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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Mat 20, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530-560 Caxton Building:, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



kbgistbrbd cablb address, flokvibw, 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-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 98 



CONTENTS. 



Tlio Iletall l-loiist— Memorial IJa.v 11 



— The Anchor (.illus. ) 11 



— Japanese Air Plant 11 



— Rott's Upright Wreath (illus.) 12 



— Designs for Memorial Day 12 



— .Mothers' Dr>y 13 



— Pennock's Window (illus. i 13 



— Porch Boxes Offered Free 13 



— Undacher's Cometory Vases (illus. j 14 



Color in P'ancy Bedding 14 



The Florists' Own Grounds (illus.) 15 



Sweet Pea Buds Blighting 15 



Ferns IG 



Bluing Hydrangeas Itj 



Phlox Druiumondi Hi 



Roses — Beauties at New Orleans (illus, i.... 10 



— Cardinal 16 



— Chateuay 17 



— Sterilizing Soil 17 



-Vllamandas 17 



^^easonable Suggestions 18 



Kaster Plants (illus.) 19 



Desirable Hardy Perennials 19 



Boys' Gardens in Dayton, O. (illus.) 20 



Violets— Timely Attention 21 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions.... 22 



The Carnival Costume (illus.) 22 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 23 



— Figures from a Gardener 23 



Cincinnati 24 



A Florist Flimtlammed 24 



Obituary 24 



Boston 24 



Colorado Springs, Colo 25 



Gardner, Mass 25 



Chicago 26 



Francoas 25 



Philadelphia 30 



New York •'14 



St. Louis 'M 



Nashville, Xonn 38 



Providence, K. 1 40 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News — I'eas and Beans 44 



— New England Seed Crops 44 



— French Seed Crops 45 



— Onion Sets at Louisville 45 



— German Seed Crops 46 



— Beds of Hyacinths 47 



— Commercial Fertilizers 47 



Indianapolis 48 



Glen Cove, X. Y 52 



Vegetable Forcing (Illus. ) 54 



Nursery News — Contract for Privet CO 



— Beappralsements liO 



— Railroad Tree Planting 60 



Hardy .Vzaleas 61 



Pacific Coast— San Francisco 62 



■ — A Compost Heap '^5 



Detroit '>^ 



Ixiuisville. Ky 66 



Dayton. Ohio "S 



West Grove Pa 70 



Orange, .\. J J^ 



rittslMirg i-; 



.\lbany. .\. Y ^^ 



Buffalo <4 



To Destroy Lilac Roots 8.5 



Rust on Iris |2 



Rochester. X. Y • =« 



Greenhouse Heating— Oil for luel 88 



— Oregon Vegetable Houses 88 



A Concrete Smokestack (Illus.) 88 



— Yoking Boilers 89 



— Install a Separate Flow po 



— A Small Wisconsin House W 



Erie, Pa.. 9° 



T.*xlngton, Ky ;^f 



Milwaukee °,1 



The Advertisers' Column •«; 



— Sales of Steam Traps J«> 



— The Hose Poster (illus. > "6 



CbryBanthemum S<x'iety *♦" 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



With this issue the Review begins its 

 twenty-fourth half-yearly volume. 



Carpet bedding is pretty well out of 

 date; hardly any of it will be done this 

 year. 



Memorial day this year will last three 

 days. May 30 falling on Sunday, some 

 communities will observe the event on 

 Saturday, some Sunday and others Mon- 

 day. 



The price of tinfoil has been advanced 

 by manufacturers, but jobbers who 

 loaded up last fall, when prices were at 

 the bottom, are still giving the trade the 

 benefit. 



The dissemination of new carnations, 

 in England has reached the stage where^ 

 Hugh Low & Co. send out a color plate 

 showing their seedling varieties Royal 

 Purple, Lady Dainty and Black Chief. 



This issue of the Review is not so 

 large as our Easter Number, but still 

 6,652 pounds of white paper — nearly 

 three and a half tons — were consumed 

 in printing the Memorial Day Number. 



Every little while the Review receives 

 photographs which bear no mark to indi- 

 cate what they are or whence they came. 

 Among the unidentified now on hand are 

 two handsome pictures of a retail store 

 that arrived May 11. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle, London, 

 publishes an illustration of the White 

 Killarney rose prepared from a photo- 

 graph of one of the blootns brought from 

 America in a cut condition, in the cold 

 room of the Mauretania, by H. A. Bar- 

 nard, a representative of Hugh Low & 

 Co. 



Criticism of the duties on window 

 glass in the U. S. Senate has caused the 

 committee in charge of the tariff bill to 

 withdraw the objectionable paragraph, 

 reaffirming the Dingley rates, with the 

 promise to present a new schedule that 

 will reduce the duty on greenhouse sizes 

 about 1/4 cent a pound. 



In England there has for some time 

 been agitation for what is known as the 

 daylight saving bill, the object of which 

 was to cause the beginning and ending of 

 the day's work to be one hour earlier 

 than now in summer. It is the spirit of 

 America to go the other fellow one bet- 

 ter, so the More Daylight League, re- 

 cently organized in Cincinnati, purposes 

 to begin the day two hours earlier. 



ALVAYS FIRST. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 liim most of the time. 



Please discontinue our classified advertisement, 

 as we are now sold out of surplus stock. We 

 have received many orders through advertising 

 in your columns, and among eight papers that 

 we are taking we always look over the Review 

 first. — Valdesian Nurseries, Bostic, N. C, May 

 12, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week the somewhat overdue an- 

 nual spring glut put in its appearance. 

 Practically all lines of stock became 

 overabundant. Carnations held their 

 own fairly well until toward the end of 

 the week, when the prices melted away. 



The overstock was most serious in roses, 

 and Beauties led the procession down- 

 ward. It is noteworthy that the crops of 

 Beauty have not been exceptionally 

 heavy; many times one or another of the 

 large growers has cut a much larger 

 crop; but this time all the growers seem 

 to bring on fair crops simultaneously, 

 with the result that practically every 

 house in town had a too large supply. 

 The quality has deteriorated until only 

 a small part are really first-class. The 

 result was that Beauties not strictly up 

 to requirements of the high class stores 

 have been selling for a song. They 

 never were lower. Other roses have been 

 in much the same state. Killarney and 

 Richmond are the two best roses on the 

 market, and have done a little better 

 than Maid and Bride, but such a small 

 part of each day's receipts could be used 

 by the regular stores that the average 

 price has been exceedingly low. Indeed, 

 there has been considerable waste, be- 

 cause even the special sales buyers could 

 not use all the stock received, even 

 though they made their own price. 



This week started with carnations at 

 a rather lower level than at any time last 

 week, and with no improvement in the 

 rose situation. Sweet peas also congest 

 the market, but the better grades are 

 selling remarkably well, when the general 

 situation is taken into account. There 

 are large receipts of excellent peas, and 

 they all sell at what should be thoroughly 

 satisfactory prices. Even the medium 

 grades are still selling well at $5 to $6 

 per thousand, but for the poor grades, 

 which, of course, are a large part of 

 the receipts, there is little sale. 



Peonies are not going any too well. 

 With other stock so cheap as it now is, 

 the peony houses prefer to store their 

 good bunches against the strong demand 

 sure to develop for Decoration day. 



This week there have been large re- 

 ceipts of outdoor lilac, and practically 

 every spring flower is coming in heavily. 

 Callas and Harrisii are hard to move, 

 and there is nothing which can be said 

 to have a firm market, except smilax, and 

 even this is on the downward grade. 

 Ferns have become abundant, but good 

 ferns still are scarce, and the price of 

 the good stock gives no indication of 

 falling. 



It always is noted that when this mar- 

 ket is glutted, other markets are in the 

 same condition, and those buyers who 

 grow part of their own stock also have 

 large supplies, with a result of shutting 

 off the shipping demand. But in spite 

 of this condition, shipping has been ex- 

 cellent, and the salvation of the market, 

 the last ten days. It is believed a slight 

 reduction in crops will bring first-class 

 business again. How others are situated 

 is shown by the fact that Pittsburg com- 

 mission houses have been reconsigning 

 large quantities of stock to this market, 

 although there was no possible reason 

 for so doing, except a disinclination to 

 accept the inevitable. Some of the grow- 

 ers profess to see signs of an early 

 change in the situation, and it cannot 

 come too soon. 



Decoration Day. 



All thoughts are now turned toward 

 the Decoration day demand. Everyone 

 agrees that supplies will be large; more 

 flowers will be handled in Chicago May 

 27, 28 and 29 than in any three days in 

 the previous history of this market. If 

 there is a shortage of any flower, which 

 now seems improbable, there will be 

 something else to take its place. 



