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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 4, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



PUBLISHED EVBHY THUKSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' publishing Co'. 



530-560 Caxton BuUdine, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Hakkison 5429. 



kbgistbrbd cablb address, florvikw, chicago 



New York Office: 



BorouErh Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 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. 



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 ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



Orchids 3 



— Commercial Varieties 3 



Polnsettias 3 



The Ketall Florist 3 



— House Decorating 3 



— Supplying Local Demand 4 



Retailer and Wholesaler 4 



— Co-operation 4 



Assessment on Stock , 5 



Vincent In Europe 6 



Seasonable Suggestions (i 



— Smilax 6 



— Primulas « 



— Cycas Kevoluta 6 



— Pruning Flower Shrubs 6 



— Sowing Perennial Seed 6 



— Brief Uemluders 6 



Geranium Paul Crampel (lUus.) 7 



Id Iowa (lUus. ) 7 



The Kufflcd Gladiolus 7 



Joseph Heacock (lllus.) 8 



Roses S 



— Carrying Rose Plants Over 8 



— From Pots to Bench 8 



— Breeding Wild Roses 8 



Violets » 



— The Foundation of Success 



Decoration Day 10 



Creosote In Greenhouses. 10 



Boston 10 



Detroit 11 



Peony Society Meeting 12 



American Rose Society 12 



American Carnation Society 12 



Good Crop Prospect 12 



Chicago 12 



St. Louis 16 



New York 18 



Cincinnati 20 



Dayton, Ohio ^ 



Philadelphia 22 



Milwaukee ^4 



New Orleans 26 



New Bedford. Mass 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Prospects at Rocky Ford 28 



— The Week In Seeds 28 



— Erfurt Seed Trade 28 



— Imports SO 



— An English Dutch-Bulb Suit 30 



— Catalogues Received 30 



Vegetable Forcing 34 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 34 



— Forcing Strawberry Plants 34 



— Greenhouse Tomatoes 34 



Pacific Coast *» 



— Portland. Ore 40 



— San Francisco 40 



— Oregon Cherry Fair 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 44 



— Reappralsements 44 



— Waterloo, la 44 



— More Kvergreen Seedlings 44 



— Apple Growers Lose 44 



— Pyrns 72 



Springfield. Ohio 48 



Baclne, WU o" 



Lvnn. Mass jj" 



Cleveland 0* 



Greenhouse Heating JJ* 



— Size of Steam Line B2 



— Piping In Kentucky 62 



— Care of Apparatus «^ 



Baltimore "j 



Hamilton, Ohio o^ 



Pittsburg JJ2 



Tarrytown ^ 



Washington • '"' 



One should never ' ' get gay ' ' in deal- 

 ing with his customers, but a little in- 

 dependence is sometimes the means of 

 making friends in the flower business. 



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is printed 'Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested 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. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



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. 



Labor is much more abundant this sea- 

 son than it was a year ago, either the 

 unskilled variety or the experienced 

 grower. 



When a business man has a reputation 

 aa a "good collector" he at once be- 

 comes known in his community as prompt 

 pay, prosperous and progressive. 



The Eeview will be pleased to hear 

 from anyone who would like to contribute 

 periodical news letters from any city 

 where there is not already a correspond- 

 ent. 



The bedding-out trade is no less than 

 it was last year. In the height of the 

 season everyone who makes a specialty 

 of this class of work always has all he 

 can do. 



The salvia requires much sun for its 

 best development, but will produce bloom 

 quite well in partial shade, though plants 

 and flowers will both be smaller under 

 such conditions. 



Glass factories are closing early this 

 year, because of low prices, high wages 

 and an unprofitable market. The prob- 

 abilities are that glass will be no cheaper 

 this season and that, on the other hand, 

 prices may rise. 



As happens nearly every spring, just 

 before Memorial day there was a strong 

 demand for geraniums in flower, the bed- 

 ding out having used up all such stock, 

 while later iu the season there may be a 

 surplus because of the stock which was 

 not ready at the time wanted. A gera- 

 nium must be in flower at the date bed- 

 ding is done to be salable. 



PEONY SOC3ETY MEETING. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Peony Society will be held June 

 19 and 20, 1908, at the State College of 

 Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. A. H. Fewkes, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The rose show of the American Rose 

 Society and the Horticultural Society of 

 New York will be held at Bronx park, 

 New York, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 June 10 and 11. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



A. E. Boyce, Wellsville, N. Y., regis- 

 ters Carnation Claribel Worth, Estelle 

 x Maceo; color, gcarlet crimson, very 

 rich ; size of flower, average three and 

 a quarter inches; at its best about Christ- 

 mas; good stems, non-bursting calyx; 

 foliage, rich blue; resistant to disease and 

 insects. 



The Wa-no-ka Greenhouses, Barne- 

 veld, N. Y., registers Carnation Apple 

 Blossom, a cross of Enchantress on a 

 white seedling; color, white, delicately 

 blended with pink; size of flower, av- 

 erage three and one-quarter inches 

 through season; habit, rapid, upright 

 grower, all growth coming from the 

 base; good producer and good keeper on 

 long, stiff stems. 



Albert M. Herb, Sec'y. 



GOOD CROP PROSPECT. 



Dispatches indicate that the crops are 

 making good progress, although planting 

 is still retarded at some points by rain. 

 This factor and low temperature in other 

 sections tend to make the crops late, but 

 as yet there is no evidence of curtailed 

 output. About the customary area of 

 cotton land will have to be replanted be- 

 cause of floods, adding to the cost of 

 the crop, but not necessarily reducing 

 the yield. Most reports indicate that 

 cotton is growing well. Both winter and 

 spring wheat states report favorable 

 progress and harvesting will soon begin 

 in the early districts. There is less com- 

 plaint of insects than at this time last 

 year. Corn planting is being pushed rap- 

 idly, but excessive moisture retards prog- 

 ress at some points and the growth is 

 backward on the whole. 



Many states report great improvement 

 as to the rainy weather, and as the 

 ground dries there is especial pressure 

 to get the crop under way, owing to the 

 attractive prices prevailing. Oats and 

 hay are in excellent condition, present 

 prospects promising large yields of both, 

 and the leading fruit crops are doing 

 nicely. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Probably the most notable thing about 

 the Decoration day business was thb 

 almost exact duplication of last year's 

 splendid results in money value of sales, 

 with conditions as radically different 

 from last year's as it is possible to 

 imagine. 



The big days were Thursday and Fri- 

 day, and while some houses did less on 

 these days than on the corresponding 

 days last year, a number of wholesalers re- 

 port some little increase in the total 

 of sales, so that the result for these 

 days was probably as good as last year. 

 But the record for the week does not 

 make so satisfactory a showing. Last 

 year stock was exceedingly scarce and 

 high in price and a big business was 

 done every day in the week. This year 

 stock was overabundant and the early 

 days of the week were decidedly dull, 

 which cut down the week's record, as 

 compared with last year. 



Considering the entire week, it is prob- 

 ably a conservative estimate to say that 

 fifty per cent more flowers realized ten 

 per cent less money than in the. week 

 in which Decoration day fell last year. 



The volume of business certainly was 

 something tremendous. Several houses 

 say they shipped more boxes of flowers 



