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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



October 15, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. 6BANT. Editob and Managkb. 



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 884 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



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

 fo Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted oniy 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising: rates quoted upon request. Only 

 •trictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moruiii)^ 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-oltice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 »ct of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEKS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— Sheaf of Wheat and Uoses (illus.j 3 



— Local Advertising 3 



— Deadly Combination 3 



— Hallowe'en Window Display 3 



— A Hallowe'en Idea 3 



— The Mum and the Wedding (lUUs.) 4 



— Care of House Plants 4 



Fertilizer for Plumosus 5 



Geraniums — Bedding Geraniums 6 



— Young Stock for Spring (i 



— In the South (> 



Boneflour as Fertilizer 6 



Orchids— Florists' Best Cattleyas 6 



Notes on the Best Lilacs (lllus.) 7 



Hardy Climbers 8 



The Native American Lotus -9 



Seasonable ' Suggestions — I'oinsettlas . .' 10 



— Euphorbia Jacqulniaeflora 10 



— Berried Plants 10 



— Camellias 10 



— Azaleas 10 



— Freeslas 10 



— Cyclamens 10 



— Planting Hardy Perennials 11 



— Trees and Shrubs 11 



Violets — Distance Apart 11 



Hibiscus Coccineus 11 



Lorraine Begonias 11 



The Southern Bulb Stock 12 



New Varieties of Dahlias (lllus.) 13 



Pot Plants 13 



Chrysanthemums — Chrysanthemum Society... 14 



Southern Evergreens 14 



Color In Market Plants 14 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 15 



— Remedy for Rust 15 



Obituary 10 



— Julius Schoellner Ifi 



— Henry Glins 1<> 



— Mrs. Anna M. Semmler 10 



General Crop Conditions 16 



Natlonnl Flower Show 16 



Chicago 17 



Cincinnati 19 



Philadelphia 20 



Pittsburg 22 



St. Louis 23 



New Bedford, Mass 24 



New York 2ti 



Boston 28 



Vegetable Forcing 32 



— Mushrooms and Rhubarb 32 



— Tomatoes and Lettuce 32 



— Lettuce That Will Not Head 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Founder's Week at Dreer's (lllus.) 34 



— The Crops 34 



— Peas, Beans and Other Crops 34 



— Catalogues Received 35 



— Growing Onions for Seed 35 



— Reappraisements 36 



— Imports 36 



— Dutch Bulbs 36 



Providence. R. 1 36 



Washington 38 



Worcester, Mass 40 



Pacific Coast 46 



— San Francisco 46 



— Victoria, B. C 46 



Detroit 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News 50 



— Olmsted's Way 50 



— Ha wkes' Idaho Nursery 50 



Erie, Pa 54 



Baltimore ^0 



Dayton, 58 



Minneapolis , 66 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— Range on n Hillside 68 



— A Shallow Boiler Pit 69 



— Piping in Ohio 70 



— A Mushroom House 72 



Cleveland 74 



BuflTalo '° 



is printed 'Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning;. It 

 is earnestly requested that aU adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy'* to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday- at latest^ instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning;, as inany have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AIHGBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act op 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, HI.: treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg. 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



First National Flower Show, Chicago, Novem- 

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

 clialrman; J H. Burdett. secretary, 1411 First 

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



As is usual at this time of year, there 

 is pressure to sell ferns, but as soon as 

 room is found for their housing the 

 anxiety to move stock will cease and a 

 steady demand will no doubt clean up all 

 good stock by spring, as it always has. 



It appears that a number of people, 

 in making plans in connection with the 

 national flower show at Chicago next 

 month, have overlooked the fact that the 

 dates vary from the ones chosen when 

 Chicago has a five-day show. The na- 

 tional show this year will open Friday, 

 November 6, and continue to and includ- 

 ing Saturday, November 14. 



OBITUARY. 



Julius Schoellner. 



Julius Schoellner, of Newark, N. J., 

 died October 5, at his home in that city. 

 He was 63 years old and had been fail- 

 ing in health for some time. Coming to 

 Newark from Germany twenty-two years 

 ago, he was employed by the Prudential 

 Insurance Co. and was promoted stead- 

 ily in office until two years ago, when 

 the state of his health compelled him to 

 give up his position. Since his retire- 

 ment from the Prudential, Mr. Schoell- 

 ner had been a florist and had built up 

 a prosperous business. 



He is survived by a widow, seven chil- 

 dren and fourteen grandchildren. His 

 seven children are Julius, Jr., John, 

 Paul and Fred Schoellner, and Mrs. 

 Agnes Brown, Mrs. Antonia Crasser and 

 Mrs. Nellie Schafer. 



Henry Glins. 



Henry Glins died October 8, at his 

 home in Cincinnati. While Mr. Glins 

 was but 49 years old, still he had been 

 in the florists' business for so many 

 years that he was considered one of the 

 old florists of the city. His store was 



in the Over-the-Rhine district, which is 

 so well known to all visitors to Cincin- 

 nati. His loss is mourned by a host of 

 fellow-workers and friends. 



Mrs. Anna M. Semmler. 



Mrs. Anna M. Semmler, of Belleville, 

 111., died October 8, aged 81 years. She 

 was the widow of Michael Semmler, a 

 pioneer florist of that place, and she 

 conducted the first flower store in Belle- 

 ville. / • \ J 



GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS. 



The following table gives the average 

 yield, condition, or production of va- 

 rious crops as reported by the Bureau 

 of Statistics of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture October 1, with compari- 

 sons. Condition reports upon crops that 

 were harvested before October 1 refer 

 to condition at time Of harvest. Esti- 

 mates of production are upon a basis 

 of 100 representing a full crop. All 

 figures for September 1 represent condi- 

 tion at that date. 



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October. 1. lO-yr. 



Crops. 1908. 1907. Av. 



Apples, condition 48.4 33.8 52.9 



Barley, bps. per acre 25.0 23.8 25.5 



Barley, quality 89.3 88.2 87.6 



Beans (dry), produc- 

 tion 79.0 79.1 *. . . , 



Broom corn, production 76.8 85.1 



Buckwheat, condition. 81.6 80.1 81.8 



Cabbages, production. 73.5 83.5 



Clover seed, production 90.8 64.9 



Corn, condition 77.8 78.0 79.7 



Cotton, condition 69.7 67.7 67.6 



Cranberries, condition. 58.3 77.8 



Flaxseed, condition... 81.2 78.0 ♦83.6 



Grapes, condition 83.9 81.8 °83.6 



Hemp, production 75.2 86.6 



Hops, lbs. per acre. . .1064.8 1114.0 lt)6e.0 



Hops, quality 92.6 90.5 •93.3 



Kaflr corn, forage, 



production 83.9 84.0 



Millet, hay, production 86.1 83.1 



MlHet. seed, production 79.1 81.8 



Oats, bus. per acre... 24.9 23.7 29.8 



Oats, quality 81.3 77.0 86.1 



Onions, production... 83.4 86.7 



Peanuts, condition... 85.4 84.7 .... 



Potatoes, condition... 68.7 77.0 76.3 



Rice, condition 87.7 88.7 87.7 



Sorghum, condition... 84.3 80.4 



Sugar beets, condition 85.4 90.5 



Sugar cane, condition 89.6 91.9 88.0 

 Sweet potatoes, con- 

 dition 85.5 82.7 83.1 



Tobacco, condition.., 84.1 84.8 83.5 



Tomatoes, production. 80.2 86.4 



Watermelons, produc- 

 tion 79.7 75.2 



Wheat (spring), bus. 



per acre 13.2 13.2 tl3.8 



Wheat (spring), qual- 

 ity 88.1 88.8 t85.9 



♦Five years.' "Four years. tSiX years. 



o 



i-'d 



to 



o 



00 



52.1 

 81.2 



82.8 

 76.6 

 87.8 

 80.3 

 89.7 

 79.4 

 76.1 

 67.7 

 82.5 

 84.6 

 73.0 

 79.3 



85.1 

 86.9 



69.'7 



85!8 

 86.0 

 73.7 

 93.5 

 85.6 

 86.0 

 91.3 



88.7 

 84.3 

 82.6 



80.8 



77.B 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Copies of the final premium list have 

 been sent to all names on our mailing 

 list, with entry blanks enclosed. Those 

 who have not received premium lists and 

 desire them, should write at once to the 

 secretary. 



The following announcement explains 

 itself: 



"Secretary W, N. Rudd has found his 

 time so constantly occupied at Morgan 

 Park with S. A. F. work and personal 

 business affairs, that I have appointed, 

 at his suggestion, J. B. Deamud to act 

 in the city, with the title. Superintendent 

 of Show, with authority to select work- 

 ing assistants, and Mr. Deamud will take 

 charge of detail show arrangements from 

 date. All correspondence regarding pre- 

 mium lists, entries, etc., should be ad- 

 dressed as usual to J. H. Burdett, secre- 

 tary, 1411 First National Bank, Chicago. 

 J. C. Vaughan, Chairman Local Man- 

 agement Committee." 



J. H. BuBftETT, Sec'y. 



