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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Dbcehber 24, 1008. 



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INDEX TO ADVEKTIBERS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Tbe RetaU Florist 7 



— Wreath of Galax (iUus.) 7 



— A Pottery Chrlstinaa 7 



— OtarlBtmas Years Ago 7 



— The Bruns Store (iUua.) 8 



— A New Portland Store (iUus.) 8 



— The London Market 8 



Lillium Multiflorum 8 



Pansies for Memorial Day 8 



Hydrangea for Kaster 8 



For a Small Greenhouse 8 



Cbrysantbemnms 10 



— Specimen Plant Mrs. Tranter (lllus.) 10 



— Nonln WUtlng 10 



— Exhibition Varieties 10 



Treatment of Nerines •■•. 10 



Cinders for Concrete 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Zonal Pelargoniums. 10 



— Show Pelargoniums 10 



— Cinerarias 11 



— Hybrid Roses 11 



— Asaleas 11 



— Lorraine Begonias 11 



— Poinaettias 11 



— Gardenias 11 



Tbe Loveridge Store (illas.) 12 



Refrigeration for Florists 12 



Gladioli for Memorial Day 12 



Antirrhinums 12 



Useful Outdoor Flowers 12 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 13 



— Success with Carnations 18 



— Thrlps and the Mite 14 



— Aspect for House 14 



— American Carnation Society 14 



J. W. Adams (Portrait) 16 



New York IB 



Medals Better than Cash (lllus.) 16 



Dayton, Ohio 17 



Obituary 17 



Group of Gudo Bros. Employees (illns.) 17 



Next National Flower Show 18 



Tannery Waste as Fertiliser 18 



Chicago 18 



Detroit 22 



Springfield. Ohio 23 



Calumet, Mich 23 



PbUadelpbla 24 



Boston 26 



Seed Trade News 82 



-Tariff Changes 82 



The Seed Situation 84 



— Cucumber Prices 85 



— Imports 85 



— Reappraisements 85 



Washington 86 



Rockford, 111 88 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— Vegetable Markets 40 



— The Vegetable Market 40 



— Lettuce from Seed 40 



— Gnats in Cucumber House 40 



— Moles in Greenhouse 40 



St. Louis 46 



Wayside Notes 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



ProYldence, R. 1 80 



Pacific Ctoast 50 



— San Francisco 60 



— Rose Plants for Hedges 61 



Nursery News 62 



— Propagating Biota 62 



Cincinnati 64 



Minneapolis 66 



Lexington, Ey 60 



Greenhouse Heating 68 



— Range of Four Houses 68 



— Houses In Ohio. 68 



— Capacity of Flows 70 



— Ustng City Water Pressure 70 



Water Supply 71 



New Orleans 72 



St. Paul 74 



Pittsburg 76 



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 mailed early Thursday xnominf. It 

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 Tuesday at latest, instead of "Wed- 

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 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOSI8T8. 



INCOBPOBATKD BT ACT OF CONGBBBS MABCH 4, '01 



OflUcera for 1808: President, F. H. Traendly. 

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

 BafTalo; secreUry, Willis N. Rndd, Mwgan 

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



Officers for 1808: President, J. A. Valentine, 

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

 Clnolnnatl, O.; secreUry, Willis N. Rndd, Mor- 



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

 nrg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., Aognst 10 

 to 22. 1908. 



Merry Chrlistmas! 



Easter, 1909, falls April 11. 



The business in Christmas greens has 

 been immense this year, undoubtedly 

 eclipsing all previous records. 



Tbouble with the workmen making 

 window glass seems more certain than at 

 any time since the demand for higher 

 wages was made. It will mean the in- 

 creased cost of greenhouse sizes. 



"Please answer this as soon as possi- 

 ble," writes a man who was in so great 

 a hurry that he used a piece of plain 

 block paper and "forgot" to date his 

 letter or sign his name. There is no 

 good reason for failure to sign full name 

 and address to any legitimate inquiry. 



The Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., 

 Hartford, has decided to write hail in- 

 surance — not on greenhouses, but on 

 growing crops. Thus far none of the big 

 companies has undertaken to compete 

 with the economically managed mutual 

 Florists' Hail Association. 



Collections within the trade are re- 

 ported as considerably easier than they 

 were a month ago, but there is a gen- 

 eral disposition to insist on the more 

 prompt meeting of obligations than has 

 been the case in the past. Those dealing 

 with the public should also make January 

 1 the occasion of turning over a new leaf 

 in this respect. 



Before John Cook, of Baltimore, put 

 the My Maryland rose on the market he 

 offered the entire stock to Qude Bros. 

 Co., Washington, to Peter Beinberg, Chi- 

 cago, and possibly to others, who felt 

 that the dissemination of a new rose is 

 so much a matter of hazard that they did 

 not care to make the investment; so Mr. 

 Cook distributed it himself, though his 

 stock was small at the time. No one 

 feels regret at missing a good thing, for 

 it is everywhere recognized that "hind- 

 sight is better than foresight. ' ' With 

 most successful new roses the demand 

 the second season is far greater than it 

 was the first one. 



NEXT NATIONAL FLOVER SHOW. 



The cup offered by Ellwanger & Barry, 

 Bochester, New York, not having been 

 won at the late national flower show, 

 has been turned over to the undersigned, 

 by the donors, to be offered as a first 

 prize at the next national flower show. 



There has been much talk of the next 

 national show, but so far as the writer 

 knows this is the first really tangible 

 offering which has been made. 



Should any other firms or individuals 

 see fit to make any offers in connection 

 with the next proposed show, the writer 

 will be very glad to accept them tem- 

 porarily and turn them over to whatever 

 organization may be made for the pur- 

 pose of conducting another show. 



W. N. EUDD, Sec'y. 



Morgan Park, 111. 



TANNERY WASTE AS FERTILIZER. 



Please give me all the information 

 you can regarding the use of tannery 

 waste as a fertilizer. This waste con- 

 sists of about three-quarters leached lime, 

 and the remainder is leached hen manure 

 and cow manure that washes off th» 

 hides; also grease, hide-scrapings, hair, 

 blood, etc. Would this be valuable as a 

 fertilizer and at what rate should it be 

 applied? J. B. 



This mixture of waste would be of 

 little practical value for crops under 

 glass, but might be available for outside 

 crops. To make it perfectly safe as a 

 fertilizer, it ought to be mixed with at 

 least ten times its bulk of good soil, 

 then thoroughly incorporated and allowed 

 to lie over until spring, turning it over 

 frequently in the meantime. 



Apply at the rate of about three tons 

 to the acre. Bibes. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There was no special feature in the 

 market last week, except possibly a little 

 fiurry in Easter lilies. Demand was no 

 more than normal and the holding back 

 for holiday supply did not produce any- 

 thing that could be called a shortage. 

 There were larger si^>plie8 than is ordi- 

 narily the case in the week preceding 

 Christmas. 



The current week opened with light 

 supplies. There always are lighter re- 

 ceipts on Monday than any other day in 

 the week, and this time the Sunday cut 

 evidently was held in reserve for Tues- 

 day's special demand. There was some 

 Christmas shipping as early as Monday, 

 but it was hard to work the city buyers 

 up to the Christmas price level. Where 

 stock was tight enough to hold until 

 Christmas, the week opened with stiff 

 prices, but a large part of the early re- 

 ceipts were of stock too open to be sala- 

 ble except for immediate use and on this 

 grade the Christmas prices could not be 

 realized. The result was that the aver- 

 age prices at the beginning of the week 

 were considerably under the Christmas 

 list. A few Trumpet narcissi arrived. 



Tuesday^s Market. 



Tuesday saw the beginning of the real 

 Christmas shipping. It is the general 

 opinion that a greater number of orders 

 were on file than at any previous Christ- 

 mas, and that the orders averaged larger. 

 There was almost an entire absence of 

 city demand December 22, so the day was 



