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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jdlx 18, 1907. 



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it printed Wedoeiday evening and 

 maikd early Thunday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy** to reach us by Mondaj, or 

 Tnaadaj at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



DntPh Bulbe — Tulip Thomas Moore (illus.)... 3 



— The Latest Tulips 3 



— Florists' Tulips 3 



— Narcissi for Outdoors (Ulus. ) 3 



Gladiolus Prlnceps 5 



German and Japanese Irises 5 



Carnations — Aristocrat In Summer (iUus.).... 6 



— Carnation Notes — Wert 6 



— Carnations In Solid Beds 6 



— Temperatures 6 



Seasonable Suggestions — Cinerarias 6 



— rx)rralne Begonias 6 



— Show Pelargoniums 7 



— Primulas 7 



— Myoaotis 7 



— Paosles 7 



— Propagating 7 



The Retail Florist — Keeping Cut Flowers 8 



— Retail Windows 8 



— English Retailers' Troubles 8 



Roses — Treatment in Hot Weather 9 



— The Work of Larrae 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Details 9 



Exhlhlllon at Newport. K. I. (illus.) 10 



Bacteriosls on Geraniums 11 



The Readers' Corner— Thrips in the South... 11 



— Making Flat Bunches 11 



Verbenas 11 



Myosotis 12 



A' Nasturtium Border (illus.) 12 



Forcing Valley 12 



Diagram of Floor Space for S. A. P. Trade 



Exhibit 13 



Credits and Collections 13 



Mignonette for Market 13 



General Business 14 



The Death RoU 14 



Chicago 15 



Buffalo 18 



St. Louis 18 



American Rose Society 21 



Philadelphia 21 



The Michell Trophy (illus.) 24 



Seed Trade News 26 



— Texans to Handle Seeds 26 



— Invoke Law in Bulb Case 26 



— Bellingham. Wash 27 



— Field's New Warehouse 27 



— Seed Testing 28 



— The Iowa Seed Law 28 



— Imports 30 



New York 30 



Washington 32 



Paper White Narcissus .12 



Vegetable Forcing — Firming Lettuce Soils.... 34 



— Strawberry Plants 34 



— Grapes .34 



Clematis Montana 36 



Steamer Sailings 41 



Nursery News — The Peony "Set" 42 



— Dipping Trees 42 



— Seedling Wiles and Lilacs 43 



— H.Tdrangea Otaksa 43 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 44 



— San Frandso 44 



— Eucalyptus and Cypress 44 



Pittsburg .46 



Detroit 48 



Montreal 60 



Boaton 62 



Manchester. Mass 62 



New Haven, Conn 53 



Baltimore .^ 60 



Albany. N. Y , .' 60 



Greenhouse Heating — Hot Water for One 



House 61 



— Insufficient Boiler Capacity 61 



— Steam for Five Honsefr 61 



— A Question of Circulation 62 



— A Cement Water Tank 62 



Cincinnati 64 



Foe special delivery letters special 

 stamps are no longer required. All that 

 is necessary is to put on the letter 10 

 cents additional in any kind of stamps 

 and write "For special delivery," or 

 any other words that will carry the 

 meaning. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



"Dick" WiTTERSTAETfKlt has been 

 elected president of th* Cincinnati Flo- 

 rists' Society. 



Before you ord«r stock for import, 

 consult the Euro^an advertising pages 

 in the Review. 



See that the sweet pea blooms are 

 dry when picked; if picked while damp 

 they spot quickly. 



It is reported that Luther Burbank 

 has made a contract with a Minneapolis 

 publisher to write a book on "How I 

 Do It," or some such topic. 



A WRITER, apparently in all serious- 

 ness, advises us that we should "never 

 send mignonette to any other than a 

 handsome lady, for, in the language of 

 flowers, mignonette signifies 'your quali- 

 ties surpass your charms.' " 



President Roosevelt agrees with 

 "Phil," that plant growing is a pro- 

 fession. At the semi-centennial celebra- 

 tion of the founding of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College he said: "The call- 



I wish to state that we have 

 received many more orders from 

 our advertisement in 



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than we were able to fill, receiving 

 orders from New York, Minne- 

 sota, Illinois, Ohio, G>lorado and 

 several other states. "Wt were 

 sold out a few days after the 

 first insertion. 



GEO. M. KELLOGG. 



Pleasant Hill, Mo., 

 July 13, 1907. 



ing of the skilled tiller of the soil should 

 be recognized aa a profession, just as 

 emphatically as the calling of .lawyer, of 

 doctor, of banker, merchant, or. clerk." 



It will interest retail florists, who use 

 considerable quantities of tinfoil, to note 

 that the government "trust busters" 

 allege that the tobacco trust controls 

 eighty per cent of the foil products of 

 the United States. Foil has been stead- 

 ily rising in price for some years and 

 of late florists' foil has been supplied to 

 jobbers with more or less reluctance. 

 Possibly the government's action against 

 the American Tobacco Co. may relieve 

 this situation.' 



He is the wise plantsman who gives 

 prompt and courteous attention to the 

 complaints which will occasionally arise 

 in doing a shipping business. To neg- 

 lect a complaint is to reduce the number 

 of your customers by one. On the other 

 hand, it is the duty of a dissatisfied 

 buyer to make a gentlemanly request for 

 the adjustment of differences. Because 

 stock is not what you think it should be 

 is no justification for writing a man 

 things you would not be likely to care to 

 say to him face to face. 



A RETAIL florist who has lately given 

 considerable attention to advertising in 

 his neighborhood reports excellent re- 

 sults: "Why, where I used to close 

 store at noon on Sunday, now I keep 

 open till 9 o'clock at night!," If this 

 is the result of advertising — and there 

 is little doubt it is — we should cer- 

 tainly try some other kind. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Speaking of general business condi- 

 tions in Chicago and the middle west, 

 R. G. Dun & Co. say in their weekly 

 bulled: 



" ]il!tdsummer conditions are now en- 

 tered into, but trade in the aggregate 

 discloses less decline in activity than 

 usnal. The volume of distributive trade 

 remains exceptionally wide, and the lead- 

 ing industries show no disposition to 

 curtail production, the full employment 

 of machinery and available workers be- 

 ing imperative to sustain prompt deliv- 

 eries. Retail trade is of seasonable pro- 

 portions. ' ' 



Speaking for New York and the east, 

 Dun & Co. say: 



"There is not the customary com- 

 plaint of midsummer dullness in general 

 trade channels. Brisk retail trade is 

 accompanied by more prompt collections, 

 and many cities that were slow to re- 

 spond to the better feeling now send sat- 

 isfactory reports." 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Ralph H. Glass. 



Ralph H. Glass died in Savannah, Ga., 

 July 8, after an illness of nearly two 

 years. The funeral services were held 

 the following day, at the home of his 

 mother, Mrs. John H. Gould, 109 Thirty- 

 eighth street, east. The interment was 

 in Laurel Grove cemetery. Mr. Glass 

 was a native of Savannah and was 31 

 years of age. He was formerly a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Lenox & Glass. He 

 is survived by his wife, one child, his 

 mother and three sisters. 



Sam Fine. 



Sam Fine, 41 years old, of 6201 Olive 

 street road, St. Louis, died at the City 

 Hospital, in that city, July 8, as the re- 

 sult of a razor cut in the throat. 



William M. Marugs;. 



WilUam M. Marugg died at the home 

 of his parents, at North Pomona, Cal., 

 June 26. He was the youngest child of 

 Simon and Julia Marugg, and was born 

 at Menomonie, Wis., June 28, 1876. The 

 family removed to Pomona in 1889. Be- 

 sides his parents, the deceased is sur- 

 vived by one brother, Albert C. Marugg, 

 of Watertown, S. D. ; one sister, Mrs. 

 Florence M. Welch, of Pomona, and one 

 half-brother, Nathan C. Pedley, also of 

 Pomona. 



In spite of the fact that Mr. Ma- 

 rugg had suffered much from rheuma- 

 tism and had been almost disabled by 

 the disease during the last two or three 

 years of his life, he had attended closely 

 to business, making a specialty of the 

 chrysanthemum -and doing much to raise 

 the standard of" that plant on the Pacific 

 coast. Last fall, while he was so ill 

 and in such pain that he could scarcely 

 move, he made an exhibit of chrysanthe- 

 mums at the Los Angeles flower show 

 that was one of the chief features of 

 that exhibition. The business will be 

 continued by his mother. 



