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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBEB 29, 1906. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday moming. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 *'copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday mornings as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 75 



— Polnsettlas 75 



— Azaleas for Christmas 75 



— Early Lilies 75 



— Cyclamen 75 



— Other Christmas Stock 75 



Roses — ProDagating 75 



— Malformed Buds 76 



— Mildew 76 



The Ketail Florist— Prize Designs (lllus.)-- 76 



— Winter Window Boxes 77 



Earnings of Sprengeri 77 



Begonia Rex 77 



Carnations — Trouble with Crocker 78 



— Carnation Notes — West 78 



Notes from England 78 



Mignonette 79 



Chrysanthemums — Commercial Varieties 79 



— Chrysanthemum Dakoma (iUus.) 81 



Pollworth in the Woods (lllus. ) 81 



Tobacco as a Fertilizer 81 



Sweet Peas for Cutting 81 



Marketing at Wholesale 81 



Rooting Geraniums 8.'{ 



Rhododendrons 83 



Obituary — C. F. Imoberstag (portrait) 83 



Advertising and Progress 84 



Council of Horticulture 84 



State of General Trade 84 



The Tariff on Glass 84 



Chicago 85 



Utica. N. Y 87 



Detroit 88 



Boston 90 



Philadelphia 92 



St. Louis 94 



New York 95 



Toledo. Ohio 98 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 99 



— Lettuce 99 



- An Ohio Grower (lllus.) 99 



— Mechanical Watering lOO 



Steed Trade News 102 



— Onion Seed Prices 104 



— Imports 104 



— Valley Pips 104 



— Burrell's Gem Melon ( lllus. ) 104 



— Report of Secretary Wilson 104 



— Notes from Holland 106 



— New Dakota Firm 106 



Baltimore 108 



Steamer Sailings 115 



Toronto 115 



Nursery News 116 



— Amoor River Privet 116 



— Control of Insert Pests 116 



Pacific Coast — Fruit and Nursery Meeting.. 118 



— Alameda, Cal 118 



— San Francisco 118 



— Heeling In 118 



— Spokane, Wash 119 



— Domoto of San Francisco 119 



Rhinebeck's Violets 120 



Kansas City 122 



Washington 124 



Indianapolis 126 



New Orleans 126 



Twin Cities 136 



Greenhouse Heating 138 



Wayside Notes 140 



Adiantum Croweanum is reported to 

 be in good demand, but not in large 

 supply. 



It is reported by jobbers that the 

 cheaper grades of folding Christmas 

 bells have this year sold better than 

 ever. 



Highland, III. — Fred E. Holland, who 



last year had the misfortune to lose his 

 greenhouse and plants by fire, opened a 

 vegetable store to be known as the Gar- 

 den Store, November 27, in the Mosi- 

 mann building. 



Mrs. Charles H. Maynard, of De- 

 troit, reports that the ladies are prompt- 

 ly sending in their fees to join the Aux- 

 iliary to S. A. F., and with their checks 

 come words of good cheer for its success. 



ADVERTISING AND PROGRESS. 



The following is an extract from the 

 address of John J. Hamilton, of Des 

 jNIoines, la., delivered before the con- 

 gressional commission sitting at New 

 York to consider changes in the law 

 under which newspapers and periodicals 

 are admitted to the mails: 



' ' The publication of newspapers and 

 magazines is a private business; there 

 is no reason of public policy which calls 

 for its regulation by law. * * * Men 

 should be free to publish poor papers and 

 magazines, for in these days of costly 

 and beautiful papers, woe be to the pub- 

 lisher who does not keep pace with the 

 improvements others are introducing. 

 They should be free to accept all the 

 reputable advertising they can obtain, 

 because the American people value and 

 read the advertising as thoroughly as 

 the regular reading matter and usually 

 refuse to take publications which do not 

 contain large quantities of it. The sub- 

 scriber profits largely by modern adver- 

 tising. 



"To limit the volume or relative pro- 

 portion of advertising wMch a publica- 

 tion may carry under penalty of exclu- 

 sion from the mails would be to destroy 

 the most valuable asset of every notably 

 successful publication of every class in 

 America today. The right to sell all the 

 advertising they can make room for is 

 more valuable to them than their stately 

 buildings and costly mechanical equip- 

 ment. * It is the quintessence of their 

 well earned success. It rests on genuine 

 merit and is the fruit of honest service. ' ' 



SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ISSUE. 



The Special Christmas Numlser of the 

 Review will be issued as usual, being 

 mailed to the trade on the morning of 

 December 13. The special issues of the 

 Eeview are of such great interest to the 

 whole trade that the advertising in them 

 is increasing not only steadily but rap- 

 idly. Advertisers will give us much as- 

 sistance in turning out a well printed 

 Christmas Number by sending advertis- 

 ing copy early. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



A meeting of the National Council of 

 Horticulture was held at the Auditorium 

 Annex, Chicago, November 9 and 10. 

 There were present Messrs. J. C. 

 Vaughan, C. E. Kendel, W. F. Kasting, 

 Prof. L. R. Taft, Prof. W. W. Tracy, 

 H. C. Irish, J. H. Burdett, E. V. Hal- 

 lock and John N. May. 



Mr. Burdett gave an exhaustive report 

 on the press bureau work as conducted 

 during the past year, after which de- 

 tailed plans for the continuation of the 

 service were considered. The relative 

 merits of the clipping sheet used by the 

 American Civic Association as compared 

 with the plan of the council by sending 

 mimeograph copies of matter for pub- 

 lication direct to large papers and to 

 press syndicates was discussed and it 

 was voted to continue the latter plan 

 and to begin another series of articles 

 early in the New Year. 



Reports were made of an unusual de- 

 mand for certain seeds, the cause of 

 which had been traced directly to their 

 exploitation through the press bureau 

 last spring 



A list of subjects to be written up for 

 the coming year was presented by Mr. 

 Kendel and the secretary was instructed 

 to correspond with nurserymen and flo- 

 rists for further subjects. 



A report was read from Robert Craig, 

 on a visit to the Jamestown Exposition 

 Co., in the interests of a horticultural 

 exhibition and congress. It showed that 

 the exposition company is not in a posi- 

 tion to offer cash premiums for a special 

 horticultural exhibition but in his opin- 

 ion the project could be successfully car- 

 ried out if the money was guaranteed by 

 individuals. It was voted to arrange for 

 a horticultural congress at Norfolk dur- 

 ing the exposition period and Prof. 

 W. W. Tracy was appointed to draft a 

 call to supplement the one which had 

 been issued and to arrange a preliminary 

 program. H. C. Irish, Sec. 



STATE OF GENERAL TRADE. 



E. G. Dun & Co. say that ' * Commercial 

 operations in wholesale and jobbing lines 

 were, on the whole, of satisfactory pro- 

 portions last week. Holiday goods have 

 begun to move unusually early in a re- 

 tail way and many reorders have been 

 received by distributers. In a few lines 

 trade has been retarded to some extent 

 by weather conditions, but transactions 

 in the aggregate surpass those of a year 

 ago, which were unsually large at this 

 season. 



"The coal situation is being compli- 

 cated more and more by the car shortage, 

 and in some districts west there is 

 claimed to be such a scarcity that farm- 

 ers have been obliged to shell their corn 

 in order to obtain the cobs to burn for 

 fuel. In the local market the cold 

 weather has increased the demand, and 

 prices have been easily maintained and in 

 some cases advanced. 



"In staple lines, including clothing, 

 footwear, furniture, hardware, business 

 has been maintained at recent levels, 

 with a general satisfactory condition 

 aside from the difficulty experienced in 

 obtaining prompt shipment." 



THE TARIFF ON GLASS. 



Pursuant of the action taken by the 

 S. A. F. convention at Dayton, in ap- 

 pointing a committee to consider what 

 might be done with the glass tariff, the 

 correspondence below is of interest to 

 everyone in the craft. 



Flshklll-on-Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1906. 

 Hon. Sereno E. Payne, Auburn, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: I am constrained to address you 

 upon a- matter of considerable Interest to a 

 large craft of men who use window glass in 

 their business to the amount of millions of 

 square feet, and that is the florists of the United 

 States. 



At the annual convention of the Society of 

 American Florists, held at Dayton, O., one of 

 the most important matters brought up was that 

 of the duty now Imposed upon window glass, 

 which Is an advance so much greater than ex- 

 isted prior to 1896, and which tariff raised the 

 price of this commodity very materially per 

 pound on every box of glass used. 



With the knowledge of your standing in con- 

 gress, and being a member of the committee 

 appointed by the convention, I have for some 

 time thought of laying this matter before you 

 and to ask that, now election is over and we 

 know how the drift of affairs will be the next 

 two years, if the matter of reduction of tariff 

 rates would stand any chance of receiving con- 

 sideration at the approaching session of con- 

 gress, or if at the present stage of public opin- 

 ion it would be labor lost to attempt to do any- 

 thing directly without pronounced agitation. 



The greenhouse men of the United States, 

 who run into the thousands, all feel that the 

 present high cost of this necessary article is to 

 them very largely enhanced by the existing ex- 

 cessive duty, and if this duty could be brought 

 down to the rate prior to the tariff of 1897, 

 that it would be an economic gain, which would 

 work no harm to producers, because many of us 

 believe and think that the tariff as it exists 

 today is overdone and the party that should 

 correct the matter is the republican, in control 

 of the majority. 



Our General Ketcham is dead, bo we cannot 



