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The Weekly Rorists'' Review* 



JUNE 6, 1907. N 



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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 



.St-iisoiinlilt' Sii'j^festldiis — Siiiiiiiicr Work Now 



ill Oi'der ."> 



• — I'riniiiliis .*. . ."i 



-- lieffoiiia Incai'imta 5 



— Hegoiiin Iti'x ."> 



— ('aiv of l)ut<l<K)i- Stock ."i 



— KiKhtiiit; Insect I'csls 5 



— Hrief keiiiliiders 5 



C'lirysmitlieiiinins — i'liiiitiiit; (I 



— Stock for Ijit«? Flowers (J 



— .Minn Spirts B 



Soil for IMiiinosuK (! 



The lietiiil Florist — Swiirlnjr tlie I'linl (i 



— ISirtiiiiiiy HoiKinets »l 



— Tlie I'eon.v Decoration (illiis. i 7 



Neiilirolepls Slelircditii 7 



I'elarKonlnins 7 



Suillax and AsiiariiKHs 7 



(.'arnatlons — Use of Lime S 



— New ("astle Carnations dllns.) S 



— Floriferous Kritaiinia H 



Hoses — American Heaiities S 



— Deterioration liy Forcing !» 



American K<ise Sii<-iel.v Ki 



Kiseiitleld's I'eoiiy Fields (lllns. i 10 



The Headers' Corner — Thrips 10 



— White Fly Destroyer 10 



— Gas Too StroHK 11 



Window (iardeniiiK 12 



The Death Uoll— John A. Keller 12 



— I'eter rontrlch 12 



— John Sploss 12 



Tellmann's Ideals i illiis. i 12 



Itoston 12 



Menxa-ial Day 14 



CTiicapo 14 



Detroit 10 



rhlladPlphia 20 



New York 22 



St. Louis 24 



San Antonio, Tex 2(i 



Want Advertisements 28 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Morse's Plans 2!> 



— Imp irts 30 



— HolRlano Talks .'10 



— Krf nrt Seed Trade 30 



— DiijTKan's Windfall (portrait) 30 



— Doulile Tulips for I'ots 31 



— CataloKues Hecelved 31 



Baltimore 32 



Vegetable Forolnit 34 



— Vejcetahle Markets 34 



— ForcluK Strawl>erry Plants .'{4 



Gran<l Uaplds ' 34 



Pacltl<- Coast — San Francls<-o \'i. 



— Asters In California 42 



— A Fasclate Kschsclioltz-la 43 



Xursery News 44 



— American Peony Society 44 



— Carolina Poplar 44 



— Seasonable SiigK«'stl ins 45 



BnlldlnK Material 4« 



Steamer Sailings 4S 



Indianapolis 50 



Troy. 52 



MorKantown. W. Va 52 



Elmlra, N. Y .'.4 



(Jreenhonse IleatInK — Holler and I'lpinK B4 



— In Dakcin «4 



Wavslde Notes 64 



Buffalo 66 



.Milwaukee 68 



The first annual exhibition of the 

 New England Dahlia Society will be 

 held September 4 and 5 in conjunction 

 with an exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, -Boston. 



The ><ursery and Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion of Great Britain includes 184 lead- 

 ing firms and does a general credit and 

 collection business. At a recent annual 

 meeting \. N. Sherwood, of Hurst & 

 Sons, London, was re-elected president. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The sale for rose plants for the garden 

 is this season much ahead of last year. 



The strikes which are tying up the 

 ocean fast freight lines threaten loss ou 

 late importations of plants, etc. 



Write to the Review telling how the 

 greenhouse property in your vicinity is 

 assessed for taxation. We already have 

 heard from several whose letters will 

 appear iu an early issue. 



Dealers in florists' supplies are busy 

 getting out new catalogues. Copies of 

 editions as much as a year old are largely 

 useless because of the advance in prices 

 which has been general iu all kinds of 

 supplies. 



EXPLAINED HIS TROUBLE. 



Here is my check for .$1, for which 

 please send the Review for the next 

 year. Your sample copy explained my 

 trouble; the paper is the missing link 

 in my business. R. K. Nace. 



Royersford, Pa. 



MEMORIAL DAY. 



Memorial day this year took its place 

 in the front rank of flower holidays. In 

 practically every whidesale market the 

 volume of business, at least so far as 

 the quantity of stock handled is con- 

 cerned, exceeded even the best records 

 for Easter or Christmas. In some mar- 

 kets the money aggregate of sales ex- 

 ceeded the figures for these greatest of 

 flower holidays. The retail trade was 

 immense. 



For the last half dozen years there 

 has been a steady increase in the busi- 

 ness done for Memorial day. There was 

 a time when the observance of the day 

 was left entirely to the old soldiers, but 

 the custom of decorating the graves of 

 tleparted loved ones in the glad spring 

 season is so commendable that it has 

 been adopted by thousands of families 

 who had no share in the saving of the 

 Union. The result is that the morning 

 of May 30 sees hundreds of persons 

 visiting every little cemetery in every 

 hamlet in the land. In some seasons 

 many of them use dooryard flowers, and 

 their memorial profits the florist noth- 

 ing; but in any event a certain propor- 

 tion patronize the flower store and tliis 

 year, with practically no outdoor flowers 

 available in that part of the country 

 where the occasion is most generally 

 observed, brought a run upon the florists 

 which was beyond all anticipation. The 

 retailers must first feel the demand be- 

 fore it reaches the wholesale markets. 

 Prices were high as compared with other 

 Memorial days, for the widest observ- 

 ance of the day is dependent upon mod- 

 erate costs. Many local florists who 

 produce practically all they sell, found 

 themselves compelled to call upon whole- 

 sale markets and found they could 

 handle the high-priced stock at a good 

 profit, so urgent was the retail demand. 



Although Decoration day has taken a 

 place in the front rank of flower holi- 

 tlays, it must not be anticipated that 

 we soon shall have another like the one 

 just passed. Its like will not be seen 

 again until we have another year of 

 unseasonable weather, with outdoor 

 flowers as scarce as they were this year. 

 But. nevertheless, the importance of 

 :^Iemorial day to the cut flower trade is 

 second onlv to Easter and Christmas. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Friday, May 31, saw stiff prices, for 

 business was excellent in all the whole- 

 sale houses, the buying by both local 

 and outside retailers showing that they 

 had sold out the heavy purchases for 

 Memorial day and were starting into 

 June witli clean houses. Saturday also 

 was brisk, but there was weakness in 

 the price of carnations, for the day 's 

 receipts left considerable quantities to 

 carry over for Sunday. 



Monday brought another big run of 

 shipping and a fair local business, but 

 receipts were heavy in all lines, so that 

 there was a perceptible weakening, most 

 pronounced in carnations, which seem to 

 be just coming into the big spring crop; 

 they threaten to become a decided glut 

 with the first few tlays of real summer 

 weather. It already is necessary to 

 clean house by means of cheap sales to 

 thousand-lot buyers. 



The rose market presents a different 

 aspect. While prices are expected to 

 quickly run down to the summer basis, 

 many growers are throwing out stock 

 to replant and some houses are therefore 

 not heavily supplied. Others are cut- 

 ting good quantities of fine roses. Both 

 the best grade and the shorts sell well; 

 it is the medium lengths that go slow. 

 New Beauties are in. 



Peonies are not in large supply this 

 week; only the fag end of the southern 

 crop is coming in. As soon as the local 

 cut begins there will be plenty, for the 

 ])lants are said to be looking fine. With 

 valley, lilies and other flowers .the mar- 

 ket is well supplied. Some growers re- 

 jwrt the sweet peas about over, but oth- 

 ers still are cutting heavily; peas never 

 have sold better than this season. 



Asparagus strings are scarce, but oth- 

 er greens are abundant. 



All indications point to a good June 

 business, the principal demand coming 

 the first of the week, as it always does 

 when weddings furnish a large part of 

 the business. 



Memorial Day. 



If there is anyone who was not 

 pleased with the Memorial day business, 

 he has not made himself heard. Ad- 

 vance orders were in many cases taken 

 at prices below those that ruled while 

 the stock was in the wholesale houses, 

 and there was some complaint from 

 those who had failed to protect them- 

 selves, but as soon as the retailers found 

 out how readily the public accepted the 

 inevitable, they bought freely at the best 

 prices this market ever saw for May 28, 

 '1^ and 30. There were periods of weak- 

 ness, especially in carnations, but prices 

 were held more evenly than usual at a 

 holiday. Practically every house had all 

 it could do, or more, and the aggregate 

 of sales sets a new high record for 

 Memorial day for practically every 

 house in this market. The orders were 

 not only more numerous than usual but 

 were larger than ever, for which the 

 skipping of spring is to be given credit. 



A few days before the shipping l)egan 

 it was feared that there would be a 

 decided shortage of stock, but the grow- 

 ers did their duty nobly, greatly to their 

 own profit, and tremendous quantities 

 of material were poured into the market 

 for forty-eight hours. Of course there 

 were few outdoor flowers, but it was 

 the salvation of the market, for with the 

 usual quantity of outdoor stuff, and the 



