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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apkil 25, 1907. 



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it printed Wednesday evenins: 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. 



Chrvsantliemums — Muius in Lett\ict' Houses 17;!i» 



— History of the Muui 173.» 



Caruatlous — Caruatloii Notes — West 1730 



— Blooms Develop Slowly 174 > 



The Hellantlius (lUiis.) 17-10 



Order and Cleanliness 1740 



The Ketall Klorlst— Memorial I»n.v 1741 



— Saltford's Conservatory (lllus. ) 1741 



— Uetailer's Advertising 1741 



— Sunday Funerals 1741 



— A Carnation Armful (llliis. ) 1742 



— Tented Funerals 1742 



Cyclamen 1742 



Crotou Weismannl (lllus.) 174:; 



Why Use Cypress? 174:i 



The Men We Meet— M. Crawford (portrait) 1744 



Buddleia Asiatlca 1744 



Seasonable Suggestions 1744 



— Gardenias 1744 



— Gardenias on Benches 174r> 



— Lily of the Valley 1745 



— Dahlias and Green CuttinRs 174r> 



— Cosmo* 1745 



— Trees and Shrubs 1745 



— Brief Uemindera 1745 



Uoees — Preparations for Benching 1746 



— American Rose Society 174« 



— Rose Hiawatha 1747 



The Readers' Corner — Sunday Funerals 1747 



— A Fight with Frost 1747 



— A Florist or a Milliner? 1747 



— Not Myers 1747 



The Death Roll— Edward W. Fenn 1748 



— William Walters 1748 



— John C. Buckmeister 174S 



Chicago 1740 



New York 1751 



Lenox. Mass 1753 



Philadelphia 1754 



Boston 1755 



St. Louis 1757 



Want Advertisements 175S 



Detroit 1760 



Seed Trade News 17(11 



— The Seed l^ade in Kngland 17»!1 



— Imports 17(i:! 



— Seed lYade Onventioii 17ti:! 



— The Seed Trade 1704 



— French Seed Crops 17(M 



— Catalogues Received 17fl(? 



Vegetable Forcing 1766 



— Vegetable Markets 1766 



— When to Start 1766 



Steamer Sailings 177.{ 



Pacific Coast 1774 



-Victoria, B. C 1774 



Cincinnati , 1774 



Nursery News 1775 



— Tlie Blltnioro Catalogue 1776 



— .Seasonable Suggestions 1777 



Tlie Giant Burning Bush 1778 



Wood-Llce 177fl 



Houghton, ]Mich 1780 



Mancliester, N. II 1780 



Pittsburg 1782 



Calumet. Mich 1784 



Grand Island. Neb 1784 



South Bend, Ind 1786 



Baltimore 1788 



Greenhouse Heating 1800 



Heating Small Places 1800 



Vltis Harryana 18<)1 



Wavffide Notes 1802 



Twin Cities 1 804 



The lawn style of cemetery is steadily 

 gaining in public favor, but this does 

 not imply any less use of flowers. 



Growers may as well recognize that 

 wages are higher than they were a year 

 or two ago. All labor has shared in the 

 ' ' general prosperity ' ' and the green- 

 house hands not only are entitled to an 

 increase to partly offset the increased 

 cost of living, but will not be content 

 unless they get it. 



WHOSE? 



The roses that I sent were red. 



The other chap's were white; 

 My Iteart is torn with doubt and fear — - 



Which will she wear to-ulgbtV 



I hear her step upon the stair, 



My fortunes to disclose; 

 Milady comes, but, oh, gee whiz! 



Whose violets are those? 



—New York Herald. 



By all means write on a printed letter- 

 head. Let your communication show on 

 its face that you are a business man. 



This may be called between-season 

 with the rose and carnation growers, but 

 the demand for competent help is still 

 ahead of the supply. 



Why not ask a little higher retail 

 price for bedding stock this year? Every 

 item entering into the cost of produc- 

 tion has advanced in price since last 

 season. 



The cuttings of Red Lawson carnation 

 are not in active demand; in fact, those 

 who have propagated it beyond their 

 own requirements report it slow sale. It 

 is not red enough to fill the bill. 



COLEUS. 



I am thinking of building a green- 

 house expressly for growing rooted cut- 

 tings of coleus for wholesale trade. In 



I am having a very nice trade this 

 spring — far better than common— and 

 I have to thank 



for it, as IT IS THE ONLY 

 ADVERTISING MEDIUM I 

 AM USING. 



F. A. BALLER. 

 Bloomington, 111* 

 April 22, 1907. 



a house 16x75 feet could I grow enough 

 to make it profitable by having the stock 

 plants in the center bench? What tem- 

 perature would be required for best re- 

 sults? About how many stock plants 

 would be required for the center bench, 

 say 6x70 feet, to be rooted on the side 

 benches? Please give me some idea of 

 the number of cuttings that could be 

 jiroduced in the season for spring trade. 

 M. W. W. 



A house of the size named should 

 prove quite suitable for growing coleus. 

 It should be piped so as to give a mini- 

 mum temperature of 60 degrees in cold 

 weather, for coleus needs a warm house. 

 Your propagating bed needs to be on 

 the north side. A better plan would be 

 a small section especially for this pur- 

 pose; then you could maintain just the 

 right condition needed. Coleus, however, 

 is easily rooted and with some bottom 

 heat and the necessary shade and water- 

 ing, few or none should fail to root. 



Coleus grows so speedily that propaga- 

 tion is neither necessary nor desirable 

 before the end of February. The tons 

 of the early struck cuttings can be uscvl 

 again and it will hardly pay to bother 

 with more than two batches from your 

 old stock plants. Of the latter, there is 

 no need to pot up a large number. F.i- 

 such a house as you describe lift 100 aivt 

 you should have no trouble in filling >r 

 with stock from them. In fact, yt ,, 

 could raise more if necessary. 



We presume plants from small pots a, - 

 desired for spring trade. If rooted ci, 

 tings are wanted, it would be as well • . 

 fill the whole center bench with stoi 

 plants and use the side benches for pro 

 agating. Allow them to root throuj. i 

 into some soil and in this way keep \-,; 

 their vigor. The exact number of cii 

 tings to be raised depends so much ( 

 whether cuttings are to be sold fro; i 

 sand or potted that it would be difficu'' 

 to give any estimate. If cuttings onl-. 

 25,000 should be produced easily. If p( 

 plants, of course additional greenhous ■ 

 space, were it at command, would insui • 

 your having the same number. C. W. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Edward W. Fenn. 



Edward W. Fenn, aged 62 years, dicil 

 Sunday morning, April 14, of a disease 

 of the liver, at his home on High street, 

 Terryville, Conn. He had been ill all 

 winter. About thirty years ago he built 

 a greenhouse upon the farm where ho 

 had always lived, and from that time he 

 gave all his attention to growing flowers. 

 He was fond of his work and was so suc- 

 cessful in it that his place became th(> 

 center of attraction for a considerable 

 section of the country. Mr. Fenn was 

 twice married, his first wife being Misf 

 Jeanette Van Buren, by whom he had 

 one son, Clarence Fenn. His second wife 

 survives him. He is also survived by his 

 son and his father, Stephen Fenn, who is 

 84 years of age. 



William Matters. 



William Watters, the oldest citizen of 

 Charlestown, W. Va., died April 16 at 

 his residence, in that city, of old age. He 

 was a Scotchman and came to this coun- 

 try when a young man, conducting green- 

 houses for many years. He is survived 

 by a widow, one son and two daughters, 

 all of Charlestown. 



John C. Buckmeister. 



John B. Buckmeister, a nurseryman, is 

 dead at Fort Scott, Kan. He was born 

 near Frederica, Del., on July 17, 1842, 

 and was the son of Geo. W. Buckmeister 

 and Mary Burchenal. He removed to 

 Freedom, Lafayette County, Mo., in 

 September, 1859, with his parents, being 

 then at the age of 17. In March, 1862, 

 he joined Company B, of the Seventli 

 Missouri state militia and served with 

 bravery for three years. After the war 

 was over, in the spring of 1865, in John- 

 son County, Mo., he married Miss Eliza- 

 beth Burrow, and from this union seven 

 children have been born, five of whom 

 survive him. He located at Fort Scott 

 in 1882, where he developed much skill in 

 horticulture. 



MOLINE, III. — William Knees is hav- 

 ing an office built of Moline sandstone 

 brick. Last summer Mr. Knees erected 

 a greenhouse at the rear of his property 

 and he expects to build at least two more 

 this summer. 



