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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Febrcaby 11, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editok and Mamagkb. 



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 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-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEaTIBERS, PAGE 88. 



■ ■ ■ ■ ' . . ■» 



CONTENTS. 



Roses — Rose Growing as a Business 6 



— WUllam H. Elliott (portrait) 6 



— Cuttings Decayed at Boots 6 



The Retail Florist 6 



— The Rose Crescent (lllus.) 6 



— An Elk's Design (lllus.) ;. 6 



— A Boatwrlght Decoration 6 



— Retailers Want Novelties 6 



Greenhouse Construction 7 



Preserving Greenhouse Wood 7 



Roof and Benches 7 



Second Crop on Stevla 7 



Geraniums — For Winter Flowering (illus.).. 8 



Bulb Culture in the South 



Education in Floriculture 11 



Prof. J. P. Plllsbury (portrait) 12 



Carnations — Stigmonoee and Leaf Spot 12 



— LawBon the Second Year 12 



— Two Pierson Carnations (lllus.) 13 



— Carnation May 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Show Pelargoniums 14 



— Cinerarias 14 



— Splneas 14 



— Lilies 14 



— Rhododendrons 14 



— Kalmla Latlfolla 14 



— Sweet Peas ... 14 



— Rambler Roses 14 



A BufTalo Store (lllus.) 15 



Chrysanthemums 15 



— Stock Plants 15 



Obituary 15 



— W. C. Krick 15 



— Alex. Von Ascbe 15 



— Alex. N. Kay 15 



— Lorenzo G. Yates. . ; 15 



— Hermann Wlldpret 15 



Violets 15 



— Marie Louise Violets 15 



American Rose Society 16 



Illinois Association 16 



Chicago ......'..., 16 



New York ". 21 



Clinton, Iowa ...T. 25 



Washington .t .• 25 



PhUadelphla , 26 



St. Louis 28 



Vegetable Forcing 29 



— Vegetable Markets . ., 20 



— Forcing Eggplant 20 



Boston 30 



Seed Trade News 84 



— Imports 86 



— Reappralsements 38 



Society of American Florists 88 



Wheeling, W. Va 89 



Amherst, Mass 40 



Erie, Pa 40 



Platteville, Wis 40 



La Grange, Ul 46 



Pittoburg 46 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Nursery News BO 



Pacific Coast 51 



— CTaUfomla'B Heavy Rainfall 61 



— San Francisco 01 



Dayton, Ohio B4 



St. Paul 56 



Cleveland 58 



Cincinnati ~. 60 



Lexington, Ky 62 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



— Site of Boiler Needed 72 



— Greenhouse and Dwelling 72 



— Sash House for Mums 72 



— A House in Southern Texas 73 



Minneapolis 74 



Detroit 74 



Buffalo 76 



Toledo, Ohio 76 



C(rfnBibn8, Ohio 76 



Baltimore 78 



Providence, B. 1 80 



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ii printed Wednesday evenins: and 

 mailed e^Iy Thursday morning. It 

 is earnestly reqtsested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach us by Monday or 

 Tueaday at latest^ instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIKTT OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incobpobatid by Act or Oongbess Maboh i. '01 



Officers for 1900: President, J. A. Valentine, 

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

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



Can anyoDe see signs that Enchantress 

 is running outf 



The salesman should be an optimist, 

 but a pessimist frequently is a safe 

 creditman and good collector. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society 

 has issued the premium list for its third 

 spring exhibition, to be held March 24 

 to 26. 



The S. a. F. medals and certificates 

 awarded at the national flower show have 

 all been delivered. The silver gilt medal 

 is an especially handsome thing. 



It is a pleasure to note that report^ 

 on last week's business are almost all 

 favorable. Conditions seem to be nearly 

 normal again in all sections of the 

 country. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., well known 

 English growers and among the first to 

 take up American carnations, have put 

 on the British market a speciaJ carnation 

 fertilizer, in tins. 



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 fiity- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Don't ignore a complaint; tell the 

 man you can't do anything for him, if 

 you feel that way, but by all means 

 answer his letter, for the protection of 

 your own reputation and that of the 

 trade at large. 



Branches of forsythias, spirteas, such 

 as Thunbergii and prunifolia, Cydonia 

 Japonica and others, will open nicely if 

 placed in water in a warm greenhouse, 

 and make a welcome addition for win- 

 dow or table decorations. 



The Cincinnati florists are good ad- 

 vertisers and they know that nothing 

 sells one's wares so quickly as does a 

 satisfactory sample. So they are pre- 

 paring to hand out to the S. A. F. execu- 

 tive committee, when it meets in March, 

 a sample of the hospitality with which 

 the society will be received in August. 

 The executive board will be banqueted. 



WHO NEEDS ORDERS? 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time: 



Our advertisement is taking all we can pro- 

 duce; we are working today on an order for 

 20,000 geraniums which we credit to the Re- 

 view. R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS 00. 



White Marsh, Md., Feb. 1, 1909. .- 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. ' 



The spring exhibition of the American 

 Rose Society is' to be held in the Iroquois 

 hotel, Buffalo. The proposition is ad- 

 vanced to make it a free exhibit ; in other 

 words, to popularize it to the fullest ex- 

 tent. Buffalo has a large population and 

 Vice-president Kasting is active ; his firm 

 will receive any exhibits sent to them. 

 J. Rowland Cloudsley, secretary of the 

 Buffalo Florists' Club, 584 Main street^ 

 is appointed manager of exhibits. 



Special prizes have come from various 

 parties not mentioned in the preliminary 

 schedule which has been distributed. Vari- 

 ous inquiries are coming concerning ex- 

 hibits. The pot rose class seems to i)e 

 awake. The rose is the state flower of 

 New York. B. Hammond, Sec'y. 



ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION. 



The Illinois State Florists' Association 

 will hold its annual meeting at Spring- 

 field next week, February 16 and 17, The 

 Springfield Florists' Club has been hard 

 at work for weeks, making arrangements 

 for the entertainment of the large num- 

 ber of visitors who are expected. There 

 will be a large trades display in Anon 

 hall, and the business sessions wiU be 

 held in an adjoining audience room. It 

 is largely due to the work of this society 

 that the state legislature two years ago 

 made an appropriation of $15,000 for 

 the study of florists' problems by the 

 State Agricultural College, and Dean 

 Davenport, of the State University, will 

 be present at this meeting to tell what 

 has been done in behalf of the trade and 

 to outline the work in mind. It is planned 

 to ask the legislature for an appropria- 

 tion of $35,000 for the next two years 

 and it is hoped the convention this year 

 will be a specially good one, because the 

 state legislature is now in session at 

 Springfield and many legislators will at- 

 tend the convention. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



This is Lincoln centenary week, with 

 its many dinners, local and elsewhere; 

 Valentine 's week, with its special demand 

 for violets, and automobile show week 

 in Chicago, with its decorations and 

 festivities — so, if anyone with good stock 

 fails to have his share of the business, 

 it's because he doesn't advertise. 



Last week made a good record, in 

 •pite of increased supplies and lower 

 prices on a number of important items. 

 Most wholesale houses had at least as 

 good a week as a year ago, and some of 

 them better, which is worthy of note 

 because at this date last year business 

 was excellent; the slump, due mostly to 

 the financial panic, did not hit this mar- 

 ket until the latter part of February. 

 This week starts with a good demand 

 in all departments and excellent prospects 

 for the later days, when the Valentine's 

 day special demand will become the prin- 

 cipal factor, following the Lincoln din- 

 ners February 12. 



There has been an increase in supplies 



