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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Seftembeb 12, 1907. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. 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. 



The Retail Florist— The Masonic Emblem 

 (lllus.) 3 



— Retail Store Management 3 



Peony Planting 5 



Peonies That Survive (iUus. ) 6 



Up-to-Date Methods 6 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West .'. . . 8 



— Stem -Rot S 



— Falry-RIng 8 



— American Carnation Society 9 



Exterminating Snails 9 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Culture 9 



— Taking the Bud 9 



— Night Soil 9 



Coleus for Stock 10 



The Hiimfeld Quartette (portraits) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Marguerites 10 



— Azaleas 10 



— Adlantums 10 



— Nephrolepls 11 



— Small Ferns 11 



— Brief Reminders 11 



Violets — The Season's Start 11 



Trouble with (Jeraniums 11 



Method of Applying Manure 11 



The Death Roll— Flint Kennicott (portrait).. 12 



The Future of the Dahlia 12 



Connected Houses 12 



Gladiolus America (lllus.) 13 



New York 14 



Boston x 15 



Lychnis Vlscaria 15 



The Telegraph Strike 16 



Council of Horticulture 16 



Crop Report 16 



Illinois State Fair 16 



Remedy for White Fly 1« 



Chicago 17 



Milwaukee 22 



St. Louis 22 



Pittsburg 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Washington 25 



New Orleans 26 



Indianapolis 26 



Want Advertisements 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Gundestrup's Warehouse (lllus.) 28 



— Seed Crops in Prance 29 



— Imports 30 



— More French Bulbs 30 



— First Dutch Bulbs 30 



— Sweet Pea Trials 30 



— Haerens of Somergem 31 



Catalogues Recefved 32 



Vegetable Forcing — Injunction Against Blight. .33 



— Eel Worms 34 



Buffalo 36 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Nursery News 44 



— Marketing Nursery Stock 44 



— Evergreens 45 



Pariflo Coast 46 



— San Francisco 46 



— Portland. Ore 46 



S«i<"o "'ntor for Flowers 47 



Wintering Pansles Outdoors 47 



Newport, B. 1 48 



Cincinnati 50 



Baltimore 52 



Detroit R» 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Hot Water Coil 64 



— Polntlnir Steam Pines 64 



— Piping In New Mexico 64 



— Piping In Maine 63 



Shlocton. Wis 66 



El Paso, 111 66 



New Bedford, Mass 68 



Have you those printed letter-heads 

 that you have been needing ever since 

 you started in business? 



A FURTHER advance in the price of 

 tinfoil is reported to be in immediate 

 prospect. The demand is said to exceed 

 the supply. 



Get the heating apparatus into shape 

 at once. 



Although never used for publication, 

 it is necessary for those who submit in- 

 quiries, to receive an answer, to sign their 

 full name and address. 



Everyone in the trade will be inter- 

 ested in the legal action against a grower 

 whose neighbors hold him responsible for 

 the spread of cucumber blight, as re- 

 ported on page 33 of this issue. 



THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE. 



It is pretty well established that the 

 capital stock of the Western Union Tele- 

 graph Co. is largely water and that the 

 rates are therefore unnecessarily high. It 

 also is pretty certain that there is some 

 sort of an alliance between the Western 

 Union and Postal companies in restraint 

 of trade, as witnessed by the recent raise 

 in rates already high. Now business has 

 suffered from a month of the telegraph- 

 ers' strike, both sides seeming indifferent 

 to the rights of the public. If this is 

 the kind of service the people are to get 

 at high rates it is time Congress took a 

 hand, as often proposed, in running the 

 telegraph business of this country. There 

 is no justification for the present rates 

 except swift and accurate service. After 

 a month of "accepted only subject to in- 

 definite delay ' ' the patience of the people 

 is becoming exhausted. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



There will be a meeting of the Na- 

 tional Council of Horticulture at the In- 

 side Inn, Jamestown exposition, immedi- 

 ately after the second session of the Con- 

 gress of Horticulture on the afternoon of 

 September 23, 1907. It is hoped there 

 will be a good attendance, as matters of 

 importance on the future policy of the 

 council are to be considered. 



Three of the national societies — seeds- 

 men, florists and nurserymen — have each 

 appropriated $200 toward the press bu- 

 reau work of the Council for the coming 

 year. Plans for conducting this work 

 should be worked out. Other matters 

 which may be presented will be given all 

 possible consideration. 



All national horticultural bodies are in- 

 vited to be represented in addition to the 

 four which have regular authorized dele- 

 gates, the following having already be- 

 came a part of the Council: Society of 

 American Florists, American Association 

 of Nurserymen, American Seed Trade As- 

 sociation and American Nutgrowers' As- 

 sociation. H. C. Irish, Sec 'y. 



CROP REPORT. 



If there is any body of men who 

 should be interested in the state of crops, 

 it is composed of those who are engaged 

 in the horticultural trades. Another year 

 of prosperity is ensured for florists, 

 seedsmen and nurserymen by a good har- 

 vest this fall. The government crop re- 

 port as of September 1, issued at Wash- 

 ington September 10, covered the leading 

 cereals, as follows: 



The condition of spring wheat Septem- 

 ber 1 was 77.1, compared to 79.4 a month 

 before, and 83.4 at the time of the 1906 

 harvest. On the sown area which weath- 

 ered the season through the condition in- 

 dicated a yield of between 215,000,000 

 bushels and 222,000,000 bushels. The 

 winter wheat yield is estimated at about 

 409,000,000 bushels, thus bringing the 

 yield of winter and spring wheat up to 



the total of 625,000,000 bushels. The 

 1906 crop of winter and spring wheat was 

 finally estimated at 735,000,000 bushels. 



The report made the condition of corn 

 on the first of this month 80.2, compared 

 to 82.8 a month before, and 90.2 Septem- 

 ber 1, 1906, with a ten-year average of 

 81. The decline since August 1 is attrib- 

 uted to cool weather, which has retarded 

 progress of the backward crop. On an 

 area of 98,500,000 acres, the condition 

 indicates a total yield of about 2,518,- 

 000,000 bushels, compared to an outturn 

 of 2,927,000,000 bushels last year, which 

 marked the largest crop of the cereal in 

 the history of the country. The August 

 1 condition suggested a yield of about 

 2,607,000,000 bushels. 



The report indicates a large shortage 

 in the oats crop as compared to the bum- 

 per yield of last year. It made the con- 

 dition at the time of harvest only 65.5, 

 compared to 75.6 August 1, and 81.9 Sep- 

 tember 1, 1906, with a ten-year average 

 of 82.6. The total outturn is popularly 

 estimated at about 745,000,000 bushels, 

 compared to a crop of 964,000,000 bushel.s 

 harvested last year. 



ILLINOIS STATE FAIR. 



The Illinois State Fair, at Springfield, 

 will be the occasion for a large flower 

 show September 30 to October 2. J. F. 

 Ammann, of Edwardsville, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant superintendent and 

 writes : 



* * It has been requested by the Statt* 

 Florists' Association that a member of 

 the trade be put in this department and 

 Mr. O'Dwyer, the head of same, has seen 

 fit to request me to assist him. I enclose 

 a premium list, which, through the ef- 

 forts of a committee of the state associa- 

 tion and Mr. O'Dwyer, has been largely 

 increased over last year. It is our sin- 

 cere hope that the trade will take advan- 

 tage of this and make large exhibits. As 

 the fruit exhibit will be small this year, 

 on account of shortage of crop, we wUI 

 have much more space for our exhibits, 

 which will be staged in the same building, 

 so this is an opportune time for the flo- 

 rists to show the board of agriculture, as 

 well as the public at large, what can be 

 done in this line. There is no doubt that 

 more people see the floral displays at the 

 State Fair than in any two of the best 

 flower shows given in the best cities in 

 the country. So from an educational 

 standpoint it far exceeds anything in 

 this line. It comes at a time of the year 

 when prices are low for our products; 

 hence there is no great sacrifice to any 

 grower to show a few cut flowers. The 

 prizes are liberal, the same in amount as 

 offered by the best flower shows in the 

 land, so the argument is entirely in favor 

 of the trade. I sincerely hope that every 

 grower in the state will see fit to assist. 

 I shall be glad to send a premium list to 

 any who will write for it." 



J. F. Ammann. 



REMDEY FOR WHITE FLY. 



Please publish a remedy for white fly. 



J.S. 



The most effective and, in fact, the 

 only remedy for white fly is hydrocyanic 

 acid gas. The following formula is the 

 one mostly in use for this pest, with the 

 quantities as calculated for 1,500 cubic 

 feet of space: Cyanide of potassium, two 

 and one-half ounces; sulphuric acid, one 

 pint ; water, one pint. 



Place the water in a glazed earthen- 



