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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Septeubeb 17, 190S. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



6. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqkb. 



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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 

 itrictly 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 S, 

 1897, at the post-oftice 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. 



Gerniihims — Geraniums In the South 3 



— Kooted (ierauiuiu Cuttings 3 



Under Greenhouse Benches 3 



Chrysantheniunis— Caterpillars on .Mums 3 



— Seasonable Culture 3 



The Uetall Florist— Spra.v of Carnations (illus.) 4 



— A Japanese Window ( illus. j 4 



— Suggestions for Windows 4 



Gteeuhouse Lumber 1- reights 5 



Roses — Temperature 6 



— Rose Leaf Blight li 



— A Slow Start 6 



Plants for Florists' Grounds (illus.) ti 



Stocks and Snapdragon 7 



Flower Sunday 7 



Daisies for Cut Flowers 7 



Carnatious^-Carnation Notes — West h 



— Grubs in Carnation Beds 8 



Scale on Oleanders 8 



Seasonable Suggestions — .Mignonette S 



— Calceolarias 8 



— Freeslas 8 



— Sweet Peas !• 



— Marguerites 9 



— Smllax 9 



— Stevla 9 



— Propagation 9 



— Peonies 9 



— Dutch Bulbs 9 



Peonv Wagner Park (illus. ) 9 



Violets— Violets in foldfnunes 10 



Boston 10 



St. .Louis 10 



Obituary— WUUara Butcher 11 



— Emll Johansson 11 



— Charles K. Richardson 11 



St. Paul 11 



Bozemnn, Mont 11 



National Flower Show 12 



Insurance on Bulbs 12 



Ismene Calathlna 12 



Chicago 13 



Dayton, 15 



Washington lU 



New Bedford, Mass 10 



New York 17 



Philadelphia 20 



Cincinnati 22 



New Orleans 23 



Providence 24 



Seed Trade News 20 



— Leonard's Branch Out 26 



— Mloliigan Pea and Bean Crops 26 



— O. L. Daily (portrait » 26 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 27 



— Mr. Emerson's View 27 



— Onion Sets 28 



— • Grass Seed Report 30 



Vegetable Forcing 32 



— Forcing Tomatoes 32 



Pacific Coast 38 



— Los Angeles, Cal 38 



— Demand for Ornamentals 38 



— San Francisco 38 



— Portland, Ore 39 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Nursery News 42 



— The Pecan in tlie Nursery 42 



Davenport, la 44 



Baltimore 46 



Erie, Pa , 48 



Montreal 49 



Detroit 50 



Indianapolis 50 



Pittsburg 52 



Greenhouse Heating 60 



— A Coil Boiler 60 



— Cement for Cast -Iron Pipe. . . .• 61 



— Mushroom House 61 



— Too Little Radiation 61 



— Heat from Uesidence 62 



Milwaukee 64 



Glen Cove. N. Y « 66 



Calla. Ohio 66 



Cleveland 68 



Peoria, 111 68 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Tbtirsday morain;* It 

 is earnestly reqtiested 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 or AMIUCAH FLOBISTg. 



Incorporated bt Act of Congress March t, '01 



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

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

 Bviffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Morgan 

 Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg. 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, C, Angust 10 

 to 22, 1909. 



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., Cblcago. 



Courtesy is one of the best business 

 assets. The ability to give an unwel- 

 come answer in a way to avoid offense 

 cams many a man his living. 



A FiiORiST who has been making 

 changes to modernize his place this sum- 

 mer writes : ' ' One has no idea what 

 an improvement cement walks make in 

 a greenhouse till he tries them. ' ' 



Fifty cents will pay for enough print- 

 ed letter-heads to last the average grower 

 half a season, yet many still send or- 

 ders to liouses that do not know them, 

 written on "any old thing" in the way 

 of letter paper. 



Don 't be a kicker. If you have a 

 reasonable complaint to make, by all 

 means make it, but use temperate lan- 

 guage; to overdo your protest is to arouse 

 anger and lessen the chances of prompt 

 and satisfactory adjustment. 



Be a good collector. One of the evils 

 of the flower business is its lax credits. 

 Do your part toward working the whole 

 trade onto a better footing by collect- 

 ing your own bills when due and meet- 

 ing your own obligations promptly. 



The gate receipts for the recent two 

 days' flower show at Shrewsbury, Eng- 

 land, described by C. H. Totty in the 

 Review for September 3, were $15,040, 

 and this was $2,390 less than the re- 

 ceipts for two days in 1907, due to rain. 



The business conditions of the year 

 last past have proved conclusively that 

 flowers are no longer considered a lux- 

 ury, at least by a goodly proportion of 

 the people. It has demonstrated that 

 the flower business is on a solid, per- 

 manent footing. 



The premium list has been issued for 

 the exhibition of the American Institute 

 at the Berkeley Lyceum, New York, 

 November 11 to 13. The prizes are lib- 

 eral. Copies may be had by those inter- 

 ested by addressing W. A. Eagleson, sec- 

 retary of the board of managers, 19 

 West Forty- fourth street, New York city. 



It is not so much what you grow as 

 how well you grow it that counts. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



More Special Premiums. 



Several special premiums have been 

 offered since the publication of the pre- 

 liminary premium list for the national 

 flower show. Through Charles H. Totty, 

 of Madison, N. J., W. Wells, of Merstham, 

 England, offers a gold, a silver and a 

 bronze medal for six flowers of W. M. 

 Moir chrysanthemum, to be shown in one 

 vase on stems two and a half feet long. 

 J. A. Peterson offers for the best five 

 plants of Begonia Agatha, $25. The 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia, 

 offers a cup for the best bride's bouquet 

 of which the main feature shall be lily of 

 the valley and white orchids, or all 

 lily of the valley, with the usual shower 

 trimmings, ribbon, etc. 



It is urgently requested that all firms 

 and individuals who contemplate offering 

 special premiums communicate at once 

 with the secretary, in order that their 

 offers may be included in the final issue 

 of the premium list, which will go to 

 press in about two weeks. 



It is requested by the premium com- 

 mittee that any new special premiums 

 be offered for classes which appear in 

 the premium list already published, 

 rather than for a new class. 



J. H. Burdett, Sec'y. 



No Trade Exiiibition. 



It was suggested to the national flower 

 show subcommittee on local manage- 

 ment that a trade exhibition of sup- 

 plies, heating and ventilating apparatus, 

 greenhouse construction materials, etc., 

 would interest many trade visitors at the 

 November show, and accordingly on Aur 

 gust 29 letters, inclosing postal cards 

 for reply, were addressed to ninety-five 

 exhibitors at previous trade exhibitions 

 held in connection with the annual con- 

 ventions of the S. A. F. Forty-four re- 

 plies were received up to September 7, 

 inclusive. Thirteen of the replies were 

 in favor of such a trade exhibition, 

 eighteen opposed to it and thirteen un- 

 decided. The subcommittee, at a meet- 

 ing held September 7, therefore decided 

 not to take up the project. 



J. C. Vaughan, Chairnian, 

 Local Management Committee. 



INSURANCE ON BULBS. 



Please give us the following informa- 

 tion: Is there a place in the country 

 where we could insure bulbs and roots 

 when stored inside of a building? We 

 have tried fire insurance companies, but 

 they decline to take this class of goods 

 for insurance. We shall thank you for 

 any information you can give us. 



Deerfield, 111. Feanken Bros. 



ISMENE CALATHINA. 



An English writer says that it does 

 not seem to be generally known that Is- 

 mene calathina is improved in health by 

 being planted outdoors after flowering, 

 where it should remain till frost destroys 

 the leaves. The bulbs should then be 

 lifted and placed under the stage in a 

 warm house and kept dry. By this meth- 

 od of treatment the bulbs increase in 

 size and vigor, and develop two or three 

 flower-spikes. As these develop early, 

 the bulb would, in any case, be greatly 

 weakened if it were dried off immediately 

 after flowering. 



