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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Mat 7, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED KVKEY THUH8DAY BY 



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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 earUer will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-ofHce at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 8, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



UnOEX TO AOVEHTISESS. PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— Lettering the Pillow (Ulus.) " 3 



— Wedding Outfits 3 



— Memorial Day 3 



— The Art of Window Casing '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 8 



— The Wedding Decoration (lUus.) 4 



Storing Peonies 5 



The Use of Cast Glass 6 



Soil and the Florist ",. 6 



The Readers' Comer q 



— Moles In the Greenhouse e 



Whltetly ; 6 



Carnations — Soil for Carnations ". 7 



— Thrlps and Red Spider " 7 



A New Ohio Plant (illus.) ' g 



Seasonable Suggestions .'. g 



— Fire Heat g 



— Hardening Bedding Stock ....'.'.'.'.'.'. g 



— Field Planting g 



— Hlppeastrums '. . g 



— Dahlias ". | . g 



— Hardy Nympbaeas !..!!.!.!! g 



— Nelumbiums g 



— Rambler Roses !!!]!!.*! 8 



— Brief Reminders ] " . 9 



Hardy Rbo<lodendrons (illus.) 9 



Roees — Rose Apple Blossom (Ulus.) 10 



— New Roses for Easter 10 



— Best Hardy Climbing Roses 10 



Tile Bench Construction (illus.) 11 



Cyclamen 12 



The Death Roll— Joseph Itepath '.'.'.'.'. 12 



— Mrs. H. H. Taylor 12 



— George Williams 12 



— Charles Smith 12 



Chicago 13 



Knopf Name Now 16 



Boston 16 



New York 17 



Society of American Florists 19 



Hill and the Paris Roses 20 



Name for Fern '. 20 



Palms are Modem 21 



Philadelphia 22 



The Best Lilacs 24 



The Barberton Daisy 26 



Seed Trade News -28 



— The Public AtUtude 28 



— Imports 29 



— Catalogues Received 29 



— Ruffled Gladioli 29 



— Primula Kewensls 32 



— WUl Bear It Z2 



St. Louis .32 



Vegetable Forcing 34 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 34 



— Lettuce In Solid Beds 34 



Land of Big Wheat Fields (Illus.) 34 



Pacific Coast 40 



— Victoria, B. C 40 



— San Francisco 40 



Ascleplas Douglasl 40 



Dayton, Ohio 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 44 



— Shrub Jottings 44 



• — Privet for Hedges 44 



Progress at Aurora 46 



Pittsburg 48 



Austin, Tex 48 



Cleveland 60 



Baltimore 52 



Owensboro, Ky 53 



Orange, N. J 63 



Washington 64 



CMnclnnatl 66 



BaflTalo 68 



New Albany, Ind 70 



Detroit 70 



Greenhonse Heating — To Make a Rust Joint. 72 



— Painted or Galvanized Pipe 72 



Wayside Notes 72 



New Bedford, Mass 74 



Hartford, Conn 74 



Tarrytown 76 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday mominsf. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 '^copy" to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday momins;, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, 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. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The report comes from England that 

 kentias in medium sizes still are selling 

 fairly well, but larger sizes go poorly. 



Hail insurance in England is con- 

 ducted by a stock company for profit. 

 It now has insured an area of 35,500,000 

 square feet of glass. 



There are still a great many growers 

 and small florists who manage to get 

 along without a printed letter-head. But 

 it either is neglect or false economy. 



It is not possible for everyone to do 

 business on a strictly cash basis, but it 

 is no more than good management to 

 require regularly the prompt meeting of 

 obligations. 



Growers should not forget that in 

 the periods of low prices the stock of 

 best quality always has the advantage. 

 Dou't slight your work just because 

 flowers happen to be cheap. 



Secretary Budd has issued the an- 

 nual volume of the Society of American 

 Florists, containing the complete pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia convention. 

 It makes a closely printed book of 240 

 pages. 



There is beginning to be the usual 

 call for extra help for the spring rush, 

 but the slack times in some other lines 

 have led many men to return who had 

 been called away from gardening by 

 higher wages paid in some other lines, 

 and experienced labor is less scarce than 

 usual at this season. 



CYCLAMEN. 



The cyclamen is not a diflScult sub- 

 ject to cultivate, and a bench of seedling 

 plants will always provide a good selec- 

 tion of colors. Sometimes these plants 

 will produce flowers of a particularly 

 pleasing shade, and in some instances 

 these special colors are perpetuated until, 

 by selection, the variety comes true from 

 seed. By such means has been produced 

 the beautiful salmon-colored variety 

 shown by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. under 

 the name of Low's Salmon, to which an 

 award of merit was recently granted by 



the English Eoyal Horticultural Society. 

 Of equal value to the colored varieties 

 to the florist in winter are the pure white 

 kinds, such as are represented in Ed. 

 Webb & Sons' new Mont Blanc variety. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Joseph Repath. 



Joseph Bepath, an employee of Mrs. 

 Fred J. King, at Ottawa, 111., was found 

 dead upon the floor of one of the green- 

 houses, Sunday morning, April 19, short- 

 ly before 6 o'clock. The body was lying 

 face downward, and its condition seemed 

 to indicate that life had been extinct 

 for several hours. An inquest was held 

 and a verdict was returned stating that 

 the evidence showed he had probably 

 died of acute indigestion. 



Mr. Bepath had removed from Au- 

 burn, N. Y., to Ottawa, less than two 

 months ago. He had stated that he was 

 a single man and that his parents lived 

 in England. He was 33 years of age. 



Mrs, H. H. Taylor. 



Mrs. Taylor, wife of Dr. H. H. Tay- 

 lor, of Joplin, Mo., owner of the Galena 

 Greenhouses, at Galena, Kan., died at her 

 home in Joplin, April 23, at the age of 

 67 years, and was buried April 25. Many 

 of the Joplin florists sent tributes, as 

 also did the Budd Park Greenhouses, 

 of Kansas City. 



George Williams. 



George Williams, of 152 Henry street, 

 Hempstead, L. I., formerly employed as 

 landscape gardener on the Kernochan 

 estate, the Meadows, and lately engaged 

 in growing flowers, was found dead 

 April 28, under a horse shed on the 

 Hempstead Manor property. A common 

 sash cord rope was around Ids neck and 

 fastened to a beam in the shed. De- 

 spondency or temporary aberration of 

 mind is believed to have led him to kill 

 himself. He was about 55 years of age. 

 He left a widow and grown-up children. 



Charles Smith. 



Charles Smith, of Boundbrook, N. J., 

 one of the old-time and successful flo- 

 rists of Long Island, who a year ago 

 bought his new establishment in Jersey, 

 making it his home and bidding fair to 

 enjoy many years of prosperity, was 

 suddenly called to join the silent ma- 

 jority, by pneumonia following an at- 

 tack of nervous prostration, after the 

 hard ordeal of the Easter trade. He 

 leaves a large family to mourn his loss. 

 His sons will continue the business at 

 Boundbrook and Woodside, L. I. 



Mr. Smith was one of nature's noble- 

 men, genial, devoted to his calling, thor- 

 oughly expert as a grower and abreast 

 of the times in every way. A little 

 over 60 years of age, he had all the en- 

 thusiasm, hopefulness and cheerfulness 

 of youth, and a host of friends sorrow 

 because of his untimely end. The day 

 before Easter he was at the market 

 early, as was his custom, in the best of 

 health and spirits and with no evidence 

 of illness. The funeral was attended 

 by many of his florist friends, and beau- 

 tiful floral tokens of sympathy attested 

 the general esteem in which he was held 

 by all who knew him. J. A. S. 



Bochester, N. Y. — An addition is be- 

 ing built to the greenhouses at Chal- 

 mers' Conservatories. 



