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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



MAt 27, 1009. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



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New York Office: 



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J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 Irom those m the trade. 



AdvertlBing rates quoted upon request. Only 

 Btrlctly 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. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act or Congress March 4, '01 



OflJcers 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 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVEKTISERS PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS, 



The Retail Florist 5 



— The Aristocrat of Bouquets (illus.) .'i 



— Sprays of Small Flowers 5 



— Wreath of Sweet Peas (illus.) ti 



— Rehder's Church Decoration (illus.) H 



— Forewarned Is Forearmed (illus.) B 



Some Desirable * Biennials 7 



Orchids — Cockroaches on Orchids 8 



— Seasonable Orchids (Illus.) 8 



Another New Plumotie Fern 8 



Don't Rub It In 8 



Seasonable Suggestions — Callas 8 



— Cyclamens 8 



— Nephrolepls 8 



— Bouvardias 9 



— Peonies 9 



— Asters ' 9 



— Hardy Roses 9 



— Chrysanthemums 9 



Roses — Dorothy Perkins' Cup 10 



— American Rose Society 10 



Crops for House in Summer 10 



Carnations— Carnation Notes — East 10 



Anchusa Italica Dropmore (Illus. ) 11 



The Water Garden 11 



Phytelepas Macrocarpa (illus.) 12 



Dummett of Mount Vernon (Illus.) 13 



Potash and Pigment 13 



Killing out Poison Ivy 13 



Funds for Floriculture 14 



Hall Breaks I^ths (illus. ) 14 



Compost for Bedding Plants.. 14 



Obituary — C. L. Allen (portrait) 15 



Chicago 16 



St. Louis 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Boston 24 



Providence, R. 1 26 



New York 26 



Albany, N. Y 2!) 



Baltimore 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Puget Sound Cabbage Seed 37 



— The Seed Situation 37 



— Connecticut Conditions 37 



— Peas and Beans 38 



— State Sues Grass Seed Co 38 



— Cooper-Taber's Crops 40 



— Seed Trade Association 40 



Vegetable Forcing — Cucumbers Versus Gnats 42 



Indianapolis 48 



Pacific Coasrt— Grand Forks, B. C 48 



— San Francisco 49 



Nursery News — Peony Society 50 



— Field Gets Terry Peonies 50 



— Arbor- Vltaes From Seed 50 



— Early Flowering Shrubs 50 



New Orleans 52 



Minneapolis 54 



Cleveland 56 



Cincinnati 58 



Dayton, Ohio 60 



Dover, Del 62 



Louisville, Ky 64 



St. Paul 75 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



New Castle, Ind 78 



Detroit 79 



Denver 80 



I>exlngton, Ky 82 



Milwaukee 84 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



For 600 weeks the Review has now 

 made its regular appearance with the 

 news of the trade. 



Send the Review a report on the 

 Memorial day trade in your locality — and 

 send it while the story is news, not an- 

 cient history. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Peony Society will be held at Cottage 

 Gardens, Queens, N. Y., Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, June 8 and 9. 



If you do not see in the Review a reg- 

 ular news-letter from your city, write to 

 the Editor about it, sending a sample of 

 what you can do in the line of writing 

 trade news. 



From the southern localities, where 

 bedding out has been in progress for a 

 fortnight or more, come reports of the 

 rapid depletion of all stocks of bedding 

 plants. It looks as though the only one 

 who will have cause for complaint is the 

 man whose geraniums are late in bloom- 

 ing. 



The International Harvester Co., the 

 trust that sells the reapers and other 

 farm machinery, finds that there is one 

 machine in which the farmer is now tak- 

 ing much interest, and which he buys else- 

 where. So inside information has it that 

 the trust is preparing to go into the auto- 

 mobile business. 



F. R. PiERSON, chairman of the S. A. 

 F. committee on tariff and legislation, 

 has been twice to Washington in the in- 

 terest of the trade. Mr. Pierson does not 

 go after things he wants either with a 

 hammer or with a brass band, but his 

 quiet work will nevertheless be apparent 

 in the duties on horticultural wares when 

 the bill comes from conference. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



In its review of the general business 

 situation, the R. (jI Dun & Co. commer- 

 cial: agency said last week : 



"The commercial outlook is brighter, 

 and awaits an early settlement of tariff 

 revision. Developments, as a whole, carry 

 the encouragement which stimulates en- 

 terprise, renewed strength and confidence 

 being well established. Current activities 

 are conspicuous in the enlarged move- 

 ments of heavy materials, factory prod- 

 ucts, general merchandise, and grain. The 

 outgo of provisions also is increased, al- 

 though live stock arrivals declined and 

 packing capacity works under the normal. 



' ' Weather conditions have favored 

 more extended operations in the leading 

 industries, construction, and building, 

 and gain is seen in the absorption of sea- 

 sonable goods, but more warmth is needed 

 for an adequate disposition of lightweight 

 apparel, retailers not yet securing ample 

 sales. Cheaper prints and costlier ten- 

 dencies of wool fabrics induce more wide- 

 spread orders in wholesale dry goods and 

 clothing. This has brought larger num- 

 bers of visiting buyers into the markets 

 for staples, and bookings rise for imme- 

 diate and fall shipments of textiles, foot- 

 wear, men's furnishings, furniture, and 

 household needs. 



"The forwardings of hardware, tools, 

 wagons, and materials for farm improve- 

 ments compare favorably with a year 

 ago. Inquiries for furnace and mill out- 

 puts extend farther into the future, and 

 the contracts closed reflect distinct prog- 



ress in iron, wood, brass, and leather 

 workings. Railway orders appear more 

 freely, and assure increasing activity at 

 the forges and equipment plants. 



"Building materials are under the 

 greatest consumption known here, and 

 this stiffens prices and puts the building 

 trades upon a substantial basis. Lumber 

 receipts have risen sharply within the 

 last few weeks, but there is no over- 

 accumulation at the yards, and sellers 

 obtain better returns for desirable hard- 

 woods. Contracts for power and machin- 

 ery are more plentiful, and electric works 

 report gratifying recovery in new busi- 

 ness and increase in workers. 



"The markets for raw materials con- 

 tinue strong, especially for hides, leather, 

 wool, and minor metals. Investment in 

 real estate and structures is advancing. 

 Sales of bonds and securities run well 

 above the volume of a few months ago, 

 and money is in ample supply for choice 

 commercial paper, with rates in favor of 

 borrowers. Bank clearings at Chicago, 

 $271,814,502, exceed those of the corre- 

 sponding week in 1908 by 19.5 per cent, 

 and compare with $252,032,830 in 1907." 



MOTHERS' DAY. 



In Parkerstmrg, "W. Va. 



We have watched the Review's re- 

 ports of Mothers' day, and have noted 

 that in some cities there were large sales, 

 while in others there was not much doing 

 that day. We believe Mothers' day in 

 the future will be one of the banner days 

 for the florist. 



In our little city this was the first year 

 that Mothers' day was publicly honored. 

 Our governor issued a proclamation call- 

 ing on all the people to observe Mothers' 

 day by wearing a white flower. In addi- 

 tion to this we induced the mayor to 

 issue a proclamation to the same effect. 

 We also went to every church in the city 

 and donated plants and a nice vase of 

 white flowers for the altar. Each pastor 

 had a notice placed in the papers calling 

 on the people to attend special services 

 for that day, and also mentioned that 

 the church would be decorated for the 

 occasion. Now, this seems like a whole 

 lot of work and expense, but it paid well. 

 Try it, Mr. Florist, next year, and be 

 well fortified with plenty of white flow- 

 ^ers. J. W. Dudley & Sons. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Last week was decidedly dull up to Fri- 

 day, when conditions began slowly to im- 

 prove. There was a decrease in supplies, 

 and a corresponding increase in demand. 

 Prices did not advance particularly, but 

 it became possible to clean out, or nearly 

 so, at something like a market price. For 

 a fortnight only a small part of the re- 

 ceipts could be sold through regular 

 channels, and the accumulation had to be 

 jobbed at what it would bring, so the 

 change to more stable conditions brought 

 much satisfaction to everyone except the 

 sidewalk venders. The current week 

 opened with little change, but steady 

 progress is being made toward the holi- 

 day level of prices, and conditions are 

 considered highly satisfactory, in view 

 of the depression which so recently pre- 

 vailed. 



There are a great number of orders on 

 file for shipment between May 27 and 29. 

 Memorial day brings into the market hun- 

 dreds of orders from country florists 



