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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



Septembbb 27, 1906. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested tha.t all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 *'copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning* as many 

 have dmie in the past. ;' > 



CONTENTS. 



The Men We Meet— John H. Small, Sr. — 



(Portrait) 1187 



Peonies for Fwcing 1187 



Mlscellaueoim Seasonable Hints 1188 



— The Cabbage Worm 1188 



— Thrlps 1188 



— Wlnter-Flowerlng Peas 1188 



— Cyclamen 1188 



The Uec6rd Aurutum (lllus.) 118a 



,' Packing Cut Flowers 1189 



k Chrysauthemums — Early Varieties 1190 



— Chrysanthemum Society ; 1190 



Carnatlun» — Carnation Notes — West 1191 



— 8prayhig for Ants 1191 



— Advertising Methods 1192 



— American Carnation Society 1192 



Propagating ("annas 1192 



Aspidistras (lllus.) 1192 



Mignonette in Pots (iUus.) 1103 



Vegetable Forcing — Starting Cucumber Seeds 1194 

 The lieaders' CJorner — More About White 



Anta 1194 



The Uetall Florist— Advice to Buyers 1194 



— Retail Advertising (lllus.) 1194 



— Storing Hardy Cut Ferns 1195 



The Cyclamen 1196 



Embellishment of Waysides 1190 



The Conway Aster (lllus.) 1197 



Society of Southern Florists 1198 



Horticultural Congress 1198 



Propagating Flcus 1198 



Chicago 1199 



Kansas City 1201 



St. r>oiils 12u2 



- Philadelphia 12a3 



. Boston 1203 



New York 12<)4 



A Visit to Vincent's 1207 



Milwaukee 1209 



Twin Cities 1209 



Want Advertisements 1211 



Seed Trade News 1212 



— German Seed Crops 1212 



— Clover Seed 1213 



— Grass Seed Reports 1213 



— European Notes 1214 



Steamer Sailings 1225 



Cincinnati 1225 



Nursery News — Peony Lady A. Duff 1226 



— Exports on Nursery Stock 1226 



— Stock for Standard Roses 1226 



— Evergreens from Seeds 1226 



— Cyanide for Scale 1227 



Pacific Coast — Stock Plants 1228 



— San Francisco 1228 



— Portland, Ore 1229 



Streator. Ill 1220 



Springfield, Mo 1230 



Obituarj— Mrs. Emll C. Metzmaler 1232 



Birmingham, Ala 1232 



Washington 1234 



Denver 1236 



Greenhonse Heating — Ridge and Furrow 



Range 1247 



— House on Side Hill 1247 



— Poor Circulation 1248 



—• Burner for Gas 1248 



— Heating System 1249 



— Diameter ot Stack 1259 



Detroit 1250 



Pittsburg 1252 



AuEOBA, III. — The J. M. Smely estab- 

 lishment was the scene of a small fire, 

 September 9. 



Paducah, Ky. — C. L. Brunson & Co. 

 have moved their flower store to 529 

 Broadway. Their old location was 423 

 Broadway. 



Haddonfield, N. J. — The Athletic 

 Association of the Young Men's League 

 had a cake sale at J. Brown's flower 

 store September 15. Selling cake seems 

 a peculiar occupation for athletes, but 

 visitors always are welcome at a flower 

 store. 



SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN FLORISTS. 



When, about a year ago, at the ban- 

 quet for the installation of the new of- 

 ficers of the New Orleans Horticultural 

 Society, the proposition of a southern 

 society of florists was brought up by C. 

 R. Panter, the idea of every member 

 was the improvement of the trade in 

 general and the creation of an organiza- 

 tion which was found needed. 



What the florists of the south were 

 ten years a^o, . what they now are and 

 what they will be in the near future, are 

 entirely different. With better under- 

 standing of special culture, more capital 

 and more enterprise, a large quantity 

 of the plants and flowers now sent by 

 the north to the south will be sent by the 

 south to the north. Cuttings of many 

 plants can be made here better and 

 cheaper. Seeds of shrubs have time to 

 come to maturity during a longer season 

 and can be germinated in a natural way 

 without artificial heat. Bedding plants 

 in the spring can be shipped from here 

 at half the price asked in the north, and 

 of a size and qitality superior. We want 

 the north to take that well under con- 

 sideration. 



Consequently an organization of our 

 own is needed, without any idea of inter- 

 fering in any way with any one already 

 established and acting under many dif- 

 ferent circumstances. It is with that 

 spirit only and with the firm conviction 

 that nothing but good will come out of 

 it that this new idea was brought for- 

 ward and started without any efforts to 

 the best of our own expectations. 



In conclusion I would say that the 

 first convention of the Society of South- 

 ern Florists will take place in New Or- 

 leans some time during the spring of 

 1907. We will be ready to receive the 

 florists from the south or from the north 

 in a thoroughly southern style and hos- 

 pitality. They will not see thousands 

 of square feet of glass and smokestacks 

 hundreds of feet high, but plants grown 

 outside under a climate far superior to 

 that of the north for at least a great 

 majority of plants, and we urge once 

 more every florist of the south to join the 

 new society and advise our rich northern 

 florists to come also and see what pros- 

 pects are before us. They surely will 

 be cordially received. M. M, L. 



HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS. 



The National Council of Horticulture, 

 embracing, as it does, the broad interests 

 of horticulture, has had under consider- 

 ation the matter of a National Congress 

 of Horticulture, to convene at James- 

 town, Va., some time during the expo- 

 sition period. 



In view, therefore, of the interest man- 

 ifested by a large number of persons, 

 representing various branches of horti- 

 cultural activity, it has been deemed ex- 

 pedient to arrange for a National Con- 

 gress of Horticulture to convene at the 

 Jamestown exposition during the week 

 of August 19 to 24, 1907. The purpose 

 of such a gathering is to consider topics 

 of horticultural interest in their broad- 

 est meaning, and to bring the more or 

 less scattered branches into more close 

 union, with a view that such a gathering 

 would add inspiration and profit to a»i 

 participants and others who are in at- 

 tendance, and should be the means of 

 dignifying and advancing horticulture in 

 all of its departments. In addition to 

 the representatives of the broader inter- 

 ests, it is the purpose of the council to 



include in the assemblage leading spe- 

 cialists of the various divisions of horti- 

 cultural work, who will consider topics of 

 interest to the specialist, before either 

 regular or special meetings of the sev- 

 eral national societies, in case they ar- 

 range to hold a meeting at this time. 

 Otherwise, such topics will be presented 

 before departmental or sectional meet- 

 ings of the congress representing the 

 particular subject. 



The exposition, situated, as it is, in 

 the midst of a field rich in horticultural 

 products and easily accessible to a large 

 number who are interested in one or 

 more branches of this great industry, 

 should insure an attendance commensu- 

 rate with the interests involved. The 

 exposition company, together with the 

 Norfolk Horticultural and Pomological 

 Society, guarantees every possible cour- 

 tesy, and offers facilities which will 

 make the meeting place ample and con- 

 venient. Any society arranging to meet 

 in affiliation with this congress may hold 

 its regular sessions independently and 

 without conflicting with any of the ses- 

 sions of the congress. 



All persons interested in any phase of 

 horticulture are therefore asked to co- 

 operate in this movement, and all local, 

 state and national societies are invited 

 and urged to be represented either by 

 holding their regular session, or by duly 

 authorized delegates. It is hoped that 

 this congress will bring together a mul- 

 titude of horticulturists that could hardly 

 be expected to come together in any other 

 manner, and that a goodly number of the 

 national societies will decide to hold a 

 regular session during the week in which 

 the congress is in session. 



H. C. Irish, Sec'y. 



PROPAGATING RCUS. 



Please state the proper time and way 

 to root rubbers. H. H. K. 



The ordinary rubber, Ficus elastica, 

 may be rooted by means of the topping 

 method at any period of the year, pro- 

 vided that sufficient heat and moisture 

 are maintained, but the best time for 

 this operation is while the weather is 

 warm, namely in the spring and summer, 

 at which time the growths will frequent- 

 ly root in from two to three weeks. 



The topping of ficus is a simple pro- 

 cess, and consists in making an incision 

 with a sharp knife so as to cut about 

 half way through the growth, the cut 

 being made below the third or fourth 

 leaf from the top of the shoot. Next 

 pass a piece of twine through the cut 

 so as to keep it open, and bind a lump 

 of damp moss around the incision, using 

 the twine to keep it firmly in place, the 

 finished job simply showing a lump of 

 moss about the size of an egg. 



This moss is then kept moist by fre- 

 quent sprinklings, and when several roots 

 may be seen coming through the moss, 

 it is time to cut off the shoot and pot 

 it in a 3 or 4-inch pot according 

 to its size. Protect the young plants 

 from the sun and wind for a lew days 

 after potting and they will soon become 

 established. Ficus may be satisfactorily 

 topped now, but if done after November 

 1, progress is likely to be slow. 



W. H. Taplin. 



New Orleans, La. — The park commis- 

 sioners have decided not to build the 

 $10,000 conservatory they were figuring 

 on until next year. Joseph Bernand is 

 park superintendent. 



