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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decembeb 20, 1906. 



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is printed Wednesday evening; and 

 mailed early Tiiursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 '^copy'^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday mornins; at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning;, as many 

 have done' in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 339 



— Christmas Preparations 339 



— Don't Overtrim 339 



— The Division of Labor 339 



— Handling the Orders 339 



Gladiolus Harvard (illus.) 339 



Roses— Liquid Fertilizers 340 



— Erratic Watering 340 



Orchids— Vanda Caerulea (lllus. ) 340 



— Conimercial Orchids 341 



Gladioli for Easter 342 



Chrysanthemums — Single Cbrj'santbemums 



(llluB.) 342 



— Mr. Godfrey's Views 342 



— Mums and Vegetables 342 



Watering :'.' 343 



Asparagus Sprengeri 344 



Carnations — Carnation Rust 344 



— Nitrate of Potash 344 



— Carnations Outdoors . , 844 



American Carnation Society 844 



A Missouri Place (lllus.). 345 



Consolidation (illus.) 845 



Boston ■: 346 



Chicago Club Officers^ (portraits) 347 



New York 348 



Obituary— Alfred F. Conard (portrait) 349 



— Albert Woltemate 349 



Glass and the Tariff 350 



Congress of Horticulture 350 



Society of American Florists 350 



Southern Florists 350 



Chicago 351 



St. Louis 353 



Cincinnati 354 



Twin Cities 355 



Philadelphia 856 



Montreal - 868 



ColnmbuB, Ohio 869 



Madison. N..J 860 



Indianapolis 361 



Want Advertisements 862 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 363 



— Cucumbers 363 



— Sowing Seeds 363 



— Cyanide Fumigation 363 



Seed Trade News 864 



— The Free Seed Fight 365 



— European Seed Notes 865 



— Pea Crops in England 866 



— The New Russian Clover 866 



— Bulbs in Channel Islands 867 



— The European Valley Trade 368 



Providence 368 



Steamer Sailings 377 



Pacific Coast — Berried Greens 378 



— Portland, Ore 378 



— San Francisco 378 



Nursery News 380 



— Timber Planting 380 



— Smith's Benefaction 380 



Detroit 382 



Baltimore 384 



Pittsburg 386 



Lily of the Valley. . ., 396 



Davenport, la 397 



Greenhouse Heating 398 



New Orleans 400 



Satukday is the shortest day in the 

 year. 



When the days begin to lengthen the 

 cold begins to strengthen. 



Every year the propagating of carna- 

 tions and the" purchase and sale of cut- 

 tings is beginning a little earlier than it 

 did the year before. 



The Proceedings of the Society of 

 America^^ Florists, being a stenographic 

 report of the Dayton convention, lists of 

 members, etc., has been issued and 

 mailed to members. 



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 Review. 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. 



GLASS AND THE TARIFF. 



The printed report of the proceedings 

 of the twenty-second annual convention 

 of the Society of American Florists, 

 held at Dayton, Ohio, last August, is 

 now out, and for the benefit of those 

 who were not present at the meeting, 

 they will find on pages 78 to 85 the 

 action which was taken upon the dis- 

 cussion of President Kasting's address 

 relative to the cost of glass for green- 

 house work. 



It will be noticed in that report that 

 it was suggested that the first step for 

 practical results would be to find, from 

 the committee of ways and means, what 

 was likely to come up. 



The Hon. Butler Ames, one of the 

 Massachusetts congressmen, stands as a 

 leader and member in favor of tariff 

 revision, and in reply to a letter ad- 

 dressed to him, as to what action would 

 be likely to be taken upon revision by 

 those who favored such a course, he 

 makes his reply as follows: 



House of Representatives, 

 Washington, D. C, Dec. 8, 1906. 

 Benjamin Hammond, 



FishklU-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

 Dear Sir: Congressman Ames wished me to 

 acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th 

 instant with its enclosures in reference to the 

 proposed revision of the tariff, and to say in 

 reply that this matter has not yet reached a 

 point where the majority of this congress have 

 indicated that they are favorable to a revision. 

 Yours respectfully, 



J. A. Legare, 



Private Secretary. 



It will thus be seen from the letter 

 received from the chairman of the com- 

 mittee of ways and means of the house 

 of representatives, already published, 

 and the letter above, shows that there 

 is no expectation of any real work being 

 done at the present session of congress. 

 What may develop during the winter, 

 which will lead up to an extra session 

 next year, remains yet to be seen, but 

 there is no doubt but what if the florists 

 as a body will stand together, that their 

 collective influence would have much 

 weight. Benjamin Hammond. 



CONGRESS OF HORTICULTURE. 



One who would safely navigate the 

 ocean finds it essential to occasionally 

 make observations to establish his exact 

 location. He may have kept a record of 

 the ship's course, know to a nicety the 

 force of the wind and the ocean cur- 

 rents, the number of revolutions of -the 

 propeller, and be able to tell just where 

 the ship ought to be, but experience has 

 taught that in addition to this he must, 

 by observations, ascertain just where it 

 is. In like manner those who assay to 

 explore the ocean of the unknown should 

 occasionally make observations and com- 

 parisons to ascertain just where they 

 are. 



We can learn something of this 

 through a mere physical exhibition of 

 what has been and can be accomplished, 

 but it is far more important that we 

 come to an exact knowledge of the laws 

 through which and by which the results 

 are obtained. This can only come 



through a conference between those who 

 are studying these laws, for what seems 

 to be the truth to one under a certain 

 set of conditions, the experience of an- 

 other under other conditions may show 

 it to be only a seeming truth. It is well 

 then for all those who are engaged in 

 any particular line of study to meet 

 occasionally for council, that they may 

 ascertain how much of what we think 

 we know is actually so, to ascertain just 

 how far we are in our voyage into the 

 unknown. 



To this end the National Council of 

 Horticulture has thought it wise to call 

 for the meeting of a congress of the 

 horticulturists of the world to assemble 

 at Jamestown, Va., during the latter part 

 of the exhibition to be held there in 

 1907, to commemorate the four hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the first perma- 

 nent English settlement in what is now 

 the United States. The exact date of 

 the meeting and the formal program has 

 not been decided upon, but will be an- 

 nounced later. But in the meantime we 

 ask that all interested in progressive 

 horticulture plan to attend the congress 

 and communicate with H. C. Irish, Mis- 

 souri Botanic Garden, St. Louis, Mo., U. 

 S. A., as to what definite subjects should 

 be discussed. W. W. Tracy. 



Washington, D. C, December 11. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Department of Plant Registration* 



Central Park Nursery, Topeka, Kan., 

 submits for registration Canna Magnifi- 

 cent; foliage green; bloom rich scarlet 

 of extraordinary size; height four feet. 



Appointment of Director. 

 Secretary-elect P. J. Hauswirth has 

 tendered to President Kasting his resig- 

 nation as a director of the Society of 

 American Florists and same has been 

 accepted. President Kasting has ap- 

 pointed Theodore Wirth, of Minneapolis, 

 to serve as a director for Mr. Haus- 

 wirth 's unexpired term of two years. 

 Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



SOUTHERN FLORISTS. 



The Society of Southern Florists was 

 organized at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 

 22, 1906. The purpose of the organiza- 

 tion is mutual business and social bene- 

 fits to members and the improving and 

 enlarging of trade conditions in south- 

 ern territory. 



Forty-six charter members were en- 

 rolled, oflScers elected, a liberal and 

 practical constitution adopted and ar- 

 rangements made for holding a conven- 

 tion of florists at New Orleans in the 

 near future. 



The constitution admits to membership 

 professional and amateur florists, horti- 

 culturists, seedsmen, dealers in supplies 

 and implements incidental to the trade 

 and others having rallied interests. 



There is so much in prospect for the 

 betterment of floricultural and horticul- 

 tural conditions in the south — a section 

 especially adapted to these operations — 

 through organization, that an earnest ap- 

 peal is rihide to all who are directly or 

 indirectly interested to lend a hand in 

 extending encouragement and substantial 

 support by promptly sending in to the 

 undersigned, or directly to the treasurer, 

 Jos. Steckler, New Orleans, their appli- 

 cation for membership and the modest 

 sum of $1, which the constitution re- 

 quires as annual dues. 



J. F. Wilson, Sec 'y. 



