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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 21, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Makageb. 



PUBLISHED EVEBY THCBSDAY BY 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 9 



— Flowers from Lodges (lllus.) 9 



— Funeral Work 9 



— Decorated Wagons (lllus.) 10 



Azaleas at Gheat 10 



The Banks of the Charles (lllus.) 11 



Diseased Geraniums 11 



Assessments on iitock 11 



Planting Bulbs with Macblue 11 



Soot as Fertilizer 12 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Memorial Day Preparations 12 



— Bedding Out 12 



— Avoid Messy Mixtures 12 



— Plants for Shady Locations 12 



— "Mixed Foliage Beds 12 



— Persistent Flowering Annuals 12 



— Window-boxes and Vases ^. 13 



— Brief Reminders ". 13 



House of Formosa LUies (lllus.) 13 



Temperature for Greens 14 



Roses — The Planting Season 14 



— Red Spider on Roses 14 



— Thrlps on Beauties 14 



The Readers' Corner 14 



— Creosote In Greenhouses 14 



— White Fly 14 



Ludwig Stapp's Place (lllus.) 15 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 16 



— Cutworms 16 



Obrysautbemums 16 



— Get the Cuttings In 16 



— Hardy Chrysanthemums 17 



The Wa-No-Ka Greenhouses (lllus.) 17 



Violets — The Foundation of Success 17 



Orchids 18 



— Cattley as 18 



The Death Roll 18 



— William Scott (portrait) 18 



Society of American Florists 20 



Chicago 20 



Resting Callas 24 



St. Louis 25 



Boston 26 



Philadelphia 28 



New York 29 



Nephrolepls Wbitmanl 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— New Names 35 



— Western Seedsmen Meet 35 



— German Seed Trade 35 



— Export of Dutch Bulbs from 1897 to 1907 



In Kilograms 36 



— A Scarlet Cineraria 36 



— The Week in Seeds 36 



— Imports and Exports 36 



— The Insecticides Bill 36 



— Wilson May Resign 88 



— Catalogues Received 38 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— (ireenbouse Vegetables 40 



— Tomatoes 40 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Portland, Ore 46 



— Grevlllea Thelemannlana 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Nursery News 60 



— Shrub Jottings 60 



— Reappralsemeots 50 



— Kvergreen Seedlings 61 



— Deutzlas 62 



Cleveland 54 



New Haven, Conn 64 



Montreal 56 



Albany, N. Y 66 



Peoria, 111 .56 



Washington 58 



Cincinnati 60 



New Orleans 71 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



— Why Smoke Is Made 72 



— Insufficient Boiler Capacity 72 



Milwaukee 72 



Detroit 74 



New Bedford, Mass 76 



tVeO*: 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtsrsday taoraing. 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 mocaisig, as many have done 

 in the past. ^ '. - . < 



SOCIETY OF AHEBIGAN FLOBISTS. 



Incobpobated by Act of Congbess Mabch 4, '01 

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

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Ruda, 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 16, 1908; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



We wish the weather man would 

 "Push Dem Clouds Away" and give 

 the planters a chance. 



When printed letter-heads cost so lit- 

 •tle, it is a great mistake for growers 

 to write on plain paper and thereby cre- 

 ate a doubt as to whether or not they 

 are entitled to trade prices. 



All the European horticultural peri- 

 odicals are reprinting the paper on hy- 

 bridizing, by ^lex Dickson, of Newtown- 

 ards, presented before the American 

 Rose Society at its Chicago meeting. 



R. Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., was the representative of the 

 United States at the centenary flower 

 show at Ghent, Belgium, at the end of 

 April. If any other Americans were 

 present, they do not figure in the reports. 



A LARGE English firm says that Fuch- 

 sia Alice Hoffman is undoubtedly one of 

 the best for bedding or pot work. It is 

 of compact habit, dwarf, with charming 

 small flowers, sepals brilliant carmine, 

 corolla white. The fuchsia is enjoying a 

 well deserved return to popular favor. 



The retail florists have no right to put 

 upon the wholesale florists the burden 

 of the long credits said by some re- 

 tailers to be a necessary evil in their 

 business. No retailer is justified in 

 granting credits larger than his own 

 capital and margin of profit will provide 

 for. 



The general report is that the orders 

 placed with the Holland bulb salesmen 

 are much smaller than last year — but 

 the bulb men should not despair. A 

 goodly number will consider that, aa 

 everyone else is cuttipg down, it may 

 be as well for them to reinstate their 

 own full order. 



It is stated that fan trained azaleas 

 have become popular in Belgium and 

 France. They are grown specially for 

 the window and balcony, and are ad- 

 mirably adapted for placing on brack- 

 ets in large rooms and in corridors. When 

 well-bloomed on both sides they are de- 

 cidedly effective. 



At the great centennial exhibition at 

 Ghent, Belgium, April 25 to May 2, 

 Nephrolepis Amerpohlii was awarded the 

 premium for the best new fern. 



Secretary Albert M. Hebe, of^the 

 American Carnation Society, has issued 

 the annual "Proceedings" of the so- 

 ciety, being a stenographic report of the 

 seventeenth annual meeting, held at 

 Washington, D. C, January 28 to 30, 

 1908. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Censfis Committee. 



President Traendly has appointed P. 

 O 'Mara, Jersey City, N. J. ; J. A. Valen- 

 tine, Denver, Colo., and Albert T. Hey, 

 Springfield, 111., as a committee to co- 

 operate and advise with the census de- 

 partment regarding matters relating to 

 ornamental horticulture in the approach- 

 ing United States census. 



Appointment of Vice-President. 



President Traendly has appointed 

 John L. Parker, of Birmingham, Ala., 

 as state vice-president for his state. 



W. N. RuDD, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



There has been only one brief period 

 of fair weather in the week which has 

 elapsed since last report. During the in- 

 terval in which the sun shone, the revival 

 of spirits in the market was pronounced, 

 for it fell on Saturday, when local trade 

 is always strong, and a big business 

 was done, even if at about the cheapest 

 prices of the season. It has rained so 

 continuously since the beginning of May 

 that it has put an effectual damper on 

 the market, as it has, indeed, upon all 

 lines of trade in any way affected by the 

 weather. Memory is proverbially short 

 in such matters, but no one remembers 

 a time when we have had so long a 

 period of unfavorable weather at so in- 

 opportune a season. The production of 

 cut flowers is large in spite of dull skies, 

 and growers are anxious to prosecute the 

 work of field planting, especially of car- 

 nations, while those of the retaDers who 

 do bedding out and similar work find it 

 impossible to make progress in what usu- 

 ally is their busiest month. 



The* market was overloaded steadily 

 last week, and even on Saturday and Sun- 

 day, with pleasant weather, it was im- 

 possible to wholly clean up, although the 

 load waa lightened to the smallest pro- 

 portions of the fortnight. Monday and 

 Tuesday reverted to the condition suited 

 only to ducks and the market at once 

 relapsed. There is too much of every- 

 thing, because there is no real demand 

 for anything. Both roses and carnations 

 are in oversupply and the quality is de- 

 teriorating rapidly, as a result of the 

 long continued rainy weather. Roses are 

 soft and many show the ravages of 

 thrips, as do a considerable proportion 

 of the pink carnations. White carnations 

 often are received in a practically un- 

 salable condition, the petals already hav- 

 ing turned brown. It is only possible to 

 move the bulk of the receipts through 

 job lot sales at unquotable prices. At 

 the same time it is necessary to charge • 

 good prices to a buyer who wants really 

 first-class stock, because it is necessary 

 to do a great deal of sorting to get 

 out such orders. 



There has been a reduction in the sup- 



