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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Junk 13, 1907. 



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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 moraing, as many 

 have done in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Seasonable Suggestions 5 



— Eucbaris Amazunlca (illus.) 6 



— Eupborbia Fulgeiis 5 



— AUamanda WllUamsl 5 



— BougalnvUlea Sanderiana 5 



— Freesias 6 



— Cinerarias 6 



— Brief Kemlnders 6 



Dutcb Bulbs — r>ate Flowering Tulips (illus.). 7 



— Kecommended Hyaclntbs 7 



Trouble with Salvias 8 



Mixed Crops 8 



Narcissus Poeticus Naturalized (Illus.) 9 



Treatment for Stoelis 9 



Seasonable Novelties — Wedding Bells (illus.) 10 



— Ramaley's Spray Holder 10 



Retailers' Advertising 10 



A Jersey Job (illus.) 10 



Carpet Bedding 11 



Caltha Palustrls 11 



Chrysantbemums — Soil for Mums 12 



— Quantity of Fertilizer 12 



Chrysantbemum Society 12 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 13 



— Carnation Notes — West 13 



Roses — Fertilizers 18 



Tbe Deatb Boll— Otto SchwiU, Sr 14 



— Julius Kretscbmar 14 



— William Krumm, Sr 14 



New York 14 



St. Louis 16 



The Whilldin Bowling Tropby (Illus.) 15 



Peony Meeting Postponed 16 



Chicago 16 



Orange, N. J 21 



Springfield. Ill 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Detroit 24 



Boston 25 



Newport, R. 1 26 



Tuberous Begonias 28 



Want Advertisements 28 



Baltimore 30 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Martlets 31 



— White Fly on Vegetables 31 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Iowa Seedsmen Organize 34 



— Pennsylvania Prospects 34 



— Imports 35 



— More Valuable 35 



— Pessimistic 35 



— Bun-ell's Melon Acreage 35 



— Re-Appraisements 38 



— Danish Seed Crops 36 



— Mills Moves West 36 



— Michigan Conditions 36 



Columbus. Ohio 37 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Lily Bulbs 46 



— Mulching 46 



— Building on the Coast 46 



— Pacific Coast Nurserymen 46 



— Fruit Tree Law 47 



— San Francisco 47 



Nursery News 48 



— Nurserymen Convene 48 



— Evergreens 48 



— The South Dakota Law 49 



— Moving Maples 49 



Denver 60 



Montreal 62 



Pittsburg 64 



Steamer Sailings 56 



Indianapolis 58 



Greenhouse Heating — Superlative of Superior. 68 



— Mind the Details 68 



— Building Big Boilers 69 



BnCTalo 70 



New Orleans 72 



Before you order stock for import, 

 consult the European advertising pages 

 in the Review. 



The spring plant trade was later than 

 usual in starting, because of the unsea- 

 sonable weather, but stocks in nearly all 

 lines are now well cleaned up. ' 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The weather-man's hand seems to be 

 a trifle unsteady even yet. 



You can clean out all plant surpluses 

 lett from local spring sales by the use 

 of a small advertisement in the Review; 

 but you must act in time. 



Send out good stock and you will 

 build a permanent trade — one that will 

 be a real asset; but send out stock that 

 is not what it should be and you will 

 have to find a new customer for each 

 sale, and there is no profit in that. 



N. Greivelding, Merrill, Wis., made a 

 trial of Gladiolus America under glass 

 and they were so fine that in his small 

 town he could have sold more of them 

 at 25 cents each. A specimen spike sent 

 the Review showed they were well worth 

 the price. 



This is the month that collections 

 should have attention. July and August 

 are vacation periods of slow business. 



Enclosed find $1.00 for renewal of 

 my subscription. 



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is O. K. I would not be without it, 

 nor do I see how any florist can. 

 Your classified advs. are a boon to 

 the buyen at least one does not need 

 to spend valuable time to hunt for fiig 

 wants. Since you started it, I note 

 some imitations which only prove the 

 superiority of the REVIEW. That's 

 right; keep it up. As long as you 

 lead us right we will follow I Re- 

 verse your plan, and you will have 

 to go afoot. When I have read the 

 REVIEW I have read them all. I 

 just mean it, and no apology about it. 



EMIL FREDRICH. 



Mt. Sterling, Ky. 

 June 11, 1907. 



and if you do not get your money now 

 you will have to wait till September or 

 October for a good part of it. Nobody 

 ever lost much that was worth having 

 by being a good collector. 



PEONY MEETING POSTPONED. 



A. H. Fewkes, secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Peony Society, telegraphs from New- 

 ton Highlands, Mass., June 12, as fol- 

 lows : 



"Peonies not open at Ithaca June 18; 

 meeting therefore postponed to June 27 

 and 28." 



Besides the usual exhibition of cut 

 blooms, the society has an extensive col- 

 lection of varieties, comprising 1,933 lots 

 of one, two or three plants each, growing 

 on the Ithaca Experiment Station 

 grounds, which have been donated by 

 peony men all over Kiiropo and Amer- 

 ica. These are the blooms referred to 

 as not being ready until ton days later 

 than usn.'il. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



It looks as though summer had come 

 at last, and the wholesale market is more 

 nearly approaching a summer basis than 

 at any time this season. It has been 

 months since the supply of stock was ade- 

 quate in all departments. This week 

 there can be no complaint of shortage. 



There is considerable difference in the 

 reports made by the various wholesalers. 

 Some of them say demand is ahead of 

 other seasons, while other houses find this 

 week slow. It appears that crops have 

 increased through the whole Chicago ship- 

 ping territory. The result is that those 

 houses, a majority of whose customers 

 have some glass of their own, find that 

 calls have slackened. The houses for- 

 tunate in having customers who have no 

 glass of their own find demand excellent. 



The wholesalers are as one man in re- 

 porting the carnation supply ahead of 

 legitimate requirements. The spring crop 

 is at its height. Some of the stock is of 

 excellent quality and all of it is long in 

 stem, but the warm, moist weather has 

 resulted in a large proportion of soft 

 flowers, and there are a good many com- 

 plaints of shipments arriving in a sleepy 

 condition. Prices have gone down to the 

 lowest point this season. The best stock 

 still commands better figures than usual 

 in June, but the surplus must be jobbed 

 ,off at rates which bring the averages far 

 down. 



The houses are differently situated on 

 roses. Many growers are throwing out or 

 drying off and the result is that some 

 wholesalers find themselves with com- 

 paratively few roses, while others, whose 

 growers are keeping their places going, 

 have the heaviest cuts of the season. 

 Those who cater to the heavy spring and 

 good summer demand for first-class roses 

 are now cutting some splendid stock, for 

 which prices hold fairly steady. The 

 low grades are sold cheaply, for the call 

 for short roses for funeral work has 

 abated. There are large supplies of 

 fancy Beauties, both from young stock 

 and from old. Richmond and Chatenay 

 are superb and some splendid Killarney 

 are seen. 



The first of the local peonies arrived 

 this week, and are good. In a few days 

 the crop will be on in full blast. E. E. 

 Pieser says all the local growers he has 

 seen insist that the flowers will be bet- 

 ter than usual this year. We all hope it 

 will prove so, for the early crop was 

 not of the quality one likes to handle. 

 The numerous wedding decorations make 

 a large demand for peonies, which is 

 keeping the daily receipts well cleaned 

 up. 



There continues to be a line-up at the 

 sweet pea counter and valley is selling 

 well. Some houses report good business 

 on lilies, while others say there is little 

 demand for them. 



With the large receipts of roses and 

 carnations, there is little demand for the 

 odds and ends of stock which find their 

 way to the market. Choice specialties are 

 good sellers, but indifferent material 

 makes low returns. 



Asparagus strings are scarce, but all 

 other greens can be had in quantity. 



-Seeking His Fortune. 



A number of the wholesale houses are 

 this week regretting their confidence as 

 reposed in one John Allwood, at Hud- 

 son, Mich. For some time he bought 



