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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 23, 1907. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Tiiursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail (heir 

 "copy** to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday morning at latest, instead 

 of Wednesday morning, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Red of ri(M'.«. Grevlllea and Ivy (IUub. ) 7 



Heasuimble SngKestlous — Meiiioi-ial Day 7 



— Saving Bulbs 7 



— Form of Beds 7 



— Cannas and (Jeranluuis 7 



— Colens and Alternantheias 7 



— Vases 7 



— Window-Boxes • 7 



— Stock I'liints 8 



— Brief Uemindi rs S 



Long Bed of (ieranlums (iUus.) 8 



BeddluK riants 8 



Beddlnt: iit A. S. Halstead's (lllus.) 9 



Florists t ► Advl.-e 10 



I'rlninlti (•liconlca 10 



Violet" — SeiisiiiiahU' Work 10 



Dahlias for Massing 10 



Be<ldlng at Lincoln Dark. Chicago (lllus.)... 10 

 Uoses— Early I'lantlng ' 11 



— Rose Frau Karl Druschkl 11 



Gardenias in Uose House Ill 



Carnations — Topping Young Diants 11 



— Carnatlou Notes — Kast 12 



— (.'arnatlju Notes — West 12 



— Dreparlug Soil 12 



American Carnation Sfwlet.v : . . l.{ 



A Typical Kstablisbiuent (lllus.) 13 



All the Difference l.J 



lyongltloruuiK In England l.'{ 



T\\e Death Roll — Arthur Bryant (i)ortralt) . . . 14 

 The Readers' Corner — Carlwllneum 14 



— Vines for Hillsides. . ; 15 



— Tlirlps 13 



-Mechanical Watering (lllus.) 15 



I>et's Hear Vour View 16 



Chicago Hi 



l'ittKl>urg 2o 



Boston 21 



I'hlladelphla 22 



Davlses Still K.xpaiidlng 24 



New York 23 



Lorraine Begonias 28 



Bench Building 28 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Tlie Whalesalers' Situation 3.3 



— Iui|K>rts 34 



— Centenar.v .Seedsiuen 34 



— Three sears' Seed Imiwrts 36 



— Kuroiteini Seed Notes 36 



— The Real Trouble ; 37 



Vegetable Forcing — Big Range of Vegetables 38 



— Vegetable Markets ;{8 



— Tomatoes 3S 



Pacific Coast — Bulb Growing at Spokane 40 



— Rank-Stemmed Callas 46 



— Smllax on the Coast 46 



— San Francisco 47 



Nursery News 4S 



— Improveme«it of the Grai)e 48 



— luspectlon In Oklahoma 49 



— Nursery Imports 50 



— Reappralsements 50 



Steamer Sailings 52 



Denver 54 



Hancx'k. Mlcli 56 



Montreal f.... 58 



Baltimore 60 



Greenhouse Heating — Steam for Five Houses. 72 



St. Louis 72 



Detrol t 74 



New Orleans ,][[ 76 



An involuntary petition in bank- 

 ruptcy has been filed against the Cleve- 

 land Window Glass Co., Cleveland, O., 

 and AV. H. Marlett appointed receiver. 



The executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Bose Society will hold an executive 

 session at the Hotel Martinique, New 

 York, the latter part of May, and among 

 other things will take the first steps to- 

 ward preparations for next year's show 

 at Chicago. Several life members added 

 to the society this spring has increased 

 the permanent fund of the society. 



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, next week's 

 edition will be printed one day earlier 

 than usual. 



Advertisers and correspondents must 

 have ''copy** in our hands not later than 

 the first mail Tuesday morning, May 

 28, to be in time. 



It is not always that the lowest priced 

 stock is the cheapest. 



Many of the daily paper? are now de- 

 voting a page of the Sunday issue to a 

 flower gardening feature. 



The tide of European travel is on in 

 full force and the New York retail 

 florists are doing a large business in 

 steamer flowers. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has issued a circular showing the dis- 

 tribution of the seventeen-year locust for 

 1907. The lirood this year will cover the 

 central south from western North Caro- 

 lina to Louisiana and reaching north- 

 ward through Arkansas and Missouri and 

 covering southern Illinois. 



LET'S HEAR YOUR VIEV. 



About Taxes on Greenhouses. 



The Review frequently is in receipt of 

 letters of which the following are sam- 

 ples : 



What is the law about taxing the stock in 

 greenhouses? Our assessors want to put a high 

 value on my pot plants and also on the plants in 

 the benches. What is the practice In other 

 places ? 



And then there is perhaps the less dif- 

 ficult problem of assessments on the 

 greenhouses themselves, as shown in the 

 following : 



As I know the Review is always ready to 

 help to adjust any grievance that the smaller 

 growers may have, I should like you to answer 

 this question: Are greenhouses assessable'/ If 

 so, to what amount can they be assessed'? 



I have five and one-half acres of land, horse, 

 stable and about 27,000 square feet of glass, on 

 whlcii the assessor here has assessed me (17,000. 

 This is more than the full valuation of the 

 glass at the present time or any other time, for 

 that matter. I nave appealed to the county 

 commi.'isioners and, while I expect a reduction, 

 I hardly expect my assessment to come down to 

 a figure I tall fair. Some growers I have writ- 

 ten to are not assessed at all; others but very 

 Httle. One grower states his honest belief la 

 that greenhouses are not assessable and that he 

 is willing to go Into a cambinatlon of growers 

 and fight the matter through to the supreme 

 court. I should like to have the Review's opin- 

 ion on this matter. 



The inequality of taxation is one of 

 the great evils in this country, and there 

 probably is no trade in which taxes vary 

 more widely than in the greenhouse 

 business. But it is an interesting sub- 

 ject and one meriting full and free dis- 

 cussion. Write to the Beview, telling 

 how you are taxed on greenhouses, on 

 pot plants, on benched stock, and on 

 plants in the field. Best of all, if you 

 have succeeded in getting your taxes re- 

 duced, give the points that won the re- 

 duction for you. "What do you consider 

 a fair basis for taxation? 



The Review will take pleasure in 

 printing your report. 



' V • CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There is an old saying that "what is 

 one man's meat is another man's 

 poison," and so far as the market con- 

 ditions are concerned the ill wind which 

 has blown upon the producers of outdoor 

 flowers has certainly wafted profit to the 

 growers of indoor stock. The market 

 has been active and 4)rices, except for a 

 few days last week, averaging above 

 those ordinarily prevailing at this sea- 

 son, for the indoor stock is practically 

 all that is available. The wholesalers 

 are almost unanimous in reporting busi- 

 ness much the best ever experienced for 

 the first three weeks of May. They all 

 say shipping demand is excellent, but the 

 reports as to local business vary widely. 



There has been a marked deterioration 

 in the quality of roses within the last 

 week. There is hardly any good stock. 

 Most of the roses show the marks of 

 thrips and the growers, one and all, say 

 they never have had such a battle to 

 clear their houses. Most or them say 

 the pest came from the outside, borne 

 on the crest of the warm south wind 

 which accompanied last week's couple of 

 days of summer. The rose crops also 

 are on tne down grade and there are 

 those who say the cuts will be much 

 lighter by Decoration day. 



There continue to be abundant sup- 

 plies of carnations. Indeed, white stock 

 is so plentiful that some exceedingly 

 cheap sales are reported, compared with 

 recent values. 



ihe receipts of peonies are all that the 

 market requires and considerably more, 

 the surplus going into cold storage to 

 await the certain demand at/Decoration 

 day. As a result, the pri«e of peonies 

 is held firmly. The prospect for peonies 

 for Decoration day is in doubt. The 

 frosts have done much injury. Indeed, 

 it is reported that at Fairbury, 111., 

 where Kring Bros, have quite a ^Id of 

 peonies, it was as cold as 22 degrees one 

 night last week. From Sarco^xie comes 

 word of freezing weather since the cut- 

 ting of the mid-season varieties began. 

 Locally there was a sharp frost May 19 

 and 20. E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., estimates the peony supply at forty 

 per cent what it was for last Decoration 

 day, but a week of warm weather would 

 necessitate his revising his estimate. 

 Peonies now are reaching this market 

 from greater distances than usual, con- 

 siderable quantities coming from Ten- 

 nessee. 



There are more lilies than the market 

 has required. Cape jasmine is obtain- 

 able, but not in special demand. Sweet 

 peas continue in large supply and are 

 possibly the best selling item on the list. 

 E. C. Amling says the buyers line up at 

 the sweet pea counter every morning, to 

 the neglect of other stock. But the or- 

 dinary grades of Blanche Ferry and Ear- 

 liest of All are a glut, just the same. 

 Pansies sell well. Some fine outdoor val- 

 ley is arriving and brings double last 

 year's prices. A few violets still are re- 

 ceived. There are abundant supplies of 

 all the odds and ends of stock, includ- 

 ing gladioli, poet's narcissi, Parrott tu- 

 lips, irises, stocks, antirrhinums, etc. 



There is a demand for green goods, es- 

 pecially common ferns, which seem to be 

 short all over the country. In one whole- 

 sale house Monday two cases were noted 



