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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Jolt 11, 1907. 



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b 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 at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Clirygantbeiuums — Care of Bench I'lants 3 



— Best Mums for Pot Culture •. 3 



Trouble with Asters 3 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 3 



— Lifting Plants for Uou»iug 4 



Boaes — Biacliened Itose Leaves 4 



— Green Center in Rosebuds 4 



Tbe Peony Business 4 



Sweet Peas 4 



Magnolia Stellata (illus.) 5 



Seasonable Suggestions — HoUytaocks 5 



-^ Coreopsis Uraudiflora 6 



— Campanulas 8 



— Lycbnis B 



— Hardy Lilies « 



-I- Brief Uemlnders « 



Hail In Missouri (Ulus.) 7 



Calceolarias 7 



Calceolaria Uolden Gem (lUua. ) 7 



The Retail Plorist — Summer Decorations. .... 8 



— The Brides' Bouquet (illus.) 8 



— Kurokl's Wreuth (illus.) 8 



Credits aud Collections 8 



Begonia Worthiaua 9 



Vtemo — Nepbroleplses In England 10 



A Denver Plant (Illus.) 10 



Selecting Cuttings 10 



New York 10 



The Death Roll— A. R. Congdon 12 



— James Murray 12 



— laaac B. Kaster 12 



Hydrocyanic Acid Gas ^.. 12 



Oeranium for Name 12 



CUcago 13 



Kansas City 16 



Cincinnati 16 



St. Louis 17 



Boaton 18 



Pblladelphia '. . . 1» 



rort Smith, Ark 21 



Want Advertisements 22 



Seed lYade News. 24 



— New Names 24 



— Lily Crops 24 



— lm|)ort8 26 



— Seed Crops in France .' 26 



— Novelties and Speclaltlee 26 



— Henry Field's Plans ; 26 



— Seedless Tomatoes 27 



— Bremuri 28 



— Best Single Tulips 28 



Waabington 82 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 38 



— Let Everybody Help 38 



— Bottom Heat for Vegetables 38 



— Let Advertisers Answer 38 



— Dry Hot on Tomatoes 38 



Pacific Coast— Bulb Growing 39 



— San Ftancisco 39 



Nursery News 40 



— Seasonable Suggestions 40 



— Texans to Convene 40 



— Privet Hedges 40 



— Tlie Labor Question 41 



— Tbe Albaugh Case 41 



BalUmore 42 



Baclnaw, Mich 46 



Detroit 48 



Deaver 66 



Ctacenhonse Heating — Cement for Oast-Iron 



Pipe 58 



— Steam Heat for Two Houses 58 



— Vacuum Heating 68 



Springfield. Ill 60 



Write the itEViEW a letter about your 

 way of doing this thing or that, which 

 you consider better than the way it is 

 usually done. 



The last fortnight has made a big 

 change in the condition of all agricul- 

 tural crops and confidence in the outcome 

 has been restored. "With good crops on 

 the farms, the whole country will prosper 

 next fall and winter and the florists will 

 get their share of the profit. 



Don 't use coal tar about a greenhouse. 



Buy coal now, and store it under 

 cover; it will save you money and worry. 



Don't delay putting the heating ap- 

 paratus in shape for an early fire in the 

 autumn. 



Befoee you order stock for import, 

 consult the European advertising pages 

 in the Review. 



Order those printed letter-heads and 

 lock up the nicotine extract, where care- 

 less persons cannot get at it. 



Ribbon for fall stocks will cost the 

 retailers from fifteen per cent to twenty 

 per cent more than it did last year. 



Give a trial to some of the special 

 strains of pansy advertised in the Re- 

 view; possibly the strain you are using 

 is the best there is — and perhaps not. 



The growers of bedding plants at 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., advanced their re- 

 tail prices this spring and had no diffi- 

 culty in cleaning out their stock at the 

 higher rates. 



THANK YOU. 



An old subscriber writes: "Here is 

 the subscription of a friend of mine in 

 the trade. He says he wants to keep 

 up with the times, so I told him to get 

 the Review and it would, be easy for 

 him." 



The Review receives many, similar 

 courtesies at the hands of its readers and 

 hopes to continue to merit their recom- 

 mendation. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



A. R. Congdon. 



A. R. Congdon died at his home, 26 

 North Cedar avenue, Oberlin, O., on Sat- 

 urday, June 29, after a painful illness 

 which originated in an abscess of tbe kid- 

 neys. Although handicapped by poverty 

 and poor health, he commenced the flor- 

 ist 's life when only a boy. He borrowed 

 $100 from his sister, and putting in a 

 great deal of both brain and hand work, 

 he built his first greenhouse, only forty- 

 eight feet long. He added to it until 

 five years ago, when he razed it and 

 built three large, modern greenhouses, 

 with all the late improvements. Last year 

 he built another, 36x100 feet, setting 

 every pane of glass himself, and with a 

 helper he put into the two ranges of 

 houses more than a mile and a half of hot 

 TiCater pipe. When this was done and he 

 had a well-equipped, up-to-date establish- 

 ment, he began to fail in health and grew 

 steadily weaker until the end came. 



He had an artist's skill in arranging 

 flowers in a funeral design. Like many 

 another florist, he gave his life to his 

 business. Upright in all things, he left 

 a name behind him of which his friends 

 may well be proud. As there is no one 

 to take Mr. Congdon 's place in the man- 

 agement of the business, the greenhouses 

 will be sold. 



James Mtirray. 



James Murray, gardener during the 

 last nineteen years for Henry Clews, at 

 Newport, died June 28, at his home in 

 that city. Mr. Murray was born near 

 Kilmarnock, Scotland, 63 years ago. 

 About twenty-six years ago he came to 

 this country and entered the employment 

 of the late Isaac Buchanan, at Astoria, 

 Long Island. From there he went as 

 head gardener to J. H. Browning, at 



Tenafly, N. J., and after remaining there 

 four years he removed to Newport. 



Mr. Murray was a man of sterling 

 character, quiet and unassuming to a 

 remarkable degree. Although somewhat 

 reserved in disposition, he was yet very 

 companionable to his intimates. He 

 was a good gardener of the old school 

 and a man well worth knowing. He was 

 held in high esteem by the community. 

 A widow and two sons and a daughter 

 survive him. 



Isaac B. Easter. 



Isaac B. Easter died July 2, at his 

 home on Independence road, Newburg 

 Heights, Cleveland, O. He had been a 

 market gardener for over half a century. 

 Death was due to old age. Mr. Easter 

 was born in Sussex, England, in 1827, 

 and came to America in 1852. In 1856 

 he was married to Miss Harriet Willis, 

 who died in 1894. Two children survive 

 — Miss Mary Easter and Isaac B. Eas- 

 ter, Jr. 



HYDROCYANIC AQD GAS. 



I have used hydrocyanic acid gas as a 

 remedy for the common white fly in my 

 greenhouse. I did not use it more than 

 about half the strength recommended in 

 the Review, but found it nipped or 

 scorched a few of the ends or tips of 

 the tomato plants, and also a few of the 

 roses, but did no great damage. It killed 

 the flies. Now, what I want to ask is, 

 whether the gas is poisonous to the to- 

 matoes, as the vines had a quantity of 

 large green tomatoes at the time this 

 gas was liberated, and we want to be 

 sure on this subject before we pick any 

 of these tomatoes. W. L. 



While the hydrocyanic acid gas is dead- 

 ly if inhaled by human beings or by lower 

 forms of life, it is not possible, however, 

 for it to be absorbed by plant tissues 

 and held by them to the extent of mak- 

 ing them poisonous. The minute amount 

 of actual poison that it would be possible 

 to precipitate out of the gas, either upon 

 or into the tissue of the., plant, would 

 not be sufficient to affect the most sen- 

 sitive organism. L. C. 0. 



GERANIUM FOR NAME. 



I send under separate cover a gera- 

 nium bloom. Will you kindly tell me the 

 name and when first brought outt A 

 slip was given to my mother in Massa- 

 chusetts in 1867 and she grew, the plant, 

 setting it out in spring and bringing it 

 into the house in fall, for twenty-five 

 years. At her death my brother took it 

 and followed the same course. Last year 

 I took two slips from it and am now 

 planting out a large bed in memory of 

 my mother. The plant grew to be six 

 feet in height and four feet in diameter. 

 I have counted seventy trusses of bloom 

 at once. L. C. P. 



The sample leaf and flower truss were 

 so badly withered, having been packed 

 dry, that I cannot state positively what 

 the variety is. As near, however, as I 

 can tell, it is either a semi-double form 

 of the old Gen. Grant or something very 

 similar to it. I am pleased to learn of 

 the long and intelligent care given to 

 the original plant, which must have made 

 a magnificent show when in bloom. 

 Would that we could see more such in 

 our American homes, for truly no house 

 plant can surpass a well grown and flow- 

 ered geranium. C. W. 



