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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 23, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS'REVIEW 



O. L. &|tANT, Editob and Managib. 



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IHPEaC 10 APVERTISEBS. PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— Easter Trade 3 



— Grotesque Designs 3 



— Floral Fashions 3 



— Artistic Arrangements (illus.j 3 



. — Rock's Shopping List 3 



— A Daisy Bunch (lllus. ) 4 



Society of American Florists 4 



' Plants for Large Bed 4 



'Seasonable Suggestions 4 



— Cattleya Trianae 4 



— Tuberous Begonias 4 



— Gloxinias 4 



— Achimines 5 



— Fuchsias 5 



— Care of Bedding Stock 6 



Cold Storage Lilies 6 



Sweet Peas Under Glass (Ulus.) 6 



Pruning Hydrangeas (illus.) 9 



The Death KoU 9 



— Charles \V. Kaber 9 



— Mrs. Rose Bendt 9 



Roses 10 



— Hardy Outdoor Roses 10 



The Cineraria (iUus.) .* 10 



Boston 11 



New Orleans 12 



Milwaukee 12 



Cincinnati 13 



In North Carolina (lllus.) 13 



The Readers' Corner 14 



— Moles in the Greenhouse . . . '. 14 



Orchid Committee 14 



Chicago 16 



Pittsburg 18 



New York .20 



Cleveland 28 



Philadelphia 24 



Detroit 26 



Seed Trade News 80 



— Seedsmen at Washington 81 



— Change in Taste for Onions 32 



— Holland Bulbs 82 



— Catalogues Received 88 



— Clover and Timothy 84 



— Maryland Tomato Pack 34 



Vegetable Forcing 86 



*— Manure as a Summer Mulch 36 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 86 



Pacific Coast 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Salem Cherry Fair 42 



Dayton, Ohio 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nursery News 46 



— Devil's Lake Nursery Co « 46 



— Reappraisements 48 



— Catalpa for Timber 48 



Salem, Va 60 



Baltimore 62 



Amsterdam, N. Y 62 



Washington 64 



St. Louis 56 



Grand Rapids 68 



Toledo. Ohio 60 



Indianapolis 00 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



— Piping in Pennsylvania 72 



— Steam for Three Houses 72 



Wayside Notes ■ : 74 



Hartford, Conn 76 



It is false economy to cut fire heat off 

 the houses yet, except for the hardest 

 stock. It is still necessary on cold nights 

 and during wet, sunless weather. 



Additional shading will be needed on 

 some houses from time to time. Do not 

 make it heavy yet, as we often get much 

 dull weather in May. 



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Is printed Wednesday evetiing and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 U 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. 



SOGISTT or AHIBICABT FLOBISTS. 



IMOOHPORATXD BT AOT OF CONOBKBB MABCH 4, '01 



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

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

 Clure, BntTalo; secretary pro tem., WUUa N. 

 Rndd, 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. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Gradually harden the little berried 

 solanums, carnations, hydrangeas and 

 pentstemons, 



TuBN over your compost pile intended 

 for mums, roses and carnations. Add 

 some fine bone to it. 



Finish planting rambler roses, wis- 

 tarias, clematis and other deciduous 

 climbers as soon as possible. 



Transplant any hardy flowering per- 

 ennials as soon as possible, if you wish 

 some blooms the first season. 



Seedlings of Clerodendron fallax 

 should have a warm house. For fall use, 

 these are bright and serviceable. 



Be sure that the roots of all trees and 

 shrubs are moistened before planting. 

 This will reduce your death roll mate- 

 rially. 



Plant your early asters under glass 

 in a vacant bench, where carnations or 

 other crops are on the wane. Give the 

 soil a good addition of rotted manure 

 first. 



With many retail florists who try to 

 keep a step ahead of competitors, pottery 

 has largely taken the place of baskets 

 and hampers in the making up of holi- 

 day plant arrangements. 



The Baby Eambler rose surely this 

 Easter came into its own. It was shown 

 in large quantities all over the country 

 and had a splendid sale, whether in 

 small plants or larger specimens. 



When a retail . florist 's business was 

 taken over by a relative not long since, 

 he owed wholesalers an aggregate of sev- 

 eral thousands of dollars. Lax credits 

 are a moral as well as an economic wrong. 



Easter without doubt marked anoth- 

 er advance in the sale of flowering 

 plants. In all the larger cities the sup- 

 plies of plants were greater than they 

 ever have been before, the stock was of 

 better average quality, and the retail- 

 ers pushed the plants instead of cut 

 flowers so long as the supply lasted. 



It is still rather early to risk bay trees 

 in the open. Take advantage of wet days 

 to trim off brown ends and be sure they 

 are well supplied with water. 



, Make a first sowing of mignonette, 

 bachelor's button, sweet sultan, annual 

 larkspur and candytuft outdoors. A 

 second sowing of sweet peas will be 

 timely. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Moles in the Greenhouse. 



Will some one kindly inform us how 

 to get rid of ground or meadow moles? 



For the last three months moles have 

 been in one of our greenhouses. The 

 damage they have done is something 

 serious, especially in geraniums, which 

 they gnaw off just above the soil and 

 sometimes eat the part which is in the 

 ground, for an inch downward, but usu- 

 ally they cut the plant off just even 

 with the ground. They have destroyed 

 as many as fifty to seventy-five 4-inch 

 plants in one night. They seem to be 

 particularly fond of the Jean Viaud 

 geranium and Christmas cherries. Those 

 we have in 5-inch pots and they cut them 

 about four inches above the soil, or 

 rather the more tender branches. 



We have caught the moles in ordinary 

 mouse traps, baiting the same with 

 bread covered lightly with butter. We 

 also have caught a few young ones with 

 traps baited with cheese, which the older 

 moles do not seem to care for. We 

 have tried strychnine scattered thinly on 

 bread covered with butter, some of 

 which they ate. * 



The moles are a shade darker than 

 a Maltese cat, with long, pointed nose, 

 short legged and stub tailed. 



At the present time they refuse to eat 

 poisoned bread or food put on traps. 

 They seem to be content in destroying 

 plants of all descriptions. 



Augustus Caspers. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Horticulttu-al Society of New York, 



With a view to encouraging the culti- 

 vation and the study of orchids and the 

 formation of orchid collections, a com- 

 mittee of the Horticultural Society of 

 New York has been appointed for the 

 purpose of forming an orchid section. 



This action is the outcome of the re- 

 cent gathering of a few orchid amateurs 

 in New York, as it was the unanimous 

 feeling of those who took the initiative 

 that the times were not propitious for 

 the forming of an independent society. 

 The Horticultural Society of New York 

 in forming this orchid section gives per- 

 fect autonomy to the section, which will 

 be free to make its own rules and regu- 

 lations for the exhibiting of orchids. 



The first step is taken in connection 

 with the forthcoming announcements of 

 the May exhibition, to be held in the 

 New York Botanical Garden May 13 and 

 14, when, besides, four cash prizes, two 

 for amateurs and two open to all, -there 

 will be offered one gold medal, three sil- 

 ver medals and three^ bronze medals, 

 these medals to be awarded at the dis- 

 cretion of the orchid committee, which is 

 composed as follows: C. Moore, Hacken- 

 sack, N. J., chairman; J. E. Lager, J. 

 A. Manda, G. V. Nash, J. W. M, Kitch- 

 en, H. A. Siebrecht, and E. H, Roehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J., secretary. 



