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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Dbckmbbb 5, 1907. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



%Q. L. GRANT, Editob and BIamaobb. 



PUBLISHED IVIBT THUB8DAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



030-560 Caxton BnlldlnK, 



384 Dearborn Street, Chtoaso. 



Tklephonb, Harbison 6«2B. 



rbcistrrbd cablb addrbss, florvikw, chicago 



New Yore Office : 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. AC8TIN Shaw, Manaerer. 



SubBcriptlon 11.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Europe, CS.&O. SubscrlptlonB accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Only 



AdvertlBln? rates quoted upon reQuest. 

 Btrictly trade sdvertlBintr accepted. 



Adyertlsements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to Insure Insertion In the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered at the Chlcaero post-olQce as mail mat- 

 ter of the second class. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



CONTENTS. 



XXTDEZ TO ADVEBTZSEBS, PAOE 70. 



The Retail Florist — Artistic Arrangements 



(illus.) 5 



— The Retailers' Position 5 



— The Table Decoration (iUus.) 6 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — Bast 8 



— Carnation Notes — West 6 



— Breaking Oft the Blooms 7 



— Cutworms and Red Spider 7 



Violets— Spot on Violets 7 



— Violet Governor Herrick 7 



Outdoor Protection 7 



Insects on Ferns 8 



Profits In Plumo8U9 8 



Chrysanthemums — The Novelties (illus.) 8 



— Bltler's Prize-winners (illus.) 8 



— Review of Varieties 8 



— Two Samples of Garza 10 



Chrysanthemum Society 10 



Roses — Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— The Mrs. Field Rose (Ulus.) 11 



American Rose Society 11 



The Rural Florist (illus.) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Geraniums 12 



— Show Pelargoniums 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— Genistas 12 



— Camellias 12 



— Ericas 12 



— Hydrangeas 13 



— Brief Reminders 13 



The Death Roll 13 



— P. J. Hauswlrtb (portrait) 13 



— John Rlngler 13 



— George Edward Davenport 13 



Christmas Greens 14 



Thanksgiving Trade ^ . 14 



Oh ! Happy Farmer 14 



Chicago 15 



Tarrytown • 17 



St. Louis 17 



New York 10 



Boston 20 



Philadelphia 21 



Outdoor Flowers 20 



Water Analysis 20 



Plerson Gets British Award 28 



Ferns for a Cool House 28 



Vegetable Forcing 29 



— Vegetable Markets 20 



— Best Early Tomatoes 29 



ButTalo 29 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Government Seed Testing 31 



— The Blue Kolb Gem 82 



— Seed Warranty 33 



— Imports 84 



— Reappralsements 34 



— Catalogues Received 34 



— Department of Agriculture 34 



Cincinnati 86 



Pacific Coast 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Holiday Prospects 42 



Milwaukee 43 



Little Rock. Ark 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Bowie, Tex 44 



Nursery News 46 



— Storing Tree Seeds 46 



— Nitrogen and Lime 46 



— Foliage Injury 46 



— Berberls Thnnbergll 46 



Pittsburg 48 



Lansing. Mich 48 



St. Paul 60 



Washington 60 



New Orleans 62 



Detroit 64 



Nashville, Tenn 66 



Denlson. Tex 66 



Greenhouse Heating 66 



— One Boiler or Two 65 



— Water Under Pressure 65 



Columbus. Ohio 60 



New Bedford, Mass 68 



•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 

 press with a Special Edition. Send to- 

 day. Don't get left. 



And now Christmas is less than three 

 weeks away. 



Foe those who can use them, there are 

 some fine bargains in bulbs offered in 

 current issues of the Review. 



Manetti stocks are due to arrive in 

 the next few days. Time to plan your 

 grafting operations for 1908 planting. 



The laying off of unskilled labor by 

 the big corporations, perhaps this sea- 

 son a little earlier than in other winters, 

 has brought its usual number of seek- 

 ers after work in greenhouses among 

 those who were called away by the bet- 

 ter wages and change of scene incidental 

 to other occupations. 



The market for bouquet green at 

 Chicago has weakened, but is expected 

 to stiffen as soon as the season opens 

 in earnest. Demand has been light in 

 the last few days. Buyers inquiring for 

 strictly fancy holly find it difficult to 

 place orders. The indications are that 

 well-berried holly will be decidedly 

 scarce. 



If uo Ijetter place is available, aucnbas 

 will winter fairly well in a cellar where 

 there are windows to admit reasonable 

 light. Box in tubs or pots will also keep 

 in good condition under like circum- 

 stances. Much water will not be needed 

 through the winter for either aucubas or 

 box, but it will not do to let them get 

 dust dry, especially large specimen box 

 cramped for room in their pots or tubs. 

 Bay trees should not be allowed to get 

 bone dry at their roots when stored away 

 for the winter, and when they are wa- 

 tered they should get it in such quantity 

 that all the roots will get wet. 



CHRISTMAS GREENS. 



The Packer, recording the doings of 

 the fruit and vegetable commission men 

 throughout the country, takes a one-sided 

 and inaccurate view when it says: 



"Since the selling and manufacture of 

 holiday decorations has been placed on a 

 commercial basis the florist has almost 

 become a nonentity in the trade." But 

 there is some truth in its further state- 

 ment, probably not intended to apply to 

 bouquet green, that "whereas goods 

 were formerly sold at high prices, the 

 active competition as now extant among 

 Chicago commission men has resulted in 

 bringing sales down to a small margin of 

 profit. A reduction of from seventy-five 

 to eighty per cent is manifest since the 

 retail florists were ousted from this par- 

 ticular line. 



"Chicago supplies a big part of the 

 holiday trade from Maine to California, 

 and as far north as Winnipeg, Canada. 

 This business, yet in its infancy, is grow- 

 ing almost beyond the hopes of its South 

 Water street originators," 



THANKSGIVING TRADE. 



Almost without exception there is re- 

 port of satisfactory trade for Thanks- 

 giving. Not all cities report an increase 

 in sales, as compared with recent years, 

 but practically every reporter says busi- 

 ness was rather ahead of expectations 

 than below them. Supplies were large 

 throughout the country and prices did 

 not average as good as a year ago. The 

 trade, as a whole, feels greatly encour- 

 aged with* the Thanksgiving business, 

 and regards it as an assurance of a 

 splendid demand for Christmas. 



OH I HAPPY FARMER. 



"No general crop failure afflicts the 

 farmer this year, not even within small 

 areas. The production of the farms, all 

 things considered, is well up to the av- 

 erage of the previous five years in quan- 

 tity, while its value to the farmer, as 

 now appears at this annual day of reck- 

 oning, reaches a figure much above that 

 of 1906, which by far exceeded any 

 previous year's wealth production on 

 farms," says that greatest of optimists, 

 James Wilson, in his eleventh annual re- 

 port as Secretary of Agriculture. "Out 

 of the farming operations of 1907 the 

 railroads will get an average haul of 

 freight, and foreign countries will take 

 a heavy excess above home consumption. 

 The farmer will have more to spend and 

 more to invest than he ever before had 

 out of his year's work. He reckons his 

 income in ten figures, and he is still im- 

 proving his farm, buying bonds, lending 

 to his neighbors and putting bis money 

 into the vaults of banks. 



"The grand total of the value of the 

 crops for 1907 is $7,412,000,000. This 

 is $657,000,000 above the value of 1906, 

 $1,103,000,000 above that of 1905, 

 $1,253,000,000 above that of 1904, 

 $1,495,000,000 above that of 1903, 

 and $2,695,000,000 above the census 

 amount for 1899. 



"A simple series of index numbers 

 shows the progressive wealth production 

 by the farmer. The value of the prod- 

 ucts in *1899 being taken at 100, the 

 value for 1903 stands at 125, for 1904 

 at 131, for 1905 at 134, for 1906 at 

 143, and for 1907 at 157. 



"The miner cannot restore the min- 

 eral to the mine. With the farmer it is 

 different. The primal forces and atoms 

 of the universe are his. The sun shines 

 and the rain falls and the farmer applies 

 hia art and science to inexhaustible re- 

 sources, ever adding enormously to the 

 country's wealth, capital, credit and wel- 

 fare." 



