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NOVBiMBflB 21, 1007. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaoxb. 



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THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



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J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada, t2.00. To 

 Europe, K.50. 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. 



Bntered 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. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS) PAGE 78. 



The Autumn Exhibitions 7 



— Indianapolis (illus. ) 7 



— Montreal 7 



— Dracaena Mandalana (Ulus.) 8 



— St. Louis 8 



— Washington (Illus.) 10 



— Little Keck, Ark 11 



— Philadelphia 12 



— Toronto 13 



The Retail Florist 14 



— Artistic Arrangements ( Illus. ) 14 



— Interesting If True 14 



American Rose Society 15 



Brown Scale on Adlantum 15 



Chrysanthemums 15 



— The Novelties (illus.) 15 



Seasonable Suggestions — Valley 16 



— Lilacs 16 



— Azalea MoUls 17 



— Indian Azaleas 17 



— Lilies 17 



— Brief Reminders 17 



Chrysanthemum Society 17 



Boston 17 



New York i 18 



■ Receiver for Templin Co 20 



Chicago 20 



St. Louis 24 



Kansas City 25 



Wayside Notes 26 



Cincinnati 26 



Philadelphia 28 



Ashes in Concrete 30 



Columbus, Ohio 32 



Louisville, Ky 33 



Seed Trade News 34 



— The Season's Crop 34 



— Livingston's New Tomato 35 



— English Novelties 35 



— Valley Pips 36 



— Imports 36 



— Wholesale Seedsmen's League 36 



— Johnson's Novelties 36 



— Aster Show in Erfurt 36 



— Grass Seed Crops 37 



Catalogues Received 38 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— Vegetable Markets 40 



— Asparagus 40 



North Milwaukee, Wis 40 



Utlca, N. Y 40 



Pacinc Coast 46 



— San Francisco 46 



— Red Berries 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News 50 



— Weir's Cut-leaved Maple 50 



— Fires Nursery Truck 50 



— Forest Policy in France 50 



Baltimore 52 



Cleveland 56 



Indianapolis 56 



Detroit 58 



Pittsburg 60 



Indurated Fibre 69 



Ornamental Plants 69 



Bronx Park, New York 70 



Readers' Corner » 70 



— To Exterminate White Fly 70 



— Seeds of Lillum .'. . . 70 



Richmond, Va 72 



Montreal 72 



Greenhouse Heating 73 



— Piping In Pennsylvania 7;i 



— City Water Pressure 73 



— Piping in Colorado 73 



— Hot Water for Small Houses 73 



— Water Pipe Use~d for Steam 73 



Springfield, Ohio 73 



Washington 74 



New Orleans 74 



Newport, R. I 7(1 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



Because Thunday, November '28, 

 the day ihe Review is mailed, is a 

 legal holiday, the issue for that week 

 will £0 to press one day earlier than 

 usual, 



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 



Advertisers and correspondents will 

 please see that their matter reaches us 

 not later than Tuesday morning, and 

 earlier will be better. 



It is reported that well-berried holly 

 will be an exceedingly scarce item this 

 season. 



There is reported to be plenty of 

 bouquet green for those who care to pay 

 $7 per crate at Chicago. , 



SOOIItT OF AHBBICAN FLOBISTS. 



INCOKPORATBD BY ACT OF CONGRESS MAKCH 4, '01 . 



OfBcers for 1907: President, WllUam J. Stew- 

 art. Boston; Tlce-presldent, John Wettcott, 

 Philadelphia; Secratary, P. 3. Hauawirtb, 232 

 Michigan avenne, Chicago; treaaorer, H. B. 

 Beatty. Plttaburg. 



Officers for 1908: President, F. H. lYaendly, 

 New York; Tice-prealdent, G«orge W. Mc- 

 Clore, Buffalo; secretary, P. 3. Hauswlrth, 232 

 Michigan avenne, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1908; W. P. Easting, Buffalo, chair- 

 man. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings resiSts. 



It is reported that the E. G. Hill Co., 

 Richmond, Ind., has bought the stock 

 of the new chrysanthemum, Lynnwood 

 Hall. 



Those who select the best paper and 

 then confine their advertising to it, can 

 afford enough space to make their ad- 

 vertisements effective. 



One of the best growers for one of the 

 biggest cut flower markets still ventilates 

 his houses by means of notched sticks — 

 but he watches the notches. 



Edwakd Amerpohl, of Janesville, 

 Wis., with whom Nephrolepis Amer- 

 pohlii originated, says he has begun 

 working up stock of an improved form. 



At the exhibition of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, London, England, Octo- 

 ber 29, the American carnations, Bea- 

 con, Winsor and Rose-pink Enchantress, 

 were given awards of merit. 



In England it is noted that the inter- 

 est in chrysanthemum shows is declin- 

 ing, and one of the reasons offered is 

 the later-day practice of requiring 

 blooms to be staged in vases instead of 

 on boards, as formerly was the universal 

 custom. 



The red carnation, Britannia, which 

 made a great stir in England last sea- 

 son, is giving some fine blooms wher- 

 ever i,t is being tried in the United 

 States, but is late in blooming and does 

 not give the stems required. With 

 home propagated stock growers may 

 have better success next season. 



It wi'l interest many in the trade 

 that conditions are such that South 

 Water street commission houses, itfi 

 Chicago, that have handled large 

 quantities of bouquet green in recent 

 years, this season find conditions such 

 that they are taking little or no Jjand 

 in the green trade. 



RECEIVER FOR TEMPLIN CO. 



The Templin Co., with a large nursery 

 and seed business at Calla, O., and a 

 florist establishment in Youngstown, has 

 ■^fibeen placed in the hands of a receiver. 

 ' C. Edwin Oyster, president of the Gen- 

 eral Audit Co., of Youngstown, has 

 been named as receiver and will in the 

 future have charge of the business. 



The assets of the company are ap- 

 proximately $90,000. The liabilities, not 

 including the capital stock, are placed 

 at about, the same figure. The capital- 

 ization of the company is only $35,000, 

 a small figure compared to the volume 

 of business transacted. 



The receivership was not established 

 for the purpose of winding up the busi- 

 ness, but operation will continue as here- 

 tofore. The Templin Co. has been en- 

 tangled for some time, and a committee 

 representing the Youngstown . Credit 

 Men's Association has been in charge. 

 The committee consisted of C. Edwin 

 Oyster, W. D. McCloskey, cashier of the 

 East Palestine bank, and Harry Schmick, 

 cashier of the defunct First National 

 bank of Leetonia. The latter institu- 

 tion was the Templin Co. 's heaviest 

 creditor. The subject of a receivership 

 has been under discussion for some time 

 and culminated in a petition in the 

 United States Court at Cleveland. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has been decidedly dull 

 since last report. The crop of Bride and 

 Bridesmaid is heavy with every grower 

 of roses and the daily receipts since the 

 middle of last week have been greater 

 than the demand. It always happens 

 that when the crop is at the fuU in Chi- 

 cago it also is heavy with those who 

 buy part of their supplies^in this market, 

 but grow another part under their own 

 glass. When a man has a house or two 

 of chrysanthemums ready to cut and a 

 big crop of Bride and Bridesmaid it 

 hardly is to be expected that he will do 

 otherwise than push the sale of this stock 

 and order as little as possible from Chi- 

 cago. 



The result has been a noticeable re- 

 duction in the shipping demand, while 

 the local buyers do not get beyond the 

 first house visited in their daily rounds 

 of the market. These are conditions 

 which are met with periodically and 

 which in this instance are largely due to 

 the fine weather we have been having. 

 It has greatly increased production and 

 curtailed demand, for flowers are most 

 sought when skies are wintry. 



Also, the greatly increased supply of 

 low grade chrysanthemums has been a 

 large factor in weakening the market. 

 The vegetable growers did so well with 

 mums last year that nearly all of them 

 have contributed to the glut this fall, 

 practically every man doubling his plant- 

 ing. The mums promise to be pretty 

 well out of the way by Thanksgiving 

 and the heavy crop of roses will last 

 only a few days, so a change in the 

 weather is likely to bring a radical 

 change in the market. 



There is enough and to spare of every 



