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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Seftembbb 24, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



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 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 8, 

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

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

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INDEX TO ABVEBTISEaS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Lily of the Valley 3 



— Iris and Lily of the Valley 3 



Tigrldlas 3 



Chrysaiitheuiuuis — Early Varieties 3 



The Uetail Florist — Spray of Uoses (illus.).. 4 



— Points for Judgiug Designs 4 



— Freak Advertising 4 



To Remove Whitewash 4 



Callas 4 



ijcale on Bostons 4 



The Retailer's iSbow House (illus.) 5 



The Readers' Corner 5 



Seasonable Suggestious^Uyilrangeas t$ 



— Cosuioi*» 6 



— Bolusettias 6 



— Azaleas B 



— Antirrhinums 6 



— Cinerarias 6 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West . '. tt 



— List of Carnation Names 7 



Dalilias at Hammonton (Illus.) 8 



House for Sweet Peas 9 



The Schluraff Place (Illus.) 9 



Boston 10 



The Drought 11 



Average Date of First Killing Frost (illus.). 11 



St. Louis , 11 



Little Rock, Ark 12 



Baltimore 12 



Erie, Pa 13 



Plant Growers' Outing (Illus.) 13 



Obituary 13 



Express Rates on Flowers 14 



Price of Glass 14 



National Flower Show 14 



Supports for Dahlias 14 



Chicago 15 



New York 18 



Kansas City 20 



Life on the Road 22 



Mrs. Martin Reukauf (portrait) 22 



Philadelphia 22 



Columbus, 23 



Detroit 24 



St. Paul 26 



Newport, R. 1 27 



Seed Trade News 30 



— Llllum Harrisii .iO 



— The Price of Sets .50 



— Peas and Beans 31 



— Michigan Seed Crops 31 



— The Holland Bulbs 31 



— Imports 32 



— Dutch Bulbs 32 



— Grass Seed Report 33 



— Color Photography 35 



Providence, B. 1 36 



Vegetable Forcing 38 



Pacific Coast — Los Angeles, Cal 44 



— California Rose Growers 44 



— San Francisco 44 



— Portland, Ore 45 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Nursery News — Borers in Maples 48 



— Points at Peterson's 48 



— Hardiness of Eticalyptus 50 



Minneapolis 51 



Washington 52 



Milwaukee 54 



Pittsburg 56 



The Colorado Fair 58 



Buffalo 67 



New Orleans 67 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— Radiation 68 



— In Michigan 68 



— Air In System (58 



— Gteenhouse Adjoining Store 60 



— Dwelling and Greenhouse 70 



— Three Lettuce Houses 71 



Houghton, Mich 72 



Cincinnati 72 



Rochester, N. Y 74 



New Bedford, Mass 74 



Dayton, 76 



SPSTS' 



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 mailed early Tiiursday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver< 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

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 Tuesday at latest^ instead of "Wed' 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



80CnTT or AUBiCAN FL0BI8T8. 



INOOBPOKATBD BY AOT OF CONQBESB MABCH 4, '01 



Officers for 1008: President, F. H. Traendly, 

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Morgan 

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



Officers for 1900: President, J. A. Valentine, 

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

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

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

 bnrg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., Angust 10 

 to 22, 1900. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 9 to 15, 1908; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman; 3. H. Buidett, secretary, 1411 First 

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



A WELL PLEASED advertiser writes: 

 "The Eeview is certainly black on 

 white and read all over." 



The Eeview always is glad to answer 

 questions to the best of its ability, but it 

 is necessary that full name and address 

 be supplied, else no attention is paid. 

 Names are not published except by re- 

 quest. ^/'^ 



This is the time of year when every 

 florist who sells to the public should de- 

 cide on a plan for advertising during 

 the next nine months. "Advertising 

 is to business what steam is to a loco- 

 motive" — and you should get up steam 

 for a busy season. 



EXPRESS RATES ON FLOWERS. 



At the Niagara Falls convention the 

 subject was brought up of express rates 

 on cut flowers going from north to south, 

 and in general shipping where ice is nec- 

 essary in warm weather. This matter 

 was referred to the legislative committee 

 and the papers that were read at the 

 session of the convention have been for- 

 warded to me. The papers so far re- 

 ceived are of such" general character that 

 in their present form little can be done 

 with them. In shipping fish from a 

 Hudson river point to New Orleans by 

 express, there would be an allowance of 

 twenty-five per cent on the gross weight 

 for ice, and after this deduction the 

 charge per hundredweight is $3; on the 

 other hand, if cut flowers are sent no 

 deduction is made for ice, but $4.50 is 

 charged per hundredweight. 



What should be done is the revision of 

 classification for long distance shipments. 

 From New York city to Chicago the rate 

 for fish is as follows: Twenty-five 'per 

 cent reduction for ice from the gross 

 weight and $1.90 per hundredweight for 

 the remainder. Over the same line and 

 in the same car a box of cut flowers 

 would go at the rate of $2.50 gross 



weight, and at the present time it seems 

 that this is a fair sample of differential 

 charges. 



What the legislative committee would 

 like is explicit information from any 

 person directly interested and having ex- 

 perience, as to quantities shipped from 

 given point to given point, over what 

 line and the weight of the packages. I 

 have been speaking with an express man- 

 ager and he tells me that fish as a com- 

 modity is heavy and flowers for the same 

 cubic space are light, that where 100 

 pounds of fish would be in a box, twenty- 

 five pounds of cut flowers would make a 

 bulk package, and these freighted by 

 weight do not yield the revenue that 

 heavier and coarser goods do. Edward 

 Eeid, of Philadelphia, has pressed this- 

 matter at some length and the committee- 

 will endeaver to get the cases into such 

 form that, acting for the S. A. F. as a 

 body, this matter may be laid before the- 

 express companies' headquarters, where- 

 it may receive fair consideration. 



Benjamin Hammond, Chairman. 



PRICE OF GLASS. 



The former price discounts of ninety 

 and twenty for both single and double- 

 strength window glass were reaffirmed at 

 a meeting of the Central Window Glass 

 Jobbers' Association at Pittsburg Sep- 

 tember, 18. In the course of the meeting 

 the fact was brought out that the stock* 

 of glass in the hands of dealers through- 

 out the country are greatly depleted, and 

 that the general trade prospects are much 

 brighter now than they have been for 

 some time. It is said that many plants, 

 will soon be started in operation. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Press day for the final edition of tiit^ 

 premium list is October 1, and before 

 that date all special premium offer? which 

 go into this list should be in the hands 

 of the secretary. 



A list will be published in this book 

 of all subscribers to the guarantee fund 

 who have paid the first assessment, and 

 those who have not paid by October 1 

 will be dropped from the list of the 

 guarantee fund, by order of the executive 

 committee. All who have overlooked pay- 

 ing the twenty per cent are urged to 

 send their checks to the treasurer at once. 



A meeting of the executive committee 

 has been called by Chairman W. F, Kast- 

 ing, to take place in Chicago, September 

 25. Important matters will be decided 

 and those members who cannot attend 

 will send in reports to be acted upon. 

 J. H. BuRDETT, Sec'y. 



SUPPORTS FOR DAHLIAS. 



Do the large eastern growers of dahlias 

 stake them, or let them grow ?)n the 

 ground? We find it is a tremendous, 

 trouble to tie them up. J. F. C. 



The largest eastern dahlia specialists 

 do not stake their dahlias at all. They 

 generally leave one stalk to a plant, 

 pinch this when eight to ten inches high 

 and thus develop a rather stocky and 

 bushy plant. Some growers tie the stalk 

 to a short but stout stake. The smaller 

 growers usually support their plants, but 

 those growing them by the acre do not 

 as a rule attempt it. Of course, there 

 is an advantage in staking if you only 

 grow a small number, as yaur plants are 

 less broken down by high winds. C. W. 



