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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Januaby 14, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30-560 Caxton Building, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 6429. 



kbgistbrrd cabls adorkss, florvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, 82.00. 

 To Europe. $2.50. 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-oftice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVEETISEBS, PAGE 82. 



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CONTENTS. 



Prosperous Your Before the Tr.ide 5 



Kaiser's Maryland Plant (illus.) 7 



Chrysanthemums — Why Mum BIuouik Dampen 7 



— Best Early Varieties 7 



The Uotall Florist— The Anchor (illus.) 8 



— Saltforcl's Narrow .Store (Illus. ) S 



Pots and Potting 8 



Sweet Peas 8 



Society of American Florists 9 



Sensonal)le Suggestions — Calceolarias 10 



— Cornflower 1 '' 



— Coleus and Alternantheras 10 



— Spanish Iris 10 



— Dahlias 1«» 



■ — Purchase Seed Now 10 



Preserving Greenhouse Wood 10 



— Government Undertakes Tests (illus.).... 10 

 Carnations — Carnation Notes — Kast 12 



— Flowcrless Plants 12 



— Feeding Carnations 12 



— American Carnation Society 12 



New York 12 



Officers of New York Florists' Club (illus.).. l.S 



Obituary 14 



Fumigating and Spraying (Illus.) 14 



Chicago C^lub Officers (portraits) 15 



Society of American Florists 16 



General Business 10 



Functions of Express Co 16 



Chicago 16 



Pittsburg 20 



Detroit 22 



Indianapolis 2^! 



Springfield. Ill 23 



Kansas City 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Norwich, Conn 26 



Boston 20 



St. Louis 27 



Hammonton, N. .1.. 30 



Seed Trade News 32 



— The Situation In Seeds 34 



— Imports 34 



— Seed Samples •« 



— Tenerlffe 34 



— Catalognes ReceHwl 39 



— Banquet by Iowa Seed Co 40 



— The Canned Goods Pack 40 



Baltimore 46 



Milwaukee 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Cincinnati w 



Pacific Coast 50 



— Narcissi in California f>0 



— Victoria, B. C 5} 



— San Francisco ^1 



Nursery News 52 



— Lilacs 52 



— San Jose Scale 5-f 



Vegetable Forcing ^ 



— Vegetable Markets •>* 



— Buying Radish Seed •>» 



— Stem-rot of Lettuce 54 



— Mushrooms vs. Toadstools 54 



— Forcing Cucumbers 54 



Tri-Cltles l'5 



Erie, Pa 56 



Lexington. Ky »« 



Columbus. Ohio ^ 



Cleveland ^ 



Washington Jj* 



Rockford. Ill ' i 



Greenhouse Heating '^ 



— Location of Tanks JJ 



— Small Riser Preferable ^^ 



— Heating a Frame J^ 



— Cracks in Boiler J^ 



Buffalo 4^ 



New Orleans ''^ 



Tarrytown. N. Y '^ 



Orange. N. .7 '^ 



Providence, R. I '" 



Lenox, Mass '? 



Montreal °V 



I>oulsvIlle, Ky »<^ 



KcVe«^ 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy** to reach us by Monday op 

 Tuesday- at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday momingt <ts many have done 

 in the past* 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



INCOEPOEATED BY ACT OF CONGRESS MaBCH 4, '01 



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

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. G. Glllett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden has is- 

 sued its sixteenth announcement concern- 

 ing the admission of garden pupils. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Cornell University has just issued an- 

 other bulletin on the peony by J. Eliot 

 Coit, who formerly was in charge of the 

 trial of peonies carried on there by the 

 experiment station and the American 

 Peony Society. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The Hail Association. 



Secretary Esler, of the Florists' Hail 

 Association, calls the writer's attention 

 to the fact that, in condensing the report 

 of that association for publication, cer- 

 tain important statistics were left out, 

 and he wishes that members will correct 

 the report as published in the Annual 

 Report of the S. A. F. by adding the 

 following : 



Extra one-half and extra whole insur- 

 ance upon 7,354,293 square feet of glass, 

 making a total risk upon 29,092,566 

 square feet of glass. 



W. N. RuDD, Sec'y. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The bank clearings are possibly the 

 best index to the general business activ- 

 ity. The record for December, 1908, 

 covering the returns from 110 leading 

 cities, shows a most encouraging state 

 of affairs. As compared with Decem- 

 ber, 1907, the increase is 52.6 per cent, 

 and compared with 1906, when trade was 

 very active everywhere, the gain ig 0.4 

 per cent. The improvement is most 

 marked at New York, but is largely due 

 there to increased stock market activity 

 and does not reflect actual business con- 

 ditions. Outside of New York the im- 

 provement appears mainly at the west. 

 Boston reports a small gain, but Phila- 

 delphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and New 

 Orleans report, decreases. There are 

 gains at Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas 

 City. 



The following figures show how the 

 December clearings compare with those 



of the same month in 1907 and in 1906 

 at the cities named: 



Percentage of 

 change, com- 

 pared with 

 Cities. 1907. 1906. 



Boston +39.1 -f 0.1 



Philadelphia -f 16.1 —14.4 



Baltimore -f 15.7 — 8.0 



Pittsburg —10.1 —20.5 



Cincinnati +25.0 + 2.1 



Cleveland +5.8 —10.6 



Chicago +30.1 +12.5 



Minneapolis — 3.8 — 3.3 



St. Louis +20.9 + 9.4 



Kansas City +48.0 +41.7 



New York +52.6 + 0.4 



New Orleans — 7.8 —22.9 



San Francisco +31.4 —19.6 



The same comparison by sections 

 shows : 



Compared with 



Dec. clearings. 1907. 1906. 



New England +35.9 — 0.6 



Middle +9.6 —14.0 



South Atlantic +13.5 — 4.2 



Southern +20.0 +3.1 



Central West +33.0 + 8.6 



Western +25.3 +20.0 



Pacific +40.7 —11.0 



FUNCTIONS OF EXPRESS CO. 



The business of the express companies 

 is eminently one of detail, and to no 

 class of shippers is the close attention to 

 detail more important than to florists. 

 It has been stated by an authority on 

 the .subject that an express company 

 purchases the right of transportation at 

 wholesale and sells it at retail to the 

 public. But in addition it has many 

 other functions, closely relate/l, however, 

 to the primary one just stated: 



Through its order and commission de- 

 partment an express company will pur- 

 chase goods for customers at any store 

 in any town or city where it has an 

 agency. It will file legal documents, re- 

 deem pawned articles and issue money 

 orders and letters of credit that are 

 payable through its correspondents all 

 over the world. It will enter and clear 

 at custom houses any articles of import 

 and export, transport goods in bond to 

 any desired port of entry, exchange for- 

 eign money, make collections, pay gas 

 bills, and, in short, will attend to any 

 legitimate business transaction as the 

 customer's agent. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The general report is that last week 

 was one of the dullest in a long time. 

 When the temperature fell about 60 de- 

 grees in a little more than twenty-four 

 hours, it shut off all but the most nec- 

 essary business in all lines of trade, and 

 the florists suffered with the dry goods 

 and other lines. The weather began to 

 warm up toward the end of the week, 

 but there was an accumulation of stock 

 to be disposed of at low prices, in spite 

 of the fact that the cold weather had 

 had its usual effect in reducing supplies. 

 The market stiffened a little on Satur- 

 day, especially on roses, but from 

 Wednesday to Saturday there was not 

 much doing. The shipping trade fell off 

 almost as much as the local trade. While 

 the temperature was below zero a good 

 many shipments, both coming in and go- 

 ing out, were frosted. 



This week opens with a little better 

 business. The weather continues cold, 

 and storms and still lower temperature 

 are predicted. Supplies have been re- 

 duced all along the line, but demand also 

 is below normal. Prices at the begin- 

 ning of the week were a little better 

 than last week, but still are low. Roses 

 are holding up in price better than any- 

 thing else except Harrisii lilies, these 



