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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 19, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. PAGE 66. 



CONTENTS. 



The Sliver Jubilee Convention 25 



— F. K. Plerson (portrait) 25 



— F. W. Vlck (portrait) 26 



— H. B. Dorner (portrait) 27 



— J. A. Valentine (portrait) 28 



— The Trades' Display (lUus. ) 30 



— J. A. Peterson (portrait) 33 



— E. G. GlUett (portrait) 34 



— President's Address 35 



^ William Murphy (portrait) 35 



— Charles E. Crltchell (portrait) 36 



— Gustave Adrian (portrait) 37 



— Albert McCullough (portrait) 38 



— Secretary's Keport 38 



— Richard Wltterstaetter <portralt) 39 



— J. A. Valentine and W. K. Smith (port.) 40 



— Treasurer's Ueport 41 



— Next National Flower Show 41 



— Those Present 42 



— The First Meeting 45 



— ^ Edgar F. Winterson (portrait) 45 



— U. S. Work for Floriculture 46 



— Ladles' Bowling 49 



New York 49 



Obituary 60 



— W. H. Gullett (portrait) 50 



— W. H. Wright 60 



— A. J. Pennock 60 



— Mrs. Robert George 50 



— Valentine Fox 60 



— John Carson 60 



— A. Dlttrlch 50 



S. A. F. Secretaries 50 



Society of American Florists 52 



Chicago 52 



Baltimore 66 



Springfield, Mass 56 



Milwaukee 57 



Washington 57 



Plilladelphla 58 



St. Louis 60 



Detroit 62 



Lexington, Ky 63 



Vegetable Forcing 67 



— inbreeding of Cucumbers 67 



Boston 70 



Carnations with Sweet Peas 71 



Steamer Sailings 72 



Seed Trade News 74 



— Dutch Bulbs 74 



— Crosby's Beet (lllus.) 76 



— ■ Chicago Seed Crops 78 



— French Bulbs 78 



— Planters' Seed Co. In Trouble 79 



— Imports 79 



— Red River Valley Potatoes 80 



Coshocton, Ohio 82 



Pittsburg 8.1 



Indianapolis 83 



Pacific Coast 88 



— San Francisco 88 



— Moving California Palms 88 



— Portland, Ore 89 



Nursery News 90 



— New Nork Nursery Law 90 



Albany, N. Y 94 



Erie, Pa 94 



Late Housing of Plants 9() 



Tulips for Forcing 96 



Lilium Auratum 96 



Echeverias for Spring 96 



Greenhouse Heating 98h 



— Do It Now 98h 



— Piping a Small House 98h 



— Steam for Four Houses 98h 



Hydrangea Arborescens 100 



Pansles for Next Spring 100 



St. Paul 101 



West Grove, Pa 102 



New Bedford, Mass 102 



Hydrangea Otaksa 104 



Early Gladioli 104 



Geraniums for Spring Sales 106 



Nlcotiana Sylvestrls 106 



Glass Cleaning Compound 108 



Cure for White Ants .110 



Pecky Cypress 110 



Bradford, Pa 112 



White Fly on Dahlias 114 



Sweet Williams for Spring 114 



Insecticides 116 



Bar Harbor, Me 118 



Well Furnished Crotons 118 



The Eeview is quite the goods and 

 hits the spot with every issue. — W. G. 

 Tench, Columbus, O. 



Paducah, Ky. — C. L. Brunson has 

 been appointed assistant superintendent 

 of the department of plants and flowers 

 at the fair to be held September 13 

 to 18, 



Ashland, Ky. — W. H. Carp says this 

 has been an unusually good season. He 

 attributes many of his sales to the spirit 

 of improvement aroused by the Ashland 

 League for Civic Improvement. As a 

 result many want to beautify their lawns 

 and most of them are succeeding in do- 

 iopr so. 



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 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. 



Eintered as second class matter December 8, 

 1897, at the post-offlce at Chicago, 111., imder the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The gentleman whose portrait adorns 

 the title page of this issue of the Review 

 is a member of the S. A. F., all right. 



Field-grown carnation plants are 

 scarce in the middle west, but may be 

 fairly plentiful a little later, after the 

 growers who do not now care to sell 

 finish planting. 



Few trade organizations ever have had 

 80 complete and detailed accounting of 

 funds as was presented at Cincinnati 

 by Secretary Rudd and Treasurer Beatty, 

 of the S. A. F. 



The orders for peony roots for fall 

 delivery are not coming in as rapidly as 

 the big growers would like, and there is 

 alarm in certain quarters at the prospect 

 that the sales may show a big falling off 

 this year. Among those who sell at re- 

 tail by means of advertising in the gv- 

 dening papers the number of inquiries 

 for catalogues is as great as usual, but 

 the orders are not coming back as 

 promptly as they should. 



It is well determined in law that 

 where merchandise received is of a char- 

 acter that shows its unsatisfactory na- 

 ture was due to the shipper, and not to 

 negligence of the transportation com- 

 pany, it need not necessarily be returned 

 iu order to establish a claim for credit or 

 refund — if proof of worthlessness at 

 time of shipment can be given, one may 

 refuse to pay for plants he has put on 

 the dump, or he may get his money back 

 by process of law, in case he has paid in 

 advance. But the best thing to do if one 

 orders what is described as "nice stock" 

 that turns out to be rubbish, as once in 

 a while will happen, is not to throw the 

 plants away and then write an angry let- 

 ter demanding the money back; instead, 

 send a telegram : * ' Stock is unsatisfac- 

 tory; held subject to your order; refund 

 required." Dissatisfaction really is rare 

 when one considers the unstandardized 

 character of the merchandise and the dif- 

 ferences of opinion of men, especially be- 

 tween buyers and sellers. 



SOQETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



below. Any person objecting to the re^ 

 istration of this plant or to the ase of 

 the proposed name, is requested to com 

 municate with the undersigned at once. 

 Failing to receive objection to the regis 

 tration, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. 



Description — Odontoglossum crispum. 

 blotched variety. Flowers pure white, 

 well formed, large lip. Petals, sepa!<* 

 and lips beautifully blotched, claret pur 

 pie extending to the extremities. An ex 

 ceedingly distinct form of Odontoglossuin 

 crispum. Name — Odontoglossum crispuni, 

 variety, E. B. Dane. 



W. N. RuDD, Sec'y. 



August 13, 1909. 



Registration of Canoa. 



Public notice is hereby given thai 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, of Chicago, III., 

 offers for registration the plant describe<i 

 below. Any person objecting to the reg 

 istration of this plant or to the use of 

 the proposed name is requested to com 

 municate with the undersigned at once. 

 Failing to receive objection to the regis 

 tration, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. 



Description — Vigoroos plant, foliagf 

 green, stalk and bracts brown; large 

 flower, brilliant scarlet. Spikes numer 

 ous, free flowering, carrying the flowers 

 well. Name — This variety came from 

 Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, 

 under the name Philadelphia, but as one 

 Philadelphia already exists in this coun- 

 try, we have taken the liberty of nam- 

 ing this New Chicago. 



W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



August 13, 1909. 



Registration of Odontoglotsum Crispum. 



Public notice is hereby given that the 

 Julius Roehrs Co., of Rutherford, N. J., 

 offers for registration the plant described 



FOUR-FIFTHS OF IT. 



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. 



In regard to yonr paper, I will say that whU« 

 I advertise In several other trade paper*, I 

 find that eighty per cent of my business coaw 

 tbrongb the columna of the Review. — W. X. 

 Pnmell, Snow Hill, Md., August 12, 190». 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Maf kei 



Last week was the quietest of the 

 mer; business has been running downhil 

 steadily since August began. This week 

 marks the hiatus, for the convention is 

 on. A larger number than at any other 

 date in the year are out of town and 

 things are being permitted to take their 

 own course. The rule is that everyone 

 puts bis shoulder^ to the wheel after the 

 S. A. F. meeting. 



There has been extremely little good 

 stock in the market. The greatest fac- 

 tors in point of quantity are gladioli and 

 asters. The glads, while a few really 

 good have been offered, have averaged 

 below grade because of the dry weather. 

 They have been received in enormous 

 quantity, with only a few expanded 

 flowers at the base of the spike and a 

 tall, twisted point of tight buds; not 

 even the Greeks want such stock. As 

 for asters, after the early varieties were 

 out there came a few days when there 

 were exceedingly few that would meet 

 the requirements of first-class stores. 

 There were many thousands of short and 

 open-centered flowers, but hardly any- 

 thing of really first-class quality. Jast 

 as the asters began to improve the heavy 

 rains on August 12 and 14 did injmry 

 to all outdoor flowers; temporary injury, 



