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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 19, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoib. 



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Bntered as second class matter December 8, 

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INDEX TO ADVEATISEaS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketail Florist 3 



— Display Case tor Novelties (lllus.) 3 



— l^ght Agalust Billboards 3 



Salvias for Bedding (illus.) 4 



tjeasouable Suggestions 4 



— Asters 4 



— XraiisplantlDg tSeedllags 4 



— Dahlias 4 



— Rambler Itoses 4 



— Easter Stock 4 ' 



— Lily of the Valley 5 



— < Brief Ueminders 5 



A Question on Taxation 5 



Plumosus as a House Plant 5 



Concrete Benches (illus.) 8 



Oue-l'lece Beuclies (iUus. ) 6 



Orchid Growers Organize 7 



Maidenhair Ferns 8 



Roses 8 



— Rose Uraula (Illus.) 8 



— Modern Methods of Growing 8 



Cbrysauthemums lU 



— Cbrysautheuium Liuton 10 



The Greenhouse Leaf-Tier 10 



Soil and the Florist 10 



Carnations 11 



— Buying New Varieties 11 



Omahu Florists (lUus.) 12 



The Death Roll 12 



— Joseph M. Gasser (portrait) 12 



— Isaac Cooper 13 



— Julius C. Gerlach 13 



— Prof. W. A. Kellerman 13 



— C. T. C. Deake 13 



— Franii Sabau 13 



— Joseph Kaiser 13 



Pigeon Manure 13 



American Rose Society 14 



National Flower Show 14 



Chicago 15 



Cincinnati 17 



New Vorlj 18 



Toledo, Ohio 20 



St. Louis 2u 



Detroit ^ . . .^ 22 



Boston X,-rC\ 24 



Columbus, 25 



Philadelphia 25 



Annuals and Biennials. 28 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Morse's Spencer Pea 33 



— Emergency in Iowa 33 



— Reappraisement 34 



— Imports 34 



— Catalogues Received . . ■. 34 



More About Gladioli • 34 



Vegetable Breeding 36 



Pacific Coast 44 



— San Francisco 44 



— Portland, Ore 44 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 48 



— Methods of CTulture .* 48 



— Forcing Rhubarb 48 



Winnipeg, Man 48 



Nursery News 49 



— Paper Birch 49 



— Austrians as Laborers 49 



— Manetti and Rugosa Seeds 49 



Rochester, N. Y 54 



Rambling Jottings 56 



Wayside Notes 68 



Lenox, Mass 60 



Kansas Clty_. 62 



New OrUiHts^-rrrTTs.. 64 



Ise Heating . -^X- 78 



— Loss from Smoking Chltancy 78 



Dayton, Ohio 80 



Cleveland 82 



Washington 84 



Oklahoma City, Okia 84 



i» printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thunday morning:. It 

 is earnestly reqtsested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy'' to reach us by JHonduiy, or 

 Tuesdaj at latest^ instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



800IITT 0!^ AHIBICAN FL0BIST8. 



Incorporated by Act of Conoress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Annual convention, Niagara Falls, August IS 

 to 21. 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

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

 chairman. 



The man with a good batch of kentias 

 next August will not need to worry about 

 finding a market for them. 



The parcels post idea meets with the 



approval of almost everyone except the 



country merchant and his friend, the 

 city jobber. 



W. C. ScovELL, Malta, O., says that 

 he has found solid beds much better than 

 raised benches for both carnations and 

 chrysanthemums. 



The daily papers of Cleveland, O., 

 in their notices of the death of J. M. 

 Gasser, credit him with having accumu- 

 lated at least half a million dollars in 

 the florists' business. 



Several of the usual autumn flower 

 shows will be omitted this year, to give 

 those who are relied upon to make them 

 successful an opportunity to devote all 

 their energies to the national show at 

 Chicago. 



In addition to the long list of special 

 premiums for the rose show at Chicago 

 March 25 to 27, published last week, H. 

 F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, offers a 

 silver vase valued at $25 for fifty blooms 

 of Kate Moulton. 



Some otherwise progressive growel 

 still seem to think any old piece of letter 

 paper is good enough for them to use in 

 ordering supplies. A printed letter- 

 head would be worth while, if for no 

 other reason than that it is businesslike. 



Ebee Holmes, whose address befoi*e 

 the Gardeners ' and Florists ' Club of Bos- 

 ton appears in this issue of the Review, 

 has earned for the Montrose Greenhouses, 

 Montrose, Mass., a wide reputation- for 

 the successful handling of Richmond, 

 Killarney, Liberty, Maid and Bride. 



The sweet-william and wallflower, like 

 many other good and beautiful things, 

 gave place temporarily to subjects more 

 showy, but not more worthy. The return 

 of the old favorites may not mean the 

 displacing of the newer, but a place, and 

 a prominent one at that, will have to be 

 found foi' thoni. 



■" -■ Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Clean up your store now, so it will 

 look its best at Easter. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting ancl exhibition of 

 the American Rose Society will be held 

 in Chicago next week. Secretary Benja- 

 min Hammond already has taken up his 

 headquarters at the Stratford hotel, 

 Michigan avenue and Jackson boulevard. 



The exhibition will be held in Black- 

 stone hall in the Art Institute on Michi- 

 gan avenue at the foot of Adams street, 

 opening at 5 p. m., Wednesday, March 

 25, and continuing on the two following 

 days*. 



The annual meeting for the transac- 

 tion of business will convene in Fuller- 

 ton hall in the Art Institute at 7:45 p. m. 

 Wednesday, March 25, a second session 

 being held on Thursday at 2:30 p. m., 

 with a third session on Friday if neces- 

 sary. Aside from routine business pa- 

 pers are promised as follows: "Roses in 

 Colorado," by J. A. Valentine, Denver; 

 "A Rose Garden," by W. A. Manda, 

 South Orange, N. J.; "Soils and Their 

 Adaptation to Varieties," by G. B. May- 

 nadier, Washington, D. C. ; "Forcing 

 Roses in Pots for Easter," by Robert 

 Craig, Philadelphia; "The Proper Size 

 of Greenhouse for Growing Roses for 

 Commercial Purposes," by W. H. El- 

 liott, Brighton, Mass.; "The Part the 

 Rbse Plays in Decorations," by J. F. 

 Sullivan, Detroit. 



The visitors will be entertained by the 

 Chicago Florists' Club at a banquet at 

 the Union restaurant. 111 Randolph 

 street, Thursday evening, March 26. 



The judges are John H. Dunlop, of 

 Toronto, and Emil Buettner, Park Ridge, 

 111., with the third judge yet to be 

 named. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Premitmi List Ready. 



The preliminary premium list for the 

 national flower show, to be held in Chi- 

 cago November 6 to 15, has been issued. 

 Those who have not received copies may 

 obtain them by addressing J. H. Bur- 

 dett, secretary, 1411 First National Bank 

 building, Chicago. 



The list and rules occupy twenty-six 

 closely printed pages and it is no exag- 

 geration to say that no such list of pre- 

 miums has ever been offered anywhere in 

 the world for an exhibition of floricul- 

 tural products. That the national flower 

 '^ow will be the greatest event in the 

 history of our trade cannot be doubted 

 by anyone who studies the premium list. 



The premiums are the most liberal ever 

 offered for a flower show, exceeding in 

 value, on the average, those annually 

 offered in Chicago, where the value of 

 the rewards for exhibitors is always 

 liberal. They exceed in value in most 

 classes the large money awards made at 

 the exceptionally successful world's fair 

 flower show in 1904, and there are nearly 

 twice as many classes, the list showing 

 349 classes. Should any exhibitor fail 

 to find a regular class for his exhibit 

 he can come in under No. 344, in which 

 $200 and a number of medals have been 

 set aside "to encourage exhibitors to 

 show new, unusual, interesting or educa- 

 tional exhibits coming within the proper 

 scope of this show and not specifically 

 provided for in other classes. ' ' 



