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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuaby 28, 1907. 



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if 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 Retail Florist— Retailers" Fixtures 

 (lllus.) 1079 



— Funeral Work 1080 



Trouble with Geraniums 1080 



Seasonable Suggestions 1080 



— Easter Stock 1080 



— Cyprlpedium Insigne 1080 



— Antirrhinums 1080 



— Gloxinias 1080 



— Sundry Reminders 1080 



New Range of Julius Roehrs Co. (lllus.)... 1080 



Dendrobium x Cybele (lllus.) 1081 



A New Race of Dahlias 1081 



Narcissi and Funklas 1081 



Jlimes Gurney (portrait) 1082 



Carnations — Wild Lawson 1082 



— Solid Beds Versus Benches 1082 



Light and Shade on Plants 1082 



Albert T. Hey (portrait) 1063 



Roses — Feeding for Easter Blooms 1084 



— Cuts and Conditions 1084 



— Southern Roses Under Glass 1085 



Nothing Wrong in Kansas (lllus.) 1086 



A New Greenhouse Bracket (lllus.) 1086 



Staging Exhibitions (lllus.) 1087 



German Irises 1087 



Pecky Cypress (lllus.) 1088 



Packing for Shipment 1089 



The Death Roll 1090 



Lilies for Summer Bloom 1090 



Caterpillar and Butterfly 1090 



Chicago 1091 



St. Louis 1003 



New York 10®^ 



Newport. R. 1 109« 



Boston 1008 



New Orleans 1W9 



Philadelphia llw 



Baltimore 1W2 



Dutch Bulbs for Easter • HO J 



Trouble with Tulips 1103 



About Callas 1105 



Want Advertisements 1106 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 1108 



— Blights of Vine Crops 1108 



— Thrlps and Lettuce 1108 



Seed Trade News 1110 



— Imports 1112 



— The Ward Seed Catalogue 1112 



-California Crop Conditions 1113 



— Iowa Seed Legislature 1113 



— A Wyoming Seed House 1113 



— B. L. Coy Retires 1114 



— Home Saved Sweet Corn 1114 



— Longlflorum and Valley 1115 



— W. W. Rawson & Co 1115 



Spencer Type of Sweet Peas 1116 



Nephrolepis Exaltata 1116 



Steamer Sailings 1123 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 1124 



— San Francisco 1124 



— Chances on the Coast 1125 



Twin Cities : • • • •. "25 



Nursery News— Pacific Const Nurseries 1126 



— Privet Cuttings 1128 



— Perennial Plants 1128 



— Propagation of Conlferae 1128 



— Shrubs for a Succession 1127 



— Greenhouse a Necessity 1128 



Toledo. Ohio 1128 



Wayside Notes 1130 



Pittsburg 1132 



Wichita. Kan 1134 



Grand Rapids 1136 



Hartford. Conn 1138 



Cincinnati 1148 



Greenhouse Heating- Boiler Capacity 1150 



— Amount of Radiation 1151 



— Elevation of Expansion Tank 1161 



Detroit 1152 



Sydney B. Weetheimeb, of Werth- 

 eimer Bros., New York, is sending his 

 friends souvenir postals from Paris. 



There is no place in which the old 

 adage that prevention is better than cure 

 applies with greater certainty than in 

 dealing with insect pests in a greenhouse. 



The sessions of the S. A. F. executive 

 board, in Philadelphia, March 11 and 12, 

 will be held at the Hotel Walton. 



The Eeview is in receipt of a box of 

 seedling carnations from the Wenonah 

 Carnation Gardens, Wenonah, N. J., sev- 

 eral of which are of excellent promise. 

 A large white is especially good. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



William Adams Bruce. 



William Adams Bruce died at his home 

 in Jersey City, N, J., Tuesday, Febru- 

 ary 12, 1907. He was born in Brechin, 

 Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1866, and 

 served his apprenticeship as a seedsman 

 with James Young in that city. After 

 coming to America, Mr. Bruce was em- 

 ployed with the Cleveland Seed Co. ; sub- 

 sequently with Peter Henderson & Co., 

 with which firm he remained ten years; 

 later with James M. Thorburn & Co. as 

 shipping clerk for about a similar pe- 

 riod. Interment was in Bay View ceme- 

 tery, Greenville, N. J., Friday, February 

 15. Mr. Bruce, who was well and favor- 

 ably known by many in the trade, leaves 

 a Avidow and two children to mourn his 

 loss. D. A. 



C. F. William Gentemann. 



C. F. William Gentemann, of Quincy, 

 III., passed away February 16 at Miami, 

 Fla., where for the last three years he 

 had spent the winter. It is not known 

 what was the cause of his death; he was 

 sick but a few days. 



Mr. Gentemann was born in Germany 

 sixty-nine years ago. He came to Quincy 

 at the age of 15 years and becoming a 

 trained florist secured a position with 

 Governor John Hood. A few years later 

 he went into business for himself. He 

 was successful and five years ago retired, 

 turning the business over to his sons, 

 Herman and Phillip, and his daughter, 

 Minnie. Besides these three, he leaves 

 a wife, two sons, two daughters and 

 three sisters. The interment took place 

 at Quincy. 



LILIES FOR SUMMER BLOOM. 



Please tell me the best way to grow 

 auratum and other lilies of the same 

 class for summer bloom. M. A. B. 



Lilies, such as auratum and speci- 

 osum, may be grown either in pots or 

 planted outdoors for summer blooming. 

 The latter is the more general plan. 

 From pots an earlier lot of flowers may 

 be had and it is possible to hasten or 

 retard the plants, which, of course, is 

 out of the question with outdoor-grown 

 bulbs. 



Bulbs of most of these lilies are pur- 

 chasable in November, some sorts 

 earlier. If they are to be grown in pots 

 we prefer planting them in 8-inch to 10- 

 inch pots, several bulbs in a pot in pref- 

 erence to a single bulb in a receptacle 

 of smaller size. Use good loam and 

 sand but no fresh animal manure. Put 

 the bulbs quite well down in the pots 

 and leave a space for top-dressing. As 

 the plants start to grow place in a cel- 

 lar, frost-proof shed or under the bench 

 of a cold greenhouse. Do not attempt 

 to force them as you would Harrisii, for 

 they will not stand it. 



Where outdoor culture is carried out 

 the best times to plant the bulbs are in 

 November and early April, the fall be- 

 ing the best time, for then the roots 

 make considerable growth before spring. 



All varieties should be planted eight to 

 ten inches deep, except in the case of 

 L. candidum, which should not be cov- 

 ered more than four inches. A little 

 shade is beneficial to nearly all lilies and 

 a rather friable loam is preferable to 

 heavy clay loam. A mulching of well- 

 rotted manure or leaves over the plants 

 when they start to grow is very bene- 

 ficial. 



A few of the best commercial sorts 

 to grow are L. candidum, which should 

 be planted not later than the middle of 

 September, either outdoors or in pots; 

 L. speciosum in several forms, such as 

 album, Melpomene and rubrum, L. aura- 

 tum, L. Henryi, rather high priced but 

 a magnificent lily, propagating freely, 

 very vigorous and free from disease; 

 L. tigrinum splendens, L. superbum, L. 

 BatmannisB and L. elegans in variety. 

 Of the foregoing L. candidum, auratum 

 and speciosum are probably the best 

 commercially and all are excellent for 

 for pot culture. ' W. N. C. 



CATERPILLAR AND BUTTERFLY. 



xinclosed are leaves of a cineraria and 

 a geranium, also a caterpillar and but- 

 terfly. Will you kindly let me know 

 how to get rid of them, as they have 

 done much damage? I have tried slug 

 shot and spraying with nicotine, but it 

 has done no good. A. W. 



The caterpillar in question cannot be 

 gotten rid of by spraying, and slug 

 shot, excellent remedy though it be, is 

 less effective than hand picking. Fumi- 

 gation will kill the small butterflies. 

 They should also be caught whenever 

 possible. The only really effective 

 method to clear out the worms we have 

 found to be hand picking. If this is 

 done carefully every day you will soon 

 get them under control. This applies 

 to several other varieties of caterpillars, 

 which attack chrysanthemums, mignon- 

 ette and other indoor plants. For the 

 small worm which skeletonizes t^e foli- 

 age on marguerites spray frequently with 

 Nico-Fume juice. It will clear it out. 



W. N. C. 



THE TRADE PAPER. 



Dear Florists ' Review : — Enclosed 

 please find 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. 



Springfield, III. — Albert T. Hey, the 

 new president of the Hlinois State FJ-^- 

 ricts' Association, has been quite ill and 

 was only able to sit up last week, at the 

 time of the annual convention at Bloom- 

 ington. 



