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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 28, 1007. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and BIanaoib. 



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 those In the trade. 



Only 



Advertlainr i^t^s quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



AdTertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to Insure insertion in the issue ot the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Bntered at the Chleacro post-otfice as mail mat- 

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This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

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CONTENTS. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 70. 



itoses — Rose Cardinal (lUus.) 5 



— Ventilation of Roee House 5 



— Hylirld Roses .1 



— Planted Too Late 5 



— Scott's New Rose (lllus. ) « 



— American Discernment 6 



HepottlnK Phoenix Palms ft 



Rotting of Lily Buds •> 



(.'arnatlons— Carnation Notes — East 7 



— Eggs In Buds 7 



— Stem-rot and Rust 7 



— To Stiffen Stems 7 



— Stlgmonose 7 



— Applying Nitrate of So<la 8 



f.'hrysanthemums — Best Mums for New Orleans 8 



— Profitable Culture 8 



— Late Varieties 8 



— Ivory (lllus.) 8 



— Growing Exhibition Flowers » 



— Best Miims in I-Yance ]« 



The Retail Florist 10 



— Artistic Arrangements (lllus.) 10 



— Emblematic Designs (lllus.) lo 



Smll4x lO 



1 lydrangeas for Easter 10 



Hardy Water IJlles 10 



Lilium Candldum and Harrlsli 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 11 



— Antirrhinums 11 



— Freesias 11 



— Asparagus Spreugerl 11 



— Smilax 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



Berger's Store ( lllus. ) 12 



Xlie Pollworth Family (lllus.) 12 



Violets — Packing and Shipping 12 



— Best Single Violets i;i 



The House of Cocos (lllus.) 13 



Amiielopsis Japonica Poisoning Hi. 



Odds and Ends 14 



(Chicago 15 



St. Louis 17 



Detroit 18 



Washington 20 



New York 21 



Baltimore 22 



Philadelphia 23 



Pittsburg 25 



Boston 2.'> 



New Bedford, Mass 28 



Atlanta, Oa 28 



.Macon. Ga 2ft 



Seed Trade News 3(1 



— • Seed Trade in France 31 



— Azaleas 32 



— Imports .'{2 



— Seed Warranty 32 



— Catalogues Received 32 



— Catalogue Covers 32 



— Similar Sweet Peas 33 



Summit. N. J 3-1 



Vegetable Forcing 30 



— Vegetable Markets 3«i 



— Cleaned Him Out .W 



■— I'rlze Onions ;ifl 



— Damp- Rot of Lettuce 3ti 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Portland, Ore 42 



- San Francis«-« 42 



— Preparing Cuttings 4.'! 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nursery News 46 



— Protection of Evergreens 46 



— Spraying 47 



I )enver 48 



Indianapolis ."» i 



■BnfTalo .12 



Wn<-o, Tex , . . .12 



Denison, Tex • . . r.2 



t levelnnd .'54 



(Incinnati .'iO 



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THE ANNUAL 



CHRISTMAS NUMBER 



will be Issued 

 DECEMBER 12, 1907, 



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Don't Forget: — 



advertising copy must reach Chicago by 

 Wednesday morning, December 11, to 

 be in time, and earlier will be better. 



Some desirable advertisements usually 

 are received the morning after going to 



Sress with a Special lidition. Send to- 

 ay. Don't get left. 



The Timothy Eaton chrysanthemum 

 this season came hollow-eyed with many 

 if not most growers. ; 



It is stated that uo less than sixteen 

 firms sent buyers to the Wisconsin lyeo- 

 podiuin towns this season. 



The lighter the demand tlie greater 

 is the advantage to the grower wifio has 

 a reputation for high quality. 



It is an excellent thing for the trade 

 as a whole that credits are becoming more 

 restricted and collections closer looked 

 after. In the long run, everybody will 

 gain by it. 



Chairman Kasting, of the National 

 Flower Show Committee, has appointed 

 S. S. Skidclsky as chairman of the trav- 

 eling representatives to the national 

 flower show. 



You can turn surpluses into cash by 

 offering them in the Classified Depart- 

 ment of the Review. When seasonable 

 stock is offered, the returns usually are 

 out of all proportion to the cost of the 

 advertisement. 



In last week's Keview there was an 

 illustration of W. A. Manda's house of 

 Dracajna Mandaiana "at Rutherford, N. 

 .J., ' ' when in reality the house is a dozen 

 miles away, at South Orange, as was 

 stated in the note accompanying the il- 

 lustration. Mr. Manda has no establish- 

 ment at Rutherford. 



It is a mistake to put off the work of 

 protecting hardy ])lants in pots outdoors 

 until the weather conditions are actually 

 present to make such protection an im- 

 mediate necessity. Far better begin now 

 and have everything snug and secure be- 

 fore hard freezing weather comes. Every- 

 thing outdoors in pots needs -some sort 

 of covering to prevent the breakage of 

 pots by frost, if for no other reason. 

 It is also nuich the same with things to 

 he left all winter in eoldframes, which 

 are not intended to be covered to such 

 nil nxtent as to keep out frost. 



The rubber hose has gone up, and still 

 is going up — in price. 



A. C. B. fails to sign his full name and 

 to give his address, without both of which 

 it is impossible to answer his inquiries. 



The r«e society of Germany has 

 !2,.500 members. It will give a national 

 exhibition at Leipzig, June 27 to July 5. 



Send your latest catalogue to the Re- 

 view and see that it is on your regular 

 mailing list. All catalogues are filed for 

 reference. 



In the Boston market the big mums 

 are decidedly out of favoir and the 

 smaller ones bringing much the better 

 return to the growers. 



Those who do business in bedding 

 plants are planning big stocks for next 

 spring, in the assurance that the demand 

 will bo greater than ever. 



It is surely a deplorable state of affairs 

 when the cotton growers of the south 

 and the corn and wheat growers of the 

 west and northwest have so much ready 

 money they don 't need to rush their crops 

 to market! ^ 



When a grower writes on a piece of 

 plain paper to order a ton of sheep ma- 

 nure it is no more than natural that the 

 dealer should ask for cash with order; 

 the grower may be good for it, but the 

 evidence is against his being a good busi- 

 ness man. 



This season a larger number than 

 usual of the church sociable kind of 

 flower shows have been held and in most 

 cases with gratifying success. Where 

 florists have participated they have done 

 well, both in advertising and in promot- 

 ing the popular appreciation of flowers. 



Readers of the Review will please 

 bt>ar in mind that it is the practice to 

 promptly discontinue all subscriptions 

 upon expiration if not renewed. If you 

 want the Review you will not neglect 

 sending the dollar when you get our no- 

 tice that it is due ; if you don 't want the 

 paper the publishers have no desire to 

 force it on you and then present a bill. 



ODDS AND ENDS. 



There are other draeronas just as bril- 

 liant in color as D. Mandaiana, but per- 

 haps none, with the possible exception 

 of D. terminalis, of the highly colored 

 varieties of so tough a texture of foliage. 

 That characteristic of the new dractena 

 will, no doubt, cause it to find favor with 

 commercial men. 



The day of the huge specimen chrysan- 

 themum plant is surely at an end when 

 the fabulous cash prizes offered by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 failed this year to induce a single grower 

 to put one up for exhibition. 



We hear a great deal of criticism of 

 the arrangement of groups of plants at 

 exhibitions and we must admit that much 

 of it is warranted, but there is little 

 ground for crjticism when the object of a 

 grouj) at an exhibition is the hiding of 

 considerable bare wall surface, if that 

 group in its finished state does not show 

 artistic arrangement. 



Centerpieces of growing plants can be 

 so made as to be very eft'ective and pleas- 

 ing, but when they are made in such a 

 way that two-thirds of the material is 

 squatty and the other third set abruptly 

 upon stilts, they are neither pleasing, 

 (ffcctive nor artistic. B. 



