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The Weekly Florists'^ Review* 



May 30, 1907. 



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it printed Wednesday eveninsf and 

 mailed early Thursday momins. 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. 



The Retail Florist — Brides' Bouquets (lUus) . 5 

 Koses — Plantlni; 6 



— Use Fresh Nicotine t> 



The Klagge Plant (lUus.) 6 



Petunias for Stock 6 



Hall Assoclatiou 7 



Vines and Vine Culture 7 



Cyeas Kevoluta 7 



The Big Lemon (lllus.) 8 



iSeusonable Suggestions S 



— Early Planting 8 



■ — The Compost Heap 8 



— Ferns and Palms 8 



— Lily ot the Valley 8 



— Lilies 8 



— Gloxinias and Tuberous Begonias 9 



— Brief Uemlnders 9 



Fertilizers 9 



Dahlia Fire Kain 9 



The Men We Meet— Peter Olsem (portrait) . . 10 



Quantity of Potassium 10 



The Readers' Corner 11 



Polnsettlas 11 



The Amling Plant (iUus.) 11 



Window-Boxes 12 



A Perennial Border 12 



Montreal 12 



Boston 13 



Cold Storage Valley 13 



The Death Roll— T. W. Cuy 14 



Value of Advertising 14 



<."hlcago 14 



St. Louis 18 



Twin Cities 19 



Lenox. Mass 19 



Philadelphia 2o 



Olen Cove, N. Y 21 



Baltim ire 21 



Columbus. 22 



New York 24 



The Cypresp Market 26 



Soil for Begonias 26 



Borer on Dahlias 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— California Conditions 29 



— Plows Melon Land by Steam 29 



— Convention Program 29 



— Best Single Hyacinths 29 



— Imports 30 



— New Names 30 



■ — Oovernment Seed Shop 30 



— Tulip White Swan 32 



Newport. R. I .32 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 34 



— Pinching Cucumber Plants 34 



— Trucking on Long Island 34 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Modesto, Cal 42 



— San Francisco 42 



Nursery News 44 



— Seasonable Suggestions 44 



— Evergreen Seedlings 4."i 



— Destroying Infected Stock 4.'i 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Springfield, 111 48 



Detroit 50 



Toronto .^2 



Marquette, Mich 52 



Buffalo 54 



Greenhouse Heating — Greenhouse Chimneys.. 64 



— Shading 64 



Rambling Notes 65 



Wayside Notes 6Q 



Grand Rapids 63 



This is not the season to cut prices; 

 raise them. 



After July 1 special delivery stamps 

 will not be necessary on hurry-up let- 

 ters. A new postoffice law provides that 

 where 10 cents extra in ordinary postage 

 stamps are affixed to a letter it will re- 

 ceive special delivery treatment if the 

 words "Special delivery" are written 

 on the face of the envelope. 



Commencement flowers will be pre- 

 sented in long-handled baskets. 



Several carloads of sphagnum moss 

 have reached the Chicago market in the 

 last two weeks. 



The narcissus committee of the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society of England has 

 compiled a list of 1,600 named varieties 

 of narcissi. 



Miss Zana Ariel Shaw, daughter of 

 J. Austin Shaw, and E. Percy Noel 

 were married at New York May 24. Mr. 

 Noel is on the staff of the New York 

 Commercial. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 recommends, as a fertilizer for use on 

 lawns, a mixture of hardwood ashes and 

 bone meal, which has been declared to 

 contain all the elements needed for grass. 



In the government 's fiscal year 1906 

 the quantity of window glass imported 

 was 8,107,114 pounds of greenhouse 

 sizes; that is, 10x15 inches and not ex- 

 ceeding 16x24 inches. The value was 

 $253,009.71, and the duty at 1% cents 

 per pound was $152,009.38. 



Benjamin Hammond, secretary of the 

 American Eose Society, lost his personal 

 effects and the records of the society on 



raiVERY now and then a well 

 ^SL pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thorougfily 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying* not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 52(M0 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



the way home to Fishkill, N. Y., from 

 the Washington convention. The rail- 

 road sent them astray, but they were re- 

 covered after a month of search. 



There is one branch of lily of the 

 valley growing which, in the opinion of 

 many, is capable of considerable expan- 

 sion, and that is the pot trade for room 

 and decorative purposes. When well 

 grown, with good foliage, there is no 

 better subject to make an attractive pot 

 plant. This trade is not catered for in 

 half sufficient quantities. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



T. W. Guy. 



T. W. Oiiy, who was years ago a mem- 

 ber of the old firm of North & Gay, in 

 St. Louis, died recenuy at St. James, 

 Mo., at the age of 76, and was buried 

 Sunday, May 26. Mr. Guy was at one 

 time a prominent member of the St. 

 Louis Florists ' Club and had many 

 friends in the trade. 



VALUE OF ADVERTISING. 



In considering the value of such pub- 

 licity work as that which has been done 

 by the National Council of Horticulture 

 and as is contemplated in its local field 

 by the Chicago Florists' Club, it is in- 

 teresting to note what has been the effect 

 of such efforts in the past. For instance, 

 a few years ago it was not thought pos- 

 sible to use colored flowers for funeral 

 purposes. It is a matter of compara- 

 tively recent history that Bassett & 

 Washburn were advocating in all pos- 

 sible ways the use of American Beauties 

 for funeral purposes. No one then ever 

 thought of such a thing. Now the bunch 

 of Beauties nearly always is accorded a 

 most conspicuous place at every funeral. 

 There is nothing more popular. This has 

 been the outcome of a comparatively 

 small amount of publicity work and it is 

 an example of what easily may be done 

 in other directions. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The week opened with a big rush of 

 local business and a fair amount of 

 shipping. On Tuesday, at the hour of 

 greatest activity in the dispatching of 

 Memorial day shipments, it looks as 

 though all previous Memorial day 

 records have been passed, especially in 

 the money value of sales, for prices are 

 strong and every house in the market 

 seems to have all that it can do. The 

 supplies of stock are large, although on 

 many items there is a shortage as com- 

 pared with last year. This is especially 

 true of peonies, which are in great de- 

 mand. 



The supplies of roses are large and 

 seem possibly larger than the actuality, 

 because of the fact that buyers seem 

 to prefer other flowers. The week has 

 brought in heavy receipts of carnations, 

 many of which give evidence of having 

 been held back, but orders for carnations 

 are something phenomenal and all sal- 

 able carnations are in demand. For a 

 week the wholesalers have been comment- 

 ing on the size of the carnation orders. 

 Buyers who in other seasons have taken 

 500 carnations are this year taking 

 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000. Single or- 

 ders for 5,000 carnations are numerous. 

 There is no possibility of filling them 

 all in full and as a result carnation 

 prices are strong for anything except 

 sleepy flowers, and these, as usual, are 

 worthless. 



Because of the unusual weather con- 

 ditions, the quality of almost all the 

 stock in the market is lower than usual. 

 The roses have improved materially in 

 the last few days, but carnations are 

 soft and it is anticipated that there will 

 be much complaint after Memorial day. 

 It is unfortunate that, at the time of 

 greatest demand, qualities should be so 

 low. The wholesalers are absolutely 

 powerless in the matter. They cannot 

 send out better stock than conditions 

 afford. 



There is a large demand for peonies. 

 The crop is much less than usual and 

 quality is hardly up to standard. Every 

 day there comes report of further in- 

 jury to the peony fields. The outdoor 

 flower in greatest evidence is cape jas- 

 mine from the south. The sale on ship- 

 ping orders is not as large as it was 

 some years ago, for nowadays the Texas 



