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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



September 3, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. li. GRANT. Editob and I^naqkb. 



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Advertlslns: rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertiaements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of tbe 

 following day. and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-ottice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist a 



— Th« Aucliur (UluB. ) 3 



— Some M'lnilows ',{ 



■ Gerauiums 4 



— Propagating Ueraniuiiis 4 



— Soil from Mum Benches 4 



Uoses 4 



— ■ Mildew on Hoses 4 



— Culture ot Beuut.v UoseM 4 



— Moulton Rose as a Bedder (llhis.) 5 



— Tbrips In Rosebuds 5 



— Uisbuddiiig Roses 5 



Afterthoughts r> 



Seasonable Suggestions 



— Cinerarias U 



— Hydrangeas 



— Genistas 6 



— Calceolaria Rugosii « 



— Bedding Geraniums « 



— Amaryllis (i 



— Freeslas 



— Lilies 



— Ventilation 7 



A Unique Display (illus. ) 7 



Spanish Iris 7 



Root Louse on Asters 7 



The Readers' Corner 7 



— Root Lice 7 



The Shrewsbury Fliiwer Show 8 



Standard Allamanda llendersuni (illus.) 8 



Bar Harbor Flower Sliow (illus.) S) 



Bulb Growing in Virginia !t 



Propagating Sand 10 



Carnations 10 



— Carnation Notes — East 10 



— A Beginner in Carnations lO 



Baltimore 11 



The Corner Lock (illus.) '. . . 11 



New York 11 



Mr. Roney Resigns (portrait) 12 



Iowa Florists' Convention la 



Charles N. Page (portrait) 13 



Obituary '. . 13 



— Mrs. George L. Miller 13 



— Patrick H. Meehan 13 



— Mrs. La Fever 13 



The Pittsburg Quartette 13 



W. Q. Potter (portrait) 13 



(irowlng for Market 13 



Society of American Florists 14 



Intemationnl Co-operation 14 



Chicago 15 



Boston 18 



Philadelphia 20 



St. Louis 23 



Vegetable Forcing 25 



• — Among Market Gardeners 25 



— Forcing Tomatoes 25 



Name of Plants 26 



Seed Trade News 28 



— Imports 28 



— Seed Crops In Holland 28 



— Bermuda Onion Se«'d 29 



— Dutch Bulbs : 30 



— Catalogues Received . . ;«) 



Manchester, Mass 34 



Washington 3.'> 



Pacific Coast 40 



— San Francisco ' 40 



— Smllax on the Pjiclflc Coast 40 



Wayside Notes 41 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Nursery News 44 



-^English Hawthorn for Hedge 44 



I>etroit 46 



Columbia, S. C 46 



Minneapolis 48 



Erie, Pa 48 



Milwaukee .50 



New Orleans 52 



Greenhouse HeatlnR 60 



— Steam Heat with Gas as Fuel 60 



— Piping for a Hotbed 62 



— Expansion of Coil Joints 62 



Dnvton. Ohio 64 



Pittsburg 66 



Cincinnati 68 



is printed 'Wednesday evening' and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqttested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach us by Monday op 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



80CIITY or AHBKIGAll FL0BI8T8. 



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. 



Officers for 1909: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. G. Glllett, 

 Cincinnati, O. ; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

 gan Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pitts- 

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1900. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 15, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, BufTalo, 

 chairman; J. H. Burdett, secretary, 1411 First 

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Fred Burki, of Pittsburg, has been se- 

 lected as one of the Carnation Society's 

 judges for the national flower show, in 

 place of W. N. Rudd, who is to manage 

 the show, but who is one of the soci- 

 ety's regularly elected board of awards. 



The paper that carries the most ad- 

 vertising is the one the buyers subscribe 

 for and use. • This is particularly true 

 in a trade like our own, where so large 

 a volume of business is done on mail or 

 telegraph orders — the buyer naturally 

 consults the publication that affords him 

 the widest choice of oflFers. 



There is an exceptionally good sale 

 for field-grown carnation plants this sea- 

 son. Don 't let your surplus go to waste, 

 if such plants as you would care to bench 

 in your own greenhouses. Tell the trade 

 what you have to offer through a classi- 

 fied advertisement in the Review; you 

 will get cash with the order. 



A CORRESPONDENT at Milford, Del., 

 says that ' * when the plants of the new 

 Chipman 's seedling strawberry are of- 

 fered for sale on the open market it will 

 pay the plantsmen to get a stock. It 

 is a perfect, strong-growing berry, will 

 succeed where others fail, gives ah enor- 

 mous crop and stands shipping well. 

 One grower got over $500 per acre here, 

 and don 't you think that pays about 

 as well as some of the asters that glut 

 the market?" 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Error in Secretary's Report. 



It appears that the statement in the 

 secretary 's report at Niagara Falls, that 

 Albert Dirwauger was the only member 

 of the society in Maine, is an error, and 

 that William Miller, of Bar Harbor, is 

 also a member, and through a printer's 

 error his name ill the printed annual re- 

 port was included among the members 

 from Kentucky. W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



August 2(i, i90.S. 



When taking photographs with a view 

 to publication in the Review, don't for- 

 get that the background is about the 

 most important feature. Have it plain. 



A WRITER in the Horticultural Trade 

 Journal (English) says that "Adolph 

 Jaenicke, a German grower who has been 

 with J. Lewis Childs, of New York, for 

 many years, has succeeded in improving 

 Gerbera Jamesoni out of recognition. 

 We have seen many lovely hybrids in 

 this country, but Jaenicke has gone for 

 size only. His new G. Jamesoni gigantea 

 gives flowers four and one-half to five 

 inches in diameter on stems three feet 

 high. The color is scarlet, and from 

 what I know of Jaenicke his latest nov- 

 elty should prove a real money maker 

 for home growers." 



NIBBLERS. 



Several months ago I saw an adver- 

 tisement in the Review of a firm deal- 

 ing in watering cans, with an engraving 

 showing the different kinds and shapes 

 of roses and spouts used in their manu- 

 facture. Will you kindly give me the 

 name and address of the firm referred to? 



If these ' ' nibblers ' ' at advertising 

 would read what the governor of North 

 Carolina said to the governor of South 

 Carolina — you would not be bothered 

 with inquiries like the present and they 

 would get a good many orders they now 

 miss. I. A. Barnes. 



Havana, Cuba. 



INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. 



When the Winter-flowering Carnation 

 Society held its exhibition in London, 

 England, April 1, the principal features 

 were the American varieties and inter- 

 national cooperation between the special 

 societies devoted to the flower was the 

 subject of considerable discussion at the 

 annual dinner which followed the Eng- 

 lish society's meeting. The English- 

 men, however, were of the opinion that, 

 as the American society is so much the 

 older, the initial steps should come from 

 the western side of the Atlantic. 



At the special meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society, held at Niagara 

 Falls, August 20, the subject; of inter- 

 national cooperation came up, and it was 

 the consensus of opinion that such rela- 

 tionship should be brought about. The 

 secretary's ininutes show that it was 

 "suggested" that the society offer a 

 silver cup of the value of $25, to be 

 awarded at the next exhibition of the 

 British society. This is a step in the 

 right direction, if only a short one, for 

 it apparently leaves the matter up to 

 the board of directors of the A. C. S., 

 who it is to be hoped will consider the 

 subject of sufficient importance to re- 

 quire their prompt action. 



Montgomery, Ala. — W. P. Patterson, 

 proprietor of the Rosemont Gardens, has 

 secured a lease of the store now known 

 as the Oak Hall saloon, and after .Jan- 

 uary 1 of next year will run it as a 

 flower store, under the name of The 

 Rosary. Adjoining the store he will 

 build a greenhouse, 30x40 feet. 



Franklin, Mass. — The Continental 

 Nurseries, of which M. .1. Van Leeuwen 

 is proprietor, has had some large con- 

 tracts in Attleboro, Southbridge and 

 other places, including the designs and 

 shrubbery in the Congregational church 

 park in Milford. The grounds at the 

 nurseries themselves are so artistic as 

 to attract many visitors. 



