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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jancabx 9. 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

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INDEX TO ASVEKTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— Funeral Work (illus.) 3 



— Funeral Work In California 3 



— Artistic Arrangements (illaa.) 4 



J. B. Jensen (portrait) 4 



Margnerltes for Easter 4 



Name of Begonia 4 



Roses . . . JH 5 



— Liquid Feeding 5 



— Varieties in the Same House 6 



— Propagating Cochet Roses 6 



American Rose Society 5 



England's Rose Society 5 



Seasonable Suggestions 5 



— Begonia Incarnata 5 



— Begonia Rex 6 



— Lorraine Begonias 6 



— Fuchsias 6 



— Heliotropes 6 



— Verbenas 6 



— Geraniums 6 



— Cyclamens *5 



— Foliage Plants 6 



The Baltimore Exchange (illus. ) 7 



Thrips on Bedding Plants 7 



Competition, Fair and Foul 7 



Cheer Up 9 



Location of Greenhouses 10 



Bugs in Gladiolus Buibs 10 



Carnations 10 



— Carnation Notes— West 10 



— A Model Carnation Plant 11 



— Clyde Carnation Houses (illus.) 11 



Society of American Florists 12 



StarUing Reduction 12 



Chicago 13 



St. Louis 16 



Cincinnati 17 



Orange, N. J 18 



New York 10 



Philadelphia 22 



Boston 23 



New Bedford, Mass 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Cosmos Lady Lenox 31 



— Imports 32 



— Importance of Selection 32 



— California Onion Seed 32 



— Bonhomie Burpee 32 



— Catalogues Received 33 



Detroit 34 



Vegetable Forcing 38 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 36 



— Mildew on Lettuce 36 



— Vegetables as a Side Line 36 



— Tomatoes 36 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Loomis, Cal 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Portland, Ore 42 



Manchester, Mass 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nursery News 4» 



— Nebraska Nurserymen Protest 46 



— Wintering Evergreens 46 



— Care of Trees 46 



Weatwood, Ohio 48 



Grand Rapids 48 



Rambling Jottings 50 



Columbus, Ohio »* 



Taunton, Mass o2 



Rochester, N. Y M 



Washington »» 



Denver °2 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— Piping In Nebraska 84 



— Piping In Missouri 84 



— Steam for Six Houses 65 



Pittsburg 22 



Newport, R. 1 86 



Wayside Notes 88 



"Bmf 



i» printed Wedaesday evenins and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is 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. 



socnxT or ambbiciit flobists. 



Incobfobatbd by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

 Clare, Bnffalo; secretary pro tern., Willis N. 

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

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1006. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 15, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, BufTalo, 

 chairman. 



The present quotations on greenhouse 

 glass are the lowest in many years. 



Send your 1908 catalogue to the Re- 

 view and see that the Review is on your 

 mailing list to receive your printed mat- 

 ter regularly. 



Correspondents will add greatly to 

 the value and accuracy of their reports 

 if they will state the day of the month 

 on which an event occurred, instead of 

 referring, as many do, to * * last Monday ' ' 

 and leaving it open to question which 

 Monday was meant. 



Referring to the note on the hail 

 storm at New Orleans in a recent issue 

 of the Review, John G. Esler says: 

 "If Harry Papworth had heeded the 

 teachings of the Good Book, and 'held 

 fast to that which is good,' the Florists' 

 Hail Association would have reimbursed 

 the Metairie Ridge Nursery Co. for its 

 loss by hail." 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Directors Appointed* 



As announced in last week's Review, 

 President Traendly on January 1 ap- 

 pointed John Young and George Asmus 

 to membership on the executive board of 

 the society. President Traendly now 

 has appointed E. Y. Hallock, of Queens, 

 N. Y., as director to fill the vacancy on 

 the executive board occasioned by Mr. 

 Traendly 's election as president. 



Executive Board Proceedings. 



As reported in last week's Review, 

 the executive board met at Philadelphia 

 December 28 to close up the year's busi- 

 ness. The following official report is 

 now supplied by the secretary: 



Pursuant to call by President Stewart, 

 the executive committee met in special 

 session at Horticultural hall, Philadel- 

 phia, December 28. There were present 

 Messrs. Stewart, Elliott, Kasting, West- 

 cott, Beatty, Farquhar, Traendly, Hal- 

 lock and Rudd. The president appointed 

 Messrs. Robert Craig and Wm. P. Gude 

 to act in the place of Messrs. Wirth and 

 Murray, who were not present. The 



president announced that he had appoint- 

 ed W. N. Rudd as secretary of the so- 

 ciety, in accordance with the by-laws, 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of P. J. Hauswirth, which action was 

 approved by the committee. 



President Stewart prefaced his formal 

 announcements of the business before the 

 meeting by a few words setting forth 

 most feelingly the loss which had been 

 suffered by the society, and by the 

 trade at large, through the death of 

 P. J. Hauswirth, and on motion a com- 

 mittee, consisting of W. F. Kasting, 

 Frank H. Traendly and Wm. F. Gude, 

 was appointed to draw up resolutions, 

 and which committee later presented the 

 following report, which was adopted: 



Whereas, we, the executive committee of the 

 S. A. F., in special session assembled in the city 

 of Philadelphia, December 28, 1907, have learned 

 of the sad death of our beloved secretary, which 

 occurred in the city of Chicago, December 4, 

 1907. 



Therefore, be it resolved by the executive com- 

 mittee of the S. A. F., that in the death of 

 Mr. Hauswirth the society has lost a good 

 worker and a loyal friend. 



His motto always was the greatest good to 

 the greatest numt)er, and best Interests of all 

 concerned. For time and ability freely given to 

 the best interest of our society, he stood without 

 a peer. With him the common good was always 

 first. He was ever ready to sacrifice his own 

 interests for those of others. If he had a fault, 

 it was that In his generosity, he sacrificed his 

 own interests too much. For time freely given 

 in the best Interests of this society and for the 

 welfare of horticulture at large, we are indebted 

 beyond expression. 



As an acknowledgment of this debt and as 

 a token of grief we feel at bis sad death, these 

 resolutions are to be spread upon the records of 

 this society and a copy sent to his bereaved 

 family. 



The secretary stated that there was a 

 net balance of the society's funds in the 

 hands of the estate of the late secretary 

 amounting to approximately $1,500 and 

 that the family were ready to turn this 

 sum over, but under the advice of their 

 attorney, had asked that a complete check 

 of all society matters which had been in 

 his hands should be made, in order that 

 there should be no uncertainty. The 

 secretary had deemed this also an emi- 

 nently proper course to pursue, so that 

 any fears on the part of members of 

 the society, arising through groundless 

 rumors which always are circulated in 

 such unfortunate cases, might be set at 

 rest beyond peradventure. 



At the afternoon session Mr. Farquhar 

 was unable to be present and the presi- 

 dent appointed Edwin Lonsdale to take 

 his place. On motion of Mr. Kasting 

 the flower show committee was author- 

 ized to use for awards at the national 

 flower show, to be held in Chicago, No- 

 vember, 1908, ten silver gilt medals, 

 twenty-five silver medals, twenty-five 

 bronze medals and as many certificates 

 of merit as would be needed for worthy 

 subjects there shown. 



The thanks of the members of the com- 

 mittee were then formally tendered to 

 President Stewart for his long service 

 as secretary and president of the Soci- 

 ety of American Florists. 



W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



STARTLING REDUCTION. 



A special telegram from New York te 

 the Chicago Inter Ocean says: 



"New York florists are facing great 

 losses from lack of demand for their 

 goods and are slashing prices right and 

 left in the hope of disposing of a fair 

 proportion of their stocks. Purchasers 

 are reaping the benefit of the reduc- 

 tions, which in many cases are said to 

 reach five per cent. This situation is 

 different from that of previous years, 

 when the florists reaped a harvest." 



