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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



October 22, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. OBANT. Editob and Manaqkb. 



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The FLORISTS' publishing Co. 



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Boroagh Park Brooklyn, N- Y. 



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Subscription 91.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 ffo Europe. $2.50. Subscriptioiis accepted only 

 farom those in the trade. 



Advertising: rates quoted upon request. Only 

 •trictly trade advertising- accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue oi the 

 followins day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 8, 

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

 •ct of March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVERTISEBS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— The Cascade Wreath (lllus.) 8 



— Suggestions for WlndoWa. i. 3 



— A Store Opening (illus.)..\. 4 



— Baby's Pillow (lllus.y. ..* 4 



Dahlias for Cut Flowers 4 



Swoet Peas 6 



Gardenias for Christmas... S 



Carnations — To Get Rid of Angleworms 6 



». — Thrlps and Other Trojiblft 6 



jkf — American Carnation Society 6 



^ Roses — Fall Planting of Roses 6 



^ — Dorothy Perkins Rose (iUus.) 6 



— Hardy Rose Jottings 7 



— Wintering Baby Ramblers 8 



— Gold Medal Hoses 8 



Lllium LonglUorum 9 



Kerosene , 9 



Cyclamens for Christmas 9 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lilies 10 



— Schizanthus 10 



— Antirrhinums 10 



— Calceolarias 10 



— Dahlias 10 



— Cannas 10 



The Southern Bulb Stock 10 



Moschosma Rlparium 11 



Name of Flowers 11 



Violets— Saltford at Home (illus. ) 11 



England's Largest Place 11 



Chrysanthemums^-Current Notes 12 



— The Poehlmann Mum (Illus. ) 12 



— Scarce Varieties 12 



— Chrysanthemum Society 12 



— Chrysanthemum Gloria (illus. ViU 13 



Obituary 13 



Ladles' S. A. F 14 



National Flower Show 14 



The Florists' Bibliography 14 



The Common Arbor-vltae 14 



ChicHgo 15 



Detroit 18 



St. Louis 18 



Denver 19 



New York 20 



Evansvllle, Ind 21 



Pittsburg 22 



Columbus, Ohio 23 



Dayton, Ohio 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Peoria, 111 25 



Boston 26 



Glen Cove, N. T 27 



Seasonable Suggestions (continued) 28 



— Faftcy Caladlums 28 



— Ten Weeks' Stock 28 



— Myosotls 28 



Southern Bulb Stock (continued) 29 



Canandalgua, N. Y 30 



Floral Park, N. Y 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Dutch Bulbs 35 



— The Aster Seed Crop .35 



— Tomatoes for Canning 35 



— Valley Pipe 86 



— Work In Holland 38 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 40 



— Growers to Organize 40 



Pacific Coast — A Stockton Establishment 



(Illus.) 46 



— Fall Prospects 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Omaha 48 



Nursery News — Winter Storage 50 



— Peonies 52 



— Grape Vines 62 



Baltimore 54 



Erie, Pa 66 



.Tersey City, N. J 68 



Cleveland 60 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



Cincinnati • 70 



Washington 72 



Providence, R. 1 72 



Henderson, Ky 72 



Milwaukee 76 



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Is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that aQ 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 OF AHERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorpoeated by Act of Congeess March 4, '01 



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

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Kudd, Morgan 

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



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

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

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

 gan 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. Kastlng, Buffalo, 

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

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Th;^ National Council of Horticulture 

 has begun its autumn series of season- 

 able articles. 



Florists who grow for their own re- 

 tail trade should plant a few bulbs of 

 the white Watsonia Ardemei. 



A MOVEMENT is on foot in England 

 to raise funds for a memorial to George 

 Nicholson, author of Nicholson's Dic- 

 tionary of Gardening, who died redently. 



If Constant Reader will refer to the 

 recent articles of Miss Gertrude Blair, 

 on window decorating, he will doubtless 

 find a suggestion that will cover his need. 



With the national election less than 

 two weeks away, no one can find room 

 for complaint that business has been 

 ' ' disturbed ; ' ' the campaign has been 

 quiet enough to suit any advocate of 

 longer presidential terms. 



The weather is a most important 

 factor in the cut flower trade, and the 

 unseasonable heat of the middle of Octo- 

 ber was disastrous in its effects. After 

 a few days of cooler conditions, the fore- 

 caster says he sees nothing but warm 

 weather in sight for the greater part of 

 the country. 



The premium list has been issued for 

 the exhibition of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York, to be held at the 

 Museum of Natural History, New York 

 city, November 17 to 20. F. E. Pier son, 

 of Tarrytown, is chairman of the com- 

 mittee. Copies of the circular may be 

 had by addressing the secretary, 35 Lib- 

 erty street, New Yo<k. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Ladies ' Society of 



The Ladies' Society of American 

 Florists have accepted the invitation to 

 the 'banquet Tuesday evening, November 

 10, at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago. 

 On Wednesday, November 11, the society 



will give a theater party for its mem- 

 bers, who will please wear their badge 

 pin. Members of the Ladies' S. A. F. 

 will report to the chairman of entertain- 

 ment committee, Mrs. J. C. Vaughan, or 

 the secretary, Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Tues- 

 day morning, November 10, at the ex- 

 hibition hall. 



Mrs. W. J. Vesey, Pres. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



President Traendly has decided that 

 the S. A. F. gold medal shall not be 

 awarded for any specific exhibit, but it 

 will be left to the judges to award it to 

 any exhibit, provided there is an 

 exhibit in the show which may be deemed 

 worthy of so high an award. It was 

 provided by the executive board of the 

 S. A. F.. also that the award of this gold 

 medal should not be complete until the 

 action of the committee had been spe- 

 cifically ratified by the executive commit- 

 tee of the flower show. 



The mistake was made in the final edi- 

 tion of the premium list in giving the 

 judges nominated by the American Car- 

 nation Society. Instead of the names 

 given in the premium list the nominees 

 are Wm. Nicholson, Fred Burki and 

 Peter Fisher. Mr. Nicholson, who was 

 also one of the four nominees presented 

 by the Chrysanthemum Society, will 

 probably be withdrawn as a judge of 

 Division A. J. H. Burdett, Sec'y. 



THE FLORISTS' BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The Review has received a copy of 

 "The Florists' Bibliography," in which 

 the author, C. Harmon Payne, says in his 

 preface: "We have had bibliographies 

 of garden literature in the past and most 

 of them render excellent service in their 

 way, but they are of little or no use to 

 the florist or to the literary worker in 

 floriculture, who, up to the present, has 

 had no authority to which he could turn 

 for information on the books relating to 

 subjects in which he may be chiefly con- 

 cerned. The main idea throughout has 

 been to fill a gap in horticultural lit- 

 erature by compiling an authentic work 

 of reference limited to books and treat- 

 ises exclusively, or almost exclusively, de- 

 voted to florists' ■ flowers and the flower 

 garden," 



How carefully the work must have 

 been done is shown by the fact that no- 

 where is included "The Florists' Man- 

 ual," by William Scott, the standard, 

 most largely sold, most widely known and 

 most frequently consulted treatise on 

 commercial floriculture that ever has been 

 printed in the English language, al- 

 though minor American works are in- 

 cluded. 



THE COMMON ARBOR-VITAE. 



Enclosed you will find a twig of a 

 spruce tree, with seed pods. Will you 

 kindly let me know what kind of a 

 spruce it is and also how I can raise 

 them from seed, when to plant and how 

 to treat them when they come up? 



E. W. C. 



The plant is the common arbor-vitae,. 

 Thuya oecidentalis. Sow the seed in 

 early spring in boxes of sandy loam and 

 keep either in a cool greenhouse or 

 trame. Keep the seedlings protected 

 from bright sunshine the first year. They 

 can be planted out in nursery rows the 

 second season. The seeds of this thuya 

 germinate freely, and the variety is ono 

 of the hardiest of our native evergreens. 



