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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Skptembbr 26, 1007. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and BIanaokb. 



PUBU8BKD IVXBT TBUBSDAT BT 

 THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



680-S6O Caxton BalldlnKt 

 834 Dearborn Street, Cblos^. 



Tblephonb, Harbison 6429. 



kbgistbrbd cablb address, flokviiw, chicago 



New Tobk Office : 



BorouRh Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Europe, t3.50. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered at the Chicago post-offlce as mail mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



Clirysantbemuma — Eearly Varieties .3 



— Cultural Notes :! 



I'i'imula PoiBoning ;{ 



Itoses — Roses for Texas :{ 



I'lie Retail Florist— A Garden Shop 4 



— Hart's Handy Handle (lllus.) 4 



'Jlie Newport Exhibition 4 



'I'lie Readers' Corner — Use of Night Soil 5 



— Remedy for White Fly 5 



Guano . . .- 5 



Seasonable Suggestions— Callas (i 



— Lilium Longifloruni C 



— Lilium SpecioBum C 



— Poinsettias 6 



— Myosotis 6 



— Chinese Primroses « 



— Rubber Plants 



— Ventilation B 



— Brief Reminders 7 



Gloxinias at Spring Brook (iUus.) 7 



Hydrangea Otaksa (illus.) 7 



Breeding and Propagation 8 



K. A. Scribner (portrait ) 10 



The Sroczynskl Place (iUus. ) 10 



(ierbera Jameson! 11 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 11 



Congress of Horticulture 11 



The Milwaukee Picnic (illus.) 12 



Baltimore 12 



Water Hyacinths 12 



Clematis with Bare Bases 12 



Boston 13 



Dahlia Farm of Rawson & Co. (illus.) 13 



Illinois Association 14 



General Business Good 14 



The Death Roll— .Marcus Ansley 14 



— C. H. Grlgg 14 



Chicago 15 



Detroit 17 



St. t.ouls IS 



Philadelphia 1» 



New York 24 



Washington 26 



Manchester, Mass 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Too Many Sweet Peas 28 



— Dutch Bulbs 28 



— Festucas 28 



— American Seed Crops 29 



— Seedmen's Responsibility 30 



— Imports 32 



— Seeds of Stocks 32 



Bnrbank's Thomless Cactus 32 



Vegetable Forcing 34' 



— r.,ettuee in Solid Beds 34 



— • Lettuce and Tomatoes : 34 



I'lttsburg 36 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Nursery News 44 



— As Others See Us 44 



— Grafting Evergreens 44 



— Plant Pathology 44 



Pacific Coast 40 



— Acacias 46 



— Outdoor Roses for Cutting 40 



— San Francisco 46 



Summit. N. J 48 



Montreal 60 



Biruilneliam, Ala BO 



SprlngUeld, 111 82 



Duluth, Minn 62 



New Bedford. Mass 64 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Slope of Steam Pipes 64 



— Piping in Pennsylvania 64 



— Piping in Missouri 64 



— Heat for Propagating House 64 



— Test of Heating 6<i 



New Orleans 60 



Lincoln, Neb 67 



BnfTalo 68 



Ventilatiox is one of the fineat arts 

 of the skillful grower. 



it printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtinday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy'' to reach us by Monclay» or 

 Tuead»7 at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY or AMCSICAN FL0BI81S. 



IXCOUPOBATED BY ACT OKCONURESS MAUCH 4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, John Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswirth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



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

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

 Clure, BnfTalo; secretary, P. 3. Hauswirth, 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. Hasting, BufTalo, chair- 

 man. 



Be business-like; write on a printed 

 letter-head, so people will know who and 

 what you are. 



As EAKLT as September 7 there were 

 large supplies of chrysanthemums, both 

 cut and in pots, in the market at Covent 

 Garden, London. The sale for them was 

 slow. 



When you give a customer directions 

 as to the care of plants, do not speak of 

 dirt; dirt is what some florists have un- 

 der the greenhouse benches, but it is soil 

 that plants are grown in. 



The Florists' Hail Association has 

 paid out $3,000 for glass broken by hail 

 since August 1, 1907, the recent storm 

 at Des Moines, la., having cost the asso- 

 ciation over one-third of that amount. 



If H. F., New York, who writes about 

 ardisias, using plain paper and envelope, 

 will send his name and address the Re- 

 view will take pleasure in answering his 

 questions to the best of its ability. Names 

 and addresses are not used for publica- 

 tion, but are necessary in all cases; no 

 attention can be paid to any anonymous 

 communication. 



ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION. 



The Illinois State Florists' Associa- 

 tion will hold its third annual convention 

 in Springfield in February, 1908. This 

 will be the greatest convention of the 

 florists and kindred trades that has ever 

 been held in the state of Illinois. Al- 

 ready many inquiries have been made re- 

 garding space for trade exhibits. 



The committee appointed by the 

 Springfield Florists' Club to look up the 

 matter of exhibits takes early opportunity 

 to ask all who are interested to make 

 known their wants. The committee can 

 give all the space wanted, whether it be 

 for banners to hang up or space on the 

 floor for any kind of exhibit belonging 

 to the trade, and asks hearty cooperation 

 in making this convention a record- 

 breaker. 



Springfield, the capital city of Illinois, 



is located in the center of the state and 

 will be visited by all florists of this, as 

 well as many other states. Springfield is 

 also famous for its horticultural prod- 

 ucts, no less than eighteen firms being 

 engaged in the growing of cut flowers, 

 plants and vegetables. 



This being the center of the state, and 

 its easy access by steam and interurban 

 railroads, assures a great many of the 

 trade being present, thus showing what 

 a factor this convention will be from an 

 advertising point of view. 



Hotel accommodations are unexcelled; 

 plenty of room for all at moderate prices. 

 The exhibition and convention will be 

 in the State Armory, with a floor space 

 of 30,000 square feet, with a large gal- 

 lery surrounding the entire building, 

 fully heated, and the exhibitors need have 

 no fear in sending their choicest stock 

 of cut flowers and plants. Exhibits 

 coming from a distance, and exhibitors 

 not being able to accompany them, will 

 be well taken care of by the local club. 

 The committee especially urges upon all 

 supply men and dealers in greenhouse 

 building and heating material to let them 

 know at once what space they will want, 

 so that it can arrange exhibits to the best 

 advantage. Address all communications 

 to the secretary of the Springfield Flo- 

 rists' Club, George W. Jack, 217 South 

 Fifth street, Springfield, 111. 



GENERAL BUSINESS GOOD. 



Bradstreet 's, in its current review of 

 the state of trade, says that whether at- 

 tributable to the improvement in the 

 general financial situation or because of 

 favorable weather allowing of additional 

 crop development, there is a perceptibly 

 better feeling in general commercial 

 lines. Warm weather has favored corn, 

 and seventy-five per cent of the crop is 

 now reported out of danger from frost, 

 while the same influence has allowed of 

 cotton opening rapidly and picking and 

 marketing becoming general. Fall job- 

 bing seems to have reached and passed 

 its zenith perhaps a trifle earlier than 

 usual, and now the traveling men are 

 preparing to go out seeking reorders. 

 Retail trade has hardly been as brisk as 

 desired or expected, because the warm 

 weather, while helping crops, has not 

 stimulated fall buying to any great ex- 

 tent. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



CH.Gri£g. 



C. H. Grigg, well known in the trade 

 in Philadelphia, died in the Presbyterian 

 hospital in that city Sunday, September 

 22.. He was 70 years of age. Mr. Grigg 

 had a long experience in the retail end 

 of the business, having been connected 

 with the Century and Colonial shops and 

 formerly being a member of Graham & 

 Grigg. 



Marcus Aniley. 



Marcus Ansley died September 16, at 

 the family homestead, about five miles 

 southwest from Geneva, N. Y., where he 

 was born and which was his residence 

 during his entire life of 81 years. His 

 father, William Ansley, was one of the 

 original settlers there. Marcus Ansley 

 was for some years a nurseryman and 

 afterwards an extensive fruit grower. 

 He was twice married. He leaves his 

 second wife and her two children, be- 

 sides four children of his first wife, two 

 stepsons and one sister. 



