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AuQCST 6, 1008. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT; Editob and Manaozb. 



PUBUSHXD XVXBT THUBSDAT BT 



The FLORISTS' publishing Co. 



5S0-960 Caxton BoUdinK, 

 884 Dearborn Street. Chicago. 



Teuepuone, Habbisok 5429. 



bicistxkbo cablb addrxss, flokvuw, chicago 



New Yoek Office: 



Borourb Park Brookl3m, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manageb. 



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

 To Europe. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertisinir rates quoted upon, request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moruiuK to insure insertion In the issue oi the 

 following day. and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., imder the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



TXVES. TO ASVEBTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 8 



— The Broken Circle (lUus.) 3 



— Store and Window Interiors 3 



— Newspaper Advertising (illus.) 4 



— Sweet Peas on Sugar Hill (UluB.) 6 



— Peony Lady Alexandra Duff 6 



State Studies tor Florists 6 



— Foreign Kzperimental Work 6 



Asters (lUus.) 8 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lorraine Begonias... 6 



— Polnsettias 6 



— Bouvardlas 7 



— Herbaceous Calceolarias 7 



— Sweet Peas 7 



— Hydrangeas 7 



— Marguerites 7 



— Seed Sowing 7 



— French Bulbs 8 



— Propagating 8 



Boston Ferns 8 



Bepalrlng the Roofs 8 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 8 



— Carnation Supports (Illus.). 9 



A Visit to Mt. Clemens 9 



Notes from England 10 



Longiflorums from Formosa ^. 11 



Israel Kosnosky (portrait) 11 



Grubs in Ueranium Beds 12 



Asparagus Sprengeri 12 



Buffalo 12 



W. F. Kasting (portrait) 12 



Buffalo Florists' Club (Illus.) 12 



Violets — Summer Culture 18 



Obituary 18 



OoleuB Decayed at Roots 18 



Boston 14 



The Fuel Directory....;-; 1« 



Price of Glass 16 



Society of American Florists 16 



Prises Wanted 16 



Chicago 17 



PltUburg 20 



St. Louis 20 



Springfield, Ohio 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Cincinnati 24 



New Orleans 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Peas and Beans 28 



— Watermelon 28 



— Clover in Oregon 28 



— Clover Seed in Connecticut 28 



— Imports ' 28 



— The Stoecker Seed Co 28 



— Was It on Consignment? 29 



— Specific Duties Wanted 29 



— Quality of Seeds 80 



— Mammoth Bush Peanut 80 



— Distribution of Crops 82 



Mignonette and Snapdragon 82 



Brie, Pa 84 



Toledo, Ohio 84 



Denver 85 



Peoria, 111 88 



Vegetable Forcing 88 



— Dry-Rot on Tomatoes 88 



New York 88 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 42 



— Japanese Competition 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nnrsery News 46 



National Flower Show 48 



Worcester, Mass ; 46 



New Bedford, Mass 46 



Owosso, Mich 48 



Baltimore SO 



Albert Lea, Minn 62 



Gteenbouse Heating — Time to Buy Coal 60 



— Piping for Small House 60 



— Hoose for Tomatoes 60 



— System for Five Houses 61 



Milwaukee 64 



Columbus, Ohio 66 



Indianapolis 67 



Detroit 68 



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is printed 'Wednesday evening; and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **co!py^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the'past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICIN FLOBiStS. 



InCOBPOBATED BT AOT 09 CONOBESS MABCH 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. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Keview brings results. 



W. H. Elliott has completed, at Mad- 

 bury, N. H., a rose house, 60x1,340 

 feet. 



Growers are invited to write to the 

 Review about any of their heating prob- 

 lems. Give all the details. 



Write on printed letter-heads; don't 

 leave people to question whether you are 

 in the trade, or an amateur. 



There is no doubt that the growers 

 have stood the brunt of the business de- 

 pression of the last ten months, no other 

 department of the trade having been se- 

 riously affected. 



Adolph Jaenicke, president of the 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y., has received a letter 

 from President Roosevelt saying that he 

 wished to become a member of the so- 

 ciety. 



It is the report from most wholesale 

 cut flower markets that the growth of 

 summer business, which has been appar- 

 ent for several years, has overcome any 

 effect of the depression in general busi- 

 ness. 



Sydney B. Wektheimer, New York, 

 sends a carte postale from St. Ettienne, 

 France, illustrating lace-making in con- 

 nection with the ribbon industry there. 

 Mr. Wertheimer will return for the S. 

 A. F. convention. 



E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., has 

 returned home after two months' ab- 

 sence in Europe. He officiated as a 

 judge at the international rose show in 

 Paris during June, and he brings home 

 trophies which were awarded his own 

 rose productions, Rhea Reid, Admiral 

 Evans and Richmond. 



Tests of the Strawson preparation, 

 Vaporite, seem to show that cutworms 

 have short shrift when it is mixed into 

 the soil. Try a little. If your seeds- 

 man does not keep it, write to Straw- 

 son's, 71a Queen Victoria street, London, 

 for the name of one who does. Mention 

 the Review when you write to any deal- 

 er for this preparation. 



QxnTE a few firms make it their claim 

 that they are prepared to execute any 

 sort of an order, from a funeral piece to 

 a landscape contract, and such as these 

 now find themselves compelled to provide 

 spraying outfits for cleaning up their 

 patrons' trees and shrubs, so universal 

 and destructive have the attacks of in- 

 sect pests become. 



THE FUEL DIRECTORY. 



To the kindness of its readers the Re- 

 view is indebted for the order of many 

 a new advertiser, especially in the lines 

 of the allied trades. Every now and 

 then the user of a satisfactory article 

 tells the vendor of the article that other 

 customers are to be found by means of 

 an advertisement in the Review — ^it is a 

 service to both parties, and to the trade 

 at large. 



If you are buying coal by the car 

 from mine or jobber, and are pleased 

 with the arrangement, call your party's 

 attention to the Florists' Fuel Directory 

 in the Review. The coal and service 

 that please you will gain the patronage 

 of other florists if the mine or jobber 

 only lets it be known that the business 

 is wanted. 



Send the Review the name of your 

 coal man, or the seller of any other sat- 

 isfactory article the trade should know 

 about. Remember that any additional 

 money paid the Review for advertising 

 comes back to each reader in the form 

 of a steadily improving paper. 



PRICE OF GLASS. 



Pittsburg. — The price of window glass 

 was advanced August 1 by the American 

 Window Glass Co., the increase being 

 twenty per cent on single strength and 

 thirty-three and one-third per cent on 

 double strength. The advance, it is said, 

 will be followed by an early resumption 

 of operations in most of the glass fac- 

 tories. 



Cleveland. — President A. L. Faulkner, 

 of the Window Glass Workers, predicted 

 August 1 that wages in the glass trades 

 would increase largely after September 1 

 as a result of an advance just announced 

 in the price of window glass. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Office in Washington. 



It appears that under the charter the 

 society should maintain a permanent 

 q^ce in the city of Washington, D. C. 



President Traendly has appointed Wm. 

 F. Gude as the official representative of 

 the Society of American Florists and 

 Ornamental Horticulturists in that city, 

 who will maintain an office at 1214 F 

 street. Northwest, Washington, D. C. 

 W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



July 28, 1908. 



PRIZES WANTED. 



George W. McClure, chairman of the 

 committee on sports at the 8. A. F. con- 

 vention, sends the following letter to the 

 Review : 



' ' Will you kindly place a notice in your 

 next issue, in as prominent a place as 

 possible, asking for donations of cash or 

 special prizes to be awarded in the bowl- 

 ing and other sporting contests, but par- 

 ticularly for the bowling events, at the 

 Niagara Falls convention f It might also 

 be well to call attention to the short 

 period of time remaining for donations 

 between now and convention time." 



