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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



January 31, 1907. 



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is printed Wednesday eveoing 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. 



Seasonable Suggestions 777 



— Easter Lilies 777 



— Rambler Roses 777 



— Hydrangeas 777 



— AstUbe 777 



— Marguerites 778 



— Bulbous Stock 778 



— Azaleas 778 



— Gloxinias 778 



— Seed Sowing 778 



— Canuas and Dablias 778 



Convention Aftermath — A Brilliant Success 



(lllus.) 779 



— The Banquet 780 



— Among Those Present 780 



— Conyentlon Echoes 781 



— Mr. Ward's Address 782 



Greenhouse Construction (iUus.) 783 



R. O. King (portrait) 783 



Oiled Cloth for Protection 785 



Roses — American Rose Society 786 



Carnations — Seen at Toronto 786 



— Early Planting 787 



— Carnations Bursting 787 



New Orleans 787 



Carnation Day 788 



The Readers' Corner — Cleaning Greenhouse 



Glass 788 



Society of American Florists 788 



Publications Received 788 



Chicago 789 



St. Louis 790 



Valley In Pots 791 



Philadelphia 792 



Boston 794 



New York 796 



"Want Advertisements 799 



Twin Cities 800 



Detroit 800 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 802 



— English Forcing Strains 802 



— Tomatoes, Beans and Beets 802 



— For the Market Gardener 803 



Seed Trade News 804 



— As Others See Us 805 



— Free Seeds Again Provided For 805 



— Advertising Catch Lines 805 



— "There's Millions In It" 806 



— A Gardening Project 806 



— A New French Lettuce 807 



— Trade in Japanese Lilies 807 



— Catalogues Received 807 



Newport 808 



For Vacant Benches 810 



Cincinnati 812 



Manchester, Mass 819 



Steamer Sailings 819 



Nursery News — Wants Publication 820 



— Retailers Meet 820 



— New York Horticulturists 820 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 822 



— Utilizing Eucalyptus 822 



Brantford. Canada 824 



The Death Roll— Jettie Uobinson Dew 826 



— Arthur J. Newton 826 



Pittsburg 826 



Baltimore 828 



Corslcana, Tex 828 



Ellwood, Ind 830 



Salisbury, Md 830 



Bloomlngton, Hi 840 



A Fern House 840 



Greenhouse Heating^ — Piping a New House.. 842 



— Gas for Fuel 842 



— Insufficient Radiation 842 



— Heating Two Houses 843 



— Boiler Feed-pump 843 



Grand Rapids 844 



The greenhouse 150 feet wide referred 

 to in the paper of R. O. King, read be- 

 fore the American Carnation Society and 

 published in this issue of the Review, is 

 to be built bv the Florex Gardens Co., 

 North Wales," Pa. It is to be 425 feet 

 long. 



Genius has been defined as the faculty 

 of doing small things well. It is just 

 that genius that makes for success in 

 growing either cut flowers or pot plants. 



The Review would like to hear from 

 some young man at Washington, D. C, 

 who meets the trade and would like to 

 act as the Review 's correspondent there. 



THE SAME TO ALL. 



Enclosed I hand you a money order 

 to renew my subscription to the Review. 

 The advertisement last issue brought me 

 the stock I have wanted to get for quite 

 a while. It shows that a classified ad- 

 vertisement in the Review is sure to 

 bring results. I find you are about the 

 fairest people that I have ever dealt with 

 and if at any time I should have a 

 surplus, or if I needed any stock not 

 advertised, you will hear from me with 

 another advertisement. 



Thomas Tullie. 



Edgewood, R. I. 



ADVERTISING AND READERS. 



The following from a speech by H. R. 

 Clissold, of the Bakers' Helper, deliv- 

 ered before a congressional body consid- 

 ering change in postal laws, is particu- 

 larly illustrative of the attitude of the 

 florist to the advertising in his trade 

 paper : 



**The trade paper differs radically, 

 also, from the newspaper and the maga- 

 zine in the fact that to its readers the 

 advertisements in its pages are a vital 

 feature. The advertisements in the trade 

 paper are to its readers the very marrow 

 of their business. Not only would no 

 subscriber to them desire their elimina- 

 tion, but most of them would seriously 

 complain of the lessened value of the 

 periodical if they were absent." 



CARNATION DAY. 



Carnation day has come and gone, and 

 with it something learned that may be 

 to our advantage. 



We must wake up! Here is an El- 

 dorado for us — another floral holiday 

 born but a few years. 



It is noticeable that the press has com- 

 mented on it more than ever this year. 



When the press takes hold of anything 

 the people will take hold. 



Americans will not let this spark of 

 patriotism die out — it will grow and 

 each year will find a greater demand for 

 flowers. 



The colors mostly sought were deep 

 pink and red — they went fast — one or 

 two at a time, but in the aggregate 

 many. 



There are many ways you can awaken 

 an interest in this day. 



A few days previous get a large pic- 

 ture of McKinley, drape it and put it in 

 your window, with a few vases of carna- 

 tions. Have plenty of reminders inside 

 and outside of your store — get your home 

 paper to write up the occasion — put a 

 carnation on your own coat, and you 

 won't have to wait for customers. 



J. L. J. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Cleaning Greenhouse Glass. 



I wish to tell J. P. H. how I clean 

 my greenhouse glass. My glass is the 

 worst I have ever seen and I use muri- 

 atic acid. I would advise J. P. H. to 

 use the raw acid the first time and after- 



wards use water and acid. Use one cup 

 of acid to two cups of water, and if 

 that is too strong use your own jmlir. 

 ment; you will soon get on to it. 



Two 10-foot boards with steps nailed 

 on for a 16-foot board to rest on will 

 support two men while working on the 

 roof. Do not wet the glass the first tinit.- 

 and do not let the acid dry on the glass 

 but wash it off. Work both ends so thai 

 one end will be dry all the time. I hav,- 

 tried almost every way, but I find this 

 way the best. Two men can clean 2,0(i(i 

 feet of glass per day. 



M. E. Atkinson. 



SOaETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



State Vice-presidents. 



President William J. Stewart an 

 nounces the following appointments a^' 

 state vice-presidents for 1907 : 



Alabama E. A. BeaveTi 



Colorado J. A. Valentint 



Connecticut Peter Zuger 



District of Columbia W. H. Ernest 



Florida C. D. Mills 



Illinois, Northern George Asmus 



Illinois, Southern F. L. Washburn 



Indiana J- A. Evans 



Iowa W. A. Harkett 



Kansas Oscar Roehr 



Kentucky A. R. Baumer 



Louisiana M. Cook 



Maryland Wm. Weber 



Massachusetts, Eastern E. L. Pierce 



Michigan W. E. F. Weber 



Minnesota John Monson 



Mississippi S. W. Crowell 



Missouri, Eastern W. C. Young 



Missouri, Western Geo. M. Kellogg 



Nebraska Geo. H. Swoboda 



New Hampshire Aug. Gaedeke 



New Jersey C. H. Totty 



New York, Eastern Chas. Lenker 



New York, Western C. H. Viek 



North Carolina J. Van Llndley 



Ohio, Southern J. B. Helss 



Ohio, Northern Geo. Beyer 



Pennsylvania, Eastern P. J. Lynch 



South Carolina C. A. Moss 



South Dakota C. E. Newbury 



Tennessee C. L. Baum 



Virginia H. Brown 



West Virginia C. P. Dudley 



Wisconsin Fred Holton 



Ontario J. H. Dunlop 



Washington Amy K. LutTman 



P. J. Hauswirth, Sec'y. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



[The Dahlia Manual, a treatise on dahlia cul- 

 ture, by W. W. Wilmore, Denver, Colo.; price, 

 35 cents.] 



One of the most attractively printed 

 of the many cultural monographs now 

 coming from the press is that of W. W. 

 Wilmore, who states in his preface that 

 he has devoted twenty-five years of his 

 life to a study of the dahlia. In the 

 sixteen illustrated pages of his pam- 

 phlet, Mr. Wilmore aims to present such 

 information as is commonly called for 

 by those who are seeking to make a suc- 

 cess of the dahlia as a garden flower. 

 He does not seek to cover the subject in 

 the most minute detail, but to set forth 

 the needs of the dahlia in an easily un- 

 derstandable style. He devotes a chap- 

 ter to soil and location, another to fer- 

 tilizers, one to planting and watering 

 and the other details of culture. A 

 couple of pages are given to propaga- 

 tion, one to insect pests and a paragraph 

 to storage of roots. The suggestions as 

 to the varieties to plant are brief. Inci- 

 dentally he says: "As a rule I think 

 the purchaser, unless he is familiar with 

 varieties, will do well to leave the selec- 

 tion to some responsible grower or dealer, 

 simply stating the colors and types 

 wanted, together with the purpose for 

 which they are to be grown." The book- 

 let is in no sense an advertising cata- 

 logue and will be read with interest by 

 everyone who grows the dahlia. 



