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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 24, 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 mornings as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



American Carnation Society 693 



— The Toronto Convention (illus.) 693 



— President-elect Fred H. Lemon (portrait) 693 



— President's Address 693 



— President J. II. Dunlop (portrait) 694 



— Vice-president-elect Peter Bissei (portrait) 694 



— Edward Dale (portrait) 695 



— George Valr (portrait) 695 



— Secretary's Report 696 



— Herman Simmers (portrait) 696 



— Treasurer's Report 696 



— Judges' Awards 696 



— Thomas Manton (portrait) 697 



— Bench of Carnation Sarah A. Hill (illus.) 69S 



— Election of Officers 698 



John Birnle (portrait) 699 



Carnation Sarah A. Hill (Illus.) 699 



Not Too Many New Varieties 699 



Single Bloom of Sarah A. Hill (illus.) 700 



Carnations in Canada 700 



Carnation Mabelle (illus.) 701 



Carnation Toreador (illus.) 701 



American Sorts in Europe 701 



Carnation Imperial (illus.) 702 



American Sorts In Denmark 703 



Carnation Pink Imperial (Illus.) 703 



American Sorts in England 704 



House of Carnation White Perfection (Illus.) 704 



Mechanical Watering 705 



W. G. Saltford's Pink Seedling (iUus.) 705 



McKlnley Day 706 



Carnation Toreador (Illus. ) 706 



Violets— Propagating 706 



Carnation Cuttings at Peter Reinberg's 



(Illus. ) 707 



Breeding Gladioli 707 



Helm Support in Action (illus.) 708 



Establishment of C. C. Wonneman (illus.).. 708 

 Roses — Propagating by Grafting 709 



— lYouble with Roses 709 



Springfield, 709 



New York 709 



Denver 710 



Kansas City 711 



The Death Roll — James Mallon 711 



— George F. Fabyan 711 



— Mrs. R. C. Hooper 711 



— Joseph Mevlus 711 



— James Braik 711 



The Trade Paper 712 



Chrysanthemum Society 712 



The Readers' Corner 712 



Council of Horticulture 712 



Chicago 713 



Detroit 716 



Philadelphia 718 



St. Louis rao 



Twin Cities 721 



Cleveland 722 



Boston 723 



Wayside Notes , 724 



Vegetable Forcing— Markets 728 



— Forcing Asparagus 728 



— Lettuce or Carnations 729 



— Mint 729 



Seed Trade News 730 



— Imports 731 



— Cut Out the Seeds 732 



— A Case for McVay 732 



— Seedsmen Take New Tack 733 



— Notes from Holland 734 



— European Seed Notes 734 



Blue Hydrangeas 788 



De Kalb. Ill X15 



Steamer Sailings 745 



Pacific Coast — Excessive Moisture 750 



— San Francisco 750 



— Seattle. Wash 760 



— Portland, Ore 761 



White Fly Again 751 



Nursery News 762 



— Russian Mulberry Hedge (illus.) 762 



— Catalpa Seeds 762 



— Pennsvlvania Nurserymen 753 



New Orleans 754 



Pittsburg 756 



How to Pack Mums 768 



Cincinnati 760 



Baltimore 762 



Hartford. Conn :--i---. 764 



Greenhouse HeaUng — Amount of Pipe 766 



— Accelerating Circulation 766 



— Elevate Expansion Tank 767 



The Little White Fly 768 



Ash Wednesday falls on February 13, 

 1907. 



THE TRADE PAPER. 



Dear Florists ' Eeview : — Enclosed 

 please lind the dollar to renew my sub- 

 scription. I find great pleasure and 

 profit in reading the Review. It is the 

 only paper in which I really enjoy read- 

 ing the advertisements. One reason is 

 that I find money in them. But one of 

 the greatest helps I get from the Review 

 is enthusiasm. It is hard to do work 

 that no one else is doing in your vicin- 

 ity. Isolated florists in small places are 

 very apt to become moss-grown, or if 

 they do not, their stock does, and there 

 is nothing like a good, live paper to 

 brighten them up. 



For twenty-one years I have kept ac- 

 count of my sales, and last year I broke 

 all my previous records in amount of 

 business and profit, but I hope to do 

 even better this year. Everything looks 

 bright, but I am still learning and hope 

 always to be. Yours for success, 



A. Wakefield. 



Waterville, N. Y., January 15, 1907. 



CHHYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The president of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America, on assuming of&ce, 

 will be glad to consider any suggestions 

 which may appear to be for the good 

 of the society. Lovers of the autumn 

 queen are invited to communicate their 

 ideas, and the hearty cooperation of 

 every member of the society is most de- 

 sirable for the accomplishment of the 

 success which should be ours. The year 

 is before us, with all its grand possibil- 

 ities. Let each one contribute his share 

 of interest, and the good results will be 

 gratifying to us all. Let there be no 

 drones in the hive of the C. S. A. during 

 the year of 1907. 



David Frasee, Sec'y. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Cleaning Greenhouse Glass. 



I notice in the Review of January 17 

 that J. P. H. wants to clean the roof of 

 his greenhouses and has tried lye and 

 soap powder with no effect. I know of 

 one thing that will clean it, with no bad 

 effects if done right. Get a carboy of 

 muriatic acid, as in quantity it is gen- 

 erally stronger. Use a wooden pail. 

 Then start with a quart to one paalful 

 of hot water and keep adding the acid 

 until you can see the results. Get a 

 long pole and a bunch of rags on the 

 end, to answer as a mop. Then keep 

 going over the glass, giving the acid 

 time to eat up the dirt. Have the hose 

 ready for a washdown. If it proves too 

 weak, use stronger acid and throw on 

 some salt. That will hold it and make a 

 slush. Let it stand a while, or keep 

 rubbing, then wash off. 



I have used the pure acid and covered 

 twenty feet of the roof at a time, salt- 

 ing as I went along. It will remove any 

 old thing and by attention will do little 

 harm to the wood, paint or putty. Keep 

 plenty of water running in the gutter, to 

 take the acid away. Also look out for 

 plants, such as palms, etc., as a single 

 drop will burn badly. 



Wilson M. Tipladt. 



In regard to J. P. H. wanting to know 

 how to clean greenhouse glass, I can 

 give him a bit of information that will 



probably be appreciated by a good many 

 who have smoky glass to clean. What 

 I have used is muriatic acid. Use one 

 gallon of acid to four gallons of water. 

 You can put it on with a stick with 

 rags tied to it; but the best way is to 

 get a pair of rubber gloves and get right 

 on the glass and put it on by hand. The 

 acid will not affect the rubber, but it 

 would your hands. You can leave the 

 acid on the glass about fifteen minutes 

 then wash it off and you will find your 

 glass as clear as crystal. 



If you have any paint on the glass 

 you want to use strong lye first, as the 

 acid will not affect the paint, nor will 

 the lye affect the smoke. I have soaked 

 smoky glass in lye for two weeks and 

 the only way you can get it clean is 

 with salt and water, which I used to use 

 before I caught on to the acid. 



Our worthy brother, W. S., will kindly 

 excuse me for saying that lye will not 

 remove smoke. I am talking about the 

 dirty, greasy Chicago soft coal smoke, 

 and if he haa any smoked glass I wish 

 he would try the acid and let us know 

 how he likes it. You can buy the acid 

 of any wholesale druggist. It comes 

 about ten gallons put up in a glass bot- 

 tle. The price in (Chicago is 21 cehts per 

 gallon. They charge $1.50 extra for the 

 bottle. Always keep your acid in a 

 cool place and never put it in anything 

 but wooden pails. J. B. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



The first installment of the 1907 serv- 

 ice of the National Council of Horticul- 

 ture's press bureau was distributed the 

 current week by James Burdett, 172d 

 W. One Hundred and Fourth place, Chi- 

 cago, to a greatly enlarged mailing list. 

 It consisted of four articles prepared by 

 volunteers under the direction of Prof. 

 H. C. Iri-sh, secretary of the society, as 

 follows: "The Modern Gladiolus, "^ 

 "Poppies," "Designing a Planting 

 Scheme," and "Evergreens for Orna- 

 ment. ' ' 



It is earnestly desired that the names 

 of newspapers to which contributors wish 

 this service to be sent, or which express 

 a desire for the service, be sent to Mr. 

 Burdett, in order to make the mailing 

 list as efRcient as possible. As soon as 

 possible a schedule of articles, with the 

 dates on which they are to be distrib- 

 uted, will be issued for the benefit of 

 those who wish to advertise. 



As it has been suggested by some con- 

 tributors to the council's press service 

 that they would like to advertise in 

 some of the newspapers using the serv- 

 ice, the following list is issued of news- 

 papers that used the service last year and 

 have expressed themselves as wishing to 

 have it continued: 



The News League of Ohio, Including DaytoB 

 Dally News and Springfield Dally News; Louis- 

 ville Times; Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Re- 

 view; Madison (Wis.) Democrat, and the string 

 of papers served by it with plate mutter; St. 

 Louis Globe-Democrat, semi-weekly edition; St. 

 Louis Star-Cbronlcle; Cleveland Press, anfl 

 about thirty other papers served by the News- 

 paper Enterprise Association of Cleveland; Phll- 

 delphla Evening Bulletin; Memphis Commer- 

 cial-Appeal; Chicago Tribune; Chicago Daily 

 News; Washington Evening Star; Worcester 

 (Mass.) Evening Gazette; Brooklyn Dally Eagle: 

 Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald; Ohio State Jour- 

 nal, Columbus, O.; Kansas City Star; Milwau- 

 kee Journal; Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin; The 

 News, Buffalo; Cincinnati Gazette, published by 

 Commercial Tribune Co.; Twentieth Century 

 Farmer, weekly publication of the Omaha Bee, 

 and Minneapolis Tribune. 



The Kellogg Newspaper Co., Chicago; the 

 American Newspaper Union, New York, and the 

 Chicago Newspaper Union, Chicago, have sup- 

 plied their subscribers, numbering several thou- 

 sands, which they have classified in various liste 

 covering certain territory. 



