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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Febbuahy 20, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G^ L. GRANT. Editob and Mahagxb. 



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THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



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

 Burope, 12.60. aubscrlptiona accepted only from 

 those ii^ the trade. 



Ad^ertl^lnff rates quoted upon request. Only 

 •trictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to Insure insertion in the Issue of the 

 (ollowlntr day, and earlier will be better. 



Bntered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 8, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVESTISEBS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Illinois State Florists' Association 3 



— The ' iSprmgtteld Meeting 3 



— Tuesday's iiusiuess Session 3 



— President's Address 3 



— Floriculture at University 3 



— Report of Advisory Committee 3 



— OOieers Klected iportralt) 4 



— Wednesday's IrTogram 4 



— The Banquet 4 



— Among Tuose Present 4 



— The Trade Jvxhi^its 4 



Use of Leather Scraps 5 



Uladiulus Nanus Matuilda 5 



IJahlia I'rupagatiuu 5 



Seasonable ijuggestions — Easter Lilies 5 



— Kambler Hoses 



— Hybrid Itoses 



— Azaleas U 



— Spiraeas 



— Rhododendrons tt 



— Scbizanthus 



— (jladiolus the Bride « 



Uoses — hot Winter Blooming 



— Best Hardy Hoses 7 



Carnations — Carnation Notes— East 7 



— Indoor Culture 7 



— Some ProllUc Scarlets 8 



— Graduating Temperature 8 



— Trimming Carnation Cuttings 8 



— House ot Enchantress (illus.) 8 



— Potting Carnation Cuttings 8 



— Cockcroft's Carnation Range (illus.) U 



— Effect of Excessive Heat 9 



Trouble With Early Tulips 10 



Spring Stock 10 



Book on Orchids 10 



The Readers' Corner 11 



Ciood Flowering Climber 11 



Charles Henry Fox (portrait) 11 



The Ueath Roll 12 



Chicago 13 



Boston 15 



Kansas City ItJ 



St. Louis 17 



New York 19 



Buffalo 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Horticulturists 24 



Primula Queen of North ' 24 



Bulbs in the SclUy Isles 24 



Too Much Nitrate of Soda 26 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables... 28 



— Vegetable Packages 28 



— Vegetable Plants 28 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Lily Bulbs 31 



— Imports 32 



— Seed Trade In Germany 32 



— The Disclaimer Again 32 



— Catalogues Received 33 



— Lily Bulbs in the U. S 33 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 44 



— San Francisco 44 



— Carnations In California 44 



Liquid Fertilizer 45 



Shading for a Palm House 45 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Nursery Ncws^-Shadow Makes Assignment... 48 



— San Jose Scale 48 



— Drainage 48 



Montreal 50 



Washington 50 



Springfield. Ohio 52 



New Bedford, Mass Ki 



Newport, R. 1 54 



Indianapolis 50 



Aurora, 111 50 



Toledo, Ohio 58 



Detroit 00 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



Columbus. Ohio 74 



Denver 70 



it printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 ii 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. 



80GIETI or AHIBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



INCORPOBATKD BY ACT OF CONGRESS MARCH 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21, 1008. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

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

 ' chairman. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review^ brings results. 



The mid-February glut of carnations 

 appears to have been general, reaching 

 to all the large markets of the country. 



Inquiry is made for someone who can 

 furnish Henri Jacoby geraniums. A 

 classified advertisement. will bring busi- 

 ness to anyone who has the stock. 



The second spring exhibition of the 

 St. Louis Horticultural Society will be 

 held in the Masonic Temple, March 10 

 to 12. A list of premiums has been is- 

 sued. 



There is not a word of complaint as 

 to the state of business in the agricul- 

 tural communities and the prospect for 

 a fine spring trade is causing hundreds 

 of florists in the cities and villages of 

 the middle west each to prepare to build 

 another house or two next summer. 



The introducers of new carnations say 

 the growers are not taking hold of the 

 novelties this season with the interest 

 that has run up the big sales of new 

 sorts in the last few years. As a result, 

 it will be all the more profitable for 

 those who get in early on the good 

 things. 



Those who do a considerable business 

 in rooted cuttings of carnations say that 

 White Perfection is the best seller, it 

 being impossible to supply the demand. 

 White Enchantress is second choice. 

 Beacon and Victory both are big sellers 

 and Winsor is called for in quantity. But 

 the man who is propagating Flora Hill 

 and Joost is not very busy with shipping. 



Fuchsias, those good old favorites of 

 by-gone days, are coming back to delight 

 us once more. We may never again see 

 such magnificent specimens as the mem- 

 ories of our apprenticeship days call viv- 

 idly to view, but we can have fuchsias 

 just the same, without being considered 

 old-fashionoil. There are on nearly every 

 place one or more spots, just a trifle 

 shaded, where fuchsia.s would thrive and 

 delight the eye as nothing else would. 

 For window boxes, if placed in suitable 

 situations, fuchsias are admirably 

 adapted. 



When advertisers receive orders for 

 stock which can not be shipped immedi- 

 ately, the le;a8t they can do is to acknowl- 

 edge receipt of the order, stating the 

 day shipment will be made. 



The horticultural traders of Great 

 Britain, under the leadership of George \ 

 Monro, of Covent Garden, London, are 

 endeavoring to secure from British rail- 

 ways recognition of the importance of 

 their traffic, better service being more 

 desired than lower charges, although 

 these are high. 



Hardly a week passes at this season 

 without the report of one or more wagon- 

 loads of plants, and frequently the ve- 

 hicles themselves, being destroyed by 

 fires caused by the oil stoves used to keep 

 out the frost. It would be much cheaper 

 to buy an accident-proof wagon heater, 

 like the Lehman — and there are others, 

 only our trade does not know them, as 

 they have not been advertised in the 

 Review. 



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. 



ILLINOIS EMBLEMS. 



By act of legislature it has been de- 

 creed : ' ' That the native oak tree be, and 

 the same hereby is recognized and de- 

 clared to be the native state tree of the 

 state of Illinois; and that the native vio- 

 let be, and the same hereby is recognized 

 and declared to be the native state flower 

 of the state of Illinois." 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Merton M. Green. 



Merton M. Green died in Louisville, 

 Ky., February 8, of pneumonia. He was 

 born in Hamilton, Madison county, N. Y. 

 In 1854 he removed to Louisville, and 

 some time afterward was in the florists' 

 trade for a while at Fourth avenue and 

 Green street. 



Robert Petrie. 



Robert Petrie, who had recently pur- 

 chased the business of H. Gresens, in 

 Alameda, Cal., died of heart failure Feb- 

 ruary 6. Mr. Petrie was 29 years of 

 ago and had resided in Fruitvale, Cal., 

 for several years before removing to 

 Alameda. G. 



William Adels. 



William Adels, who was one of the 

 most popular young men in the trade at 

 St. Louis, died February 11, aged 35 

 years. He had for several years been 

 with Mrs. M. M. Ayers, the retail florist, 

 and was skilled in his branch of our 

 work. He leaves a widow and one child. 



Robert Mann. 



Robert Mann, the pioneer florist of 

 Lansing, Mich., died January 6. He was 

 born in Ipswich, Mass., January 23, 

 1831. Early in life he removed to Mich- 

 igan, and at one time lived in Hills- 

 dale, where he joined the Masonic order. 

 In 1857 he married Miss Alice Clark, of 

 Jonesville, Mich. About eight years 

 later they made their home in Lansing, 

 and Mr. Mann engaged in the green- 

 house business near thp Washington ave- 

 nue bridge. Afterward he bought other 

 property on Washington avenue, south. 



