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The Weefcly Florists' Review, 



Apbil 26, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Beca u s e of the new wag^e scak which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stofer 

 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 Wecmesday mora- 

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CONTENTS. 



The Great Disaster at San Francisco (illus.) 1633 



— A National Calamity 1633 



— Latest Hetnlls of Losses 1833 



— Quake Down the Coast 1634 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1636 



— Bays and Box 1636 



— Hydrangeas 1636 



— Aquatics 1636 



— The Best Nymphaeas 1637 



— Cosmos 1637 



— Bschscholzla 1637 



— Valley In Frames 1637 



— Cyclamens 1637 



An Easter Window (Illus.) 1838 



Roses 1638 



— Deterioration of Roses 1638 



— Rose Leaf Rollers 1638 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 1638 



The Amaryllis (Illus.) 1630 



Sweet Peas at Bound Brook (Illus.) 1639 



Notes from England 1640 



Chicago's Veteran (Illus.) 1640 



Vegetable Forcing 1640 



Newport Horticulture (Illus.) 1641 



Buffalo 1642 



Twin Cities 1642 



A Flower Booth (Illus.) 1642 



Philadelphia 1643 



Boston 1644 



Pittsburg 1644 



Chicago 1645 



New York 1647 



St. Louis 1649 



Want Advertisements 1652 



Seed Trade News 1663 



— Sympathy from London 1854 



— Now Comes the Test 1654 



— The Seedsmen of Frisco 1654 



— European Seed Notes 1655 



— Seed Crops in France 1655 



New Orleans 1656 



Steamer Sailings 1665 



Madison. N. J 1685 



The Bulldlnsr Boom 1666 



Pacific Coast— Victoria. B. C 1867 



— Portland, Ore 1887 



Nursery News 1668 



— Best Apples for Missouri 1668 



— Pioneer Nurserymen Gone 1888 



-^ Tennesseeans to Organize 1668 



Detroit 1670 



Toronto 1672 



Baltimore 1674 



Grand Rapids 1676 



Washington 1678 



Providence, -R. 1 1690 



Cincinnati 1691 



Denver 1692 



Columbus. Ohio 1694 



New Be^otd. Mass 1696 



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BOSTON. 



The Market 



As if in sympathy with the calamitous 

 disaster at San I^ancisco, the market 

 has gone to the bad with a vengeance 

 since Easter. Prices have tumbled all 

 around. Markets and commission houses 

 are overloaded with flowers and growers 

 in many cases have been very glad to ac- 

 cept almost anything in order to clear 

 out. The horse show last week, with its 

 attendant social activities, failed to ar- 

 rest the slump at all, which, while not 

 unexpected, is worse than we usually 

 nave right after Easter. The warm 

 weather brought flowers in with a rush 

 and there were altogether too many for 

 the market to digest. 



Eoses have come down with a thud. 

 Rose men are disinclined to express 

 their feelings on the subject. Beauties, 

 Brides, Maids, in fa'it, all varieties, have 

 been a drug and prices have been cut in 

 two. Carnations have varied from $1 to 

 $3 per hundred, but lower prices have 

 been accepted for a good many. Violets 

 are less of a factor than they were and 

 sell moderately well at an average of 

 50 cents. Singles are getting scarce, 

 but one or two growers still have a fair 

 supply of doubles. Sweet peas of good 

 quality sell well and are not abundant. 

 Bulbous stock, some of which is arriving 

 from outdoors, is hard to move and much 

 is wasted. Valley, callas, lilies, in fact, 

 all other flowers, have suffered in the 

 slump, which it is hoped may have seen 

 its lowest point for a while. 



A good number of nice rhododendrons, 

 azaleas, spiraeas and other pot plants 

 come in, but do not meet with much call 

 since Easter. 



Various Notes. 



William Sim picked over 200,000 single 

 violets for the Easter market and could 

 have sold more if he had had time to pick 

 them. He tried a good number of Gov- 

 ernor Herrick the past season. The only 

 fault he finds with it is a lack of fra- 

 grance. 



E. O. Orpet will address the Gardeners' 

 and Florists* Club on May 15 on "The 

 Making of a Gardener." Additions at 

 the meeting on April 17 lifted the club 

 membership to 319. 



F. R. Pierson Co. has appointed Peter 

 Murray, of Fairhaven, its New England 

 agent for Winsor carnation. This fine 

 variety will be distributed next season. 



Bay State Nurseries, Blue Hill Nur- 

 series, J. W. Manning and other local 

 nurserymen are experiencing the most 

 remarkable call for trees and shrubs in 

 their history. The call for evergreens is 

 unprecedented. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent has returned, via 

 Great Britain, from an extended tour in 

 Central and South America. He visited 

 several horticultural exhibitions in Eng- 

 land just prior to sailing and saw re- 

 markable displays of roses, orchids, nar- 

 cissi, amaryllis and other flowers. 



^e recent warm weather has tempted 

 some of the carnation men to plant out 

 their young stock. It is hoped that cut 

 worms will this season be less de- 

 structive. 



rnioj^ias Pegler continues to handle 

 quantitifes of excellent double violets at 

 the Park street market, grown by Oscar 

 L. Dorr, of East Foxboro. 



A. H. Hews & Co. report unprece- 

 dented business and are experiencing 

 very great diflBculty in trying to execute 

 the ever-incresising volume of business. 



Thomas Roland reports an excellent 

 Easter trade in pink, white and blue 

 hydrangeas. Crimson and Pink Ramblers^ 

 hybrid roses, Mahemia odorata, Canter- 

 bury bells, azaleas, bougainvilleas, gen> 

 istas, acacias and lilacs. Prices were 

 ^ual to those made in 1905. 



W. W. Edgar did a record breaking 

 trade in azaleas, lilies, genistas, rambler 

 roses and other popular Easter plants. 



Anderson & Williams did a big Easter 

 business in Crimson Ramblers, of which 

 they had an especially finely grown lot. 



A school garden institute was held at 

 Horticultural hall on April 21 to help 

 teachers desiring to undertake school 

 gardening. There was a full line of 

 prominent speakers. W. N. Craig. 



PITTSBUBG. 



The Market. 



A week's splendid weather haa forced 

 shrubbery and trees into bud and peaches 

 into bloom. Everything was quite 

 spring-like until Sunday, which wound 

 up with a storm and very heavy sleet al- 

 most large enough to be called hail. The 

 bright weather during the week brought 

 in flowers of all kinds, and especially the 

 belated lilies. Many of them will be lost 

 and none will bring the Easter price. 

 The wholesale houses were filled with 

 stock of all kinds and prices went tumb- 

 ling, especially on Beauties, carnations 

 and lilies. 



The retailers, while they are nearly 

 all boasting about their wonderful Eas- 

 ter business, are now not rushed except 

 where there are some large decorations. 



Various Notes. 



David Geddis, of Homestead, donated 

 1,000 Lawson carnations for the benefit 

 of the San Francisco fund. These were 

 handled by a couple of the ministers of 

 the town, who had a table in his store 

 and realized about $75 on the stock. 



Ernest Zieger, manager of C. T. Sie- 

 bert's east end store, had a number of 

 large decorations the past week. 



Will Fitzsimmons is now with Mrs. 

 E. A. Williams, starting just before Eas- 

 ter, and he says he is either a mascot or 

 else got in . wrong, as they have never 

 had a rest since he started and most of 

 it night and day. They are loaded with 

 decorations. 



The H. C. Frick greenhouses have been 

 open to the public since before Easter 

 and have been well patronized, espe- 

 cially on Sundays. This has now become 

 a regular Easter feature and people look 

 forward to it. Hoo-Hoo. 



FERTILIZER FOR ASTERS. 



In reply to William Scott's request 

 that we state in the Review the fer- 

 tilizer we have used with such good suc- 

 cess in growing asters,, we would say 

 that we have used barnyard manure to 

 as large an extent as it has been pos- 

 sible to obtain it, but our main depend- 

 ence has been upon commercial fertil- 

 izers, of which we use from 500 to 700 

 pounds per acre, applied with a grain 

 drill before setting the plants. We use 

 a brand known as ** 5-8-7." Translated 

 into plain English this means that the 

 fertilizer contains five parts ammonia, 

 eight parts phosphoric acid and seven 

 parts potash. It has given us very good 

 results. White Bilos. 



The Review is the florists' best pa- 

 per. — L. J. Brosemer, Oswego, N. Y. 



