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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 5, 1900. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqxb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-060 Caxton Building. 



834 Dearborn Street, Cblcaso. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



kbgistbrkd cablr addrbss, plorview, chicago. 



New York OrFiCE: 



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 

 tr6m those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly tradfc 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, HI., under the 

 Bct of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incorporated by Act or Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1009. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Originality in Doslgiiing ." 



— Something Different .'> 



— The Prayer-Book Marker (lllus.) ii 



— Ethics of the Funeral Trnile ti 



— Washington Auto Parade li 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — Kast 7 



• — Carnation Notes — West 7 



— Thrlps X 



— Red Spider 8 



Old Forms of the Daisy (illus.j 8 



John Charlton (portrait) 9 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonahle Suggestions... 10 



—Leaf Spot on Mum.s 10 



—Black Fly on Mums 10 



Nephrolepls Pruessnerl (lllus.) 11 



Roses — Weak Running Wood 12 



— Care of the Young Stock 12 



• — Termites or White Ants 12 



Seasonable Suggestions — .\sters 12 



— Genistas 12 



-Variegated Vincas 13 



— Geraniums IH 



- — Hard-wooded Plants Vi 



— Annual Lupines 13 



Orchids — Dendroblum Euosmum (lllus.) 13 



—Seasonable Orchid Notes 13 



Convention Trophies H 



Obituary 14 



New York 14 



Chicago 16 



Denver 20 



Baltimore 21 



Medicine Hat, Can 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Boston 24 



Society of Amerlfan Florists 27 



Chrysanthemum Society 28 



American Carnation Society 29 



Indianapolis 32 



St. Louis -M 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— HarrlsU Bulbs 38 



- — California Crop Conditions 38 



— Beans are Beans 38 



—Peas With Canners 39 



—Onion in Ohio (lllus.) 40 



— New Tariff Friday 40 



— Defends the Men 42 



New Orleans 43 



Nursery News — Insects on Ash Leaves 48 



— Tree and Shrub Jottings 48 



Vegetable Forcing .'iO 



— Prize Taker Onion Sets 50 



I'aclflc Coast— Portland, Ore 50 



— San Francisco 51 



Washington 52 



New Bedford, Mass 52 



Pittsburg 54 



Lexington, Ky 56 



Detroit ' 58 



Greenhouse Heating — A Plant House 66 



— Four Connected Houses 66 



— Three Houses and Lean-to 66 



— From Steam to Hot Water 66 



Cincinnati 67 



Notes Along the Hudson 68 



Rochester, N. Y 70 



Buffalo 72 



Grand Rapids 74 



Kansas City 76 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The completed tariff bill, in so far as 

 it specially affects trade interests, will be 

 found on page 40. 



H. B. DoRNER, of Urbana, has been 

 mentioned as a candidate for secretary 

 i)t the S. A. ¥., to succeed W. N. Rudd. 



Friends of II. A. Bunyard are urging 

 him to allow the use of his name in con- 

 nection with the S. A. F. secretaryship. 



When you give a customer directions 

 as to the care of plants, do not speak of 

 liirt; dirt is what some florists have un- 

 der the greenhouse benches, but it is soil 

 that plants are grown in. 



The Review recently has received sev- 

 eral specimens of diseased or insect-in- 

 fe.sted plants with no accompanying let- 

 ter and nothing by which the identity of 

 the sender could be ascertained. 



The flower business is a rapid-fire 

 affair; celerity is an essential in the ex- 

 ecution of practically every order. But 

 that is no reason why a florist should 

 fail to place his own orders for supplies 

 as much in advance as possible. 



POLITICS WARM UP. 



New York, August 4. — The friends of 

 Harry A. Bunyard are circulating a paper 

 for signatures endorsing Mr. Bunyard 

 for secretary of the S. A. F. The names 

 at the head of the list are those of Pat- 

 rick O'Mara, F. R. Pierson, F. H. 

 Traendly, Harry Turner, John Young, 

 Will Rickards and C. H. Totty. 



RUDD TO RETIRE. 



W. N. Rudd became secretary of the 

 S. A. F. to fill a breach in the ranks. He 

 took the office without notice, and in the 

 middle of the period between conven- 

 tions. Last year he stood for reelection 

 because the best interests of the society 

 appeared, to a large number of members, 

 to demand his services for at least an- 

 other year. In another column of this 

 issue Mr. Rudd states that he will not be 

 a candidate for reelection, his personal 

 interests precluding his giving to the 

 office the attention it should have; and 

 anyone who knows Mr. Rudd knows that 

 it is not in him to give other than his 

 best efforts in any cause he may under- 

 take. 



The selection of a successor to Mr. 

 Rudd should have the most careful con- 

 sideration of the society, for on the sec- 

 retary rests the real responsibility for 

 the society's success. The Review does 

 not believe that it is within the province 

 of a trade publication to take part in 

 the politics of the national society of that 

 trade, but it counsels the careful selec- 

 tion of a secretary, and the choice of one 

 whose services can be retained for a 

 sufficient period to get the best work of 

 which the man may be capable; the 

 office of secretary is not one rwhich 

 should be filled with a new man at short 

 intenals. 



THE DUTY ON GLASS. 



We now shall hear much about the way 

 the tariff has been revised downward. 

 If all the reductions are as liberal as the 

 one on common window glass of the 

 greenhouse sizes, how long will the public 

 remain satisfied with the situation? 



Under the Dingley law, for the last 

 twelve years, the duty on greenhouse 

 glass was 1% cents per pound. Under 

 the new law it will be reduced % of a 



cent a pound, in case the value or the 

 glass is not more than 1% cents ngy 

 pound. If the price is above 1% rents 

 per pound the old rate of 1% cent; re- 

 mains on any size up to 384 s<(uare 

 inches, which lets in 16x24. 



The way a protectionist puts it is liig. 



"There are 6,700 skilled window :lass 

 workers in this country, all of whop are 

 members of organized labor, capabl of 

 producing annually 11,000,000 boxe of 

 window glass fifty square feet in ize. 

 The total importations have aver; ged 

 854,324 boxes. 



"The glassworkers were aniious not 

 only that the duties should not bi re- 

 duced, but that certain increases sL uid 

 be made. The American workman is ,>m 

 ployed only half the year, so that in the 

 opinion of the unions a greater coiirol 

 of the market should be enjoyed by the 

 factories. There is no doubt that the 

 Dingley tariff has been a great benefit 

 to the window glass workers, and without 

 it the industry would be at the mercy of 

 foreign manufacturers. It was the opin- 

 ion of congress, however, that a slight 

 reduction could be made without injury 

 to the industry or to the employees, and 

 this decision appears in the law." 



A whole eighth of a cent per pound re- 

 duction, sometimes! 



DOLLARS FOR PENNIES. 



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. 



We placed an advertisement of stevlas In the 

 Review for one week some time ago; we paid 

 20 cents for the advertisement and sold |9 

 worth of stock, so we are more than pleased.— 

 Star Greenhouse, Big Eaplds, Mich., July 29, 

 1909. 



Cut out Perles and Ivory roses and 3-lncli 

 Sprengerl from my advertisement; these are 

 all sold. Your paper does the business. — J. S. 

 Wilson, Des Moines, la., August 2, 1909. 



We shall have to ask you to discontinue our 

 advertisement for geraniums, as we have re- 

 ceived from It as many orders as we can fill. 

 You win hear from us again next year. — W. G. 

 Moulton & Son, York Village, Me., July 31, 1909. 



'The Annual Special Convention Num- 

 ber of the Review will be issued August 

 19. It will be the "Big Noise." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market is in a rather peculiar 

 position. There is an exceptionally good 

 shipping demand, generally reported bet- 

 ter than ever before in midsummti; 

 when the city stores buy it is largo !y 

 stock required to fill orders. The result 

 is that there is a fair demand from tho-e 

 who are willing to pay reasonable prii s 

 for the right grade of goods. And rig: t 

 there the demand stops. The buyers vio 

 are looked for to clean up the markrt 

 are doing little or nothing. In the sc.i- 

 son there are quite a number of buyt' '^^■ 

 who can use almost unlimited quantitie . 

 providing the quality is fair and tl v 

 buyer can name the price. These ope ■ 

 ators are now conspicuous by their a: 

 sence. The result is that with receip'^ 

 of stock of good summer quality consi- 

 erably in advance of the needs of th' 

 regular buyers, a considerable percental'' 

 of the receipts fail of sale. The wasi' 

 pulls down the average to a point whidi 

 gives the commission men much conceri- 



Beauties are not in large supply, br.t 

 it has been difficult to handle them sati'= 

 factorily the last few days, because tli-- 

 weather conditions have tended to makp 

 them open too quickly; neither grower, 

 wholesaler nor retailer could hold them 



