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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 25, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editoe and Manager. 



PUBUSHED EVEEY THUKSDAT BT 



The FLORISTS' publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton BuildinK, 

 834 I>earborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Uabbison 5429. 



bbgisterbd cablb address, fl,orvikw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw. Manages. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. SubscriptioDS accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertislug 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, 

 18t)7, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., iinder the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTIBEBB, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



American Peony Society 3 



— Tlie Meeting at Ithaca (iUus.) 3 



A Visit to UosenHeld 4 



Single Peonies (illus.) 6 



Peony Tests 5 



The Readers' Corner — Co-operation 7 



^Seasonable Suggestions 8 



— Polnsettias 8 



— Gardenias 8 



— Show Pelargoniums 8 



— Peonies 8 



— Oncidium Varicosum Uogersil 8 



— Tuberous Begonias 8 



Creosote in Ureenliouses 8 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 9 



A Lehigh Valley Show (illus.) 9 



The Retail Florist 10 



— House Decorating 10 



— Standing Wreath (illus.) 10 



— Fox's Uptown Shop (illus.) 10 



Freight Rates 11 



Obituary 12 



— Alexander Wallace (portrait) 12 



— Carl Anderson 12 



— M. Cavanaugh 12 



— Alllster David Rose 12 



— John Canimack 12 



— Emanuel Uippard (portrait) 12 



The Trade in Insecticides 13 



Pittsburg 14 



Detroit 14 



Chicago 14 



Cincinnati 17 



Boston 18 



Philadelpliia 20 



New York 22 



St. Louis 24 



Seed Trade News 28 



— The Detroit Convention 28 



— The Effect of Low Prices 34 



— Imports 35 



Pacific Coast 40 



— Soil Survey in California 40 



— San Francisco 40 



— Seattle 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 44 



— Inspection in Ohio 44 



— Shrub Jottings 44 



Washington 46 



Toledo, 48 



Columbus, 50 



Dayton, 62 



New Orleans 54 



New Bedford, Mass 54 



Greenhouse Heating 62 



— Heat for Two Houses 62 



— Piping in Northern Illinois 62 



— Heat for Carnation House 62 



Denver 63 



Minneapolis 64 



Rochester. N. Y 65 



Milwaukee 66 



Cleveland 68 



Sandusky, O. — The park board called 

 a public meeting of interested residents 

 to discuss and determine the location for 

 the new greenhouse to be erected in West 

 park. 



Champaign, III. — H. A. Bode has 

 branched out into quite a florist and land- 

 scape artist. He is now in control of the 

 greenhouses formerly owned by J. E. 

 Yeats, has charge of the Ferdiuandsen 

 business, and is also local gardener for 

 the Illinois Central. 



is printed Wednesday eveninsf and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 ^copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday- at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday taormagf as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAX FLOBISTS. 



Incoeporatkd by Act of Conqbess Maboh 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. 



Cincinnati wants the S. A. F. con- 

 vention in 1909. 



Note there are more than two solid 

 pages of European advertisements in this 

 week's Review. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Extreme summer heat seemed to have 

 a good effect on business last week; at 

 least, there seemed to be more life in the 

 business than for some weeks. Many of 

 the growers are now throwing out their 

 plants, preparatory to getting ready for 

 replanting. The result has been a gen- 

 eral shortening up along all lines. This, 

 with several weddings and commence- 

 ments, kept everyone on the jump trying 

 to get enough good stock for the orders. 



The result of this was shown in the 

 face of the commission man. Instead of 

 hunting customers, they were hunting 

 him, and in cases where he had taken 

 advance orders he was doing a little hunt- 

 ing himself. But the rush was only for 

 a day or two and things seem to have set- 

 tled now for a regular summer grind; 

 at least, that is the opinion of most of 

 the trade. 



Various Notes. 



The vacation time is now here and a 

 number of the boys have already started 

 away. Some are fishing and camping. 

 Others will visit other cities, to see the 

 sights. Hoo-Hoo. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



The last week has been a somewhat 

 strenuous one for most of the retailers 

 and the commission houses as Avell. Car- 

 nations have been plentiful, but there 

 has been a remarkable scarcity of roses, 

 mainly of pink. The graduating exer- 

 cises in the schools created a demand, 

 such as tlie supply could by no means 

 meet. Besides roses, there was a big 

 demand for sweet peas, peonies, Beauties, 

 iris, and, in fact, every available flower. 

 The local coniniission houses report one 

 of the best weeks in their history. A 



large quantity of greens has also been 

 used up. 



There seems to be little doing in the 

 wedding line. 



Variotis Notes. 



C. W. Ward, passing through, partici- 

 pated in ai fairly well attended meeting 

 of the club June 17. Mr. Ward enter- 

 tained the members present with a talk 

 on various subjects. 



Just what Fred Pautke had on for 

 June 23, at Grosse Pointe, could not be 

 learned, but it must have been a pretty 

 respectable decoration, judging from the 

 way he was buying roses, peonies, etc. 



H. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Last week's experience served to show 

 the possibilities which underlie the mar- 

 ket if things only would get the right 

 swing and keep it. Every now and then 

 there come a few days when conditions 

 seem like old times, and with the quan- 

 tity of stock now available a big total is 

 run up without any special change in 

 prices. At the first of last week the vol- 

 ume of business increased and it held 

 until well toward the end of the week, 

 with the result that many wholesalers 

 reported an increase as compared with 

 the same week last year — and a good 

 many of them have not been able to re- 

 port an increase for quite a few weeks. 

 In some cases the increase was large, be- 

 cause stock is abundant and, when there 

 is a legitimate outlet for it, it totals a 

 big sum of money. The trouble has been 

 all along that the legitimate demand 

 took only a small part of the stock and 

 the greater part of the receipts had to 

 be cleared through the medium of job-lot 

 sales. 



Several wholesalers have called atten- 

 tion to the marked effect of weather 

 changes, for it has been more noticeable 

 this June than usual that cool days would 

 bring a run of business, which would be 

 shut off completely when the weather 

 turned hot again. Of course the wed- 

 dings and school closings have called for 

 most of the flowers shipped out of this 

 market, but in cool weather the weddings 

 and commencements are accompanied by 

 other social events calling for flowers, 

 while these are shut off completely and 

 there is nothing left but funeral work 

 when the thermometer registers 90 de- 

 grees in the shade. 



Monday, June 22, was the hottest June 

 day the weather oflSce has recorded in 

 many years; it was 92 degrees up at the 

 top of the post-office dome, and 96 de- 

 grees on the street. It was but natural 

 that business dwindled away to almost 

 nothing, but cool weather is predicted 

 for the end of the week and revival of 

 demand will follow. 



Supplies are not as great as they have 

 been, though they still are large in many 

 lines. Beauties are abundant, but not 

 many can be classed as good. The best 

 are selling well and the poorest hardly 

 at all. The supply of summer roses is 

 and will be greater this year than last. 

 Summer business steadily has been in- 

 creasing and more and more growers are 

 catering to it. Aside from the roses 

 grown specially for summer cutting, re- 

 ceipts now are light, for most growers 

 either are replanting or drying off. There 

 is a first-class call for Kaiserin. 



There are some excellent carnations, 

 considering the season and the unsea- 

 sonably hot weather. In fact, carnations 



