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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Dl>CDMBBB 18, 1906. 



is printed 'Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. 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 morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Christmas Suggestions 



(lllus.) 241 



Sports 243 



Trouble with Mignonette 245 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 246 



— Winter Protection Now Needed 246 



— Bulbous Stock 246 



— Cover the Roses 246 



— Valley for Early Use 246 



— Case for Valley 246 



— Valley Under Benches (lllus.) 246 



— Christmas Plants 247 



— Storage for Greens 247 



— Protecting Pansles 247 



Pecky Cypress 247 



Chrysanthemums — Salablllty of Mums 248 



-White Maud Dean (lllus.) 248 



— A British Grower's View 249 



— Stock Plants 249 



— Chrysanthemum Dakoma 249 



Roses — Seasonable Suggestions 250 



— Rose Propagation 250 



American Rose Society 250 



Lilium Phillpplnensis 250 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 250 



— Scale of Points 251 



The Glass Market 251 



Potting Shed Idyls— The Simple Life 252 



Holiday Advertising (ilius.) 253 



Geraniums for Winter (lllus.) 254 



WilUamsport, Pa 254 



Indianapolis 255 



Wayside Notes 255 



Chrysanthemum Society 255 



New Orleans 256 



Boston 256 



Charles H. Totty (portrait) 257 



St. Louis 257 



Pittsburg 258 



Detroit 258 



Cincinnati 258 



A. T. Pyfer (portrait) 259 



Baltimore 259 



Chicago 260 



New York 263 



Philadelphia 266 



Steamer Sailings 270 



Want Advertisements 273 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 276 



— The Largest House 276 



— Tomatoes 276 



— Mildew on Lettuce 276 



— Cucumbers 277 



— Nematodes 279 



Cleveland 278 



Seed Trade News 280 



— Harry L. Holmes (portrait) 282 



— Seed Selection 283 



— The Fight Is On 284 



— Valley Pips 284 



— Imports 285 



— European Seed Notes 285 



— Operations of the Canners 286 



Catalogues Received 286 



Grand Rapids, Mich 286 



Rochester, N. Y 287 



Pacific Coast 303 



— Rose Growing in Oregon (lllus.) 303 



— San Francisco .303 



— Portland. Ore .303 



— Santa Rosa, Cal 304 



— Eucalyptus for Ties .304 



— Euphorbia 305 



Nursery News 306 



— .Tohn T. Lovett (portrait) 306 



Twin Cities 310 



Kansas City 312 



Elberon, N. J 314 



Newark, N. Y 314 



Failure with Sweet Peas 318 



Lockland Retiring .320 



A Feat of Enelneering | .322 



Use a Steam Trap 324 



Trouble with Heating 324 



Pipe for Heating 324 



BufTalo 326 



Kalamazoo. Mich 328 



Watertown, Wis. — Loeffler & Benke 

 are building another house 30x100. 



NOTICE. 



To Advertisers and Correspondents. 



Advertisers and correspondents are 

 asked to note that both Christmas and 

 New Year's fall on Tuesday, the busiest 

 day in the oflSce of the Keview. It will 

 be necessary that copy for the issues of 

 December 27 and January 3 be placed in 

 our hands one day earlier than usual. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has been erratic since last 

 report. Stormy days have been a factor 

 and shipping demand has some days been 

 heavy, others light, so that on the whole 

 trade has hardly been satisfactory; but 

 it is never brisk in the first weeks of 

 December. Monday saw a good shipping 

 demand and nearly every one hustling 

 for the right kind of stock for out-of- 

 town orders, while there was at the same 

 time a considerable quantity of material 

 not shipable which was not in request 

 and brought low prices if sold at all. 

 It is to be expected that this week will 

 see only light supplies, for all the grow- 

 ers will be doing what they safely may 

 toward providing a supply for Christ- 

 mas. They will not cut anything from 

 now on which is not needed in the mar- 

 ket. 



If there is any one thing now in short 

 supply it is Beauties. The demand for 

 this leading item continues strong, and 

 receipts are promptly cleaned up. Qual- 

 ity is excellent with every one. Other 

 roses are abundant and cooler weather 

 haf^ improved the quality. There are Kil- 

 larney, Richmond and Chatenay of super- 

 lative excellence. Many orders are of- 

 fered for these specialties for Christmas. 



Carnations are equal to requirements 

 and with practically all the growers the 

 quality is all that could be asked. About 

 the only exception to this is Lawson 

 with some growers, for many are seen 

 which have not yet attained a greater 

 length than six inches of stem. On the 

 other hand, with other growers Lawson 

 continues to hold its old-time quality. 

 Enchantress is superb. It is the one 

 carnation with which no grower makes a 

 failure. But Enchantress is so abundant 

 this season that only the best of this 

 variety make the extra price which has 

 been asked for it in previous seasons. 

 White sorts are sought because a large 

 part of the demand is for funeral work. 

 Harrisii and callas also are in active de- 

 mand for the same reason, and it has in 

 the past week been difficult to find them 

 for late orders. Most of the Harrisii in 

 the market are short in stem. 



There have been only moderate re- 

 ceipts of violets, but the supply has been 

 more than enough to go around, and, if 

 violets have made lower averages in other 

 markets, Ehinebeck growers are entitled 

 to question the universal prosperity of 

 which we hear so much. While the best 

 violets have sold for $1.25, others have 

 gone as low as 40 cents per hundred. 

 The fragrant singl^ have sold well. Last 

 week returns were rather better than 

 those of this week because the charity 

 bazaar at the Coliseum created a special 

 demand for violets. 



Quite a number of good chrysanthe- 

 mums now are available. It appears that 

 the supply of late sorts will be quite 

 heavy. Prices realized have been only 

 fair. Mignonette is in and when of 

 first-class quality sella well. Large quan- 

 tities of stevia are used, but the supply 



of Paper Whites and Bomans is far 

 ahead of the demand. 



Among the specialties orchids are in 

 short supply. A few good sweet peas 

 are seen and sell at sight. Bouvardia 

 sells well. A few pansies have been re- 

 ceived and are quickly taken. 



Green Goods. 



Although bouquet green is scarce, some 

 of it is of splendid quality. The E. F. 

 Winterson Co. has had stock that readily 

 sold at 15 cents per pound ih small lots. 

 Perhaps because of the scarcity of bou- 

 quet green, boxwood has been selling 

 at a surprising rate. A quiet market for 

 this was looked for because all the houses 

 were heavily stocked a few weeks ago, 

 but in the last week many have been 

 cleaned out. Holly is in good supply 

 and fine. 



There is considerable alarm at the fern 

 situation. Those in storage are reported 

 not keeping well and the quality of the 

 regular shipments coming from Massa- 

 chusetts is not satisfactory. 



Smilax and asparagus are abundant. 

 Some splendid adiantum is being re- 

 ceived. 



Christmas Prospects. 



The retailers are all counting on the 

 largest Christmas trade they ever have 

 done, and their enthusiasm is reflected 

 in the confidence of the wholesalers re- 

 garding the large volume of business to 

 be handled. The general anticipation is 

 that supplies will be large, but of course 

 much will depend on the character of 

 the weather in the next ten days. We 

 have had so much cloudy weather that we 

 certainly are due for some sunny days, 

 but if we do not get them we still shall 

 have good quantities of stuff, for most 

 growers report heavy crops just com- 

 ing on. 



Once again it is in order to caution 

 growers against holding back their stock. 

 It many times has happened that the 

 market has been strong for a week be- 

 fore the holiday and taken a pronounced 

 slump the morning after the ship|)ing 

 orders were dispatched. The bulk of the 

 shipments this year go out on Sunday. 



Growers also should not forget that 

 Christmas is a holiday at which most 

 flowers are used for gifts and no one is 

 willing to use for this purpose anything 

 but fresh stock. Pickled goods are abso- 

 lutely withtout value. 



Christmas Shipments. 



Christmas shipments from Chicago will , 

 be made under difficult circumstances, as 

 the bulk of the shipments must go out 

 on Sunday. The trouble lies in the 

 fact that incoming trains are not nearly 

 so numerous on the Sabbath as on week 

 days. The through trains go out as 

 usual, but the locals do not run Sun- 

 day. Then, too, the express companies 

 make no pick-ups after noon on Sunday. 

 An effort is being made to get special 

 wagons for the wholesale cut flower dis- 

 trict all day Sunday, December 23 ; other- 

 wise the wholesalers will have to make 

 deliveries to the depots by hired convey- 

 ances. 



Growers should bear in mind that ship- 

 ments must get to Chicago Sunday morn- 

 ing and buyers will help by getting their 

 orders in as early as possible. 



Another Rose-Pink Enchantress. 



Fortune has indeed been unkind to the 

 carnation grower whom it has not fa- 

 vored with a sport of Enchantress. There 

 are sports of almost every color, but the 



