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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 17, 1907. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested tiiat 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 oast. 



CONTENTS. 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 613 



— Weak-Stemmed Carnations 613 



— George H. Mills (portrait) 613 



— Robert Craig Carnation 614 



— McKlnley Day 614 



— House of Aristocrat (illus. ) 614 



— American Carnation Society 614 



— Carnation Wlnsor (Ulus.) 614 



The Toronto Convention 615 



Indiana Florists' Officers (portraits) 616 



President Totty 'a Inaugural 616 



Cyanide 61S 



Refuse Hops 618 



Cleaning Greenhouse Glass 618 



Roses — Propagating by Grafting 618 



— Outdoor Roses for Cutting 618 



— Rooting Rose Cuttings (illus.) 618 



Sweet Peas Closing 619 



Prevents Frost on Windows 619 



Late Bulbs 619 



Seeding of Lorraine 620 



Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints 620 



— BougalnviUeas 620 



— Gardenias 620 



— Dutch Hyacinths 620 



— Fuchsias 620 



— Zonal Geraniums 620 



— Begonia Semperflorens 620 



New York 620 



Delivery Team of C. C. Trefel (111ns.) 621 



Newport, R. 1 622 



Indianapolis 622 



Boston 623 



The Death Roll 624 



Remember the Certificate 624 



The Readers' Corner 624 



Chicago 625 



St. Louis 628 



Tarrytown, N. Y 629 



Philadelphia 630 



Toronto 632 



Baltimore 632 



Cleveland 633 



Twin Cities 634 



Want Advertisements 634 



Detroit 636 



Dallas, Tex 636 



Smllax 638 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 638 



— Tomatoes 638 



— Winter Beauty Tomato 638 



— Fungus on Lettuce 688 



— At Grand Rapids 639 



— Trouble with Lettuce 639 



Seed Trade News 040 



— Imports 641 



— Terms in the Seed Trade 642 



— Seed Trade Association 642 



— Sweet Poas 643 



Catalogues Received 644 



Providence, R. 1 646 



Steatoer Sailings 653 



Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 654 



— Victoria, B. C «54 



— San Francisco 654 



— Demand for Nursery Stock 654 



Cincinnati 65!» 



Nursery News 656 



— Inspection In Utah 656 



— Oklahoma Nurserymen 656 



— Cotoneasters 656 



Grand Rapids 658 



Washington 660 



Springfield, 111 662 



New Orleans 664 



Montreal 664 



Buffalo 672 



Greenhouse Heating 674 



Bloomlngton, 111 675 



Manchester, Mass 676 



Pittsburg 676 



HORTICULTUEAL printing is showing 

 another improvement in quality this sea- 

 son. 



The Philadelphians already are at 

 work on arrangements for the August 

 convention of the S. A. F. 



It is the purpose of the Editor to 

 cause the Eeview to be unlike other 

 publications for our trade. This will 

 account for the non-appearance of cer- 

 tain manuscripts and illustrations sent 

 simultaneously to all the papers. Inev- 

 itably certain matters must be dupli- 

 cated, but it is useless to expect anyone 

 to read a write-up twice, no matter how 

 well prepared. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



James Brails. 



":James Brails, assistant superintendent 

 'i^ 'parks at Buffalo, died at noon on 

 Wediifesday, January 16. He was a good 

 arid kplendid man. W. S. 



Reinhold Gidionsen. 



Keinhold Gidionsen, a veteran florist, 

 87 years old, died at his home in St. 

 Lt)uis, Mo., January 8. He had been a 

 resident of St. Louis for thirty-three 

 yi^rs. He was born in Schleswig-Hol- 

 ' stein, Germany, and participated in the 

 revolution of 1848. He leaves a wife, 

 four sons, Albert, Herman, Edward and 

 Oscar, and a daughter, Dora Gidionsen. 



REMEMBER THE CERTIFICATE. 



Those who attend the Toronto conven- 

 tion next week should not fail to tell 

 the ticket agent, when purchasing the 



Tbe Editor is pleased 

 Wben a Reader 

 presents Ills Ideas 

 on any sublect treated 



t^i^ 



Am experience is tlie best 

 teacber, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 exchange of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brouffbt out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WK SHALL. BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM YOU. 



* Wk . — 



railrdad ticket, * * I want a certificate on 

 account of the meeting of the American 

 Carnation Society." Get the certificate 

 anyway, no matter if you do not intend 

 to use it to save yourself two -thirds the 

 fare on the return journey. Get it to 

 help save the other fellows' money. The 

 reduced fare returning does not apply 

 unless 100 certificates are turned over to 

 the secretary. Last year at Boston, with 

 an attendance of 200 to 300, there were 

 only eighty-four certificates, so many had 

 failed to ask for them, and it was late 

 ^hen it was discovered. The difliculty 

 •was remedied by telephoning to a florist 

 out aways, who brought sixteen employees 

 and friends to town on the last train. 

 It saved the day, but it was a close call. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Lorraine at Christmas. 



In the Review of January 10 I note 

 that your Kansas City correspondent 

 very truthfully states that ' ' flowering 

 plants took the lead" at Christmas, but 

 he makes an error when he says that 

 Begonia Gloire de Lorraine is not a 

 good seller or a popular plant. If the 

 correspondent had spent a short time at 

 1017 Broadway (the store of Sam Mur- 

 ray), where Lorraine is handled, he 

 would not think it had a dark future. . 

 Walter Berminqham.- 



[What the correspondent actually 

 said was : ' * Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 

 is all right, but don't last long enough 

 after being taken from the greenhouse 

 and will never be the leading plant for 

 Christmas." Mr. Bermingham, who is 

 Mr. Murray's foreman, has had excep- 

 tional success in growing Lorraine, as 

 Review readers have reason to know 

 because of the several photographs of 

 his plants reproduced in its columns in 

 the last couple of years, and there is 

 no doubt they sell, but that there is any- 

 thing in the enduring qualities of the 

 plant to recommend it to customers we 

 have not yet heard; in fact, we be- 

 lieve the best most retailers are willing 

 to say for Lorraine is that it will keep 

 at least as long as holiday cut flowers. — 

 Ed.] 



Mice Eating Swainsona. 



I read in a recent issue of the Re- 

 view about someone who was having 

 trouble because an unknown pest was 

 eating swainsona. I had the same 

 trouble a while ago, but I invested in a 

 couple of mouse traps and soon saw 

 what it was caused the damage. After 

 I had caught six or eight mice that 

 I had not known were in the green- 

 houses I had no further trouble. 



George Allard. 



An English View. 



I send my cheque for renewal of sub- 

 scription to the Review and am glad to 

 say I have found it a most useful trade 

 paper; we have nothing like it on this 

 side of the "herring pond." The 

 amount of information given weekly i» 

 invaluable to all growers and retailers. 

 The cultural hints are fine. You will 

 be interested to hear how great is the 

 progress the American carnation is mak- 

 ing in Great Britain. It has been 

 adopted unanimously by the whole of 

 the trade, Jersey and Guernsey grow- 

 ers especially laying themselves out to 

 cater to the rapidly growing demand 

 for cut blooms and plants. We now 

 get a regular supply of fine blooms as 

 much as four inches across on strong 

 stems eighteen to twenty- four inches 

 long. They are grown in pots and 

 also on the American system of plant- 

 ing in benches, chiefly straight from the 

 small pots to the benches, as the sea- 

 son is too short here for field planting 

 and lifting. Our growers are now rais- 

 ing some fine seedlings and Smith's 

 Brittania is worth the attention of 

 American growers. It is a scarlet, su- 

 perior to Victory or Robert Craig, fine 

 as they are. Also Mrs. H. Burnett is 

 a pink salmon you will hear of, a most 

 pleasing color and different from every- 

 thing now grown. 



Alva J. Hall. 



Harrogate. 



