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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabch 26, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqbb. 



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 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 momlnir to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 toUowinf day, and earlier will be better. 



Bbtered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 8. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Ohlcacro Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEKS, PAGE M. 



CONTENTS. 



The American Rose Society '. . 8 



— Ninth Annual Meeting (lllus.) 3 



— President 's Report 8 



— August Poeblmann (portrait) 8 



— Secretarys' Report 4 



— Treasurer's Report 4 



— Benjamin Hammond (portrait) 4 



— Papers Head 6 



— The Awards 6 



Roses in Colorado 6 



Best Siie of Rose House 8 



Boston Spring Flower Show (lllus.) » 



Pot Roses for Easter 10 



The Retail Florist H 



— The Rose at Retail 11 



Lilies Lotting Foliage 12 



Carnations 13 



— Carnation Notes — East 13 



— Worms on Carnations 13 



— Carnation Notes — West 13 



— Continuous Blooming 13 



— Position of Houses 14 



Commercial Rose Growing 14 



Soil and the Florist 14 



— Adaptation of Soils 14 



Virgins' Bower (illus.) 15 



Society of American Florists 16 



Dooley's Designs (illus.) 16 



Seasonable Suggestions 16 



— Palms 16 



• — Adiantums 16 



— Nephrolepis Runners 16 



— Lorraine Begonias 16 



— Easter Lilies 17 



— Dutch Bulbous Stock 17 



— Hardy Roses 17 



Frozen Ficus 17 



Chicago 18 



New York 21 



St. Louis 23 



Boston 24 



The Death Roll 32 



Vegetable Forcing 86 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 36 



— Forcing Asparagus 36 



— Lainson's Vegetable Plant (lllus.) 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Vegetable Breeding 39 



— Imports 40 



— Ward's Seed Policy 40 



— Catalogues Receired 40 



— Comiilimciits of the Season 42 



— Mann's Pure Seed Bill 42 



The Lucretia Tulip 45 



Pacific Coast 45 



— Pacific Coast Shippers 45 



— San Francisco 46 



Duty on Crepe Paper 54 



Nursery News 68 



— The Seedless Apple Failure.., 88 



— The Jollet Nurseries 58 



Plants for Carpet Bedding 69 



Prevention of Damping Off 60 



Culture of Isnaene 60 



Brown Foliage on Lilies 61 



Denver 62 



New Bedford, Mass 64 



Antbericum 64 



St. Paul 66 



Pittsburg 66 



Toledo, Ohio 68 



Newport, R. 1 68 



New Orleans 70 



Grand Rapids 70 



Indianapolis 72 



Washington 85 



Greenhouse Heating ' 86 



— From Steam to Hot Water 86 



— Three Narrow Houses 86 



Detroit 86 



Cincinnati !tO 



Buffalo 92 



If printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thttnday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ''copy^ to reach tis by Monday* or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have dotie 

 in the past. 



80CIBTT or AKIBICAR FLOBIST8. 



INCOBPOBAI^D BT Act OF CONORKSS MARCH 4, '01 



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

 New York; vlce-pretrfdent, George W. Mc- 

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

 Rudd, Morgan Park, Ul.; 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. 



Good growers declare that nicotine ex- 

 tracts are, in the end, cheaper for fumi- 

 gating than the old-fashioned tobacco 

 stems that cost little. 



The Eeview has more subscribers in 

 the state of New York than in any other 

 state in the Union. Pennsylvania is 

 second and Ohio third. 



There is not a word of complaint 

 as to the state of trade at Portland and 

 other cities on the Pacific northwest; 

 business is good and everybody is happy. 



There has been a marked improvement 

 in market conditions in the large whole- 

 sale cut flower centers since March 20, 

 particularly in the cities west of the At- 

 lantic seaboard. 



There are a great many moderate sized 

 lots of cuttings of White Perfection scat- 

 tered about the country, but the demand 

 with the specialists in rooted cuttings is 

 far from satisfied. 



To relieve the greenhouse congestion, 

 secure some warm stable manure and 

 leaves for a mild hotbed. Many of the 

 hardier plants will succeed well there 

 after the beginning of April. 



If bulb beds were well frozen when 

 covered, there need be no great hurry 

 about uncovering them. If ground was 

 soft when winter protection was put on, 

 there will be danger of breaking the 

 tops unless due care is exercised. 



Candytuft, double feverfew and stocks 

 intended for Memorial day flowering 

 should have the soil stirred about them 

 and be encouraged to grow freely. Re- 

 member that there is only a space of six 

 weeks this year between Easter and Me- 

 morial day. 



B. Eschneb, of M. Rice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, has just completed a trip through 

 the south, as far west as Kansas City and 

 home by way of the lake cities. He says 

 the retail florists everywhere are prepar- 

 ing for a big Easter. The general report 

 was that social work has been light this 

 winter, especially with the stores of the 

 highest class, but that funeral work has 

 been notably heavy everywhere. 



Put in cuttings of Moschosma ripa- 

 rium now, to be obtained on the cut 

 back plants. 



Do not forget the chrysanthemum cut- 

 tings, especially of kinds you may be 

 short of. 



Clean up the place — dirt in a florist's 

 premises is incompatible with the char- 

 acter of his business. 



There is nothing ' * special ' ' about this 

 issue of the Review, but it contains 

 ninety-six pages of live matter. 



Eber Holmes says he ha^ discovered 

 that, in growing cut flowers, it is not so 

 much how it is done as who is doing it. 

 There's a whole lot in that. 



As prices fall in spring, too many 

 growers are inclined to slight their stock 

 and let the quality run down, forgetting 

 that the best quality always has the ad- 

 vantage in a falling market. 



DON'T PROCRASTINATE. 



The flower business is a rapid fire af- 

 fair; that's why florists are in the habit 

 of expecting quick action from those 

 they deal with. Perhaps it also explains 

 why the Review is expected to change 

 advertisements received sixteen seconds 

 before going to press. Perhaps it also 

 explains why every Thursday morning 

 the Review receives several desirable ad- 

 vertisements which were intended for 

 the issue that went to press the day 

 before. 



To secure the publication of an adver- 

 tisement in the Ladies' Home Journal 

 an advertiser must send in his copy six 

 weeks in advance of publication. It does 

 seem as though advertisers might give 

 the Review at least six hours. 



Why not get your copy in Tuesday! 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Mai^et 



It is a pleasure to report a marked 

 improvement in the market in the later 

 days of last week, and a much more 

 cheerful atmosphere in wholesale houses. 



The improvement has been due to two 

 causes, a shortening of supply and an in- 

 crease in the shipping demand. There 

 continue to be ample supplies in all de- 

 partments, but there is no longer the 

 unwieldy surplus which was so unpleas- 

 ant a factor for several weeks. It ap- 

 . pears that crops have shortened more 

 with the outside customers than they 

 have with local producers, for there are 

 instances where people who have been 

 consigning to this market for a month 

 turned buyers at the end of last week. 

 The change has not affected quoted rates 

 to any great extent, but has been ap- 

 parent in the less frequent necessity 

 for cheap sales to clean out accumula- 

 tions. 



The Beauty crops have not come on as 

 fast as was anticipated. There are, how- 

 ever, enough Beauties for all require- 

 ments and the buyers refuse to pay high 

 prices for even the best goods. Rich- 

 mond and Killarney are in splendid form 

 and other roses are also of quality which 

 cannot be otherwise than satisfactory. 

 The supply and demand are near enough 

 balanced to bring prices back somewhere 

 near where they ought to be at this 

 season. 



While there has been a gradual short- 

 ening of carnation crops for a couple of 

 weeks, there still is an ample supply for 

 anyone who is willing to pay a fair 



