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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 23, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



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 those In the trade. 



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AdvertlBln; rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Adyertlsements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to InSure Insertion In the Issue of the 

 CoUowlnc day. and earlier will be better. 



Bntered as second class matter December S, 

 1807, at the post-offlce at Chicacro, 111., under the 

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nr^EZ TO ADTESTISEaS, PAGE 78. 



: CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florlat — Artistic ArraBsements 

 (Ulus.) 3 



— Trouble With Flcus 3 



— Coloiis 3 



— The Eagles (Ulus.) 3 



Floricultural Education 4 



Use of Mixed Pollen 6 



Benches Over Cement Floors 6 



Flbrotta Plant Tubs 5 



Vlolets-^Poor C!olor in VloleU 5 



— Violets Unsatisfactory 5 



The Metal Tie 8 



Carnations — CarjjftUfin.Itotes:— Jgast 



— Carnation Notes — West 6 



— Nineteen Sports 7 



— Varieties in Same House 7 



— Bottom Heat for Cuttings 7 



• — Stigmonose on Wolcott 7 



Chrysanthemums — Mums With Weak Stems. . 7 



— Mums on Open Ground 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Herbaceous Calceo- 

 larias 8 



— Smilax 8 



— Primulas 8 



— Plants' for Easter 8 



— Blue Cornflowers 8 



— Sweet Peas 8 



— Stocks and Asters 8 



— Brief Reminders 9 



■Roses — Potting Young Stock 



American Rose Society 9 



American Carnation Society 9 



Ruflled Cladloli (illus.) 10 



Lily Bulbs In the U. S. (illus.) 10 



Louis P. Faulk (portrait) 13 



Trouble With Cyclamens 13 



Propagating House 13 



Plumosus With Carnations 13 



Council of Horticulture 14 



National Flower Show 14 



Society of American Florists 14 



Chicago 14 



Cincinnati 18 



St. Louis 19 



Boston 20 



New York 22 



Philadelphia 23 



The Death Roll 25 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables... 26 



— Worms In Lettuce Soil 26 



— Mechanical Watering 26 



Milwaukee 26 



Denver 28 



Seed Trade News 30 



— With the Canners 31 



— Seed Trade Executives 31 



— Imports 32 



— Reappralsements 32 



— Duty on Iris Roots 32 



— The Kentucky Seed Law 33 



— Ravages of Rodents 36 



Peeling Gladiolus Bulbs 37 



Liquid from Tobacco Stems 38 



Pansies for Memorial Day 88 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 44 



— San Francisco 44 



New Bedford, Mass 45 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Nursery News — Box for Edging 48 



— Ohio Nurserymen Organize 48 



— Beds of Evergreens 48 



— Tennessee Nurserymen 48 



Rochester, N. ¥ 60 



PlttsHurg 62 



Washington 64 



Columbus, Ohio 66 



Detroit 68 



Indianapolis 60 



Cleveland 62 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



Tarrytown, N. Y 73 



New Orleans 74 



Salisbury, Md 76 



Newport, R. 1 76 



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if printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thunday morning. It 

 ii earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy^ to reach «» by Monday* or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



80CI1TT or IMIBICAH FLOBIBIS. 



INOOBPOBATKD BT AOT OFCONGBEBS MABCH 4, '01 



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

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

 Clure, Buttalo; 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 Show, Chicago, Novem- 

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

 chairman. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Kevibw brings results. 



There are plenty of buyers who know 

 they are saving nK>ney by paying for 

 quality. 



It is reported that both Indianapolis 

 and Pittsburg want the 1909 convention 

 of the American Carnation Society. 



John Walker, Youngstown, O., speaks 

 highly of a violet named Mystery, stock 

 of which he obtained from Carl Merkle, 

 Mentor, 0. 



Julius Baeb, Cincinnati, used 200 

 white chrysanthemums in a big wedding 

 decoration January 18. And yet we call 

 it the autumn flower. 



That the supply of Louisiana cypress 

 is at least keeping pace with the demand 

 is shown by the fact that the Louisiana 

 Eed Cypress Co., New Orleans, which 

 is the selling agency of the cypress 

 mills, has sent an agent to Europe to 

 push the sales of cypress there. 



The least an advertiser can do, when 

 he receives an order for stock which has 

 already been cleaned out, is to make re- 

 ply the same day, returning any remit- 

 tance which may have accompanied the 

 order. Promptness in this matter will go 

 far toward maintaining an advertiser's 

 reputation. Indeed, next to sending out 

 nothing but first-class stock properly 

 packed, it is the most important essen- 

 tial for one who would build up a mail- 

 order plant trade. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



The Council of Horticulture was in 

 session at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, 

 Wednesday, January 22, for the purpose 

 of shaping up the press bureau work to 

 which the S. A. F., the Seed Trade As- 

 sociation and many individual firms have 

 contributed. It is planned to extend 

 the scope of the work during the ap- 

 proaching season. Those present at the 

 morning session were: Chairman J. C. 

 Vaughan and W. N. Budd, Chicago; C. 

 N. Page, Des Moines, la.; C. E. Ken- 

 del, Cleveland, 0. ; Secretary H. C. Irish, 

 St. Louis, and others were expected for 

 the later sessions. 



MORE THAN ALL OTHERS. - 



In sending in some subscriptions, the 

 owner of a good sized range of green^ 

 houses writes: 



"I make a standing offer to my men 

 to pay one-half the cost of their trade 

 papers and I let my boys choose which 

 they like best. It stands thusly: Thir- 

 teen chose the Eeview; the next paper, 

 six chose; the third paper, two chose; 

 the fourth florists' paper, one wanted. 

 So you see the boys have a liking for the 

 Eeview and I enclose my check for $13." 



The record shows that of these thir- 

 teen subscriptions, six were renewals.' 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



J. H. Burdett, secretary pro tem., has 

 mailed to guarantors a notice of assess- 

 ment of twenty per cent of the amount 

 of guarantees. Checks are to be made 

 payable to Irving Bertermann, Indian- 

 apolis, who is treasurer of the commit- 

 tee of fifty. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 has gone on the guarantee list for $1^- 

 000 and also will give $500 in special 

 prizes and medals. The guarantee list 

 now exceeds $12,500. 



It is the hope of the committee that 

 the show will be so successful financially 

 that the guarantors will receive back 

 the sums which are necessary to advance 

 for the preliminary work. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Vice-presidents for Michigan. 



The following are the state vice-presi- 

 dents who were appointed by President 

 Traendly for the state of Michigan, and 

 whose names were omitted from the 

 former list through a stenographer's 

 error: A. Pochelon, 153 Bates avenue, 

 Detroit; Henry Smith, Grand Eapids. 

 W. N. EuDD, Sec'y. 



Notice to Ladies' Auxiliary. 



All members of the Ladies' Society of 

 American Florists attending the carna- 

 tion meeting at Washington will please 

 wear their badge pins. 



Mrs. W. J. Vesey, Pros. 



Mrs. Chas. H. Maynabd, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Business is fair for the season and 

 toward the end of last week the market 

 stiffened perceptibly, the supply of roses 

 being scarcely enough to meet the de- 

 mand, and white carnations commanding 

 a premium. January 20 and 21, how- 

 ever, were April days and the market 

 softened again, with the prospect that 

 we shall have an abundance of stock 

 until the weather reverts to winter. There 

 would be a famine in the rose market 

 should we get a spell of dark, cold, snowy 

 weather, such as would be seasonable. 



Beauties have deteriorated in the last 

 week. The supply is now much less 

 than at any time since Christmas and 

 the quality is off, but the demand is 

 not strong enough to lift the prices and 

 several growers report that with con- 

 tinued bright weather it will be only a 

 matter of a few days until they will be 

 on again with heavy crops. 



There has been so much funeral work 

 of late that short roses are command- 

 ing a premium, Bride especially so. There 

 are some splendid long roses in the mar- 



