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The Weekly Florists' R^ew. 



June 18, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



PUBLISHED EVEKY THURSDAY BY 



The Florists* Publishing Co. 



S30-660 Caxton Building:, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Uabbison 5429. 



■SGISTXRBD CABLB ADDRBSS, FLORVIBW, CHICAGO 



New York Ofpice: 



Borough 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. 



Advertlaemeiits must reach us by Wednesday 

 mornintf to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class mattsr December 3, 

 1897, at the post-ofiice at Cbicago.lll., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ABVEKTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. H'^i'Ta^'i 



Retailer and Wholesaler 8 



— F. H. Holton, Milwaukee 3 



— S. A. Anderson, Buffalo 3 



— Philip Breltmeyer, Detroit 3 



— E. G. Gillett, Cincinnati 4 



— Hugo Schtpeter, Detroit 4 



— Frank Huntsman, Cincinnati 4 



— Frank H. Traendly, New York 4 



Advertising 4 



The Retail Florist 6 



— Wedding Bouquets (lllus.) 5 



— House Decorating 5 



— The Lily Decoration (lllus.) 6 



European Travel 8 



Cutworms on Asters 6 



Smilaz Carried Over 6 



European Letter 



Creosote In Greenhouses 7 



Mealy 3ug on Coleus 7 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 8 



— Carrying Plants Over 8 



The Peony is Popular 8 



— The Test of Peonies 8 



— Peony Jules Elle (lllus.) 9 



Obituary — Theodore Faller 9 



— Mrs. B. Schramm 9 



Propagating Boxwood 9 



Chrysanthemums — General Notes 10 



To Poison Ants 10 



Boses — Carrying Over Roses 10 



— The Rose Chafer 11 



— Eel worms In Rose Bed 11 



Oil as a Preservative 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 11 



— Cinerarias 11 



— Begonia Incarnata 11 



— Freeslas 11 



— Begonia Rex 11 



— Vallota Purpurea 11 



— Peperomla Argyrea 11 



— Amaryllis 11 



Society of American Florists 12 



Classes of Dahlias 12 



Chicago 12 



Springfield, 111 16 



New York 16 



Philadelphia 20 



Boston 21 



Seed Trade News 28 



— New Keokuk (la.) Firm 28 



— Dutch Bulbs 28 



— Allen, Octogenarian (portrait) 30 



— Iowa Seed Dealers Meet 30 



Pittsburg 32 



Vegetable Forcing ; . . , 34 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 34 



— House for Tomatoes 34 



Buffalo 84 



St. Louis 34 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Portland, Ore 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Portland Rose Festival 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nnrsery News 46 



— Milwaukee Convention 46 



-^J. W. Hill (portrait) 46 



— Nurserymen at Milwaukee, Wis. (illos.).. 47 



— Shrub Jottings 48 



Washington 60 



Minneapolis 62 



Baltimore 64 



Indianapolis 66 



Detroit 66 



New Orleans 68 



Seasonable Suggestions, continued 66 



Tarrytown, N. Y 66 



Albany, N. Y 67 



Plymouth, Ohio 67 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— A Divided Vegetable House 68 



Cincinnati 71 



Denver 72 



Milwaukee 74 



Springfield, Ohio 76 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtsrsday tnonuxxg. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that aU 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 AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



Officers for 1988: 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 Eeview brings results. 



Now is as good a time as you will 

 find to buy glass for your repairs. 



This is the season to push coHections; 

 if you don't get your money now you 

 may have to wait until your people come 

 back from their summer vacations. 



It is stated that the Commercial Club 

 of St. Paul will back the Twin Cities 

 Florists' Club in an invitation to hold 

 the S. A. F. convention at St. Paul. 



A SCHEDULE of prizes has been issued 

 for the "first grand annual exhibition 

 of dahlias," to be given by the New 

 England Dahlia Society at Tremont 

 Temple, Boston, September 17 to 19. 

 Maurice Field, 5 Union street, Boston, 

 is secretary. 



As indicating more graphically than 

 anything else could do how close together 

 Europe and America are being brought, 

 mail posted in London Saturday was 

 delivered in Chicago one week later. It 

 came over on the last trip of the Lusi- 

 tania, which made the run from Liver- 

 pool to New York in less than five days. 



According to Bradstreet 's, the prices 

 of commodities in general are now lower 

 than at any time since July 1, 1904. 

 Bradstreet 's figure that there has been 

 a decrease of 15.4 per cent from the 

 high point which was reached March 1, 

 1907, and they also display a decline of 

 14.1 per cent from June 1 of that year. 

 Florists looking at the wholesale prices 

 of cut flowers will subscribe to the belief 

 that Bradstreet 's make no overestimate 

 of the decline, but when it comes to the 

 things a florist buys, from food to fertil- 

 izer, it looks different; in fact, except on 

 greenhouse glass, the declines seem easily 

 counterbalanced by the advances. 



SCX3ETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Appointment of State Vice-president. 



President Traendly has appointed V. 

 E. Lambert, of Atlanta, Ga., as state 

 vice-president for the State of Georgia. 

 W. N. BUDB, Sec'y. 



Secbetaby Eslee, for the week end- 

 ing June 13, adjusted hail losses amount- 

 ing to over $1,200. 



CLASSES OF DAHLIAS. 



Referring to the recently issued sched- 

 ule for the first annual exhibition of the 

 New England Dahlia Society, Secretary 

 Maurice Fuld says: "You will note that 

 we have at last settled all difficulties 

 in regard to varieties of dahlias, which 

 have created considerable argument in 

 regard to what classes they belong, and 

 if you will kindly refer to classes No. 86 

 and 87 you will readily see that we have 

 forever settled these arguments." 



The classes in the schedule read as 

 follows : 



Class No. 86. Giant show dahlias, in- 

 cluding the following varieties: Mrs. 

 Eoosevelt, Gettysburg, W. W. Eawson, 

 Governor GuUd, Grand Duke Alexis, Gen- 

 eral Miles, Le Colosse, Dr. Kirtland, Cu- 

 ban Giant, Meteor, Professor Mansfield 

 and any others similar in size and form. 



Class No. 87. Cactus dahlias ^with 

 coarse florets, including the following 

 varieties : Mrs. Charles' Turner, Master 

 Carl, Mrs. J. P. Mace, Les Alli6^, Mis- 

 tress Scrase Dickens, Rosea Superba, 

 Purity, Octopus, Nil Desperandum, The 

 Czar, Zona, Due d 'Orleans, Die Unschuld, 

 Lovely Eynsford, Prince of Yellows, Go- 

 liath, Miss Gretta Park and any others 

 of similar form. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



The market has shown considerable 

 improvement this week. The extreme 

 heat at the first of last week made so 

 strong an impression that, although cool 

 weather came Wednesday, it was Satur- 

 day before the market began to recover 

 from the effect of the flood of soft 

 stock. The week on the whole was one 

 of the poorest of the season and led to 

 many growers throwing out their stock. 

 With cooler weather, this has led to a 

 decided reduction in the supply this 

 week. There still is an abundance of 

 stock for all ordinary requirements and 

 prices have not advanced; the only dif- 

 ference is that most of the stock now can 

 be moved through the legitimate chan- 

 nels and there is less need for sacrifice 

 sales, and waste has practically been 

 eliminated. It is, however, still necessary 

 to dump some of > the white carnations 

 and the growers of this class of stock 

 would do well to save express charges 

 and start preparation for next year. 



The principal call continues to be for 

 wedding flowers, but school closings are 

 making their annual recurrence felt. 

 Beauties are in good demand. The sup- 

 ply would be adequate if the quality were 

 up to standard, but many of the Beau- 

 ties are so poor that the retailers will 

 not use them, and there is a strong de- 

 mand for anything that is really first- 

 class. Of other roses, Kaiserin, Killar- 

 ney and Richmond have the call. Maid 

 and Bride are small aijd the former is 

 off color. 



The receipts of carnations, while re- 

 duced, still are large. Those growers 

 who have been able to retain the quality 

 are getting satisfactory returns, but the 

 demand is not for poor flowers and the 

 lower grades have not profited to any 

 great extent from the shortening in, sup- 

 ply. Indoor asters are offered in t fair 

 quantity and are preferred to poor white 

 carnations. 



There has been a stiff market for val- 



