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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 16, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaoxb.. 



PUBUSBXD XVXBT TBX7B8DAT B7 



THE FLORISTS* PUBLISHING CO. 



680-560 Cazton Balldlng, 



884 Dearborn Street, Chicago* 



Tklkphune, Harrison M29. 



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New York Office : 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin shaw, Manager. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. To 

 Europe, 6.50. iiubscrlptlona accepted onlr from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to Insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Bntered as second class matter December 8, 

 1807, at the post-office at Ohieago, 111., under the 

 act of March 8. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVESTISEaS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Tlie Retail Florist 5 



— Artistic Arrangements (illus. ) 5 



— The City Beautiful 5 



— An Ohio Store UHus.) e 



Seasonable Suggestions 6 



— i'runlng Hurdy Itosses B 



— Ciiro of Lawns 6 



— Bedding Stocit ti 



— Autirrhlnums 6 



— Lily of the Villey 6 



— Memorial Day Stock G 



— Left-over Easter Stocic 7 



— Late Bulbous Stoclj 7 



— Dahlias 7 



— Brief Reminders 7 



Garfield Park Conservatory dilus.) 7 



Whale Oil Soap 8 



Geraniums 8 



Carnations 8 



— Carnation Notes — liast 8 



— Rooting Red Chief 8 



— Hillside Plow ■ 9 



— Carnation Show in London (illus.^ i> 



Hellenthal's House (iUus. > 10 



Mail Order Advertising 10 



TroJblc with Gardenias 10 



Robert Pyle (portait) 11 



Boston 12 



On Nebraska's Plains (illus.) 13 



The Death Roll 13 



— F. P. Davis 13 



— Mr. Kaber 13 



— Theodore E. Horn 13 



— Ferdinand Bendt 13 



Society of American Florists 14 



How to Pick Winners 14^ 



Illinois Florists 14 



Breltmeyer for Mayor 14 



Chicago 15 



New York 18 



St. Louis : 20 



PhUadelphla 22 



Pittsburg 2« 



Vegetable Forcing j 27 



— Red Spider on Lettuce 27 



— Sterillz'.jg Lettuce Soil 27 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 27 



Portland. Me 27 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Consider the Mann Bill 31 



— Grass Seed Markets 32 



— Imports 32 



— Government Control of Seed 32 



— The Maine Seed Law 36 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Portland. Ore 42 



— San Francisco 42 



Baltimore 42 



New Orleans 42 



Chassell. Mich 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nursery News 46 



— Want Stock True to Name 46 



— The Sugar Maple 46 



— The Southern Nursery Co 47 



— Grafting Clematis 47 



Amherst, Mass 47 



Columbus, Ohio BO 



Buffalo 52 



Cincinnati 64 



Wayside Notes 56 



Detroit 58 



(Jreenhouse Heating 70 



^ Chimney Facts 70 



Lebanon, Ind 70 



Washington . . . , 71 



Toledo. Ohio 72 



Indianapolis 74 



Montreal 76 



Milton, N. Y. — W. H. Donaldson has 

 built a n«w carnation house, 35x110. 



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i» printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested 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 done 

 in the past. 



80CIITT Oir AMIBIVAM rLOBIblS. 



Incorporated bt Act of Conobebs March 4, '01 



Officers for 1908; President, F. H. Traendiy. 

 New York; Tice-preBident, George W. Mc- 

 Clnre, Bultalo; secretary pro tem., Willis N. 

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

 Beatty. Pittsburg. 



Annnal couTention, Niagara Falls, August 18 

 to 21. 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 16, 1908; W. F. Hasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



They all read the Review. 



The price of glass continues in favor 

 of the greenhouse builder. 



Hail storms doing much damage to 

 greenhouse glass occurred last week at 

 Carthage, Mo., and lola, Kan. 



Correspondents will please send East- 

 er trade reports early. They must reach 

 this office by the first mail April 22, to 

 be in season for the issue of April 23; 

 and after that issue Easter will be 

 ancient history. 



Possibly the greatest evil in the flower 

 business is that of lax credits. One may 

 be narrowing his field if he gives credit 

 to none save those legally "good," but 

 regular if not prompt payments should 

 be insisted upon. 



So great has been the interest in the 

 subject of hydrocyanic acid gas for fumi- 

 gating greenhouses that the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has issued a second 

 revised edition of its bulletin giving the 

 results of its experiments. 



The florists who do much outdoor 

 work, and at this time of year take on 

 a number of extra men, say that help is 

 much more plentiful than a year ago and 

 that the number of applicants enables 

 them to make a selection from those who 

 have experience. 



SCX3ETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration.' 



The Waban Rose Conservatories, 

 Natick, Mass., make application to have 

 the name of their rose previously regis- 

 tered as White Killarney changed to 

 Mavourneen. Public notice is hereby 

 given of this application and any persons 

 objecting to this proposed change of 

 name, or knowing of any reasons why 

 the name should not be changed as above, 

 are requested to forward a statement of 

 their objections to the undersigned at 

 once. 



No objection being received within 

 twenty days, a change in registry will 

 be made. W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



The Belgian goverunieut has recog- 

 nized the claims of horticulture as one 

 of the leading branches of trade in that 

 country. Well-known horticulturists have 

 for some time strenuously worked for a 

 board of horticulture, and their efforts 

 are now rewarded. The board of agri- 

 culture will be reorganized, and a special 

 department of horticulture formed. It 

 is especially appropriate that this reso- 

 lution should be passed by the Belgian 

 government just on the eve of the great 

 quinquennial exhibition at Ghent. 



HOW TO PICK WINNERS. 



The Chicago Tribune is publishing a 

 series of articles on advertising that 

 cover this important subject so fully, 

 so clearly and so interestingly that they 

 are being widely read. Here is one 

 thought on how to pick the best paper: 



You don't need a circulation state- 

 ment. ' * The supreme test of the adver- 

 tising value of a newspaper is — does it 

 carry the bulk of the advertising? A 

 newspaper which prints the most adver- 

 tising, month after mouth, year after 

 year, is always the best medium. This 

 is true in New York, Boston, Philadel- 

 phia, as well as in Chicago." 



The articles are by Herbert Kaufman 

 and the Tribune says that as soon as the 

 series is finished they will be printed 

 in a booklet for general free distribu- 

 tion. Better get one. 



ILLINOIS FLORISTS. 



Appointments in State Association. 



. The following officers and committees 

 have been appointed by President Albert 

 T. Hey, of the State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, since last meeting: 



Vice-presidents — A. C. Brown, Spring- 

 field, to succeed August Poehlmann, term 

 expired; E. W. Guy, Belleville, to suc- 

 ceed A. S. Halstead, term expired ; A. R. 

 Knowles, Bloomington, to succeed F. L. 

 Washburn, treasurer-elect, who resigned. 



Advisory committee to experiment sta- 

 tion — J. C. Vaughau, Chicago, two years ; 

 W. N. Rudd, Morgan Park, two years; 

 C. D. Gallentine, Morrison, one year; 

 F. J. Heinl, Jacksonville, one year; J. F. 

 Ammann, Edwardsville, two years. 



Membership committee — A. F. Lon- 

 gren, Des Plaines, chairman; Frank A. 

 Friedley, Springfield, and James B. 

 'Neill, Chicago. 



J. F. Ammann, Sec 'y. 



BREITMEYER FOR MAYOR. 



Detroit friends of Philip H. Breitmeyer 

 think he would make a good mayor. One 

 of the local papers says: "Detroit's 

 park and boulevard commissioner is the 

 latest arrival among the republican pos- 

 sibilities for the mayoralty. He never 

 held political office of any kind until 

 he accepted his present one, but seems 

 to be willing. He appears to have much 

 strength among the reform element be- 

 cause of his declaration in favor of the 

 enforcement of the liquor law, and also 

 has thousands of supporters among the 

 German societies, who are standing for 

 personal liberty. He is an exceptionally 

 successful florist, vice-president of the 

 German-American bank, and forty-four 

 years of age. ' ' 



Winnipeg, Man. — The retail store of 

 the Rosery Flower & Seed Co., at 325 

 Portage avenue, has been purchased by 

 A. K. Butchart. 



