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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 11, 1907. 



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b 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 or 

 Tuesday morning at latest^ instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Funeral Work (illus.). 1595 



Bulbs for Forcing : 1596 



Paul F. Rlchter (portrait) 1590 



Pittsburg Flower Lovers (illus.) 1597 



Itobert Pyle (portrait) 1598 



Seasonable Suggestions 1598 



— Cattleyas 1598 



— Dendrobiums 1598 



— Cyclamen 1698 



— Cannas 1599 



— Nephrolepls 1599 



— Coldframes 1599 



— Short Reminders 1599 



Hellenthal's Display (illus.) l(i(X) 



Carnations — Cousins' Carnations (illus.)... 1600 



— Carnation Notes — West 1600 



— Carnations Registered 1601 



Fischer Goes to California 1601 



Freesia Purity (illus.) 1001 



Number of Plants for Red 1601 



Coreopsis and Gaillardla 1601 



"Wise Words" 1601 



Violets as Travelers 1602 



Chrysanthemums — Chrysantlii-mum Notes — 



West 1602 



Hooded Sweet Peas 1602 



Roses— Care of Young Stock 1603 



— Southern Roses Under Glass 1603 



Yellow for June Weddings 1603 



The Death Roll — Amasa Kennlcott 1604 



— Mrs. W. M. Jones 1604 



— John P. Murphy 1604 



— John H. Brierly 1604 



— Lulu Hoffmeister 1604 



— Abram De Mallie 1604 



Chicago 1605 



Boston 1607 



Philadelphia 1610 



St. Louis 1612 



New York 1613 



Don't Terrace 1616 



Want Advertisements 1617 



Toronto 1618 



Vegetable Forcing 1619 



— Vegetable Markets 1619 



— Importance of Good Seeds 1619 



— Tomatoes 1619 



Seed Trade News 1620 



— California Crop losses 1620 



— California Conditions Bad 1020 



— State of Trade 1620 



— Late Frost in Georgia 1621 



— Imports 1621 



— Free Seeds Popular 1021 



— New Names 1622 



— The Government Seed Shop 1622 



— Beans as a Commercial Crop 1623 



Brockton, Mass 1624 



Steamer Sailings 1631 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 1632 



— San Francisco I<i32 



— Easter Aftermath 1632 



Nursery News — Hardy Herbaceous Plants. 1633 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1631 



— Taft on the Seedless Apple 1634 



— More Blue Evergreens 1 034 



— Hedges 1636 



— The Idaho Law 1630 



Whitehall, Mich 1638 



Dayton, 1640 



Cleveland 1642 



Pittsburg 1644 



Baltimore 1654 



Detroit 1654 



Greenhouse Heating — Boiler Inspection Law 1656 



— Hot Water Boilers 1657 



New Orleans 1658 



Manchester, Mass 1658 



Orange, N. J 165S 



Denver 1660 



Taunton, Mass 1660 



It is reported that the prick of a rose 

 thorn four weeks ago resulted in blood 

 poisoning which caused the death of a 

 young woman at Stamford, Conn., 

 March 30. 



This truth Is past denying) 

 Our advertising ought to be 



When all the world quits buying." 



A PRINTED letter-head commands at- 

 tention your order might not get if writ- 

 ten, as some are, by thoughtless people, 

 on any handy scrap of paper. 



The imports of Belgian window glass 

 for the last week of March were 3,403 

 boxes of 100 square feet each, valued at 

 $7,314, according to customs reports. 



It is worth while noting that busi- 

 ness, so generally satisfactory at Easter, 

 has since then been quiet all over the 

 country, with large quantities of cut 

 flower stock accumulating in wholesal- 

 ers ' hands. 



The Pittsburg Florists' Club is to 

 have a symposium on the subject, 

 "Credits," at its next meeting. Long 

 and loose credits are one of the crying 

 evils which everyone should do his part 

 to mitigate. 



The South Park Floral Co., New 

 Castle, Ind., has worked up so large a 

 business in Beauty plants from the 

 benches, as a result of its magazine ad- 

 vertising, that the large number grown 

 in their own houses does not suffice and 

 they buy largely of other growers. 



After a season of such general large 

 supplies as at Easter, conclusions drawn 

 from reports of surpluses, such as the 

 quite common one of azaleas, are apt to 

 be more or less untrustworthy. If other 

 stock had been less abundant possibly 

 these left-over items would have sold as 

 well as usual. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Amasa Kennicott. 



Amasa Kennicott, who was one of the 

 oldest men in the trade in the west, died 

 Sunday evening, April 7, at his home at 

 The Grove, near Glen View, a few miles 

 northwest of Chicago. Had Mr. Kenni- 

 cott survived until July he would have 

 been 70 years of age, and for prac- 

 tically all that time he made his home on 

 the farm where he was born and died. 

 Mr. Kennicott was the son of Dr. John 

 A. Kennicott, well known to early hor- 

 ticulturists. He came to Illinois in 1836 

 and took the property at The Grove as 

 a government grant. Amasa was the 

 first of several sons born there. Those 

 remaining are Flint Kennicott, president 

 of the Kennicott Bros. Co., Chicago, and 

 Bruno Kennicott, who is in the city em- 

 ploy. One sister, Mrs. Dr. F. W. Eeilly, 

 also survives. From boyhood Amasa 

 Kennicott was surrounded by horticul- 

 ture and horticulturists. He has followed 

 horticulture all his long life, save the 

 four years spent in the army during the 

 Civil war, as captain of Company F, 

 Thirty-ninth Illinois Volunteers. He was 

 commissioned major just at the close of 

 hostilities. 



Mr. Kennicott was probably the pio- 

 neer in the growing of outdoor flowers 

 for the Chicago market. He had been 

 engaged in this for so many years that 

 the exact date of the first sales has been 

 lost. In the 80 's he induced his brother, 

 Flint, to join him in opening a retail 

 flower store on Wabash avenue. A little 

 later, appreciating the opportunities 

 which lay before a wholesale flower store 

 in Chicago, they started wholesaling at 

 27 Washington street, in a basement 

 where the Marshall Field building now 



stands. This business has endured to 

 the present day, although Amasa Kenni- 

 cott withdrew after a few years. 



It is as a peony grower that he was 

 best known. He was among the first to 

 awaken to a realization of the possibil- 

 ities of the peony as a cut flower and it 

 is largely due to his leadership in the 

 matter of growing, storing and market- 

 ing the peony that the present enormous 

 volume of peony business now done iu 

 the Chicago market has been attained. 

 He was a close thinker and an author- 

 ity on all things pertaining to the peony. 

 One of Mr. Kennicott 's sons, Eanson, is 

 engaged in the growing of peonies and 

 other garden flowers at Carbondale, 111, 

 Walter has been associated with his 

 father in the business at Chicago' and 

 upon his shoulders the management of 

 affairs now will devolve. With the 

 widow, a third son survives, Harrison, 

 better known as "Tat," who is in the 

 state employ. 



Mr. Kennicott was known throughout 

 the trade, not only for his thorough 

 knowledge of his specialties, but for his 

 sterling character. No act of his busi- 

 ness or personal life ever was influenced 

 by other considerations than right and 

 justice. The funeral was held Tuesday 

 afternoon and was largely attended. The 

 floral tributes were profuse. 



Mrs. W. M. Jones. 



Anna B. Jones, wife of William M. 

 Jones, of East Cambridge, Md., died 

 March 31 at 32 years of age. She had 

 been suffering from blood poisoning and 

 her death was due to heart failure. In 

 addition to her husband she is survived 

 by five children, Anna, Viola, Myrtle, 

 Edith and William. She was the daugh- 

 ter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Freeman, 

 of Baltimore. 



John P. Murphy. 



John P. Murphy died at his home, 

 Saco, Me., April 1, at the age of 67 

 years. He had been sick for about ten 

 days with the grip. He leaves one daugh- 

 ter, May E., two brothers and a sister. 



John H. Brierly. 



John H. Brierly, one of the pioneers 

 of Boulder, Colo., and a prominent flo- 

 rist, died at his home in Boulder on 

 Monday, April 1, aged 73 years. Mr. 

 Brierly removed to Boulder in 1860 and 

 was one of the first to discover the 

 Marshall coal field. He is survived by a 

 widow and two children. The funeral 

 was held on the Thursday following his 

 death and the body was interred in 

 Green Mountain cemetery. 



Lulu Hoffmeister. 



Miss Lulu Hoffmeister, of Cincinnati, 

 died March 30. She was a younger sis- 

 ter of the family owning the Hoffmei- 

 ster Floral Co., which is composed of 

 August Hoffmeister and his two sisters, 

 Carrie and Mary. The burial was at 

 Spring Grove cemetery, April 2. 



Abram De Mallie. 



Abram De Mallie, one of the oldest 

 citizens of Rochester, N. Y., died April 

 3. He was born in Holland, April 10, 

 1821. In 1855 he and his wife removed 

 to this country and settled in Rochester, 

 where Mr. De Mallie was for many 

 years engaged in the nursery business. 

 Some twenty years ago he suffered a 

 stroke of apoplexy and was forced to 

 cease work. A second attack caused his 

 death before a physician could be sum- 

 moned. Three children survive. 



