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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 12, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT. Editos and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED EVKBY THURSDAY BY 



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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 

 ■trictly tradt 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, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobporated by Act op Congeess Mabch 4. '01 



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

 Denver, Colo.; vloe-presldent, E. G. Glllett, 

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— PuUiam's Funeral Flow- 

 ers (lUus.) .') 



— Ideals in Designing 



— Funeral Flowers In Florida (illus.) (i 



— Making Good at a Plucli <i 



— A Street Display C 



Harrisii for Christmas 7 



iJeasonable Suggestions — Ficus Klastlca 7 



— Herbaceous Calceolarias 7 



— Primulas 7 



— Show Pelargoniums S 



— Smilax 8 



— Sclilzantbus Wisetonensls S 



— Paper Whites and Honiaus 8 



— Bulb Compost 8 



Another Concrete Bench (illus.) 8 



Blanche Ferry Spencer Pea (illus.) 9 



Cyclamen 9 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 10 



— Benches versus Solid Beds 10 



Orchids — Seasonable Orchid Notes 11 



— Dendrobium Scbneiderianum (llius.) 11 



Uoses — ^Dlsbudding 12 



— Care of Old Kose Plants 12 



— Kose Lamarque (illus. ) 12 



A Spokane Establishment (illus. ) 13 



The Oldest Potter (portrait) 13 



European Notes 13 



Slugs In a Lath House 14 



New Detroit Officers (portraits) 14 



Peonies 14 



Obituary 14 



Society of American Florists 16 



That Secretaryship 10 



Rochester Wants Convention 16 



A Word from Montreal 16 



American Rose Society 16 



Now for the Convention 16 



Omaha Florists' Outing (illus.) 17 



Chicago 18 



New York 22 



PhlUdelphla 26 



Detroit 28 



St. Louis 28 



Denver 30 



Outlook for Plant Breeding 31 



Boston 36 



Cincinnati 37 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Harrisii Bulbs 41 



— French Bulbs 41 



— The Snowflake Sweet Pea 41 



— Pea and Bean Crops 42 



— Beets Running to Seed 43 



— Onion Seed In Illinois (Illus.) 44 



— Sweet Peas 44 



Glen Cove, N. Y 47 



Nursery News — New York Nursery Law S2 



Vegetable Forcing — Pests in Cucumber House 54 

 Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 54 



— San Francisco 65 



Hartford, Conn 66 



Lexington, Ky 58 



Columbus, Ohio 60 



Des Moines, Iowa 62 



Milwaukee 64 



Greenhouse Heating 72 



Providence, R. 1 72 



Pltt^taJM 74 



Louisville. Vffftmi "^8 



Minneapolis 80 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



If the carnation plants are not yet on 

 the benches, see that they get there at 

 once. 



The cement trust has marked up prices 

 10 cents a bag, two advances of 5 cents 

 each having been made within a week. 



It is reported Edwin Lonsdale's 

 friends purpose proposing his name at 

 Cincinnati for secretary of the S. A. F, 



Field-grown carnation plants are in 

 good demand, in consequence of the un- 

 favorable season for growth in the field 

 • — too dry almost everywhere. 



The new customs duties on bulbs and 

 roots, in a majorty of cases making re- 

 ductions, went into eflfect Friday morn- 

 ing, August 6, in exact accordance with 

 the publication made on page 40 of the 

 Review for August 5. 



The better varieties of tulips cost less 

 for duty on the bulbs than they did 

 under the old law, which should work out 

 to the advantage of dealers and public in 

 this country, and also to the advantage 

 of the growers in Holland. 



There is one kind of plant insurance 

 that everyone who owns a greenhouse 

 sliould carry — a stock of insecticides con- 

 stantly on hand, ready for immediate 

 use, bearing in mind that "one ounce 

 of prevention is worth a pound of cure." 



When people send photographs to a 

 newspaper they should see to it that there 

 is something on the package by which the 

 sender can be identified. The Eeview 

 recently has received several photographs, 

 some of them portraits, with nothing 

 whatever by which they could be iden- 

 tified. 



The sixth annual meeting of the 

 American Breeders' Association is called 

 for December 8 to 10, at Omaha, Neb., in 

 association with the National Corn Show 

 held at that place December 6 to 18. A 

 program of addresses by prominent 

 breeders of live stock, prominent breed- 

 ers of plants, and scientists prominent in 

 the study of the heredity of plants, ani- 

 mals and men is being prepared. 



THE READERS' VIEW. 



The standing a publication has with 

 its readers has a great deal to do with 

 its value to its advertisers — if they like 

 a paper, the advertisers also are liked: 



I enclose $1 for the renewal of my sub- 

 scription to the Review. It certainly Is a 

 tine paper, and no florist or nurseryman should 

 be without it. I will do aU In my power to 

 advertise It. — Wm. G. A. Ede, Battle Creek, 

 Mich., August 2, 1909. 



I enclose $1, for which send us the Review 

 for another year. It Is as good to a man or 

 firm as any paper he could possibly get to 

 assist him. — Charles F. Cutting, Los Angeles, 

 Cal., July 28. 1909. 



THE CROPS. 



A season of prosperity for the Ameri- 

 can farmer unequaled in the history of 

 the country is foreshadowed by the pres- 

 ent promise for all of the leading cereals, 

 the government crop figures for August, 

 given out August 9, confirming the opti- 

 mistic early season outlook. 



While the August estimate of the gov- 

 ernment did not equal the sensational 

 promise indicated for corn and oats in 

 the July report, the figures on winter 

 wheat were raised about 35,000,000 

 bushels. The thrashing returns from the 

 winter wheat belt have exceeded the most 

 roseate hopes of the growers the fore 



part of the season, and the total crop 

 now estimated — 435,000,000 bushels— ig 

 practically the same as a year ago, not- 

 withstanding the big 'decrease in acreage. 

 The July figures on corn showed a 

 yield of 3,117,000,000 bushels, but the 

 August estimate of 2,945,000,000 bushels, 

 if secured, will be the largest yield ou 

 record, comparing with a total of 2,664.- 

 000,000 bushels in 1908. The conditioa 

 showed a drop from 89.3 in July to 84.4, 

 or nearly 5 points, due to drought ia 

 some sections and too much moisture ii 

 others. 



The condition of miscellaneous crops 



August 1 was figured as follows: 



Rice 84.51 Cantaloupes 77.0 



Timothy 85.8] Oranges 86.3 



Clover hay prod'c'n. 78.71 Lemons 87.0 



Quality 89.3 



Alfalfa 94.4 



Millet 86.7 



Kaffir corn 85.0 



Pastures 84.8 



Sweet potatoes 86.9 



Apples 46.3 



Peaches 45.4 



Pears 56.4 



Grapes 89.7 



Blackberries 79.6 



Raspberries 81.1 



Watermelons 75.6 



Tomatoes 84,2 



Cabbages 85.3 



Onions 88.S 



Beans (dry) 89.1 



Beans (Lima) 85.7 



Peanuts 85.1 



Broom corn 83.5 



Hemp 91.7 



Hops 82.7 



Sorghum 83.0 



Sugar cane 88.0 



Sugar beets 90.4 



THE INFLUENCE. 



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. 



Please discontinue my steam trap advertise- 

 ment In the Review. The Review certainly 

 does the business. It found me traps all over 

 the land. One Insertion was sufficient to find 

 a bargain. It Is a lesson to me: ADVERTISE, 

 If I want to buy or sell. The Review will 

 bring the results. I put the same advertise- 

 ment in another trade paper and no reply re- 

 ceived yet. In all letters received they men- 

 tioned the Review. — Chas. A. Moss, Spartan- 

 burg, S. C, August 2, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The last week was one of the poorest 

 the market has experienced this summer, 

 and yet most of the houses did fully as 

 much as a year ago and a few were able 

 to report some increase in the total 

 money value of sales, due to larger sup- 

 plies of stock than they had at this date 

 in any preceding year. 



The shipping demand for Beauties and 

 first-class roses is all that could be ex- 

 pected at this date. The city demand is 

 practically confined to funeral work, so 

 that the local call is largely limited to 

 flowers for work. The job lot buyers 

 are little in evidence. It is hot on the 

 street corners and the people who operate 

 in the out-of-doors are not doing much. 

 In their stead there are a half dozen big 

 buyers from the amusement parks, who 

 are using large quantities of flowers, pay- 

 ing about the same prices that the Greek 

 salesmen are accustomed to paying. 



Last week the market was severely 

 glutted with poor asters and gladioli. 

 Asters of common sorts sold for hitherto 

 unheardof prices and the overstock of 

 gladioli was so great that a number of 

 houses report a large waste, while those 

 that were able to clean out did so at such 

 low prices that the average was extremely 

 small. It is interesting to note that while 

 a large number of carnation growers and 

 other greenhouse operators have asters in 

 the field, the gladioli practically all come 

 from people who have no glass. In spite 

 of the overstock there is a good business 

 on gladioli of the best grade, especially 

 America, Augusta and Mrs. Francis 

 King, but the average returns to the 

 growers, taking the receipts as a whole, 



