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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 29, 1009. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqxb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530-560 Caxton BuildinK, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



■kgistbrbd cablb address, flokvikw, 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-ottice at Chicago. 111., under the 

 »ct of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



iNCOBPOtlATED BY ACT OF CONOBBSS MABCH 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 74. 



CONTENTS. 



The Uctall Florist 3 



— Schroeter's Decorated Auto (illus.) 3 



— Natural Forms in Designing 3 



— Calvin on Crepe Chasing (illus. ) 4 



— The Sioux City Gates (Illus.) 4 



Aster Disease 4 



Outdoor Lllluni Candidum 5 



Transplanting Asparagus i* 



Bougaiiivlileas 6 



Carnations— Great Expectations (illus.) C 



— Carnation Notes — Kast 6 



— Carnation Notes — West 7 



Roses — Care of the Young Stock 8 



— Rose Viscountess Folkestone (Illus.) 8 



— Black Spot on Beauties S 



— Beauties a Second Season 9 



Building Concrete Benches (illus.) J> 



Seasonable Suggestions — Mignonette 10 



— Callas 10 



— Polnsettias 11 



— Scented Geraniums 11 



— Antirrhinums 11 



Livingston's Lilies (Illus.) 11 



Ferns — Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Insects in Fern House 12 



Compost for Bedding Plants 12 



Obituary— John R. Hellenthal (portrait) 12 



— Thomas C. Thurlow (portrait) 13 



American Rose Society 33 



Society of American Florists 14 



To Non-Members 14 



Hotels in Cincinnati 14 



Chicago 14 



Cincinnati 19 



Lima. Ohio 20 



Detroit 21 



Philadelphia 22 



St. I^uis 24 



Newport, R. 1 25 



New York 26 



EvansvUle, Ind 28 



Pittsburg 28 



Washington 30 



Louisville. Ky 30 



Providence. R. I •. 31 



Seed Trade News— Grower's Suit Settled :{4 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 3i 



—The Clarlnda Seed Shop 36 



— Burpee's New Spencer Peas 36 



—Leonard's Trial Grounds 36 



— I'ncle Sam's Trial Grounds 37 



Lexington. Ky 43 



Nursery News— Pacific Coast Nurserymen... 48 



— Green-Striped Maple Worm 48 



— Some Useful Viburnums 48 



Beatrice. Neb 49 



Vegetable Forcing— Tomatoes and Cucumbers 50 



Pacific Coast— Sweet Peas in California.... HO 



—California Paper Whites RO 



— -.San Francisco 51 



—^Spokane. Wash 51 



Dayton, Olilo 54 



Minneapolis 66 



Columbus. Ohio 58 



Indianapolis • • • ^^ 



(;reenhouse Heating— Capacity of Boiler 65 



—An Illinois Rose House 65 



— An I'nderground Flow 66 



—Knocking of the Pipes 66 



—Heat for a Show Room 68 



Baltimore J5 



MoUne, 111 70 



Newport '^ 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Now is the time to sell your surplus of 

 field grown carnation plants. Don't wait 

 until everybody's wants are supplied be- 

 fore you oflfer your stock. 



C. C. PoLLWORTH says the flower busi- 

 ness has come to be an all-the-year-round 

 affair, at least in Milwaukee; something 

 doing every day, even in midsummer. 



It speaks well for the general condi- 

 tion of the trade that the present sum- 

 mer season has seen so few business 

 failure, none of importance having thus 

 far come to light. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



A Word From President Valentine. 



I hope each member of the society is 

 not only planning to attend the coming 

 convention in Cincinnati, but that he is 

 doing his best to secure a good delega- 

 tion from his vicinity. Come yourself 

 and bring your friends, whether they be- 

 long to the society or not. After you 

 get them there, call for help if necessary 

 to induce them to join and we will fur- 

 nish you spellbinders who will complete 

 the work you have begun. Someone will 

 be at Secretary Budd's desk all the time 

 with a welcome smile for the new mem- 

 ber and a receipt for his money. 



The Cincinnati contingent are taking 

 great pride in the fact that their city 

 has been selected as the place for the 

 twenty-fifth convention and their plans 

 show that they are bound all visitors 

 shall have a good time. The hall for 

 the meetings is a perfect gem of a tiny 

 theater. Nothing could be better for 

 the purpose, and space has been provided 

 for the largest trade exhibit ever seen 

 at one of our conventions. 



The sports committee is wild to re- 

 ceive your entries. No matter whether 

 you have a good bowling team or a poor 

 one, get into line with it and show how 

 game you are. Denver is going to send 

 five bum bowlers just to show that a 

 little matter of 3,000 miles round trip 

 cannot keep her fiorists from getting into 

 the game. Don 't hold back and say it 

 is too hot, for that is a poor excuse for 

 a man to make, when if he stays at home 

 he will be wheeling out soil from a house 

 where the mercury marks 120 degrees. 

 The Cincinnati crowd promise you sev- 

 eral occupations more pleasant than that. 



No matter how small your business, 

 you simply cannot afford to stay away. 

 Remember that the big fellow can go to 

 visit good growers one by one if he pre- 

 fers, but the chance for the small grow- 

 ers to pick up a few good points at small 

 expense is at these conventions, and then 

 when you get there, just look around and 

 see how many of the big ones make 

 money by doing the same thing. 



Step to the telephone right now and 

 ask a lot of the fellows to come down- 

 town tonight and talk it over and see if 

 you cannot bring a good crowd with you. 



Yours for a big convention, 



J. A. Valentine, President. 



TO NON-MEMBERS. 



To all florists who contemplate visit- 

 ing Cincinnati during the convention of 

 the Society of American Florists and 

 who are not members of the national so- 

 ciety notice is given that it will be abso- 

 lutely necessary, upon your arrival in 

 Cincinnati, to go to the headquarters of 



the Cincinnati Florists' Society, at the 

 Sinton hotel. Fourth and Vine streets, 

 and register. You will then receive a 

 ticket which will admit you to the trade 

 exhibit at Horticultural hall, where you 

 will again register with the secretary of 

 the Cincinnati Florists' Society, who will 

 provide you with tickets, badges, etc., 

 for the various entertainments. 



Albert Sunderbruch, Secretary. 



HOTELS IN CINCINNATI. 



The following hotels are recommended 



by the Cincinnati Florists' Society: 



Name. Plan. Rate per day. 



*Glbson House. ... European ....$1.50 and up 



tThe Sinton Kuropean .... 1.50 and up 



The Havlln European .... 1.50 and up 



Burnett House. ... American .... 3.00 



St. Nicholas (European .... 1.50 and np 



Palace European .... 1.00 and up 



Palace American 2.00 to $3.60 



Emery European .... 1.00 and up 



Honing European .... 1.00 and up 



Lackman European .... 1.00 and up 



Gerdes European .... 1.00 and np 



Rand European 75 and op 



Stag European 76 and up 



Bristol European 50 and np 



Munro European .... 1.25 and up 



Alms American .... 3.00 



Thomas European 60 and up 



•Headquarters for the S. A. F. 

 tlleadquarters for the Cincinnati Florists' So- 

 ciety. 



These hotels have contributed to the 



entertainment fund of the Cincinnati 



Florists' Society. 



SKUNKED. 



Occasionally we hear of someone who 

 cannot do without this or that, but 1 

 always have my misgivings as to the 

 sincerity of such statements. To illus- 

 trate my point, permit me to encroach 

 on your valuable time to the extent of 

 this narrative: A Frenchman, during 

 the heated discussions of the silver ques- 

 tion in 1906, was brought together with 

 an able antagonist, who argued that if 

 the government wanted to it could do 

 anything. "Yes," the Frenchman ex- 

 claimed, "and I could eat skunk, but I 

 don't want to." So it is with me: I 

 could get along without the Eeview, but 

 I don't want to, so please send it right 

 along for the next year, for which find 

 enclosed money-order for $1. — Carl L. 

 Roethke, Saginaw, Mich., July 24, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



On the whole, business is excellent con 

 sidering that this is the last week in 

 July. Not all the wholesale houses will 

 subscribe to this statement, because 8om<' 

 of them find their supplies have dwindled 

 until they have only a mere handful of 

 stock, not enough to permit them to d( 

 much business. In other houses the Sup 

 ply of summer stock is greater than it 

 has been in previous years. In general, 

 quality is below what it usually is ii' 

 summer, but there is suflicient deman*! 

 to make good business in the houses that 

 have the stock. 



Carnations continued in the dumps for 

 a long time, but there was an improve 

 ment noted in last week's report and 

 the present week finds carnations gooi! 

 property once more. The best stock com 

 ing in has been bought on sight at 2 

 cents and almost any sort of carnation 

 has been salable this week at what would 

 have been considered splendid prices only 

 a short time ago. The change of course 

 is due to the fact that practically all the 

 growers are prosecuting the work of re 

 planting their houses, and the supply is 



