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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Adocst 13, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editob and Managkk. 



7CBUSHED EVSBT THUBSDAT B7 



The florists* publishing Co. 



630-560 Caxton BoUdlnKt 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chlcaaro* 



Telephone, Habbison 5429. 



SSGISTSRBD cable ADDKBSS, FLOKVIBW, CHICAGO 



New Yobk Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. AusTiM Shaw, Manaqeb. 



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 advertisiug accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moruing 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 AOVEKTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



ThP Retail Florist— Spray of Orchids (illus.) 3 



— The Masonic Design 3 



— Some Windows 3 



— Equincs Moral Xroptiies (Ulus.) 4 



f More About Pecky CypreBS 4 



Diseased Aster Plants 4 



Har Harbor, Me f> 



Seasonable Suggestions — Primulas B 



— Cyclamens t$ 



— Smllax 6 



— Kambler Koses « 



— Eucharis Amasonlca 6 



— Abutllon SavltiU 6 



— Prlef Reminders tt 



Chemical Fertilizers 6 



To Destroy Snails 6 



Sunburnt Rubber Plant T 



The Ulobe in Flowers (lUus. ) 7 



Grower and Wholesaler 7 



— The Grower's Story 7 



Carnations — Carnation Notes. — West 8 



— Using Last Year's Soil.... 8 



W. B. Brown (portrait) 9 



VabUas Stunted and Yellow U 



Allamandas from Seed 9 



To Carry Over Swainsona..: 9 



Roses — New Koses at I'arls U 



Obituary — Warren W. Kawson (portrait) 10 



Milwaukee 11 



To Clean Smoky Glass 12 



Illinois Meeting \i 



Hotels at Niagara Falls VI 



Ladies' Auxiliary 12 



Society of American Florists.. % \Z 



Crops Under Ten Year Average 12 



Chicago 13 



Pittsburg , 15 



Grand Rapids lU 



St. Louis 10 



Dayton, 17 



Wayside Notes 17 



Indianapolis 18 



Indiana State Fair 18 



Detroit 18 



New York 20 



Boston 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Vegetable Forcing — Growers Will Co-operate 26 



— New Types of Lettuce 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Imports .'{0 



— Tlie Mixson Seed Co 30 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 30 



— Reappraisement 32 



— Lily Bulbs 32 



— Catalogues Received 33 



— French Bulbs 34 



— Fire at Richmond, Va 34 



New Orleans 35 



Syracuse, N. Y 36 



New Canaan, Conn 36 



Erie. Pa 37 



Pacific Coast 42 



— Coast Dahlia Growers 42 



— Salem, Ore 42 



— San F'ranclsco 42 



Kvansvllle, Ind 43 



Cincinnati 43 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Nursery News 46 



— Apple Growers' Congress 46 



— Park Men Meet 46 



Peoria, IV w 48 



Tarrytown, N. Y 1 02 



Montreal .• .'>4 



New Bedford, Mass 01 



Greenhouse Heating C2 



— Four Connected Houses (52 



— Twenty-three Foot House 02 



— One Carnation House 02 



— Interchangeable S.T8tem O-l 



— Windmill Expansion Tank 64 



— From Steam to Hot Water «4 



Minneapolis 06 



Springfield, O <* 



JnoksonvlUe, Fla 08 



cvfto«: 



is printed Wednesday evenins: and 

 mailed early Thtirsday momin;. It 

 is earnestly reqttested 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. 



80CIETT OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incobpobatkd bt Act op Congeess Mabch 4, '01 



Officers for 1908: President, F. Hr-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. 



Eesults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Why don't you get those printed 

 letter-heads before you order your fall 

 stock! 



Joseph Heacock has named the rose- 

 pink carnation exhibited at Washington 

 as No. 100, calling it Dorothy Gordon. 



J. Rowland Cloudsley, secretary of 

 the Buffalo Florists' Club, says the Buf- 

 falo boys will furnish suits for a ball 

 game at Niagara Falls; visitors intend- 

 ing to play need bring only the balance 

 of the outfit. 



TO CLEAN SMOKY GLASS. 



Give us a good recipe or formula for 

 taking dirt off smoky glass. C. U. 



If the glass will not clean when wetted 

 over with the hose and scrubbed with a 

 brush, mix a little potash or lye in warm 

 water and damp the glass with it. This 

 will loosen the dirt so that it can be 

 easily removed. As this also removes 

 paint, do not damp the woodwork with 

 the potash water any more than is abso- 

 lutely necessary. C. W. 



ILLINOIS MEETING. 



There will be a meeting of the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the Illinois State 

 Florists' Association at Niagara Falls 

 during the S. A. F. convention. The day 

 and hour will be announced later. 

 Albert T. Hey, President. 



HOTELS AT NIAGARA FALLS. 



It has been brought to our attention 

 that some hotels are making a strife to 

 land certain delegations. There has been 

 so much said about people getting 

 "done" at Niagara Falls that we take 

 this opportunity to warn the convention 

 attenders not to be led astray and the 

 best advice we can give them is to make 

 arrangements to stop at the Cataract or 

 International hotels. The rates are from 

 $3 to $5 a day, American plan, and we 

 are sure anybody can afford to put up 

 $3 a day for his room and three good 

 meals such as they are serving; $5 per 

 day means a room with a bath. 



Never before has an opportunity been 

 offered where the trade exhibit, meeting 

 hall and accommodations for members 

 were all under one roof, like this year, 

 and we urge everybody to correspond 

 with the International Hotel Co. to secure 

 quarters. They will have room for all 

 comers. William F. Kasting. 



George McClure, 

 ' • Charles Keitsch. 



LADIES' AUXILIARY. 



The Ladies' Society of American Flo- 

 rists will meet Wednesday and Thursday 

 mornings, August 19 and 20, at 10 a. m. 

 at the Shredded Wheat Auditorium, Ni- 

 agara Falls. A meeting of the board of 

 directors and oflScers is called at 9:30 

 a. m. Wednesday, August 19, at the same 

 place, and, members, do not forget your 

 badge pin. Those who have not paid 

 their dues will find the secretary in the 

 trade exhibit. 



By order of the president, Mrs. W. J. 

 Vesey. Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Jtidges of the Trade Exhibition* 



President Traendly has appointed the 

 following as judges of the trade's ex- 

 hibit, at the coming convention at Nia- 

 gara Falls: Chas. J. Graham, Cleveland; 

 Joseph A. Manda, West Orange, N, J.; 

 Fred H. Meinhardt, St. Louis. 



Hotels at Niagara Falls* 



It seems fair that it should be made 

 known to the members of the S. A. F. 

 that exhibition hall, meeting hall, busi- 

 ness oflSce, space for outside display, and 

 music and refreshments for the presi- 

 dent's reception have all been furnished 

 to the society by Mr. Isaacs free of 

 charge. These accommodations wjjich he 

 has furnished us, the writer believes, cost 

 over $1,000 last year, and have cost very 

 large sums in almost every place where 

 the society has met before. The amount 

 of profit of the society from the trade 

 exhibition last year was only a little over 

 $100, but through the generosity of Mr. 

 Isaacs this year it will be at least $1,000 

 more than that. 



Mr. Isaacs is the manager of the Pros- 

 pect House, Cataract House and the In- 

 ternational Hotel. 



Mr. McClure and Mr. Cutler assure us 

 of fair treatment and reasonable rates, 

 and the writer feels it his duty to urge 

 upon the members of the society to give 

 these houses the preference, so far as 

 they can do so without inconvenience to 

 themselves. 



All indications point to a large attend- 

 ance, one of the largest trade exhibitions 

 ever held, and a most successful conven- 

 tion in all respects. 



August 7, 1908. W.N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



CROPS UNDER 10-YEAR AVERAGE. 



That crop conditions in the United 

 States were in the aggregate better (two 

 per cent) on August 1 last than they 

 were a year ago, but slightly (one per 

 cent) below a ten-year average condition 

 on that date, is the opinion expressed by 

 the crop reporting board of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in a supplementary 

 report issued August 10. The report 

 mentions the crops that are above the 

 average, including winter wheat, hay, 

 cotton and tobacco. Corn, barley, rye, 

 buckwheat, apples and flax are slightly 

 below the average, potatoes being about 

 five per cent and oats nearly ten per cent, 

 below. 



