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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



DEdOMBER 26, 1UU7. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



O. L. GRA^NT, Editob and Managkb. 



PUBU8BBD BVKBY THUBSDAT BT 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton Balldinc, 

 884 Uearborn Street, CbloaKo. 



Tblkpuone, Hakuison 6429. 



rbgistkrbd cablb address, flobvicw, chicago 



New Tohk Office : 



BorouarhPark Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. AC8TIN Shaw, Manager. 



SubBcrlptlon 11.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. To 

 Europe, I2.6U. subscrlptlona accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



.Advertibenieuts muHt reach us by Wednesday 

 morning- to insure insertion In the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, HI tne po8i-<ifflce at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act ot Ma.cha, 187». 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 



ress Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 74. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketall Florist 5 



— i^uiieiui VvorK (Uhii^J u 



— Artistic Arrmigeuieuts ulln><-^ W 



Heasuimuie :Mi|$g<-i>iiuU8 ti 



— KHiiiuier IvoM^ii 



— iHiuuie t evert«>\v « 



— MarguerileB t> 



— l>eiiurubiuuiti 



— Coeiogjue crislata <> 



— (Jatiieya Itiauae 



— Cjpripeuiuiu l.«eanuiii . . f 7 



— AuiaiiiuuiK 7 



— Briet Kemluders 7 



.Stray Notts ironi England 7 



l>racuc'iia itotulaiia (iiius.j ^ 



itoxes S 



— XiiripH in Beauty lIoUMe H 



— 15eautle>i in ueoigia uI'uh.) 8 



Love uiiU ^Sylupatlly U 



ChrysmiuheiiiuuiM U 



— Single l iir> xantlieuiuuiM li 



.Noble 8 lIooRier Home (illiiH.j lU 



Carnations lu 



— Carnation Notes — East 10 



— Cardinal and Wolcott 10 



— AiueML-un Carnation .Society 11 



— C'ariiution Snow in London 11 



— At liraudywiiu' Miniinit, I'a 12 



The Begonia Silw 12 



Nerlnes (Ulus.) 12 



■Some l-aits .\l»out Soils ^ 13 



The Death lloll 15 



— \V. W. Ldgar 15 



• — Mrs. J iillus ScUray 15 



— l;eniiis .\icKenney 15 



— George \ air u>u>°traitj 15 



— E. V. U. Thajer 15 



What Is Money 't 1« 



Chicago 10 



St. Louis 20 



Boston 21 



New York 23 



San I''ran<-l8('<j 25 



Philadelphia , 2« 



Douui ot the Big Tomato 28 



•Seed Trade News 82 



— National Sweet I'ea Society 33 



— IniitortK 34 



— New Sweet IVus 34 



— Postal I'rogress 34 



— Catalogues Kecelve<l 34 



— California Onion Seed 30 



— Bolgiauo's LiiHclalnier Sticks 38 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— (ireeiihouse Vegetahles 40 



— For Hotbeds 40 



— .Mildew on Lettuce 40 



— Worms in .Miislirooni Iteds 40 



Pacific Coast 4« 



— Seattle 40 



Christmas I'e|i|»ers 40 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News 50 



— Propugatlng 50 



— Pruning 50 



— The Laxtonberry 50 



— Western Assoelatloii .'iO 



New Orleans 51 



Springfield, Ohio 51 



Itaniblliig Jottings 52 



t;ievelaiid 54 



Detroit 56 



Washington 58 



Use for Low Laixl • 58 



Cincinnati 0« 



(ireeiihouse Heating 07 



— Itadiation 07 



— Anthracite Coal (>7 



(College Point, N. \ ' 07 



Houghton, Mich «W 



Dallas, Tex 08 



<;ieiiiied En Route 70 



Wiiyslde Notes 72 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



NEW YEAR'S " 



Becatise New Year's falls on Wed- 

 nesday, the day the Review is printed, 

 the isstie for next week will go to 

 press one day earlier than usttal, 



Tuesday, December 31 



Advertisers and correspondents will 

 please see that their matter reaches us 

 not later than Ttiesday mortiing, and 

 earlier will be better. 



80CIBTT or AMIBICAN FLOBISIS. 



INCOBPOBATED BT ACT OF CONG BBSS MARCH 4, '01 



OfDcers for 1907: President, William J. Stew- 

 art, Boston; vice-president, John Westcutt, 

 Philadelphia: secreury. P. J. Hauawlrth, 232 

 Michigan avenue, Chicago; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Plttsburj. 



Officers for 1908: President, P. H. Traendly, 

 New \'ork; vice-president, George W. Mc- 

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

 Hudd, Morgan Park, 111.; treasurer, U. B. 

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Aimual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber, 1008; W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, chairman. 



Wishing you th« compliments of the 

 season. 



Next to red, Killarney baa proved to 

 be the most popular Christmas rose. 



The Plantadendron is the name of a 

 flower store at Utica, N. Y. 



Now is the time to order the rooted 

 cnttings of carnations needed for next 

 season. 



Christmas comes but once a year, 'tis 

 true, but there still is Easter, due April 

 19 this season. 



Let all who fear congestion of the cut 

 flower markets take heart: During 1907, 

 36,.580 Greeks immigrated to this coun- 

 try. 



Tei.l your customers that it is the 

 proper tiling to send New Year 's remem- 

 brances, esjiecially to those who may have 

 been overlooked at Christmas. You can 

 suggest that no New Year's gift is in 

 better taste tlian a fancy box or hamper 

 of violets. 



The Garden and Farm Almanac for 

 1908 has been isued by Doubleday, Page 

 & Co., New York. It contains a largo 

 amount of practical information, com- 

 pletely indexed, and looks to be worth 

 25 cents to any one who plants, either 

 for |)leasure or for profit. 



Jf " X Long Island Grower" will send 

 his name, not for publication but mere 

 ly as an evidence of good faith, tlie 

 Kevievv will take pleasure in answering 

 his questions regarding carnations for 

 the New York market. Anonymous com- 

 munications never are noticed. 



Headers of the Review will please 

 bear in mind that it is the practice to 

 promptly discontinue ALL subscriptions 

 upon expiration if not renewed. If you 

 want tho Review you will not neglect 

 sending the dollar when you get our 

 notice that it is due; if you don't want 

 the paper the publishers have no desire to 

 force it on you ami then present a bill. 



Keep thy shop and thy shop will 

 keep thee. — Poor Richard's Almanack. 



John R. Fotheringham, of the F. R. 

 Pierson Co., Tarrytown, has just com- 

 pleted a visit of several weeks to the 

 trade in Knglan<l, -during which he served 

 as a judge at the exhibition of the 

 Winter-flowering Carnation Society, Lon- 

 don, December Jl. 



-:'*- 



WHAT IS MONEY? 



The John C. Moninger Co., in a " Mer- 

 ry Christmas" circular, has this to say 

 on money: 



"What is money? It is not wealth, 

 for no man figures his wealth by the' 

 actual cash money that he possesses. 

 Money is merely la means of exchange. It 

 is a substitute for real wealth. The man 

 who builds a house would not want to 

 take his pay in shoes from the man who 

 makes shoes — he couldn't use that many 

 shoes, nor would he want his pay in 

 hats, or neckties. For this reason money 

 was brought into use. Thousands of 

 years ago, before money was used, men 

 traded cattle. Cattle were wealth. If a man 

 had a piece of ground be sold it for 

 a certain number of cattle and all busi- 

 ness was transacted with cattle as the 

 base for money. Finally the hides were 

 traded and then a piece of leather with 

 a stamp on it. At -last paper was used 

 and various kinds of metals — money was 

 brought out in this way. It represented 

 wealth. Because money is short is no 

 sign that we are poorer — not in the least, 

 for our wealth still remains and we are 

 only in need of means for exchanging it. 



"As to the shortage of money, the best 

 illustratipn we know of is this: Freight 

 cars are, like money, used for moving 

 things from one place to another, and 

 if several of the large owners of freight 

 cars got together and decided to hoard 

 the cars we would soon be without means 

 for moving our goods. Freight cars 

 would be short and the business of the 

 country would be at a standstill. If the 

 holders of money, from fear of hard 

 times and panics, choose to hide their 

 money and hold it, there of course fol- 

 lows a shortness of it. When our money 

 is gone we have no means of exchi^nging 

 our wealth and must go back to primi- 

 tive methods of trading cattle. We would 

 not be any poorer than we were before. 



"It is now time for the man who has 

 any wealth, whether much or little, to put 

 it to use. You can make a better trade 

 just at present than you can later on. 

 We honestly believe that the florist who 

 builds for next year will make more 

 money than he ever did before on the 

 same amount of capital invested." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The latter part of last week saw only 

 moderate demand but light supplies of 

 stock of good quality, so that prices were 

 strong. It was not until Saturday night 

 that there was any quantity of stock 

 to be seen, and this was due to Saturday 

 afternoon shipments by growers who 

 could not reach the market Sunday. 



The Christmas business began in ear- 

 nest Sunday, when shipping was heavy. 

 Those houses which make a specialty of 

 the shipping business found it necessary 

 to work all day Sunday and a number 

 were open until late at night before the 

 last order was dispatched. It was a big 



