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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



May 16, 1907. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Tixursday 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. 



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CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— The Sad Hour (illus.). 1969 



— Memorial Day Advertising 1969 



— Business Ideas 1969 



— New Fern Dishes (illus. ) 1970 



•Th<e National Flower Show 1970 



tiliei In Bermuda (Illus.) 1973 



Wants to Dazzle 1973 



•Civil Service Gardeners 1973 



Window-Boxes 1974 



Chrysanthemums — Propagating 1974 



<— In ft Carnation House 197-^ 



Carnatlon»— i-cr Two Houses 1975 



— Carnation Af tetblow 1975 



— Date of First crop 1975 



Uoses — Seasonable Treatment 1975 



— Best Three New Roees 1976 



Seasonable Suggestions— Pyrethrums 1976 



— Perennial Phlox 1976 



— Incarvillea Delavayi 1976 



— Funljias 1976 



— Anemone Japonica 1976 



— Astllbes 1977 



— Brief Reminders 1977 



Factory Site Improvement (illus.) 1077 



Retail Plant Advertising (illus. ) 1978 



Gardenias 1978 



V'Ines for a Hillside 1978 



New York 1»78 



The Death Roll— Ell A. Bronson 1980 



Chicago 1980 



St. Louis 1984 



Boston 1986 



Philadelphia 1988 



Wayside Notes 1990 



Loclcport, N. y 1991 



Florists Get State Aid 1992 



Duty on Rose Cuttings 199^ 



Boxwood and Camellias 199^ 



Want Advertisements 1992 



Seed Trade News 1994 



— De Giorgi Bros. Go West 1994 



— Henry Field's Progreffi 1994 



— Bulbs in Holland 1»95 



— Seed Trade Statistics 1995 



— Imports of Seeds 1996 



— Imports l»»« 



— New Names jwo 



— Maliner Kren Horseradish 1996 



Newport, R. 1 1998 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetable Markets 2000 



— White Fly on Tomato ^00 



— Vegetable Plants ■ 2000 



Pacific Coast— History of the Violet 20^ 



— Oakland, Cal 2008 



— San Francisco ^oj^ 



— Portland. Ore 2009 



Travels Selling Cannas ^» 



Nursery News ^'X 



— Seasonable Suggestions ^oio 



— Imports of Nursery Stock 2012 



— Reforesting ^i^ 



Improvement of the Grape ^i-J 



rndianapolis ^"1* 



Rock Island, 111 2014 



Glen Cove, N. Y 2016 



Baltimore ^^ 



Columbus. Ohio f^^l 



Lenox. Mass ^$5 



Roewell. N. M 2022 



Detroit ■^"^■* 



Greenhouse Heating- Insufficient Radiation 2036 



— Wrong Installation 2036 



— Piping for Carnations... ^g6 



— Insufficient Boiler Capacity ^^ 



Pine Bluff. Ark 203S 



.Steamer Sailings ^w^ 



Pittsburg -^0^0 



One of the diflSculties of fumigation 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas is that the 

 cyanide of potassium is of varying 

 strength, even when the druggist sells it 

 for the same grade. Call his attention 

 to the necessity of being able to depend 

 on him to supply the same strength time 

 after time. 



Special Notice 



As Memorial Day, May 30, falls 

 on Thursday, the day the REVIEW 

 ordinarily is mailed, and the post-office 

 will be closed on that day, that week's 

 edition will be printed one day earlier 

 than usual. 



Adverti&ers and correspondents must 

 have "copy" in our hands not later than 

 the first mail Tuesday morning. May 

 28, to be in time. 



BOXWOO0 wreaths will be a good seller 

 for Memorial day. 



Ip you have no printed letterheads, 

 don't for even one day put off ordering 

 them. 



When you want Pacific coast special- 

 ties, consult the Pacific coast page of the 

 Review. All the seasonable offers are 

 always to be found there. 



The next meeting and exhibition of 

 the American Peony Society will be held 

 at the State College of Agriculture, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, June 18 and 19, 1907, 



Don 't let weeds, or grass, grow around 

 your greenhouses; keep a cultivated 

 breadth, or a close-clipped lawn about 

 them. An ill-kept place looks slovenly 

 if you are a retailer, and if you are a 

 grower out in the country and think 

 looks don't count, you should remember 

 that weeds and tall grass are a splendid 

 breeding place for all sorts of insect 

 pests. Keep them at a distance. 



This is the season of gardening in- 

 terest and an intimation that one has 

 something to say on this subject will 

 usually bring a prompt and cordial invi- 

 tation to address civic improvement 

 bodies, women's clubs and all sorts of 

 organizations. A talk on gardening is 

 well worth making before any interested 

 audience, if for no other reason than 

 that it is a form of advertising of im- 

 mense value to any florist engaged in 

 retailing the output of his greenhouses. 



The railroads have declined to give 

 the usual fare and one-third rate to the 

 nurserymen for their convention at De- 

 troit in June, stating that rate legisla- 

 tion enacted in many states this winter is 

 their reason. But where 2 cents a mile is 

 the legal rate, it is the same as the fare 

 and a third was under the old rate. On 

 the S. A. F. meeting at Philadelphia in 

 August no action has as yet been taken, 

 but if stop-over privileges can be ar- 

 ranged the Jamestown Exposition rates 

 will be most favorable. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Eli A. Bronton. 



Eli A. Bronson, aged 81 years, died 

 at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 4. He was for 

 many years a resident of Geneva, N. Y., 

 and was identified with the upbuilding of 

 the large nursery interests there. About 

 twelve years ago he retired from a 

 partnership with S. W. Hopkins because 

 of advancing age. Interment was at 

 Geneva. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. . 



The weather has been a pronounced 

 factor in this market for three months. 

 It was responsible for the enormous glut 

 in March, and the sudden change to cold 

 in April produced a shortening of sup- 

 ply all through the Chicago territory, 

 which held prices for the month of April 

 at a higher average than has been real- 

 ized in any April in recent years. There 

 were fair supplies in the first ten days 

 of May and the reappearance of spring 

 produced a great inundation of cut 

 flowers. May 13 the official thermometer 

 registered 87 degrees and the influx of 

 stock was ahead of the requirements of 

 the market. 



Roses came in by the thousands and 

 were, at the first of this week, consid- 

 erably in excess of what the legitimate 

 demand would consume. The call for 

 short stock for funeral purposes, which 

 has been such a pronounced feature of 

 the market conditions for the last three 

 Aveeks, has subsided, and the short roses 

 have gone back to their normal position. 

 They can only be cleared" out by means 

 of bargain sales. With nearly all grow- 

 ers the average, quality of crops is so 

 good that there are fine roses to be had 

 at cheap prices. Maid is in larger sup- 

 ply than Bride. Red roses are in good 

 demand, but the price of Beauties has 

 fallen. With other varieties, there is lit- 

 tle sale for short Beauties. 



The production of carnations was ac- 

 celerated along with that of roses. The 

 cool weather has caused the carnations to 

 be of better quality than usual at the 

 middle of May. There now are enough 

 of all colors and so many white that 

 these are hanging on wholesalers' hands 

 and prices all along the line have been 

 shaded materially. Carnations have been 

 stiff in price for weeks. 



There are large receipts of miscellane- 

 ous flowers. Peonies are a daily item of 

 stock and cape jasmine is along from 

 the south. Many additional growers are 

 marketing sweet peas. They continue to 

 be one of the best selling items, but 

 prices have fallen except on the finest. 

 There are abundant supplies of Easter 

 lilies and oallas, and the arrival of some 

 outdoor valley has eased the market on 

 this specialty. Considerable outdoor 

 bulbous stock also is received, especially 

 poets' narcissi, A few violets still are 

 received, but of poor quality, and at 

 this late date no one wants them. Pansies 

 and daisies are abundant and anyone who 

 wants irises, snapdragons, gladioli, stocks 

 or swainsona can be accommodated. Out- 

 door lilac, which was abundant at this 

 season last year, is not in the market. 



There is an excellent demand for green 

 goods. Smilax is scarce with most of 

 the growers, but everything else is abun- 

 dant. Those who are fortunate in hav- 

 ing good ferns find a big demand at 

 strong prices. 



Tuesday was a warm day, but Wednes- 

 day it turned cold again. Cold weather 

 will stiffen the market but warm days are 

 needed to make a big supply for Me- 

 morial day. 



Memorial Day. 



The prospect for supplies for Memorial 

 day is the principal theme of discussion 

 in the wholesale market. For several 

 years there has been a marked increase 

 in the quantity of flowers required for 



