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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



May 17, 1906. 



NOTICE 



Because of the new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stnfer 

 interruption of their businesst especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 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 We<mesday mom- 

 'ng, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Klorist (illus. ) 1853 



— 'I'Ue Decorator's Tool Kit IS53 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1853 



— IJasket of Cliatenay (illus.) 1853 



— flowers Polluting Water 1853 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1854 



— Autlrrliinuuis 1854 



— Marguerite Queen Alexandra 1854 



— Cape Jasmine 1834 



— Uardenias Under Glass 1854 



— Kasy I'lants to Grow 1854 



— As It Is Done at Frisco 1854 



— For Crowded I'lants 1855 



— A Simple Frame 1855 



— Queen Charlotte Cieraniuni 1855 



Notes from Fngland 1855 



•Carnations — To Stand Poor Treatment 1850 



— Ited Spider 185B 



A Good Spiraea i85a 



£brysantliemnnis — Single Stem I'ot Mums.. 1850 



Cinerarias (illus.) ±857 



The Dahlias 1857 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets.... 1858 



— A Davis House (illus.) 1858 



— Kest Strawberries 1858 



— Strawberry Forcing 1858 



Society of American Florists 1859 



Men of Uibbuns (portrait ) 1859 



Making a Start 1859 



Jloses — Roses Not Flowering 1860 



— Soil for Uoses and ("arnatiims 1860 



A. H. Knowles (portrait » 1861 



New York 1861 



Philadelphia 1803 



Buffalo 1864 



The Beauty of Order 1864 



Chicago 1860 



Cincinnati 1868 



Cleveland 1809 



Boston 1809 



Dayton, tthlo 1870 



St. I.K)uIs 1870 



Seed Trade Notes 1873 



— A Kit of Cleveland History (illus.) 1873 



— C. K. Kendel (portrait* 1873 



— European Seed Notes 1874 



— Seedsmen Hefore the Senate 1874 



— A Corner in Palm Seeds 1875 



Twin Cities 1878 



Steamer Sailings 1885 



Southern Florists— Attention 1880 



Pacific Coast— Harrisil in California ISSO 



— San Francisco 1.886 



Nursery News 1888 



— Albertson's Activities 1888 



Ro<k Island. Ill 1890 



Northern Texas 1892 



Detroit 1894 



Red Deer. Alberta 1896 



Pittsburg 1910 



Madison. N. .1 1912 



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"A New Beginner" should sign his 

 inquiry; we then would take pleasure in 

 answering it. 



St. Peter, Minn. — William Nicol, who 

 for fourteen years has been florist at the 

 Btate hospital, has resigned and will go 

 into business for himself at Watertown. 



Here is my renewal; flon't skip any. 

 I would not lose a single copy for the 

 price of a whole year's subscription. — 

 Wm. W. Marugg, Pomona Nurseries, 

 North Pomona, Cal. 



Ashtabula, O. — W. H. Hubbard and 

 W. H. Butler, of Sandusky; Judge Car- 

 los M. Stone, of Cleveland, and J. H. 

 Bice, J. L. Smith and Thomas Flicker, 

 of this city, have organized the Ashta- 

 bula Greenhouse Co., with a capital of 

 $50,000. They will build one of the 

 largest plants in the state. 



BUFFALO. 



State of Trade. 



A week ago most indoor flowers were 

 going a-begging, but a week of cold, 

 dull weather has entirely altered this 

 state of affairs and both roses and car- 

 nations are in demand. It is quite no- 

 ticeable that when these popular flowers 

 are in over-supply the rose suffers most. 

 Carnations are now of such superlative 

 quality that they do not drop to any 

 such price as the poor little limp- 

 stemmed things of five years ago gen- 

 erally did in tne month of May. 



It sounds strange to read of cities as 

 far north as we are being busy at flower 

 gardening. We don 't begin jn earnest 

 until the last few days of May, and 

 most of it is done the first two weeks of 

 June. 



The market is our only relief for 

 crowded houses just now. Some firms, 

 like C. F. Christensen, Schwerdt & 

 Berner and the Pine Kidge florists, de- 

 pend largely on the market and what we 

 call peddlers, and a very good business 

 it is when an old Polish woman drives up 

 to your greenhouse door and you load 

 her up with 200 geraniums and she hands 

 you $18. You have done business, and 

 T think with more profit than putting 

 them in a vase or veranda box and send- 

 ing your bill three times by mail, and 

 at the seventh call of a collector you get 

 the amount. Yes, the peddlers are all 

 right. 



There never has been as much reno- 

 vating and fixing up of lawns as there 

 ha.s been this spring. Many florists do 

 considerable of this work. Louis H. 

 Neubeck, S. A. Anderson and Wm. Scott 

 Co. pick up half a dozen extra hands 

 and do a little landscaping. A more 

 suitable word would be landscraping. 

 George McClure has done a lot of this 

 work this spring. He does excellent 

 work and charges a good price. 



We have one firm in Buffalo that is 

 well worth calling landscape architects; 

 it is Fleming & Townsend. They are 

 fast attaining a national reputation and 

 have contracts in many widely scattered 

 parts of the country. A dozen years 

 more and our country will be as thickly 

 studded with rural homes and finely em- 

 bellished estates as is western Europe. 



Various Notes. 



There is not much local news and not 

 many visitors of late. President Kast- 

 ing is again blessed, this time with a 

 sweet little cherub of seven pounds of 

 the female sex. Dear little angel! I 

 know that she will be a great joy to 

 Billy and it will be good news to papa's 

 many friends that mother and babe are 

 progressing most favorably. 



While on society events it is worth 

 mentioning that the engagement of Miss 

 Helen C. A. Scott to John Mclntyre 

 Grattan was announced last week. This 

 young man for long was known to the 

 Old Man as Number 13. 



Mr. Keynolds, of the Scott Floral Co., 

 Denver, gave us a visit last week, and 

 very glad we were to see him. Being a 

 very level-headed little gentleman, he 

 gave us a true account of conditions and 

 circumstances connected with floricul- 

 ture in the Rockies. Mr. Reynolds is 

 just the character I would pick out to 

 put the brakes on the senior member of 

 the firm. He spoke of the great suc- 

 cess of Ben Boldt, our old Buffalo boy, 

 the great carnations grown by Mr. Ben- 

 son and the fine general stock grown by 



the Park Floral Co, at its big plant. 

 Mr. Lautensch lager was a caller in the 

 interest of Kroeschell Bros. Co., of Chi- 

 cago. Most things since historical times 

 have migrated westward, but the Kroes- 

 chell boiler seems to be moving east as 

 well as west. W. S. 



THE BEAUTY OF ORDER. 



A neat little story on the value of 

 tidiness appeared in the last issue of 

 the Review. A few days before, I was 

 inspired to write something on the same 

 line, and began it, but it evaporated. 

 We have some very wise maxims handed 

 down to us by tradition, viz., that 

 * * Cleanliness is next to godliness, ' ' and 

 further that ' ' Order is Heaven 's first 

 law." The first is attriouted to a king 

 of Assyria, who lived on the banks of 

 the Euphrates, where water was cheap. 

 The order business was dictated by the 

 glorious old King iJavid, of Jerusalem, 

 who had seventeen wives and saw the 

 necessity of keeping order. Seventeen 

 was not so many, but David issued this 

 motto for the benefit of liis boy, Solo- 

 mon, who went his dad 983 better. 

 Birthdays and Christmases must have 

 been dreaded events in those days. 



It is proverbial that those who keep 

 orderly establishments, not only in our 

 line, but in all where merchandise is 

 handled, are the men who are most suc- 

 cessful. 



We notice young men who are wonder- 

 fully neat in their clothes. Their pants 

 must be pressed at least every two 

 weeks and they are as fastidious over 

 their tailoring as an Astorbilt would be, 

 yet these same young men will pass and 

 repass dead plants and unsightly rub- 

 bish without notice. 



Order in a greenhouse is an absolute 

 necessity, but it is not so often violated 

 as in the immediate surroundings. The 

 smaller your place, the greater the need 

 of order. There is a wise saying that 

 there is no such thing as dirt. What 

 is called dirt is matter out of place. 



Every florist has more or less of a 

 dump, where the^ulb boxes are emptied, 

 or where plants that have passed their 

 usefulness are thrown. This is not use- 

 less dirt, for if kept separate it can 

 always be used, but when it is mixed 

 wuth broken glass and pots and other 

 ingredients it is truly dirt. 



The excuse of want of time is no ex- 

 cuse and is the resort of an untidy man, 

 who is devoid of neatness and order. 

 There is nothing unsightly connected 

 with our business, and your backyard 

 should always bear inspection. A neap 

 of coal is very warming and comfortable 

 and a well built up mound of sod or 

 compost is actually beautiful to the eye 

 of a good gardener. 



Yes, Mr. Editor, this is a large sub- 

 ject and could be greatly elaborated, to 

 the benefit of many of your readers, but 

 neither time nor space is at my disposal. 

 It is not want of time nor help, my boy, 

 that makes your place slovenly and un- 

 tidy. It is your own carelessness and in- 

 difference, and as you realize that you 

 do not possess the phrenological bump 

 of order, strive to cultivate the faculty 

 of order, or, easier, suppress the vice 

 of disorder. W. S. 



Please renew my subscription to the 

 Review, the best trade paper in circula- 

 tion. — F. A. DoRMAN, Jamestown, N. Y. 



Here i< a dollar for the Review for 

 1906, the ideal paper for the trade. — 

 Michael Mandl, St. Paul, Minn. 



