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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 1, 1907. 



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it printed 'Wednesday evenlag 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 morninf, as many have done 

 in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Society of Americaa Florists — Proposed 



Change In Name 3 



— Convention Program 3 



M. Klce (portrtlt) 3 



Hotels In Philadelphia 4 



Carnations — Temperature for Bountiful 4 



— Our Carnations In Swabla 4 



— Grubworms from Manure 4 



— Cutworms on Carnations 4 



— Insecticides in Water Supply 4 



The lletall Florist— The Ketaller's Display 



Case ( lllus. ) 4 



— Scotch Heather Bloom 5 



Blight on Delphiniums 5 



Dracaenas 5 



Koses — The Season for Uepalrs C 



— Buds Refuse to Open 6 



— Hoses at Woods Hole « 



Seasonable Suggestions — Callas « 



— Rambler Roses 6 



— Hard-Wooded Plants 7 



— Coleus and Alternanthera 7 



— Scented Geranium 7 



— French Bulbs 7 



— Brief Reminders 7 



The Niessen Store (illus. ) 8 



Sweet Peas Under Glass 8 



Rawson's Sweet Pea Trials 8 



American Rose Society 



Boston 10 



Plants for Cemetery Lot 11 



Bone Meal or Btfne Flour 12 



Damping Oft 12 



Chrysanthemum Segetum 12 



Trouble with Begonia Rubra 12 



Bulbous Irises 12 



Old-Fashloned Flowers 12 



Ismene Calathlna 13 



Washington 13 



Illinois Association 14 



General Business 14 



Chicago 15 



New Yorlc IS 



St. Louis 2<) 



Philadelphia '. 22 



Fosters Home Gardens 23 



The Death Roll— Henry P. Weber 24 



— Gustave Kiesllng 24 



— Henry F. Rosenberger 24 



— George Raymond 24 



— Hiram Merrlhew 24 



— James Young 24 



Omaha 24 



Seed Trade News 2fl 



— California Seed Crops 26 



— Harrisli Bulbs 26 



— Pugpt Sound Cabbage Seed 26 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 26 



— Novelty in Cabbage I^-ttnce 27 



— Berry Seed Co. Changes 27 



— Imports 28 



— Manrandia Alba Grandiflora 28 



— Southern Seed Crops 28 



— The Melon .\phis 28 



Bloomsburg, Pa 32 



Pittsburg 32 



Galesbnrg. Ill 34 



Steamer Sailings 39 



Pacific Coast 40 



— San Francisco 40 



— Seedling Evergreens 40 



New England Dahlia Society 40 



Vegetable Forcing— Care of Vegetable Houses 41 



Nursery News 42 



— Nursery Eqnlpme^it 42 



— The .\lbaugh Case 42 



— Hydrangea Otaksa 42 



— Small Fruits 42 



— The Osage Orange 42 



Columbus, Ohio 44 



Detroit 46 



Toledo. Ohio 4« 



Montreal 48 



Cincinnati .V) 



Buffalo 52 



Greenhouse Heating — Steam for One House. . «0 



— Hot Water Radiation flO 



— From Steam to Hot Water 60 



— Steam In Western Ontario 60 



— Piping in Montana 61 



— A Lean-to for Carnations 61 



A Trip to Mt. Clemens 62 



Baltimore 64 



THE ANNUAL SPECIAL 



Convention Number 



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TO BE ISSUED AIGIST 22 



will contain a full report of the Philadelphia Convention of the 

 S. A. F., and in other features will be fully up to the previous 

 Special Issues of this journal. Enough said. 



EARLY COPY for special advertising is a great help in 

 turning out a well printed paper. Why not send it nOW ? 



"I wish to state that we received many more orders from our advertise- 

 ment in the REVIEW than we were able to fill, reoeiving orders from New 

 York. Minnesota, HHdoIs Ohio, Colorado and several other states. We were 

 bold out a few days after the first insertion." 



Geo, M. Kki-logo, Pleasant Hill, Mo.. July 13, 1'.tOT. 



There always is more profit in a high- 

 grade product than in a low-grade one. 



The sale for baskets of pansy plants 

 increases each spring. Be prepared next 

 season. 



The Canadian Horticultural Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual convention 

 August 28 and 29 at London, Ont. 



Consult the Review's pages for 

 Leading Retail Florists before you dis- 

 patch a retail order for delivery in an- 

 other city. 



There is to be a Franco-British in- 

 ternational agricultural and horticultural 

 exhibition iri London in the autumn of 

 1908. 



With so many persons without knowl- 

 edge of the trade investing money in the 

 greenhouse business, there are many 

 splendid opportunities offered to men of 

 experience to take charge of large and 

 up-to-date plants. 



H. N. HiGiNBOTHAM, who is recognized 

 as one of the great credit men of the 

 country, in a recent address to merchants 

 advised them to give all their patronage 

 to one firm, of course selecting that one 

 best equipped to supply their needs. 

 His argument was that one then be- 

 comes an important customer and worthy 

 of the best attention a house can give. 

 The customer who splits up his business, 

 buying little lots here and there, is of 

 slight value to anyone. 



The Review does not accept adver- 

 tising outside the trade, pays no com- 

 mission to any agent upon the rare oc- 

 casion that a trade advertisement falls 

 into an agent's hands to be placed, and 

 never has bothered itself with the inter- 

 minable string of requests from such 

 sources for "full information as to 

 rates, discounts to agents, special dis- 

 counts, cash discounts and circulation." 

 Any advertiser who cares to see the 

 Review's circulation records is welcome 

 to do so — and there is no objection to 

 showing them to the publisher of any 

 contemporary who is skeptical. 



August already; the summer is almost 

 over. It is high time you were making 

 preparations for the busy season, now 

 close at hand. 



ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION. 



There will be a special meeting of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association at 

 the Leland hotel, Springfield, 111., Sat- 

 urday, August 10, 10 a. m., to consider 

 the proposed changes in the constitution 

 and by-laws. A. C. Beal, Secretary. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



In the week's reports as to the state 

 of general business the big commercial 

 agencies made some most encouraging 

 reports. Speaking for New York and 

 the east, R. G. Dun & Co. said: "It 

 is still * noteworthy that there is prac- 

 tically none of the customary complaint 

 of midsummer dullness in commercial or 

 industrial channels. On the contrary, 

 reports from many cities announce that 

 all the backwardness of the early season 

 in lightweight fabrics has been made 

 up and the liberal distribution of mer- 

 chandise is accompanied by steady im- 

 provement in mercantile collections. ' ' 



Speaking for Chicago and the west 

 Dun said: "Despite the hot weather, 

 general business activity is undiminished 

 and production in the heavy inclustries 

 is without abatement. Satisfactory de- 

 mand continues in leading retail, and the 

 summer lines of merchandise undergo 

 much depletion. Increasing accessions 

 appear in the numbers of visiting buy- 

 ers and their operations in staples com- 

 pare favorably with a year ago. Col- 

 lections in the western states leave little 

 room for complaint." 



Bradstreet said: "High temperatures 

 have stimulated crop developments as a 

 whole, helped retail trade in summer 

 goods, and improved reorder business 

 with jobbers, all these influences favor- 

 ing some growth of the feeling that 

 early poor starts in crops and trade have 

 been largely made up for." 



