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The Weekly Horisfe' Review. 



OCTOBEB 25, 1906. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail (heir 

 "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 1467 



— Crimson Itambler (lllus. ) 1467 



— Azaleas for Christmas 1467 



— Chinch Bug on Mums 1467 



— Sweet Peas 1468 



— Fumigating 1468 



Chrysanthemums — Packing Cut Blooms 1468 



— More Novelties ; 1468 



Chrysanthemum Society 1468 



Carnations — Treating Leaf-Spot 1460 



— To Strengthen Carnations 1469 



— Short-Stemmed Carnations 1469 



Roees— Ventilation l-lfiS 



As Others See Us 1470 



Iowa Florists Meet 1470 



Hatry Papworth (portrait) 1470 



Mr. Papworth's Plant (lllus. ) 1470 



Shrubs for Forcing 1471 



Fertilizers and Their Use 1472 



Air-Plants and Aquatics 1473 



Luncheon Decorations 1474 



Retailer's Advertising (lllus.) 1474 



Baltimore 1474 



A New York Store (lllus.) 1475 



Elberon. N. J 1475 



Vegetable Forcing 1475 



— Forcing Cucumbers 1475/ 



— Vegetable Markets 1475 



Are Wholesalers Now 1476 



Duty On Grass-Growing; Heads 1476 



Ask the Editor 1476 



Obituary— W. H. Townsend 1476 



— John Nelson 1476 



Special Plant Rate 1476 



Society of American Florists 1476 



Chicago 1477 



Chicago Premium List 1479 



St. Louis -..1470 



Springfield, 111. 1480 



Cincinnati 1480 



New York 14S1 



Philadelphia 1484 



Boston 1486 



Mt. Clemens, Mich 1488 



Washington 1490 



Want Advertisements 1401 



Seed Trade News 1402 



— Holland Report 1493 



— Southern Seed Crops 1493 



— With English Seed Growers 1404 



— (3erman Seed F'arms 1497 



Steamer Sailings 1505 



Nursery News IHCQ 



— Nurserymen's Committees 1506 



— Perennials 1506 



— Origin of New Hydrangea 1507 



Normal, 111 1507 



Pacific Coast^Vlctoria, R. (' 1508 



— San Francisco ' liJOS 



— Vancouver, B. C 1508 



— Best Varieties at Spokane 1.108 



Kansas City 1510 



Madison, N. J 1.512 



Twin Cities 1514 



Pittsburg 1.524 



New Orleans 1525 



Greenhouse Heating — A Chicago Sliowhnuse 1526 



— Piping for Greenhouse 1626 



Detroit 1526 



Latania Rotted 1527 



COLD WEATHER WEST. 



Shippers of stock west should note 

 that October 22 the whole territory be- 

 tween the Kocky Mountains and the 

 Missouri was visited by genuine winter 

 weather. Twenty inches of snow fell in 

 Denver. It is wanner now, but shippers 

 must guard against frost. In western 

 Kansas the snow was the heaviest known 

 so early in many years. At the head of 

 Lake Superi6r and west there was heavy 

 snow Monday. 



ARE WHOLESALERS NOW. 



We know of several greenhouse own- 

 ers in small towns who have graduated 

 into the ranks of wholesale plantsmen 

 because of the schooling obtained by the 

 use of the Review's classified adver- 

 tisements to move small lots of surplus 

 stock. 



"I had quite" a little stuff more than 

 my home trade would take last spring," 

 remarked a Michigan grower when he 

 visited the Eeview office a few days ago. 

 "I sold about $500 worth by advertising 

 in the Review's classified department," 

 he continued, "and this season I am 

 going in heavier; it paid me better thau 

 small local trade." 



Reference to that grower's account 

 showed that his bill for advertising to 

 sell "about $500 worth" was just 

 $23.60. 



DUTY ON GRASS-GROWING HEADS. 



A. Herrmann, New York, protested at 

 the rate of duty assessed by the collector 

 of customs at New York. October 15 

 the board of general appraisers decided 

 that "certain hollow heads and figures 

 made of terra cotta and used for grow- 

 ing grass seed, which is sprinkled on the 

 outside while the inside is kept filled 

 with water, are dutiable as common 

 brown earthenware under paragraph 94, 

 tariff act of 1897, following G. A. 6229 

 (T. D. 26915)." 



ASK THE EDITOR. 



If there is anything about the prac- 

 tical, every-day affairs of the business 

 you do not understand, if you are in 

 doubt just how to handle a certain lot 

 of stock, or how to build, or pipe "a 

 house, or if there is anything connected 

 with the trade you would like to know 

 and do not find in the Review, ask the 

 editor. State the case as completely as 

 possible, so as to afford a basis for 

 intelligent reply. Each question will be 

 submitted to an authority on that par- 

 ticular subject and replied to in an early 

 issue. Be sure you sign your name and 

 address, but not for publication. 



OBITUARY. 



W. H. Townsend. 



"William H. Townsend, one of the best 

 known men along the Hudson river, died 

 at his home in Milton, N. Y., October 

 14. Apoplexy was the cause of his 

 death. He was 65 years of age and had 

 lived in Milton all his life. He is 

 survived by a widow and one son, Wil- 

 liam H., Jr., and one daughter, Mrs. 

 William Velie, who lives at Cedar Cliff. 

 Mr. Townsend was also the owner of a 

 large farm and greenhouse and with his 

 brotheMn-law as partner, conducted the 

 Hudson Valley Fruit Package and Sup- 

 ply Co. 



John Nelson. 



John Nelson, fiorist at the reforma- 

 tory at St. Cloud, Minn., died while he 

 was about to be put on the train at St. 

 Paul on the night of October 16. Death 

 was caused by cancer of the stomach. 

 The remains were brought to this city. 

 The deceased was 50 years old. He came 

 to St. Cloud from St. Paul six years 

 ago and has since been the florist at 

 the reformatory. About a year ago he 

 became ill. October 12 his condition 

 became serious and he was taken to St. 

 Raphael's hospital, later to Rochester, 



Minn., to be under the care of the spe- 

 cialists. The physicians said that there 

 was no hope for his recovery and re- 

 fused to operate upon him. He was 

 then being taken back to St. Cloud when 

 he died. ^ 



SPECIAL PLANT RATE. 



Equality Law Works Injustice. 



"If your express agent refuses you 

 the special rate on plants properly boxed 

 or crated, ask him if your town has a 

 general special rate; if he says no, have 

 him forward your application that it be 

 given a general special rate." It was 

 the advice of a high traffic official of 

 the American Express Co. 



Traffic affairs are in a chaotic state 

 because of the recent rate legislation. 

 This law brought the express companies 

 under the control of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, with which thay 

 are required to file all tariffs. 



Now, there are many commodities 

 which get the same rate as plants — fish, 

 oysters, butter, eggs, etc. — the florists 

 are not especially favored. The rate is 

 known as "general special" (approxi- 

 mately twenty per cent less than mer- 

 chan^e rate) and is a part of all 

 published tariffs. But a few towns are 

 without a general special rate and in 

 the classification, which is adopted by 

 all companies, the following was inserted 

 after nearly all if not all commodities 

 named as entitled to the general special 

 rate: "Between points where merchan- 

 dise rates are 50 cents or more per hun- 

 dredweight and no general special is in 

 force, twenty per cent less than mer- 

 chandise rate, pound rate, unless the 

 graduate is less." This was construed 

 to be a tariff not published as within 

 the meaning of the law and all com- 

 panies have canceled this clause in the 

 classification. 



Some companies have published scales 

 of charg^ (approximately twenty per 

 cent less than merchandise rate) which 

 may be applied to commodities entitled 

 to the general special rate when going 

 to or from towns where there is no 

 general special in force. Where such is 

 not the case shippers in towns having 

 no general special rate find themselves 

 obliged to pay full merchandise rates, 

 whether they ship plants, butter, eggs, 

 or any of the other things which have 

 had the special rate. 



There are not many places which have 

 not a general special rate, but a few 

 florists have reported to the Review that 

 they are denied the plant rate. The 

 express official quoted above further 

 stated that he believes a general special 

 rate, where one is not in force, will be 

 readily granted upon application and 

 matters soon will be adjusted satisfac- 

 torily to all. He says he believes it to 

 be the policy of all the companies to 

 fully comply with the law and it is an 

 apparent injustice to grant a general 

 special rate to one town and not an- 

 other. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



C. G. Roebling, Trenton, N. J., sub- 

 mits for registration Laelio-cattleya 

 Washington A. Roebling II (Laelia 

 harpophylla x Cattleya granulosa), 

 flower bright yellow, with pink on lip, 

 bulbs slender, ten inches long, double- 

 leaved; leaves one and one-half inches 

 broad and eight inches long. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



