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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



April 18, 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. 



Seasonable Suggestions 1667 



— Pandanus 1667 



— Flcus ; 1667 



— Stevlas 1667 



— Bouvardlas 1667 



— Calceolarias 1667 



— Brief Reminders 1667 



Floriculture in North Carolina (lllus.) 1667 



Ciirnatlons — The English Carnation Show 



(lllus.) 1668 



— Stlgmonose 1668 



Jnduor Window-Boxes (iUus.) 1660 



Bedding Stock 1670 



The Retail Florist — Retailer's Development 1670 



— Dally Orders 1670 



— Ketaillng In Hoosierdoiu (illus.) 1671 



— A Generous Window (illns. ) 1671 



— A Venerable New Yorker (illus. » 1671 



— The Simmons Rig « . 1671 



Hot Water for Forcing jJr 1671' 



Roses— Growth Fine, Flowers I'oor 1672 



— Soil for Benches 1672 



— Southern Roses Under Glass 1672 



Dahlias 1673 



The Value of Florists' Clnl.s 1674 



Joltn F. Sullivan (portrait) 167.5 



The White Fl.v Again 1676 



Newport, R. I ^ 1677 



Indianapolis 1677 



Davenport, la 1G77 



Different 1678 



The Death Roll— Henry J. McGrady 1678 



— Jesse Lee 1678 



The Glass Market 1678 



The Readers' Corner 1678 



Chicago 167!» 



Cincinnati 1683 



Glen Cove, N. Y ;.. 1684 



I'hiladelphla 16S4 



St. Louis 16SG 



Boston 1«)SS 



New York 168!) 



Want Advertisements 16iM) 



Wayside Notes 1692 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetaltle .Markets 16!»3 



— Greenfly on Lettuce 1693 



— Gardening in Alabama I(i93 



Nottingham, N. II 1693 



Seed Trade News 1694 



- — Imports 1695 



— Bulbs in Holland 169.5 



— New Names 1696 



— State of 'l^ade 169»! 



— Conditions In Michigan 1696 



— Seed Trade at Baltimore 1698 



Steamer Sailings 1705 



I'nciflc Coast 170<i 



— Pasadena, Cal 170<i 



— San Francisco 1706 



Nursery News 1706 



— Hedges for Ohio 17<KJ 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1708 



— The Detroit Convention 1709 



Hardy Chrysanthemums 1710 



Catalogues Received 1 710 



Baltimore 1712 



Omaha 1714 



Medicine Hat, Man 1714 



Rhinebeck. N. Y 1716 



Diillas, Tex 1716 



Pittsburg 1718 



Detroit 1718 



Greenhouse Heating — Heating Small Places 172.S 



Columbus. Ohio 17.30 



Twin Cities 17.32 



With favorable weather conditions 

 next year Chicago will show the American 

 Rose Society something worth coming 

 west to see. 



The boat from Bermuda reaching New 

 York April 12 brought thirty-six boxes 

 of cut lilies and 27,359 crates of onions! 



The . Review will send Herrington 's 

 Chrysanthemum Book, with complete 

 cnltiiral details, on receipt of 50 cents. 



July weather in March and November 

 weather in April is enough to upset the 

 best laid plans of gfrowers. 



. Prices on ribbons have gone up' and it 

 is stated that further advances are cer- 

 tain to be the result of the rapidly in- 

 creasing cost of raw material. 



One retail florist supplies the laun- 

 dries of his town with free blanks on 

 which to make out their bills, and prints 

 his advertisement at the foot and on the 

 back. 



For a couple of dollars your local 

 printer will get you up some letter-heads ; 

 then when you send away an order for 

 stock the advertiser who receives it will 

 think he is dealing with a business man. 



In the advertisement of Peter Rein- 

 berg, page 1639 of last issue, a clerical 

 error made the price of Richmond, Bride, 

 Maid, Uncle John, Chatenay and Ivory 

 rose plants in 2% -inch pots $20 per thou- 

 sand, Avhen $22.50 was intended. 



An employee of a greenhouse near 

 Buffalo drank one of the nicotine ex- 

 tracts, mistaking it for whiskey, and 

 narrowly escaped with his life. These 

 preparations never should be left care- 

 lessly about, for nicotine is poisonous. 



A NEW proprietor lias just taken hold 

 of a greenhouse where the prejudices of 

 the former management were so strong 

 that the use of tobacco, even as a fumi- 

 gant, was barred. It is interesting to 

 note that the new owner reports his first 

 task to have been to clear the place of 

 insects. 



One of the results of the general pub- 

 lic appreciation of the value of spray- 

 ing trees and shrubs is the opening of 

 a new field of business. In several local- 

 ities gardeners have procured adequate 

 spraying apparatus and offer their serv- 

 ices to the unequipped public. It is a 

 fairly profitable business and capable of 

 great development. 



DIFFERENT. 



"My wife simply pelted me with 

 beautiful flowers when I came home 

 from the club last night. ' ' 



"How nice!" 



"Not much. They were all in flower 

 pots. ' ' — Milwaukee Sentinel. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Henry J. McGrady. 



Henry J. McGrady was accidentally 

 killed April 6 while at work at the rear 

 of his home on Sumner street, Newton 

 Center, Mass. He was repairing water 

 pipes, about eight feet below the sur- 

 face of the ground, when a large mass 

 of loose soil suddenly caved in, burying 

 him completely. His cries were heard 

 by his sister, Nellie, who summoned as- 

 sistance, but when extricated he was 

 unconscious. Though two physicians 

 worked over him nearly an hour they 

 were unable to resuscitate him. Mr. 

 McGrady was prominent as a grower for 

 the Boston cut flower market. 



Jesse Lee. 



Jesse Lee, of Marshall, Mich., died at 

 his home on South Jefferson street at 

 six o'clock Saturday morning, March 30, 

 after an illness of three weeks. The de- 

 ceased was nearly 85 years old and his 

 demise was largely due tr his advanced 

 vears. He had lived at Marshall forty- 



seven years, having come to Marshall 

 directly from Kent, England, where he 

 was born. The only near relative iu 

 this country is the daughter, Miss Jessie 

 Lee. The business will be continued by 

 Miss Lee for the present. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



Those who are building greenhouse-, 

 for this season and have not yet secured 

 their glass would do well to note that ai 

 glass factories making hand-blown glas^ 

 will go out of blast April 20. This i 

 considerably earlier than usual and it :^ 

 intimated that because of labor trouble, 

 and other factors the resumption of pro 

 duction will not be as early in th 

 autumn as usual; indeed, well-inf orme * 

 glass jobbers give it as their opinio, 

 that no new glass will be made until we]' 

 along toward December. There are nov 

 less than the ordinary stocks on hani. 

 and a number of the greenhouse sizes 

 promise to be difficult to procure be- 

 fore the season is much farther ad- 

 vanced. It is stated that the stocks ar< 

 lowest on 16x18 and 16x24. Prices havf 

 been advancing all season and a still 

 further advance is expected during the 

 summer. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Everblooming: Hydrangea. 



I wish to ask, through the Review, if 

 any of the florists ever has had a for- 

 tune in a dream, and been badly disap- 

 pointed when he woke up? 



To make my story short, I have a lit- 

 tle pet hydrangea, a cutting from an 

 Otaksa, rooted in April, 1906, and potted 

 in a 2 14 -inch pot. By the end of June 

 it commenced to bloom and continued 

 blooming. Today, though not more than 

 twelve inches high, it has one bloom and 

 four buds, I have had a great deal of 

 trouble to get cuttings from it to root, 

 but finally succeeded in getting six cut- 

 tings started in March of this year and 

 now they are in pots and every one has a 

 bud. What I wish to know is this: Is 

 there any ever-blooming hydrangea on 

 the market? If there is such a thing I 

 will surely have a rude awakening from 

 my dream and be badly disappointed, 

 as I think a great deal of the little pet. 

 and I am going to get up stock of it at 

 any rate. 



Everything is moving along smoothly 

 and business keeping up fairly well. If 

 the winter stays with us as it has the 

 last few days we will be taking a sleigh 

 ride, as the snow was two inches deep 

 April 10. All the fruit and early 

 vegetables in this section are killed. The 

 work on my new carnation house will be 

 commenced in a week or ten days, as I 

 want the house completed in time for 

 early planting. Simon J. Hidek. 



More About Mice. 



I see in the issue of April 4 that F. 

 W. V. is troubled with mice. If he will 

 do as I did he will get rid of them. 

 After they ate fifty Mme. Salleroi 

 geraniums in 4-inch pots I procured a 

 "Surecatch" mousetrap, made by the 

 Lovell Mfg. Co., Erie, Pa. The cost 

 was only 5 cents. I spread a few pieces 

 of apple about the trap for a couple of 

 nights, leaving the trap not baited, so 

 they could get acquainted. Then I set 

 the trap and baited it with apple. In 

 two days I caught all the mice. R. N. 



