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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 10, 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 n^iny 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



The Meu We Meet — Antolne Wlntzer (por- 

 trait) 539 



Petunia Tlie Queen 540 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 540 



— Astilbe 640 



— Propagating Bedding I'lants 540 



— Seeds to Sow 540 



— Verbena Venosa 540 



— Ferns for Window-Boxes 541 



— Easter Plants 541 



The Ketail Florist — Luncheon Flowers 541 



— An Indiana Store (illus. ) 541 



Seasonable Flower Seeds 542 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — lOast 542 



— Benching a Low House 542 



— Feeding Carnations 542 



— Good Companions 542 



— Split Carnation Flowers (illus.) 542 



— Carnation Notes — West 543 



American Carnation Society 544 



A Visit to John E. Haines (ilius.) 544 



Forcing for Easter 545 



Asters in Missouri 545 



Stock for Memorial Day 545 



Stoclis 546 



Carnation Society Exhibits 546 



Roses— Grafting 546 



— New Roses in Europe 546 



— Outdoor Roses for Cutting 547 



The Bertermann Plant (Illus.) 547 



Forcing Dutch Hyacinths 547 



Greenhouse Heating 548 



Wm. E. Hielscher (portrait) 549 



Gladiolus The Bride 550 



Store of Johnson Seed Co. (illus.) 550 



Boston 550 



The Death Roll 551 



The Readers' Corner — Using Tobacco Steins. 552 



— The Violet Grower 552 



— An Appreciative Grower 552 



Chicago 553 



Portland, Me 556 



St. Louis 556 



Milwaukee 557 



Philadelphia 558 



New York 560 



Louisville, Ky 563 



Lenox, Mass 563 



Onarga. HI 664 



Want Advertisements 664 



Wayside Notes 566 



Pittsburg 666 



Baltimore 567 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 568 



— Growing Lettuce 568 



— Cucumbers 568 



— A Michigan Lettuce Factory (Illus.) 569 



Seed Trade Notes 570 



— Imports 571 



— Onion Contracts 573 



— Conditions in California 573 



— Contract Prices 573 



— The Law in Maine 574 



— About Seed Prices 574 



Roman Hyacinths 576 



Steamer Sailings 5.83 



Pacific Coast 584 



— Portland, Ore 584 



— San Francisco 584 



— Los Angeles, Cal 585 



Nursery News 586 



Diseased Lilies 587 



Bloomington, 111 588 



Cincinnati 590 



Detroit 592 



Kansas City 594 



Twin Cities 602 



Cleveland 604 



Indianapolis 604 



A French firm bought orchids from a 

 Belgian grower, making selection from 

 a number of colored plates. When the 

 plants bloomed they did not come up 

 to the promise of the pictures. Now, 

 after two and a half years of litigation 

 the buyer has secured his money back, 

 with costs. 



There is a heavy demand for stock 

 for fern dishes and prospect for a short- 

 age before spring. 



Shippers will find it worth while to 

 send a postal-card to the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for a copy of Circular No. 47, 

 ' ' Strength of Packing Boxes of Various 

 Woods." 



A. F. Faulkner, who wrote the Re- 

 view's Washington, D. C, news letter in 

 1906, having removed from thai city, the 

 Eeview would like to hear from some 

 young man who has "a nose for news" 

 to take up the work. 



The Review is in receipt of several 

 letters endorsing the sentiments expressed 

 in Mr. Skidelsky's paper on credits pub- 

 lished last week, especially that part re- 

 lating to the desirability of the trade 

 honoring drafts and answering communi- 

 cations regarding overdue accounts. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Using Tobacco Stems. 



I think it will interest the readers of 

 the Review to know my way of fumi- 

 gating with tobacco stems. I have small 

 V-shaped iron troughs, with 4-ineh sides, 

 and two feet long, I put fresh stems 

 in the sun or over the boiler to dry and 

 then chop them up quite fine with a 



The Kditor is pleased 

 i^irlien a Reader 

 presents Ills Ideas 

 on any subject treated 



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As experience is the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezchangre of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brought out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your t)e8t. 



WE SHALL. BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM TOU. 



spade, or a small feed cutter, which is 

 better, as they do not have to be so dry. 

 I then fill the troughs rounding full and 

 set on fire, opening a small place at one 

 end and pouring in a little kerosene oil 

 to start them. 



The stems in the troughs will burn 

 ten or twelve hours and kill every green- 

 fly in the house, l can use it with roses, 

 chrysanthemums and carnations in full 

 bloom and not hurt or bleach a bloom 

 in the least. You cannot see the smoke 

 at all, but it is strong enough, with the 

 long duration. 



I use three troughs to a house 18x100. 

 It takes a little practice to get the 

 stems just right, but when learned it is 

 easily done and I think it is just as 



good and much cheaper than the differ- 

 ent preparations for the same purpose. 



Wm. B. Lovell. 



The Real Violet Grower. 



Please be so kind as to spare room 

 for these few words with reference to 

 the "violet men up the state," as was 

 printed in the Review of December 27. 

 Of course there are quite a few of us 

 up here, as well as there are wholesale 

 and retail dealers in the city of New 

 York, and to get horns crossed would 

 make quite a mix-up. But it certainly 

 is laughable when one reads in our good 

 paper, the Review, how every violet 

 grower is an aristocrat and even the be- 

 ginners With their two or three 100-foot 

 houses put by enough money in the 

 winter to take a trip to Europe and 

 build another house or two for the next 

 season. 



Make a canvass around the majority 

 of our beginners for five years back and 

 see if they are enjoying their summers 

 in Europe, or working at home instead. 

 If we don't keep our eyes wide open we 

 will not have profit enough to build ex- 

 tra houses. We don't dispute the fact 

 that we do build houses, but how many 

 in our county have their places mort- 

 gaged to the chimney-tops? And the 

 only way we go to Europe is to take 

 a run down the Hudson to the brickyards 

 to buy bricks to rebuild, as houses don't 

 last forever. 



There are two sides to this question 

 of violet' culture. One is the wealth 

 found in books and the other is wealth 

 from hard, tedious work and constant 

 watchfulness, and money coming in only 

 half the year to cover the expense of the 

 whole year. In July and August, when 

 the sun is quite warm, you can come 

 around and catch the violet growers 

 working to beat Paddy 's pig, making the 

 plants grow. So don't put the credit 

 in the wrong place. Alex A. Laub. 



An Appreciative Grower. 



It won't hurt you to know that the 

 Review is the most appreciated publica- 

 tion that comes to ray place, and I think 

 that one article alone, "The Craft and 

 the Craftsman," is worth much more 

 than the price of the paper for one year. 



Can you name a white carnation that 

 is as good in size of flower and stiffness 

 of stem as Enchantress? My Lieut. 

 Peary and Wolcott have weak stems and 

 small flowers, some shrivel up before they 

 are quite open. Robert Craig is a per- 

 fect red in size, stem and color, but not 

 so prolific as Victory and Haines. Harry 

 Fenn is the most perfect crimson in 

 every way. The four different Lawsons 

 don't do so well; there are too many 

 burst ones. Mrs. Patten is much bet- 

 ter than Variegated Lawson, and Glen- 

 dale is perfect in that color. The cloudy, 

 wet weather retarded the blooming of 

 carnations the last three weeks and kept 

 me from supplying the demand, even at 

 double the usual price. A. Woerner. 



SCX3ETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Ladies' Auxiliary. 



The Ladies' S. A. F. pins have been 

 received and will be forwarded to all 

 members as soon as the secretary re- 

 turns from North Carolina, where she 

 has been called by sickness. 



Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



