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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 11, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqes. 



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 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in tbe trade. 



Advertisini; rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertteements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moniiii)!: to insure Insertion in the issue of tbe 

 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 CUcago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAOE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



The ReUn Florist .3 



— The Wisconsin Eagle (lllus.) 3 



— "Show Me" ;{ 



— House Decorating 3 



— A Florist Ta.\ldernilst (lllus.) :! 



Seasonable Suggestions 4 



— Flcus Elastica 4 



— I'andanus Veltchll 4 



— Palms 4 



— Sweet Peas Outdoors 4 



— CultlTation 4 



— Bedding Out Aftermath .'> 



— Brief Reminders 5 



Creosote in Greenhouses 5 



Opportune lime to Agitate 5 



Plant for Name 5 



Roses 6 



— Early Planted Houses « 



— For Similar Treatment 



— Rose Stock In I'ots 



Plants for Spring Sales ' « 



The Peony Is Popular 



— Peony .Show at Andorra (lllus.) 



— Open House at Peterson's 7 



— At Bloomington, 111 8 



— The Peony Convention 8 



European Notes r S 



Carnations 9 



— Carnation Notes — West 9 



May-Flowering Tulips fl 



Annual Pink Lupines (lllus.) 10 



In Hawaii 10 



Wood Preservation 10 



OrplveUllng's Stock (lllus.) U 



Obituary 11 



— Robert B. Graves 11 



— J. Owen Hanvey 11 



— George Frederick Chandler 11 



— James Shanley 11 



Society of American Florists 12 



The Next Week's Weather 12 



Chicago 12 



New York 15 



St. Louis 18 



Philadelphia 20 



Milwaukee 22 



Dayton, Ohio 22 



Seed Trade News 26 



— French Bulbs 26 



— Reappralsements 26 



— The Week in Seeds 28 



— Imports 26 



— Canners' Peas 26 



— Some Novelties In Cannas 26 



— Big Crops Seem Certain 28 



— Customs Administrative Act 28 



— Penny Post with England 28 



— Catalogues Received 29 



Boston 30 



Vegetable Forcing 32 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 32 



— Pollinating Tomatoes 32 



Pelargoniums 32 



Detroit 3-2 



Pacific Coast ^ 



— San Francisco 3° 



— Portland. Ore 38 



— Hardy Stock in Pots 38 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Nursery News *j 



— The Milwaukee Convention 4jJ 



— Nursery Legislation 42 



Orange, N. J 4« 



(Cincinnati *° 



AVashiiiston »0 



Greenhouse Heating w 



— Piping In Michigan 60 



— Heat for a Violet House 60 



— Two Small Houses 60 



Grand Rapids 82 



Columbus, Ohio «« 



Kansas City 64 



Memphis, Tenn »« 



Pittsburg «« 



New Bedford, Mass 66 



New Orleans <»'' 



-V/B'BJ 



Ig printed 'Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning;. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ^copy^ to reach tis by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of 'Wed- 

 nesday taondagf as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAX FLOBISTS. 



Incoepoeated by Act of Congbess 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. Hasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



At the recent Temple Show at London 

 White Dorothy Perkins rose was highly 

 spoken of. 



Is THERE any incongriHty in ' ' Bequies- 

 eat in Pace" over the door of a mau- 

 soleum and a life size horse in flowers in 

 front of it? 



A FI.ORIST at Oklahoma City says Dec- 

 oration day business was three times as 

 heavy as last year — and it wasn't bad 

 anjrwhere in 1907. 



The legislative committee of the S. A. 

 F. will shortly become a most important 

 one, for both political parties are pledged 

 to revise the tariff. 



Bedding stock has sold well this sea- 

 son. Almost all localities report the 

 supply as being practically cleaned up, 

 and where there is a surplus it is going 

 out rapidly to those who are short. 



Among the plants allied to the hibiscus 

 and especially worthy of trial is Lavatera 

 trimestris, a very free flowering annual, 

 with pink and white blossoms which are 

 fine for bouquets. Callirhoes are small 

 native plants, with showy orange or red 

 flowers. C. involucrata is the best known, 

 having large crimson flowers, dwarf and 

 spreading in habit. It flowers all summer. 



C. W. Ward says that the replacing 

 of the old, narrow houses at the Cottage 

 Gardens with high, light, airy structures 

 forty-five feet wide, as was done last sea- 

 son, has been fully justified by the sea- 

 son's results. As compared with the 

 same space in the old houses, the out 

 has been double from the very beginning 

 of the season. 



SOOETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Reduced Rates for the O)nvention. 



The Trunk Line Association, covering 

 points in the states of New York, Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary- 

 land and part of Virginia and West Vir- 

 ginia, has granted a rate of one fare 

 and three-fifths for the round trip on the 

 certificate plan to those desiring to at- 

 tend the convention. Other associations 

 have not as yet granted any concessions. 



Other particulars will be announced 

 later. W. N. Rudd, Sec 'y. 



STILL BETTER. 



The Review grows better and better; 

 we can't get along without it. — L. C. 

 Porter, Racine, Wis., June 1, 1908. 



The Review gets better every issue 

 and we don't want to miss an issue. — J. 

 G. Angel, Oklahoma City, Okla., June 

 1, 1908. 



THE NEXT VEER'S WEATHER. 



Washington, D. C. — The weather bu- 

 reau issued its forecast for the week 

 June 9, as follows: 



"A barometric depression that will 

 appear over the Rocky mountain districts 

 on Wednesday will move slowly eastward 

 over the plains states on Thursday, cross 

 the central valleys on Friday and Sat- 

 urday and reach the Atlantic coast on 

 Saturday or Sunday. Local rains and 

 a slight rise in temperature will attend 

 the advance of the rain area, and follow- 

 ing its passage there will be a day or 

 two, the beginning of next week, of 

 lower temperature from the north cen- 

 tral valleys to the middle and north At- 

 lantic coast." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Intense heat June 7 and 8 did a great 

 deal of injury to stock and shut off a 

 large part of the demand for it. During 

 the week preceding there had been abun- 

 dant supplies, but the weather was cool 

 and stock of fair quality, but with the 

 hot days there came an avalanche of 

 open, soft flowers for which no use could 

 be found. Few carnations will ship in 

 such weather and a large part of the 

 roses are too open to be valuable to 

 the retail florists. 



The week opened with a good demand 

 for the seasonable specialties. Com- 

 mencements are on throughout the coun- 

 try and there is the usual call for ma- 

 terial for wedding decorations. Valley 

 has been one of the best selling items. 

 The shipping business has been a large 

 factor, but it has not called for many 

 peonies as yet; there seems everywhere 

 to be a local supply, but this will soon 

 be over in all save the northern districts. 

 Sweet peas have sold in large quantities, 

 but the demand has been exclusively for 

 the best, and the poor stock, of which 

 there are many thousands, sells slowly. 

 The indoor peas are rapidly nearing the 

 end of their season. 



There is call for first-class roses, but 

 these are hard to supply. Richmond is 

 in good form and Killarney also in fair 

 shape. With Kaiserin, these are at pres- 

 ent the best selling varieties. Short 

 roses have little value. 



There is a fair demand for Beauties, 

 but these also are abundant, especially 

 the long-stemmed ones, and prices are 

 down to midsummer level, with stock 

 of good quality. 



The receipts of carnations at the first 

 of this week were about at the top 

 notch, with quality at the lowest. These 

 and open roses could not be cleaned up, 

 even at fhe street salesman's figure. He 

 would only take the best, even when 

 permitted to name the price, and the 

 waste has been large. Many growers 

 already are beginning to throw out their 

 stock preparatory to replanting, it no 

 longer paying to run the houses. 



The hot weather made the peonies pop 

 open so fast that the duration of the 

 local crop was shortened considerably. 

 The market is full of open flowers, which 



