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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



September 19, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqbb. 



PUBUSHIO IVXBT TBUB8DAT BT 



THE Fi.ORI8T8' PUBLISHING CO. 



S8O-S60 Gaxton BulldlnB, 

 884 Dearborn Street, Chloaso. 



TtLEPHONi, Harbison 6429. 



KKGISTBRKD CABLB ADDRESS, FLORVIBW, CHICAGO 



New York omci : 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Sbaw, Manacrer. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. To 

 Europe, 12.60. Subacriptlone accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



AdvertlBing rates Quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertisinc accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning: to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 f oUowlnir day, and earlier will be better. 



Bntered at the Chicago post-office as mail mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



Useful White Summer Flowers — Good Stock 



for Cutting 3 



— Phlox Miss Llngard (lUus. ) 3 



— Cbrysantbcmum Leucantbemum Hybrldum 



(lllus.) 3 



— Lillum Candldum (illus.) 3 



— Achillea Ptarmlca The Pearl (illus.) 3 



— Gladiolus Nanus Mathilda (illus.) 4 



— Delphinium Chinensls Alba (lllus.) 4 



— Iris Hispanica (illus.) 4 



— Clematis Recta 4 



Up-to-date Methods 4 



Paint for Inside Work 6 



Roses — Baby Dorothy Rose (lllus.) 7 



— Roses for Design Work 7 



^American Rose Society 7 



Hydrangeas in Tubs 7 



Wintering Bay Trees 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lillum Pblllp- 



pense ( lllus. ) g 



— Pentstemona s 



— Antirrhinums (illus.) 8 



— Asparagus Sprengerl 8 



— Freeslas 8 



— Preparations for Housing 8 



— Heating Apparatus ft 



— Propagating Bench A 



— Brief Reminders 



Greens for the Retailer 



Carnations — Stem-Rot 10 



— Hen Manure for Carnations 10 



Position of Ventilators 10 



Chrysanthemums — Mums for Exhibition 



Blooms 10 



— Chrysanthemum Society 11 



Treatment of Paper Whites 11 



Hall at Des Moines (lllus. ) , . 12 



Bedding Plants 12 



Nlght-Bloomlng Cerens (lllus. ) 14 



New York- J4' 



Columbus, Ohio 15 



Wm. C. Young (portrait) 1.1 



Kansas City 16 



Variegated Impatlens 16 



Couldn't Answer His Mall 16 



State of General Business 16 



The Death Roll— A. J. Hall 16 



Chicago 17 



St. Louis •. . 20 



Baltimore 22 



Pittsburg .'.,', 22 



Boffton 23 



Philadelphia ' 24 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Varieties of Garden Beans 2S 



— Erfurt Seed Trade 20 



— Imports ,30 



— French Bulbs .30 



— The Madson Crops ,30 



— Holland Bulb Crops 30 



— Dutch Btilbs .[ 31 



— Renppralsement 31 



— Grass Seed Crops 31 



— Catalogues Received .32 



Vegetable Forclnp .34 



— Injnnctlon against Blight 34 



— Forcing Rhubarb 3.% 



Detroit 36 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Nursery News 44 



— Berberls Thnnhergll 44 



— Little Things Worth Knowing 44 



— Fall Transplanting of Trees 4.'> 



— Forestry at Ames 45 



Pacific Coast 40 



— San Francisco 46 



— Flcns In California 4« 



Indianapolis 48 



Clnrlnnatl n'> 



Denver .^2 



Sprliigfleld. O r.4 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Heat for Four Houses 64 



Grand Rapids «i 



Rock irianO, III «« 



Wtsnington et 



Buffalo 68 



it printed Wednesday evening and 

 nuiled early Thtinday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''cop/' to reach us by Mondajt or 

 Tuasdaj at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



8OCIBTT or AHIBICAII FLOBISTS. 



Incobpobatkd by Act op Congress March 4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, J<An Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswlrth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty. Pittsburg. 



Officers for 1908: President, F. H. Traendly, 

 New York; vice-president, George W. Mc- 

 Clure, BufTalo; secretary, P. J. Hauswlrth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21. 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1908; W. F. Kaating, Buffalo, chair- 

 roan. 



Don't substitute. If you. have not the 

 stock called for, send the money back. 



This year's annual report of the St. 

 Louis park commissioner is the usual su- 

 perb piece of printing. 



The American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers will hold its twelfth 

 annual meeting at Washington, D. C, 

 October 23 to 25. 



M. Crawford, who is now growing 

 gladiolus bulbs for the trade at Shioc- 

 ton, Wis., sent the Review a pail of 

 fine spikes one day last week. 



The new rose, a sport from Belle Sie- 

 brecht, being introduced by Hugh Low 

 & Co., Bush Hill Park, Middlesex, Eng- 

 land, is spelled Joseph Lowe, not Low, 

 as it appeared in the Review of Au- 

 gust 22. 



David Fbaser, secretary of the Chry- 

 santhemum Society, says: "The judges 

 at Cincinnati speak very highly of Chry- 

 santhemum Golden Glow, exhibited by 

 Smith & Son, and say it is good in every 

 way and will be a valuable addition to 

 the early flowering varieties. It was 

 shown in Pittsburg September 3 in fine 

 shape. ' ' 



It may be possible to govern by in- 

 junction, but you can not cure diseases 

 of plants by that process, as instanced 

 by the failure of the Charleston, S. C, 

 growers to secure an order making per- 

 manent the injunction against one of 

 their number whom they seek to hold re- 

 sponsible for blight. The outcome of 

 the interesting suit is reported on page 

 34 of this issue. 



The increase in the cost of wrapping 

 paper and twine has been an item in the 

 accounts of many florists. Manila has 

 advanced thirty per cent in the last six 

 months, and the finer grades of tissue 

 have gone up, some of them as much as 

 100 per cent. Hollis & Duncan, who 

 supply a large part of the trade in Chi- 

 cago, say they can see no early prospect 

 for a reduction in prices. 



Fbosts now are due at any time over 

 that part of the United States where the 

 interests of our trade are greatest. 



VARIEGATED IMPATIENS. 



Will you kindly inform me if there is 

 any variegated impatiens, as I have about 

 a dozen plants of them which originated 

 with me? W. CD. 



I have seen occasional variegated plants 

 of Impatiens Sultani and one of I. Hol- 

 stei. I do not know if any such are in 

 commerce. I think it probable that they 

 are not uncommon, however. It ig pos- 

 sible your plant may be a desirable nov- 

 elty for bedding and pot culture. Send 

 leaves to some prominent plant specialist 

 and ask his opinion of it. C. W. 



COULDN'T ANSWER HIS MAIL. 



A subscriber in the west sends the 

 Review a circular issued by William 

 Kuyk, of HiUegom, Holland, giving de- 

 tails as to the new carnations originated 

 by Alfred Giraud and for which varieties 

 Mr. Kuyk is looking for a purchaser. 

 The circular begins: 



"With reference to the advertisement 

 in the Weekly Florists' Review of 

 June 20, 1907, page 31, I received so 

 many letters that I decided to make a 

 circular giving the desired particulars." 



When an advertiser, who offers for sale 

 the entire stock of a new plant, gets so 

 many applications for details that he 

 cannot answer them all by letter, he 

 ought to be pretty well satisfied with 

 the results from an advertisement that 

 cost $10, and evidently Mr. Kuyk is. 



STATE OF GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Fall trade in dry goods and wearing 

 apparel picked up considerably last week, 

 and judging from the number of orders 

 booked the volume of business this sea- 

 son will compare favorably with that of 

 last year. The more promising aspect of 

 the corn crop as the result of favorable 

 weather was reflected in more confident 

 buying by country dealers. Tight money 

 is still a deterrent influence in the gen- 

 eral business situation, but with the in- 

 creased movement of crops there is no- 

 ticeable improvement in mercantile collec- 

 tions throughout the agricultural dis- 

 tricts. Visiting country merchants were 

 present in the cities in large numbers 

 and purchased freely. 



There was some increase in the de- 

 mand for building material, though the 

 stringency of the money market is a fac- 

 tor in curtailing construction work. Deal- 

 ers in paints and oils had nothing to 

 complain of, though some of them de- 

 clared business could be a little better. 

 The steel trade, if anything, showed a 

 slight improvement. A good many or- 

 ders were placed by buyers who had 

 been holding off for more favorable 

 money developments. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



A. G. Hall. 



A. G. Hall died at his home in Fair- 

 mont, W. Va., September 9, after a long 

 illness. He was 78 years of age. For 

 many years he had been postmaster of 

 Fairmont. Of late years he had conduct- 

 ed a flower and garden seed store. This 

 business is now in charge of his son, 

 E. M. Hall. Another son, Harry Hall, 

 resides in Chicago. 



