The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 24, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Bditob and Manaqkb. 



PtTBUSHXD KVXBT THUBSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



SSO-SeO Caxton Balldlns, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chlcaso. 



Telephonb, Harbison (429. 



■kgistbrbd cablb addrbss, plorvibw, chicago 



New Yobk Office : 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription tl .00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Europe, 12.60. auoscriptlons accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



AdvertleementB must roach 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. 



The Retail Florist— The «olden Way (iUus.). 3 



— The Use of .iccessorl A 3 



— Dally Orders 3 



— Luncheon Tables 3 



— Artistic Arrangements (lllus.) 4 



European Review 4 



Cyclamen Mite 4 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 5 



Seasonable Suggestions — Azaleas (lllus.) 6 



— ■ Rhododendrons , 6 



— -VRambler Roses 6 



— Prepare for Winter 



— Lilies 6 



— Sweet Peas 7 



— Geraniums 7 



— Brief Reminders 7 



Cbr.vsanthemums — Beatrice May (illus.) 7 



— Some of the Novelties 7 



Secretary Wilson's Optimism 8 



Reliiberg's New Plant (lllus.) 8 



Xreatmeot of Scblzanthus 9 



Roses — Temperature for Klllarney 10 



— Mildew and Kust 10 



Parker's Asters (lllus.) 10 



Accelerating Plant Growth 10 



The Readers' Corner 11 



— Paris Green for White Kly 11 



— Gas Factory Near Greenhouses 11 



— The Peacbblow Ulbiscjis 11 



— Shells for Grave Decorations 11 



— Another Remedy for Sow Bugs 11 



Oklahoma City, Okla i 11 



Breltmeyer in insurance 12 



The Death Roll— John R. Davy 12 



— Mrs. Magdalena Trausch 12 



— Mai'garet Collins 12 



Damages for Mrs. Baartman 12 



Chicago 13 



Exeter, N. H 16 



St. Louis 16 



Boston 18 



Sprlugfleld, Ohio 18 



Montreal 19 



New York ' 20 



Baltimore 21 



Detroit 22 



Sedalla, Mo 23 



Prices and Values 23 



Discolored Pundanus Leaves 24 



MIcliell Adopts New System 24 



Piilladelphla 26 



ChrysautUemum Society 28 



Seed Trade News 30 



— In Wisconsin 30 



— Corn in Ohio 30 



— Imports 30 



— The Wisconsin Seed Law 32 



— Exports of Seed* 34 



Pacltlc Coast 42 



— Progress at San Francisco (lllus.) 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— The Staple Roses 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



To Kill Worms in Pots 44 



To Kill Water Cress 44 



Cinerarias 45 



Worms in Soil 45 



Nursery News 46 



— Wisconsin Nursery Law 46 



— Magnolia Seeds 46 



— Pomologlsts Need Publicity 46 



— Propagation by Suckers 47 



— Pyrus Japonlca 47 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable MarkeU 48 



— Hydrocyanic Acid Gas 48 



New Orleans oW 



Litchfield, Minn M 



Buffalo 2t 



New Bedford, Maw »4 



Pittsburg 55 



Greenhouse Heating ». 



— From a Practical Fireman 65 



— From Steam to Hot Water 65 



— Relative Size of Pipes 66 



Cincinnati ^ 



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b printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thitrsday morning;. It 

 ii 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* 



HOCIETT 01' AHRBICAN FL0BIST8. 



INCOBPOBATBD by ACTOFCONGKE88MAUCH4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; vice-president, John Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswirth, 232 

 Michigan avemie, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty. Pittsburg. 



Othcers for 1906: President, F. H. Traendly, 

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

 Clure, BnlTalo; secretary, P. J. Haoswirth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First Natlbnal Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

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

 man. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



Procrastination in small matters is 

 the thief of good results in many a 

 grower's greenhouses. 



It costs little money to keep a green- 

 house establishment clean and in order, 

 but a great many growers seem to think 

 the cost in effort is excessive. 



The progress being made by Pelieano, 

 Rossi & Co., San Francisco, as illus- 

 trated by the picture of their new store, 

 on the Pacific Coast page of this issue, 

 shows that the trade is rapiaiy re-estab- 

 lishing itself in even better shape than 

 before the great fire. 



Readers are advised to cut out and 

 preserve the article on exterminating the 

 white fly with hydrocyanic acid gas, 

 which appears on page 48. In spite of 

 the fact that the formula has been pub- 

 lished scores of times, almost daily 

 requests are received for it. 



The Wisconsin shippers of lycopodium 

 are asking 6 cents to 7 cents per pound, 

 and one asks 8 cents. Little green is 

 coming out of the woods, but with open 

 weather there is likely to be enough 

 stock to go far at present asking prices. 

 However, jobbers are not anxious to 

 book further orders until they have fully 

 covered their advance orders. 



DAMAGES FOR MRS. BAARTMAN. 



Mrs. Baartman, widow of H. C. Baart- 

 man, who was drowned by the foundering 

 of the steamer Berlin while crossing 

 from England to Holland last spring, 

 brought an action for compensation 

 against the Great Eastern Railway Co. 

 In the London courts she was awarded 

 $7,500. Mr. Baartman was a partner in 

 the jrm of Baartman & Koning, bulb 

 growers, Sassenheim, and was returning 

 from a business trip. According to the 

 Horticultural Trade Journal, the surviv- 

 ing partner, J. W. Koning, in giving 



evidence stated that in 1905 the net 

 profits amounted to $5,000, in 1906 to 

 $7,500, and deceased's share this year 

 would probably have exceeded $5,000. 

 Mr. Baartman was a life member of the 

 Society of American Florists, and was 

 widely known in the United States, as he 

 had made many annual trips to this 

 country in search of orders for bulbs. 



BREITMEYER IN INSURANCE. 



A number of well known men at De- 

 troit are organizing the American Na- 

 tional Life Assurance Company and have 

 chosen Philip Breitmeyer as president. 

 The company is to be a legal reserve 

 company, capitalized at $250,000, and 

 the home office is to be in the Breit- 

 meyer building, at Detroit. The com- 

 pany plans to issue all forms of non- 

 participating poLcies, believing that the 

 present affords an excellent opportunity 

 for a company in which the policy-holder 

 will know in advance exactly what he is 

 to pay and what he is to receive. Ed- 

 ward G. Brazier, .the secretary, is the 

 life-insurance expert of the organization, 

 and it is said Mr. Breitmeyer took an 

 interest in the company and became its 

 president because of hia friendship and 

 confidence in that gentleman's knowl- 

 edge of the business. In turn, several 

 florists have displayed their confi- 

 dence in Mr. Breitmeyer 's leadership by 

 taking stock in the company. At pres- 

 ent $100,000 of stock is being marketed, 

 shares of $50 selling at $75 each. The 

 $100,000 is to be deposited with the state 

 treasurer in Michigan, and the company 

 will^ start out with a large surplus. 

 George H. Luther, who is at the Hamil- 

 ton Club, Chicago, representing the com- 

 pany, says that enough insurance is 

 pledged to assure the company's success 

 from the start. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



John R. Davy. 



John R. Davy died October 18, at his 

 home at Stillwater, Fla. About twenty- 

 five years ago Mr. Davy erected a large 

 range of glass on his farm at College 

 Hill, Cincinnati, O. At the same time 

 he opened a retail store on Fourth street, 

 Cincinnati, under the name of the Cin- 

 cinnati Floral Co. He did a large busi- 

 ness and prospered fairly well. He was 

 well known and well liked by the trade. 



Mrs. Magdalena Trausch. 



Magdalena Trausch, the widow of the 

 late Peter Trausch, died Saturday, Oc- 

 tober 19, at the home of her daughter, 

 Mrs. Peter Risch, at Evanston. The 

 funeral was held October • 22, at High 

 Ridge. Mrs. Trausch was 84 years of 

 age. Her family was among the oldest 

 of the market gardeners north of Chi- 

 cago and her sons are thought to have 

 built the first greenhouses ever erected 

 in that vicinity for the growing of win-, 

 ter vegetables, 



Margaret Collins. 



Margaret Collins, wife of, George Col- 

 lins, died at the Ravenswood hospital, 

 Chicago, October 17, after a short illness, 

 and was buried October 19 from the 

 family home at 228 Summerdale avenue. 

 She was 47 years of age and leaves one 

 son, almost grown to manhood. Mr. Col- 

 lins is widely known in the trade, as he 

 has been general foreman of the Peter 

 Reinberg establishment during the whole 

 period of its wonderful expansion. 



