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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 12, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoib. 



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AdTertlsements must reach us by Wednesday 

 momlncr 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 Chicaro, 111., under the 

 act of March 8, 1879. 



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INDEX TO ADVEBTISESS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketall Florist 3 



— Making Up Baskets (lUus.) 3 



Encourage the Gardeners (Ulus.) 4 



The Argentine Aut 4 



Uses Solid Beds liHus.) 4 



A Builder's Problems ' 4 



KngUsli Ivy '. 5 



An Appeal to tUe Shippers '...'.'.'.'. 5 



Facts About Xhrlps 5 



LlUum Caudldum lor Easter (j 



Dracaena Bronze Beauty (Ulus. 1 « 



tSoU and the Florist « 



Four Good Sweet Peas a 



Carnations — Carnation Notes— East a 



— Trouble with Enchantress a 



— New Carnations in England ' a 



Primula Keuensis (iUus.) « 



Seasonable Suggestions— Hydrangeas .... 10 



— Pansies and Daisies ly 



— Sweet Peas [ ly 



— Cyclamen ]'/,[ ly 



— AUaniaiidas 10 



— Brief Keniluders H 



James J. Karins (portrait^ ... ii 



Cameron's Advice H 



Koses- Garden Boses ........[.[' 12 



— American Ucse Society 12 



Popularity of the Iris (ilius.) 13 



A Violet Tree ' ix 



The Deatli Uoll I4 



The I'l-ess Service 14 



Chicago , - 



New Vol li is 



St. Louis ; ; i? 



Banner Elk, N. C 22 



Clevelantt 2^ 



Cincinnati 22 



Detroit fZ 



Montreal 25 



New Bedford, Mass 25 



Denver .;« 



Philadelphia .'.'. S 



Buffalo S 



Boston tn 



Wayside Notes 32 



The Headers' Corner ............." 32 



Stored Cannas Hotting.... -jj 



Seed Trade News 35 



— Olds Company Burned Out ." 36 



— Commission Seeds ' * 3B 



— Imiwrts ^u 



— Introducer's Hlghts .........!!.!]" 38 



— Heappraisement 42 



— State of Business 42 



Pacific Coast 5| 



— Los Angtles, Cal. ( Ulus. ) 43 



— San lYancisco ' 4H 



Early Sweet Peas 49 



Effect of Fogs ry 



Steamer Sailings 50 



Vegetable Forcing .'. 52 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 5'« 



— Hothouse Tomatoes 52 



Nursery News ] 5-^ 



— Ellwanger & Bariy Otlin-r». ..'..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.,', Z4 



— Catalogues at Normal ', 54 



— Peaches for the South 55 



Dayton, Ohio 5« 



Ithaca, N. Y 5g 



Pittsburg '.'.'.'. 60 



Milwaukee 02 



Washington ' (J4 



Toledo, Ohio 0H 



Lancaster. N. Y 66 



New London. Wis 6« 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— Capacity of Boiler 78 



— More About Expansion Tanks 79 



— FYom Boiler to Grates 80 



Indianapolis 82 



Davenport, Iowa 82 



New Orleans 84 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning;. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy^ to reach tis by Monday* or 

 Tuesdaj at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many haye done 

 in the past. 



. SOCIETY OF AHIBICAN FLOBIblS. 



Incorporated bt Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

 Clure, Buffalo; secretary pro tern., Willis 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 15, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



The green carnation will have its 

 inning again next week. 



Get in on the low prices of glass; you 

 surely will need a few boxes for fall re- 

 pairs. 



Every florist who sells to the public 

 should do some special advertising at 

 Easter. Plan it now, and urge early 

 buying. 



To ENCLOSE a written communication in 

 a package of plants or other article 

 mailetl at anything lower than the letter 

 rate of postage is to violate the postal 

 laws and render the sender liable to a 

 penalty of $10 for each offense. 



The Robert Craig Co., Philadelphia, 

 is so well impressed with the new rose 

 Tausendschon, that it is forcing about 

 a thousand large plants for Easter. The 

 Dingee & Conard Co. says that without 

 doubt this is the best forcing climbing 

 rose introduced since Crimson Rambler. 



While it usually is possible for the 

 Review to publish, in any Thursday's 

 issue, advertisements received on Wednes- 

 day morning, it only is possible because 

 most advertisers get their copy in Mon- 

 day or Tuesday, Everyone who lets us 

 have early instructions is helping to take 

 care of the ones who have reason to be 

 late. 



The proceedings of the Congress of 

 Horticulture held at the Jamestown Ex- 

 position, September 23, 1907, have been 

 issued in book form by H. C. Irish, sec- 

 retary of the National Council of Horti- 

 culture. The volume is neatly printed 

 and contains 108 pages, setting forth 

 from a variety of points of view the 

 development to which horticulture in 

 America had attained at the date of the 

 congress. The publication of the pro- 

 ceedings was made possible by contribu- 

 tions from a number of well known com- 

 mercial interests, but it is not possible 

 to supply the volume except upon the 

 payment of the small fee of 25 cents. 

 Address Secretary Irish, care of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 



It is only six weeks to Easter — no 

 time to lose. 



Roses of such varieties as Lady Gay, 

 Dorothy Perkins, The Farquhar and Wed- 

 ding Bells make glorious displays while 

 in bloom. There are many objects, now 

 covered with much less effective vines, 

 which could be just as well hidden for 

 the greater part of the year with the 

 rose plants, and these at the same time 

 would give such a wealth of brilliant 

 flowers that it is a wonder they are not 

 used more than they are for such pur- 

 poses. Old fences and old walls are 

 frequently covered with pink roses and 

 Crimson Ramblers. Wooden buildings, 

 trellised and likewise covered, are fre- 

 quently seen in a few favored localities, 

 and such easy means of transforming 

 ugly objects into things of beauty will, 

 no doubt, gradually suggest themselves to 

 residents of numerous other localities. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Mrs. G. T. Sambrook. 



Mrs. George T. Sambrook, of Troy, 

 N. Y., died recently at the age of 70, 

 from an attack of the grippe, and the 

 funeral was held March 4. Among the 

 floral offerings at the funeral was a 

 beautiful wreath of roses and valley 

 from the Albany Florists' Club. Mr. 

 Sambrook, Sr., is very ill at the time of 

 writing. The two sons, who succeeded to 

 the business founded by the father, have 

 the sympathy of the craft at this time. 

 M. 



THE PRESS SERVICE. 



Beginning with March 7 the National 

 Council of Horticulture sends out the 

 first installment of four articles on gar- 

 dening topics, beginning the season's 

 newspaper campaign. 



The council has conducted a similar 

 service for the last two years. It is 

 free to local daily and weekly news- 

 papers and in most cases exclusive to 

 each one in its city. The articles are 

 prepared under the immediate direction 

 of Prof. H. C. Irish, of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, St. Louis, and their 

 cost is defrayed by voluntary subscrip- 

 tion by the S. A. F., Seed and Nursery 

 associations and by firms and individ- 

 uals. Their object is to arouse popu- 

 lar interest in horticulture, which will 

 result in more beautiful home grounds, 

 more beautiful cities, and a better un- 

 derstanding of nature. 



Professor Irish, who is secretary of 

 the council, which was organized at the 

 world's fair in St. Louis, is advised in 

 the conduct of the bureau by Prof. S, 

 A. Beach, of the Iowa Agricultural Col- 

 lege; Prof. L. R, Taft, Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College; Prof. S. B. Green,, of 

 St. Anthony Park, Minn,; Prof. E. J. 

 Wickson, Berkeley, Cal.; Prof. W. w! 

 Tracy, of the Agricultural Department, 

 Washington; J. Horace McFarland, of 

 the American Civic Association, and J. 

 H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn. 



These articles deal with the elementary 

 things of gardening and are intended 

 to reach beginners. Many of the lead- 

 ing newspapers of the country have pub- 

 lished them in the last two years. They 

 have no doubt done much for the trade 

 interests. See that your local papers 

 print them, and call your patrons' at- 

 tention to the series, which contains some 

 seventy articles and will run through 

 June, 



