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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



AuocsT 8, 1907. 



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if printed Wedaesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 it 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. 



Joseph lleacock (portniit) :! 



l.'arnatluns — Carnation Notes — West .'{ 



— I'roJlts In Ctii-natlons 3 



— Soil for Carnations 4 



— CarnatlouK for Solid Reds '. 4 



— Distance Between Plants 4 



— American Carnation Society 4 



The Itefall Florist — Couimencement BouQuets 



(illus.) 5 



Viola Cornuta 5 



Hotels of I'lilladelphla 5 



Uoses — Treatment of Black Spot tt 



— American Kose Society «l 



Parrot Tulips for Bedding 



^>easouable Suggestions *) 



— Dendroblums 6 



— CattleyuB « 



— Cyprlpedlunis (lllus.) 7 



— Scblzanthus 7 



— Attend the Convention 7 



— Brief Reminders 7 



Sweet I'eas — 'Ihe Best Sweet Teas 8 



— Knglish Sweet Pea Show 



A Second Memorial Day (lllus.) 9 



The Latest Plant Wrinkles (lllus.) 10 



Tobacco In (Jreenhouses 11 



Palms 11 



The Readers' Corner — A I.4tdder for Green- 

 house Work 12 



— To Remove Lime Shading 12 



New York 12 



At Maplewood (lllus.) 13 



New Poet's Narcissi 13 



S<K;lety of American Florists — DepartmvMit of 



Registration 14 



— Railroad Fares to Philadelphia 14 



With Every Mall 14 



Competition 14 



Chicago 15 



St. Louis IS 



Cincinnati 1» 



Koston 2(> 



I'hliadelphia 21 



The Death Roil— Mrs. W. A. Herbert 24 



— George F. Brehmer 24 



— W. U. Traendly 24 



— F. L. I^France 24 



— ririch Arnold 21 



Smilax Shoots Eaten 24 



Want Advertisements 24 



Vegetable Forcing 26 



— Bacterlosis of Cucumbers 2<t 



Newport, R. 1 2« 



Seed Trade News 2S 



— Erfurt Seed Trade 28 



— Connecticut Seed Crops 3 I 



— • AHrlculH-Eyod Dlanthus 3 1 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 30 



— Patie Has .i Novelty 31 



— A Perennial Broccoli 31 



— Catalogues Received 32 



Odds and Ends 32 



Nursery News 40 



— Trouble with Austrian Pines 4<l 



— '■ Park Superintendent* . . .^ 40 



— Necessity for ]n8pe<'tlon 4<» 



Pacific Coast 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Department ol Agriculture 42 



FumlKatiug 42 



.Manchester, Mass 44 



Tarrytown, N. Y 44 



Orange, N. .1 44 



New Bedford, Mass 4« 



Lexington, Ky 46 



Pltteburg 4S 



Buffalo .I I 



Washington 50 



Kansas City 52 



New Orleans 52 



(ireenhouse Heating — Soft Coal or Semi- 

 Anthracite 00 



— Hot Water Piping in Kansas 60 



— Piping in Southern Iowa 60 



Clay Center, Kan 61 



Baltimore 62 



Detroit 64 



As an advertising medium the Review 

 is all that could be desired. — W, Z. PuR- 

 NELL, Snow Hill, Md. 



And now we have a Baby Dorothy 

 Perkins rose, a pink Baby Bambler. 



Send your latest catalogue to the Re- 

 view and see that it is on your regular 

 mailing list. All catalogues are filed for 

 reference. 



Boyd's City Dispatch, of New York, 

 sells typewritten lists of all trades. They 

 claim completeness and accuracy for 

 their lists. Of florists they have 9,245. 



There is a strong demand for all 

 grades of greenhouse help, but espe- 

 cially so for men who are capable of 

 taking charge of the growing and the 

 management of men. 



Narcissus Peter Barr is held at $125 

 a bulb, not $1.25 per bulb, as stated in a 

 recent issue of the Review. Formerly 

 the price was $250 per bulb, but the rais- 

 ers have this season offered^ it at half 

 price. 



' ' The increasing demand for winter- 

 flowering carnations in England is won- 

 derful, ' ' says the Gardeners ' Magazine, 

 "and there is not the slightest sign of 

 decline in the popularity of the flower, 

 either in thfe market or in private gar- 

 dens. ' ' 



If the Illinois reader who recently sent 

 in a leaf for name will send another, 

 also sending his full name and address, 

 effort will be made to supply the in- 

 formation he wishes. He also should 

 state if it is an annual or a hardy plant, 

 time growth starts and what flowers it 

 produces. 



The Republican party gives notice 

 that, if returned to power, it will revise 

 the tariff in 1909; the Democrats, if suc- 

 cessful in the election, will lose no time 

 in getting after the tariff-protected 

 trusts, 80 we may be fairly sure of some 

 tariff tinkering two years hence, and 

 not until then. 



Those who attend the S. A. F. con- 

 vention and visit the many prosperous 

 growers in the vicinity will be treated 

 to an object lesson in neatness and clean- 

 liness, and not one arranged for their 

 special benefit. With few exceptions the 

 Philadelphia greenhouse establishments 

 are ready for critical inspection any 

 day in the year and are a pleasure as 

 well as profitable to their owners. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J., 

 submits for registration rambler rose 

 Newport Fairy, fine dark pink, center 

 pale, very free flowering, strong and vig- 

 orous grower. 



P. J. Hauswirth, Sec'y. 



Railroad Rates to Annual Meeting. 



Members are advised that the Trunk 

 Line Association, in whose territory 

 Philadelphia, our meeting place, is lo- 

 cated, has granted a special rate of one 

 and one-third fare on the certificate 

 plan. This rate has been concurred in 

 by the foltowing associations: 



New England Passenger Association, 

 Southeastern Passenger Association, 

 Eastern Canadian Passenger Association. 



Members are advised that the Central 

 Passenger Association will not join in 

 the reduced rate of a fare and one-third, 

 for the reason that a number of states 

 have provided by law for a stancjard rate 

 of 2 cents per mile, particularly in the 



territories covered by this association. 

 It has, however, made a special conces- 

 sion to our society in that it will sell a 

 round trip ticket to Philadelphia at the 

 rate of 2 cents per mile each way in the 

 territory covered by ihis association, and 

 at the reduced rate of a fare and one- 

 third through the territory covered by the 

 Eastern, Canadian and Trunk Line As- 

 sociations. This special concession is 

 only for those attending the session and 

 not for the general public. These spe- 

 cial tickets can be obtained only on card 

 orders secured direct froin P. J. Haus- 

 wirth, secretary, 232 Michigan avenue, 

 Chicago. The Central Passenger Asso- 

 ciation has furnished the secretary with 

 these card orders, and should you reside 

 in the territory covered by the Central 

 Passenger Association and desiise to take 

 advantage of this special concession you 

 MUST obtain from the secretary a card 

 order. In writing for card orders be 

 sure to givie the number required, as each 

 person must have one. 



TTie secretary has received the follow- 

 ing letter from the Western Passenger 

 Association : 



Referring to your application for reduced 

 fares account above named occasion : 



We have been requested by the individual 

 lin*8 Interested In Western Passenger Associa- 

 tion territory to refer you to the revised one- 

 way or summer tourist fares In effect to Chicago 

 and St. Louis, with the understanding that per- 

 sons can repurchase from those points and take 

 advantage of the reduced fares authorized there- 

 from. 



In order that you may fully understand the 

 situation, l)eg to state that the fares to Chicago, 

 Peoria and St. Louis from a large part of our 

 territory at the time of your meeting will be 

 on the basis of 2 cents per mile; hence If per- 

 sons desiring to attend same will purchase 

 tickets to those points and then rebuy at the 

 reduced fares authorized therefrom, they will 

 secure practically the same reduction in the 

 territory of this association as would be ac- 

 corded by fare and one-third on the basis of the 

 old rates. Summer tourist tickets will be on 

 sale to Chicago and St. Louis from jMlnts west 

 of the Missouri river and east of and Including 

 Denver and Cheyenne, Wyo., at approximately 

 fare and one-third of the fares in effect Febru- 

 ary 1, 1907. These fares will no doubt satis- 

 factorll.v take care of persons desiring to attend 

 your meeting from the territory mentioned. 



It Is suggested that the delegates residing In 

 Western Passenger Association territory be fur- 

 nished with Central Passenger Association curd 

 orders, so as to enable them to take advantage 

 of the reduced fares authorized from Chicago, 

 Peoria and St. Louis. 



The secretary recommends that mem- 

 bers living in this territory purchase 

 summer tourist tickets to Chicago or St. 

 Louis, and then avail themselves of the 

 rates mentioned above as offered by the 

 Central Passenger Association. 



Jamestown Exposition Rate*. 



Members are notified that they can 

 purchase cheap railroad tickets which 

 will permit them to attend the conven- 

 tion at Philadelphia and then visit the 

 Jamestown exposition at Norfolk, Va., 

 on the route home at very low rates. 

 Full information can be secured from 

 your local ticket agent. 



P. J. Hauswirth, Sec'y. 



WITH EVERY MAIL. 



You may discontinue our advertise- 

 ment of primroses; sold out. We would 

 get at least one order with each mail. 



McCaslin Bros. 



Zanesvillc, O. 



COMPETITION. 



Competition long has been known as 

 the life of trade. System, that pioneer 

 of business-men's magazines, says: 

 "Competition as an incentive is greater 

 than greed ; as an energizer, more pow- 

 erful than ambition; as a stimulant, 

 more lasting than high purpose. It can- 

 not hurt unless we run from it. ' ' 



