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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febbdart 27, 1008. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqib. 



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 those in the trade. 



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Advertising' rates quoted upon reQuest. 

 •trictly traide advertisiner accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning' 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 Chieacro, 111., under thu 

 ftct of March 8, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEKS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketuil Florist— lu the Sunny South (lllus.) a 



— Making Up Uusketu li 



Itoses — iJuty Ou Itose Cuttings 4 



— Authracuuse 4 



— Au Old-Fusbloneil Kose 4 



Kosy Mom i'etuula 4 



K.vperluieut Stations 4 



Ketlectiuus of a Grower ii 



I'rimula Obcoulca 



Zonal Cerauiuuis ilUus. > 5 



A Flue Border Grass 



Cyclamens ti 



Seasonable Suggestions — Seed Sowing S 



— Propagation 8 



— Shamrocks (lllus.; S 



— Easter Lilies S 



— Gladiolus GanUaveusls 8 



— Kalmla Latlfolia 9 



— English Ivy U 



— Variegated Vlnca 'J 



Large Kose Houses U 



Carnations — Commercial Carnations « 



— Best Carnations 10 



— Worms on Carnations 11 



— Split Enchantress 11 



The Six O'clock Rooster (portrait; 11 



National Flower Show 11 



Shading 12 



Chrysautbeuium Society 12 



Lilies for Easter 12 



Chicago la 



New Vork 15 



Plymouth, Ind 17 



Boston 18 



St. Louis 19 



Violet Leaves Diseased 20 



The Death KoU 21 



Adiantum Scutum Koseum 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables... 30 



— Fertilizers for Vegetables 30 



Seed Trade News ; 32 



, — Adulterated Seeds 32 



— Clover Seed from Idaho 34 



— Erfurt, the Seed Center 34 



— Catalogues Received 35 



— Keappralsement 35 



— Imports 3tJ 



Gladiolus Praecox Hardy 36 



Some More .\bout Gladioli 3tJ 



Florlcultural Education .37 



Fancy Caladlums 38 



Thrlps on Callas 40 



Pacific Coast— Tree Seeds in California 46 



— Portland, Ore 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Wayside Notes 4f 



White Plains, N. Y 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News — Protection in Spring 50 



— Funklas for Outdoor Work 50 



— Planting Rhododendrons 50 



Detroit 51 



Charlotte. N. C 52 



Toledo, Ohio 52 



Oklahoma City, Okla 52 



New Bedford, Mass 54 



St. Paul 56 



Lenox, Mass 66 



Glencove. N . Y 58 



Washington 60 



Pittsburg 62 



Rochester, N. Y 64 



Hinsdale, Mass 75 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



Use of Cement Blocks 77 



Geraniums for Memorial Day 78 



The Readers' Corner 78 



Cyeas Revoluta 78 



Disposing of the .Surplus 79 



Department of Mathematics 79 



Cleveland 80 



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U printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thunday 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. 



80CIETT or AHIBICAM FLOBI8T8. 



Incorporated 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, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

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

 chairman. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, takes the 

 chill off the water he uses through the 

 hose by passing the water pipe for a 

 few feet through a 4-inch pipe in which 

 live steam from the boiler is circulated. 



It is worth while noting that while 

 interest in new carnations seems to have 

 abated as their number has increased, 

 the interest in new roses is greater than 

 ever, even if buyers are not disposed to 

 plunge. 



A GENTLEMAN named Stern, of whom 

 such levity would not be expected, ob- 

 serves that "trying to do business 

 without advertising is like winking at 

 a girl in the dark; you know what you 

 are doing, but nobody else does. ' ' 



The Classified Department of the Re- 

 view is the great medium of exchange 

 between florists. Thousands buy from 

 the offerings there, but do not avail 

 themselves of the opportunity it presents 

 to dispose of their own little lots of sur- 

 plus stock. 



The correspondent at Kokomo who 

 signs himself "Potter" and wants to 

 know what is considered a day 's work at 

 potting cuttings in the several large es- 

 tablishments he names, should write to 

 the proprietors of those places and sign 

 his name. 



The centennial exposition of the So- 

 ciete Royale d 'Agriculture et de Botan- 

 ique, of Ghent, Belgium, will be held in 

 the gardens of the Casino from April 23 

 to May 3, 1908. This exposition is in- 

 ternational and devoted exclusively to 

 plants, flowers, seeds, and in general to 

 everything pertaining to the horticultural 

 trade. This exposition is held regularly 

 every four years. 



NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Correspondents of the Eeview 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. 



SHADING. 



Please give us the formula for shad- 

 ing houses of cucumbers in March and 

 later. W. D. H. 



One gallon of kerosene to ten pounds 

 of white lead, well mixed and put on 

 with a brush, will make a shade suffi- 

 ciently heavy for the purpose in hand, 

 and withstand the rains. Tliis shading 

 does not injure the paint and is easily 

 removed by rubbing with a dry brush. 



William Scott. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Plan of Affiliation. 



The Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica, realizing the necessity of closer re- 

 lations with the various horticultural so- 

 cieties throughout the country, and agree- 

 able to a vote taken at the annual meet- 

 ing in New York City November 6, 1907, 

 the executive committee cheerfully in- 

 vites the hearty co-operation of every 

 horticultural society in the United States, 

 and offers the following for their care- 

 ful consideration: 



Any horticultural society, or garden- 

 ers' or florists' club may become affili- 

 ated with the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America on payment of an annual fee of 

 $25, such fee entitling it to the following 

 privileges : 



1. The C. S. A. will offer a substan- 

 tial silver trophy as a prize for chrysan- 

 themums; the character of the class, and 

 conditions of the competition to be left 

 to the discretion of the society so af- 

 filiated. 



2. To receive twelve copies of the C. 

 S. A. publication, free of charge. 



3. To have two free passes to the an- 

 nual exhibition of the C. S. A. 



4. To elect one of its members as a 

 delegate to the annual meeting of the 

 parent society, with voice and vote on 

 any subject, except matters of finance, 

 such delegate to be annually elected by 

 the society Affiliated. 



Conditions of Affiliation. 



Subject to the foregoing, the affiliated 

 society shall pay the above mentioned 

 fee on or before April 1 of each year 

 to the secretary of the C. S. A. and fur- 

 nish the following information : 



(a) The full title of the society, the 

 name and address of the secretary, and 

 the name of the delegate elected. 



(b) The date on which the next fall 

 show will be held, and the conditions un- 

 der which the C. S. A. trophy will be 

 given. 



(c) A copy of the prize schedule of 

 the affiliated society to be sent to the 

 secretary of the National Society as soon 

 as possible after publication. 



David Fraser, Secretary. 



LILIES FOR EASTER. 



My Easter lilies, which are from twelve 

 to sixteen inches high, are now showing 

 buds deep down in the leaves. Can I 

 retard them for Easter? I have never 

 had them so short before and yet they 

 look fine and sturdy. I have been 

 hustling them along, not expecting them 

 to bud under thirty inches in height. 



C. P. N. 



Your plants will be all right and of 

 just the proper height. Probably hard 

 forcing has caused them to be so tall in 

 past seasons. If you keep them in a 



