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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 8, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. ORAXT, Editob ano Manaqeb, 



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

 To Europe. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



AdvertlBing 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 Decembar 3, 

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

 •ct of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Advertising for Florists .S 



— Newspaper Advertising 8 



Dutch Bulbs 4 



— Plantiug Time Again 4 



Lorraine Begonias 5 



The Retail Florist — A Tliree-DOzen-Rose Bunch 



(lUus.) 5 



— Wanted — Ideas 5 



— Suggestions for Windows (i 



— Wreath of Galax (Ulus.) 



— A Prize Design (lUus.) « 



Wintering Alternantheras ti 



European Notes 7 



Roses — To Carry Over Tea Roses 8 



— Roses on Walls 8 



— White Files and Scale 8 



— Ehea Reld Wins Out 8 



■-.- The Mildew Machine (lllus.) 8 



Minnesota Florists (lllus.) » 



Trouble with Begonia 



Violets — Seasonable Advice 



Oeranluins — Successful Propagation (illus. ).. 10 



Physostegla Vlrginlca (illus. ) 11 



Protecting Big Hydrangeas 11 



British Nurserymen Convene 11 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Culture 12 



— That House of Mums 12 



— Outdoor Stock in Winter 12 



— Slow Development of Buds 12 



— Mums Outdoor 12 



Chrysanthemum Society 1.3 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 13 



— Carnation Society's List 14 



Orchids — Osmunds Fiber 14 



White Fly 14 



Fuchsias 14 



Ferns — Kerosene Kmulsion l.T 



The Headers' Corner l."> 



The Best Sweet Peas l.'i 



Lost Check 15 



Providence, R. I l.'> 



■ Northern Indiana Florists 10 



Obituary < . . . 16 



Chicago 17 



et. Louis 20 



. Detroit 21 



New York 21 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 28 



Seed Trade News .'{2 



-— California Seed Crops 32 



i— Dtiion Sets at Ix>ulsville .32 



— Braslan's Branch Out 33 



— Assignee Henry's Good Work 3;i 



t^ CitovmA for Gladioli .33 



■•—r Imports 34 



— Dutch Bulbs 34 



J— Erfurt Seed and Plant Trade 34 



i— Pp<ilgreed Cotton Seed 3t> 



Pittsburg 37 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 44 



— Improvement in the Dahlia 44 



Cincinnati 4."> 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Nursery News — Evergreens for Vases 48 



'— Trouble with Cedrus Deodars T 48 



; — Peterson's Award 48 



Vegetable Forcing — Bleaching Celery .'iO 



f- Making a Mushroom Bed T*) 



— Vegetables in a Lean-to .lO 



New Orleans 51 



St. Paul 52 



^lyoke, Mass 52 



Saltimore 54 

 Uwaukee 5<» 



Columbus, 58 



Erie, Pa •»> 



Washington OC 



.Oreepbouse Heating^The lleat (Jenerator. . . . f!8 

 ,— ,A Novel System 69 



— Keep the Record 70 



Kansas City 70 



Grand Rapids 72 



Payton, 74 



Indianapolis 74 



Denver 7tj 



U printed ^edtiesday eveniog ard 

 mailed early Thtirsday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqttested 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. 



80CI1TT or AHIHIGAN FLOBIbTg. 



Incorporated bt A ct of Cong besb M a bch 4, 'Oi 



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 1900: President, J. A. Valentine, 

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

 (Mncinnati, O. : secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 10 

 to 22. 1909. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 6 to 14, 1908; W. F. Hasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman; J H. Burdett. secretary, 1411 First 

 National Bank Bidg., Chicago. 



8590 



copies of the Review for October 1, 

 19U8, were printed and mailed. All 

 copies delivered by carrier, counter 

 sales, copies used in soliciting adver- 

 tisements, and office copies, are excluded 

 from the above count. 



Charles A. Rieman, Connersville, 

 Ind., offers special inducements to pur- 

 chasers, as follows: "With every plant 

 we give the earth, with every bloom a 

 scent. ' ' 



Bank clearings for the whole country, 

 generally considered the best indication 

 of business activity, were for September 

 five per cent ahead of a year ago, the first 

 increase that has been reported since the 

 upheaval of last October. 



Lyman B. Craw, of the Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co., says the trade is growing at 

 such a rate that in his opinion estimates 

 of the present extent of the field are apt 

 to be wide of the mark ; no one knows 

 how big a body of mep are practicing 

 ' ' the art that doth mend nature. ' ' 



Publications representing some of the 

 leading industries indicate that orders 

 are, in many cases, being held back until 

 after the presidential election and that 

 October will see a pronounced lull in gen- 

 eral business revival. One thing in favor 

 of the florists is that one needs flowers 

 when he needs them; if to be bought at 

 all, their purchase will not brook delay. 



The European method of propagating 

 bedding calceolarias is now practiced to 

 some extent in this country, and with 

 considerable success. The old-world 

 method consists of making cuttings from 

 the plants in the fall and dibbling them 

 into frames outdoors, sand only being 

 used for the cuttings to root in. All 

 that is required is that as much light as 

 possible be given all through the winter 

 and that the cuttings be kept from freez- 

 ing. 



The white paper consumed in print- 

 ing last week's Review weigheci 4,950 

 Ijounds, or only fifty pounds less than 

 two and one-half tons. v 



The Review would like to receive pe- 

 riodical news-letters from any city where 

 it has no regular correspondent. Pref- 

 erence always will be given to those 

 contributors who will also keep an eye 

 open for possible new subscribers. 



ViNCA is often recommended as a 

 ground cover where trees, evergreen or 

 deciduous, are planted. It answers the 

 purpose quite well and effectually, but 

 it is possible that sometimes it does its 

 work so well that it is the means of the 

 undoing of the more valuable things 

 under which it grows, and that because it 

 covers the ground so completely as to 

 exclude the air necessary for the well- 

 being of the trees, besides impoverishing 

 the soil to such an extent that the trees 

 are robbed of their legitimate source of 

 sustenance. English ivy covers more 

 ground, with more regard to restricted 

 area for the ramification of roots, than 

 does tiie vinca, with capabilities for ef- 

 fect fully equal to the latter. 



NORTHERN INDIANA FLORISTS. 



A number of florists of the northern 

 part of Indiana met at North Manches- 

 ter October 1 and organized the North- 

 ern Indiana Florists' Association. Wil- 

 lard W. Dederick, of Warsaw, Ind., was 

 elected president, and William E. Hand, 

 of the Argos Eloral & Plant Co., Argos, 

 Ind., secretary and treasurer. 



The membership fee will be 50 cents 

 for the first twenty-five members. 



As all present expressed their inten- 

 tion of attending the flower show in Chi- 

 cago, it was decided that the next meet- 

 ing would be on Thursday at noon, dur- 

 ing the show. 



All members, and all other florists of 

 northern Indiana wishing to become 

 members and cooperate with and meet 

 with us on that date, are requested to 

 notify the secretary. 



Wm. E. Hand, Sec'y. 

 Argos, Ind. 



OBITUARY. 



Alvah A. Eaton. 



Alvah A. Eaton, a well-known botahist, 

 who died at his home in North Easton, 

 Mass., was born in Seabrook, N. H., 

 November 20, 1865. He passed his youth 

 there, and also taught school five years. 

 His health then failing, he went to Cali- 

 fornia for several years, and after his 

 return he devoted himself assiduously to 

 botanical pursuits, making original dis- 

 coveries and becoming a special authority 

 in ferns and grasses. He wrote much 

 for botanical magazines and published 

 several pamphlets. 



About six years ago, Oakes Ames, of 

 North Easton, engaged Mr. Eaton's serv'- 

 ices, and until his death the botanist was 

 employed in Mr. Ames' botanical labo- 

 ratory, his work there being chiefly upon 

 orchids. Mr. Ames sent him to Florida 

 Feveral times, where he secured an abun- 

 dance of valuable specimens. 



H. R. Akers. 



H. R. Akers, of Chatsworth, N. J., who 

 for a long time has supplied the trade 

 with moss and other similar articles, died 

 suddenly September 7 and his estate is in 

 the hands of the circuit court, no person 

 as yet having authority to act on any 

 business connected with the estate. 



