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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mat 28, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



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The FLORISTS' Publishino Co. 



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 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



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Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To Europe. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertisingr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



AdvertiBemeiits must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue ol the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 8, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— The Girl and the Peonies (lllus.) 3 



— Wedding Luck 3 



— Funeral Work 3 



Begonias (Ulus.) 4 



Drying Off Callas 4 



Experience Is Best Teacher 4 



Greenhouse Materials 5 



Salvia Snowdrift (lllus. ) 6 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lorraine Begonias... 6 



— Nepbrolepis 6 



— Allamandas 



— Asters y^ '^ 



— Gardenias X. 6 



— Dahlias « 



— Tender Nymphaeas 6 



— Brief Reminders 7 



The Trades' Display (lllus. ) 7 



Dlcksons at Law In Dublin 7 



Chrysanthemums — Single-Stemmed Plants 8 



— Order of Blooming 9 



The Readers' Corner 9 



Pansles for Winter 9 



Diseased Geraniums 10 



Cockroaches In Greenhouses 10 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 10 



— Flooded Fields 10 



— A Michigan Carnation House (lllus.) 11 



Lilies in England 11 



Violets — The Foundation of Success 11 



Roses — Conditions In the House 12 



— Eel Worms on Roses 12 



— Breeding Wild Roses 12 



WUliam H. Elliott (portrait) 13 



Obituary— William Scott 13 



— Reading G. Palmer 13 



— George McRae 13 



William Scott 14 



The Weather 14 



Chicago VS 



St. Louis 18 



Columbus, Ohio 19 



New York 20 



Boston 22 



Dayton, Ohlq 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Conditions In California ; 30 



— Imports .32 



— Conditions In France 32 



— Seedsmen's Program 32 



— The Canning Center 33 



— Good Year In Iowa 34 



— Dutch Bulb Growers' Society 34 



Detroit 36 



Pacific Coast 36 



— San Francisco Flower Show 36 



— San Francisco 37 



— Oregon Cherry Fair 37 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables... 38 



— Onions for Bunching 38 



— Cucumbers : 38 



Washington 44 



Steamer Sailings 45 



Nursery News i 47 



— Stop at Chicago 47 



— Nurserymen's Program .j 47 



— West Chester, Pa 48 



— Ueappraisements 48 



— Shrubbery 48 



Worcester, Mass 50 



Richmond, Ind 60 



Norwich, Conn 50 



St. Paul .12 



Terre Haute, Ind .12 



Pittsburg .Vl 



Denver 56 



Greenhouse Heat 68 



— Wrong Installation 68 



— Greenhouse Chimneys 68 



— Steam for Five Houses 68 



Cincinnati 69 



Milwaukee 72 



Baltimore ,. . . ; 74 



New Orleans 76 



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\i printed 'Wednesday eveninj^ and 

 mailed early Thursday momin£« It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers amd correspondents mail their 

 ''copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Ttteaday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act or 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. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The circulation of the Review is 

 gre9le^^-in the State of New York than 

 any otnfei State in the Union. 



Business in all lines in the grain 

 states is just as good as it ever was, this 

 spring, and possibly just a little bit bet- 

 ter than before. 



J. H. BURDETT has begun the exploita- 

 tion of tli^ natiopal flower show in the 

 newspapers of the country, sending out 

 the press notices with those of the Na- 

 tional Council of Horticulture. 



The wistaria is a good vine for a 

 trellis, but is somewhat coarse for veran- 

 das, being better suited for the rustic 

 house or pergola, where its delightful 

 purple flowers hang in graceful profu- 

 sion. 



The big department stores open with 

 their customers what are called "accom- 

 modation accounts." It is a term retail 

 florists might well adopt, especially as 

 accommodation accounts are understood 

 to be payable monthly. 



William Scott, as chief of floriculture 

 at the Pan-American Exposition, gave a 

 demonstration of what a gardener who 

 knows his business can do under circum- 

 stances far from favorable for securing 

 the results that are demanded. 



To those who are disinterested it is 

 amusing to hear a man howl when he 

 sees the things he has been accustomed 

 to do every day done by the fellow in 

 the next block. Who is doing a thing 

 makes all the difference in the world, 

 don't you know I 



August Rolker & Sons, New York, 

 quote the following from a letter from 

 August Haerens, of Somergem, Bel- 

 gium: "As to the fan-shaped azaleas, 

 it is strange that they find no more 

 favor in America, while on the Continent 

 everyone likes them at sight. Naturally, 

 they can not be cheap, as they require 

 too much care and labor, and take up as 

 much house room as do the pyramids. 

 But we intend to go ahead with them 

 and grow from 300 to 500 every year." 



WILLIAM SCOTT. 



A Tribute. 



William Scott is no more! 



Thus an active life, a life replete with 

 brilliant ideas and brilliant achievements 

 along the lines of practical horticulture, 

 has come to a close. 



Prienda and strangers alike, those who 

 were privileged to know him intimately, 

 as well as those who were guided by his 

 practical advice and timely suggestions, 

 through the horticultural press, will unite 

 in mourning the great loss to horticul- 

 ture. No longer will his brilliant pen, 

 like a veritable beacon light, guide the 

 novice and. the uninitiated along the path 

 of practical floriculture. No longer will 

 his voice be heard in counsel for the 

 benefit of his brother fiorists throughout 

 the American continent. 



His mental qualities, his keen judg- 

 ment, his power of observation and his 

 trained intellect have assigned him a 

 place in the ranks of the very few men 

 in the trade whose memory will live long 

 after the present and rising generation 

 of florists shall have joined the great 

 majority. 



Well, and without any presumption on 

 his part, might he have said with the 

 great Russian poet Pushkin : ' ' My monu- 

 ment is built, not of stone nor by hand, 

 but of the work I have accomplished in 

 life." ^ 



Great men are those who accomplish 

 results, whether it be on the battlefield, 

 in the legislative hall or in the humble 

 greenhouse. 



Peace be to thy ashes, thou noble 

 friend ! S. S. Skidelsky. 



THE WEATHER. 



The weather of the last week is sum- 

 marized as follows : ' * Very heavy rains 

 fell over a large part of Texas and gen- 

 erally throughout Oklahoma and in por- 

 tions of the upper Mississippi and Red 

 River of the North valleys and northern 

 Rocky Mountain regions. Damaging 

 freshets occurred in Texas and much low 

 land in Oklahoma and Louisiana was 

 flooded. There were several local storms 

 in the western portion of the upper lake 

 region and also in Texas and portions 

 of the South Atlantic states during the 

 fore part of the week, but most of the 

 country experienced no damaging local 

 storms. There was much cloudiness in 

 the Atlantic coast districts northward 

 of Georgia. In Texas and from the up- 

 per lake region westward to the north 

 Pacific coast and elsewhere there was 

 more than the usual sunshine." 



Mount Sterling, Ky. — Emil Fredrich, 

 proprietor of the Model Greenhouse, 

 says : ' * The trade this year has exceeded 

 any previous season, in spite of the un- 

 favorable weather. I more and more be- 

 lieve that if florists would educate the 

 people in the use of fine specimen plants, 

 trade could be increased by at least two 

 hundred per cent. In my house of 9,000 

 feet, at least two-thirds of my stock 

 consists of large specimen plants, and 

 at this writing. May 20, I have not a 

 plant left except 200 geraniums which 

 are not in bloom. While the cut flower 

 trade has been rather dull for some 

 months past, probably on account of the 

 tobacco agitation in this section of Ken- 

 tucky, the plant trade has well balanced 

 the difference and the season generally 

 has been satisfactory, ' ' 



