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The Weekly Florists' Review# 



July 1, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



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Advertislngr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



AdTertisfements 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 8, 

 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 FL0BIST8. 



INCOBPOBATED BY ACT OF CONOBSSS MaBCH 4. '01 



Officers for 1009: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, B. G. Oillett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1000. 



iin>£a: to advektiseks, page 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florists— Bohaniions Home(lUus.) 3 



— Dllticultles iu Design Work 3 



— Taft's Home In Window (Illus.) 4 



— Popular Prices Pay 4 



— The Pillow (Illus.) 4 



— Decorating Vehicles 4 



Outdoor Cut Flowers 4 



The Cobweb Plant 5 



A Ventilation Wrinkle r. 



Cosmos Lady Lenox 



Freeslas 



California Lily Bulbs (Illus.) « 



German Iris Disease 7 



Hardy Yellow Qarnatlon 7 



Future of the Peony— More Field Notes 8 



— Peony Albert Crousse (Illus.) S 



— Peony Asa Gray (Illus.) 8 



Lily of thi! Valley— Outdoor Valley !• 



Pecky Cypress 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gardenias 10 



— Stephanotls Florlbunda 10 



— Eucharls Amazonica 10 



— Polnsettlas 10 



— Winter Geraniums 10 



The Mrs. Lawrence Geranium (Illus.) 11 



Spanish Iris 11 



Asparagus Sprengerl 11 



New Forcing Plant (Illus.) 11 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 12 



— English Grower's Notes 12 



— Soil for the Benches 12 



— American Carnation Society 12 



Sweet Pea Society 12 



Hollyhock Blight 14 



Chicago 14 



Milwaukee 18 



New York 18 



Boston 20 



Providence. R. 1 22 



Philadelphia . . 24 



Pittsburg 28 



New Orleans 28 



Wayside Notes 28 



Detroit 29 



Cincinnati 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News — ^Grass Seed Association.... 40 



— President Robinson (portrait) 40 



— The First Vice (portrait) 41 



— Niagara Falls Convention 41 



— Seed Trade Association (portrait) 40 



— F. W. Bolglano (portrait) 42 



— Cabbage 44 



Vegetable Forcing — Lettuce 48 



Nursery News — Scale on Shrubs 50 



— Propagation of Hydrangeas .50 



— Disease of Peach Foliage 50 



— Park Pictures , 50 



— Fungus on Currants 50 



— Pruning Flowering Shrubs 51 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 52 



— Spokane, Wash 52 



Rochester, N. Y 54 



Lexington, Ky 60 



Greenhouse Heating — Capacity of Boiler 70 



: — A Small House 70 



— Houses at Right Angles 70 



— A Conical Heater 70 



St. Louis 71 



Louisville. Ky 74 



Columbus. Ohio 76 



KESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. , 

 We both have them. 



The use of flowers at commencements! 

 is on the decline. 



A SWEATSHOP? Nobody expects the 

 greenhouse to be anything else in hot 

 weather. 



Be a good collector; you may lose a 

 little business now and then, but you 

 will have more money and more peace if 

 you watch credits and push collections. 



The New Orleans correspondent chron- 

 icles the determination of the promoters 

 of the Society of Southern Florists to let 

 the organization lapse because of lack of 

 support. 



Lyman B. Craw, of Lord & Burnham 

 Co., is convalescing after the severe sur- 

 gical operation recently undergone, but 

 will not resume business cares before 

 autumn. 



Get a printed letter-head; some of 

 the best firms in the trade do not allow 

 wholesale prices to those whose connec- 

 tion with the business is not apparent 

 by their stationery. 



Queen Victoria, of all peonies used 

 for cut flowers for market, is planted in 

 largest numbers. It is not argued that 

 Queen Victoria is the best white peony, 

 but certainly no other excels it in the 

 qualities necessary for cold storage. 



SELLS ANYTHING. 



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. 



One Insertion of my For Sale advertisement 

 In the Review brought a buyer for my green- 

 bouse establishment; I think there Is no paper 

 like the Review. — C. R. Young, New Portage, 0. 



Please stop my advertisement in the Want 

 department. I have sold the boiler to the 

 one who answered first, and from the number 

 of replies that I got I could have sold it a 

 dozen times over. — M. B. Schreiber, McDonald, 

 Pa., June 28, 1909. 



Omit Elegantissima from our advertisement; 

 we had a surprisingly large call for plants on 

 account of that little adv. — Truitt's Greenhouses, 

 Chanute. Kan., June 28, 1909. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs J. M. Jordan. 



Annie Brill Jordan, widow of the late 

 J. M. Jordan, of St. Louis, died June 22, 

 at Omaha, Neb., where she recently had 

 been living with a son. She was 75 years 

 of age. J. M. Jordan was president of 

 the S. A. F. in 1890, and Mrs. Jordan 

 was well known to the older element in 

 the society. 



CORRECTION. 



Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., ask 

 the correction of an error which appeared 

 in the copy for their advertisement 

 printed on page 63* of the June 17 issue 

 of the Review; viz.: Brassovola Digby- 

 ana should read plants with five to six 

 bulbs, $9.00 per dozen, $60.00 per hun- 

 dred. 



HOLLYHOCK BLIGHT. 



What is the best remedy for holly- 

 hock blight, or rustf Bordeaux, as I 

 make it, does not seem to do much good. 

 I am trying sulphur now. S. J. G. 



I doubt if there is any real cure for 

 the hollyhock disease, once it has a start. 

 Some growers seem to think that Bor- 



deaux mixture, if sprayed on before the 

 disease appears, will act as a preventive, 

 and I agree with them. When spraying, 

 a common error is to wet the upper in- 

 stead of the lower leaf surface. It is on 

 the latter that the disease germs start. 

 Ammoniacal carbonate of copper and 

 permanganate of potash have each been 

 tried with success as a preventive. 



On the first appearance of diseased 

 plants pull them up and burn them, or 

 at least remove affected leaves. Spray 

 before you see any signs of blight and 

 you may save your plants, although holly- 

 hock culture is at best something of a 

 lottery of late years. C. W. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central MarkeU 



A week of continued high temperatures 

 has brought the market nearly to the 

 usual midsummer status. Last week 

 there continued to be large receipts of 

 all kinds of seasonable stock. The qual- 

 ity generally was rapidly deteriorating, 

 because of the weather conditions, and so 

 far as prices went last week was the 

 worst of the year to date. 



This week some improvement is noted. 

 The supply of roses is slightly reduced, 

 but the quality of the greater part of the 

 stock is so extremely poor that it has no 

 selling value and can only be jobbed oflf. 

 The supply of really good roses is not 

 large and it appears that the country 

 buyers also find most of the roses poor 

 in their own communities; a large num- 

 ber who have been getting along with 

 local supplies are again calling on this 

 market for good roses. 



Beauties continue in large supply, al- 

 tljough there , is prediction that it will 

 not be many days before the receipts are 

 considerably reduced. Several houses are 

 cutting excellent stock and, because of 

 the low price, it is moving fairly well, 

 leading stores using Beauties in quantity. 

 It is said that never before in June have 

 Beauties been so plentiful, so good and 

 so cheap, with the result that many 

 buyers who have not heretofore used 

 Beauties have become regular buyers. 



Of other roses, Killarney easily holds 

 the lead, although its leadership is be- 

 ginning to be challenged in one or two 

 houses where My Maryland is coming 

 in nicely. Of white roses, Kaiserin is 

 the only really salable article. Rich- 

 mond is in little demand since summer 

 came. 



The carnations are steadily going down 

 hill. With most growers the stock is 

 small and soft, but there are a few who 

 still retain size. At this season the car- 

 nation ceases to be the important ship- 

 ping flower that it is during the cool 

 weather. It will not be long before 

 growers throw out carnations. 



The peony season came to a sudden 

 end, receipts practically ceasing June 

 23; the sudden wave of extreme heat 

 popped the flowers open so fast the cut- 

 ters could not save them. There are 

 large quantities in storage. The owners 

 generally have been pulling out the stock 

 which does not appear to have keeping 

 quality, and have been jobbing it off at 

 any price they could get. Most of the 

 houses assert that so far as their own 

 stock goes, they have nothing left but 

 entirely dependable goods, but each one 

 admits the other fellows have still in the 

 freezer considerable quantities of doubt- 

 ful keeping quality. Prices now range 

 up to 50 cents, with a few selected 



