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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



--' OCTOBHR 17, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



PVBUSHKD KVKBT THUBSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBUSHINO CO. 



030*860 Caxton BalldlnKt 

 884 Dearborn Street, CbloaKO. 



Tklephone, Harrison 6129. 



■bgisterbd cablb address, fbokvikw, chicago 



New York Office : 



Borouffh Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. AUSTIN SHAW, Manager. 



SubBcrlDtion tl.OO a year. To Canada, t2.00. To 

 Europe, fi.&O. SubBcriptions 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-ofBce as mall mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketail Florist 3 



— Funeral Work (illus.) 3 



— A Sign of the Times 3 



— Retailers' Advertising (Illus.) 4 



— Artistic Arrangements (illus. ) 4 



Wintering Fuchsias 4 



Urowing of Cut Flowers 4 



Treatment of Dendroblums _^j_^ 5 



Carnations TT~ 6 



— Carnation Notes — East C 



— Carnation Notes — West 



The Wedding Outfits (illus.) 7 



Hardy Aquatics 7 



Chrysanthemums 8 



— October iYost (illus.) S 



— Seasonable iSuggestlons 8 



— Splitting of Duckham Buds S 



Chrysanthemum Society S 



Uoses a 



— Poor Ventilation l) 



— Rose Dorothy Perkins U 



— More Air Wanted l» 



Wintering Water Hyacinths 1) 



Seasonable Suggestions 9 



— Cannus 1> 



— Uahllns !) 



— Uladloli ^ 10 



— Caladiinn Ksenleutum 10 



— Lemon Scented Verbena lo 



— Hydrangeas 10 



— Hardy Perennials 10 



— Trees and Shrubs 10 



— Brief Kemluders 10 



Dutchess Horticulturists (Illus.) lo 



Montreal 11 



V'lolets — Iteniedy lor Si«)t 11 



Salem Conservutorios UHus.) 11 



The Parcels Post 12 



Don't Lose It 12 



The Death HoU— Hugo Book 12 



Chicago . . . .■ 13 



Cincinnati 1« 



Bloomlngton, 111 ](t 



St. Louis 17 



Mollne, 111 IS 



New York IS 



Boston 20 



Phlladelpliia 22 



Baltimore 24 



Duluth, .Minn 24 



Exeter. X. H 24 



Vegetable Forcing 20 



— Vegetable Marliots 2« 



— The Crowing of Vegetables 20 



Ivaiisas City 20 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Dunlaps Packet Holder (illus.) 28 



— Corn Exposition at Chicago 20 



— Iowa Seed Company 29 



— Iiu|<orts 30 



— The Onion Seed Situation ;{ii 



— The Year's Crops 32 



— Corn in Ohio 33 



— Neliraslia Seed Crops ;{3 



— Last Year's Imports 34 



Steamer Sailings 41 



Nursery News 42 



— Trees I'lanted for Screens 42 



— Borers in Willows 43 



— Tree R<j<>ts In Cistern 43 



— Stratification of Seeds 43 



Pacific Coast 44 



— Portland, Ore 44 



— San Francisco '. . 44 



— Time to .Move PIttosporums 44 



Columbus. Ohio - 40 



Buffalo 48 



Indianapolis 50 



New Orleans 50 



Detroit 52 



Greenhouse Heating (il 



— Heating in <'olorado 01 



— Piping in Washington State 01 



— Piphig in Missouri 01 



— Piping in Southern Ontario 02 



Cedar IJ.ipiils, r»)wa 04 



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if printed ^Tednesday eveoinsf and 

 mailed early Thursday momin£. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy** to reach us by Monday* or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of MTed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



I.XCOKPO HATED BY ACT OF COXttaiKSS MAMCH 4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, John Wcstcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswhrth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Officers for 190S: President, F. H. Tramdly, 

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

 Clure, Bnffalo; 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. Kasting, Baffalo, chair- 

 man. 



You should not only have a printed 

 letter-head, but it should be of good 

 quality. 



If you send an editor a newspaper, 

 mark conspicuously the item you want 

 liim to see; many editors' eyesight is 

 bad. 



Do today what might be put off till 

 tomorrow and you can drive the busi- 

 ness instead of letting the business 

 drive you. 



Correspondents will add to the accu- 

 racy of their reports if they will state 

 the day of the month, instead of using 

 &uch expressions as ''last Tuesday," etc. 



The motto of the American Eose 

 Society is, "A rose for every home, a 

 l)U8h for every garden," and its admoni- 

 tion, "Come thou with us, and we will 

 do thee good." 



The long step you take every time 

 you pass that muddy spot in the j?reen- 

 house path soon consumes more energy 

 than it would take to get a shovelful of 

 ushes and fix the walk. 



The Annual Proceedings and Bulletin 

 of the American Rose Society for 1907 

 has been mailed to members. It is a 

 neatly printed pamphlet, containing a 

 report of the Washington meeting and 

 exhibition, constitution, by-laws, etc. 



Bear in mind that you can almost in- 

 variably judge of a man's character 

 as well as of his prosperity by the 

 cleanliness and order that prevail in 

 his place of business. On this evidence 

 what will be the public's estimate of 

 you? 



Buyers of green are scouring the Wis- 

 consin woods, but as yet little can be 

 said as to the season's supply and prices, 

 so much depends on the weather, but 

 each year it is necessary to go farther 

 afield for lycopodium, so that there is 

 little prospect that the market ever again 

 will be flooded. 



W. F. Kasting is a candidate for city 

 treasurer of Buffalo at the approaching 

 election. 



W. J. Godfrey, the well-known chrys- 

 anthemum grower at Exmouth, England, 

 is also something of an authority on 

 sweet peas. He says the variety George 

 Herbert is one of the best he- has found, 

 although the National Sweet Pea Society 

 prefers John Ingman. 



THE PARCELS POST. 



The new postmaster general has set 

 about making his administration memor- 

 able by establishing a sure enough par- 

 cels post in this country. 



' ' Two interests are opposing the exten- 

 sion of parcels post — the express com- 

 panies and the country .retail mer- 

 chants, ' ' said Mr. Meyer in an interview 

 October 12. "The latter fear that the 

 mail order houses will derive a benefit to 

 their own disadvantage. It is in connec- 

 tion with the country retail merchants 

 that I desire to speak especially. I pro- 

 pose to recommend the establishment of 

 a parcels post in rural routes which will 

 meet the objections of the small store- 

 keepers *and retailers. 



' ' This win be a boon to our rural 

 population and to the storekeeper, so the 

 latter can receive his orders by mail or 

 telephone and dispatch the desired mer- 

 chandise by the rural carrier. The 

 farmer will be saved from hitching up 

 his horse and losing the time he needs 

 for planting or harvesting his crops, and 

 it will enable the storekeeper to increase 

 his sales and meet the requirements of 

 modern trade. 



"If my recommendations are adopted 

 it will cost 12 cents a pound for the 

 mail order house to send parcels to the 

 rural delivery patron from any city post- 

 office, while for delivery from the dis- 

 tributing oflSce of the rural route, or if 

 mailed by any patron of any rural route 

 for delivery to a patron on the same 

 route, or at the distributing office of 

 said route, the charge will be but 5 cents 

 for the first pound and 2 cents for each 

 additional pound up to eleven pounds, 

 or 25 cents for a package weighing 

 eleven pounds." 



DON'T LOSE IT. 



You may have a little surplus stock 

 in some line — not much, perhaps, but 

 enough to cut quite a hole in the profit 

 made on the whole lot if this little sur- 

 plus is lost. But it isn't necessary to 

 lose it. Nearly always there is someone, 

 somewhere, who needs just that little 

 batch of plants. You can reach that 

 someone, everywhere, through a classi- 

 fied advertisement in the Review, at a 

 cost of 10 cents a line. Frequently a 

 30-cent advertisement will sell $30, $60 

 or more of stock, depending on its sea- 

 sonableness and abundance. Everyone 

 reads the Review's classified ads. Don't 

 let the little surplus , go to waste. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Hu£o Book. 



Hugo Book, of Worcester, Mass., is 

 dead, following an operation for appendi- 

 citis, performed at St. Vincent 's hospital. 

 He was 50 years of age, a native of 

 Germany and of excellent family. He 

 was well schooled and a thorough master 

 of the trade. He had built up a fine 

 business, whii\h is left to his widow and 

 three children,! the eldest 15 years of age. 



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