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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decembeu 31, 1008. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor Af d Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530.560 Caxtbn Building, 



334 Dearborn Street, ChicaKo. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



ebgistkreo cable address, florvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N . Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To EuropCj $2.60. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



A Splendid Christmas Trade 5 



Eugene DalUedouze (portrait) H 



WiUiam J. Vesey (portrait) 7 



Polypodium Mandaianum (illus.) 9 



The Ketall Florist 10 



— Sheaf and Sickle (illus.) 10 



— Morton's Big Design (lUus. ) 10 



— Corsage Bouquets 10 



Flowers for Memorial Day 10 



Publications Keceived 11 



tiongtflorums for Easter 11 



Canuas from Seed 11 



Carnations 12 



— Carnation Notes — West 12 



— Merrltt's Carnation Crops 12 



— Carnation Show in London (illus. ) 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Bouvardias 14 



— Dutch Bulbs 14 



— Lilies 14 



— Smllax 14 



— Asparagus Plumosus 14 



— Palms 14 



— Antirrhinums 14 



Aster Gladys Evelyn (illus.) 14 



Elm Court Farm Club Koom 15 



A Course In Floriculture 15 



Indianapolis 15 



Detroit 15 



Obituary 15 



— Charles Kaehlert 15 



— Albert Grohman 15 



— Sarah Pierce Frost 15 



— Arthur E. Clark 15 



Society of American Florists 16 



American Rose Society 16 



A Word with Advertisers 16 



Chicago 16 



New Orleans 19 



New York 20 



Cleveland 21 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 25 



St. Louis 28 



Brie. Pa 80 



Louisville, Ky 30 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Congressional Seeds 32 



— Imports 34 



— Valley Pips 34 



— Seed Building Weakens 34 



— European Seed Notes 34 



— Argue for Specific Duties 35 



— A New Narcissus 36 



— English Sweet Pea Society 36 



— Holland Bulbs 36 



— Catalogues Received 30 



— Improvement In Seeds 37 



I>exlngton. Ky 39 



Minneapolis 46 



Pittsburg 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Pacific Coast oO 



— San Francisco 50 



— Unslaked Lime on Rose Beds 51 



Nursery News 52 



— Illinois Horticulturists 52 



— Christmas Trees Not Waste 62 



Vegetable Forcing 64 



— Vegetable Markets 64 



— Commercial Fertilizers 64 



— Best Tomatoes for Forcing 64 



Milwaukee 85 



London, Ont 56 



Washington 68 



Columbus, Ohio 60 



Providence, R. 1 62 



Greenhouse Heating "0 



— Pipes Leaking "0 



— Yoking Boiler 70 



Tri-Cltles 70 



Cincinnati 72 



White Fly • '2 



Dayton, Ohio 74 



Baltimore 76 



NtV'l^ 



is printed "Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thttrsday morning. . Il 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy^ to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of "Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act op Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

 Buffalo; secretary, Willis N. Radd, Morgan 

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



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

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

 Cincinnati, O.; secretary, WiUIs N. Rndd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



Kesults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Happy New Year! 



Look out for a freeze, the weather man 

 says. 



Taking it by and large, 1908 was not 

 so bad a year. 



Now let's all turn in and make 1909 

 the best year the trade ever has had. 



There is no date better than January 

 1 for the settlement of outstanding ac- 

 counts. Don't fail to render statements 

 and ask payment. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Application for Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given of the 

 application of the Conard & Jones Co., 

 West Grove, Pa., for the registration of 

 the plants specified below. These appli- 

 cations for registry were filed in this 

 office December 23, 1908, and any per- 

 son knowing of any reason why the reg- 

 istry of these names should not be made 

 is requested to communicate with the 

 undersigned. 



Canna, Wawa. — Parentage, Maiden 's 

 Blush X a seedling; soft pink flowers, 

 green foliage, three to four feet high, 

 nicely rounded flowers. 



Canna, Mont Blanc, Improved. — Mont 

 Blanc, Improved, has the same vigorous 

 constitution and luxuriant green foliage 

 as its antecedent, Mont Blanc; it has 

 large flowers, which are almost pure 

 white and produced in great profusion; 

 height about four feet; foliage green. 



Eose, Climbing Mosella. — New climb- 

 ing rose, a sport from the bush rose, 

 Mosella, and identical in the appearance 

 of blossoms. W. N. Kudd, Sec 'y. 



December 23, 1908. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The committee, Messrs. Simpson, May 

 and Pierson, appointed by President 

 Poehlmann, met in New York city, De- 

 cember 21, to discuss the schedule for 



the Buffalo exhibition. The work was 

 found to call for close attention and the 

 committee could not finish at one sit- 

 ting. At present there is $715 cash avail- 

 able for prizes, and three silver cups. 



The florists of Buffalo are making 

 preparations in earnest for their share 

 of the work. The Iroquois hotel may 

 be selected as the place for the exhi- 

 bition. According to the society's by- 

 laws, the opening day will be the fourth 

 Wednesday in Lent, which will be March 

 17, 1909. The annual meeting will open 

 on that day. The exhibition will be held 

 in conjunction with the Buffalo Florists' 

 Club. All prizes "should be forwarded as 

 soon as possible to the secretary, Benj. 

 Hammond, Fishkill, N. Y., whether cups 

 or cash, to get into the schedule. 



A WORD WITH ADVERTISERS. 



The next four or five months are the 

 heaviest of the year with the Review — 

 the ones in which advertising patronage 

 is greatest. 



The Review aims to take care of every 

 advertising order, for any issue, received 

 up to 12 'clock, noon, on Wednesday, 

 the day of going to press. This permits 

 advertisers to mail "copy" on the 18- 

 hour trains that leave New York at 3:45 

 on Tuesday afternoon, Philadelphia at 

 4:55, and be in lime. 



The Review will be found as prompt 

 to discontinue advertisements as to in- 

 sert new ones. 



But to give this prompt service to all 

 patrons it is necessary that we have their 

 cooperation. Don't ask us to do regu- 

 larly on Wednesday what you might as 

 well give us to do on Tuesday, or on 

 Monday. Make it a rule to mail your 

 advertising instructions to reach us Mon- 

 day, or Tuesday at the latest. Then we 

 shall have the decks cleared for you on 

 the occasional weeks that you have impor- 

 tant instructions you cannot place in our 

 hands until Wednesday. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The last week of 1908 has been about 

 normal. Following Christmas there was 

 the usual falling off in demand, but out- 

 side orders soon began to come in again. 

 The city trade is light. Funeral work is 

 decidedly slack and only a few of the 

 leading stores share in the social festivi- 

 ties. These stores are having a good run 

 of decorating for weddings and especial- 

 ly for receptions and dinners. 



As usual, everything was cut close for 

 Christmas, so that for several days there 

 were light receipts, but it was noticeable 

 at Christmas that crops were just coming 

 on and it was only a few days before the 

 receipts of roses were heavy enough to 

 depress the prices. This was especially 

 true of Beauties. The weather has been 

 for two weeks specially favorable for 

 bringing on the rose crops and December 

 29 was a spring day. If the weather 

 man's long-promised cold wave does not 

 materialize soon, the market will suffer. 



Carnations held up surprisingly after 

 Christmas. Violets also were scarce be- 

 cause of the close pick for the holiday 

 and the preparations for supplying the 

 special New Year's demand. New Year's 

 has added considerably to the shipping 

 of first-class stock, but New Year's, com- 

 paring it with the Christmas demand, is 

 fifty-one places removed instead of only 

 one. 



