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The Weekly Rorists' Review; 



-Decdmbbb 12, 1907. 



THE tLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqbb. 



PUBUSHKD IVXBT THUBSDAV BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



680>a60 Caxton Balldlnc 



884 Dearborn Street, Cbtcaso* 



TiLEPHONE, Harrison M29. 



■bcistbrbd cable addrb!ss, flokvikw, chicago 



New York Office : 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 Europe, ^.60. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon reauest. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 momln§r to insure insertioa 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. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 52. 



CONTENTS. 



Tlie llctuil Florist — Plant Arrangements 



(illus.) 21 



— Christmas Greens 22 



— Fastening Wall Decorations 23 



— Artistic Arrangements (illus.) 24 



Snapdragons and Stocks 25 



Seasonable Suggestions — Bulb Stock 25 



— Azaleas 26 



— Polnsettlas 26 



— Berried Plants 26 



— Primulas 20 



— Cyclamen 26 



— Lorraine Begonias 26 



— Brief Reminders 27 



Violets — Violets Flowering Poorly 27 



— Failure with Single Violets 27 



A Visit to Madison. N. J 28 



Water and Ventilating 29 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 29 



— Carnation Notes — West 30 



— Best Carnations 30 



— Fumigating 30 



— Deterioration 30 



Charles Herr's Place (illus.) 30 



Lilies from Seed 31 



Chrysanthemums — Single - Flowering Mums 



(illus.) 31 



— Single Chrysanthemums (illus.) 32 



— Popularity of Mums 32 



Commercial Ferns 33 



Roses — The Wynilmoor Rose (illus.) H4 



Manchester, Mass 34 



Cleveland 34 



How is Business ■ H^ 



Detroit 36 



Boston '. 36 



Pittsburg 37 



Cincinnati 37 



St. Louis 37 



New York 38 



Bice and the Bell (lUiis. ) 40 



Baltimore 40 



New Bedford, Mass 41 



The Death Roll— Mrs. C. W. Pike 41 



— Samuel H. Walker 41 



— Robert Faulk 41 



— Luke M. Deeds 41 



— P. J. Hauswirtli 41 



— George D. Kelle.v 41 



Chicago 42 



Philadelphia 46 



Nashville. #enn 53 



Seed Trade News 64 



— Onion Seed 62 



— Meadow Foxtail 62 



— Imports 64 



— Valley Pips 64 



— Seed Warranty 64 



— In Aid of the Farmer 65 



Pacific Coast— Portland. Ore 72 



— San Francisco 72 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetable Markets 13 



— The Prospect 73 



— Mildew on Cucuinliers 73 



— Tomatoes 73 



Steamer Sailings 74 



Nursery News — Moving Evergreens 78 



— Chionanthus Vlrglnloa (Illus. ) 78 



— Crown Gall 79 



Milwaukee 80 



Memphis, Tenn 80 



New Orleans 82 



Washington 84 



Springfield. Ohio 86 



Newport, R. 1 88 



Greenhouse Heattng--Piplng In Arkansas 90 



— Expansion Tank Overflows 90 



— From Steam to Hot Water 90 



— Heating In Texas 91 



— Hot Water Preferable 91 



Dallas, Tex 92 



Wayside Notes 93 



Portsmouth, Va 96 



Houston. Tex 102 



Fort Worth. Tfx 102 



is printed 'Wednesday evenins and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy^ to reach us by Mondayt or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday mornings as many have* done 

 in the past 



BOCIBTT OF AHBBICAN FL0BIST8. 



INCOHPOBATBU BY ACT OF CONGRESS MARCH 4, '01. 



OflJcers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art, Boston; vice-president, John Westcott. 

 Philadelphia; secretary, P. J. Hauswirtb, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Oflicers for 1908: President, F. H. Traendly, 

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

 Clure, Buffalo; secretary pro tem., Willis N. 

 Rudd, Morgan Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Sbow, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, BuCTalo, chairman. 



Merry Christmas! 



They all read the Eeview. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The Jamestown Exposition Co., after 

 an unsuccessful season, has passed into 

 the hands of receivers. 



A PRINTED letter-head is as necessary 

 for a business man as a presentable suit 

 of clothes is to a traveling salesman. 



Cut boxwood and red immortelles 

 make far handsomer wreaths and balls 

 for Christmas sales than can be made 

 from poor holly. 



The demand for sheep manure as a 

 florists' fertilizer has outgrown the sup- 

 ply and many growers are experimenting 

 with shredded cattle manure as an abun- 

 dant and cheaper substitute. 



The man who refuses credit to the irre- 

 sponsible and who demands prompt set- 

 tlement when bills are due may not have 

 the largest business, but it is safe to say 

 he lives as well and sleeps as soundly as 

 his less conservative competitor. 



The market for bouquet green has 

 broken to lower Ifevels than was thought 

 possible early in the season. The high 

 prices then offered have apparently 

 stimulated the people in the big woods 

 to unusual effort, and green has become 

 abundant. 



There are few sections of this coun- 

 try where hybrid rhododendrons do not 

 need winter protection. Spruce or hem- 

 lock branches, kept up over the plants by 

 means of some structural contrivance, 

 will be found to be the most effective 

 method of protecting groups of these 

 plants. Single specimens are much easier 

 to handle and means for their protec- 

 tion readily suggest themselves. All 

 hardy rhododendrons and azaleas will be 

 much the better if protected at the roots 

 with a covering of some such material 

 as Utter or leaves. 



FiBROTTA ware, the indurated fiber 

 goods used by alinost every florist, re- 

 ceived a medal and diploma at the 

 Jamestown exposition. 



There are still plenty of- openings 

 for capable greenhouse employees, but 

 until spring opens the recent rule of 

 two jobs for every man will not be in 

 force. 



The only way in which business can 

 be handled satisfactorily is to have a 

 system that brings up every detail in 

 suflScient season so that each one may 

 receive attention without haste. Haste 

 makes waste. 



Advertising men of wide experience, 

 who come in contact with all classes of 

 business men, say that the florists have 

 passed through the autumn period of 

 financial excitement with less loss of busi- 

 ness than almost any other line. They 

 say the flower business has been much 

 more active than such necessary lines as 

 the metal trade, whi6h has suffered 

 most of all, building materials and sta- 

 ple merchandise being next lowest. In 

 these lines it appears to have been merely 

 a case of suspended animation. 



SOCIETY. OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Appointment of Secretary. 



W. N. Rudd, Morgan Park, 111., has 

 been appointed secretary pro tem. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Pros. 



National Flower Show Premiums. 



The premium list for the national 

 flower show, to be held in Chicajro in 

 the fall of 1908, is now undergoing final 

 revision. Suggestions regarding the same, 

 as to premiums to be offered, rules and 

 regulations to be adopted, and other 

 matters of the kind, are requested. Such 

 suggestions, however, should reach the 

 undersigned at Morgan Park, 111., 'within 

 ten days from this date in order to be 

 considered. W. N. Rudd, Chairman. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The first week in December was not 

 as active as had been hoped. Demand 

 was light, both locally and shipping, and 

 the volume of sales was not up to the 

 same week in recent years, in the experi- 

 ence of most wholesalers and growers. 

 The most that could be said for the busi- 

 ness was thai) it was fair, and this week 

 does not start in much better. It al- 

 ways is the case that just before Christ- 

 mas there is a quiet spell and this year 

 it seems to be likely to be just a little 

 more quiet than usual. 



There have been no particularly large 

 supplies of stock. "We have had consid- 

 erable dark weather, which has operated 

 to hold back the crops, but there has been 

 a sufiScient supply in all departments, 

 with the usual exception that now and 

 then an order would be received after 

 the stock had "been moved. Prices gen- 

 erally had averaged low. 



Long Beauties are more abundant and 

 promise to be in fine shape for Christ- 

 mas. Other roses are not now in the 

 heaviest crop, but quality has been fine 

 and there is every reason to anticipate 

 a large supply of splendid stock for 

 Christmas if the weather is at all favor- 

 able in the next ten days. Bed promises 

 to be scarce, for none of the growers ap- 

 pears to have a big crop of Richnio€i<l 



