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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JuLT 15, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT. Editob and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVEEy THUESDAT BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



030-560 Caxton Building, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicaso. 



Telephone, Haekison 6429. 



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New Yoek Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. T. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manageb. 



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 

 ■trictly 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 8, 

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

 Kt of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



80CIETT OF AMEBICAir FL0BIST8. 



INCOBPOBATED BY ACT OF CONQBESS MaBCH 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, C, August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 74. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— Value of Stems and Foliage 3 



— A Run of Funeral Work (illus.) 4 



— Prizes for Customers 4 



— Decorating Automobiles 4 



Violets— Salt in Manure 5 



Time to Flower Bulbs 6 



A Semi-Double Shasta Daisy (lUus.) 6 



Useful Herbaceous Plants 6 



Stock in a Retail Place (lUus.) 7 



Decorating the Greensward 8 



— Summer Bedding . . . . ; 8 



Harry Turner (portrait) 8 



Tbrlps on Mums 9 



Notes on the Peony 



— Peony DucUesse de Nemours (illus.) 9 



— Peony Lady Derby 9 



— Paeonla Wittmannlana 9 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lorraine Begonias.. 10 



— Crotons and Dracaenas 10 



— Fancy-leaved Caladlums 10 



— Cyclamens 10 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 10 



Japanese Iris 11 



Potbound Sprengeri 11 



Orchids — Dendroblums 11 



— Odontoglossum I'ulcbellum (illus.) 11 



Vallota Purpurea 12 



Business and Other Notes 12 



Obituary — Herbert Heller (portrait) 13 



Buffalo 13 



Chicago 15 



St. Louis 18 



Denver 19 



Cincinnati 20 



De Haven, Pa 21 



Milwaukee 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Columbus, Ohio 24 



New York 2.5 



Mertensla Virginlca 27 



Vegetable Forcing 28 



— Radishes Under Glass 28 



Providence, R. 1 30 



Rochester, N. Y 31 



Steamer Sailings 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Specific Duties on Bulbs 36 



— Harvests to be Great 36 



— The Sioux City Concern 36 



— Imports 37 



Society of American Florists 38 



Boston 39 



Albany, N. Y 41 



Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 4jJ 



— San Francisco 42 



Nursery News 48 



— State Nursery Laws 48 



— Kalmia Latifolla 49 



LoulsviUe, Ky 60 



Drainage for Raised Benches 51 



Indianapolis 52 



Detroit 54 



Jacksonville, Fla o« 



Dayton, Ohio 58 



Gteenbouse Heating 66 



— Piping Two Houses 66 



Bar Harbor, Me 67 



Minneapolla 6° 



Lexington, Ky 68 



Mount Carroll, 111 70 



In Michigan 70 



Pittsburg ^2 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



"We both have them. 



There is still a good sale, for chrys- 

 anthemum plants. 



Don't wait until everyone has finished 

 benching carnations before you advertise 

 your surplus. 



Boston ferns in all sizes, but especially 

 the larger ones, are in even better demand 

 than usual at this date. 



The Senate version of the tariff bill, 

 so far as it affects horticultural im- 

 ports, will be found on page 36. 



A DUTY of $1 per thousand on tulip 

 bulbs should go some little way toward 

 encouraging the planting of the better 

 varieties, since it amounts to a substan- 

 tial reduction of cost. 



Charles H. Vick says Rochester de- 

 clared herself a year ago and is out for 

 the S. A. F. convention in 1910. A new 

 convention hall is being built, which will 

 allow all exhibits to be staged on the 

 ground floor and will also contain spa- 

 cious rooms for meetings. 



The sweet pea certainly merits the 

 consideration it is receiving. From many 

 cities has come the story that it was 

 among the best selling flowers as long as 

 the winter crop was on, and now from 

 some markets comes the report that noth- 

 ing sells better than the outdoor peas. 



It will pay growers to follow special 

 articles in the Review with advertise- 

 ments of the plants under notice. Unless 

 the advertising columns contain offers of 

 the plants mentioned, almost every article 

 brings the editor inquiries from readers 

 who want to know where the stock ia to 

 be had. 



The July crop report of the govern- 

 ment, with its promise of banner crops 

 of all cereals, affords every assurance 

 of a i)rosperous season to come. Wealth 

 on the farm is generally considered to 

 mean good general business, of which the 

 florists always get their share. The fig- 

 ures of the crop report will be found on 

 page 36. 



WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN. 



A wave of protest is rolling on Wash- 

 ington from all parts of the country as a 

 result of the proposed tax upon the net 

 earnings of corporations, but there is no 

 line of business in which the proposed 

 tax will be more unequal and unjust than 

 in the florists', seed and nursery trades. 

 There are a large number of incorporated 

 concerns engaged in these lines, but prac- 

 tically all of them are family affairs; 

 tliere are almost no corporations of the 

 many in the horticultural trades in which 

 the stock issue is in the hands of the gen- 

 eral public. These horticultural corpora- 

 tions are virtually partnerships, and their 

 competitors that actually are partner- 

 ships and have no stock issue will not be 

 subject to the law or the tax. The big 

 corporations that are called trusts oppose 

 the proposed law because it gives the 

 government the authority to inquire into 

 their ways of conducting business. Prob- 

 ably no florist is specially opposed to let- 

 ting Uncle Sam know how his books 

 stand, but there is neither right nor jus- 

 tice in further taxing the incorporated 

 ■greenhouse firms and letting the equally 

 large and prosperous partnerships go. 



Every incorporated florist, seed and 

 nursery concern should write at once to 

 the congressman representing its district, 

 protesting against this unequal taxation. 



DON'T LET STOCK STAND. 



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 my adv.; it was a ripper; I am sold 

 out, but you will bear from me again. — A. T. 

 Linn, Lock No. 4. Pa., July 11, 19(». 



Those who have Boston ferns, field- 

 grown carnation plants, chrysanthemum 

 plants or other seasonable stock will find 

 a good market if they make their offers 

 known in the Review. 



MIDSUMMER WEATHER. 



The government weather bureau tells 

 the following tale of the temperature 

 and tempests: 



The cool weather that set in during the 

 latter part of the preceding week con- 

 tinued over most districts during the 

 greater part of the week ending July 13, 

 the only section not included in the above 

 being the lower Mississippi valley and 

 the southern portion of the great plains 

 region, where, during the latter part of 

 the week, the temperatures were generally 

 high. As a rule the temperatures in- 

 creased slightly as the week advanced, 

 and at its close they were about normal 

 in all northern and western districts, and 

 decidedly above normal in the middle 

 Mississippi valley and portions of the 

 southwest. The mean temperatirre for 

 the week was above normal by a small 

 amount in the upper lake region and by 

 a large amount over the lower Mississippi 

 valley and thence westward over the 

 southern portion of the great plains and 

 southern Rocky Mountain plain region, 

 and at a few points in California. Over 

 the remaining districts the average tem- 

 perature for the week was below normal. 

 Maximum temperatures were above 90 

 degrees generally over the southern half 

 of the country. Over the gredt agricul- 

 tural districts the night temperatures 

 ranged generally from 55 to /5 degrees. 

 Frequent local showers characterized the 

 weather of the week over the Missouri, 

 the middle Mississippi and Ohio valleys 

 and portions of the east Gulf states. 



Falls of rain occurred July 7 and 8 in 

 portions of western Missouri, southern 

 and western Iowa, southeastern South 

 Dakota and the eastern portions of Ne- 

 braska and Kansas, the amounts ranging 

 from three to more than thirteen inches. 

 Local heavy floods resulted in smaller 

 streams of those districts, and there were 

 sudden and decided rises in the lower 

 Missouri and its larger tributaries in the 

 states mentioned. A number of lives 

 were lost and heavy local damage resulted 

 to crops in the region affected. 



There were some unusually heavy rains 

 for the season and locality from the 

 Rocky Mountains westward over large 

 portions of Montana, Idaho, Washington 

 and Oregon. 



The week was practically rainless over 

 a large portion of the Appalachian 

 Mountain region from Maryland north- 

 ward, and only light showers occurred 

 over the southern portions of Florida. 

 West of the Mississippi river there was 

 little or no rain in large portions of 

 Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and 

 Texas, although some heavy showers oc- 

 curred in the Panhandle region and mid- 

 Rio Grande valley of the last named 

 states. There was generally excess of 

 sunshine in the cotton growing states, 

 except in the states of the South Atlantic 

 coast, and there was the decided lack of 

 rain in states west of the Mississippi 

 river. 



