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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 0, 1808. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



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 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

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 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 tbe Ctiicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASYERTISEBS, PAGE 66. 



CONTENTS. 



Roses — Diseased Rose Plants 3 



— Pruning Hybrid Perp«tuals 3 



— Roses In Sandy Soil 3 



— House of KlUarney (Ulus.) 3 



— Twelve Best Garden Roses 3 



American Rose Society 4 



The Retail Florist (Ulus.) 4 



— Spray of Pink Sweet Peas (Ulus.) 4 



— The Standing Crescent (Ulus. J 4 



— The Ball Decoration (Ulus.) 4 



— An Klaborate Decoration 4 



Perennials for Retailers 5 



Cultivation of Gladioli 6 



Seasonable Suggestions 8 



— Hardy Roses 8 



— Attacks of Apbls 8 



— San Jose Scale 8 



— Lorraine Begonias 8 



— Dahlias 8 



— Antirrhinums 



— Clematis Panlculata 



Lilies Damaged by Storm 



Good Business (lllus.) 9 



Society of American Florists » 



The Peony Is Popular 10 



— Recording and Labeling 10 



— Peony Queen Victoria (lllus.) 11 



— Peony Mme. Furtado (lllus. ) ii 



Ferns from Runners 11 



Sowing Smllax Seed 11 



Kentlas from Seed 11 



Obituary — James Cole, Sr. (portrait) 12 



New York 12 



New York Club's Outing UHus.) 13 



American Carnation Society 14 



Rates to Niagara Falls 14 



To Destroy Aster Beetles 14 



Green Mold on Flower Pots 14 



Chicago 15 



South Bend, Ind 17 



Pittsburg 17 



Philadelphia 18 



Clnclnautl 20 



Seed Trade News 24 



— Crops In California 24 



— Southern Seed Crops 24 



— Watson S. Woodruff 25 



— On the East Coast 25 



— The Business Year 25 



— "Price Guaranteed" 26 



— Seed Farms of Essex 26 



— Dutch Bulb Trade 28 



— Bermuda Onioa Seed 30 



— Catalogues Received 32 



— Imports .'{2 



St. Louis 32 



Vegetable Forcing JJS 



— Mushrooms at Kennett (lllus.) 33 



— The Sweet Potato 33 



Boston 34 



New Bedford, Mass 35 



Washington 35 



Pacific Coast 40 



— Retail Trade In Plants 40 



— San Francisco 40 



— Portland, Ore 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 44 



— Late Flowering Lilacs 44 



— Moving Rhododendrons 45 



Toledo 46 



Tnrrytown, N. Y 46 



Milwaukee 48 



Columbia, Mo. 48 



Lltchflcld. Conn 50 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— Size of Flow Pipe 68 



— Burners for Natural Gas 68 



— Natural Gas 60 



— Piping and Valves 69 



New Orleans 69 



Detroit 60 



Columbus, O 62 



Buffalo 6t 



Worcester, Mass 64 



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Is printe<I Wednesday eveniajf 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 morning;, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AJKEBICAN 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, Auffust 18 

 to 21, 1908. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago. Novem- 

 ber 9 to 15. 1908; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Otto G. Koenig, secretary of the St. 

 Louis Horticultural Society, has issued 

 the preliminary list of premiums for that 

 organization's fall exhibition. 



The Review has received a four-page 

 anonymous letter commenting in caustic 

 language on the practices of certain New 

 York commission houses that are alleged 

 to fill retail orders as well as those of 

 the trade. The correspondent concludes: 

 "It is an old sore, but I don 't suppose 

 you would dare publish this." The cor- 

 respondent signed only an initial; if he 

 will attach his full name to the com- 

 munication it will be published for what 

 it is worth. 



John Craig, of Cornell Universit). 

 whose physician sentenced him to rest 

 and recuperation from a threatened 

 breakdown, wrote the Review from Frei- 

 burg, Germany, June 21: "For the last 

 two months I have been knocking about 

 Italy with an eye on schools of horticul- 

 ture and agriculture. The kingdom of 

 Italy supports five colleges of agriculture 

 of university grade. Kach has labora- 

 tories and trial grounds. Some of the 

 latter are extensive and excellent in de- 

 tail. I shall spend a month or more in 

 Germany and then go to Belgium and 

 France. I hope to visit a large number 

 of seed houses and nurserymen." 



The commercial agencies and other 

 sources of business information say that 

 general trade activity is steadily on the 

 increase, but advertising men who come 

 in touch with a variety of lines assert 

 that personal experience does not con- 

 firm these optimistic reports. The con- 

 sensus of such opinion is that there has 

 lately been a relapse rather than an in- 

 crease in general business activity and 

 that the florists, especially those outside 

 the big cities, are to be congratulated 

 that their business has been so good as 

 it has been in the last six months; the 

 flower business has surely been affected 

 as little as any line, and not nearly so 

 much as some. The presidential cam- 

 paign will be a factor in postponing a re- 

 vival of activity, but a greater one will 

 be the fact that the farmers as a body 

 are now able to hold their crops and need 

 not rush them to market as soon as ready. 



with the result of putting most of the 

 money at once into circulation. The 

 volume of business in this country al- 

 ways will be large, so long as crops are 

 good and the country's wealth is not im- 

 paired, but no boom in business is to be 

 expected this fall. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Bassett & Washburn, Hinsdale, 111., 

 register carnation Orland P. Bassett; 

 parentage Crane and Prosperity; color 

 deep red; size of flower three and one- 

 half to three and three-quarters inches; 

 calyx long and never splits; stems 

 strong and stiff and long; very strong 

 grower, every shoot producing a flower. 

 Albert M. Here, Sec'y. 



RATES TO NIAGARA FALLS. 



It is stated by a railroad man that at 

 the last meeting of the Central Passen- 

 ger Association at Chicago last week the 

 matter of a special rate for the Society 

 of American Florists' convention at Ni- 

 agara Falls was reconsidered and it was 

 decided to grant a rate of fare and a 

 half for the round trip, but only on 

 condition that 1,000 be present. The 

 fare of 2 cents a mile in each direction, 

 which is now the regular rate in most 

 states, is practically the same as the fare 

 and a third formerly granted on the cer- 

 tificate plan. If the Central Passenger 

 Association rate of a fare and a half can 

 be obtained by virtue of large attend- 

 ance it will be the cheapest transporta- 

 tion any considerable part of the Society 

 of American Florists ' members ever have 

 enjoyed. The secretary doubtless will 

 shortly make an announcement covering 

 transportation from all sections. 



TO DESTROY ASTERJEEETLES. 



What is the best method of destroying 

 the bugs on asters? L. V. 



Aster beetles may be poisoned with 

 Paris gteen, one teaspoonful to one gal- 

 lon of water. Apply with a sprayer or 

 sprinkling can. Albert F. Amling. 



GREEN MOLD IN FLOWER POTS. 



What is the cause of the green mold on 

 the top of the soil of potted plants! We 

 use good top soil and well rotted sod, and 

 do not know how to account for the mold. 



G. G. Y. 



Constant sogginess at the roots, caused 

 by an oversupply of water, is the most 

 fertile method of producing green mold. 

 If you will allow your plants to dry out 

 fairly well between waterings, you will 

 have less of it. A good deal also de- 

 pends on the compost you are using. If 

 there is a good proportion of sand used, 

 there will be less moldiness. 



No matter, however, how you water 

 and what your soil is, you are likely to 

 have some trouble of this sort, and it is 

 necessary to scratch over the surface of 

 the soil in the pots at intervals and re- 

 move the slimy formation, or the plants 

 will do poorly. With hard-wooded plants, 

 where the soil is packed liard in the pots 

 and where plenty of sand is used, there 

 is always less moldiness than with soft- 

 wooded subjects, like primulas, cycla- 

 mens, geraniums, begonias, etc., which re- 

 quire potting less firmly. If your com- 

 post is porous and you water carefully, 

 the trouble can be considerably reduced. 



C. W. 



