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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 





November 26, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



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INDEX TO ADVEKTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



H08(>s ' 5 



— Ue^ttarting Roses 5 



— MilOew and Leaf BUght 5 



— A Flooded Rose Garden 5 



— Best! Hardy Roees 5 



The Re;tall Florist 5 



— To Increase Cash Sales 5 



— The Traveler's Bag (illns.) ; . . t> 



— Funeral Arrangements (lllus.) 6 



— The Setting Sun (iUus.) « 



Antirrhinum Wilt 6 



The Autumn Exhibits , 7 



— New York (lllus.) 7 



Bloomirigdale's Display (lllus.) 8 



Quality of Soil. : 8 



Latbyrus Latlfollus 9 



Spiraea Queen Alexandra (illus.) 9 



Seasonable Suggestions 9 



— Cyclamen 9 



— Gladioli 



— Lily of the Valley 9 



— Hardy Lilies 10 



— Hardy Roses 10 



— Bulbous Plants 10 



— Sweet Peas 10 



Azaleas for Christmas 10 



Carnations 10 



— Carnation Notes— West 10 



— Split Carnations 10 



— Fairy Ring 10 



— Fertilizers 11 



— House of Dorothy Gordon (illus.) 11 



American Carnation Society 11 



Chrysanthemums 12 



— Next Year's Stock 12 



— Mildew on Mums 12 



— Chrysanthemum Golden King (illus.) 12 



— Chrysanthemum Society 12 



The Trend of the Times 12 



Lager & Hurrell's Group (Ulus.) 13 



Boston 13 



St. Louis 13 



New York 14 



The Bunyard Family Group (illus.) 14 



St. Paul 15 



Vlck'8 Mikado Pink (illus. ) 15 



New Orleans 15 



Guarantors Get Money Back 16 



Obituary 16 



— Andrew L. Black 16 



— Mrs. James Eadie 16 



Chicago 17 



Washington 19 



Buffalo 20 



Philadelphia 22 



Pacific Coast 32 



— Riverside, Cal 32 



— Los Angeles, Cal 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Spiraeas and Lillums 35 



— Corn Crop Contract Valid 36 



— Cold Storage Bulbs ' 36 



— Imports 38 



— Catalogues Received 38 



Vegetable Forcing ^ 44 



— Vegetable Markets 44 



— Nitrate of Soda for Lettuce 44 



— Onions from Seed 44 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Nursery News 48 



— Propagating Privet 48 



Milwaukee 52 



Cleveland 54 



Erie, F% 56 



Minneapolis ; 68 



Springfield, Ohio 66 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— Bedding Stock and Tomatoes 68 



— One Flow Sufficient 68 



— Steam for Carnation House 69 



Detroit 70 



Providence, R. 1 71 



Lexington, Ky : 72 



Cincinnati 74 



Baltimore 76 



THE ANNUAL 



CHRISTMAS NUMBER 



will be issued 

 DECEMBER 10» 1908. 



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advertiBing copy must reach Chicago by 

 Wednesday morning, December 9, to 

 be in time, and earlier will be better. 



First forma go to prfees Monday, De- 

 cember 7. 



Some desirable advertisements usually 

 are received the morning after going to 

 press with a Special Edition. Send 

 today. Don't get left. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAX FLOBISTS. 



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INCOEPOEATED BY ACT OF CONGEESS MABCH 4, '01 



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

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

 Buffalo; secretary. WlUls N. Rudd, ^^organ 

 Park. lU.: treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pittsbnrg. 



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

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, BJ. O. GlUett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention. Cincinnati. O., Aagnst 19 

 to 22, 1969. 



The boxwood bushes are selling well 

 for window boxes. 



There is no flower business that can- 

 not be increased by the right kind of 

 advertising. 



In the majority of cases where one 

 fails to get his money's worth, the cause 

 lies in trying to get more than one's 

 money's worth. 



A GOOD many florists still are ordering 

 supplies, writing on any old piece of 

 paper. Better get a printed letterhead 

 and be businesslike. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 makes a contribution to culinary litera- 

 ture, its press bureau sendiag out u chap- 

 ter on how to cook cranberries. 



It is cood business for a florist to 

 know the" facts about the stock he sells, 

 be it plants or pottery, and be able to 

 use them intelligently with his custom- 

 ers. 



The Washington flower show was the 

 work of the retail florists and was espe- 

 cially attractive to the public on that 

 account. The retailers have the artistic 

 taste that wins. 



The single and pompon chrysanthe- 

 mums make fine, light, graceful arrange- 

 ments for baskets and table centerpieces. 

 Exhibited at the fall flower shows, these 

 arrangements have done much to cause a 

 demand for the stock next season. 



We all have much to be especially 

 thankful for this year. 



With Killarney, My Maryland and 

 Mrs. Jardine each claiming its share 

 of the glass. Bridesmaid will no longer 

 occupy the place of the leading pink 

 rose — and there are more competitors to 

 come. 



W. Frank & Sons, Portland, Ind., last 

 year found a pink sport growing in 

 theii* bench of the Richmond rose. It 

 was a pleasing shade, somewhat darker 

 than M^id, and they propagated several 

 plants, all of which are now producing 

 pink blooms identical with the original 

 sport. 



Secretary Eudd states that at the na- 

 tional flower show the membership of the 

 S. A. F. was increased by forty-seven an- 

 nual members and one life member. This 

 is a good showing in comparison with 

 the convention at Niagara Falls, where 

 the accessions to the annual membership 

 were sixty-three and the life members 

 three. 



Some kind of protection is absolutely 

 necessary for the preservation of many 

 plants from the rigors of winter. Again, 

 with many other plants, while they are 

 of sufScient hardiness to stand the se- 

 verest winters so far as their constitu- 

 tions are concerned, nevertheless a cov- 

 ering of loose manure or leaves is of 

 great benefit in preventing the uplifting 

 of their roots out of the ground by the 

 action of the- frost. It will therefore bo 

 wise to strew litter or forest leaves along 

 the rows, over the roots of almost sifi 

 perennials and many hard shrubs. Es- 

 pecially is such a precaution desirable in 

 the case of recently moved plants, be 

 they perennials, shrubs or trees. 



GUARANTORS GET MONEY BACK. 



At a meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the National Flower Show, 

 detail matters of accounting weiti suf- 

 ficiently advanced to justify the adop- 

 tion of a resolution authorizing the re- 

 turn to guarantors the two assessments, 

 aggregating fifty per cent, which were 

 paid in advance of the show. The 

 guarantors will therefore receive their 

 money back within the next few days. 



At the same time a resolution was 

 adopted asking the chairman to call a 

 meeting of the National Flower Show 

 committee at Indianapolis during the 

 January convention of the American 

 Carnation Society, for the purpose of 

 passing upon final accounts. 



OBITUARY. 



Andrew L. Black. 



Andrew L. Black, a well known mem- 

 ber of the trade in the Baltimore terri- 

 tory, died November 18 at his home at 

 Lutherville, Md. He was bom in Scot- 

 land in 1841, but had lived near Baltimore 

 for many years. He formerly had a con- 

 siderable range of glass on Chase street, 

 Baltimore, but increasing realty values 

 caused him to sell the property and con- 

 fine himself to the retail business, in 

 which he was assisted by three sons. 



Mrs. James Eadie. 



The report comes from Cleveland, O., 

 of the death of Mrs. James Eadie, widow 

 of the late James Eadie, one of the 

 pioneer florists of that city. She was 

 §2 years of age. 



