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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 6, 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 iheir 

 "copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Mlscellaueous Seasonable Hints 147 



— Early Sweet Peas 147 



— Late Chrysanthemums 147 



— Empty the Mum Benches 147 



— Uses for the Soil 147 



— A Way of Escape 147 



— Crops to Follow Mums 147 



The Retail Florist— Thaulisgiving Trade 148 



— A Louisville Veteran (lllus.) 148 



— New Table Decoration 148 



The Florists' Calendar 149 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 149 



— Carnation Notes — West 150 



— Diet of the Carnation 150 



— Softwood Ashes 151 



— Poor Stem and Calyx 151 



— American Carnation Society 151 



Roses— New Red Hybrid Tea Roses 152 



— Potting the Cuttings 152 



— Rose Rubin, or Ruby? 152 



Asparagus Falcatus 152 



Cbrysauthemums — Chrysanthemum Ceramic 



(lllus.) 152 



— Best Exhibition Sorts 152 



— Largest Blooms 154 



— Chrysanthemum Society 155 



Table Decoration (illus.) 155 



Thomas H. Westwood (portrait) 155 



Seedmen's Collection Bureau — Facilities Of- 

 fered norists 155 



Romneya Coulterl 156 



Obituary — Albert Zimmerman 157 



— George EUwanger (portrait) 157 



The Readers' Corner 15S 



Department of Agriculture 158 



Chinese Primroses 158 



Chicago 159 



Cincinnati 161 



St. Louis 162 



Philadelphia 104 



New York 165 



An Active Ntw Yorker (portrait) 167 



Boston 167 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 168 



— Tomatoes 168 



— (>ucumbers 168 



— Temperature for Asparagus 169 



Trouble with Poinsettias 169 



Geraniums for Memorial Day 109 



Wayside Notes 172 



Milwaukee 173 



Seed Trade News 174 



— loiports 176 



— Valley Pips Arriving 176 



— European Seed Notes 176 



— Pure Seeds 177 



Spiraea Queen Wilhelmina 177 



Llllum Auratum 178 



Want Advertisements 179 



Steamer Sailings 187 



Nursery News 188 



Twin Cities 189 



Pacific Coast 190 



— Kate Moulton on the Coast (illus.) 190 



— San Francisco 190 



— Propagating Nut Trees 191 



Baltimore 102 



Washington 194 



Detroit 198 



Pittsburg 200 



Greenhouse Heating 210 



Buffalo 210 



Denver 211 



Columbus, 212 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 

 Pa., submits for registration Canna New 

 York (C. & J. Seedling No. 1549). 

 Height six to seven feet, with broad^ 

 bronze leaves and mammoth flowers of 

 intense carmine. W. J. Stewart, 



Sec 'y. 



A FEW FIGURES. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 the November issues of the Review 

 weighed just 22,200 pounds, or eleven 

 and one-tenth tons. If the sheets of 

 paper had been laid upon the ground, 

 their edges touching, they would have 

 covered just 1,221,166 5-6 square feet, 

 or a little over twenty-seven and one- 

 half acres. If the sheets had been laid 

 end to end as they came from the press 

 it would have made a strip of paper 

 twenty-four and three-quarters inches 

 wide and 112 1-5 miles long. If the 

 completed copies had been stacked one 

 upon another it would have made a pile* 

 422 feet high, or half again as high as a 

 twenty-story office building. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Transportation Charges. 



Will you allow us a little space in 

 your valuable paper for what we con- 

 sider the good of the trade? Of late 

 there has been much said in regard to 

 express rates, of which we have no little 

 trouble. In four out of five shipments 

 that come to us the rate is too high, but 

 the express is not all. We find that the 

 railroads are just as eager to charge 

 double rates and collect them if they can. 

 We have recently had goods come to us 

 that should be classed under, and the 

 classified rate book so states, fourth- 

 class, yet they billed them double first- 

 class. Now this occurs often and it is 

 not because the transportation company 

 does not know better, but because they 

 try to get all they can, while we may do 

 the best we can to obtain relief. 

 ■ We would suggest that every house 

 doing a shipping business see to it that 

 all goods sent out be forwarded under 

 the lowest class possible, and have the 

 class so specified plainly on the bill of 

 lading. There are many houses, some of 

 which we deal with, which simply dump 

 the goods at the depot and say nothing 

 abgut class and take the bill of lading 

 for same. Of course, that is just the 

 bill of lading of the railroads. It is 

 then their business to bill them under 

 the highest possible class. In this fast 

 age it behooves us as florists to look out 

 for one another. 



J. L. O'QuiNN & Co. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



"Congress appropriated 4>', 175,690 for 

 the maintenance of the department of 

 agriculture for the year ended June 30, 

 1906. This was $1,081,150 more than the 

 appropriation for the preceding year. 

 For the current year (ending June 30, 

 1907) congress appropriated $9,210,440 

 for the regular work of the department. 

 The increase is chiefly due to the broad- 

 ening of the meat inspection. For that 

 service the permanent appropriation is 

 $3,000,000. The estimated revenues of 

 $700,000 from sales of products of the 

 forests reserves and $780,934.68 avail- 

 able for the new buildings bring the 

 total amount to be disbursed by this de- 

 partment during the current year up to 

 $10,691,374.68. 



* * The number of persons on the rolls 

 of the department of agriculture on July 

 1, 1906, was, outside of Washington, 

 4,648 ; in Washington, 1,594 ; total, 6,242, 

 showing an increase during the year of 

 796. Of the total number, more than 

 1,800 have been on the rolls for six 

 years or longer. In ihe classified service 



917 were promoted in salary and class, 

 and 403 resigned. 



"The act approved February 9, 1903, 

 authorizing an appropriation of $1,500,- 

 000 for segments of a new building, made 

 possible the beginning of the construc- 

 tion of suitable quarters for the accom- 

 modation of the department. The work 

 has now progressed, with the exception 

 of the interior finish, to approximately 

 the fourth-floor line, and it is probable 

 that the roof will be on before the win- 

 ter season. The roofing and closing in 

 will allow the interior work to be car- 

 ried on during the winter without inter- 

 ruption, which, without unforeseen com- 

 plications, will insure the completion of 

 operations within the contract time — 

 namely, November 14, 1907. 



"The estimated growth ot the depart- 

 ment, made at the time the appropria- 

 tion for the new building was approved, 

 has been greatly exceeded. This rapid 

 increase will require other segments of 

 the proposed buildings to be constructed 

 before the department will have sufficient 

 and suitable accommodations for its 

 work and before the large amount paid 

 annually for rentais can be substantially 

 decreased. ' ' 



CHINESE PRIMROSES. 



Will you please tell me whether 

 Chinese primroses will seed early enough 

 for next spring's sowing if they are in 

 bud and bloom now? Will they fertilize 

 themselves without bees to carry the 

 pollen? In what temperature and under 

 what general conditions should plants be 

 kept? C. F. M. 



To answer the first question, we say 

 that if they are in full bloom now you 

 can have the seed ripe by the last part 

 of May or middle of June, and that is 

 as early as desirable for sowing primu- 

 las. The principal observance in saving 

 seed of the primula in the dark days of 

 winter is to put the plants on a shelf 

 where the atmosphere is dry, where they 

 will get every passing ray of sunshine 

 and a free circulation of air. On a 

 bench but a few feet from the ground 

 you will have poor results. 



A little artificial fertilizing of the 

 flowers will help. If you want new 

 colors in the flowers, then, with a clean 

 and dry camel 's-hair brush, remove the 

 pollen of one variety to the stigma of 

 another flower and if you want your 

 plants to be prolific in seed-bearing, 

 introduce the pollen of the florets to the 

 stigma. Look over your plants every 

 morning and perform this little opera- 

 tion. Above all, keep your seed-bearing 

 plants up near the glass. Plants bear- 

 ing fruit or seed will always show signs 

 of decay earlier than those bearing no 

 seeds, which is a law of nature, proving 

 that reproduction is the greatest of life 's 

 functions. As the plants show a ripen- 

 ing of foliage and loss of chlorophyl, 

 withhold water gradually until the seed- 

 pods are ripe and pick off each ripe 

 seedpod as soon as ripe, or it may burst 

 open and scatter its seeds where you 

 cannot find them. W. S. 



- The Eeview is the best, the most 

 helpful and the most satisfactory paper 

 in the trade today. — W. G. Newell, 

 Galesburg, 111. 



Enclosed find $1 for the Eeview for 

 another year. There is no dollar I 

 invest with more pleasure, or for which 

 I get better returns. — J. F. Ammann, 

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