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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



UcxOBfiu a, 1V07.. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



PUBUSHBD XVIBT THT7BSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530-560 Caxton BaildlnB, 



884 Dearborn Street, Cblcagro. 



Telephone, Hauuison 512U. 



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Borough Park Brooklyn, N. T. 



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Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Burope, fi.bO. 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-office as mall mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



Dutch Bulbs— Tulips for Bedding (lUus.) 8 



— Potting Van Thol Tulips 4 



— Tulips for Memorial Day 4 



— Bulbs on Puget Sound 4 



— Retarded Valley 4 



— Varieties of Narcissi 4 



Seasonable Suggestions — Dutch Bulbs 6 



— Hyacinths 6 



— Tulips 6 



— Narcissi 6 



— Spanish Iris 6 



— Gladioli 6 



English Trade Sales 6 



Sow Bugs or Wood Lice - 7 



Pansies for Winter Bloom 7 



Hardiness of Hibiscus 7 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Culture 8 



— Worms in Mum Benches 8 



Thrlps on Violets 8 



NarciEJsi in Virginia (ilius.) 8 



Carnations — I'unctures by Insects 



— Club-Koot on Carnations 9 



Kellojrg's I'lniit Wrecked (lllus.) 10 



Growing of Cut Flowers 10 



Laurel in Car Lots 11 



Boses — Seasonable Ueminders 12 



— Hardy Garden Koses 12 



— Liquid Manure 12 



The Death Roll— Edgar Sanders (portrait)... 12 



— Charles Schleeter 13 



— Harry A. Jones 13 



— C. P. Barry 18 



Postage on Foreign Letters 14 



It Isn't Right, Is It? ?..... 14 



Chicago |. .... 15 



St. Louis 18 



New York 19 



Philadelphia 21 



Vegetable Forcing — Bees In Greenliouses 26 



The Readers' Corner — A Hint to Correspond- 

 ents 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Western New York Crops 28 



— Onion Sets 28 



— Michigan Bean Prospects 29 



— Long Island Cabbage... 29 



— Rye-Orass Seeds 29 



— Peas and Beans 30 



— Southern Seed Crops 80 



— The Corn Congress 30 



— Imports 32 



— Duty on Cowpeas 32 



— An English Seedsman's Show 33 



— Antirrhinum Fiery Belt 34 



— Catalogues Received 34 



Boston 35 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Nursery News 44 



— Kerria .Taponica Fl. PI 44 



— Plant Pathology 44 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Hardy Stock in Pots 46 



— Portland, Ore 46 



— San Francisco 46 



New Orleans 47 



New Bedford, Mass 47 



Baltimore 48 



Ogontz, Pa 48 



St. Paul 60 



Pittsburg 52 



Kansas City 54 



Washington . . . .« 54 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Supply Tank Too Low 64 



Little Rock, Ark 64 



Lenox, Mass 64 



Columbus, Ohio 66 



Indianapolis 68 



Newport. R. 1 68 



We consider the Rkvikw the best trade 

 paper we receive. — Covington Srkd Co., 

 Covington, Ky. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy'* to reach us by Mondayt or 

 Tuesday at latest, i^tead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as nuny have done 

 in the past. 



80GIETT OF AHfBICAN FLOBIMS. 



INCOUPOBATEDBY ACT0VC0NGUE88MAKCH4, 01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, John Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswlrth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty. Pittsburg. 



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

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

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

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. 6. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1908; W. F. Hasting, BuITalo, chair- 

 man. 



Carbolic ointment will relieve jirimula 

 poisoning; bnt bo carofiil not to brenk 

 tlio pustules. 



A LETTER that is not worth signing 

 with one's full name and address is not 

 worth mailing. 



If "A liong Subscriber," at Morris- 

 town, N. J., will send his full name and 

 address it will be a pleasure for the 

 liEViEW to answer his inquiry. 



fiEOKGE DiCK.SON, of the firm of Alex- 

 ander Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, Ire- 

 land, raisers of the Liberty, Killaruey 

 and. iiiany other well-known roses, has 

 been a Victoria Medalist of Honor. 



William Scott advocates the late 

 planting of tulips outside for spring 

 flowering; he says that bulbs planted 

 as late as the end of November will re- 

 main longer in flower than those planted 

 the middle of October. 



The flower business is a rapid-fire 

 affair; celerity is an essential in the 

 execution of practically every order. 

 But that is no reason why a florist 

 should fail to place his own orders f i •• 

 supplies as much in advance as possible. 



No, it isn't true that every florist who 

 amounts to anything has a printed let- 

 ter-head. There are hundreds of grow- 

 ers and others who are making a good 

 living at the trade who still send onf 

 their orders and other communications 

 on ])lain paper, unbusiness-like as that 

 may seem. 



All lilies are better for fall planting, 

 but many varieties of .Japanese lilies do 

 not arrive from .Japan before the grouad 

 freezes up. There is one method, how- 

 ever, by which they can be planted late in 

 November or in December, says J. Wil- 

 kinson Elliott, and that is to cover the 

 ground in which they are to be planted 

 before it freezes with eight to twelve 

 inches of stable manure. This will pre- 

 vent the ground from freezing, and the 

 manure can be removed and the lilies 

 planted upon their arrival. 



Anp now New Orleans proposes to 

 have a world's fair, the Panama Bi- 

 oceanic Exposition, in 1915. 



Send out a neatly printed announce- 

 ment to your bedding plant customers, 

 calling their attention to the Dutch 

 bulbs, and you will pick up many new 

 orders for planting beds this fall. 



The McKinley memorial was dedicated 

 at Canton, O., September 30, and co- 

 incident with it H. M. Altick sent out 

 a statement of the florists' contribution 

 to the fund. He showed that $1,051.64, 

 given by 231 contributors, has been 

 turned over to the memorial association 



POSTAGE ON FOREIGN LETTERS. 



According to the provisions of the 

 last Universal Postal Convention, signed 

 in Rome, the maximum weight of a let 

 ter that can be sent to a foreign country 

 for 5 cents is now double what it for- 

 merly was. In other words, the rate of 

 postage charged in the United States on 

 letters mailed to foreign countries, in- 

 stead of 5 cents for each half ounce, as 

 formerly, is now 5 cents for the first 

 ounce, and 3 cents for each additional 

 ounce or fraction of an ounce. This re- 

 duction took effect October 1, 1907. The 

 rates on other classes of foreign mail 

 matter remain unchanged. 



IT ISN'T RIGHT, IS IT? 



A short time ago a small advertise 

 ment, which we inserted in the Review 

 for two issues, brought us nearly $200 

 clear money. We received orders from 

 several different states. But, among all 

 those who ordered, not one «»i4~he had 

 seen our advertisement in the ReV^w. 

 They simply stated what they desired 

 and remitted the cash for it. Now/if 

 we had put our advertisement in any 

 other florists' paper — which we had in- 

 tended to do, but neglected it in some 

 way or other — we should never have 

 known where the custortiers saw our ad- 

 vertisement, but as we advertised only 

 in the Review, we knew surely that it 

 was the Review that brought us the 

 orders. 



Now, do you think this is right! We 

 certainly do not. It is not fair either 

 to the publisher or to the advertiser. 

 The advertiser, if he has advertisements 

 in several papers, does not know which 

 paper he is- getting his orders from, or 

 which is the best paper for him to ad- 

 vertise in. Neither does the paper re 

 ceive the credit due it, if not mentioned 

 in the order. And again, the person 

 who receives an order is sometimes puz- 

 zled in his attempt to decide whether 

 the items in the order were selected from 

 an advertisement 'in a trade paper or 

 from his catalogue, whereas, if this in- 

 formation were given in the order, it 

 might save much time and trouble and 

 would be better in every way. 



This is a true account of our experi- 

 ence, and we should be more than pleased 

 to hear what the publishers have to say 

 about the matter. We believe in giving 

 praise to whom praise is due, and we 

 try to do it. Alonzo J. Bryan. 



[The publishers of the Review devote 

 considerable space to carrying the line 

 under each advertisement, "Mention the 

 Review when you write." Most readers 

 heed it, we believe, and Mr. Bryan's ex- 

 perience in this respect is quite excep- 

 tional, for prompt and satisfactory re- 

 sponse, mentioning the paper, is the rule 

 whenevor seasonable stock ig offered.] 



