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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 10, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stmer 

 interruption of their budness, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 it is of first importance tfiat the Review 

 obtain its advertising **copy^ earlier. 



It is therefore earnestly requested 

 tliat 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 1777 



— Lily of the Valley Shower (lUus.) 1777 



— Ideas Valuable 1777 



— Value of Neatness 1777 



Decoration Day 1777 



Chrysanthemums — Planting Young Stuck... 1778 



— Straight Stems 1778 



Kraupp's Greenhouses (iUus.) 1779 



Greenhouse Building 177J) 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 178o 



American Carnation Society 1780 



The Jasmine Industry (lllus.) 1781 



Piping 1781 



The Building Boom 1782 



Making a Start 1782 



Quick Action Wins (lllus.) 1783 



Vegetable Forcing — Cucumbers 1783 



Roses — Best Forcing Roses 1784 



— Propagating Ramblers 1784 



Arsenic for Fumigating 1784 



The Ideal Employer 1784 



The Youngest Wholesaler (portrait) 1785 



Society of American Florists 1786 



FiipdRatlng 1786 



Hshd's Fumigator 1786 



Chicago 1787 



St. Louis 1788 



Twin Cities 1790 



Northern Texas 1790 



Cleveland 1791 



Philadelphia 1791 



New York 1793 



Boston 1795 



Want AdvertlsementK 1797 



Notes from England 1798 



The Coal Strike 1798 



Seed Trade News 1799 



— The Last Ditch 1799 



— Free Seeds 1799 



— Who's Who ? 1800 



— Monumental 1800 



— California Seed Crops 1800 



— Seed Imports 1801 



— European Seed Notes 1801 



Bone Meal and Lime 1802 



Steamer Sailings 1809 



Pacific Coast— The Frisco Pictures (lllus.). 1810 



— San Francisco 1810 



— Portland. Ore 1811 



Nursery News — The Dallas Meeting 1812 



— Tennessee Nurserymen Meet 1812 



— Mistaken Identity 1812 



Milwaukee 1814 



Pittsburg 1816 



Denver 1818 



Washington 1820 



Columbus. Ohio 1822 



Cincinnati 1824 



Baltimore 18.36 



Detroit 18.38 



Toledo, Ohio 1840 



Advertising Rates 1842 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 

 Pa., submits for registration H. P. rose, 

 Charles Wagner; habit, vigorous; color, 

 bright red, closely approaching scarlet; 

 flowers large and double, and of ex- 

 cellent substance; fragrant, profuse 

 bloomer ; the foliage is large, dark green 

 and thick. It is entirely hardy. 



Duncan Finlayson, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass., submits for registration Dendro- 

 biura nobile, Mrs. Larz Anderson. Flow- 

 ers nearly four inches across; extra line 

 form; sepals and petals pure white, the 

 extreme apex of each being slightly col- 

 ored with pale amethyst; labellum pure 

 white; disc of darkest maroon purple. 

 Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



REVIEW ADVS. MOVE STOCK 

 QUICK. 



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 the Review. If it contains items on 

 which you are sold out, or nearly sold 

 out, write to have these cut out of the 

 advertisement. Don't put it off. Do it 

 in time to catch the next issue. It 

 does you harm, it does everybody harm, 

 to disappoint a man who orders from 

 your advertisement. 



A great many advertisements in the 

 Review are ordered to run "until I tell 

 you to stop." Don't fail to tell us to 

 stop the minute the advertisement has 

 done its work. If an advertisement has 

 been ordered for three insertions, and 

 two issues have done the work, don't 

 fail to head off the third one. It will 

 save letter-writing as well as disappoint- 

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The Review goes oniy to live people; 

 not a dead name on our subscription 

 list. Seasonable stock at right prices 

 sells quickly if advertised in the Review. 

 With the advertisers' help, we will carry 

 no dead offers. 



FUMIGATING. 



Cleanliness not only is next to godli- 

 ness, but it is the next thing to insuring a 

 good crop and a profitable business. Bas- 

 sett & Washburn, at Hinsdale, 111., are 



Enclosed find check to cover my 

 indebtedness to 



m 



also five advertisements for the Class- 

 ified Department, which is ori^nal 

 w^ith you and alw^ays g^ives 

 good results. 



J. A. McDowell. 



City of Mexico, 

 May 1, 1906. 



cleanly, but not so clean as they would 

 like to be; also they would like cleanli- 

 ness to be a little cheaper. It was through 

 the experiments at Bassett & Washburn's 

 that the now quite common practice was 

 perfected, of spraying greenfly and thrip 

 with the dilute solution of nicotine. This 

 was found very effective under certain 

 conditions but a very fine mist is neces- 

 sary and it means much work to fill'a big 

 house with the spray; also it takes quite 

 some nicotine, which wouldn't be cheap 

 if it wasn't strong. 



Experiments with hjydroeyanio acad 

 gas the past winter have confirmed the 

 results obtained by the Department of 

 Agriculture. It has been found that 

 the gas was effective against greenfly 

 but not against thrip. Furthermore, it 

 was found that if the gas was strong 

 enough to incommode the insects it was 

 likely to burn the edges of the rose 

 leaves. Besides, the gas is not the safest 



thing in the world for people to fool 

 with. 



The newest way of fumigating for 

 thrip, which always makes its appear- 

 ance in large numbers around Chicago 

 every spring, and is just now on in full 

 force, is to vaporize To-bak-ine liquid. 

 There are half a dozen ways this may 

 be done, but their way is very good. 

 Small alcohol lamps are used under little 

 tin pans, each containing two ounces of 

 nicotine. The first time it was tried 

 each lamp set fire to the extract in the 

 pan and some harm was done; the lamps 

 had been turned too high. 



It was found that two ounces of wood 

 alcohol in their style of lamp would just 

 evaporate one ounce of To-bak-ine. It 

 keeps up the fumigation several hours. 

 The smoke is very effective but it re- 

 mains to determine how many lamps are 

 needed tot each house; it varies, of 

 course, with the size and tightness of the 

 structure. 



This method has one decided advan- 

 tage in that it is safe. No harm can 

 come to the operatives unless they im- 

 bibe the wood alcohol. But Hinsdale is 

 a prohibition town; however^ Bassett 

 & Washburn's growers are exemplary 

 young men whose inclination is for the 

 quiet pleasures of the reading room at 

 the Y. M. C. A. rather than toward the 

 bacchanalian joys of the sightless porker. 



HANiyS FUMIGATOR. 



Robert Hand, one of the growers for 

 the Poehlmann Bros. Co., has been 

 granted a patent upon a process of fumi- 

 gation invented by him while he was lo- 

 cated at Cleveland in 1904. It consists 

 of an apparatus for vaporizing nicotine 

 by dropping it in dilute form into a dis- 

 charge pipe containing superheated 

 steam, by means of which the vapor is 

 carried into the greenhouse. The in- 

 ventor states that he has found that no 

 success will be obtained if saturated 

 steam is used, but that results are ex- 

 ceedingly satisfactory if superheated 

 steam is used. The important feature, 

 therefore, is the superheater and the 

 means provided for exposing to the 

 stream a thin layer of the solution to be 

 vaporized. The practical operation of 

 the apparatus will be watched with in- 

 terest. 



ASPARAGUS. 



I send a piece of asparagus different 

 from any other I have. Will you kindly 

 state its namef It came in with a ship- 

 ment? of other varieties. E. T. 



The asparagus in question was very 

 dry when received, and had lost much of 

 its foliage in consequence, but so far 

 as may be judged from a specimen in 

 that condition, it appears to be simply 

 a seedling variation of Asparagus plu- 

 mosus. Numerous variations of this spe- 

 cies have appeared from time to time, 

 and without seeing' a fully developed 

 plant it would be impossible to say 

 whether this variety possesses especial 

 merit. W. H. Taplin. 



Kinsman, 0. — ^Albert Mathews lost 

 about 700 feet of glass by hail May 4; 

 insured. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Walter Berming- 

 ham, who has charge of Sam Murray's 

 greenhouses, says that spring trade 

 started very strong, there being a big 

 demand for bedding stock before the 

 end of April. Everything promises to 

 be cleaned up in good season. 



