16 The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 31, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob AND IIAMAOIB. 



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 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. 



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This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

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CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Artistic Arrangements 



(lllus.) 5 



— Color Combinations 5 



— -Fall Planting 5 



— Hauswlrth's New Store (lllus.) 5 



— The Kaliscb Store (lllus.) « 



•Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 



American Carnation Society 6 



Wintering Hydrangeas 6 



Use for Unheated House 7 



Violets— Today 7 



Onoldium for Name 8 



Roses — Seasonable Suggestions » 



— Lack of Ventilation 8 



— Mrs. Potter Palmer Rose 8 



— Rose Mrs. Jardine (lllus.) 8 



— Some New European Roses 8 



Chrysanthemums — Yellow Touset 10 



— Pacific Supreme (iUus.) 10 



— White Fly on. Mums 10 



— I>eaf -Spot on Mums 10 



Chrysanthemum Society 11 



Odonto^lossum Grande (lllus. ) 11 



The Presidents (lllus. ) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — Early French Bulbs. 12 



— Stevia 12 



— Moscbosma Riparlum (lllus.) "12 



— Ferns 12 



— Spirseas 12 



— Primulas 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



— Coldframes 12 



— Bulb Planting 13 



-Visit the Exhibitions 13 



Rules for Judging 13 



Detroit 14 



Boston 14 



The Death Roll— Obadlah B. Hadwen !.■> 



Infrarvillea Delavayl (lllus.) l.'S 



National Flower Show 16 



The Farmers' Wealth 16 



Chicago 17 



Cincinnati 20 



St. Louis 21 



New York 22 



Philadelphia 26 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Conditions In California ?A 



— Heinemann's Novelties 31 



— The Postal Progress Dinner 32 



— Imports 33 



— Bulbs Near Bellingham 33 



— The Best Sweet Peas 34 



— Nasturtium Peregrlnum 84 



— Notes from Holland 35 



— A Fine Dahlia 35 



— Well Matured Bulbs 86 



Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Bulb Planting »2 



New Bedford, Mass 42 



Steamer Sailings 43 



Denver 43 



Baltimore 44 



Nursery News -40 



— French Nursery Federation 46 



— Seasonable Suggestions 4ti 



— Evergreens 47 



— Exports of Nursery Stock 47 



— American Peony Society 47 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 48 



— Hydrocyanic Acid Gas 48 



— Forcing Tomatoes 48 



Best Cactus Dahlias 48 



Indianapolis 50 



Lexington, Ky 50 



rolnmbuB, Ohio 52 



Washington 54 



Pittsburg 56 



Greenhouse Heating — Insufficient Radiation.. 65 



— Hot Water for Single House 65 



— The Bell and the Pencil 65 



New Orleans 65 



Syracuse, N. Y 66 



Newport, R. 1 68 



Lenox, Mass 68 



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is printed Tednetday eveoins and 

 mailed early Thttnday morning. It 

 ii earnestly reqtsested that all adver- 

 tiser! and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy^ to reach us by Monday, or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday moming, as many have done 

 in the past. 



80CIBTT or AHIBICAN FLOBISTS. ' 



INCORPORATBD BY ACT OF CONGRBSS MARCH 4, '01. 



Officers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; Tlce-presldent, John Westcott, 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hanswirth, 232 

 Michigan avenne, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittoburg. 



Officers for 1008: President, F. H. Ttaendly, 

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

 Clnre. Bnttalo; secreUry, P. J. Hanswlrth, 282 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, B. B. 

 Beatty, Plttabnrg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1906; W. F. Hasting, Buffalo, chair- 

 man. 



The man who kneads the dough is 

 most likely to make his daily bread. 



A PROTEST by Eeed & Keller against 

 the assessment of duty on sea moss has 

 been sustained by the board of general 

 appraisers at New York. 



The self-satisfaction of showing a 

 visitor through a clean and orderly place 

 is worth all the effort it takes to pre- 

 serve cleanliness and order. 



You cannot tell how good a grower a 

 man may be who has no printed letter- 

 head, but you can form a pretty accurate 

 estimate of his business ability. 



The new law in Wisconsin requires 

 every person who sells "ornamental 

 plants" to give the purchaser at the 

 time of delivery a certified statement of 

 such sale, giving the correct name, kind 

 and number of each variety sold and the 

 name and location of the place where 

 such ornamental plants were "fully 

 grown. ' ' 



"PLEASE SEND THE REVIEW." 



The Review finds much encouragement 

 in the receipt of letters like the follow- 

 ing from a florist at South Framingham, 

 Mass. : 



"Please send the Review to 



, South Framingham, Mass., for 



which I enclose hia dollar. The Review 

 is all right, as is shown by my advising 

 Mr. to take it in preference to 



three others." 



But what interests the publisher is 

 that the Review is all right enough for 

 a subscriber to take it upon himself to 

 take a friend's money and mail it in, 

 simply because he thinks the friend will 

 profit by having the Review; it must 

 be all right, sure enough. 



The Review" frequently receives such 

 courtesies at the hands of its readers, 

 for which it not only returns thanks but 

 promises to provide an increasingly in- 

 teresting paper. 



If the president of that new Michigan 

 life insurance company turns solicitor 



Pbicelists recently to hand from some 

 of the potteries show ten per cent ad- 

 vance in prices on flower pots. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



The members of the committee of 

 fifty on National Flower Show will 

 please not overlook the meeting which 

 is called for 2:30 p. m., November 8, at 

 the Auditorium Annex, Chicago. The 

 committee will be pleased to receive and 

 consider any and all suggestions for the 

 strengthening of the big national exhibi- 

 tion of 1908. 



Wm. F. Kasting, Chairman. 



THE FARMERS' WEALTH. 



There is only one thing needed to in- 

 sure good business for every florist, and 

 everyone else in this country. That one 

 ' thing is money in the hands of the farm- 

 ers. A banker from a country town in 

 Illinois, visiting a Chicago florist last 

 week, remarked, "Why, this country is 

 richer than it ever was and business can- 

 not be otherwise than good this winter. 

 Our bank is full of money, and our de- 

 positors are all farmers. The prices they 

 are getting for their grain are the best 

 on record. I, myself, sold the corn off 

 my farm for 60 cents a bushel. The 

 farmers are buying automobiles and dis- 

 playing other evidences of wealth. One 

 man in our neighborhood felt so rich 

 after marketing his crop that he bought 

 a carload of automobiles and presented 

 one to each of his ten sons." 



The government at Washington has a 

 big force of statisticians constantly at 

 work figuring on the country's crops 

 and their value. The figures are so 

 wonderful as to be almost beyond com- 

 prehension. The table below shows the 

 government's estimate of the quantity 

 of this year's crops, compared with last 

 year's, and the value of the crops of 

 1906 and 1907 on the farm. It shows 

 this year's value to be $324,000,000 

 greater than last year. 



The following table shows the gov- 

 ernment's October estimates of this 

 year's yields of corn, wheat and oats: 



Estimated yield. Yield, 



1907. 1906. 



Corn 2.500,000,000 2,963,000,000 



Wheat 625,567,000 735,000,000 



Oats 741,520,000 931,000,000 



The approximate farm value of crops 



is summarized as follows: 



Farm-value, 1907. 1906. 



Corn $1,375,000,000 $1,185,000,000 



Wheat 531,000,000 519,000,000 



Oats 333,000,000 300,000,000 



Other products 1,717,000,000 1,628,000,000 



Total value... $3,956,000,000 $3,632,000,000 

 Increase 324,000,000 



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. 



