IS 



The Weekly FlcMists^ Review* 



AcausT 15, 1907. 



ii printed Wedoeiday eveoing and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 if earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tiiers 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. 



ROMS— Fight the Thrlpe » 



— Khea Held Rose (lilus.) » 



Cutworms on Geraniums « 



English iTy • • ,S 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West l« 



— Spraying for Thrlps 10 



— Leaf-Sbot JX 



— Varletfea for Texas 1J> 



Cyclamens • .v • • ; ■ JV 



The Conwntlon Setting (lllus.) ; 1} 



iieasonable Suggestions — Cyclamens 11 



— Antirrhinums J* 



— Early Bulbous Plants J» 



— Plautldg Evergreens J* 



The Art of I'ot Making (lllus.) Id 



Bud on Ducliham J"> 



Philadelphia J; 



— Klce's Novelties, (lllus.) 14 



— Aschmaun's House of Araucarlas (lllus.).. 15 



— Blbbon Department of Pennock-Meehan 



Co. (lllus.) 10 



Peat as a Potting SoU 1« 



Hen Manure and Its Value 15 



OtUcers of St. Louis Florists' Club (portraits) 17 



St. Louis Florists' Club (lllus.) 17 



Calla Bulblets " 



Proposed Change of Name ig 



Kansas City Jg 



American Carnation Society 18 



Chicago 1» 



St. Louis 20 



New York ^ 



Society of American Florists j£4 



Bowling Trophies 2* 



Hoteto Of Philadelphia j» 



Detroit ^ 



PittsMirg ^ 



Bostob V/ • • •^' 



'Itte Headers' Corner — To Kemoye Lime 



Shading 28 



Vegetable Ji'orcing jW 



— Trouble with Tomatoes jJw 



— Sterilizing Soil ^ 



— Straw berry -Raspberry jW 



The Death Roll— tJeorge B. Renter 30 



— Mrs. Mary E. Stewart «) 



— Francis H. Milburn 80 



— John C. Teas 80 



Seed Trade Xews ^ 



— Imports ■ *f 



— French Bulbs o* 



— Holland Seed Crops 84 



— Dutch Bulbs 35 



— Harrlsll Bulbs 38 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Nursery News ** 



— The New Hydrangea 44 



— Southern Nurserymen Meet ; . . . 41 



— Necessity for Inspection -46 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Outdoor Flowers in Winter 4« 



— San Francisco 46 



Baltimore 48 



Cincinnati 52 



Newport. R. I 5? 



Washington »4 



Indianapolis ..•• &8 



Soothlngton, Conn 00 



Greenhouse Heating — A House with a Lean-to 65 



— Heat for Additional House. 68 



— Charcoal Iron Flues 66 



— Location for Main Return 68 



Marlon, lud f5 



New Orleans 67 



New Bedford. Mass m 



LaFayette, Ind 88 



"If your business is not worth adver- 

 tising, advertise it for sale. ' ' 



Detroit wants the S. A. F. convention 

 in 1908 and Cincinnati has spoken for it 

 in 1909. They are splendid convention 

 cities. 



The Alaska daisy, one of Luther Bur- 

 bank 's ' ' ereailons, ' ' has been adopted 

 as the official flower of the Alaska- Yu- 

 kon-Pacific exposition at Seatt^ in 1909. 



Besults bring advertising. " 

 The Beview brings results. 



Turn a little fire heat into the rose 

 houses on the cool nights following these 

 hot days, and keep the ventilators 6pen, 

 if you would avoid mildew. / 



The manufacturers or pipe ana heat- 

 ing specialties find their facilities taxed 

 to the utmost this season. Better not 

 procrastinate in the matter of placing 

 orders. 



An English grower has been given 

 judgment for damages sustained because 

 the street in front of his place was 

 paved with creosoted blocks, the fumes 

 of which injured his stock. ' 



Palm seeds have sold well, Kentia 

 Belmoreana especially so, but the state 

 of affairs with the palm growers indi- 

 cates that it will be a couple of years 

 at least before there is stock enough to 

 affect prices. • ^ 



The proposition to change the name 

 of the S, A. F. and O. H., to Society of 

 American Horticulture, will afford those 

 who feel that the society should be 

 strictly a tfade body a chance to divest 

 the old name of its caudal appendage. 



In the last few years the convention 

 bowling tournament has not been the 

 'rah- 'rah time it once was ; but with 

 five good teams, from Philadelphia, Bal- 

 timore, Washington, New York and 

 Flatbush as a starter, this year's con- 

 test should develop some old-time en- 

 thusiasm. , 



The indications are that the annual 

 autumn pressure to move Boston ferns 

 will this year be greater than ever. But 

 the heavy supplies in autumn always 

 have been taken by the public by the 

 time spring has arrived. The trouble 

 is in autumn everyone wants to sell the 

 summer's crop of ferns to get house- 

 room for other stock. 



Alexander Dickson & Sons, Ltd., of 

 Newtownards, Ireland, who are known 

 as the raisers of at least two of our 

 profitable forcing roses, and as the rais- 

 ers of a number of promising candi- 

 dates, have brought an action in British 

 courts of law to restrain another family 

 of Alexander Dicksons from using their 

 own name as the title for a business at 

 Dundrum, Ireland. They ask that any- 

 one using the name Dickson be required 

 to take reasonable precautions to clearly 

 distinguish the business from that of 

 the plaintiff. 



PROPOSED CHANGE OF NABIE. 



One of the interesting propositions to 

 be brought up at the coming Philadel- 

 phia convention will be a report from 

 the committee appointed to consider the 

 desirabilities of changing the name of 

 the Society of American Florists. I un- 

 derstand the committee has voted to rec- 

 ommend a change of title to the Society 

 of American Horticulture, a substitution 

 of the letter H for the letter F. While 

 there is certain to be much opposition 

 to any change of name, there is no ques- 

 tion but that the time has come when 

 some such departure is necessary if the 

 society is to broaden its policy sufficient- 

 ly to take in private gardeners, wealthy 

 amateurs and others connected with the 

 various branches of horticulture who 

 now take practically no. interest in the 

 8. A. F. and its doings. 



The coming convention is to decide 

 whether the society is to continue as in 



the past, as practically a bona fide trade 

 organization, or if it shall become a 

 recognized center of horticultural inter- 

 ests. It is universally agreed that the 

 addition of the "Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists" tail caused much ridicule and 

 did the society no good. It is equally 

 certain that the mere adoption of a new 

 title will not immediately^ put the S. A. 

 F. on Easy street numerically and finan- 

 cially. The popular opinion of conven- 

 tions rightly or wrongly is that they are 

 annual good times, \*^here a little busi- 

 ness and much pleasure may be derived 

 by the attendants. 



I think the conventions of late years 

 have been conducted on a higher plane, 

 with more practical business and less 

 buffoonery. It is generally agreed, how- 

 ever, that the membership grows pain- 

 fully slowly. Many florists are inter- 

 ested in the doings of the special bodies, 

 like the carnation, rose and peony socie- 

 ties, much more than in the 8. A. F. If 

 the latter society is to hold its position 

 as a leader in horticultural progress, this 

 must be charijfed and some connecting 

 link joined with the various other socie- 

 ties. 



If the 8. A. F. votes to retain its 

 present title, it virtually means that it 

 is to remain a trade organization and 

 some other society will in the near fu- 

 ture fill the center of the horticultural 

 stage. Much hard work must necessarily 

 fbllow a niere change of title before the 

 3. A. H., or whatever new name may be 

 chosen, is recognized as the main trunk 

 of the horticultural tree. A new title 

 will, however, prove that the society is 

 in earnest in desiring to cover a broader 

 field and will induce many thoughtful 

 men to support it who now hold aloof. 



Members voting on the proposed 

 change should bear in mind that their 

 votes may mean either that the 8. A. F. 

 remains as it now is, a mere branch of 

 the tree horticultural, or that by a bold 

 forward move it can fill the center of 

 the stage and become the main trunk. 

 Progress should be the order of the day, 

 therefore let every thoughtful member 

 who goes to Philadelphia support the 

 proposed change. W. N. Craio. 



KANSAS CITY. 



Kansas City will have both a flower 

 show and a horse show this fall. They 

 will be two of the many strong features 

 of the interstate fair and exposition 

 which opens at Elm Ridge September 23 

 and continues to October 5. 



Arthur Newell is superintendent of the 

 flower show and floricultural exhibits at 

 the interstate fair. Quarters will be 

 provided for a large display of cut flow- 

 ers and plants of all kinds, and some of 

 the Kansas City florists have arranged 

 already to make large displays of flow- 

 ers and plants. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



A meeting of the board of directors 

 of the American Carnation Society will 

 be held at the Hotel Walton, Philadel- 

 phia, Thursday, August 22, immediately 

 after the adjournment of the evening 

 session of the S. A. F. Program and 

 premium list for our meeting in Wash- 

 ington next January wUI be sulopted and 

 all members are invited to meet with iiB. 



Try and get a few new members from 

 your sectioii. Jhxtm the first year $3, af- 

 terward $2 per year. Send money and 

 name to the secretary at Lancaster, Pa. 

 • Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



^^•~ 



