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The Weekly Florists^ Re vicw^ 



Oltubku 10, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBUSHXD IVERT THURSDAY BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



S30-S60 Caxton Boilding, 



884 Dearborn Street, Cblcaso. 



TiLEPBoNE, .Harrison 6i29. 



kigistbrbd cable address, floxvibw, chicago 



New York Ofpic^: 



Boroujh Park Brooklyn. N. Y. 



J. Austin Sbaw, Manager. 



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

 Europe, t'<i.6U. aubscrlptlons 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 wrill be iHJtter. 



Entered at the Chicago post-ofBce as mall mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



1 lif itftail I'lmist o 



— Artistic Arraiij{t'iiuMit> 3 



— tiood Luck EuiMonis (llliis. » , . li 



— l'"uncral Work o 



— Garibaldi's Wreath illliis.) 4 



— The Slgiv of the U<>se tillus.; Ti 



KertlUzer for Adiiiiituiiis 5 



Substitute for Cow Manure .") 



The Cattleya Flj r> 



(JUr.vsautheunims! 



— The Season for CuttliiK <> 



itoses 'i 



— I'rotectlug Hybrid Tea l{<i.ses (i 



Carnations 7 



— Ked Spider and Stlginonosic 7 



— Kust ou Carnations 7 



— Compressed Air .sprayer 7 



— American Carnation .Society 7 



rorcing White Lilacs 7 



•Seasonable Suggestions 7 



— Lorraine Begonias 7 



— roiiisettias 7 



— Azaleas 7 



— Freeslas H 



— Cattleya L.ablata ,"S 



— Cyclamens N 



— Brief Bemlnders S 



The Jacobs Kstablishnient (.ll'us. } N 



.Middlemen and Sulesraen t» 



William K. McKissick (i>ortraitj !» 



The Spencer Sweet i'eas ( llliis. i n 



The Ueatli Boll 11' 



— Leon Duval ]1> 



— U. E. Petersen. }2 



— Andrew 1). Pryal i:; 



— John E. Olsen 11' 



Chicago l':t 



Illinois State Fair 10 



Orange. N. J 17 



Pittsburg 17 



St. Louis IS 



Detroit ]!l 



-N'ew York 20 



Washington '21 



Boston 22 



Tarrytown, N. V :>3 



Lyncliburg. Va. a."> 



i'hiladelpliia 23 



New Be<lford, Mass ^.t 



Vegetable Forcin-,' 2t( 



— The Growing of Vegetables 2(J 



Seed Trade News 28 



— The Non-Warranty • 28 



— l-"ield Notes on .Sweet IVns. .■ 21» 



— Iiuitorts 32 



— Beappraisement 32 



— Peas and Beans ;j2 



— California Crojt Be|iort jZ 



— LonglUorums 32 



— Meadow Foxtail 33 



— Improving the Tomato 34 



— Catalogues Keoelved 34 



Culture of Pennlsetum 34 



Steamer Sailings 4.'i 



Nursery News 4(j 



— Seasonable Suggestions '. 46 



I'aclfic Coast 48 



— Mistakes in Planting Trees 48 



— San Francisco 48 



Owatonna, Minn ' . . 48 



Cleveland ] . . 49 



Indianapolis 49 



Buffalo 50 



Itlcbmond, Va 62 



Baltimore .'■,4 



Denver 50 



(Jreenhonse Heating 65 



— Put the System Right 65 



Cincinnati «.-, 



New Orleans CS 



I CONSIDEB the Review the most prac- 

 tical paper printed. — E. Tbbtheway, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



it printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is 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. 



ROCIKTT or AHBBICAN FL0BI81S. 



IxcoufOKATEi) BV Act or Cong HESS March 4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, John Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. HauswUth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



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

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

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

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, Angast 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, BufTalo, chair- 

 man. 



It is uot always economy to employ 

 the fireman who will work for lowest 

 wages. 



A Boston florist has for a motto un- 

 der the monogram on his stationery, 

 ' ' Nothing succeeds like success. ' ' 



E. E. Stewart, Bives Junction, 

 Mich., sends the Revieav a box of gladioli 

 which arrived iu tine condition, Octo- 

 ber 9. 



It is worth while keeping an eye on 

 the pag&s of European advertising in 

 the Review. There are many offers 

 there that will mean money to you to 

 know about. 



The paper on ' ' The Growing of Vege- 

 tables, ' ' by W. W. Rawson, Boston, which 

 appear on page 26 of this issue, is of 

 interest to other tlian forcers of vege- 

 tables. It contains many points of value 

 to every man in the trade. 



When the Review delivered to its en- 

 graver tlie set of photographs of the 

 work of Charles Henry Fox, the first of 

 which appears in this issue, the engraver, 

 necessarily a man of artistic perception, 

 remarked : ' ' Well, there certainly are 

 in this world some men of excellent 

 taste. ' ' 



H. B. May & Sons, of Edmonton, 

 near London, England, who have long 

 been famous as fern raisers and growers, 

 have purchased the stock and good will 

 of W. & J. Birkenhead, Sale, Man- 

 chester, who are among the most widely 

 known British fern specialists, having 

 a considerjible business in America. 



The strongest opposition to a parcels 

 post comes, not from the express com- 

 panies, but from the country merchants, 

 who see in it a means for their certain 

 extinguishment by the mail-order con- 

 cerns in the cities. On the whole, is not 

 the prosperity of the country merchants 

 of greater importance to the people at 

 large than is the success of a few big 

 mail-order houses? 



A ket.vil florist should have station- 

 ery in the best of taste; it often is re- 

 garded as an index to one's capabilities 

 iu the matter of executing orders. 



The police authorities in the city of 

 Washington have ordered all bay trees 

 and other plants removed from the side- 

 walks, where they stood in front of 

 many flower stores, hotels, etc. 



It is interesting to note that at the 

 Congress of Horticulture at the James- 

 town exj)08ition both F. R. Pierson and 

 W. W. Rawson advocated the building 

 of large greenhouses, rather than cover- 

 ering the same area with smaller struc- 

 tures. One is a loading cut flower 

 grower and the other an authority on 

 vegetables under glass. 



William Kuvk, of Hillegom, Holland, 

 who is the owner of the new type of 

 carnation .originating with the French 

 grower, Alfred Giraud, reports that the 

 first variety of the set of five, deep pink 

 in color, has been named Rose Giraud 

 and exhibited before the Societe Na- 

 tional d 'Horticulture of France, where it 

 was given the highest award, as he says, 

 La Prime de premiere Classe. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Leon Duval. 



Word conies from Paris, France, of 

 the death of Leon. Duval, widely known 

 as a nurseryman at Versailles. He was 

 63 years of age and has devoted much 

 l)ainstaking attention to chrysanthe- 

 mums, orchids and anthuriums. 



John E. Olsen. 



John E. Olsen, of the Illinois Seed 

 Co., Chicago, died September 27, after 

 an illness of only five days with appen- 

 dicitis. He had been with the Illinois 

 Seed Co. for many years and had many 

 friends in the seed trade and on the Chi- 

 cago Board of Trade. George S. Green, 

 president of the Illinois Seed Co., and of 

 the American Seed Trade Association, 

 pays Mr. Olsen a high tribute when he 

 says his demise brings a sad loss to the 

 trade and to the firm, while individually 

 he feels a deep sense of personal bereave- 

 ment. Mr. Olsen leaves a widow and a 

 son 4 years of age. 



E. E. Petersen. 



E. E. Petersen, of Denver, who was 

 well known in the trade, died September 

 28 at Los Angeles, Cal., where Mr. Pe- 

 tersen and his wife had been for four 

 months in hopes of benefiting his health, 

 which had been steadily failing for some 

 time. He leaves a widow and three chil- 

 dren. 



Andrew D. Pryal. 



Andrew D. Pryal, a well-known horti- 

 culturist and a resident of Alameda 

 county, California, for over forty years, 

 died at his residence at Claremont, Cal., 

 September 28, and was buried in Oak- 

 land, Cal., three days later. Mr. Pryal 

 was probably the oldest nurseryman on 

 the Pacific coast, and although he had 

 not for many years been actively engaged 

 in business, he kept in close touch with 

 horticultural matters and for several 

 years had acted as inspector of fruit 

 pests for Alameda county. He was 

 much interested in the growing and hy- 

 bridizing of vegetables and bulbs and 

 he had considerable success with pota- 

 toes, gladioli and berries. Mr. Pryal 

 is survived by a family of grown-up sons 

 nnd daughters. 



