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The Weekly Florists^ Revi^w^ 



Febbdaby 13, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqib. 



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New York Office ; 



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J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription tl.OO a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Europe, $2.60. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising- accepted. 



Advertisements must reach ub by Wednesday 

 morning to Insure Insertion In the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Bntered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act ot March 8, 1879. 



This paper la a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78, 



CONTENTS. 



INDEX TO ADVEKTISEE8, PAGE 78. 



The Uetall Florist — Newspaper Advertising.. 3 



— Artistic Arruugemeuts (Ulus.) 4 



Two Fine Phloxes 4 



Florlculturai Education 4 



Chrysanthemums — The Chrysanthemum 6 



— Propagating for Exhibition 5 



In Cauuila 5 



Hoses — Grafting and Benching .'..'. g 



— Nickerson Prizes for Koses 6 



T— A Jersey Kose House (iiius.) q 



Banning's Hobby (iiius.) tt 



The Headers' Corner — Ten Years of Expansion 7 



— A iStauUard Bunch of Green 7 



— Knglish Carnation Growers .'. 7 



Seasonable JSuggeutlons — Hydrangeas . . . •. 7 



— Bouvardlas 7 



— Gardenias !!!!!!!!!! 8 



— Jerusalem Cherries !.'.'!!.".'.'.' 8 



— Petunias !."!!!! 8 



— Coleus and Alternantheras !.'!!!!.'! 8 



— Geraniums ' ' ' " g 



— Bougainvlllea Sanderiana ........'...'.'.'..'. 8 



— Salvia Splendeus g 



— Easter Shrubs ! ! ! ' ' " 8 



— Dutch Hyacinths ] 8 



— Hybrid Perpetual Roses .....'.' 8 



Ficus Klastlca 9 



Pandanus Veltchll ............'. 9 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East ......... 9 



— Rye Soil for Carnations " 9 



— The El Paso Carnation Co. (lUus.) 9 



— A Pink Carnation Wanted 10 



— Soli for Carnations 10 



Elsele's New Cannas "" 10 



The Death Roll— J. B. Helss (portrait) ...'.'.'. 10 



Gladiolus laconic (illus.) 11 



Why Not a Gladiolus Society? '..'.'. 11 



Tab on the Telegrams 11 



Dahlia Sport !.'!!.'! 12 



National Flower Show '.'.'.'. 12 



Chicago ."!!!!"" 13 



Detroit 15 



Pittsburg !!'.!!!!'.!!!!! le 



Cleveland .'..!!.'!.'.*.'.' 18 



St. Louis !!!!!!!! is 



Boston .* 20 



PbUadelphla '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'." 22 



New York .'.'.'.'!.'.' 23 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables!!! 28 



— Merger at Grand Rapids 28 



— Wash for Grape Vines 28 



— Forcing Chicory 29 



Seed Trade News 30 



— The Canners' Convention (illus.) 30 



— Onion Sets 34 



— Imports 30 



— A Sioux City Controversy !!!!!!! 36 



— Onion Seed 30 



Springfield, 111 ! ! ! ! gg 



Rochester, N. Y 38 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco !' !'" 44 



— The Mild California Winter 44 



Wayside Notes 44 



Steamer Sailings ! ! ! 40 



Nursery News— Reappralsements ! ! 48 



— AstUbe Davidii (illus.) 48 



— Name of Hedge Plant 60 



— Planting Trees and Shrubs eo 



Mobile, Ala 62 



New Bedford, Mass 62 



Indianapolis , 63 



Washington ! ! ! ! ! 64 



Hoopeston, 111 !!.!!! 64 



Galesburjr. Ill ' . 50 



Orange, N. J 66 



Augusta, Ga 66 



Baltimore 58 



Buffalo ' " ' 60 



Toledo, Ohio 72 



Greenhouse Heating 73 



Cincinnati 76 



mF£¥ 



it printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested tliat 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. 



SOCIETY OF AHBBICIN FL0BI8TB. 



Incorporated bt Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 16, 1908; W. F. Hasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



There is an active demand for young 

 stock of the Killarney rose. 



The Illinois State Fair will be held 

 at Springfield September 25 to October 

 2, 1908. 



Collect your bills ; then you 'II be able 

 to pay what you owe and everybody will 

 be happy. 



Out in the grain states they say busi- 

 ness was never better and the florists are 

 all looking for the biggest spring trade 

 ever known. 



W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., 

 wants the national flower show guaran- 

 tors to chip in to provide a "Guaran- 

 tors' Sweepstakes Prize," to go to the 

 exhibitor who scores the largest number 

 of points. 



William F. Kasting, Buffalo, chair- 

 man of the committee of fifty on national 

 flower show, has called a meeting of the 

 committee at Chicago during the annual 

 meeting and exhibition of the American 

 Rose Society, March 25 to 27. 



The propagators for the trade report 

 an excellent demand for cuttings of both 

 Victory and Beacon carnations, but lit- 

 tle call for stock of Robert Craig, the 

 other scarlet that came out in the same 

 year as Victory. White Perfection and 

 White Enchantress also are in demand. 



AN EYE FOR BUSINESS. 



"An I for business Is the thing; 

 The crowd 

 Will patronize the men who sing 

 Out loud." * 



DAHLIA SPORT. 



I have a sport of Dahlia Souvenir 

 de Gustav Douzon in which the flower is 

 of the same style as the original, but is 

 white with a faint trace of red in the 

 throat of each petal. 



I would like to know if it is common 

 for this variety to throw flowers of this 

 kind in other localities. 



This flower caused a sensation at the 



Indianapolis dahlia show last season, at- 

 tracting more attention than any other 

 flower in the show. By selecting I have 

 secured about ninety per cent true from 

 roots, and in time hope to entirely elim- 

 inate the red flowers. I am also grow- 

 ing seed from this sport in the hope 

 of securing something good. 



E. T. Barnes. 



NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Correspondents of the Review are in- 

 structed to use the wires of the Postal 

 Telegraph Co., whenever possible, and 

 advertisers and others are requested to 

 do so when telegraphing to the Review. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Special Premium Offers. 



The following supplementary list of 

 special premium offers has been re- 

 ceived : 



John Breitmeyer's Sons, Detroit, 

 Mich., offer $25 first, $15 second, for 

 best fifty blooms La Detroit rose. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., 

 offers $25 cash, premium not yet speci- 

 fied. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., La Fayette, 

 Ind., offers $12 first, $8 second, $5 third, 

 for best fifty blooms Winona carnation. 



Samuel Murray, Kansas City, Mo., 

 offers $50 for best six plants Cibotium 

 Schiedei, not over 10-inch pots. 



John Young, New York, offers $50 

 cash, premium not yet specified. 



W. N. EUDD, 

 Chairman Premium Committee. 



Premifim List. 



The premium list for the national 

 flower show is now in press and will soon 

 be ready for mailing. Many changes 

 have been made in the list originally pub- 

 lished in the trade papers and it has been 

 largely increased. 



It is believed that the complete list 

 carries the largest amount in premiums, 

 medals, cups and trophies ever offered 

 at any floricultural exhibition at any 

 time. Suggestions for premiums have 

 been made, with a revision of all or 

 parts of the list, by about 100 indi- 

 viduals and firms, and it is hoped that 

 in the form in which it will appear all 

 classes of exhibitors will be found to be 

 amply provided for. 



It should be noted that the suggestions 

 made to the committee, if all had been 

 carried out, would have required over 

 five times the large sum of money which 

 was available. This condition, of course, 

 made it necessary to strike out many de- 

 sirable suggestions. All suggestions, 

 however, were given equal consideration 

 on their merit, without regard to the 

 names of the persons making them. 



Copies of the list may be obtained 

 on application to J. H. Burdett, Secre- 

 tary, 1411 First National Bank build- 

 ing, Chicago. W. N. Rudd, 



Chairman Premium Committee. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — H. A. Fisher, who 

 has been conducting a retail store here 

 for a year or more, has opened a sec- 

 ond store at Battle Creek. 



Fargo, N. D. — Plans are being pre- 

 pared for three greenhouses, each 20x60, 

 to be erected at the agricultural college 

 during the summer. One of the houses 

 will be used for laboratory and propa- 

 gating purposes and another for experi- 

 mental purposes. 



