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1252 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



March 14, 1907. 





ic printed "Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested tliat 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 oast. 



CONTENTS. 



No National Flower Show 1239 



American Rose Society 1230 



— The Washington Meeting 1239 



I'resident Simpson's Address 1240 



Robert Simpson (portrait) 1240 



The Rose Grower's Ideal 1241 



E. Gurney Hill (portrait) 1241 



Easter Stock (lllus.) 1243 



Trouble with Sweet Peas 1244 



Seasonable Suggestions — Salvia Splendens.. 1244 



— Sweet Peas 1244 



— Polnsettlas 1244 



— Smllax 1245 



— Variegated Vlncas 1245 



— Lorraine Begonias 1245 



— Preparations for Easter 1245 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 1245 



— Experience with Carnations 1245 



Mr. Thaden and His House (lllus.) 1247 



Pansles 1247 



Stocks and Cannas 1247 



The Jewel Casket (illuff.) 1248 



Plants by Mall 1248 



P. J. Lynch (portrait) 1249 



Black Fly 1249 



The St. Louis Exhibition 1249 



How St. Louis Looked to Me 1250 



Scenes at Range of G. M. Kellogg (lllus.). 1250 



Boston 1250 



State of Business 1252 



The Death Roll— Mrs. Minnie G. Bunde... 1252 



— Arlene Ratekin 1252 



— Bartholomew Menke 1252 



— Lawrence Heinl 1252 



— William Griffin 1252 



Chicago 1253 



St. Louis 125G 



New Orleans 1257 



Philadelphia 1258 



New York •. 1261 



Trouble with Ferns 1264 



Vegetable Forcing 1265 



— Vegetable Markets 1265 



— The Last Crop of Lettuce 1265 



— The Grand Rapids Combine 1265 



Indianapolis 1266 



Springfield, 111 1266 



Want Advertisements 1266 



Seed Trade News 1268 



— Sampling 1269 



— Weather and Trade 1269 



— The Tulip Disease 1270 



— The Best Tuberoses 1271 



— Catalogues Received 1271 



— Types of Candidum Lilies 1272 



Newport, R. 1 1272 



Baltimore 1273 



Pittsburg 1276 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 1284 



— San Francisco 1284 



Twin Cities 1285 



Nursery News 1286 



— Hardy Ornamental Shrubs 1286 



— Insects and Plant Diseases 1286 



Lenox, Mass. 1288 



Denver 1290 



Grand Rapids 1292 



Cincinnati 1296 



Washington 1298 



Greenhouse Heating 1309 



— Heating Two Houses 1309 



— Piping Two Houses 1309 



Toledo. Ohio 1310 



Detroit 1312 



E. T. Barnes, of Spencer, Ind., states 

 that the dahlia growers of the middle 

 states are talking organizing a dahlia 

 society and invites correspondence from 

 those interested. 



A PLANT peddler in Chicago has a 

 miniature greenhouse on his wagon. It 

 is worth its cost as an advertisement, to 

 say nothing of the protection it affords 

 his stock. 



There was from six to ten inches of 

 snow over the north Atlantic states Sun- 

 day, March 10, extending as far south 

 as Philadelphia. 



Every florist should have a printed 

 letter-head J many of the best houses de- 

 cline to give wholesale prices to those 

 whose requests do not bear this evidence 

 that they are in the trade. 



J. W. Bakwell, whose fertilizer fac- 

 tory was established at Leicester, Eng- 

 land, in 1800, and located at Waukegan, 

 111., since 1900, says a great many retail 

 florists are doing a nice business in sell- 

 ing his packets of fertilizer for house 

 plants. 



In the Review of February 28 there 

 were notes on a new race of peony-flow- 

 ered dahlias. A. T. Boddington, New 

 York, handles this novelty, although the 

 editor did not know it when the article 

 was published. Being wide awake, Mr. 

 Boddington had in the next issue an ad- 

 vertisement of these new dahlias, and, in 

 fact, the Review had before the adver- 

 tisement appeared received inquiries as 

 to where stock was to be obtained. Ad- 

 vertisers have frequent opportunity to 

 turn to good account the interest in their 

 specialties sure to be cteated by articles 

 in the Review. 



STATE OF BUSINESS. 



Bradstreet 's Mercantile Agency reports 

 as follows on the state of general busi- 

 ness: 



* * Trade conditions continue to im- 



I enclose money-order to pay for 

 last moiith's advertising in 



M 



also a change of copy. It pays to 

 advertise'in the Review. 



WM. EHMANN. 

 Corfu, N. Y. 

 Feb. 27, 1907. 



prove. Dry goods, millinery, hats and 

 caps, and, in fact, all wearing apparel, 

 are in the forefront as regards activity, 

 an early Easter making for an early 

 opening of spring trade. In such lines 

 as cotton goods, gome of which tend to 

 further advances, it is not a question of 

 procuring business, but rather one of 

 making deliveries on orders booked 

 months ago. 



"As regards manufacturing lines, it 

 is the old story of heavily filled order 

 books and of capacity being worked to 

 the utmost, despite which deliveries are 

 backward. Collections, though satisfac- 

 tory in some lines, are, on the whole, 

 backward, the tightness of money and 

 the enormous volume of business out- 

 standing being the main factors." 



Pittsburg has an all-night florist. 



The post-office department has re- 

 scinded its recent ruling against detach- 

 able advertisements and coupons in ad- 

 vertisements and will shortly promulgate 

 a ruling with regard to their permissible 

 size. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Mrs* Minnie G. Bunde. 



Mrs. Minnie G. Bunde, wife of A. H. 

 Bunde, St. Paul's oldest florist, died 

 March 4, at her home, 162 Tenth street. 

 The deceased had never known good 

 health since the sudden death of her 

 daughter, four years ago. 



Mrs. Bunde was born in Dunkirk, 

 N. Y., and removed to St. Paul in 1868. 

 She is survived by her husband two sons, 

 William G. and Philip C. Bunde. The 

 funeral took place March 6, from the 

 residence. Interment was at Oakland. 



Arlene Ratekin. 



Arlene, the 6-year-old daughter of J. 

 W. Ratekin, Shenandoah, In., died March 

 4, of strychnine poisoning, a short time 

 after taking some of the drug she had 

 found in the house. When found she 

 was dying, and although a pliysician was 

 called immediately there was no chance 

 of saving the little girl's life. J. W. 

 Ratekin is a well-known seed merchant 

 with a large establishment in Shenan- 

 doah. 



Bartholomew Menke. 



Bartholomew Menke, an aged florist 

 at Hope, Ind., is dead, having expired 

 March 7, after a long illness. Mr. 

 Menke was a native of Prussia, but lo- 

 cated at Hope in his early manhood, 

 where for a number of years he was the 

 florist and gardner for the Moravian 

 college. 



Lawrence Heinl. 



The passing of Lawrence Heinl at his 

 home in Terre Haute, Ind., occurred 

 March 1. He was born in Austria in 

 1840 and came to America when x-x. 

 years of age. He located in Terre Haute 

 in 1863. Mr. Heinl was not only a vet- 

 eran florist but also a veteran of the 

 War of the Rebellion. Hfe was a mem- 

 ber of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery 

 and served with credit until wounded at 

 Perryville, Ky., when he was honorably 

 discharged. 



The funeral was conducted from the 

 residence by the Terre Haute Comma nd- 

 ery No. 16, Knights Templar; Morton 

 Post No. 1, G. A. R. ; Eastern Star, 

 Terre Haute Lodge No. 19, F. and A. M., 

 also attended. Mr, Heinl is survived by 

 a widow and three brothers: Joseph, of 

 Jacksonville, 111.; George, of Toledo, O., 

 and John G., of Terre Haute. 



Villiam Griffin. 



William Griffin, for years a member of 

 the firm of Griffin Bros., of Frankford, 

 Pa., died March 7 at his home, No. 4915 

 Willow street, after a long illness. He 

 was 58 years old and had lived in Frank- 

 ford all his life. He retired from active 

 business some time ago and spent several 



^ months in Europe in search of health. 



' He .was a member of the school board of 

 the twenty-third section and a vestryman 

 of St. Mark's P. E. Church. He was 

 buried on Monday afternoon with Ma- 

 sonic, honors. The services were held 

 in St. Mark's Church. A widow survives 

 him. ^ 





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