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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 10, 1900. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINQ CO. 



530-660 Caxton Building, 



334 Uearborn Street, Cliicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



kkgistbrbd 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. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. 

 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-offlce 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. 



INCOBPOBATED BY ACT OP CONGEESS MAECH 4, '01 



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

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

 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 ADVERTISERS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— A Light Bouquet (IIlus.) 3 



— -Advertising and the Window 3 



— Retailers and Outdoor Work (illus.) 3 



— The Plateau (Illus.) 4 



Anchusa Italica Dropmure 5 



Violets — Violet Princess of Wales 5 



New Azaleas at Berlin 5 



Orchids— Cattleya Culture 6 



— Calanthes ti 



— Interesting Orchids (illus. ) 7 



Narcissi anil Tulips 7 



Names of Plants 7 



Koses — Culture of Tea Roses 8 



— Mulching Benched Roses S 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 9 



— Mulching Field Carnations 9 



Christmas Peppers '■> 



Begonia Gllsoni 9 



Chrysanthemums — Mums in Australia 9 



Flower Show in Paris 10 



Humphrey's Houses (Illus.) 10 



Sweet Pea Society 10 



Cincinnati Trade Exhibit (illus.) 11 



Obituary 11 



Thursday Morning's Mall 12 



Duty on Rose Plants 12 



Chicago 12 



New York 10 



Cincinnati 20 



Philadelphia 22 



Boston 24 



.St. I.ouls '25 



Providence, R. 1 30 



Steamer Sailings 32 



.Seed Trade News .34 



— Randall's Seed Store (Illus.) 35 



— Clark's Wisconsin Branch 35 



— K. L. Olmsted (portrait) 35 



— Imports 30 



— Peas in South Dakota 88 



— Seed S<'ason not Closed .'{(j 



— A Good Season 38 



— The Largest Advertisement 40 



Nursery News 46 



— The Rochester Convention 40 



— Charles J. Brown (portrait) 46 



— George C. Seager (portrait) 47 



— Everbearing Strawberries 48 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 48 



Mulching Strawberry Plants 48 



Wavslde Notes 48 



Pittsburg 50 



I'aolflc Const — San Francisco 50 



— Portland, Ore 50 



Baltimore 52 



Indianapolis 54 



MInneaiKdis 56 



Erie, Pa 56 



Detroit 58 



New Bedford. .Mass 00 



Chesapeake, Ohio 60 



Lexington, Ky 62 



Blddeford, Me 62 



Greenhouse Heating — Heating Hints 72 



— Boiler Working Poorly 72 



— Piping Two Houses 74 



Denver 74 



Tampa. Fla 75 



Evansvllle, Ind 76 



Freeport, 111 78 



Milwaukee 80 



Richmond, Ind 80 



KESULTS. 



We give tliem. You get them. 



We botii iiave tliem. 



Young stoclc of the Virginia Poehl- 

 mann chrysanthemum is in special de- 

 mand. 



At the recent Berlin international 

 flower show the pots of the plants shown 

 in groups were covered with waterproof 

 crepe paper. 



P. L. McKee, of the Moninger Co., 

 Chicago, says that from all appearances 

 1909 will be the banner year for green- 

 house building. 



June is the month to push the collec- 

 tions; leave them till July and you will 

 find many of your customers on vacations 

 and will have to wait till autumn for 

 your money. 



The week's installment of the press 

 service of the National Council of Horti- 

 culture consists of articles as follows: 

 " Hardy Chrysanthemums, " " Tea 

 Eoses, " "Brussels Sprouts," "Dog- 

 woods. ' ' 



The American Peony Society will 

 meet at the Cottage Gardens, Queens, 

 N. Y., June 11 and 12, instead of on 

 the dates originally set. The postpone- 

 ment was due to cold weather retarding 

 the peonies. 



In England they have devised a new 

 way of recognizing men's merit. A sum 

 is to be raised by subscription to pay a 

 leading artist for painting a portrait of 

 Harry J. Veitch to hang in the rooms 

 of the Eoyal Horticultural Society. 



Charles W. Johnson, secretary of 

 the Chrysanthemum Society of America, 

 has mailed to members the annual report 

 of that organization, including minutes 

 of the meeting held at Chicago, Novem- 

 ber 7, 1908, the review of the work of 

 the committee on seedlings for the sea- 

 son, a list of varieties disseminated in 

 1908, numbering 139, and the list of 

 members, numbering 128. The report 

 shows there are two affiliated societies, 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 and the Lenox Horticultural Society. 



THURSDAY MORNING'S MAIL. 



The Eeview is printed Wednesday 

 evening, but the mail on Thursday morn- 

 ing is frequently among the most inter- 

 esting of the week. Usually there are 

 some good sized advertisements in it, 

 that missed connections by twenty-four 

 hours. Frequently there is a choice news 

 item, that the editor would gladly have 

 paid "press rate" telegraph charges on 

 to have got it Wednesday noon. Then, 

 again, there is the letter of the man who 

 says, ' ' Stop my advertisement ; the plants 

 are all sold." A wire, sent at the time 

 the letter was written, would have 

 stopped the advertisement; it would have 

 saved subscribers the disappointment of 

 ordering stock already sold, and it would 

 have saved the advertiser the trouble of 

 replying to those who order stock he can 

 no longer supply — for no man with re- 

 gard for his reputation will neglect to 

 reply promptly to such orders. 



Anxious as the Eeview is to secure ad- 

 vertisements to go in, it is even more 

 anxious to cut out those that have served 

 their purpose. But advertisers should 

 speak in time. The Eeview is printed 

 Wednesday evening. Attention will be 

 given all orders received up to the hour 

 of going to press, but, with from eighty 

 to 100 pages each week, the actual hour 

 of going to press with diff'erent forms 



is spread over half a day; it frequently 

 is possible to insert an advertisement in 

 a form not closed, after it has become 

 impossible to drop one from a form 

 closed up. Advertisers should make it a 

 point to see that any instructions reach 

 the Eeview Monday or Tuesday, if pos- 

 sible. At a pinch, Wednesday morning 

 will do, but there is nothing more futile 

 than a letter that gets delivery Thursday. 



WAY DOWN EAST. 



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. 



Please discontinue our advertisements In the 

 Review. We are sold out and had to refuse 

 orders.— A. H. Craig & Son, Strantham, N. H. 



We were pleased to receive some good orders 

 the first week our advertisement appeared in the 

 Review.— W. G. Moulton & Son, York Village. 

 Maine. 



DUTY ON ROSE PLANTS. 



At the annual convention of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen at Eoch- 

 ester, June 9, Irving Eouse, chairman of 

 the nurserymen's committee on tariff, 

 having just returned from Washington, 

 reported that certain rates of duty had 

 ' ' practically been agreed upon. ' ' Among 

 these he stated to be a duty of 4 cents 

 each on rose plants, whether budded, 

 grafted or grown on their own roots. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week and the first part of the 

 present one afforded a striking contrast 

 to the conditions which prevailed in the 

 three days preceding Memorial day. 

 After a rush which overtaxes the market, 

 there almost always is a reaction, and this 

 time it has been much more severe than 

 usual. In fact, last week will go on 

 record as an exceptionally dull one for 

 the first week of June, ordinarily one of 

 the best months of the year. The carna- 

 tion growers, especially, will grumble, 

 with reason. So precipitate a decline in 

 carnations has never been known in this 

 market, and seldom have averages been 

 lower than they were for the week which 

 ended June 6. It only is to be hoped 

 that this week's average may not be 

 worse; the early days of the week af- 

 forded little hope of improvement, for 

 the buyers who would clean up a lot have 

 been making their own prices; they did 

 not hesitate to offer 5 cents a bunch for 

 stock they gladly paid $4 per hundred 

 for May 28. For ten days it has been 

 impossible to clean up all the carnations 

 at any price, and there has been consider- 

 able waste ; even the street fakers refused 

 anything but a pretty fair grade of 

 goods. 



The rose market has fared slightly bet- 

 ter, though, of course, prices have been 

 low. The wedding and commencement 

 business has caused something of an in- 

 crease in the demand for Beauty and 

 Eichmond. The price of the best Beau- 

 ties even has advanced, and good Eich- 

 monds hold the regular value. Killarney 

 is the most abundant of other roses, and 

 is in excellent shape, but selling cheaply 

 if the buyer Lakes a quantity. Bride 

 shows the effects of a few warm days, 

 and with some growers is so poor as to 

 be entirely unsalable. Kaiserin is now 

 being cut by many, and is much the bet- 

 ter rose. Maid is better than Bride, but 

 Killarney is preferred to it. A reduction 

 in supply of both carnations and roses is 



