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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOTBHBEB 19, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. OBANT. Editob and Manaqbb. 



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nrSEX TO ABVEBTISESS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The BetaU Florist 8 



— TbanksglTlng Decorations (Ulns.) 



— Rapid Delivery (lllns.) 10 



— Spray of Rosea (Ulus.) 10 



The National Flower Show 10 



— A Great Success.... 10 



The Autumn Exhibitions 12 



— Washington 12 



— Philadelphia . , . '. 13 



— Providence, B. X 14 



— New Orleans 14 



— New York 16 



— Little Rock, Ark 15 



— Lenox, Mass 16 



— Orange, N. J 16 



Seasonable Suggestions 16 



— Freeslas 16 



— Azaleas 16 



— AstUbes 16 



— Antirrhinums 16 



— Stevla 16 



— Rambler Roses... 17 



— Brief Bemlnders.... 17 



Boston 17 



Dayton, 17 



Pittsburg 18 



Obituary 18 



— George M. Kellogg (portrait) 18 



— S. W. Flower 19 



— John A. Nlsbet 19 



— James Lewis 19 



— Mrs. Daniel B. Gorman 19 



— Joseph Bradford 19 



— WUl Grelner 19 



— E. Leedham 19 



Chrysanthemum Society 20 



Nepbrolepls ScholKeli (Ulns.) 20 



American Rose Society 20 



Charles W. Johnson (portrait) 20 



A Florists' Supplement 20 



Chicago 20 



Philadelphia 24 



St. Louis 26 



New York 27 



MUwaukee 80 



Pacific Coast 34 



— Pasadena, Cal 84 



— Cuttings of Hardy Vines 84 



— San Francisco '. 34 



Detroit 85 



Seed Trade News 86 



— Imports 88 



— Reappralsements 88 



— Duty on Seeds 88 



— Vick's New Aster 89 



— Valley Pips 40 



— Erfurt Seed Crops 40 



— Fall Imports from Holland 40 



West Grove, Pa 47 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable Markets 48 



— A Useful Lettuce 48 



— Soil Sterilisation 48 



Steamer Sailings 60 



Nursery News 62 



— Duty on Nursery Stock 52 



Springfield, 64 



Columbus, 66 



Minneapolis 60 



Denver 62 



Greenhouse Heating 70 



— Automatic Stokers 70 



Cincinnati 70 



Lexington, Ky 73 



Erie, Pa 74 



Baltimore 76 



Kindly discontinue my advertisement 

 of alyssum. It did the work. I sold out 

 dean and could have sold more. — 

 Shbabeb the Florist, Winchester, Ky. 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



THANKSGIVING 



Becausct Thonday November 26^ 

 the day the Beview is mailed, is a 

 legal holiday, the issue for that week 

 will go to press one day earlier than 

 taual, ,, ^ 



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 



Advertisers and correspondents will 

 please see that their matter readies 

 us not later than Tuesday morning, 

 and earlier will be better. :•■'■: v 



SOCIETX OF AKERICAN FL0BIST8. 



Incokpoeatkd bv Act of Conqeess March 4, '01 



Officers for 1908: President, F. H. Traendly, 

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

 Buffalo: secretary, WlUls N. Rndd, Morgan 

 Park, 111. ; - treasnier, H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg. 



Officers for 1009: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; ^ce-presldent, B. O. Gillett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 32, 1909. 



You can't get sometliing for nothing, 

 any more than you can sell something 

 for less than it cost. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 last week's Eeview weighed 7,236 

 pounds, or a little over three and one- 

 half tons. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOC3ETY. 



Work of the Coauaittees* 



New YdbK, Nov. 11. — No. 1, light 

 pink, Japanese incurved, exhibited by 

 George Hale, Seabright, N. J., scored 

 85 points exhibition scale. 



The name of the variety Golden Har- 

 vest, which was shown before the Phila- 

 delphia committee October 26, has been 

 changed to Golden King. 



David Fbasee, Sec'y. 



NEPHROLEPIS SCHOLZELL 



Herman Scholzel, a well known New 

 Jersey grower, discovered a sport in his 

 bench of Scottii fern two years ago, 

 propagated it and named it Nephrolepis 

 Scholzeli. It is the Scottii fern crested 

 in the well known form of the crested 

 sports of Boston. Mr. Scholzel disposed 

 of his stock to the Henry A. Dreer Co., 

 which has been exhibiting the fern at all 

 the autumn flower shows. It has secured 

 a long list of awards, including the Shaw 

 gold medal for best new plant at St. 

 Louis. It is illustrated on page 13. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



A meeting of the executive committee 

 of the American Rose Society was held 

 at the Coliseum, Chicago, Thursday even- 

 ing, November 12. President Poehlmann 

 occupied the chair, and among those pres- 

 ent were Vice-president Wm. P. Kasting, 

 Buffalo; Secretary Benjamin Hammond, 

 Fishkill, N. Y.; ex-President Robert 

 Simpson, Clifton, N. J.; Fred Burki, 

 Pittsburg; W. R. Pierson, Cromwell, 

 Conn.; Alex. Montgomery, Natick, Mass., 

 and several others. The detail work of 

 preparation for the Buffalo meeting and 

 exhibition was up for consideration. The 



secretary reported that the society is for 

 the first time free from debt and has a 

 balance of $59.98 in the treasury. The 

 annual report will shortly be issued. 



CHARLES W. JOHNSON. 



Charles W. Johnson, the new secretary 

 of the Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica, is well known as the foreman of the 

 greenhouse establishment of the H. W. 

 Buckbee concern, at Rockford, HI. Mr. 

 Johnson was once in charge o£ the green- 

 houses at Mount Greenwood cemetery, 

 Chicago, where W. N. Rudd grows chrys- 

 anthemums and carnations, and he was, 

 during an interval in the service with H. 

 W. Buckbee, in business for himself on 

 the Pacific coast. He is a skilled grower 

 and an admirable selection for the sec- 

 retaryship of the society. His portrait 

 appears on page 15 of this issue. 



A FLORISTS' SUPPLEMENT. 



One of the sections of the Washington 

 Times for Sunday, November 8, was de- 

 voted exclusively to the floricultural in- 

 terests of the national capital. The first 

 page, with its decoration in colors, was 

 devoted to a history of the local Florists ' 

 Club, which W. R. Smith says dates back 

 to 1822, and to an account of the plans 

 for the 1908 exhibition. The other pages 

 carried illustrated accounts of the flori- 

 cultural interests and the advertisements 

 of local florists. Gude Bros. Co. and F. 

 H. Kramer had full pages. There were 

 several half pages and many smaller ad- 

 vertisements of retail florists. 



This is said to be the first time that 

 any metropolitan newspaper has devoted 

 an entire section of a Sunday issue to 

 florists and flower shows. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



All things considered, business was 

 quite fair at the end of last week, and 

 shipping trade was good at the beginning 

 of the present period. City trade is not 

 yet active and in many cases country 

 buyers are still selling their own chrys- 

 anthemums and not yet calling on this 

 market. As soon as the out-of-town buy- 

 ers are cleaned out of the chrysanthe- 

 mums they are growing in their own 

 houses, this market will feel the effect. 

 If this occurs before Thanksgiving day, 

 it will result in a scramble for stock 

 which will affect prices. 



Receipts are reduced in many lines, but 

 prices are not any too strong, because of 

 the intermittent demand. An occasional 

 rush of shipping orders will stiffen the 

 market and when these are out values will 

 recede again. There continues to be a 

 wide variation between the prices which 

 are obtained on regular business and 

 those which it is necessary to make to 

 induce the irregular buyers to clean up 

 the picked-over stock. 



It would take only a slight increase in 

 demand to cause Beauties to become a 

 pronounced shortage. Receipts are light, 

 but there are enough Beauties to go 

 around except of the shorter lengths, 

 which are of course the ones called f6r 

 in largest quantity. There are fair re- 

 ceipts of all other roses, Killamey and 

 Richmond being most numerous, and it is 

 possible to fill all orders for roses with 

 first grade stock. 



Carnations have improved steadily in 

 quality and the quantity is equal to re- 

 quirements, so that the growers who still 



