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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Skptembbb 20, 1906. 



NOTICE 



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 those employers not willing to stnfer 

 interruption of their business, especially 

 because of that part of the scale which 

 aialces 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 Wednesday mom- 

 log, as many tiave done in the past. 



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CONTENTS. 



Marketing at Wholesale 1110 



— S. S. Skldelsky (portrait) 1119 



Roses — Seasonable Suggestions 1120 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 1121 



— Dry Rot 1121 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1121 



— Importance of Providing Compost 1121 



A Pennsylvania Plant (lUus.) 1122 



Summer Business 1123 



Duty on Glass 1123 



A Florists' Tribute 1124 



H. G. Self ridge's Orchids 1124 



Vegetable Forcing— Starting Lettuce Seed.. 1124 



In the Heart of the Town (illus.) 1125 



Desirable Hardy Perennials 1125 



English Holly (Illus.) 1126 



Hill's New Hydrangea 1126 



Boston 1126 



Canna Express (illus.) 1127 



Lincoln. Neb 1127 



New Bedford, Mass 1127 



Obituary — Michael King 1 128 



The Convention Date 112S 



Trouble With Asters 1128 



The Readers' Corner — Rose Lady Gay 1128 



— White Ants 1128 



Illinois State Fair 1129 



Chicago ., 1129 



St. Louis 1131 



Springfield, 1132 



Buffalo 1133 



Detroit 1134 



Pblladelpbiii 1134 



New York 1138 



Milwaukee 1138 



Seed Trade News 1140 



— Eui-opean Seed Notes 1141 



— Sweet Pens at Waldo Rohnert's (illus.). 1142 



— Howling Mob Sweet Corn 1142 



— Will Grow Bulbs II43 



— DutcU Bulb Prices Rise 1143 



— Yellow Trefoil Duty Free 1144 



— Oregon Seedsmen 1144 



— Theodosia B. Shepherd 1144 



Steamer Sailings 1153 



Cleveland ll.>53 



Nursery News II54 



— Stocks for Standard Roses 11.14 



— Mr. Hale on Advertising 1154 



Pacific Coast — Prospects at 'Frisco 1156 



— Salem, Ore I].»i7 



— San Francisco II57 



Cincinnati 1180 



Pittsburg ■ ." ; 1162 



Grand Rapids, M'ch 1164 



Baltimore 1186 



Greenhouse Heating ' 1178 



. — Heating Lettuce Houses 1176 



— Piping for Three Houses 1176 



— Heating Block of Houses 1178 



— Steam Regulnting Valve 1177 



— Fuel Gas and Burners 117.S 



— Medium for Heating ' ] 1 17!) 



Columbus, " iiso 



OBITUARY. 



Michael King. 



Following an illness of several 

 months' duration, Michael King, of 

 Louisville, Ky,, died at his home, 2428 

 Slevin street, of the infirmities of age, 

 Saturday, September 8. He was 71 years 

 old. 



Mr. King was one of the best known 

 florists in Louisville. He was the father 

 of John King, who for several years 

 conducted the Commercial College at 

 Fifth and Market streets. He was presi- 



dent of the St. Vincent de Paul Soci- 

 ety of St. Cecilia's church, and was 

 well known in Catholic circles. He is 

 survived by a son, Patrick King, and 

 a daughter. Miss Mary King. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOQETY 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., reg- 

 ister Carnation Pocahontas, a cross be- 

 tween a light red seedling and Gov. 

 Roosevelt; strong, upright grower, free 

 flowering and produces flowers of large 

 size, with good calyx and a long, strong 

 stem; color a bright shade of crimson. 

 Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



THE CONVENTION DATE. 



The spell of the oratory of Robert 

 Craig and Gurney Hill must have spread 

 its subtle influence over the S. A. F. in 

 convention on that hot Thursday even- 

 ing in August when it was voted that 

 " if " the S. A. F. holds a national flower 

 show, the convention should be combined 

 with it, in November. Not a dissenting 

 voice was heard when this resolution was 

 up for passage. But no sooner had the 

 members reached their homes than they 

 began to experience a change of heart. 

 At the meetings of florists' clubs held 

 since the convention, the proposed 

 change of date has been one of the in- 

 teresting subjects for discussion, and 

 whenever it has been brought up, opinion 

 has been developed in opposition to the 

 proposed change to November. This has 

 occurred at New York, Detroit, Pitts- 

 burg and other cities. 



At the September meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club, there were present 

 a number who had voted for the change 

 to November. When John Birnie offered 

 a resolution stating that it is the sense 

 of the New York club that August is 

 the most favorable month for the con- 

 vention, it was unanimously adopted. 

 There were present two directors of the 

 S. A. F. 



The matter of the change of date is 

 up to the executive board. Th^ "if" 

 in the resolution seems to be one of in- 

 creasing magnitude. 



TROUBLE WITH ASTERS. 



1 am sending you a piece of aster 

 root covered with small, translucent 

 green insects. They attack the aaters 

 at the roots, suck the sap and soon kill 

 them. What is it and what the remedy! 

 The asters are planted in a bed with 

 peonies and hardy phlox. Asters a few 

 feet away are clean. J. K. 



When the minute insects reached us 

 they were black in color. No. doubt they 

 were aphides of some kind. There is 

 nothing to be done this year. You must 

 submit to what loss it is, and profit by 

 the lesson taught. To plant asters among 

 such strong-rooting plants as peonies 

 and perennial phlox is certainly poor 

 judgment. The aphis which attacked 

 the roots of your asters may be a spe- 

 cies peculiar to the phlox or peony, but 

 not injurious to them. The fact that 

 the asters a little way removed from 

 these plants were free from the aphis 

 would indicate that. But whether that 

 is or is not so, don't attempt to grow 

 asters among other plants. Give them 

 an open aspect on a deep, fresh, heavy 

 loam with plenty of barnyard manure 

 plowed in. 



I remember some thirty years ago, 

 when verbenas were far more popular 



than they are today, that we had a large 

 circular bed planted with a scarlet ver- 

 bena. They grew and flowered finely, 

 and suited the situation so well we re- 

 peated it again the following year and 

 they were much less satisfactory. We 

 did the same a third year, when many 

 of the plants died, and all were sickly. 

 On examining the plants we found the 

 roots infested with a small blue aphis. 

 Perhaps there is no analogy between this 

 experience and your asters. Few flow- 

 ering plants, culinary vegetables or ce- 

 reals thrive with successive crops of one 

 kind on the same ground. One exception 

 to this, I know, is onions, which, if an- 

 nually treated to manure, will grow for 

 ten years on the same spot and produce 

 great crops. To rotate your crops is a 

 good rule. The philosophy of this is 

 simple: A certain plant takes from the 

 soil some element that best suits it, and 

 if repeated three or four years, the ele- 

 ment is exhausted, the plant is feeble 

 and already a prey to disease or para- 

 sites. All parasites are not injurious, 

 and that reminds me of the witty obser- 

 vation of the immortal David Harum, 

 who says: "A certain amount of fleas 

 is good for a dog, because it keeps him 

 from broodin ' on bein ' a dog. ' ' 



W. S. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Rose Lady Gay. 



Quite a little has been said lately of 

 the new rose, Lady Gay. I have one 

 three years old, planted in a border. It 

 is on a trellis eight feet long and seven 

 feet wide and completely covers it. It 

 made sixteen stout canes from ten to 

 fourteen feet long, besides numerous 

 side shoots from three to four feet. I 

 wonder if the Dorothy Perkins rose can 

 come up to this. Mrs. E. M. Gill. 



Medford, Mass. 



Vhite Ants. 



In the last Review G. C. asks for in- 

 formation about white ants. They are a 

 pest if they become established. I infer 

 from the description that the chrysan- 

 themums are planted in beds or benches 

 with wood bottom or sides. The white 

 ants seldom work elsewhere than in prox- 

 imity to decaying vegetable matter and 

 in a greenhouse this is usually the 

 bench, posts, wall or bjard walk. I 

 have never found more than isolated in- 

 dividuals in the main body of soil on a 

 bench. Put crude or carbon oil on all 

 the wood, sides and faces of the bench; 

 let it run down the supports. It pene- 

 trates the pores of the wood and is sure 

 death to the ants. If the bench has a 

 wood bottom, paint it with the oil; if it 

 penetrates sufficiently, good-bye ants. 



T. F. B. 



CANNAS NOT SEEDING. 



Why can I not obtain seeds of some 

 of my cannasf The pods are all bare. 



T. T. 



On receipt of this query I visited sev- 

 eral places where cannas are extensively 

 planted, our public parks, etc. I found 

 that cannas in our locality were bearing 

 seeds as profusely as other seasons. We 

 have had an extraordinarily fine, warm 

 and dry summer, but we know that in 

 many localities they have an extremely 

 wet summer, and it is possible that fre- 

 quent heavy rains may be the cause of 

 your getting little seed. W. S. 



