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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 17, 1009. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



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SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



INOOBPOBATED BY ACT OV CONaBXSS MABCH 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 Bnrg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, C, August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



IITDSX TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



American Peony Society — Meeting at Queens 3 



— C. W. Ward (portrait) 3 



— Peony Festlva Maxima (illus.) 4 



— Peony M. Jules Elle (lUus. ) 5 



— Peony Society '« Test Collection (Ulus.).. 6 



— Peonies in the West (Ulus.) 6 



— Tlie Peony « 



— Peony Decoration ( Ulus. ) 7 



The Retail Ploristfi— Wedding Bouquets (Ulus.) 8 



— Difficulties In Spray Making 8 



Seasonable Suggestions — Smllax 10 



— Asparagus Sprengerl 10 



— Asters 10 



— Lilies 10 



— Show Pelargoniums 10 



— Greenhouse Repairs 10 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 11 



— Feeding In the Field 11 



Height of Solid Beds 11 



Orchids — Cyprlpedlum Insigne 11 



Adiantums 12 



Business and Other Notes 12 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions 13 



— A Nebraska Plant (Ulus.) 13 



— Creosote In Greenhouse Wood 13 



Convention Bowling 14 



Pinching Dahlia Tops 14 



Plant Bed Cloth 14 



Chicago 14 



Cincinnati 18 



Boston 20 



Temple Show Awards 22 



Erie, Pa 23 



Aphis on Cinerarias 23 



Feverfew for Memorial Day 23 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 26 



Providence, R. 1 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News — Imports 37 



— Dutch Bulb Trade :i7 



— Sweet Pea Society 38 



— Iowa Seed I,aw Unpopular .38 



St. Louis 39 



Pacific Coast — Budded Roses in Pots 48 



— San Francisco 48 



— Growing Bamboo In Chlco 49 



Nursery News 50 



— Stannard and Stark (portraits) 50 



— The Rochester Convention (Ulus.) !50 



— Grower and the Retailer 52 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables... 52 



— F'orclng Strawberries 52 



Bailer's Peonies .53 



Indianapolis 56 



Milwaukee 57 



Cleveland .58 



Pittsburg 60 



Islington. Ky 62 



I>enox. Mass 64 



Detroit 66 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Heating Hints 76 



— House In Cold Climate 70 



— Tank on Tower 77 



Amherst. Mass 77 



Springfield. Ohio 78 



Ix>ulsvllle, Ky 79 



Glen Cove, N. Y 79 



Utica, N. Y SO 



New Bedford. Mass 82 



Columbus. Ohio 84 



RESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. — 



Collections generally are reported 

 good, 80 go after your money; it will 

 come slow in July and August. 



A HANDSOME casket cover seen last 

 week was made of white peonies with a 

 spray of pink peonies across the center 

 to lie on top of the casket. 



It took more than half a century to 

 work up adequate stocks of that grand 

 peony, Festiva Maxima, but there are 

 all the indications that at length ade- 

 quacy has been achieved. 



John G. Esler, secretary of the Flo- 

 rists' Hail Association, states that within 

 the last ten days he has been notified of 

 hail losses that will amount to $5,000. 

 The association is in position to make 

 payment as promptly as proper proof of 

 loss is supplied. 



Elmer D. Smith has said that of all 

 plants on which a grower may wish to 

 keep up-to-date, the peony is the hardest 

 of which to select new sorts. The reason 

 he had in mind is that it takes at least 

 three years to bring a small peony plant 

 to a strength of growth where the flower 

 will show its true character. 



THE BEST OF EVIDENCE. 



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. 



Cut out our geranium advertisement; it has 

 done the business. — Hopkins & Hopkins, Che- 

 pachet, R. I., June 14, 1909. 



I'lease omit my advertisements of vlncas and 

 dracaenas, for they have sold them all. — Dana R. 

 Herron, Oleon, N. Y., June 13, 1909. 



My stock Is run down lower than ever, sales 

 double those of last year, and the Review gets 

 the credit for the larger share of the Increase. — 

 J. L. Moore, Nra-thboro, Mass., June 13, 1900. 



Please discontinue our advertisement, as we 

 are completely sold out. This has convinced my 

 proprietor that nobody else can sell as quick as 

 the Review does. — H. J. Potomkln, Mgr., Forest 

 City, Iowa, June 14, 1909. 



CONVENTION BOWLING. 



Some time ago President J. A. Valen- 

 tine appointed E. F. Winterson, of Chi- 

 cago, as manager of the S. A, F. conven- 

 tion sports at Cincinnati in August, with 

 power to select his own associates on the 

 committee. Mr. Winterson called upon 

 C. E. Critchell and E. G. Gillett, of Cin- 

 cinnati, to act with him. The Grand al- 

 leys have been secured for the men's 

 bowling contests. The ladies' bowling 

 will take place at Old Heidelberg, in 

 Kentucky, and will be in the nature of 

 an outing. Luncheon will be served at 

 both places. At the Grand alleys there 

 are eight good alleys, clean, light and 

 airy. 



Mr. Winterson has received offers of a 

 number of prizes for the bowling, and 

 would like to hear from others who wish 

 to donate trophies. He does not want 

 big, expensive cups, but prefers instead 

 to oflfer a large number of not costly 

 prizes, so that as many as possible of the 

 participants can carry home a memento 

 of the occasion. 



PINCHING DAHLIA TOPS. 



On page 7 of the Review of June 3, 

 in answer to an inquiry regarding dah- 

 lias, C W. gives some advice which is 

 excellent if applied to certain varieties, 

 but which would be bad if applied indis- 

 criminately to all dahlias. The portion I 

 take exception to reads as follows: 



"When the shoot is eight to twelve 

 inches high, pinch out its top. ' ' This 

 treatment of dahlias is as old, almost, 

 as the history of the dahlia itself, bur 

 the treatment should be applied to tall 

 growing varieties only. If applied ti 

 dwarf varieties, or varieties of a natu 

 rally spreading habit, its effect would b. 

 decidedly injurious, as it would only 

 serve to aggravate a habit, almost ;■, 

 fault in itself, by making the plant stil! 

 more squatty in its appearance. 



I have found no necessity for pinch 

 ing tops from any variety under a natu- 

 ral height of three feet. Such varieties 

 as Frank Smith, Gi-and Duke Alexis, and 

 in fact all tall growers, are benefited by 

 pinching, but such varieties as Countess 

 of Lonsdale, Standard Bearer, etc., would 

 be injured. I take it that these pointh 

 are so self-evident that further commeni 

 is unnecessary. W. W. Wilmore. 



PLANT BED CLOTH. 



Has anyone had any experience in 

 growing early plants under plant bed 

 cloth? How do the plants compare with 

 those grown under glass? J. L. J. 



Plant bed cloth can be used over 

 frames in some cases to advantage, where 

 not enough sashes are to be had. The 

 kinds of plants that will stand the most 

 cold are covered with the cloth, using the 

 sashes over the young or tender plants. 

 Regular glass sashes are much to be pre- 

 ferred. H. G. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Two points of view might be consid- 

 ered in relation to the market in the last 

 week. From the growers' standpoint it 

 was an extremely poor week; indeed, the 

 growers unreservedly pronounce it bad, 

 and some even say the worst June week 

 they ever have known. From the point 

 of view of those interested in the quan- 

 tity of stock passed on to the public, and 

 in the money volume of sales, it was not 

 so bad. Prices may have been at the bot- 

 tom, but the quantity of the stock moved 

 was so enormous that the wholesale houscH 

 found each day gave a total comparing 

 well with last year, while the public must 

 certainly have bought many flowers. The 

 leading retailers report only an average 

 June business. There are many wed- 

 dings, but these call for only a trifling 

 quantity of stock as compared with the 

 general receipts. Most of the retailers 

 have done more in funeral flowers than 

 wedding work. By far the greater part 

 of the receipts have been jobbed off to 

 those who can move quantities when they 

 can name the price. 



For a few items there has been an ex 

 cellent demand. There have been so few 

 good Beauties that there has been skir- 

 mishing for supplies. Sweet peas are 8() 

 popular that the good ones, except the 

 Blanche Ferry color, have sold extremely 

 well. Richmond has been in good de- 

 mand, and there has been a fair call for 

 the better grades of Killarney. Bride i** 

 now generally so poor that Kaiserin is 

 good property. Valley has been sohl in 

 large quantity, but the supply has been 

 even greater than the demand. The 

 peony has been the popular flower for 

 decorations. Outside of these items the 

 demand has been negligible. The ship- 

 ping demand has been much better than 

 local trade. 



The carnation growers certainly had a 



