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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVBMBER 12, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. ORAKT. Editob and Manaqkb. 



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AdvertlsinEr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertising accepted. 

 Advertlsenieuts must reach us by Wednesday 



gorning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 Uowins day. and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, liL, under the 

 »ct of March 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBIIBEBS, PAGE 56. 



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CONTENTS. 



The National Flower Show (lllus.) 17 



— National Show Awards 22 



— National Show Banquet (illus.) 20 



— National Show Visitors 28 



— National Show Management 30 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 30 



— Presldeut-elect E. D. Smith (portrait) ... 30 



Protecting Cosmos 31 



The Autumn Exhibitions (lllus.) 31 



— Boston (illus. ) 31 



— St. Louis 33 



— Elmira, N. Y 33 



— Tarrytown, N. Y 34 



— Glen Cove, N. Y 34 



— Poughkeepsie, N. Y 34 



Seasonable Suggestions 30 



— Lorraine Begonias 30 



— Show Pelargoniums 30 



— Pandi^nus Veitchii 30 



— Polnsettias 3(5 



— Hardy Lilies 30 



— Preparing Compost 30 



— Pansies 3(5 



— Adlantums 3t5 



Oyster Shell Scale 37 



Storing Dahlias 37 



Carnations 38 



— At the National Sliow 38 



Roses 38 



— Rose Wm. R. Smith 38 



Violets 39 



— Violets for Coldf rames 30 



— Best Single Violet 39 



Bunch of Chrysanthemums (illus.) 39 



Hltz's Hoosler Home (illus.) 40 



Express on Flowers 40 



St. Paul 40 



The Pollworth Plant (lllus.) 41 



Boston 41 



Obituary 42 



Society of American Florists 42 



Chicago 42 



New York 4(5 



Philadelphia 49 



Pittsburg 52 



ETansTllle, Ind , 57 



Seed Trade News 58 



— Best Shelf Jars for Seed 58 



— Plage to Buy Seeds 69 



— Imports „ (50 



— Bulb Growing in Holland (50 



— Clover Seed Crops 62 



Baltimore 62 



Pacific Coast 70 



— San Francisco 70 



— Redwood City, Cal 70 



Steamer Sailings 72 



Nursery News 74 



— Nut Growers Meet 74 



— Winchester, Tenn., Nurseries 74 



Vegetable Forcing 76 



— Vegetable Markets 70 



— Cauliflower Will Not Head 70 



— Soil Sterilization 76 



Detroit 78 



Lexington, Ky 80 



New Orleans 82 



Buffalo 82 



Cincinnati 84 



Minneapolis 86 



Washington 88 



Mount Clemens, Mich 88h 



Greenhouse Heating 92 



— Heating with a Flue 92 



— Piping In Michigan 92 



— Size of Boiler Needed 92 



— A Small Lean-to 93 



— Heating for Living Room 03 



— Imperfect Circulation 93 



Providence, B. I 94 



Cleveland 96 



Honston, Texas 98 



Calumet, Mich 98 



Wayside Notes 100 



Rambling Jottings 102 



B«Br 



is printed Wednesday evening* and 

 mailed early Thttrsday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach as by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest^ instead of "Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incokpokated by Act of Congbess March 4, '01 



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

 New York J vice-president, G'eorge W. McClure, 

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Morgan 

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



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



With this issue, the Eeview celebrates 

 the completion of its eleventh year. 



Pay fair prices, and ask them, and 

 insist on a fair article in each transac- 

 tion. 



The only kind of business that is 

 worth having is founded on giving satis- 

 faction to one's customers. 



You often can tell what quality of 

 stock is in a greenhouse by a glance at 

 the grounds surrounding it. 



You will get out of your business just 

 about what you put into it; nothing 

 worth while is to be had without well 

 directed effort. 



When one can buy a season's supply 

 of printed letter-heads for 75 cents it 

 seems strange that so many growers and 

 small florists still write their business 

 letters on the children's school pads. 



Pity the poor express companies! The 

 annual report of the "U. S. " shows only 

 $37,734 profit from operation in the year 

 just passed. But income from invest- 

 ments was suflScient to maintain the reg- 

 ular dividend. 



One of the reasons why a florist is 

 entitled to a good profit from his busi- 

 ness is that in the majority of cases his 

 residence is not over twenty feet from 

 the greenhouses and not even in his sleep 

 is he free from the care of the stock. 



Canterbury bells are easily forced 

 when in pots and well established. They 

 should bo kept in cool frames until the 

 time arrives for inciting them into 

 growth. Campanulas are gross feeders 

 and will respond generously when they 

 are given ample room and plenty of nu- 

 triment. 



When the early flowering chrysanthe- 

 mums are cut from benches, sweet peas 

 that are growing in pots may be planted 

 in their place, without much preparation 

 of the soil. Sweet peas are often a good 

 crop when grown in that way, and are 

 especially useful to the grower who is 

 also a retail florist. 



OBITUARY. 



Mr. and Mrs. Andrew GroU. 



4.ndrew Groll and his wife, Katherine,. 

 died within a few hours of each other^ 

 October 30, at their home in East Will- 

 iamsburg, N. Y., and were buried to- 

 gether on the following Monday. Mr. 

 Groll died of pneumonia shortly after 

 noon. Mrs. Groll, who had been suffer- 

 ing from consumption for many months 

 and was now a helpless invalid, gave^ 

 directions for her husband's funeral as 

 she lay in bed. Just three hoiirs after 

 her husband's death, she also, passed 

 away. Mr. Groll 's age was 63 and Mrs. 

 Groll 's 48. They are survived by five 

 children. Mr. Groll was one of the- 

 oldest florists in the East Williamsburg^ 

 cemetery section. 



Leroy L. Crocker. 



Leroy L. Crocker, a pioneer California 

 horticulturist, died near Loomis, Placer 

 Co., October 30, a victim of heart dis- 

 ease, from which he had suffered' for 

 many years. Mr, Crocker was 70 years 

 of age. He leaves two daughters and 

 one son. His grounds at his late hom& 

 consist of over 1,000 acres, more than 

 half of which was planted to fruit trees^ 

 vines and shrubbery, while the balance 

 was maintained as an experiment farm 

 and pleasure park. He leaves an estate 

 valued at half a million dollars. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS^ 



Name of Hydrangea. 



The following statement is made in 

 response to some inquiries, and to settle- 

 some apparent misunderstandings, regard- 

 ing the name of the hydrangea registered 

 by the E. G. Hill Co. July 21, 1906, as 

 Hydrangea arborescens alba grandiflora: 



Professor Sargent, after consideration, 

 decided that the proper name for this va- 

 viety was Hydrangea arborescens grandi- 

 flora forma nova. The registration was 

 corrected to that effect, and the latter is 

 the name accepted and recognized by this 

 society. W. N. Kudd, Sec'y. 



November 3, 1908. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The facts of supply and demand have 

 been lost sight of this week by the event 

 of the year — the national flower show. 

 More visitors have been in town than at 

 any other one time in the history of the 

 market and everyone has been busy — 

 shaking hands. 



There was not much business the latter 

 part of last week. The shipping demand 

 far eclipsed the local trade, and even the 

 former was light. This week business 

 has continued on the quiet side, as it 

 always is when any special event is on. 

 Shipping is fair, but not up to what it 

 should be, or even up to what it was at 

 the end of October. Local trade is dull. 

 The retailers who have entered at the 

 show have used only trifling quantities of 

 the choice stock and less attention than 

 usual has been given to pushing the local 

 retail trade, so prices on the miscellane- 

 ous lots that have to be cleaned up, have 

 sunk rather than risen. 



There has as yet been no influx of the 

 late varieties of chrysanthemums and 

 strictly fancy stock is not overabundant. 

 There is call for Eaton and the market 

 looks for a revival in general demand 



