas; good ones, but 

 quite a few are earlier than they should 

 be. Some fine hydrangeas are offered, 

 also Crimson Rambler, Baby Rambler and 

 hybrid roses. These are the staples and 

 the novelties are few and far between. 



Various Notes. 



Wm. CoUatz, of Maywood, has bought 

 the material for another house 15x200 

 for carnations. 



Frank Schramm, of Arlington Heights, 

 went fishing early Monday morning and 

 with his day's consignment to Kenni- 

 cot's sent E. E. Pieser a nine-pound 

 pickerel still living. 



On Monday the Chicago Rose Co. re- 

 ceived a car load of box trees. 



J. A. Budlong has been cutting stead- 

 ily of Brides and Maids all season. If 

 anything, the crop is now on the in- 

 crease. 



L. Coatsworth has gone to New Castle 

 to begin work on the new greenhouses. 

 They are having a splendid cut of very 

 fine quality and the demand makes them 

 anxious to get their new houses up and 

 planted in season for an early crop next 

 fall. 



J. B. Deamud Co. is handling some 

 hydrangeas that are remarkable for the 

 size of the trusses of flowers. They also 

 have some good stock in other lines. 



Zech & Mann say that they expect their 

 Easter crops of carnations of the varie- 

 ties producing the ordinary grades to 1)6 

 something entirely unprecedented. 



Wieland & Risch report that the de- 

 mand for plants of Killarney has been so 

 great that they have let go of small lots 

 of stock until they now have only enough 

 for planting six of their new houses. 

 They had intended to give all of them to 

 this variety. 



Last Saturday O. P. Bassett celebrated 

 his seventy-first birthday anniversary. 



George Reinberg's Christmas specialty 

 was American Beauty, his Easter special- 

 ty is American Beauty and his Decora- 

 tion day specialty will be American 

 Beauty. 



Bassett & Washburn are well pleased 

 with their lilies from bulbs grown in the 

 Azores islands. 



Easter chicks and ducklings are report- 

 ed by C. W. McKellar as selling well in 

 spite of the fact that this line, like paper 

 Christmas bells, encounters department 

 store competition. 



Isadore Goldstein, an aged florist, 

 some years retired, was down town March 

 28 when his memory failed. The police 

 returned him to his home on the west 

 side. 



At E. H. Hunt's the force in the sup- 

 ply department is repeating the Christ- 

 mas "stunt," shipping birch bark ware, 

 twig goods and other Easter specialties. 



Lubliner & Trinz say business at their 

 Randolph street store is two or three 

 times as heavy as a year ago at this 

 time. 



Last year at Easter ferns were worth 

 fifty per cent more than they will be a 

 week hence. 



Several of the commission houses are 

 handling pot plants for Easter. Vaughan 

 & Sperry are showing samples of pot 

 roses in nice shape, well flowered hy- 

 drangeas, etc. 



