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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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Januabt 2, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Mamaqbb. 



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 momingr to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, III., under the 

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INDEX TO ADYERTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



New Year's Greeting, S. A. F 5 



Christmas Business .5 



Retrospect and Prospect 5 



Conway's Aster (lllus.) 7 



The New Directors (portraits i 8 



Seasonable Suggestions ti 



— Popularity of Pot Plants 8 



— Seed Sowing 8 



— Propagation 8 



— LUles 9 



— Miscellaneous Bulbous Stock 9 



— Freeslas 9 



— Brief Reminders 9 



Hall Storm at New Orleans 9 



Carnations 10 



— Carnation Notes — East 10 



— Rust on Cardinals 10 



— Toadstools In Bench Soli 10 



American Carnation Societv lo 



The Retail Florist 10 



— Funeral Work (lllus. ) 10 



— The Show Window (lllus. i n 



— Green Goods in Callfornln 11 



New York 12 



Boston 13 



Glereland 14 



New Bedford, Mass 14 



The Death Boll 14 



— Alfred Plant 14 



— Everett B. Clark 14 



— Mrs. W. H. Gunthfi- 16 



— Arthur B. Howard , 16 



Denver 16 



— John Clark 16 



— Myrtle Rosenfield 16 



Society of Amerirnn Florists le 



Chicago 16 



Detroit 19 



St. Louis 20 



Brockton. Mass 21 



Kansas City 22 



Pittsburg 22 



Tarrytown 23 



Washington 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Buffalo .'. . . 26 



Baltimore 28 



Indianapolis 28 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Imports 32 



— Catalogues Received 32 



— A Bushel of Corn 32 



— Storage Company Aliist P«.v 32 



Cincinnati 36 



Vegetable Forcing 39 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 30 



— Vegetal)les as a Side Miic 30 



Adrian, Mich 40 



Pacific Coast 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News .«>0 



— Planting for" Tlinlier r>0 



Toledo. Ohio 52 



Springfield, Ohio 62 



Fort Wayne, Ind 54 



Wausau. Wis 64 



Newport, R. I 66 



Toronto 64 



Milwaukee 64 



Greenhouse Heating 65 



— Piping In Michigan 65 



— Steam Without Night Man 65 



— Piping in North Dakota 65 



— Three Connected Houses oo 



St. Paul 66 



New Orleans 67 



Manchester, Mass 68 



I WAS lost without the Bxview.— B. B. 

 LtroAS, BeMdere, IIL 



i» printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thttrsday momin£. It 

 if earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy'* to reach us by Monday, or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



80GIETT OF AHIBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



Ofllcers for 1008: President, F. H. Traendly, 

 New York; Tice-president, George W. Mc- 

 Clnre, Buffalo; secretanr pro tern., WUlis N. 

 Rndd, Morpm Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. 

 Beatty, Pittaburg. 



Annual convention. Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21. 1008. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 15, 1908; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Happy New Year I 



Now, let's all get busy. 



An English firm has a white sport of 

 Dorothy Perkins rose. 



"As the days begin to lengthen the 

 cold begins to strengthen." How is the 

 coal pilet 



The twin cities of St. Paul and Min- 

 neapolis now have a florists' and gar- 

 deners' club and in due season will be 

 ready to entertain the S. A. F. 



Wm. Cuthbertson, the new president 

 of the National Sweet Pea Society of 

 Great Britain, wants to add Americaus 

 to membership at $1 per annum. 



It is worth while bearing in mind 

 that a business can advance only on its 

 own merits; the "other fellow's" de- 

 merits have nothing to do with the case. 



Advertisers should promptly discon- 

 tinue an advertisement when it has done 

 its work. Use a telegram, if necessary, 

 to head off an insertion of your adver- 

 tisement after you have sold out of 

 stock. 



The retail florists have advertised in 

 their local papers more liberally this 

 season than ever before and the whole 

 trade will profit by it, for only a small 

 percentage of the population appreciates 

 how appropriate flowers are as gifts. 



An attractive Christmas specialty in 

 some of the first-class retail stores was 

 Biota aurea nana, usually shown in a red 

 receptacle, either a Porto Rican mat or, 

 in one instance, in bouquet boxes bright- 

 ly colored. The biota was best with 

 some red ribbon caught through the 

 branches. 



A GREAT deal of the complaint which 

 arises over differences of opinion be- 

 tween buyer and seller as to what con- 

 stitutes "first-class stock" would be ob- 

 viated if the buyers would cease to be 

 guided by price cheapness in placing 

 orders. You never could, cannot, and 

 probably never will be able to get some- 

 thing for nothing. 



SCXZIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Executive Committee Meeting;. 



The postponed meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Society of American 

 Florists was held at Philadelphia Decem- 

 ber 20. Among those present were : Pres- 

 ident Wm. J. Stewart, Boston; President- 

 elect F. H. Traendly, New York; Treas- 

 urer H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg ; . Secretary 

 pro tem W. N. Budd, Morgan Park, 111. ; 

 W. F. Kasting, William H. Elliott, J, K. 

 M. L. Farquhar, E. V. Hallock, and those 

 of the Philadelphia contingent. 



The business for 1907 was wound up 

 and unfinished business put in shape for 

 President Traendly, who became the offi- 

 cial head of the society on New Year's 

 day. Mr. Traendly announced that two 

 appointments to the board of directors 

 would be John Young, of New York city, 

 and George Asmus, Chicago. The society 

 has had a successful year and looks for- 

 ward to great things under the leadership 

 of President Traendly, with the conven- 

 tion at Niagara Falls in Augfust and the 

 national flower show at Chicago in No- 

 vember. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Since Christmas there has been a fair- 

 ly steady demand and the total of sales 

 has been satisfactory, but the supplies 

 of stock have been so heavy that prices 

 were not as well maintained as they 

 usually are between Christmas and New 

 Year's. Several large growers have 

 good crops of Beauty, especially long, 

 and Bichmond and Killarney are in 

 heavy crop with several houses. Bride 

 and Maid are of splendid quality, but not 

 in particularly large supply. Other roses 

 are to be had on all early orders. 



The carnations seem to be catching 

 their stride and the long delayed crops 

 appear to be on. Carnations are abun- 

 dant and of splendid quality. Prices 

 are fair. Unless we get too much dark 

 weather, there will be no complaint of 

 shortage of carnations from now on. 



Violets sold well for New Year's and 

 are of fine quality. All requirements can 

 be met with lilies, valley and bulbous 

 stock in general. Paper Whites are a 

 glut and selling even cheaper than last 

 year. Only a few tulips are seen as yet. 

 Sweet peas sell well, but the stems are 

 not yet long. An item which moves with 

 disappointing slowness is mignonette. 

 Stevia does fairly well, for the retail- 

 ers all use it in boxes and bouquets. 



There continues to be an excellent de- 

 mand for green goods of all kinds, but 

 the market is well supplied. 



The special demand for New Year's 

 did not develop to the extent that had 

 been hoped after the brilliant finish at 

 Christmas ; in fact, it looks as though the 

 New Year's business will be quite a 

 little less than a year ago, when it was 

 particularly good, however. 



Christmas Aftermath. 



After the wholesalers had rested up 

 from the Christmas rush and had a little 

 time for figuring, a general appearance 

 of satisfaction pervaded the market. 

 While there are some exceptions, most 

 houses report greater aggregate sales, 

 money value, than in the banner Christ- 

 mas of last year, and nearly everyone 

 says that the clean-up was exceptionally 

 good, even such little sought items as 

 Paper Whites selling out well. 



