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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 3, 1907. 



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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. 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 471 



— Care of Left-overs 471 



— Stock for Forcing 471 



— Hybrid Perpetual Hoses 471 



— The Kauibler Uoses 471 



Our Credit System; its Uses and Abuses... 471 



The Polnsettla (lllus.) 472 



How Sam Murray Sent Out Lorralnes (lllus.) 472 

 An Anniversary Baslset of Plants (lllus.)... 473 



White lx)rralne Begonia (illus.) 474 



Aphis on Violets 475 



The Readers' Corner — White Polnsettlas 475 



The Retail Florist— Christmas Plants (lllus.) 475 



Mr. Coddington's Views (illus.) 476 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 477 



Chrysanthemums — Single Chrysanthemums... 478 



— Preparing Stocli Plants 478 



John K. M. L. Farquliar (portrait) 478 



Society of American Florists 470 



Samuel Murray (portrait) 479 



New Begonias 479 



Cattleya Lablata Candida (lllus.) 480 



Roees — Propagating Beauties 480 



Hybrid Perpetual Roses 4,«0 



Hollyhocks 481 



Basket Arranged by J. J. Foley (illus.) 481 



Obituary 482 



A German View 482 



A New Hybrid Tea Rose 482 



Chicago 483 



St. Louis 485 



Buffalo '.■ 486 



Kansas City 486 



Boston 487 



New York 488 



Wllliamsport, Pa 490 



Philadelphia- 49)) 



Detroit 492 



Cleveland 493 



Twin Cities 404 



Pittsburg 495 



Grand Rapids 496 



Lilacs for Forcing 496 



Vegetable Forcing 499 



— Vegetable Markets 499 



— Packing Vegetable Plants 409 



— Farthest North 490 



Seed Trade News 500 



— Mail Order Seed Trade (nn 



— Cleveland Opinion 501 



— Imports 502 



— Wilson Proposes Remedy 502 



— Grading Seed Corn 504 



— Toledo Grass Seed Market 504 



— Care of Seed Corn 504 



— Bulbs of Guernsey 504 



— Catalogues Received 505 



Indianapolis 506 



Stamford. Conn 506 



Steamer Sailings 513 



Pacific Coast 514 



— San Rafael, Cal 514 



— San Francisco 514 



— Christmas Plants at Frisco 514 



Baltimore 515 



Nursery News 516 



— Breeding and Pomology 516 



— Rudbeckia Maxima 51G 



Notes from England 516 



Dobbs Forry, N. Y 518 



Salem, Va 518 



Newport 520 



Denver 522 



Greenhouse Heating .5,S0 



— Converting a Coil Boiler ,530 



— Pipe for Heating 530 



— Trouble with Heating 5.30 



Columbus, Ohio .530 



Milwaukee 5,32 



Ip "A Subscriber" who wishes to 

 know the best style of house to add on 

 the south of his present range, will ad- 

 dress any of the firms advertising green- 

 house material, and not forget to sign 

 his name and address, the advertiser 

 doubtless will take pleasure in advising 

 him. 



The address of the secretary of the 

 Society of American Florists now is, 

 P. J. Hauswirth, 13 Congress street, 

 Chicago. 



OBITUARY. 



Miss Elsie Bi^fgam. 



Miss Elsie Biggam, daughter of Mrs. 

 M. A. Biggam, of Leavenworth, Kan., 

 died December 28. She was a popular 

 young lady and leaves a large circle of 

 sorrowing friends. Mrs. Biggam has the 

 sympathy of the trade. 



Charles Barton. 



Charles Barton, night watchman at E. 

 Wessling's greenhouse, at Minneapolis, 

 Minn., died December 26 as a result of 

 burns. He was on his way to the boiler- 

 room, carrying a lantern, when he stum- 

 bled and fell. While unconscious the 

 lantern exploded, covering him with oil. 

 Firemen soon arrived, but too late to 

 save his life. 



A GERMAN VIEW. 



The opinions of a rosarian published 

 in a German journal concerning the cele- 

 brated new roses, Bichmond, Liberty and 

 Gen. MacArthur, may afford interest to 

 our readers. The writer states that: 

 In the summer of 1905 he budded sev- 



raVERY now and then a well 

 IISI pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to* 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 520-40 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



eral dwarf stocks of the dog rose with 

 the variety Eichmond, standing in care- 

 fully prepared land. The plants were 

 not attacked by mildew this year, from 

 which fact it must not be inferred that 

 it is mildew-proof. There is great simi- 

 larity between the flowers of Eichmond 

 and Ijberty, and the growth of the for- 

 mer is more vigorous than of the latter. 

 As regards floriferousness these two are 

 about equal. 



Breeders of roses have in recent years 

 been endeavoring to raise hybrid teas 

 with blooms equalling our dark, velvety 

 hybrid perpetuals, or at the least closely 

 resembling these, but this aim has been 

 as little reached in Bichmond as in Lib- 

 erty. Of all the new varieties which 

 have as yet been brought into commerce, 

 Etoile de France comes nearest to this 

 ideal. It is a fuller bloom than either, 

 is certainly a stronger grower, and it 

 produces flowers continuously till stopped 

 by frost; the color is dark and texture 



velvety. As an early forcer Eichmond 

 is to be preferred to Etoile de France, 

 for, being less full, the buds open more 

 quickly. Apart from this fact most 

 rosarians would prefer the latter. 



The variety Gen. MacArthur came out 

 at the same time as Eichmond, and the 

 beautiful dark velvety blooms that ap- 

 peared in the summer months gave rise 

 to great expectations, only to be dissi- 

 pated in the autumn by the extreme 

 paleness of the tint. — Horticultural Trade 

 Journal. 



A NEW HYBRID TEA ROSE. 



Of the four new hybrid teas distrib- 

 uted by M. Pemet-Ducher, the famous 

 French raiser, in the autumn of 1905, 

 Mme. M6lanie Soupert is facile princeps; 

 moreover, it is quite distinct from any 

 other variety with which I am ac- 

 quainted. Perhaps fault will be found 

 with it on account of its extreme vari- 

 ation of coloring, but this seems pe- 

 culiar to many of the newer hybrid teas, 

 of which Frince de Bulgarie may be 

 cited as a notable exaiftple. 



My best flowers of Mme. M6lanie Sou- 

 pert were cut early in July, before the 

 effects of the hot, scorching weather had 

 begun to make themselves felt. The 

 buds of this rose are long and pointed, 

 and open into semi-double, globular flow- 

 ers with large, deep petals; on the out- 

 side these are a soft salmon-white tinged 

 with light carmine-rose, and on the in- 

 side a light apricot-pink with a most 

 vivid yellow base, almost the color of the 

 Austrian Yellow briar. Later on in the 

 season, however, all these charming tints 

 were lost, due most probably to the ex- 

 treme heat and drought, and I should 

 judge that in a cool season this rose will 

 be seen at its best. Certainly the first 

 flowers were of exquisite beauty, and it 

 was a considerable disappointment that 

 the later ones should have had rather a 

 washed out appearance. The growth of 

 the plant is in every way satisfactory, 

 and the floM'er stalks strong and upright. 

 The foliage is a dark, bronzy green; the 

 wood strong and of vigorous branching 

 growth. Should its coloring prove con- 

 stant there should be a great future for 

 this rose. In general habit it reminds 

 me of Killarney. — Gardeners' Magazine. 



COLUMBUS. OHIO. 



Christmas trade was better than last 

 year, with plenty of stock. Brides, 

 Maids and Gates sold readily at $3 to $4 

 per dozen, retail. Carnations brought 

 $1.50, except Enchantress, which fetched 

 $2 to $2.50 per dozen. Narcissi, Bo- 

 mans, stevia and sweet peas all cleaned 

 up at good prices. Poinsettias with 

 bracts fifteen to seventeen inches across 

 on stems four feet long and with fine 

 foliage sold for $5 to $6 per dozen; 

 smaller ones, $3. There was a good de- 

 mand for pot plants. Gloire de Lor- 

 raine begonias in 8-inch pans sold easily 

 at $4.50 to $6 each. Cyclamens in 7-inch 

 and 8-inch pans with thirty to forty 

 flowers brought $2.50 to $4 each. Poin- 

 settias in pans, primroses, cinerarias and 

 azaleas all sold at good prices. H. 



FOR nVE YEARS. 



Kindly place the enclosed check for 

 $5 to my credit on subscription to the 

 Eeview for five years in advance. — W. A. 

 Hammond, Eichmond, Va., Dec. 28, 1906. 



Ironton, O. — Mr. Ullrich, of Ullrich & 

 Peet, lost his wife December 30. 



