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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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NOTICE 



Bec&tne of &t new wage scale which 

 the Printers' Union has enforced upon 

 those employers not willing to stnfer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 beca u s e of that part of the scale which 

 makes overtime practically prohibitive, 

 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 Wewiesday morn- 

 ing, as many have done in the past. 



Contributors also please take heed. 



CONTENTS. 



Cbrysautbeniums — Seasonable Suggestions. . .1047 



— Wblte Ants 1047 



New Asparaguses 1047 



Mlscellaueuus Seasonable Hints 1.047 



— Cyclamen 1047 



— Hardy Perennials 1047 



— Peonies 1048 



— Kouan Hyacinths 104A 



— Freesias 1048 



Tbe Kuss Place (illus.) 1048 



Tulips for Forcing 1048 



Gudes' Western Trip 1049 



Carnations— Fall Treatment 1060 



— Late Planting lOfiO 



— Time for Glazing 1050 



Roses — Requirements of Uoses lj[)60 



The Poeblmann Brothers (portraits) lo52 



Tbe Poeblmann Foremen (imrtraits) 1053 



Fadeless Moss 1053 



IntlueiKe of Acetylene on Plants (illus.)... 1054 



Vegetable Forcing — House for Cucumbers.. 1056 



Paper White Narcissus 1057 



New Yorl£ 1057 



Pittsburg 105S 



Curries' Ball Team (portraits) 1069 



Obituary — George W. Pat'ten 1000 



— C. L. Hartshorn « 1000 



— James Warburton 1060 



Chicago 1060 



St. r^uis 1062 



Detroit 1063 



Cincinnati 1064 



Philadelphia 1066 



Boston 1067 



New Orleans loTO 



Want Advertisements 1070 



Seed Trade News 1072 



— Connecticut Seed Crops 1072 



— Nebraslca Seed Crops 1072 



— Quits Chicago Board 1073 



— European Seed Notes 1078 



— Grass Seed Report 1074 



— Dutch Bulbs 1076 



— Seedsmen at S. A. F. Convention 1<»76 



Indianapolis 1078 



Orange, N. J 1078 



Steamer Sailings 1086 



Blatchfords Fertilizers T 1086 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 1080 



— San Francisco 1086 



— Care of Specimen Plants 10S7 



Nursery News 1088 



— Methids of Growing 1088 



— Olvlahoma Certificates 1069 



Kansas City 1094 



Milwaukee 1096 



New Castle, Ind IDOR 



Baltimore 1107 



Greenhouse Heating — Gravity System 1108 



— Veitetahle House UOS 



— Board Partitions 1108 



— Two Long Houses 1109 



— Vents and Steam Traps 1109 



— Piping for Small House 1110 



— Heating One House 1110 



— Additional Radiation ' 1110 



— Boiler Capacity 1111 



Toronto 1112 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Asparagus Myriocladus. 



In the last issue of the Review E. L. 

 K. asks, "Can Asparagus myriocladus 

 be propagated by cuttings?" Dreer de- 

 scribes it as an " aristocratic Sprengeri, ' ' 

 from which it is to be inferred that 

 propagation would be by seed or division. 

 Asparagus tenuissimus is readily propa- 

 gated by cuttings in August or later in 

 a bottom heat of 90 degrees. Myrio- 

 cladus (presumably many-branched or 

 many branches) is a handsome decora- 

 tive subject. T. F. B. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The E. G. Hill Co. offers a prize of 

 $15 for the best twenty-five blooms of 

 Chrysanthemum Mary Mann, and $10 

 for the best fifteen blooms of any intro- 

 duction of 1906. 



. ;. David Eraser, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



George W. Patten. 



George W. Patten, who for over thirty 

 years had been engaged in the florist 

 business in Lowell, Maas., died Saturday 

 afternoon, September 1, in Dracut. He 

 was 53 years of age. Mr. Patten's 

 wife was in New York at the time of 

 his death, arid waa immediately sum- 

 moned. He leaves besides his wife, a 

 son Percy, at present in the west. Mr". 

 Patten was a member of the Lowell 

 lodge of Odd Fellows and was prominent 

 in the local society of Elks, and in 1900 

 and 1901 was elected exalted ruler. In 

 1902 he was appointed district deputy 

 for Massachusetts by the grand exalted 

 ruler of the United States. 



C L. Hartshorn. 



Calvin L. Hartshorn, one of the best 

 known market gardeners in New Eng- 

 land, died at Worcester, Mass., Septem- 

 ber 4, aged 73 years. He was bom in 

 Worcester and had always lived there. 

 He had served in the Worcester city 

 council, on the school committee and 

 once was a candidate for mayor. He 

 served in the legislature from Worcester 

 in 1879 and 1880, and was at various 

 times members of the state board of 

 agriculture, of the state dairy bureau, 

 and director of the state experiment sta- 

 tion at Amherst. 



James Warburton. 



James Warburton, the oldest florist 

 of Fall Eiver, Mass., was found dead 

 in his home on New Boston road, Sep- 

 tember 4, from asphyxiation. A few 

 days ago Mr. Warburton fell and 

 bruised himself. Dr. Bichard J. Thomp- 

 son, who attended him, called at the 

 house but was not able to get in. Find- 

 ing all doors closed and locked and gain- 

 ing no response to his knock, his suspi- 

 cions vere aroused and he forced an 

 entrance into the house by breaking a 

 window. A rush of gas escaped through 

 the opening. In the bedroom the physi- 

 cian saw Warburton 's body. 



Mr. Warburton lived alone in a small 

 house on New Boston road. About three 

 years ago he went to England, intending 

 to pass his remaining days there. While 

 there he married. His intention of re- 

 maining in England was given up after 

 about a year 'and he and his wife re- 

 turned to Fall iviver, where they lived 

 together until the first of the year, when 

 the couple separated. 



North Middletown, Ky. — A new car- 

 nation house will be built this fall at 

 the Dettwiller Plant Gardens. 



Pekin, III. — John Bloompot has in- 

 stalled a new Handbury heater in his 

 houses. He has an up-to-date establish- 

 ment, and is improving it all the time. 



FoET Recovery, O. — George Popp, Jr., 

 reports that fall trade is good in the 

 bulb line. He expects to do a large 

 volume of business during the next few 

 weeks in hardy plants, carnations, 

 pansies and other kinds of stock. 



CHICACa 



The Great Central Market ' 



Trade is not yet anything to brag of, 

 but conditions have noticeably improved 

 since the first of the month, and the de- 

 mand is certainly up to what it was last 

 season at this date; indeed, many of the 

 wholesalers report a volume of business 

 considerably in advance of last year, 

 doubtless due to the fact that supplies 

 of stock are rather better in quality 

 and considerably larger in quantity than 

 usual at this season. 



It is especially noteworthy that every 

 buyer wants Beauties. Cuts are of good 

 size, and the quality of stock is excel- 

 lent, considering that we have bad an 

 exceptionally warm summer, it having 

 been 88 degrees in the shade on Sdeptem- 

 ber 10, and almost as warm for several 

 days. A good proportion of the cut 

 is long-stemmed, and the medium lengths 

 are, as always, hardest to supply. 



Several growers who carry Brides and 

 Maids for more than one year are get- 

 ting a good quality of flowers with long 

 stems from plants which were dried off 

 early in the season. The cut from 

 young stock is slowly gaining in length 

 of stem, and quality of flower will im- 

 prove rapidly after we have a few days 

 of cool weather, but the promised cool 

 wave will check production for awhile. 

 Chatenay is abundant and of good qual- 

 ity. Richmond also is plentiful, but 

 quite single and inclined to pop open. 

 Kaiserin is much short of the demand. 



There are quantities of carnations, 

 mostly field-grown, and all short in 

 stem. They sell, but the asters are 

 preferred for many purposes. The heavy 

 crop of asters continues. Much of the 

 stock shows the approach of the end 

 of the season, but there still are enough 

 good flowers to satisfy a brisk demand. 



Gladioli are on the wane and other 

 outdoor flowers are less plentiful and 

 poorer in quality. It will not be long 

 now until the indoor stock again has 

 full possession of the fleld; indeed, the 

 approach of autumn is made apparent 

 by the fact that chrysanthemums are 

 now a daily item of stock. Many grow- 

 ers now know how to do Monrovia, and 

 do it right. 



The stock of green goods has been 

 reinforced by the arrival of wild smilax. 

 Most of the houses now carry a case or 

 two in stock, but it will be some time 

 before it is carried in quantity, as it 

 is yet soft. 



The Valley Millionaire. 



H. N. Bruns has returned from a two 

 months' visit at his old home in Ham- 

 burg, Germany. Mr. Bruns is Chicago's 

 valley millionaire. Not that he has made 

 a million from valley, but that he im- 

 ports the pips by the million; indeed, 

 he passed the million mark years ago, 

 and this year's importations will approx- 

 imate two million pips. He says the 

 crop will be of good quality this year, 

 but still flrst-class pips will be short of 

 the demand. He says the price in Ger- 

 many for cold storage stock is just a 

 little higher than the American price 

 for the same goods, after paying freight, 

 duty, and storage. He thinks it time 

 American dealers raised prices. 



Credits. 



The local wholesalers are awaiting 

 with interest information aA to the re- 

 sult in Philadelphia, where the whole- 

 salers all have joined hands in an ef- 



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