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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Fkbhuaby 4, 1909; I, 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



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 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 ASVERTI8EKS, PAGE 



CONTENTS. 



Carnations 1 Have Known 5 



Convention Aftermath — Tlie Banquet (Ulus.) « 



— The Trljj to Hlchmond 7 



— Jottings 7 



What the .Statlon.s Are Doing 7 



Charles Albert Traendl.v (portrait) U 



I^ncaster Count.v Grawers (Ulus.) 10 



Our Common Interests 10 



Carnations — Carnation Sangamo (illus.) 11 



— Carnation Notes— East 11 



— Winona in Kngland 12 



— Stigmonose 12 



— Good Cool (irowlug Keds 12 



Heasouable Suggestions — Cyclamens 12 



— Campanula Medium 12 



— Hydrangeas 12 



— Fuchsias 12 



— Petunias 12 



— BougalnvlUeas 12 



— Ampelopsls Veitchll 13 



— Gladiolus The Bride 13 



— Crotons and Dracaenas 13 



— Hybrid I'erpetual Uoses 13 



Gude's Campaign Literature 13 



The Retail Florist 14 



— A Store in Silver Birch (Ulus.) 14 



— The Scarlet Heart (iUus. ) 14 



— Steam on Show Windows 14 



— A Novel Decoration 14 



— Storing Galax 14 



— For a Uallroad Dinner (Ulus.) 14 



Canterbury Bells for Faster 15 



Hydrocyanic Acid (ias lo 



Cosmos 15 



Koses — Koses Weak In Growth 16 



— Beauties Dead at Boot l(i 



Society of American Florists Ki 



New York 1<> 



Dbltuary — Patrick Keneflck 17 



— William A. Munroe 17 



— Leauder K. Peck 17 



— Geo. A. Weaver 17 



— Sophia Schwln 17 



— Alfred Ashley 17 



National Flower Show 18 



Chicago 18 



Boston 22 



St. Ix)ul8 24 



Evansvllle, Ind 25 



Philadelphia 26 



Dayton, Ohio 29 



Detroit 30 



New Orleans 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Seedsmen Greet Canners 36 



— Haarlem's Jubilee Show 40 



Pittsburg 46 



Milwaukee 46 



Amherst, .Mass 47 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News 50 



— Tennessee Nurserymen 50 



— A Lime-sulphur VVash 50 



Pacific Coast — Publications Received 51 



— San Francisco 52 



Vegetable Forcing 52 



— Vegetable Markets 52 



— Training Tomatoes 53 



Toledo. Ohio 54 



Mary vllle, Mo 64 



Glen Cove, N. Y 56 



Providence, R. 1 68 



Washington . , 60 



Erie, Pa 62 



Lexington, Ky 64 



Moscow, Idaho 64 



Greenhouse Heating 73 



— The Needed Boiler Capacity 73 



— Heating a Frame 73 



— Two Virginia Rose Houses 74 



Indianapolis 74 



Cincinnati 74 



Baltimore 7« 



Minneapolis 78 



Wayside Notes 80 



is printed Wednesday evening; and 

 mailed early Thursday momins;. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach us by Monday op 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

 Cincinnati, 0.; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



Eesults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The ground-hog saw his shadow; Feb- 

 ruary 2 was a bright day in most sec- 

 tions of the country. 



Lawson surely is a " has been ' ' so 

 far as the average grower is concerned; 

 it 's down and out on most places. 



Mrs. Louis E. Marquisee has pub- 

 lished one of the late Mr. Marquisee 's 

 poems, ' ' The Flower Divine, " in a neat 

 pamphlet. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Review $2, $3, or occasionally $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of Ihe paper. 



The senate committee on agriculture 

 at Washington. January 3, ordered a 

 favorable report on the bill to prevent 

 the adulteration of insecticides, substan- 

 tially as published some months ago in 

 the Review. Violations of the act are 

 punishable by fines ranging from $200 

 to $1,000, or by imprisonment, or both. 



It looks as if the Enchantress family 

 may crowd the other sorts pretty hard 

 next season. Anyone who can grow car- 

 nations at all well can do Enchantress, 

 and there are those who say White En- 

 chantress is even easier to handle, with 

 the result that cuttings of it are in 

 greater demand than any other variety 

 this season. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



With the final meeting of the com- 

 mittee at Indianapolis last week, the 

 national flower show became a matter 

 of history — modern history, and a pleas- 

 ant memory. The artistic success was 

 apparent the day the show opened, al- 

 though it was recognized that certain 

 ideals had not been attained. The pop- 

 ular success was soon denvJnstrated. and 

 now the financial statement published 

 in last week's Review shows the out- 

 come to be exceedingly gratifying from 

 a money point of view. Doubtless not 

 a few of the guarantors said good-bye 

 to the sums they paid in for preliminary 

 expenses, when au revoir (adieu, until 

 we meet again) would have been more 



apt — for the checks were back within a 

 fortnight of the close of the show. And 

 now the guarantors receive a dividend 

 of ten per cent of the sums paid in, 

 while the treasury of the S. A. F. is 

 enriched nearly $500. What more cohld 

 be ask«df 



But it should be recorded that the 

 highly satisfactory financial outcome is 

 in considerable measure due to the fact 

 that the members of the committee not 

 only gave their time and their energy, 

 but paid their own expenses. Also, the 

 audit shows that purchases made from 

 members of the committee were almost 

 without exception put in at cost prices. 

 The committee has taken in the sum of 

 $25,801.82 and paid it out again ; it has 

 given the greatest exhibition of its kind 

 ever held in America, one that called 

 from the pockets of the public $17,791 

 in admissions, without other reward than 

 the consciousness of a task well done — 

 and it is a pleasure to recognize its 

 merit. 



To Gurney Hill and Robert Craig is 

 due the inception of the idea, but had it 

 not been for the indomitable energy of 

 J. C. Vaughan, it is safe to say, the ex- 

 hibition never would have eventuated. 

 To Chairman Kasting, all the members 

 of the executive committee, and the as- 

 sistants they rallied about them, are due 

 the results attained, while for J. A. 

 Valentine, the auditor, a word should be 

 said for the study and system which 

 gives a statement that will stand as a 

 model for precise, complete flower show 

 accounting. 



It is inevitable that in so large an 

 affair of this character there should be 

 some sore spots. Forget them — they 

 need no lotion — and watch the gentlemen 

 who shall be selected to conduct the 

 second national exhibition toe the mark 

 that has been made for them. 



HE WANTED TO KNOW. 



There are many factors which may 

 influence an advertiseV part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him mbst of the time: 



Enclosed find ?1 and copy for a ."-line diissi- 

 rted ailv. Insert same as long as money holds 

 out. I know everybody In the trade reads the 

 Review, but what I want t<i find out is how 

 many of them want my phlox. 



C. W. OUTHWAITE. 

 New Iberia, La.. Jan. 11, 1900. 



Please discontinue my classified adv. for 

 phlox and credit my subscription with the bal- 

 ance of remittance. Two insertions did the 

 work. C. W. OUTHWAITE. 



New Iberia, La.. Jan. 25, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Dull weather last week caused a cur- 

 tailment of snj)plies and this resulted in 

 a stiffer market, but the end of the week 

 brought three days -of storm, which had 

 a disastrous effect on the (lemand and 

 prices weakened again. Beauties and 

 roses hold most firmly. The Beauty crops 

 have not been as large as they were a 

 fortnight ago, but quality has been 

 rather better. Practically all the other 

 roses are in short supply, Bride especially 

 so. There is an abundance of Richmond 

 of the longer grades, for the demand at 

 present does not seem to call for the 

 sppcial fancy stock. Medium and short 

 Richmond are scarce. Maid is off color, 

 but the few days of good weather since 

 the storm have done much to put the 

 quality back into the roses. Killarney is 

 in better supply than any other rose and 

 the quality is excellent. More and more. 



