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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Ski'tkmbbb 5, 1907. 



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it printed Wednesciay eveoiag aftd 

 mailed cau-ly Thursday morning. It 

 is earoesdy requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy" to reach us by Monday, or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday mornins;, as many have done 

 in the past. 



CONTENTS. 



Clirysantbemums — Taking the Buds :< 



— Kol d'ltalie 3 



; — Feeding the Plants 3 



The Madison Bunch (portrait) 3 



Aphis on Munis 4 



Nephrolepls Ueny 11 ( illus. ) 4 



Philosophy of Wholesaling 4 



Charles B. Meeban (portrait ) 4 



Conference on Hardiness 5 



Congress of Horticulture 5 



Mealy Bug on Palms 5 



Canadian Florists Meet — The London Con- 

 vention 6 



■^ Canadian Horttctltural Association (illus.) 7 



Lilies for Easter 7 



Rose» — Fumigating for Greenfly 8 



— Leaf Spot 8 



— CaiTied Over Koses 8 



— Roses as Bedding Stock 8 



The Largest Greenhouse (illus. ) 8 



Greenhouse Construction l> 



Anton C. Zvolanek (portrait) 10 



The Christmas Sweet Peas (Ulus.) lu 



Seasonable Suggestions — Show Pelargoniums. 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— I>utcb Bulbs 12 



— Lorraine Begonias , 12 



— Cyclamens 13 



— Mignonette 13 



— Chrysanthemums 13 



— Brief Iteminders 13 



Florists' Club of Scruntou, Pa. (illus. ) 13 



Hardy Perenuiala 13 



Boston 14 



Hhododendron Catawblense (Illus.) 14 



'J'he Beaders' Corner — Anomatheca Cruenta... 14 



Convention Views ( illus. ) 15 



Asparagus Sprengerl 15 



Express Kates Reduced 16 



The Death Roll — Thomas Gunn 16 



Publications Received 16 



Chicago 17 



Detroit 19 



New York 20 



St. Louis 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Want Advirtisements 28 



Pittsburg 28 



Society of American Florists — Prize Essays.. 29 



— Plant Registration 29 



Seed Trade News. ...^^ 29 



— Impevt^ — .-: TTTT 31 



— Holland Bulb Crops •. 31 



— Erfurt Seed Crops 31 



— Seed Trade Committees 32 



— Sweet PeaB for Seed 32 



— Catalogues Received 33 



Vegetable Forcing 34 



— Jerusalem Artichoke 34 



— Grapes Under Glass 3 j 



Nursery News 44 



— California Privet 44 



— Educate the Public 44 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Irrigation for iioses 46 



— Shh Fraoclsco 48 



Des Moines, la 47 



Old Soil for Carnations 47 



Cincinnati 4S 



Buffalo ; CtO 



Colorado Springs. Colo .'. rm 



Manchester, Mass ,'-,2 



Butler, Pa .'54 



Peace on Both Sides 54 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Steam for Complete Range 64 



— Piping In Western New York 6"> 



— Strength of Glass 66 



Denver 66 



Columbus, Ohio 67 



Brockton, Mass 67 



Baltimore ^S 



The salesmen for florists' supplies 

 now carry large lines of samples on the 

 road. 



Word comes from Belgium, that the 

 azaleas are in fine shape, as the result 

 of a good growing season. 



Wheat is up in price .about 2 cents a 

 pound and reported scarce because of an 

 unfavorable season in Italy. 



The Newport Horticultural Society has 

 issued an attractive premium list for the 

 exhibition to be given at Masonic balj, 

 Newport, E. T., September 17 to 19. 



Not only the S. A. F., but the Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Association, which is 

 the florists' organization in the Domin- 

 ion, will meet at Niagara Falls next Au- 

 gust. 



Returning conventionites whose tick- 

 ets read by way of Norfolk, Va., say 

 that, all things considered, it would be 

 just as appropriate to call it the Jesse 

 Jamestown exposition. 



' Ths production of cypress ' lumber in 

 the United States/ in 1906, according to 

 the Department of Agriculture, was 839,- 



Please omit Enchantress acd Car- 

 dinal from our advertisement in 



You certatfily are giving; us good 



results on drnalion Sales, and we 



assure you we af^rciate the tame. 



H. V. BUCKBEE, 

 Rockford, III. 



August 26, 1907. 



276,000 board feet, as against 753,369,- 

 000 in 1905 and 749,592,000 in 1904. 



At the Philadelphia convention the dis- 

 cussion on the tariflf on window glass 

 brought from Wm. F. Kasting the decla- 

 ration that he is a Democrat by inclina- 

 tion and association but a protectionist 

 in belief and practice. 



The long distance telephone rates of 

 the American Telephone and Telegraph 

 Co. are now the same at all hours of the 

 day or night, the special night rates hav- 

 ing been canceled September 1, due to 

 overcrowding of the lines in the first hour 

 night rates were in force. 



The flower show at Denison, Tex., is 

 each year gaining in scope and impor- 

 tance. The premium list for the 190/ 

 exhibition, to be held November 6 to 8, 

 is the most comprehensive yet issued. 

 Copies may be had by addressing T. W. 

 Larkin, secretary of the Denison Civic 

 Improvement League. 



At the establishment of the Poehl- 

 niann Bros. Co., Chicago, there is a 

 division of responsibility at night. The 

 firemen are charged Ofaly with maintain- 

 ing steam pressure, while conditions in 

 the gteenhouses are in the care of good 

 growers, known as temperature men from 

 tlie fact that their principal function is 

 to regulate temperature by means of the 

 'ventilators. "All the air that is safe" 

 is their rule. 



'1H£ JuiowjB not the value of flowers 

 who never botany. ' ' — ■ Chicago Daily 



News. 



DEUTSCHE CYCASGESELLSCHAFT. 



A firm has been established in Berlin 

 under this title. The objects of the un- 

 dertaking consist in furthering the in- 

 terests of manufacturers of prepared cy- 

 cas leaves in particular^ in introducing 

 and carrying out arrangements having 

 for their purpose the, joint sale of these 

 goods, so as to prevent unhealthy com- 

 petition, and the obtaining of suitable 

 prices and payment. The capital amounts 

 to 25,500 mk., and the secretary is Dr. 

 Phil. Fritz Schulte, in Berlin. ^Horticul- 

 tural Trade Journal. 



EXPRESS RATES REDUCED; 



I beg to report that August 27 the ex- 

 press rates of the United States Ex- 

 press Co. from Madison, N. J., and other 

 points were reduced from $1 td-60 cents. 



This result of the appeal of the S. A. 

 F. to the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion is a handsome illustration of the use- 

 fulness of the society to the florists' 

 trade. It is one of many arguments for 

 a larger membership and for a conse- 

 quent larger purse, which would ef- 

 fectively equip it for more such work. 

 Frank L. Moore. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Thomas Gunn. 



Thomas Gunn died August 22, at his 

 home, 1441 South Salina street, Syra- 

 cuse," N. Y., where he h^d lived with his 

 sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Pycroft. He was 

 72 years old, had been a resident of that 

 part of the city for nearly thirty years 

 and had been engaged for many years 

 in the florists' trade. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. ^ 



["Daffodils — Narcissus and How to Grow 

 Them," by A. M. Klrby, 235 pages, profusely 

 Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 

 publishers; price fl.lO net.] 



This volume is uniform with its prede- 

 cessors in the Garden Library series of 

 Doubleday, Page & Co. The author, A. 

 M. Kirby, is favorably known to many 

 in the trade as the head of the bulb and 

 flower seed department of the seed house 

 of Peter Henderson & Co. This book is 

 specially valuable because the ratings 

 given to each variety show what they are 

 capable of under American conditions. 

 The garden value of the variety has been 

 kept prominently in mind, even in the 

 classification, leading, for example, to the 

 group of the ' * lesser trumpets. ' * 



The text naturally divides into two 

 parts: (1) Cultural, including com- 

 mercial production of cut flowers in the 

 field and under glass; (2) A critical ap- 

 praisement of all the varieties commonly 

 in the trade (about 500) costing $5 a 

 bulb and less. The illustrations are de- 

 signed to show, the character of the lead- 

 ing sections and follow in natural se- 

 quence; and the key will help anyone to 

 properly place any flower. 



The price of the book is $1.10 net, or 

 $1.21 postpaid, at which the Beview will 

 supply any of the volumes of the Gar- 

 den Library series, as follows: "Roses 

 and How to Grow Them," by many ex- 

 perts ; ' ' Ferns and How to Grow Them, ' ' 

 hy G. A. Woolson; "Lawns and How to 

 Make Them, ' ' by Leonard Barron ; 

 "Datfodils — Narcissus and How to Grow 

 Them," by A. M. Kirby. 



