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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JcLT 30, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoek. 



PUBLISHED E^-EBT THUESDAT Bt 



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 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



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 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 ADVERTISERS, PAOE 70, 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— The Gates Ajar (lUus.).. 3 



— Cards on Sprays 3 



— Store and Window Interiors 3 



— A Bunch Not Bunched (lUus.) .- 3 



Seasonable Suggestions — Antirrhinums 4 



— Mignonette 4 



— Schizanthus Wlsetonensls 4 



— Scented Geraniums 5 



— Asters 5 



— I'erennlal Phlox 5 



— Chrysanthemums 6 



— Violets 6 



Carnations — Stem-Rot 6 



— Carnations In Rose House 7 



— Otto Wlttbold's Bench (lUus.) 7 



Rosps — Leaf Rust on KlUarney 8 



— Remedy for Mildew 8 



— Old Plants as an Advertisement 8 



Shredded Cattle Manure 8 



Chrysanthemums — Outdoor Mums In Tennessee 8 



— Remedy for White Fly 9 



— Black Fly on Mums 9 



— Temperature for Mums 9 



Dorothy Perkins Rose (illus.) 9 



Asparagus Sprengeri . . . .':> 10 



Unlovely Pecky Cypress . .\ 10 



Lilies for Fall Blooming 10 



Rust on Gladioli 10 



Society of American Florists 11 



Charles H. Keitsch (portrait^ 11 



Hotels at Niagara Falls 11 



Cincinnati to Niagara Falls 11 



Shasta Daisies 11 



Root Lice on Asters 11 



Omaha (iUus^ 12 



New York 12 



Obituary 13 



Sweet Peas for Christmas 14 



American Carnation Society 14 



Propagating Ficus Elastlca 14 



Chicago l.T 



St. Louis 17 



Detroit 18 



Cincinnati 19 



Philadelphia 20 



Antirrhinums for Winter 22 



Sweet Peas for Thanksgiving 22 



Impatiens Sultanl 24 



Seed Trade News 26 



— Cauliflowers (illus.) 26 



— St. Louis Seed Co. Affairs 26 



— Lem Bowen Now President 27 



— Good Year in Missouri 27 



— Eastern Drought Broken 28 



— Dutch Bulbs 28 



— Lily Bulbs In England 28 



— Harrisil Bulbs 30 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 30 



— Seed Notes from Europe 31 



— European Notes 33 



Boston ,34 



With Private Gardeners 35 



Pacific Coast — Compulsory Tree Trimming 42 



— San Francisco 42 



— Spokane, Wash 42 



Buffalo 43 



Steamer Sailings ,^ 44 



Nursery News — Oklahomians Meet 46 



— Ellwanger Will Suit 46 



— Park Men to Meet 48 



— The Basket Willow 46 



Toledo, Ohio 47 



Vegetable Forcing — Moving Asparagus 48 



— Onions from Sets 48 



Baltimore 48 



Dayton. Ohio 48 



East Brookfleld. Mass 60 



Wayside Notes 50 



Birmingham, Ala 51 



Minneapolis 62 



Montreal 64 



Greenhouse Heating 62 



Indianapolis 6<) 



New Bedford. Mass 68 



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is printed Wednesday evening 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 OP AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incobpoeated 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. Kastlng, BuSalo, 

 chairman. 



Charles H. Keitscp says that thus 

 far travel to Niagara Falls has been 

 rather light this season and the members 

 of the S. A. F. need have little fear of 

 overcrowding. 



Field-grown carnation plants promise 

 to be excellent property again this sea- 

 son, especially in the east, where the 

 weather has been dry. Western growers 

 who have a surplus will be called on to 

 ship quantities to less favored districts. 



When you have a kick to make, put it 

 in civil language. Many a complaint 

 fails of getting what is wanted simply 

 because the language used angers the re- 

 cipient of the letter and prevents an ad- 

 justment which would otherwise be will- 

 ingly and promptly made. 



SWEET PEAS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



Will you kindly advise me as to the 

 best season to plant sweet peas and the 

 best white varieties for indoors, to bloom 

 about Christmas? C. J. P. 



Sow on or about September 1. With 

 a night temperature of 45 to 48 de- 

 grees, they will be in good crop for 

 Christmas. The favorite white, forcing 

 variety is Mont Blanc, but two of Mr, 

 Zvolanek's varieties, Watchung and Flor- 

 ence Denzer, are good. The latter re- 

 sembles Mont Blanc closely, but Wat- 

 chung is somewhat dwarfer in habit and 

 will bloom ten days to a fortnight earlier. 



C. W. 



THE MARKET FOR CYPRESS. 



The cypress trade is quiet, but prices 

 are on an average $1 a thousand better 

 than the low mark, perhaps more, and 

 no effort is being made to unload stock 

 on the large distributing markets. In 

 fact, Chicago and New York are receiv- 

 ing little cypress and prices are respond- 

 ing to the shortage of stock. Factory 

 demand is increasing and another factor 

 which enters into the situation is the 

 shortage of many items and the gener- 

 ally broken condition of mill stocks. The 

 orders placed with the mills continue to 

 call for immediate shipment. — American 

 Lumberman. 



PRICE OF GLASS. 



The Chicago office of the Pittsburg 

 Plate Glass Co. makes the following 

 statement as to the advance in the price 

 of glass referred to in the Review of 

 July 16: 



During the last ten days the window 

 glass manufacturers have made two 

 changes in their selling discounts that 

 cover about 20 per cent of an increase 

 in greenhouse glass. Conditions this 

 year are rather peculiar, from the fact 

 that in former years the hand-blown 

 manufacturers were able to carry from 

 10,000 to 15,000 boxes in stock after 

 closing down, but financial conditions 

 changed all this so that the present 

 stocks in the hands of the several manu- 

 facturers are lower by far than they 

 ever have been before. Greenhouse 

 glass is still cheap as compared with 

 prices of last year, and with any kind 

 of a revival in business (and we are 

 looking forward to it), we believe there 

 is still a chance to save some money for 

 those who contemplate buildiiig this fall. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



W. N. Eudd, Morgan Park, 111., regis- 

 ters Carnation Greenwood, parentage 

 seedlings on both sides; color shell pink; 

 size of flower averages three and one- 

 half inches; an unusually finely formed 

 flower, high built bloom; long, heavy, 

 stiff stems; not so free as some smaller 

 varieties, but it is believed the extra 

 quality will make up for it; continuous 

 bloomer; moderate grower, in habit a 

 little inclined to be straggly. 



Mr. Budd also registers Carnation Mrs. 

 J. C. Vaughan, parentage seedling cross 

 on both sides; Daybreak, Scott and En- 

 chantress blood in it; color white; size 

 of flower averages three and one-half 

 inches; growth vigorous and branching 

 freely; early, free and continuous 

 bloomer ; stem long, stiff and wiry ; equal 

 to the best standard variety as regards 

 non-bursting; a bold, well-formed flower, 

 with good substance; keeping and ship- 

 ping qualities as good as the best. 

 Albert M. Here, Sec'y. 



PROPAGATING HCUS ELASTICA. 



In looking over a recent issue of 

 the Review, I notice an article on the 

 propagation of Ficus elastica from cut- 

 tings. 



I wish to state that a much easier 

 way for me is to grow them fi;om the 

 leaves. I do not know whether it is 

 generally known that they can be suc- 

 cessfully grown in this way, and I have 

 never noticed any reference to it as a 

 method of increasing this plant. In my 

 case it was purely an accident that 

 caused me to try it. I have some forty 

 odd plants that I have grown from three 

 small leaves. I have them from half an 

 inch to eight inches in height, and all 

 good, thrifty plants. 



My method is to take matured leaves 

 from the bottom of the plant — under 

 leaves — and lay them flat in the bench, 

 covering them half an inch deep, in the 

 sunlight, and keeping them moist. In 

 three or four weeks the little plants will 

 appear all around the outer edge of 

 the leaf, from which they can be cut 

 off and potted after they are half an 

 inch to an inch high. 



I am simply giving this for what 

 it may be worth to those who may not 

 know of this method. 



A. D. Zimmerman. 



