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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 20, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. It. GRANT. Editob and Mamaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVEBT THUBSDAT BT 



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

 ro Europe. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 (rem 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 Ciiicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Ctiicago Trade 

 Press Association. • 



imDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 64. 



CONTENTS. 



The Niagara Falls Convention 19 



— President's Aildress 19 



— Secretary's Ueport 21 



— Treasurer's Miport 23 



— Miscellaneous Iteporis 23 



— President's Kpception 23 



— Wednesday's ijesslon 23 



— Hall Association 23 



— Canadian Guests Arrive 24 



— Judges' lleport 25 



— Hands Across the Waters 2S 



— Crusade Against Ugliness 26 



— Thursday Morning 26 



■ — American Itose fcSoelety 26 



— Thursday Afteruoou 26 



— Friday's Session 26 



— Entertainment Features 26 



— Election of Otflcers 26 



— The Trade Exhibits. 27 



— Ladies' S. A. F 31 



— Those Present 31 



— J. A. Valentine (portrait) 32 



— Mrs. W. J. Vesey (portroit) .'{4 



— Ball Game— Buffalo Wins S to 3 ."(5 



Fertilizers and Fertility 35 



.Mrs. Charles H. .Maynard (portrait) 35 



Chrysanthemum Golden Glow (lUus.) 38 



State Florists' Associations ,38 



Detroit 39 



Washington ."59 



Obituary — Louis IL Sander 40 



Society of American Florists 40 



Chicago 42 



Boston 43 



Philadelphia 45 



New York 46 



St. Louis 49 



Vegetable Forcing 56 



— A Profitable Cucumber 66 



— The Enenilos of Asparagus 66 



T- Bottom Heat 66 



— Grafting Against Mildew 67 



— Plants for Shady Places 57 



Seed Trade News 68 



— Death of W. W. Kawson 68 



— Imports and Exports 60 



— Imports 60 



Baltimore 60 



Albany, N. Y 61 



Dutch Bulbs 62 



Minneapolis 62 



Pacific Coast 68 



— San Francisco 68 



— Polnsettlas in California 68 



Cincinnati 69 



Steamer Sailings 70 



Nursery News 72 



— Southern Nurserymen Meet 72 



— The Juneberry 73 



Asters, Hollyhocks and Ibcrls 70 



Blight on Geraniums 78 



Fertilizers for Sweet Peas 78 



Lilies for Faster 79 



Repotting Mums 88 



Greenhouse Heating 90 



— Joints in Cast-Iron Pipe 90 



— Three Colorado Houses (illus.) 90 



— Heat for Six Houses 90 



— Piping a Carnation House 92 



— Piping for Enlarged Houses 92 



— Hot Water for Small House 94 



— Using Large Pipe 94 



— Steam for Small House 94 



Cement in Greenhouse Walls 96 



Best Dark Red Geranium 96 



Dubnque, la 96 



A Chance to G'et Manure 100 



Gardeners' Wages at Kew 102 



Plumosus Under Lath Shade 102 



Taunton, Mass. — Bernard J. Con- 

 nolley has been receiving congratula- 

 tions upon the addition of a daughter 

 to his tamily. 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqttested tlut all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail tlieir 

 ^copy** to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobpobated by Act of Conqbess Mabch 4, *01 

 Officers for 1908: President, F. H. Traendly. 

 New York; vice-president, George W. McClure, 

 Buffalo; secretary, WilUs 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. Hasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The new hydrangea, H. arborescens 

 sterilis, is said to be an excellent subject 

 for forcing under glass. 



F. R. PiERSON, of Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 is, and has been for fifteen years, presi- 

 dent of the board of education in his 

 district. 



Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, 

 London, describe Hiawatha as "the 

 quickest growing and longest lasting of 

 all rambler roses." 



Other associations that are working 

 to correct abuses in express service are 

 making good use of the decision of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in the 

 case of the S. A. F. vs. the U. S. Ex- 

 press Co. 



A MEETING took place at Utrecht, Hol- 

 land, May 14, at which all the principal 

 Dutch horticultural societies were repre- 

 sented. The result has been the federa- 

 tion of all the forty-nine societies, with 

 a membership of about 18,000. 



Please discontinue our Classified 

 Advertisements of Poinsettias and 

 Berried Plants in 



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oiisxs' 



We are entirely sold out. They 



certainly brotight orders from far and 



near. 



C. L. BRUNSON & CO. 



Paducah, Ky., 



August 7, 1908. 



Why don't yon dispose of yonr surplus? 



The new rose, Lady Godiva, is an 

 English sport of Dorothy Perkins. Some 

 standards exhibited by Paul & Son at- 

 tracted much attention at the recent 

 show of the National Rose Society and 

 are the subjects of excellent illustrations 

 in the British gardening papers. The 

 color of the flowers is flesh pink. 



OBITUARY. 



Lotiis H. Sander. . 



After a long and painful illness, borne 

 with the greatest fortitilde, Louis H. 

 Sander died in Boston, August 11. Mr. 

 Sander was a German by birth, coming 

 to America in 1882. In 1895 he com- 

 menced work at the Arnold Arboretum 

 under Prof. C. S. Sargent, where for a 

 dozen years he proved an invaluable 

 man, being a veritable encyclopedia in 

 everything pertaining to trees and 

 shrubs. Mr. Sander never recovered from 

 an operation for appendicitis in the early 

 part of 1907. This was followed by 

 other operations, all of which, how- 

 ever, proved futile. The deceased was 

 of a genial disposition and beloved by 

 all who knew him. He Ifeaves a widow 

 and three children. His brother, Charles, 

 has for many years had charge of Prof. 

 C. S. Sargent's Brookline estate. A sis- 

 ter, Mrs. Sabin Bolton, resides in North 

 Easton. To all of them the sympathy 

 of a host of friends goes out. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given of the 

 application of the Conard & Jones Co., 

 West Grove, Pa., for the registration 

 of the plants specified below. These ap- 

 plications for registry were filed in this 

 oflSce August 14, 1908, and any person 

 knowing of any reason why the registry 

 of these names should not bie made is 

 requested to communicate with the un- 

 dersigned. » 



No. 398 — Rose, American Pillar. Flow- 

 ers measure three to five inches across 

 and are very durable. They are borne 

 in immense clusters. Color is a chaste 

 shade of pink, while in the center of 

 each flower is a cluster of bright yellow 

 stamens; these are followed in the au- 

 tumn by pretty clusters of brilliant red 

 seed hips. Parentage: Rosa setigera x 

 seedling of multiflora. 



No. 399 — Canna, Gladio-flora (No. 

 2675, C. & J. Co., 1908). Petals are 

 short and rounded and overlap each 

 other. Color is crimson, changing to 

 carmine rose, with an uneven edge of 

 gold to each petal. Height, three and 

 one-half feet. Parentage: Sam Trelease 

 X Venus. 



No. 400 — Canna. Minnehaha (No. 

 2744, C. & J. Co., 1908). Form much 

 like Mont Blanc. Blossoms are extra 

 large; petals arc long, gracefully curved 

 and have wavy edges. Colors deepen 

 through shades of gold and cream to a 

 center of peachblow pink. Height, three 

 to four feet. Parentage: Evolution x 

 seedling, numbered. 



No. 401 — Canna, Rosea gigantea (No. 

 2698, C. & J. Co., 1908). Single petals 

 are two and one-half inches across; 

 color, a deep, rich rose, almost a coral 

 carmine. Plants make a vigorous growth, 

 producing unusually fine clumps of green 

 foliage. Height, four to five feet. Par- 

 entage: West Grove x numbered seed- 

 ling. W. N. Rudd, Sec 'y. 



August 15, 1908. 



