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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 5, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT. Editor ako Mamaqxb. 



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The FLORISTS' publishino Co. 



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 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



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 ffo Europe, $2.50. Subscriptioiis accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 itrictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertiaements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to iusure insertion in the issue of the 

 foUowiiig day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897. at the post-ofiice at Chicago, IlL, under the 

 »ct of March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Advertising for Florists 3 



— How Kramer Looks At It (lllus.) 3 



Time to Flower Bulbs 4 



Salvia Lord Fauntleroy 5 



Oechslin Is Optimistic 5 



Geraniums ^ 



— Booting the Cuttings « 



— General Culture *> 



— Troubles In Propagating 6 



Bepottlng a Large Palm 6 



The BetaU Florist 6 



— Plateau of Boses (lllus.) « 



— Shower Bouquets .'. 6 



A London Kxbibltlon ...i 7 



Plants for Unbeated House 7 



The Autumn Bxhlbltlous H 



— Madison, N.J. (iUus.) 8 



— Lenox, Mass 8 



— St. Louis 



Trouble with Mignonette 9 



Vlncas 



Chrysanthemums — Some Novelties 10 



— The Shows 11 



— Some Good Pompons 11 



— Kalb and Bergman Mums 11 



— Clirysantbemum Society 11 



Name of Coleus 11 



Begonia Foliage Dying 11 



Carnations — Bust on Carnations 12 



— Nitrate of Soda 12 



— Easter and Memorial Day 12 



— Budd's Seedling (lllus. ) 12 



Weather Plant 13 



Thrlps on Cyclamen 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 13 



— Mignonette 13 



— Callas 13 



— I'l'iuiuius 13 



W. N. Kudd (portrait) 13 



.American Bose Society H 



Express Bates on i lowers 14 



Mayor Breltmeycr 14 



Baltimore 14 



Chicago 15 



ijostun 18 



I'ittsburg 19 



St. Louis •• • • • 21 



Pbiladeipliia 21 



New Vol k 2U 



Vegetal)le Forcing 32 



— Vegetable Markets 32 



— Vegetable Forcers OrKunlzo 32 



— Varlolii's of Lettuce 3.! 



Seed Tiatle News 34 



— - Imports 3i; 



— Beappiaisemeiits 30 



— A Horticultural Slilploml 'M 



General Bufiiiesj* 40 



PaciUc Coast 4'.; 



— The San ItafacI Sli"w 40 



— ,Sau Francisco 40 



Wasiiinjtlon 40 



Stf amci- Sailings 48 



Nursery News ^ 



— Pruning Slirulis 50 



— Variitifs of Lilacs ^0 



Minneapolis 54 



.New Orleans 54 



Cincinnati 50 



Detroit 58 



Mllwauliee 02 



Seasonable Suggestions (continued) 09 



— Marguerites 09 



— Crotons and Dracaenas 09 



— Paper Whites and Bomans 69 



— Zonal Geraniums 09 



— Bulb Planting 69 



— Cypripediura Inslgne 09 



— Erica Melantliera 69 



Greenhouse Heating 70 



— Capacity of Boiler 70 



— Stove Heat in Greenhouses 70 



Columbus, Ohio 72 



Dayton, 01>lo , 74 



Clevclaiiil 70 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday 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. 



SOCIETY OF ASIEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorpoeated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



Officers for 190S: President, F. H. Traendly, 

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

 BufTalo; secretary, Willis N. Budd, Morgan 

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



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

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

 Cincinnati, O.; secretary, Willis N. Budd, 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. Kasting, Buffalo, 

 chairman; J H. Kurdett. secretary, 1411 First 

 National Bank Bldg., Chicago. 



Besulta bring advertising. i 



The Review brings results. 



Now that the baseball season and the 

 election are both over, everybody can 

 settle down to business. 



Well, the election is over, we all have 

 found out which Bill was counterfeit, 

 and if there was any excitement or 

 disturbance of business it wasn't espe- 

 cially noticeable in the flower trade. 



With wheat around 100 cents a 

 bushel, corn 65 cents, oats 50 cents, beef 

 $6.50 per hundredweight at Chicago and 

 hogs $5.50 or better, it looks as though 

 the farmers would have a little money 

 to spend in town this fall, and quite like- 

 ly the price of a few 4-inch geraniums 

 may be available to a good many people 

 along toward spring. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



President Poehlmann requests that any 

 and all members of the American Bose 

 Society who can, will attend a meeting 

 of the executive committee to be held 

 in the Coliseum, Chicago, November 12. 



The judges to act in the show for 

 roses, as appointed by President Poehl- 

 mann and jiled with the secretary of the 

 national show, are as follows: Eobert 

 Simpson, Wm. F. Gude, John N. May. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



EXPRESS RATES ON FLOWERS. 



At the Niagara Falls convention the 

 Society of American Florists turned over 

 to its legislative committee certain mat- 

 ters affecting the rates on empty pack- 

 ages and the cost of gross weight where 

 ice is used. 



Edward Keid, of Philadelphia; Alfred 

 Langjahr, of New York; Patrick Walsh, 

 of Boston, and George Reinberg, of Chi- 

 cago, have rendered eflScient service in 

 getting definite facts together. The 

 .American Express officials have given 

 courteous assistance and the matter will 



soon be placed in the hands of Mr. Brad- 

 ley, 65 Broadway, New York, the Ameri- 

 »;an Express Company's representative on 

 tho general board of traffic managers of 

 the trunk line express companies. 



Benjamin Hammond, Chairman. 



MAYOR BREITMEYER. 



At 4:25 p. m. Wednesday, November 

 4, Hugo Schroeter wired from Detroit: 

 "Everything points to the election of 

 Philip Breitmeyer mayor by safe ma- 

 jority." 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



All Souls ' day was a disappointment 

 this year. The weather was bad for 

 business, and the growers in the flower 

 market, who were loaded down with small 

 mums and cheap flowers of all kinds for 

 the cemetery trade, had a hard time to 

 get rid of their stock. There was a 

 high wind, which bruised the flowers and 

 turned things upside down. The market 

 has been swamped with mums and car- 

 nations and roses of all varieties are in 

 oversupply. AU prices have dropped in 

 consequence. Last week the street boys 

 were out with thousands of roses and 

 carnations that were in good condition, 

 offering bargains that were seldom 

 passed by the public. 



There will be a heavy loss to some of 

 the growers, caused by so much cloudy 

 weather, which has made many mums 

 damp off, especially the large varieties. 



Various Notes. 



One of the largest collections of chrys- 

 anthemums ever made in the city was 

 placed on exhibition at Carroll park 

 October 31. The collection is composed 

 of seventy-five varieties. In spite of the 

 bad weather there were a great many 

 visitors. Superintendent C. L. Seybold 

 escorted the visitprs around. 



Plans are nearing completion for the 

 Maryland State Horticultural Society's 

 exhibition, which will be held in this 

 city at the Fifth Regiment armory De- 

 cember 1 to 3. Judging from the elab- 

 orate plans of the society this exhibi- 

 tion will be far superior to any pre- 

 viously held in this city. 



Prof. White of College Park, Md., 

 gave a very interesting talk at the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club on soils 

 and fertilizers and showed some fine 

 mums which were grown at College Park 

 as an experiment. Some were grown on 

 new soil and some were grown on soil 

 that had been used for nine years with- 

 out change and these flowers proved to 

 be superior to those that were grown 

 on new soil. 



Bernhoimer Bros., who conduct one 

 of the largest department stores here, 

 have opened a cut flower department 

 which would be a credit to any store. 

 They sold 2,500 mums in one day last 

 week, shipped from different growers 

 in Pennsylvania. They expect to do a 

 heavy Easter trade, as they have agreed 

 to take one grower's whole output. 



Halliday Bros, have some extra fine 

 single violets and carnations. 



W. O. Stran has been cutting some fine 

 sweet peas, which find ready sale. 



Chas. H. Cook has handled more ferns 

 this season than he did last. He reports 

 prices satisfactory. Q. 



