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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febbcabt 21, ld07. 



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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 op 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Illinois State Florists' Assoclatlou 1001 



Southern Florists' First Annual Convention. 1002 



^Seasonable Suggestions 10<J2 



— Chinese Primroses 1002 



— Cinerarias 1002 



— Bulbous Stock 1002 



— Seed Sowing 1003 



— Propagation 1003 



The Ketail Florist — Profitable Advertising 



(illus.) : 1003 



— A Woman's Enterprise (illus.) 1004 



— Store Plans Wanted 1004 



Violets — House of Violets 1004 



A Growers' Combine 1005 



Vltls Thunbergl 1005 



Roses— Feeding 1006 



— Trouble with Roses 1006 



— In Young's Big House (illus.) 1006 



— Erratic 'rreatment of Roses ]0(j6 



— Stocii for Standard Roses 1007 



American Rose Society 1007 



Carnations— Mr. Rudd's Seedlings 1007 



— Carnation Notes— West 1007 



— Carnations in the South 1008 



Ctarysantbemums — Propagating 1009 



— Mums in the South 1009 



New Dahlias (illus.) 1011 



Publications Received 1012 



State to Aid Growers 1012 



The Readers' Corner 1012 



Chicago 1013 



Wayside Notes 1010 



St. LoulB 1016 



Boston 1018 



Philadelphia 1020 



Cincinnati 1021 



New York 1022 



New England Dahlia Society 1020 



Moline, 111 1026 



Lobelia Kathleen Mallard 1026 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 1027 



— Starting Vegetables 1027 



— Sterilizing Lettuce Soil 1028 



— An Illinois Establishment 1028 



Want Advertisements 1028 



Seed Trade News 1030 



— Imports 1032 



— Holland Bulb Report 1032 



— Texas Planters Organize 1032 



— The Canners' Convention 1032 



— Catalogues Received 1033 



The Modern Gladiolus 1034 



Temperature for Gladiolus 1034 



For Northern Trade 1034 



The Death Roll— Mrs. Mary Somers 1036 



— J. C. Good 1036 



— Jonathan Ancock 1036 



Steamer Sailings 1043 



Nursery News 1044 



— Planting Home Grounds 1044 



— Jamestown Exposition 1044 



— Pomological Society 1044 



Pacific Coast— Victoria, B. C 1046 



— Spokane, Wash, (illus) 1048 



— San Francisco 1046 



Hollyhocks 1047 



Scale on NephrolepU 1047 



Springfield, 1048 



Springfield, Mass 1050 



Columbus, 1052 



Baltimore 1054 



Kansas City 1066 



Indianapolis 1(X18 



Denver 1068 



Twin Cities 1068 



Greenhouse Heating — Size of Pipe 1070 



— The Best Type of Boiler 1070 



Belvidere, 111 1071 



Detroit 1072 



The complete schedules of the joint 

 exhibition of the American Rose Society 

 and the Washington Florists' Club have 

 been issued and may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing either secretary, Benjamin Ham- 

 mond, Fishkill, N. Y., or Chas. McCau- 

 ley, Eighteenth and Kearney streets, 

 Washington, D, C. 



Sphagnum moss is one of the scarce 

 items and prices are up. 



Pittsburg wants the convention of the 

 American Carnation Society in 1909. 



John Westcott, of Philadelphia, vice- 

 president of the S. A. F., is spending a 

 portion of the winter in Florida. 



The executive committee of the 80- 

 ciety of American Florists will hold its 

 annual meeting at Philadelphia March 

 11 and 12. 



E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., has 

 recently returned from a trip through 

 the southwest and reports the trad© there 

 in a most prosperous condition, espe- 

 cially in Oklahoma and Texas. 



The Chicago Florists ' Club has in- 

 vited the American Rose Society to for- 

 sake the east in 1908 and hold its an- 

 nual March meeting and exhibition in 

 Chicago. 



There is a disposition on the part of 

 large producers of rooted cuttings of 

 carnations and roses to reverse the ten- 

 dency to lower prices which has been the 

 result of competition in recent years. 



The Detroit Florists' Club has 

 adopted resolutions voicing the opposi- 

 tion of its members to the change of 

 date for the S. A. F. convention, which 

 will be up for consideration at the Phila- 

 delphia meeting next August. 



It is a general principle of law that 

 that party to a contract who makes 

 a mistake must bear the loss, if a loss 

 is inevitable, and that such loss shall 

 not be put off upon the innocent party. 

 This rule is necessary in order to do 

 equity and also in order to inculcate 

 care in the handling of words and fig- 

 ures. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



[How to Build Greenhouses, published by the 

 John C. Moninger Co., 129 Blackhawk street, 

 Chicago; price 10 cents, postpaid.] 



With the rapid growth of the business 

 of building greenhouses, and the general 

 acceptance of the fact that it is cheaper 

 in the long run to patronize a specialist 

 in greenhouse construction instead of a 

 planing mill, the John C. Moninger Co. 

 has found its correspondence becoming 

 bulky. With so many new people go- 

 ing into the trade, there is a constant 

 stream of inquiries on how to build a 

 greenhouse. While a manufacturer of 

 building material always is glad to an- 

 swer questions, the answering of them 

 often calls for the expenditure of no lit- 

 tle time. It is to fully and satisfac- 

 torily, yet economically, meet the de- 

 mand for information that the Moninger 

 Co. has issued its present illustrated 

 booklet of twenty-four large pages ana 

 the outcome has been a compendium not 

 only of value to the beginner but in- 

 teresting and instructive to those who 

 have built many greenhouses and are 

 well posted on the subject. Every phase 

 of the question is treated, from choosing 

 the site to laying the glass and building 

 the benches. The fine points of con- 

 struction are illustrated with drawings 

 so that the meaning may be most clear. 

 A large part of the book is from the 

 many years' experience of the Moninger 

 Co., but several quotations are made 

 from the "Florists' Manual," by Wil- 

 liam Scott, and a number of extracts 

 from discussions which have appeared in 

 the Review are quoted as setting forth 

 both sides of such questions aa "Butted 



vs. Lapped Glass." By following the 

 simple directions in this latest of * ' How 

 to" booklets any man of average in- 

 telligence can put together a greenhouse 

 in first-class shape. 



STATE TO AID GROWERS. 



On Wednesday, February 13, the Il- 

 linois state legislature had what they' 

 might have considered a visitation, al- 

 though they expressed themselves as de- 

 lighted with the friendly call of the 

 gentlemen who came to argue for the 

 appropriation for greenhouses for ex- 

 perimental purposes at the State Agri- 

 cultural College. In the party were P. 

 J. Foley, J. C. Vaughan and P. J. Haus- 

 wirth, of Chicago; J. F. Ammann, of 

 Edwardsville, and Prof. A. C. Beal, of 

 Champaign. Albert T. Hey, of Spring- 

 field, joined the delegation. Under the 

 guidance of Representative Frank Heinl, 

 son of Joseph Heinl, the veteran florist 

 of Jacksonville, they waited upon the 

 chairman of the appropriations commit- 

 tees of the house and senate and also 

 upon the chairman of the steering com- 

 mittee. 



It was easily evident that the efforts 

 under the auspices of the Illinois State 

 Florists' Association have had the ef- 

 fect of impressing the legislators with 

 the importance of the greenhouse in- 

 dustry in Illinois. The committee was 

 assured of the friendly interest of the 

 legislators and were given encourage- 

 ment for their request. It was advised 

 that instead of undertaking the pas- 

 sage of a separate bill, the appropria- 

 tion desired be asked for in the form 

 of an amendment to the general ap- 

 propriation measure for the State Uni- 

 versity. It was advised that the re- 

 quest be cut down to $15,000 for the 

 two years and in this form it will go 

 before the legislature. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The Wa-no-ka Greenhouses, Barnevelt,, 

 N. Y., register Carnation Climax, a de- 

 cided improvement over Enchantress, 

 being a shade or two deeper, of better 

 form, stem and calyx and more pro- 

 ductive. Albert M. Herb, Sec'y. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Salt for Carnations. 



In the issue of the Review of Feb- 

 ruary 7 A. F. J. B. replies to S. F. Co. 

 and recommends a remedy for red 

 spider. I think I can go him one better 

 and herewith give my remedy. 



I remove the pump from a five-gallon 

 sprayer, insert a one-pound salt sack, 

 containing about one-half pint of salt 

 and then turn water in from a faucet 

 until I have about four and one-half 

 gallons of water. This thoroughly dis- 

 solves all the salt and keeps any sedi- 

 ment from getting into the sprayer. I 

 then give all the carnations a thorough 

 spraying once a week, if bad; if they 

 are getting very bad, twice a week. I 

 have found this to be one of the best 

 remedies for stem-rot, both indoors and 

 outdoors. 



My opinion is that there is not one- 

 half the salt used that should be used 

 in the growing of carnations. I use 

 it liberally in preparing my soil for the 

 benches and I fail to see anything but 

 good results. I believe it is a great 

 preventive of stem-rot. 



T. M. Fitzgerald. 



