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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBS 1, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



6. It. 6BANT. Editor and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED EVERT THUBSDAT BT 



The FLORISTS' publishing Co. 



630-56e Caxton BuUdinsT, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Habbison 6429. 



KXGISTBRBD CABLB ADORBSS, FLORVIBW, CHICAGO 



New York Omci;: 



. _»ark Broo „ . 



, Austin Shaw, Manaqeb. 



Borough Park....^ .Brooklyn, N. Y. 



BnbBcriptlon 91.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 fo Europe. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted ouiy 

 from those in ttie trade. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 rtrictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moruiiii;; to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 foliowiug day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter Decembar 3, 

 1887. at the post-ottice at Chicago. III., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



More About Bench Building 3 



UladioU a 



Uerauiufais — Propagating Ueraulums 3 



— Uoutliig Gei'uinum CuttiugH 4 



— Uuotiug Gt'iauiums 4 



ElegautlbKima Couipacta (illus. ) 4 



CUryisautlieuiums — Kxiiibitiou CUrysantUemuuis 



Ullus.) ■••. 5 



— Early Varieties 5 



The Uetall h lorlst— Just WUy 



— The Captain's Arch (Illus. ) 



— Spray ot OrcbiUs (Illus.) « 



— iSuggestlons for Wiudows 6 



Fall f lantiug 7 



Phlox and Other Perennials 8 



Carnations — Outdoors in Colorado ti 



— Leat Spot » 



— Pteiflers Carnation Patch (illus.) 9 



Sweet Peas ** 



Orchids — Useful Summer Cattleyas (illus.)... 10 



— Cattleya Citriua 10 



English I'rlmroses 10 



Uoverumeut Positions Open 11 



Violets— Feeding Violets 11 



— Single Violets 11 



The Southern Bulb Stock 12 



President Leman Bradford (portrait) 13 



Dahlia and Ueranium Show 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lilies 14 



— Variegated V inca 14 



— Lemon-scented Verbenas 14 



— Verbenas 14 



— Lobelias 14 



— Dahlias 14 



— Uardeuias 14 



Roses — Hardy Uoses for Forcing 15 



— Ventilation 15 



— Burnt Spots on Foliage 15 



— Thrips 15 



Late Planted Dahlias 15 



Obituary 1« 



Chicago 17 



St. Louis 20 



New York 551 



Indianapolis 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 2(J 



Clnchinatl 28 



Pittsburg 28 



Hartford, Ctonn 30 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Connecticut Seed Crops 32 



— As Rice Sees the Situation 32 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 33 



— The Crop of Fescues 33 



— Imports 34 



— Dutch Bulbs 34 



— Reappralsements 34 



— Bulb Growers in Holland 34 



— The Question Box 35 



— The Market Gardener's View 35 



— The Style in Catalogues 3« 



— Too-mucb-alike Sweet Peas 37 



— Work with Easter Lilies 37 



Norwich, Conn 38 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 44 



— Narcissus and Daffodils 44 



— Handling Native Palms 44 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Nursery News — Evergreen Seedlings 48 



— Injury from Carlwlinlum 49 



Vegetable Foiving— Rhubarb 50 



— In Oklahoma 50 



— A Lettuce and Radish House 50 



Milwaukee 52 



Columbus, 54 



Baltimore 55 



Pueblo, Colo 56 



MiniieaiKills 58 



New Orleans 58 



Peoria, 111 66 



(Jrand RapUIs 66 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



Davton, 74 



Washington 74 



Erie, Pa 7ti 



Racine, Wis 76 



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is printed Wednesday evening' and 

 mailed early Thttrsday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqttested that aU 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 or AIEBICAN FLOBISTg. 



Incorporated bt Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

 New York; vice-president, (Jeorge W. McClure, 

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Morgan 

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



Officers for 1009: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, C!olo.; vice-president, E. G. GlUett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber to 15, 1908; W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, 

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

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Eesults bring advertiaing. 

 The Review brings results. 



Wm. F. Kasting. has been appointed 

 a park commissioner for Buffalo. 



The latest thing in launching new 

 ships is to christen them with flowers 

 instead of the traditional bottle of wine. 



Canna J. D. EiSELE, scarlet shaded 

 with orange, is said to have been one of 

 the best green-leaved cannas at this sum- 

 mer's Franco-British Exposition. 



The automobile has not helped the 

 flower business. Flowers are not needed 

 for automobile parties, even if one has 

 the price after providing for the up- 

 keep of the machine. 



Beginning October 1, the postage rate 

 applicable to letters mailed in the United 

 States for delivery at any place in the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland will be 2 cents an ounce or frac- 

 tion of an ounce. 



Less than five short weeks remain be- 

 fore the presidential election and thus far 

 the political excitement has not been suf- 

 ficient to interfere with business, although 

 without doubt in many lines buyers are 

 holding off till after the result is deter- 

 mined, which has an indirect effect on 

 the flower trade. 



H. H. GiEViN, Paradise, Pa., has ap- 

 plied for a patent on a stem-clipper, a 

 knife to be worn on one finger and oper- 

 ated by pressure of another. It is de- 

 signed for the use of retail florists, or 

 for growers of carnations, grapes or any 

 stock with soft wood which is better (Tut 

 than broken from the plant. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



The executive committee for the Na- 

 tional Flower Show had its meeting in 

 Chicago September 25 and received re- 

 ports from all sub-committees and took 

 important action. 



The secretary was instructed to have 



2,000 copies of the final premium list 

 printed and mailed by October 10. Presi- 

 dent Traendly was requested to offer the 

 gold medal of the S. A. F. for the most 

 interesting and educational exhibit in 

 the show. Chairman Poehlmann, of the 

 reception committee, reported that elab- 

 orate plans were being made for the en- 

 tertainment of visitors to the show. 

 Chairman Koenig, of the special features 

 committee, reported that an exhibit was 

 being planned which would show the 

 evolution of floral designing in the last 

 twenty-five years. 



Action was taken fixing the general 

 admission at 75 cents for adults, and 

 25 cents for children of school age; fix- 

 ing the price of trade tickets at 35 cents. 

 The action offering a season ticket for $1 

 to florists not members of the S. A. F. 

 was reconsidered and rescinded. 



J. H. BuHDETT, Sec'y. - 



WHY LIMIT YOURSELF? 



Are you content with a business among 

 your neighbors? Do they buy all the 

 stock you raise, or could raise? Do they 

 buy steadily, all the year around, or do 

 you find yourself pushed for cash to meet 

 your bills except, perhaps, in the spring? 

 Do your local customers pay cash, or 

 expect you to wait a year, more or less, 

 for your money? 



Why don't you grow stock that other 

 florists buy — advertise — and branch out? 

 Others in small towns have done it — why 

 not you? 



See what this wholesale florist writes 

 from a retail town: 



"Please discontinue my adiantum, 

 dracffina, cyclamen and primrose adver- 

 tisements in the Classified Department 

 of the Review and insert the inclosed 

 until further notice. Stocks are getting 

 badly broken. Sales have been first- 

 class. J. Sylvester. 



"Oconto, Wis., Sept. 21, 1908." 



Cash comes with the order to the known 

 advertisers in the Review. Why not 

 branch out? 



OBITUARY. 



Samuel Pieser. 



Samuel Pieser died quite suddenly 

 September 24, at his home in Chicago. 

 He had been in his usual health up to 

 September 19 and had been about as 

 usual at an even later date. The physi- 

 cians said his death was due to abdom- 

 inal poisoning. The funeral was held 

 September 25, with interment at Rose- 

 hill cemetery. 



Mr. Pieser was 48 years of age, a 

 brother of G. H. Pieser, president of the 

 Kennicott Bros. Co., Chicago, and E. E. 

 Pieser, treasurer of that company. For 

 many years Samuel Pieser ran a retail 

 flower store on North Clark street in Chi- 

 cago, up to about three years ago. Then 

 he was with the Kennicott Bros. Co. for 

 a time, afterward going into the tobacco 

 business, in which he also was interested 

 while running the retail flower store. 

 Recently he has been manager of one of 

 the stores of the United Cigar Stores Co. 

 Mr. Pieser leaves a widow and two chil- 

 dren, Edward E. Pieser and Mrs. A. G. 

 Perretz. 



Gordon Wolf. 



Gordon Wolf, proprietor of the Denver 

 Floral Co., Denver, Colo., died September 

 11. He was well known in the trade. 



