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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



-Dechmbbb 17, 1908. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. 6BAKT, Editob and Makaqcs. 



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Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 noniiug: to insure insertion in the issue of the 

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Entered as second class matter December 8, 

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

 Met of March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trads 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVERTISEBS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



Kosos— .My Maryland (illus.) 7 



— Kaiseriu witli Otber Uoses 7 



— Chin Cbiu CUliia 7 



Remedy for \Vl)lte !• ly 7 



KbodudendruHii for faster 7 



Society of Iowa Florists ; 7 



Carnations— Carnation Notes— East 8 



— Carnation Marchioness (illus.) 8 



— Red Spider 8 



— Bordeaux Mixture 8 



— Some Hoosler Houses (Illus.) 9 



— Enchantress Breaking Down 9 



— American Carnation Society 9 



The Eetail Florist 10 



— The Christmas Hamper (illus.) 10 



— Corsage Bouquet Shields (Illus. ) 10 



Will It Pay V. 10 



College Course for Florists 10 



Vlnca Alba 11 



SJeasonable Suggestlous— Christmas Plants... 12 



— Camellias 12 



— Mignonette 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— Double Feverfews 12 



— Fuchsias 12 



— Freeslas 13 



— Bulbous Plants 13 



Fire Insurance 13 



SterlHzatloiT with Formalin (Illus.) 14 



Mealy Bug 14 



Oldest Kansas Florist 15 



William Downs (portrait) 15 



Boston 15 



New York 10 



PltUburg Florists' Club on an Outing (Illus.) 17 



Obituary 17 



Accelerating Growth 18 



Chicago 18 



Buffalo 21 



Pittsburg 22 



West Grove, Pa 24 



Kansas City 24 



Philadelphia 26 



St. Louis 28 



New Oi-leans 30 



■(•rowers Incorporate 30 



Glass Workers Want More Pay 30 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Pure Seed Investigations 36 



— Imports 38 



— Endorse Specific Duties 38 



— ReappraJsements 38 



— Distribution of Crops 39 



Orange, N. J 39 



Orand Rapids 40 



Indianapolis 40 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetable Markets, 48 



— Lettuce with Flowers 48 



— Fungus on Lettuce 48 



— Transplanting Asparagus 48 



Steamer Sailings 50 



Pacific Coast 52 



— Plants ^or Carpet Bedding t 62 



— San Francisco ; . . 52 



— Tacoma, Wash 62 



Nursery DIews 64 



— Insects Attacking Conifers 64 



Detroit 66 



Washington 66 



Newport, R. 1 67 



Columbus, Ohio . .-. 68 



frovldence, E. 1 60 



Lenox-, Mflss. 62 



Everett, Mass 62 



Milwaukee 64 



Erie, Pa 66 



Cincinnati 66 



Montreal 67 



<iteenhou8e Heating — Coal the Best Fuel 74 



— A Lean-to with a Partition 74 



— Partitioning the Smokestack 75 



— Three Connected Houses 76 



Baltimore 77 



Lexington, Ky 7g 



Clevelnnd 80 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday momin£. It 

 is earnestly requested that aU adver> 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 '^copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest^ instead of "Wed- 

 nesday mornings as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incoepokated by Act of Congeess March 4, '01 



Offlcers for 1908: President, V. B. Traendly, 

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Rndd, Morgan 

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



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

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. O. QUlett, 

 Cincinnati, C; secretary, Willis N. Rndd, Mor- 

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

 burg. .J ■ 



Annual convention, Cincllinatl, O.. Angust 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The price of cypress lumber has had 

 an advance. 



This is the season at which the need 

 for experienced help is felt in all lines 

 of the trade. 



Neatness and order speak for the 

 character of the stock a man grows, and 

 his business methods. 



The growers complain that they are 

 not able to get the Rhea Reid rose to re- 

 spond the way Richmond does. 



The greenhouse builders say that in- 

 quiries for estimates indicate another 

 season of active greenhouse building in 

 1909. 



The Manetti having arrived, prepara- 

 tions for rose grafting are now in order. 

 Each year a greater proportion of 

 grafted roses is being planted. 



A. N. PiEBSON, Cromwell, Conn., 

 doubtless holds the largest stock of My 

 Maryland rose and expects to propagate 

 close to 300,000 for 1909 delivery. 



The Secretary of Agriculture, in his 

 annual report, places the value of the 

 farm crops of 1908 at $7,778,000,000, a 

 sum eclipsing all previous records. 



Next Tuesday will be the shortest day 

 in the year, but the two days following 

 will be altogether too short for the work 

 everyone will have to do in them. 



"Many men of many minds" cer- 

 tainly describes the conditions as regards 

 the tariff on horticultural commodities. 

 There is no agreement as to what is 

 wanted. 



Don't tell your customers that the so- 

 called Japanese air plants, now such 

 good sellers, will flourish and become 

 "nice, large plants." This has been 

 done in stores, happily not numerous, 

 where anything goes, so long as it leads 

 to a sale, but such selling talk does not 

 tend to establish a reputation for 

 veracity. 



The United States court has declared 

 the tobacco combine to be illegal and 

 ordered its dissolution. One of the com- 

 panies named is the Conley Foil Co., 

 which at one time did a large business 

 supplying florists' foil. 



ACCELERATING GROWTH. 



That the growth of plants may be 

 greatly accelerated by the 'Use of radio- 

 active minerals is the conclusion reached 

 by Joseph WiUcox after an exhaustive 

 series of experiments, the results of 

 whjch were detailed at the regular meet- 

 ing of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety at Philadelphia, December 4. 



Mr. WiUcox found during bis tests that 

 pitchblend, or other radio-active mate- 

 rial, mixed in the ground in which seeds 

 were planted, induced a growth of sur- 

 prising strength and quickness. Plants 

 so treated quickly overtopped those left 

 to grow in natural soil, and at the end 

 of a few weeks' time attained a size and 

 strength nearly twice as great. 



The discovery, Mr. WiUcox said, will 

 probably have no great value other than 

 an experimental one, as the treatment of 

 fields with radio-active minerals would 

 bankrupt the farmers before they could 

 harvest their crops. Pitchblend, how- 

 ever, is not so high in price, he said, that 

 it cannot be used in greenhouses, and it 

 may be that before long "radium" to- 

 matoes and ' * radium ' ' flowers will be 

 placed on the market at fancy figures. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There is considerable variation in the 

 report of conditions last week, referring 

 to the volume of business. Some houses 

 say they had a good week, while others 

 report demand disappointing. There is, 

 however, a unanimous report that had 

 business been really brisk, the supply of 

 stock would have been entirely inade- 

 quate. Even with the houses which had 

 the best run of business the demand 

 lacks the snap which had been expected 

 to come with wintry weather. SuppUes 

 have been considerably reduced and a 

 little of the old-time vigor in the demand 

 would set wholesalers to skirmishing for 

 stock to fill orders. This week starts 

 out with Uttle change in conditions. Sup- 

 pUes are light and demand nothing to 

 brag about, though it has been sufficient 

 to clean up all the really salable stock 

 and cause an advance in prices for the 

 best grades. 



The receipts of Beauties are decidedly 

 limited. QuaUty is not of the best and 

 the state of the Beauty market leads to 

 much speculation as to what the Christ- 

 mas conditions will be. Good Bride and 

 Maid have come into better favor, for 

 the supply is now rather less than the 

 demand for first-class stock. Killamey 

 still has the. call over other pink .varie- 

 ties, but Mrs. Marshall Field is doing 

 right nicely; it is in good crop and is 

 holding its color nicely. Richmond seUs 

 first rate. 



Carnations have enjoyed an advance 

 and are doing better than at any time 

 in recent weeks. Prices are not yet up 

 to where they should be at this season, 

 but a much better clean-up has been 

 made since December 10. Violets are 

 not in large supply and the price has 

 advanced a step. Paper Whites have 

 become a glut. Valley is abundant and 

 there are plenty of Easter lilies. A few 

 chrysanthemums are seen, most of them 



