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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 20, 1907. 



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is printed \7edneiday evenios: and 

 mailed early Tuesday 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. 



Greenhouse Construction — The Carnation House 



(lllUB.) 5 



Buddlela Variabilis 7 



Notes from England 7 



Demand tor Ueranlunis 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Callas 8 



— Hardy Roses 8 



— Rambler Roses 8 



— Outdoor Work 8 



— AquUeglas 8 



— Digitalis (lllus.) 8 



— Brief Reminders U 



Chrysanthemums — The Chrysanthemum 9 



Trouble with Palms 10 



TTie Readers' Comer — Uas Too Strong 10 



— Protection from Hall 11 



The Retail Florist — Retailers' Advertising 



(lllus.) 11 



— 'Tls Dearnees Only 11 



The Mission of Florists 11 



Carnations — Loug-Steuimed Blooms (lllus.)... 12 



— Thrlps on Carnations 12 



— Rose Beetles on Carnations 12 



— Queen Louise Carnation (ilius. ) 12 



Roses' — Care of Young Stock 13 



— Hybrid Perpetual Roses 13 



— Heeled-ln Roses 13 



— New Irish Roses 13 



1\) Destroy Rats 14 



Mushrooms Outdoors 14 



New York 14 



Odontoglossum Cltrosmum (lllus.) 15 



The National Show 16 



Chicago 16 



Philadelphia 22 



St. Louis 24 



Boston 25 



Want Advertisements 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Pea and Bean Prices 29 



— Grey Incorporates 29 



— Holland Bulb Crops 29 



— European Crops 29 



— Imports 30 



— Prize Offers 30 



— The Iowa Law 32 



— Hybrid Freesias 32 



— Double Tulips 32 



Swainsona 33 



Centaurea Moschata 34 



Steamer Sailings 41 



Syracu.se, N. Y 41 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetables Versus Flowers 42 



— Well Chosen 42 



— Toledo, Ohio 42 



— Vegetable Markets 42 



Nursery News 43 



— Nurserymen's Convention 43 



— J. W. Hill (portrait) 43 



— Peony Convention 45 



Pacific Coast— Callas in Callfgrnia (lllus.)... 46 



— San Francisco 46 



— Riverside, Cal 46 



With Hydrocyanic Gas 47 



Detroit 48 



Montreal 5« 



Springfield, 111 52 



Baltimore 54 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Hot Water or Steara 64 



— A One-Pipe System 64 



Washington 64 



Verbenas 65 



Pittsburg 66 



Buffalo 68 



When you want to see all the current 

 offers of California plant and bulb spe- 

 cialties, look at the Pacific Coast Depart- 

 ment of the Beview. 



EOCHFORD & Sons, Ltd., now has 

 1,200,000 feet of glass at Broxbourne, 

 England, growing a great variety of 

 plants and cut blooms, so all the horti- 

 cultural enterprise is not to be found in 

 America. 



Special Notice 



Fourth of July 



Because the Glorious Fourth, 

 when every one celebrates, falls 

 on Thursday, the day the Review 

 usually is mai'ed, that week's edi- 

 tion will go to press one day earlier 

 than ustial— on Tuesday instead 

 of Wednesday. 



Advertisers and correspondents 

 will please take ''Special Notice.'' 



Summer at last. 



In some sections there is considerable 

 bedding stock left unsold. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



When you get an order for a * * laurel ' * 

 wreath make it out of leucothoe. 



The southern ficus growers say that 

 the demand for young stock is steadily 

 ahead of the supply. 



Write the Review a letter about your 

 way of doing this thing or that, which 

 yoti consider better than the way it is 

 usually doiie. 



The old saying that "It is an ill wind 

 that blows nobody good" is well ex- 

 emplified in the case of this springless 

 year. Winter prices have been realized 

 bj cut flower growers to a later date 

 than ever before. 



The government statisticians do not 

 take so pessimistic a view of the wheat 

 crop prospects as have the grain specu- 

 lators — and another good corn and wheat 

 crop in the west insures a good year for 

 the florists' trade all over the country. 



Campanulas are being recognized 

 more and more as desirable pot plants. 

 They are of easy culture, quite out of 

 proportion to the return they give in the 

 way of gorgeous specimens in about 

 twelve months after the seed is sown. 

 The seed of these, as well as that of 

 various kinds of perennials, should soon 

 be put in. 



The Peterson Nursery, Chicago, has a 

 wonderful display of irises this week. The 

 collection is large and includes a great 

 variety of fine sorts. W. A. Peterson 

 says that the iris is a most profitable 

 line for any florist or nurseryman, for 

 it grows in any soil and in any out-of- 

 the-way place, with little attention, af- 

 fording an excellent percentage of profit 

 on all receipts from it. 



THE NATIONAL SHOW. 



The Horticultural Advertiser, published 

 in England, says: "We note that ef- 

 forts are being made to arouse a senti- 

 ment in favor of a really national hor- 

 ticultural show in America. We wish 

 the movement every success, as exhibi- 

 tions of this nature, if not too frequent, 

 so as to become common, have a most 

 stimulating effect, and must in the long 

 run be a benefit to all those who live by 

 any branch of horticulture." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The weather became seasonable last 

 week and now it is 10 degrees to 15 

 degrees warmer than normal for the 

 third week in June. With temperatures 

 of 88 degrees June 16 and 92 degrees 

 June 17, following weeks of unseason- 

 able cold, the state of the market may 

 readily be imagined. Ever since Decora- 

 tion day receipts have been adequate to 

 all the needs of the market, and in the 

 last week supplies have so increased that 

 it was utterly hopeless to clear them out 

 through legitimate channels. Crops came 

 oh at once with all the producers, and 

 every grower is cutting from a much 

 larger proportion of his place than is 

 usual at this season. The result is that 

 the receipts for the last week have been 

 the heaviest ever recorded in the whole 

 history of the great central market. The 

 heavy supplies have -been coincident 

 with increased cuts by all the local 

 growers who look to Chicago for a part 

 of their supplies, and coincident with 

 the decline in business which marks the 

 latter half of June. The result is that 

 the shipping trade is much lighter than 

 a week ago and local demand is largely 

 from the Greeks, although the first-class 

 stores still are having a few good wed- 

 ding decorations which call for special 

 stock. 



There is an overabundant supply of 

 all varieties of roses and the quality 

 has been affected by the heat, most of 

 the stock being soft and small and 

 Maids losing their color. Kaiserin now 

 is coming into its own. There are some 

 splendid Richmond, Chatenay and Kil- 

 larney. 



The carnation market .has been 

 flooded. Prices are down to the summer 

 level and there are reports of sales 

 which, all things considered, are lower 

 than ever were known for so good car- 

 nations in this market. Stock has been 

 shipped out at prices which did not pay 

 for the time of the packer and clean-up 

 sales have been made to the Greeks at 

 as low as a nickel a bunch. Even at 

 these prices it has been impossible to 

 clean out all of the receipts and there 

 has been much waste, one lot of 6,000 

 flowers finding its way to the dump on 

 Monday. 



The local peonies are arriving and the 

 market can consume only a small part of 

 each day's receipts. Prices are down to 

 a point where it hardly seems as though 

 the growers could make anything out of 

 any but the best blooms or those cut 

 in such condition as to be storable. At 

 $5 per thousand peonies are not the 

 gold mine some growers expected to find 

 them. At the same time really first-class 

 bunches are selling at profitable prices 

 and stuff suitable for storage is going 

 into the freezer in lots of thousands of 

 dozens. There will be peonies in this 

 market for many weeks, probably later 

 than ever before, and last year we had 

 peonies in August. The chance for a 

 profitable market is not bad, for asters 

 anu other outdoor flowers will be late. 



The sweet pea market is as badly 

 glutted as any other department. One 

 house received 30,000 June 18. The 

 fancy flowers are selling well, but there 

 always is a large quantity left after the 

 legitimate demand is supplied, which the 

 basket venders get at their own prices. 

 Gladioli are slow sale. 



The general opinion among the whole- 

 salers is that now that average returns 



