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The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



OCTOBBB 18, 1906. 





is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtirtday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all sulver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 1S99 



— Storing Outdoor Stock 1399 



— A Good Storage Shed 1309 



— Canuas 1399 



— Azaleas 1309 



— Shrubs for Forcing 1399 



Ctirysanttaemums — Last Year's Novelties. . . 1399 



— Retarded by Warm Weather 1400 



— Leaf-Spot 1400 



— The October ' Frost Mums (illus.) 1400 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 1401 



— More Leaf-Spot 1401 



— Fumigating Carnations '. 1401 



Roses — Seasonable Suggestions 1401 



— A Variegated Testout 1402 



The Retail Florist— Symbolic Designs 1402 



— A PennsylTanla Store (illus.) 1402 



— Alpha and Omega 1402 



Greenhouse ConstructiMi 1403 



Wagons of Bentzen Floral Co. (illus.) 1403 



The Readers' Corner 1405 



Store ot A. H. Schneider (Illus.) 1405 



Dahlia* at Locust Farm (illus.) 1406 



Fertiliz.'n and Their Dse 1407 



Mushrooms (illus.) 1408 



New Yorlc 1408 



Attack Express Rate 1410 



New England Dahlia Society 1410 



Obituary — Isaac P. Dickinson 1410 



— Mrs. John S. Barnhart 1410 



— 8. J. Long 1410 



Chicago 1411 



Detroit 1414 



St. Louis 1414 



Baltimore . 1415 



Philadelphia 1416 



Wichita, Kan 1418 



Cleveland 1419 



Boston 1420 



Hollyhocks 1422 



Want Adyertisements 1423 



Seed Trade News 1424 



— Tomato Seed Short 1424 



— Long Island Seed Crops 1425 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 1425 



— Peas and Beans 1425 



— Budorse Seedsmen's Stand 1425 



— European Seed Notes 1420 



— German Seed Farms 1426 



— Gladioli from Seeds 1428 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetable Markets 1429 



— Lettuce 1429 



Lorraine Growing Later 14.% 



Steamer Sailings 1437 



Nursery News 1438 



— Embellishment of Waysides 14.38 



Paciac Coast— Los Angeles, Cal 1440 



— San Francisco 1440 



— Parasite from China 1440 



— The Eucalyptus 1440 



Washington 1441 



Cincinnati 1442 



Lynchburg, Va 1444 



Twin Cities ' 1440 



Springfield, Ohio 1448 



Buffalo 1467 



Greenhouse Heating— A Coil Heater 1458 



— Residence ahd Greenhouse 1468 



Columbus, Ohio 145S 



Indianapolis 14,'S9 



Pittsburg 1460 



The National Coancil of Horticulture, 

 through its press bureau, recently sent 

 out an article on peonies which was 

 printed by daily and weekly papers hav- 

 ing a combined circulation of millions 

 of copies. The article, which said that 

 "the peony has become a rival of the 

 rose; during its season it floods the 

 flower markets, almost to the exclusion 

 of other flowers," concluded as follows: 

 "Peony roots may be purchased at this 

 time of the year- from any florist, the 

 older plants being most «xpensive. " 



• The St. Louis Florists' Club, at its 

 meeting October 11, took a vote as to 

 the deftirajsility of changing the S. Ai, F. 

 meeting from August to November. 

 Opftiion was strongly opposed to the 

 proposed change. 



At the big and successful exposition 

 of advertising methods and processes 

 just closed at Chicago there was dis- 

 played the following sound advice: "If 

 your business is not worth advertising, 

 advertise it for sale." 



DON'T LOSE IT. 



You may have a little surplus stock 

 in some line — not much, perhaps, but 

 enough to cut quite a hole in the profit 

 made on the whole lot if this little sur- 

 plus is lost. But it isn't necessary to 

 lose it. Nearly always there is someone, 

 somewhere, who needs just that little 

 batch of plants. You can reach ' that 

 someone, everywhere, through a classi- 

 fied advertisement in the Eeview, at a 

 cost of 10 cents a line. Frequently a 

 30-cent advertisement will sell $30, $60 

 or more of stock, depending on its sea- 

 sonableness and abundance. Everyone 

 reads the Review's classified ads. Don't 

 let the little surplus go to waste. 



ATTACK EXPRESS RATE. 



The jurisdiction of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission over express com- 

 panies, granted under the new rate law, 

 is likely to be tested for the first time, 

 in a proceeding started by the Society of 

 American Florists and Ornamental Hor- 

 ticulturists against the United States 

 Express Co. 



In a petition of the society, filed Oc- 

 tober 9, the commissidn is informed that 

 florists in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 

 shipping flowers to New York, are 

 aggrieved because of an advance of rates, 

 which is very near ruinous. The change 

 was made May 1, and rates advanced 

 twenty to fifty per cent. As florists can- 

 not use slower means of transportation, 

 they are compelled to pay any rate the 

 companies see fit to impose, and they 

 demand investigation and an order es- 

 tablishing a reasonable rate. 



NEW ENGLAND DAHLIA SOOETY. 



As reported in the Review at the time, 

 the dahlia growers of the east held a 

 meeting, September 5, and appointed an 

 executive committee to organize a so- 

 ciety. 



The executive committee held its first 

 session October 6, and has the following 

 report to submit: That the new society 

 be called the New England- Dahlia So- 

 ciety. That the object of the society is 

 to promote the culture and development 

 of the dahlia, to accurately determine 

 the several classes thereof, to dissemi- 

 nate information, and to secure uniform- 

 ity in awarding prizes at the various 

 flower shows, to establish a standard 

 nomenclature, and to award recognition 

 to new varieties of sterling merit. 



That any person interested in dahlias 

 is eligible to membership of this society. 

 Fee, $1 per year. 



That the officers shall consist of presi- 

 dent, vice-president, secretary, treasurer 

 and a board, consisting of president and 

 secretary, as ex-officio, and five members 

 to be elected by the society. 



That the annual meeting shall be held 

 in connection and on the first day of the 

 annual dahlia show of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, and at such 



other times as the board of directors 

 may determine, and notice of all meet- 

 ings shall be mailed to each member of 

 the society a week in advance. 



A meeting will be hcild at Horticul- 

 tural hall, Boston, November 6, to take 

 action upon the report of the committee. 



SOOETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 

 Pa., submit for registration the follow- 

 ing: 



Rosa rugosa magnifica (rugosa x Vic- 

 tor Hugo), habit vigorous; flowers five 

 inches in diameter, double, color bright 

 crimson; foliage resembles rugosa. 



Canna Meteor, foliage green; flowers 

 large, deep crimson, in enormous trusses; 

 height five feet. 



Canna New York, seedling No. 1549, 

 flower true orchid form, unusually thick 

 petals; foliage veined and splashed with 

 bronze; height six to seven feet. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



Isaac P. Dickinson. , 



Isaac Palmer Dickinson died in Mor- 

 ganville, N. J., October 3. Mr. Dickin- 

 son was born in Russell, Mass., in Jan- 

 uary, 1825. His parents located in 

 Springfield about 1837. He began busi- 

 ness as a market gardener about 1848, 

 but the rapid growth of the Forest park 

 district caused him to sell his land and 

 remove to Morganville about twenty 

 years ago. There he established several 

 large, modern greenhouses. He contin- 

 ued in the market garden business up to 

 the time of his death. The remains 

 were returned to Springfield, Mass., for 

 interment. 



1 Mrs. John S. Barnhart. -^ '— 



The wife of John S. Barnhart, of Can- 

 ton, lU., died October 8, from injuries 

 received the preceding Friday, when the 

 pony she was driving became unman- 

 ageable and threw her out of the cart. 

 Her skull was crushed, making an oper- 

 ation necessary to remove the pressure 

 from her brain. There was little hope 

 of her recovery, although she showed a 

 slight improvement Saturday. She was 

 51 years of age, and was married 

 to Mr. Barnhart in 1890. She was held 

 in high esteem by her many friends, and 

 there is general regret for the sad ac- 

 cident, and the community extends sin- 

 cere sympathy to the bereaved husband. 



S. J. Long. 



S. J. Long died at his home in Pe- 

 toskey, Mich., October 10. He was the 

 founder of the florist's business in that 

 city; and from a small beginning, built 

 up a successful irade. His wife, who 

 always has assisted him, will continue 

 the business in the future. About a 

 year ago, Mr. Long suffered a paralytic 

 stroke, which ultimately caused his 

 death. His funeral was in charge of the 

 I. O. O. F. and he was buried beneath 

 the blooms he helped to grow, and which 

 he loved so well. j ; ,. i •- 



Lake Geneva, Wis. — The Lake Ge- 

 neva Gardeners' and Foremen's Associa- 

 tion has arrangements completed for the 

 second annual chrysanthemum exhibition, 

 which vpill be given at Lone's opera 

 house, November 9 and 10. 



