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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Febbuabt 7, 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. 



The netall Florist— A Story and a Moral.. 851 



A Sub-tropical Bed 851 



Double Petunias 851 



A Spray of Carnation Wlnsor (Ulus.) 851 



Beaute Celeste (Ulus.) 852 



Seasonable Suggestions — Foliage Plants 852 



— Bouvardlas 852 



— Palms 852 



— Cyclamens 852 



— Shrubs for Easter 853 



— Bulbous Stock 853 



— Acacia Armata 863 



— Tersely Told 853 



Table Piece of Carnation Winsor (Ulus.)... 853 

 Roses — Record Keeping 854 



— Fumes of Acid 854 



The Wenonah Gardens (illus. ) 854 



Pecky Cypress 855 



Ferns 855 



Wistaria for Easter 855 



Plants for Summer 855 



An Interesting Plant (Ulus.) 855 



Growing Asters for Seed 856 



Notes from England 856 



Violets — Ventilation 857 



Carnations — Carnations Outdoors 858 



— Red Spider 858 



— Leaf Spot 858 



— Rotating Carnations 858 



— For Summer Bloom 858 



— Carnation Afterglow (illus.) 858 



— Mr. Haines' Experience 859 



— Carnation White Lawson (illus.) 859 



New Orleans 860 



Tarrytown, N. Y 860 



New York 860 



Advertising Pays • 862 



Illinois Association 862 



Gladiolus America ," 862 



Stock Scarce 862 



Vines for Windbreak 862 



Chicago 863 



Baltimore 866 



St.- Louis 867 



Philadelphia 868 



Boston 871 



Want Advertisements 872 



Cincinnati 874 



Twin Cities 874 



Vegetable Forcing 876 



— Vegetable Markets 876 



— Cauliflower 876 



— Sterllizins Lettuce Soil 877 



— Eugene Davis (portrait) 877 



Seed Trade News..,.> 878 



— Imports 879 



— Catalogue Held Up 879 



— The Seedmen's Problem 880 



— Market Growers' Journal 880 



— Japanese Liliums 880 



— European Seed Notes 881 



— Free Seeds 882 



— Canners' Convention 884 



Detroit 886 



Indianapolis ; 893 



Steamer Sailings 893 



Nursery News 894 



— Tennessee Nurserymen Meet 894 



— The Eclipse Grape 894 



Pacific Coast — Sidewalk Trees 896 



— San Francisco 896 



Milwaukee 898 



Klmlra, N. Y 900 



Denver 902 



Frosted Antirrhinum 904 



Greenhouse Heating — Mending a BoUer 914 



— Boiler Capacity 914 



— Heating Three Greenhouses 914 



— To Improve Circulation 914 



— Piping Three Greenhouses 915 



Toronto 916 



E. Neubert, Wandsbek, near Ham- 

 burg, Germany, makes a specialty of the 

 American sports of nephrolepis, including 

 "Whitmani, Piersoni, Elegantissima, 

 Scottii and Barrowsii, issuing a price-list 

 showing a splendid cut of the first named 

 variety on its front cover. 



The Eeview has more subscribers in 

 the state of New York than in any other 

 state in the Union. 



ADVERTISING PAYS. 



Please discontinue our 3 V^ -inch double 

 column advertisement of carnation cut- 

 tings. We had intended you to insert 

 this only once, for we have been over- 

 whelmed with orders. As our space for 

 rooted cuttings is somewhat limited this 

 year we cannot supply the quantities 

 that we have in the past year. We will 

 shortly send you new copy offering other 

 stock. 



Cottage Gardens Co. 



Queens, N. Y., Teb. 4, 1907. 



As the advertisement in question 

 stated quantities offered, a total of 66,- 

 500, it may fairly be said that business 

 is good with the Cottage Gardens Co. 



ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION. 



Parties wishing to stage exhibits at 

 the meeting of the Illinois State Florists ' 

 Association, to be held in Bloomington, 

 February 19 and 20, will kindly apply 

 to George A. Washburn, Bloomington, 

 111., chairman of the exhibition commit- 

 tee, for space. A charge of $10 will be 

 made for trade displays, supplies, etc. 

 On space for cut flowers, plants, etc., 

 there will be no charge. All stock sent to 

 the chairman, express prepaid, will be 

 properly staged and cared for during the 

 meeting. A special committee will be 

 appointed to pass on all exhibits. Every- 

 body should send something and every 

 florist in the state should attend. In ad- 

 dition to the benefit derived in a busi- 

 ness way, we are assured a good time by 

 the Bloomington brethren. 



J. F. Ammann, President. 



GLADIOLUS AMERICA. 



We note in the Eeview of January 31 

 the address of H. H. Groff before the 

 American Breeders' Association, and 

 particularly that part of his remarks 

 pertaining to the origin of Gladiolus 

 America. We think it rather late for 

 Mr. Groff to come forward at this time 

 and claim America as his production. 

 This variety was exhibited by Frank 

 Banning, from whom we bought the 

 stock for four or five years. After we 

 bought it we exhibited it very exten- 

 sively during two summers and no one 

 questioned its being a new variety. It 

 seems to us that if Mr. Groff had had 

 it in his collections for so many years, 

 some one would have discovered that 

 America was not a new variety. We had 

 some correspondence with Mr. Groff a 

 month or two ago regarding this mat- 

 ter, but his contentions were so absurd 

 that we dropped the whole matter. 



He seems to censure us for classifying 

 it as a Childsi. We are well aware that 

 it is not a full-blooded Childsi variety 

 but there is more Childsi blood in it 

 than anything else; therefore, we put 

 it in that class. We cannot see how he 

 can claim it as one of his hybrids, as 

 all of the Groff 's hybrids, as far as we 

 have been able to test them and observe 

 their growth, are very little if any dif- 

 ferent from a good strain of Lemonei 

 hybrids, and if one would happen to 

 get some good colors in the Groff 's 

 mixtures he would be pretty sure to be 

 able to trace the same varieties in the 

 hybrids that Messrs. V. Lemoine & Fils 

 have been and are putting on the mar- 

 ket, and we as gladiolus growers have 



failed so far to find any distinct spe- 

 cies in the so-called Groff 's hybrids. 



Mr. Groff also contends in his article 

 that the cormels from America do not 

 mature anywhere except in Ohio. This 

 is wrong, as we have grown them for 

 two years on our own place on Long 

 Island and the cormels mature as well 

 as those of any variety that we have, 

 and a large number of the one-year-old 

 bulblets will bloom. Of course, the flow- 

 ers will be small compared with the 

 flowers from the larger and older bulbs. 

 Another thing that seems absurd to us 

 is that, if Mr. Groff had had this va- 

 riety so many years, he was very slow 

 in not selecting it out and putting it on 

 the market as a variety of great merit, 

 for it certainly is, and this fact cannot 

 be disputed by anyone who knows the 

 first thing about gladioli. 



John Lewis Childs. 



STOCK SCARCE. 



From one end of the country to the 

 other there is a striking similarity in re- 

 ports as to the condition of the market. 

 We have had a most unusual season so 

 far as weather conditions go. Not in 

 years have there been three months of 

 such continuously cloudy weather. In 

 most sections it also has been warm 

 and the rainfall has been far ahead of 

 normal. Conditions have been most un- 

 favorable to the production of cut 

 flowers and markets everywhere are 

 short. Through January roses have been 

 especially scarce. Carnations, while not 

 yielding anything like what is usually 

 cut at this season, have done better than 

 roses. To the growers increased prices 

 as compared with last year have made 

 up a part of what has been lost through 

 lighter cuts, but it has been only a small 

 part. Unless the spring season brings 

 a return considerably above the ordinary 

 this will not be an especially profitable 

 season for growers of roses and carna- 

 tions, or to the Bhinebeck violet grow- 

 ers, who are in the same boat. The grow- 

 ers of bulbous stock are profiting to 

 some extent so far as better prices go. 



VINES FOR WIND-BREAK. 



I have a wind-break eight feet high, 

 running north and south and east at west 

 at right angles. I want to cover it with 

 some self-supporting vine that will stand 

 high winds, is hardy and will grow rap- 

 idly in a well-drained, sandy loam. 

 Would Ampelopsis quinquefolia or A. 

 Veitchii meet these conditions? 



J. L. G. 



Ampelopsis Veitchii, if used, needs 

 some protection the first year, until es- 

 tablished. We find this variety, how- 

 ever, kills back badly in severe winters. 

 A. quinquefolia, the common woodbine, 

 or its variety Engelmanni, would be prob- 

 ably the best clinging vine to use. 

 Either of these will tear off sometimes 

 and it would be well to give them a few 

 supports. Wire staples can be used for 

 this purpose. Clematis paniculata would 

 cover the fence more quickly than any- 

 thing else if upright strands of wire net- 

 ting were fixed at three feet intervals 

 for the vines to cling to. Netting a foot 

 wide will answer. The clematis dies 

 back pretty well each winter, but will 

 speedily grow and cover the whole fence 

 when warm weather comes. It makes a 

 dense covering of foliage, is beautiful 

 when in flower and its seeds are hand- 

 some all winter. W. N. C. 



