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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Fbbbdabt 18, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530-560 Caxton BuUdliiK> 



834 Dearborn Street, Cblcaeo. 



Telephone, Harrison 6429. 



■bgistkrbd cablb address, florvivw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N . Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.60. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Adveitising 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 8, 

 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 ADVEKTISEBS, FAOE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— Star and Crescent (lllus.) 6 



— Colors In Funeral Work 5 



— The Zleger Store (iUus.) 6. 



— Fruits and Flowers (lllus.) 7 



White Fly 7 



Illinois State Florists' Association 8 



— The .Springfield MeetiiQg 8 



— Busine«H Sessions 8 



— President's Address 8 



— Seeret a ry'B Re po r t 8 



— Treasurer's Report 8 



— Report of Advisory Committee 8 



— Papers and Addresses 



— The Banquet 9 



— Those Present 9 



— Judges' Report 9 



— Trade Exhibit 9 



Chrysanthemums — Propagation 10 



— Nonin on Two Stems (lllus.) 10 



Railroad Gardeners 10 



Inside Crops for Summer 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — Asters 11 



— Seed Sowing 11 



— Bedding Geraniums ■ 12 



— Shamrocks 12 



— Lorraine Begonias 12 



— Genistas , 12 



— Acacias 12 



— Nephrolepis 12 



Carnations— Pfelfer's Culture (lllus.) 12 



— Cuttings Rot in the Sand 12 



— Varieties in Same House 13 



— Rust and Leaf -Spot 13 



— Let Anybody Answer 13 



St. Louis 13 



Geranium Mrs. Gloede (lllus.) 10 



Obituary-nJohn H. Small (portrait) 15 



— Paul Thomson 15 



— Mrs. Minnie Unglaub 15 



Society of American Florists 16 



Chicago 16 



New York 19 



Toledo, Ohio 22 



rtovldence, B. 1 22 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 26 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 27 



— Houses for Lettuce 27 



— Grubs in Greenhouse Soil 27 



— Cauliflower from Seed 27 



Erie, Pa 28 



New Orleans 28 



Cleveland 32 



Detroit 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News— Hellantl .16 



— Canadian Association 37 



— Imports < 38 



— Vitality of Seeds .38 



— Outdoor Show In Hlllegom 40 



Denver 46 



Louisville, Ky 46 



Orange. N. J 52 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 62 



— Berkeley. Cal 52 



Nursery News 54 



— Connecticut Nurserymen 64 



— Llrlodendron Chlnense 64 



Bnffalo 66 



North Tonawanda. N. Y 66 



Enreka Springs, Ark 67 



Minneapolis 68 



Baltimore 60 



Washington 62 



Rochester, N. Y 64 



Milwaukee 66 



Greenhouse Heating 1Q 



— Two Parallel Houses 76 



— Poor Circulation 70 



— Hot Water for Small House 77 



Lexington. Ky 80 



Cincinnati 82 



Trl-Cltles 84 



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is printed Wednesday evening and 

 mailed early Tiiursday morning;. It 

 is earnestly reqtiested that aH adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 **copy** to reach us fay Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest, instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning, as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETT OF AHEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



INCOBPOBATXD BT ACT OF CONGRESS MARCH 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1900. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Ibwin Bekteemann, treasurer of the 

 national flower show, mailed checks Feb- 

 ruary 13 to all guarantors for a ten per 

 cent ^vidend on the sums paid in. 



A SCHEDULE has been issued by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 

 its special exhibition of orchids to be 

 held in May, 1910. It is expected this 

 will be by far the largest display of these 

 flowers ever seen in America. Copies of 

 the schedule may be had by addressing 

 Wm. P. Rich, secretary, Boston. 



ONE INSERTION DID IT. 



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: 



Kindly discontinue my advertisement in the 

 Review. I had only a few thousand cuttings and 

 the one insertion cleaned me out. 



C. B. SHISLER. 



WllUamsport, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1909. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Prizes for Traveling Men. 



The following offering is made by 

 President Valentine: For the purpose 

 of enlisting the traveling men in se- 

 curing new members of the S. A. F., 

 I hereby offer a first prize of $50 and 

 a second prize of $25 to the traveling 

 men securing the two largest numbers of 

 new members to the S. A. F. between 

 now and August 10, 1909. 



The conditions of the contest shall 

 be that the winner shall be a traveling 

 representative of some concern dealing in 

 horticultural products or supplies, and 

 he shall forward to the secretary, as soon 

 as received, the money received for new 

 memberships. No member shall be ac- 

 counted a new one whose name appears 

 in the published report for last year. 



Before any man can win either of these 

 prizes the membership fees sent to the 

 secretary by him, under this contest, must 

 have been double the amount of the prize 

 claimed. For the purpose of determining 

 whether new memberships have been se- 

 cured before August 10, the secretary 

 shall include all memberships mailed to 



him bearing a post mark not later than 

 August 10. 



Should any difference of opinion arise 

 regarding the award under this offer, the 

 matter shall be decided by the members 

 of the executive committee present at the 

 next annual convention of the society in 

 Cincinnati, and their decision shall be 

 final. 



The writer will be glad to forward a 

 supply of application blanks and ad- 

 dressed envelopes to any traveling man 

 wishing to enter this competition. 

 W. N. Rudd, Sec'y, 

 Morgan Park, 111. 

 February 12, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Abraham Lincoln did much in his life- 

 time for the interests of florists, among 

 others, and in a business way the cen- 

 tenary celebration of his birth gave every- 

 one in this market cause for special rever- 

 ence for his memory. The Lincoln cele- 

 brations far and wide centered in the 

 Chicago market, where there was last 

 week an exceptionally good business, es- 

 pecially in the call for red roses. Beau- 

 ties and Richmonds enjoyed a heavy de- 

 mand, but all roses moved so well that, 

 in spite of increased supplies, the mar- 

 ket was bare on the afternoon of Fri- 

 day, February 12. Carnations also en- 

 joyed a good market, the best in some 

 weeks, so that business on the whole was 

 excellent. Beauties held strong all the 

 week. Even bulb stock found fair sale. 



At the end of the week the St. Val- 

 entine 's day special call took the place 

 of the waning Lincoln demand and the 

 market had two days of fine business on 

 violets, sweet peas and the flowers most 

 suitable for Valentine's purposes. Each 

 year lately there has been a pronounced 

 increase in the Valentine's business and 

 violets have had the large share of the 

 special demand. This year there was an- 

 other fine gain; it was the best Valen- 

 tine's day yet. The supply of violets 

 was large, so that a big business could 

 be done without boosting the prices be- 

 yond where they are an inducement to 

 the retailers to take hold strong. There 

 is some difference, of course, in the re- 

 ports, some houses having all the stock 

 they needed, while others were unable 

 to fill orders in full. The bulk of the vio- 

 lets sold at $7.50 per thousand, but some 

 special fancy stock brought $1 per hun- 

 dred. There were, of course, many poor 

 violets to be sold below the prevailing 

 price of $7.50, but the only serious fall- 

 down was on the shipments that arrived 

 Sunday, in the blizzard. Many of them 

 were left unsold. 



The present week opened with three 

 days of wintry weather. This always 

 has a double effect upon the market. 

 "While cuts are reduced, the local tran- 

 sient trade is reduced to an even greater 

 extent and the market stagnates so long 

 as the blizzards prevail. Under such con- 

 ditions violets suffer more than any other 

 flower. There is practically no sale for 

 f violets in extremely cold weather. Car- 

 nations also suffer, because the carnation 

 is the flower principally handled by the 

 gentlemen who operate the street stands 

 and whose show cases are empty these 

 days. Roses hold their own better than 

 anything else under such conditions, be- 

 cause the supply of roses is more quickly 

 influenced than many other flowers; in 

 fact, roses were decidedly hard to find* 

 Monday, February 15, and have con- 



