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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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it 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 Easter Business 1323 



— Basket of Hyacinths and Lilies (lUus.). 1523 

 ijeasonable Suggestions — Hydrangeas 1524 



— Asters 1524 



— Herbaceous Perennials 1324 



— Greenhouse Bulbous Plants 1524 



— Hardv Annuals 1524 



— Bulbous Plants 1324 



— Miscellaneous 1524 



The Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club 



(lllus.) 1524 



Shading with Whitewash 1525 



Flowers for Market 1525 



Trouble with Mice 1525 



Annuals for Bedding 1525 



Easter Stock at W. W. Edgars, Waverley, 



Mass. (illus.) 1525 



Carnations — Carnations In England 152(5 



— Tlie Same Temperature 1526 



— Getting Soil In Shape 1527 



Soranton Florists' Club (lllus. ) 1327 



The Death Roll — Nathan Smith (portrait). 152S 



— Mrs. Henry A. Dreer 1528 



— Gaston Glosk 1328 



— Tliomas H. Douglas 1528 



— Thom-is J. Kirchner 1528 



St. Louis 1528 



Geranium Countess (lllus.) 1529 



Boston 1529 



Cincinnati 1530 



New York 1530 



Express Companies Barred 15.32 



A Cut-Leaved Cyrtomium 1532 



Chicago 1533 



Milwaukee 1537 



Indianapolis 15.37 



Philadelphia 1538 



Kansas City 1543 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 1545 



— Cucnmbers 1545 



Wayside Notes 1545 



Seed Trade News 1546 



— California Losses 1546 



— Imports 1548 



— The Season in Connecticut 1548 



— State of Trade 1548 



— Spraving Melons l.">48 



— The Dakota Seed Co 1549 



— New Names IS-W 



— Seed Inspection in Maine 1550 



Newport. R. 1 1550 



Steamer Sailings 135i> 



Pacific Coast— Centralia, Wash 1560 



— Pasadena. Cal 1560 



— San Francisco 1360 



Buffalo 1560 



Nurserv News — Seasonable Suggestions 1361 



— Outdoor Roses 1362 



— Nursery InKi)ectIon in Utah l.">62 



Columbus, Ohio 1362 



Pittsburg 1566 



Washington 156S 



Baltimore 1370 



Gr^nd Rapids 1572 



Twin Cities 1574 



Greenhouse Heating — .V New Fuel Saver... 15SG 



— Rearrange Heating Pipes 15S6 



Detroit 1587 



New Orleans 1587 



Louisville. Ky. 1588 



There were 5,608 boxes of window 

 glass, of 100 square feet each, on the 

 last boat from Antwerp. 



An interesting paragraph has been 

 going the rounds of the daily papers 

 quoting "one of the officials of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture" on the exact- 

 ness with which growers time their 

 greenhouse crops. He is made to say 

 that this art is now down so fine that 

 churches can be decorated Saturday 

 fiight with lilies in bud so nicely timed 

 that they burst into full bloom Easter 

 morning ! 



Easter, 1908, falls on April 19, three 

 weeks later than this year. 



A PRINTED letter-head commands re- 

 spect; better see your local printer about 

 it today. 



The retailers have before them three 

 of the busiest and most profitable 

 months of the year. 



The early date of Easter gives us a 

 longer season than usual for the bed- 

 ding plant business, which culminates 

 with a rush at Memorial day. 



Seekers after novelties should keep 

 their eyes on the pages of the Eeview 

 devoted to European advertisements. 

 Practically all novelties are offered there 

 as soon as stock is ready. 



The unseasonably warm weather for 

 the last half of March cost the trade 

 a great many thousands of dollars. Not 

 only did it make a surplus, but much 

 material was of unsalable quality. 



The secretary of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America has issued a neat 

 pamphlet containing the proceedings of 

 the annual meetings of 1905 and 1906, 

 together with a list of the varieties of 

 chrysanthemums introduced in 1906. 



The consignment of cut lilies from 

 Bermuda to reach New York this year 

 was only 250 cases of sixty blooms 

 each, instead of 2,000 to 3,000 cases as 

 in other years. The stock usually pene- 

 trates to the ^Mississippi valley, and 

 even to the Missouri, through the 

 agency • of the express companies and 

 customs forwarders to whom it is con- 

 signed, but this year little of it got out- 

 side of New York and Brooklyn, mak- 

 ing no appreciable impression on the 

 market in either city. 



QUICK RETURNS. 



Bequests like the following, from a 

 large firm of mail order plantsmen, fre- 

 quently come to the Review: 



' ' As soon as this week 's Eeview is 

 out, send us one by special delivery; en- 

 closed find stamps. ' ' 



Highly as such people may value the 

 literary features of the paper, you may 

 safely bet your bottom dollar it is the 

 advertising they are in such haste to see. 

 Because buyers are watching for the ar- 

 rival of the Review, e\-«ry now and then 

 some advertiser writes that he received 

 telegraphic orders before the mail had 

 brought his own copy of the paper con- 

 taining his advertisement. 



Buyers have not failed to note that 

 the Review presents always the most 

 advertising in all lines. 



EXPRESS COMPANIES BARRED. 



Cannot Buy or Sell Merchandise. * 



The Wells-Fargo Express Co. has re- 

 cently issued instructions to its em- 

 ployes that they must not hereafter un- 

 dertake to conduct, in their own names 

 or the name of the company, any mer- 

 chandise business. This is the first step 

 by any of the express concerns to clear 

 their skirts in connection with the 

 charges that they have been improperly 

 engaging in competition with the com- 

 mission merchants and other dealers in 

 their territory by handling fruits and 

 other commodities in their own name, 

 and in the purchase and sale of mer- 

 chandise for patrons. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission 



inclines to believe it has power enough 

 under the present law to prevent the 

 companies continuing this business, and 

 has issued an order for hearings to de- 

 termine the nature and extent of the 

 practice. 



At certain seasons of the year the ex- 

 press companies have been large handlers 

 of outdoor flowers, especially of cape 

 jasmines, 



SPRING WAKING. 



A Snowdrop lay In the sweet, dark ground. 



"Come out," said the Sun; "come out!" 

 But she lay quite still and she heard no sound. 



"Asleep," said the Sun, "no doubt!" 



The Snowdrop heard, for she raised her head. 



"Look spry," said the Sun, "look spry!" 

 "It's warm," said the Snowdrop, "here In 

 bed." 



"Oh, fle!" said the Sun, "Oh, fie!" 



"You call too soon, Mr. Sun, you do!" 

 "No, no," said the Sun, "Oh, no!" 



"There's nothing above, and I can't see 

 through." 

 "It's snow," said the Sun, "just snow." 



"But I say, Mr. Sun, are the Robins here?" 



"Maybe," said the Sun, "maybe." 

 "There wasn't a bird when you called last 

 year." 



"Come out," said the Sun, "and see!" 



The Snowdrop sighed, for she liked her nap. 



And there wasn't a bird in sight; 

 But she popped out of bed In her white night- 

 cap. 



"That's right," said the Sun, "that's right!" 



And, soon as that small night-cap was seen, 



A Robin began to sing; 

 The air grew warm, and the grass turned green. 

 " 'Tls Spring!" laughed the Sun; " 'tis 

 spring!" 

 —Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, In April St. Nich- 

 olas. 



AZALEA HEXE. 



Writers in the Review, especially 

 William Scott, have several times said 

 a word in commendation of Azalea 

 Hexe. Here is a recent comment by a 

 London contemporary : 



' ' Azalea amoena Hexe is a useful and 

 beautiful azalea, and, as it blooms with 

 the utmost freedom in small pots, it 

 promises to become a popular market 

 variety. For conservatory decoration, 

 and for vases in rooms, this is a charm- 

 ing azalea. It has the good, bushy habit 

 of A. amoDna, but it has larger leafage 

 than the type and much larger flowers. 

 Moreo\'«r, the flowers are of a rich but 

 soft rose-red shade and have none of 

 that magenta-jjurple coloring that so 

 many people dislike in A. amoena proper. 

 The flowers of A. Hexe are of the 

 calyciflora or hose-in-hose character; 

 there is, so to speak, a corolla placed in- 

 side a corolla, but they are fitted closely 

 together, and thus make a t)eautiful 

 rather than merely an interesting 

 flower. ' ' 



A CUT-LEAVED CYRTOMIUM. 



Cyrtomium falcatum Rochfordi is an 

 old friend in a new dress, and a very 

 elegant dress it is, says an English con- 

 temporary. Every reader knows that 

 C. falcatum is almost hardy, and that 

 as a cool greenhouse fern, for house dec- 

 oration, it is one of the best tempered 

 of plants. The newcomer is like the 

 good old type in habit and hardiness, 

 but each division of its fronds is ele- 

 gantly cut and fringed. The new fern 

 cannot fail to become popular, as it is 

 a plant every one will be able to grow, 

 and it is also handsome. It was re- 

 cently given a first-class certificate when 

 exhibited before the Royal Horticultural 

 Society by T. Rochford & Sons, Turn- 

 ford Hall, Broxbourne. 



