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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januaby 21, 1909. 



THE J3-0RISTS' REVIEW 



G..I..,GBAN'W Editor and Manaqeb. 



, J PUBLISHED KVEBY THURSDAY BY , 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton, Building, 



834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



kbgistbrbd cable addrbss, plorvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 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-ofiice at Chicago, 111., imder the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



IKSEX TO ASVEBTISEBB, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— The Vacant Chair (Ulus.) 5 



— Steam on Show Windows 5 



— The Art of Buying 6 



— An Albany Decoration (Ulus.) « 



— Wlcgand's (Ulus.) . ^, 6 



Early Asters : t! 



Education In Floriculture 7 



Begonia Rex 7 



White Fly 7 



Roses— White Killarney (illus.) 8 



— Roses Turn Yellow 8 



Mllllpeds 8 



Cement for Walk 9 



Cinders in Concrete Walls 9 



Geraniums — Stock for Bedding 9 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 10 



— "Carried Over" Carnations 10 



— Jottings on Varieties 10 



-^Carnation Show at Chicago 11 



— Carnation James Whitcomb Riley (Ulus.) 11 



— Will Visit Growers 11 



Ferns — Adiantum Farleyense 12 



Best Culture for Smllax 12 



Moving Plumosus Plants 12 



Culture for Plumosus '. 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lilies 12 



— Spiraeas .- ■ • • l-^ 



— Gloxinias i'-i 



— Fancy Caladiums 13 



— Marguerites 13 



— Propagation 13 



— Pots and Flats 13 



A Christmas Chrysanthemum (illua.) 13 



Strawberries In Greenhouses 14 



The Heinl Place (illus.) 14 



Boston 14 



Obituary — Carel Mulder (portrait) 15 



Ladies' S. A. F 16 



National Flower Show 16 



No Ice Allowance 16 



Hotels in Indianapolis 16 



Gladioli a Second Year 16 



Chicago 16 



Indianapolis 19 



St. Louis 21 



Madison, N. J 23 



Springfield, 111 23 



PhUadelphia 24 



New York i 25 



American Carnation Society 28 



Grasshoppers 28 



Seed Trade News 32 



— Seed Notes from Europe 33 



— Seed Warehouse Collapses 85 



— Imports 85 



— Vine Seeds 35 



— Montreal Melon Industry 36 



— Catalogues Received 38 



Springfield, Ohio 88 



Buffalo 40 



Pittsburg 46 



Baltimore -47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Washington 60 



Wa.vslde Notes 60 



Pacific Coast — Asters for Cutting 60 



— San Francisco 61 



Amherst, Mass 61 



Nursery News 62 



— Strawberry Culture 62 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 64 



— Cucumbers 64 



Dayton, Ohio 66 



Detroit 68 



Lexington, Ky 60 



Barnard, N. Y 62 



Carthage, Mo 64 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



Providence, B. 1 72 



Cincinnati 74 



Cleveland "6 



New Bedford, Mass 76 



JoUet, 111 78 



Trl-Cities 80 



New Orleans 80 



A/[0«J. 



is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Thttrsday morning. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail tiieir 

 **copy** to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of 'Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBIGAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incorpobated by Act or Conqress March 4, '01 



Ofllcers for 1009: President. J. A. Valentine, 

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 10 

 to 22, 1000. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



A British contemporary refers to 

 those who do not assist progress by 

 affiliation with the trade societies by the 

 apt term, "moUusks." 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



A meeting of all members of the La- 

 dies' S. A. F. attending the carnation 

 convention at Indianapolis is called for 

 Wednesday, January 27, at 10 a. m., at 

 the exhibition hall. 



Mrs. Charles H. Maynabd, Sec'y. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



Chairman W. F. Kasting directs me to 

 call a meeting of the committee of fifty 

 to take place at Indianapolis, January 

 28, at 10 a. m. 



The executive committee will meet the 

 same day at 2 p. m. 



The business of the committee will be 

 wound up finally. 



J. H. BuRDETT, Sec'y. 



NO ICE ALLOWANCE. 



Benjamin Hammond, Fishkill, N. Y., 

 chairman of the S. A. F. legislative com- 

 mittee, has been advised by the Amer- 

 ican Express Co.^ to which application 

 was made, that no allowance will be 

 made covering the weight of ice used in 

 cut flower shipments, as is done on cer- 

 tain commodities. This matter was 

 brought up some time ago by Edward 

 Reid, of Philadelphia, who proposed ap- 

 peal to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. Mr. Hammond says: 



"If these matters are carried before 

 the Commission, there must be a clear 

 statement of the grievance that will 

 appeal to the judicial sense of a com- 

 mittee. Mr. Rudd, secretary of the S. 

 A. F., advises me that $100 is placed at 

 the command of the legislative commit- 

 tee. The conditions which exist in re- 

 gard to the ice concession are such that 

 if we go before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, it will be necessary to have 

 something more than has yet been 

 claimed by the growers and shippers. 

 This report is made for general informa- 

 tion and if the people who use ice will 



state the case, as to quantity, weight and 

 distance of shipments, and times of ship- 

 ment, it is the data required." 



GETTING RETURNS. 



There are many factors which may 

 influence an advertiser part of the time,, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time: 



Kindly continue my advertisement of gladioli 

 in the Review. I am getting returns from all 

 parts of the United States — east, west, north 

 and south — and even from Japan. 



B. B. STEWART. 



Rives Junction, Mich., Jan. 18, 1909. 



HOTELS AT INDIANAPOLIS. 



The reception committee recommends 

 the following hotels to members of the 

 American Carnation Society during their 

 meeting in Indianapolis January 27 and 



28: 



New Dcnlson — American plan, |2.50 up; Euro- 

 pean plan, $1 up. 



Claypool Hotel — American plan, |2.60 up; Eu- 

 ropean plan, $2 up. 



Hotel Enelish — American plan, |2 np; Euro- 

 pean plan, |l up. 



Grand Hotel — American plan, $2.60 up. 



Linden Hotel — European plan, 76 cents up. 



Imperial Hotel — European plan, 75 cents up. 



Loraine Hotel — Eur<^ean plan, 60 cents up. 



The New Denison Hotel will be head- 

 quarters for this meeting. It is con- 

 veniently located, so that both meeting 

 and exhibition hall and banquet hall can 

 be easily reached from it. 



The reception committee wishes to an- 

 nounce that it will meet all trains at the 

 Union Station and escort all visiting dele- 

 gations to whichever hotel they may 

 designate; so look for them; they will 

 be there. Fred R. Hukbiede, 



Chairman. 



GLADIOLI A SECOND YEAR. 



Are gladiolus bulbs of any value for 

 forcing after having been forced the sea- 

 son previous f R. C. E. 



I would not advise you to try any of 

 the gladioli a second year for forcing. 

 They will make even larger bulbs in 

 the flats or benches than purchased ones, 

 but after giving them one trial, I was 

 convinced that they were practically 

 worthless for use a second season. 



C. W. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Since last report there has been a 

 steady shortening in supplies and consid- 

 erable increase in demand. Local busi- 

 ness is not specially active, the social 

 festivities of the wealthy having ceased 

 for the moment, but there has been a large 

 increase in the call for funeral work, 

 which has given a special impetus to the 

 demand for white flowers and for short 

 roses. Crops evidently are light every- 

 where in the Chicago shipping territory, 

 for the shipping orders have increased 

 materially; the orders do not average 

 large, but they are numerous. 



Prices have advanced all alohg the line. 

 The single exception is Harrisii lilies. 

 While other stock was low, lilies were 

 steadily going up, because of light sup- 

 ply, but just when other stock turns 

 scarce a new crop of lilies is coming 

 in; also, when lilies get above $2 per 

 dozen retailers try to use something 

 else. 



It is the general report that prices are 

 lower than they were a year ago, even 

 with the advance which has taken place 

 in the last week, but roses are an ex- 



