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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 9, 1907. 



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if printed Wednesday evening amd 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested tliat all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach us by Monday op 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Express Rates Ordered Cut 1887 



Organization of a Modern Establishment... 1888 



— J. Otto Thllow (portrait) 1888 



Charles N. Page (caricature) 1889 



Chrysanthemums — Early Planting 1800 



Roses— Young Stock 1801 



— Mildew on Roses 1801 



— Late Planting 1801 



Carnations— Carnation Notes — West 1891 



The Ampelopsls (illus.) 1892 



Seasonable Suggestions ;, ,,,,4805 . 



— Coelogyne Cristata (lUus.) . . . .'. .\ . rf..:. mfi * 



— Scented Geraniums 1893 



— Primulas 1803 



— Marguerites (lUus.) 1893 



— Amaryllis 1893 



— Lorraine Begonias 1894 



— German Iris 1894 



— Brief Reminders 1894 



Dahlias from Cuttings 1894 



Clematis 1895 



The Phoenix Store (illus. ) 1896 



Preservative for Wood 1895 



Platycerlums for Market 1896 



Philodendron Sodlroi (illus.) 1898 



The Death Roll— Patrick Crelghton 1896 



— Mrs. M. A. Farrington 1896 



— Charles Balderston 1896 



Notes from England 1896 



John W. Duncan (illus.) 1897 



The Price of Pips 1898 



Society of American Florists 1898 



Chicago 1899 



New York 1903 



Boston 1905 



The Readers' Corner— Floating a Boiler 1906 



— Work Made Lighter 1907 



Trouble With Geraniums 1907 



Philadelphia 1908 



St. Louis 1909 



Snails or Slugs 1911 



Pittsburg Florists' Club 1911 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets.... 1912 



— Spring Crop of Lettuce 1912 



Want Advertisements 1912 



Seed Trade News 1914 



— As Clarks See Conditions 1915 



— Imports 1916 



— Daffodils for Forcing 1916 



— Colorado Onions to Go West 1917 



— Canners* Quantities 1918 



— New Names 1918 



— The Corn Root-Aphis 1918 



— Purity of Seeds 1918 



European Novelties 1920 



Pacific Coast— victoria, B. C 1928 



— San Francisco 1928 



— LoB Angeles, Cal 1928 



Nursery News 1929 



— Seasonable Suggestions 1929 



— Forest Planting Leaflets 1930 



— Foley's Family Fracas 19.% 



— Improvement of the Grape 1930 



Baltimore 1932 



Albany, N. Y 1934 



Kansas City 1936 



Pittsburg 1938 



New Orleans 1940 



Milwaukee 1942 



Greenhouse Heating 1954 



Twin Cities 1955 



Detroit 1956 



Fremont, Neb 1958 



St. Johns. Mich 1960 



Peony-Flowered Dahlias 1960 



The Proceedings of the Sixteenth An- 

 nual Meeting of the American Carna- 

 tion Society has been issued as a pam- 

 phlet of 148 pages. It contains a sten- 

 ographic report of the Toronto meeting, 

 together with the essays read, and pub- 

 lished in the Review at the time, to 

 which is appended a list of carnations 

 registered in 1906 and 1907, and a list 

 of the membership of the society. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Be business-like; use a printed letter- 

 head. 



The trade finds collections coming in 

 freely this month. 



Sphagnum moss is more easily ob- 

 tained than it was a couple of months 

 ago. 



Every man you buy of has given 

 prices a boost; why don't you pass 

 it on? 



Look out for thrips; they recur as 

 regularly as the spring fever, and at the 

 same time. 



The season of hail storms is at hand. 

 Better get under cover — in the Hail 

 Association. 



Look over your stock of supplies and 

 see that you have all the things needed 

 for Memorial day and the June com- 

 mencements. Order today anything that 

 may be lacking. 



After October 1, 1907, a letter to 

 any country in the postal union may be 

 sent for 5 cents for the first ounce, and 

 3 cents for each succeeding ounce or 

 fraction of an ounce. At present it is 

 5 cents for each half ounce. 



Several pieces of badly mutilated 

 mail recently have reached the Review, 

 accompanied by the post-office's explana- 

 tion that it happened "while passing 

 through the pneumatic tubes. ' ' Last 

 week C. W. Benson was the great- 

 est sufferer, the letter containing copy 

 for his half-page advertisement being so 

 badly soaked that the address was 

 illegible and it, was returned to him, 

 looking, as he said, "as though it had 

 been through the drainage canal and the 

 Chicago river, as well as the tube." 



COLD IN MAY. 



Just as the people were beginning to 

 believe the point of human endurance 

 had been reached in eccentric meteoro- 

 logical conditions, the god of unseason- 

 able weather sifted enough snow out of 

 a murky sky to white the city streets 

 until it melted, and in the suburbs, where 

 the greenhouses are, to leave a blanket 

 varying from a half-inch to an inch and 

 a half in thickness. This was May 3, 

 and the temperature at Chicago went 

 down to 34 degrees. The cold weather 

 extended throughout the greater part of 

 the middle western states, snow falling 

 in many states just west of the Missis- 

 sippi river, and as far east as Ohio. In 

 Nebraska, where a high wind was blow- 

 ing, drifts large enough to delay trains 

 were formed. 



The weather man said it was the cold- 

 est May day since 1875, with the single 

 exception of May 14, 1895, when the 

 mercury registered 32 degrees above zero. 

 But there was no snow then. May 2, 

 1875, there was a temperature of 27 de- 

 grees, but still no snow. 



THE PRICE OF PIPE. 



The price of pipe is becoming a mat- 

 ter of considerable importance to those 

 who are contemplating the erection of 

 new greenhouses, or who have houses 

 under way but have not yet bought the 

 pipe. Not only is the price going up, 

 but the demand is so great that it is 

 becoming difficult to get promise of de- 

 livery at any early date. Jobbing houses 



offer quite a variety of reasons for this. 

 It is said that floods in the Pittsburg 

 district forced the mills to shut down 

 and threw them behind in their orders. 

 Another report is that the Standard Oil 

 Co. is buying immense quantities of. pipe 

 and urging that its orders be delivered 

 first. At any rate, a leading jobber re- 

 ports that mills at Pittsburg will only 

 book his orders "open," that is, they 

 will enter them now and along in June 

 or July will notify as to price and date 

 of delivery. That is not a basis on which 

 a jobber can himself give his customers 

 much satisfaction. 



But the jobbers still have pipe on hand 

 and it can be had if one wants to pay 

 the price. To illustrate what has taken 

 place, one buyer of wrought iron pipe 

 for greenhouse use says that he bought 

 at the lowest at seventy-eight per cent off 

 the list; the next purchase was at seventy 

 off, the next sixty-six, and now sixty off 

 is quoted. That may not sound so bad, 

 but when you reduce it to dollars and 

 cents it is different. The list price on 

 the sizes mentioned is as follows: 



1 -inch pipe 16% cents per foot 



lV4-lnch pipe 27 cents per foot 



2 -inch pipe 36 cents per foot 



2%-lnch pipe 57% cents per foot 



3 -inch pipe 75% cents per foot 



Now, at seventy-eight per cent off the 

 list, l-inch pipe costs net 3.63 cents per 

 foot; at seventy off it ,costs net 4.75 

 cents per foot; at sixty-six off it costs 

 net 5.61 cents per foot, and at sixty off 

 it costs net 6.6 cents per foot. Other 

 sizes are in proportion. So really the 

 advance has been, in the period covered 

 by these quotations, about eighty per 

 cent. There is nothing else which enters 

 into greenhouse construction which has 

 advanced so greatly. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



John A. Macrae, Providence, R. I., 

 February 6, submitted for registration 

 Chrysanthemum Golden Dome, a sport of 

 Yellow Eaton 1904; form of Bonnaffon, 

 color deeper yellow, but same character- 

 istics of growth, habit and size of 

 flower; darker foliage than parent; 

 height between three and one-half and 

 four feet. 



A. C. Zvolanek, Bound Brook, N. J.^ 

 February 28 submitted the following new 

 Christmas flowering sweet peas: Le Mar- 

 quis, seedling from Wm. J. Stewart x 

 Gladys Unwin, violet blue; Mrs. George 

 Lewis, seedling from "Watching x Gladys 

 Unwin, white; Mrs. A. Zvolanek, seed- 

 ling from Helen Pierce x Christmas 

 White, white, blue notched; Mrs. Chas. 

 H. Totty, seedling from Mrs. Alexander 

 Wallace; a light blue unnamed seedlings 

 sky blue. 



Alexander Montgomery, Waban Rose 

 Conservatory, Natick, Mass., March 18, 

 submitted for registration Rose White 

 Killarney, a sport from Killarney, with 

 same form, habit and more petalage; 

 clear white. P. J. Hauswirth, Sec 'y. 



LADIES' AUXILIARY. 



As the work of the Ladies' Auxiliary, 

 S. A. F., progresses, I find many of the 

 800 "circulars sent out November 8, 1906, 

 found a resting place in the waste bas- 

 ket, as I have been informed by some 

 of the members of the S. A. F. There- 

 fore, through the trade papers, I invite 

 all ladies who are in the trade, directly 

 or indirectly, to join the auxiliary and 

 meet with us at Philadelphia next sum- 

 mer. Mrs. Chas. H. Maynakd, Sec'y. 



