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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jdme 3, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



PUBLISHED KVKEY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton BuildinK. 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 54B9. 



ksgistbrbd cable address, florvibw, 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. 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 17 

 to 2(>, 1909. 



20, 1909. 



TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— A Daisy Bunch (illus.) 3 



— Difficulties in Spiay Making 3 



— Art Vases (lUus. ) 4 



— Flower Mercbandis-ing (Illus. ) 4 



— Memorial Day 5 



Euonymus RadlcauK 5 



Haerens' New Azalea (lllus.j G 



Seaso/able Suggestions — BeddUig Out 



^ Jturguerltes ti 



— Dahlias ti 



— Lorraine Begonias ti 



— Stevlas (j 



— Sweet Peas U 



— Polnsettlas 7 



— English Ivy 7 



Dahlias 7 



(iude's Grounds (ilius. ) 7 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 7 



The Largest Private Range 8 



Chrysanthemums — Late Propagation 8 



— Mums for November 1 8 



— Cuttings Failed to Root 8 



— Early Golden Glow Mums (illus. I 9 



California Lily Bulbs 9 



Glimpses of Mueller's Place (illus.) lo 



Hall Losses Heavy 10 



Violets — Working up Stix'k 11 



— Sweet Peas and Violets 11 



Callas 12 



Dlchorisandra Siebcrtll (illns. i„» 12 



Business and other Notes 12 



The Water Garden 13 



Obituary i:j 



— -John E. .\ndre (portrait I .... ^^ ; 13 



Funds for Floriculture / . . . . 14 



Chicago 14 



New York 2<l 



Boston 23 



Pittsburg 24 



Philadelphia ^r, 



Dayton, Ohio 27 



Erie, Pa 30 



La Porte, Ind 32 



Cincinnati 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News — Francis Brill (portrait). HH 



— Foreign Commerce in Seeds 39 



— Dry in California 39 



— Conventional Variations 39 



— Iowa Seed Dealers Meet 41 



— Seed Trade Convention 42 



— Imports 42 



— Reappraisements 42 



Nursery News — American Peony Society 48 



— Early Flowering Shrubs 49 



— Citrus Nursery for Texas 5i> 



Pacific Coast — California Nursery Trade.... 50 



— Outdoor Stock in California 50 



— Seattle. Wash 50 



— -San Francisco 51 



Vegetable Forcing— Manure Gnats on Toma- 

 toes 52 



— Yield of Lettuce 52 



Indianapolis 54 



Providence, R. 1 56 



Detroit 58 



Milwaukee 60 



New Orleans 72 



Columbus, Ohio 73 



Gteenhouse Heating 74 



St. Louis 75 



Lexington, Ky 78 



Louisville, Ky 80 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



• The government statisticians figure 

 that the duty of 1% cents per pound on 

 window glass of greenhouse size is equiv- 

 alent to an ad valorem rate of 71.59 per 

 cent. 



There are plenty of growers who do 

 things by rule, and many more who do 

 them by guess, but the rare bird who 

 mixes brains with his compost is worth 

 watching. 



Collect your accounts in June. If 

 you let the month pass, the vacation sea- 

 son will be here, and you will have to 

 wait till September or perhaps October 

 for your money. Shall you enjoy being 

 short all summer? Collect your money, 

 pay your debts and be a free man. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural Society, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., has issued the premium 

 list for its rose and strawberry show 

 June 15 and for its eleventh annual ex- 

 hibition, November 4 to 6. F. R. Pierson 

 is chairman of the board of directors 

 and E. W. Neubrand, of the F. R. Pier- 

 son Co., is secretary. 



The June number of the Home Jour- 

 nal, described as Canada's leading maga- 

 zine, contained an interesting article, 

 ' ' The Bride 's Bouquet, ',' illustrated with 

 photographs supplied by John H. Dun- 

 lop, Toronto. The illustrations included 

 not only the bouquet for the bride, but 

 for bridesmaid, matron of honor and 

 flower girls. 



As happens nearly every spring, just 

 before Memorial day, there was a strong 

 demand for geraniums in flower, the 

 bedding out having used up all such 

 stock, while later in the season there may 

 be a surplus because of the stock which 

 was not ready at the time wanted. A 

 geranium must be in flower at the date 

 bedding is done to be salable. 



Some leading houses, failing to find 

 record that a buyer is in the business, 

 withhold trade prices unless the order 

 comes on a printed letter-head. And yet 

 many growers and country florists for 

 years in the business still write on the 

 first piece of paper that comes handy. 

 Letter-heads that look like business only 

 cost a couple of dollars a thousand. 



FUNDS FOR FLORICULTURE. 



Florists' interests fared well in the 

 Illinois legislature last week, all things 

 considered, when $15,000 was appro- 

 priated for carrying on the experimental 

 work at the State University under the 

 advisory committee of the Illinois State 

 Florists' Association. 



True, the asking for the purpose was 

 $35,000 for two years, but the total of all 

 askings was nearly double what the rev- 

 enue of the state was estimated to be, so 

 an average cut of nearly fifty per cent in 

 all appropriations was inevitable. The 

 House cut the amount for floriculture to 

 $15,000 and passed the bill on to the 

 Senate. The Senate is where sleeps the 

 watchdog of the public treasury, and here 

 the university and experimental station 

 were harshly dealt with. The total of ap- 

 propriations for these great institutions 

 was only $2,410,000 for two years, a sav- 

 age slash from the askings and a ma- 

 terial reduction, all along the line, from 

 the sums granted by the more liberal 

 House. 



Under the circumstances, it may be con- 

 sidered that floriculture did not do so 



badly when the Senate permitted the 

 $15,000 appropriated for it by the Housd 

 to stand in the bill as it finally went to 

 the governor. 



The fact is that the sum of $15,000 is 

 now fairly established as the minimum 

 with which the state's experimental 

 greenhouses can be maintained, and this 

 sum, or more, will bo provided by each 

 succeeding legislature. 



WHO HAS IT? 



The Review has received several in- 

 quiries from subscribers who wish to pro- 

 cure stock of Begonia incarnata, and the 

 improve(^ f orm raised several years ago 

 by Charles Sander, gardener for Prof. C. 

 S. Sargent, Brookline, Mass. These are 

 grown on many of the private estates in 

 New England, but none of the trade lists 

 contain them. Who l^as stock for sale? 



THE READERS' VIEW. 



The* duties of the advertising manager 



are lightened when the editor does his 



work well, for the readers are the real 



source of strength in a publication. 



Enclosed you will find the dollar to renew my 

 subscription. I lost over 10,000 feet of glass 

 in the recent hail, and over 10,(K)0 cabbage 

 plants, the same of tomato and cauliflower, 

 also most of my bedding plants, but It will 

 take heavier hail than that to knock me out 

 of the Review. — J. G. Angel, Oklahoma City, 

 Okla., May 25. 



TRY IT. 



When Yoa Have Stxrplus. 



It matters little what the stock is, al- 

 most always, somewhere, there is a man 

 in need of just the thing you are long 

 on. Tell about your surpluses in the 

 Review classified advertisements and 

 make "quick sales: 



We certainly were pleased with the quick 

 returns we received from the advertisement in- 

 serted In the Review published Thursday, May 

 27. Friday noon we received our copy of the 

 paper and Saturday morning we had a wire 

 from one concern to ship C. 0. ,D. all the 

 Nutt and Perkins we could spare. Saturday's 

 noon mail also brought an order for all our 

 Beaute Poitevine. Accept our thanks and good 

 wishes. — Hill City Greenhouses, Forest City, 

 la.. May 30, 1900. 



Kindly omit my dracaena advertisement, as 

 I am all sold out and had to send the money 

 back in several cases. The Review certainly 

 did the work all right. — Wm. Ebmann, Corfu, 

 N. Y., May 20, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The Memorial day market proved 

 stronger than the most sanguine had an- 

 ticipated. Early in the week it was 

 figured that the only shortage would be 

 of carnations in colors, and it was 

 thought the supply of peonies was so 

 heavy that it was doubtful if all would 

 be sold. During the early days of the 

 week the carnation was the only flower 

 which was held at a stiff price, and the 

 peony market might be said to be weak, 

 although the owners of the best goods 

 were holding them as firmly as the weak- 

 ness in the lower grades would seem to 

 justify. As the week progressed it was 

 found that the shortage in carnations 

 was so much greater than had been an- 

 ticipated that it turned the demand to 

 other flowers in such a fashion that 

 practically everything was on the short 

 side, with the single exception of peonies. 

 Of these there were enough so that every- 

 one could be supplied, but the market, 

 instead of going to pieces, as many had 

 feared it would, steadily took on strength 

 until late Saturday afternoon. Prices 



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