1820 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mav 2, 1007. 



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is 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. 



Seasonabk' Siigjjt'stious — Aquatics (lllus.).. 1811 



— The Best i\.v!uph»eu« 1811 



— Neluiubiiinis 1811 



— Other Aquatics 1812 



— Hardening Off Bedding Stock 1812 



— Field Planting 18'.2 



— Brief Uenilnders 1812 



Kupatorliim Welnmannlanuni (lllu!?.) 1812 



Begonia Carolus (lllus.) 1813 



Fertilizers 1813 



Trouble with Geraniums 1813 



Cbr.vsantheniums — Cbrysauthenunn Notes — • 



West 1814 



Foliage Turning Ked 1814 



The Uetall Florist — A Knickerbocker Deco- 

 ration (lllus.) 1814 



Florists Lose Suit 1814 



Peaches Under Glass 1815 



Hoses — Seasonable Treatment 1810 



— Causes of Bullheads 1816 



Time to Sow Perennials 1818 



Carnations — Is Lawson Deteriorating? 1810 



The Clematis (lllus.) 1817 



Araucarlas 1817 



t'ape Jasmine 1818 



New York 1818 



Boston 1819 



Columbus, Ohio 1819 



The Death Koll— F. W. Cross 1820 



— Mrs. Doroth.v Bornhoef t 1820 



— John Cotterlll 1820 



Gardenias 1820 



The Readers' Comer — No Sunday Funerals 



In Detroit 1820 



American Carnation Society 1820 



Chicago 1821 



St. Louis 1823 



Philadelphia 1826 



Strength of Cyanide 1829 



Wayside Notes 1832 



Seed Trade News 1833 



— Imports 1834 



— French Seed Crops 1834 



— Trade in Holland Bulbs 1835 



— New Names 1836 



— German Seed Crops 1836 



— Tulip Prices 1838 



— The Bight Way 1838 



Nursery News 1846 



— A Good Season 1846 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1847 



Deutslas 1848 



Bed for Cannas 184!« 



Pacific Coast— A Veteran 1850 



— A Discouraging Season 1850 



— San Francisco 1880 



Baltimore Ifol 



Newport, R. 1 1852 



Denver 1854 



Westerly, R. 1 1856 



Cincinnati 1858 



Pittsburg 18«|' 



Vegetable Forcing- Vegetable Markets 18(2 



— Forcing Lettuce 1872 



— Size of Greenhouses 187^ 



— Method of Forcing Mint 187^ 



Greenhouse Heating— Large Pipe 1873 



— Steam or Hot Water for Heating 1873 



— Piping for Minnesota 1874 



— Three Connected Houses 1874 



— Flows for Hot Water 1875 



Twin Cities 1876 



Detroit 1878 



Toronto ^°''" 



It has been suggested that boxwood 

 sprays may be used in many places where 

 hardy cut ferns have commonly been 

 employed. 



The Khode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety has issued the schedule of pre- 

 miums for the exhibitions to be held at 

 Providence in June, September and No- 

 vember. Copies may be had by address- 

 ing C. W. Smith, secretary, 27 Exchange 

 street, Providence. 



The Board of General Appraisers at 

 New York April 22 held that mistletoe 

 stems with the natural berries attached 

 are free of duty as a crude vegetable 

 substance under paragraph 617, tariff 

 act of 1897. 



It is interesting to note how many 

 firms do their looking up of credits 

 after payment is due and not forth- 

 coming, when often the slightest inquiry 

 would have revealed that the sale never 

 should have been made except on the 

 cash with order basis. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 has issued the preliminary schedule of 

 premiums for its ninth annual exhibi- 

 tion, to be held at Music hall, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., November 6 to 8. Copies 

 may be had by addressing E. W. Neu- 

 brand, secretary, Tarrytown. 



There are a large number of speci- 

 men bay trees known to have suffered 

 considerably during the past winter. The 

 greater number of those damaged were 

 wintered in sheds or other buildings 

 where the atmosphere was invariably 

 dry and sometimes the temperature quite 

 low. Bays will stand a pretty low tem- 

 perature, but a protracted period in a 

 dry atmosphere is apt to blight the 

 foliage. Damp hay scattered among the 

 tubs will help to retain moisture. 



The question of an adequate and de- 

 pendable supply of hardy ferns has be- 

 come an important one with wholesale 

 florists. The number of users of ferns 

 has increased much more rapidly than 

 has the supply and as a consequence most 

 pickers do not seem to exercise as much 

 care as formerly, with the result that 

 the quality of the stock is deteriorating. 

 This spring the ferns coming out of stor- 

 age are in very poor condition and the 

 chances of wholesalers making a profit 

 on them are remote. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



F. W. Cross. 



At "Wisbech, England, Frederick Wil- 

 liam Cross died suddenly April 4 of 

 cerebral hemorrhage. He was 43 years 

 of age and widely known for his large 

 interests in the nursery business and in 

 fruit growing. It is said that the 

 funeral was more largely attended than 

 any ever held in the borough cemetery. 

 Mr. Cross left two brothers engaged in 

 the trade: .1. W. Cross, a grower of 

 American varieties of carnations at Wis- 

 bech, England, and Eli Cross, grower of 

 violets, carnations, etc., at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. 



Mrs. Dorothy Bomhoeft. 



Mrs. Dorothy Bomhoeft died at Chi- 

 cago, April 24, aged 68 years. Her resi- 

 dence was 1164 Maple Square avenue. 

 She was the mother of Henry and Eu- 

 gene Bomhoeft. Henry Bomhoeft is a 

 well-known florist at Tipton, Ind. 



John Cotterill. 



It was with a feeling of deep regret 

 that the trade at Toronto, Ont., heard 

 the news, Monday morning, April 22, of 

 the death of John Cotterill, who died of 

 pneumonia after a week's illness. Mr. 

 Cotterill was one of the best-known flor- 

 ists in and around Toronto, having spent 

 his life in tiiO northern part of the city. 

 He was an extensive grower of high- 

 grade bedding plants, and it was always 

 freely admitted that he got the highest 



price of any wholesaler in the trade 

 there. This may be accounted for by 

 the fact of the good quality of the stock 

 he grew, and by his own personality a^i a 

 salesman. In the winter time he gre\v 

 asparagus and bulb stock extensively 

 The funeral was held April 24 and w^jj 

 attended by a large number of the craft. 

 He leaves a widow and nine childim 

 who have the sincere sympathy of ail 

 connected with the trade in and aroi:inl 

 Toronto. D. J. 



GARDENIAS. 



The following telegram is recei\oj 

 from C. W. Benson, Alvin, Tex. : 



"The article on gardenias, under I'.e 

 heading of Seasonable Suggestions in iiie 

 Eeview of April 25 is altogether uni lU- 

 to me. 1 have several hundred flon-;ts 

 on my. list, from New York to Salt L.'.kl' 

 to whom I have shipped many yc;is. 

 If shipments were not satisfactoiy, 

 orders would not continue. Dozens wnto 

 me every year, expressing complete sais- 

 f action. Our last year's shipments vivo 

 a half -million buds in orders; no ci :ii- 

 plaints. Please correct editorially in 

 your issue tomorrow and suggest this 

 applies only to inexperienced shippers. 

 The article was intentionally timed and 

 should have been censored, for you know 

 the extent and character of my trade.'" 



The note to which Mr. Benson refers 

 was to the effect that the gardenia, frcsli 

 cut from a greenhouse in winter, is not 

 to be compared to the cape jasmine, 

 which ' ' does splendidly out of doors in 

 'lexas, " after its journey north of a 

 thousand miles or more. However, it is 

 with pleasure that wo adopt Mr. Bon- 

 son's suggestion, for we would not want 

 to be unfair to him — or the numerons 

 other large and experienced shippers of 

 jasmine. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



No Sunday Funerals in Detroit. 



For a long time ministers of Detroit 

 tried to stop Sunday funerals, finally 

 giving it up as a bad job. About :i 

 year ago the hackdrivers' union decided 

 that six days a week were enough and 

 refused to drive on Sundays. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to wait upon tlu^ 

 directors of the various cemeteries, per- 

 suading them to refuse Sunday burials, 

 to which agreement they have lived up 

 ever since, except in tne case of a death 

 from a contagious disease, when they 

 are obliged to bury by order of the board 

 of health. 



The effect on the florists' business has 

 been just the opposite to that reported 

 in several recent articles in the Review. 

 Witn no burials Sundays, those that 

 would naturally fall upon that day arc 

 put off until Monday, in most cases. 

 Consequently Monday now is the heavi- 

 est burial day. Seventy-five per cent ot 

 the people want their orders deliverc': 

 the day previous to the funeral. Thi^ 

 being Sunday, it is easily seen that the 

 florists are kept extremely busy, havin;^' 

 to work more hours on Sunday than they 

 did when there were burials that day. 



H. S. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Stanley B. Fillow, Westport, Conn., 

 registers Juanita, a bright scarlet of th'' 

 largest size and a strong stem; a free 

 bloomer and easy rooter. 



Albert M. Herr, Secy. 



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