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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 26, 1009. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



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834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



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Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To Europe, $2.60. 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-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Clirysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions 5 



Ueraniums — Potting Cuttings 5 



— Rooting Geraniums 5 



Spiraeas for Market " 



Retail Florist— Summer Tables (lUus.) « 



— Mechanical Aids in Designing tt 



Bulbs for Christmas " 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East S 



— Carnation Notes — West 8 



— Location of Varieties S 



Louis AVlttbold (portrait) » 



New England Dahlia Society 8 



Culture and Sale of Lilies » 



Roses— Stock to be Carried Over 10 



— Feeding Young Rose Plants 10 



— Removing Blind Wood 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Hardy Roses 10 



— Gardenias 10 



— Euphorbia Jacquinlseflora 11 



Orchids— Lycaste Sklunerl (lllus.) 11 



— Seasonable Orchid Notes 11 



Convention Aftermath (lllus. > 12 



— The Anniversary Session 12 



— The Barbecue 12 



— Presentations 12 



— Convention Notes 12 



Bowling IS 



A Song of Cincinnati 13 



After Twenty-flve Years 13 



The Crack Shots (lllus.) 14 



Hall Association 14 



Color Photography 14 



The First S. A. F. Report (lllus.) 15 



Lorraine Begonias 16 



Chicago 16 



St. Louis 20 



Milwaukee 21 



Dayton, « 



Cleveland 23 



Minneapolis 28 



Philadelphia 24 



Columbus, O *6 



Detroit 27 



Boston 28 



Styrax Japonica oO 



Cincinnati 3* 



New York 32 



Albany, N. Y 38 



Steamer Sailings S* 



Seed Trade News 86 



— Dutch Bulbs 86 



— Onions In Connecticut (lllus.) 37 



— The Fixity of Sweet Peas 87 



— French Bulbs 38 



— New Disease in Sweet Peas 38 



— Bulb Imports ^ 



— Imports *X 



— Imports and Exports 40 



— New Petunias 40 



Seasonable Suggestions (Con'td) 42 



— Poinsettias *; 



— Amaryllis ** 



— Coleus and Alternantheras 42 



— Stevias ~ 



The Trade Press 4» 



Nursery News 5X 



— Peonv Mons. Dupont (lllus. ) oO 



— Worms on Shade Trees 60 



-t-. BlKck-rot of Grapes 81 



Vegetable Forcing BjS 



— Planning a Vegetable House o£ 



— Mushrooms with Cucumbers 52 



Pacific Coast— Seattle 62 



—San Francisco 68 



— Spokane, Wash 68 



Lexington. Ky 60 



Indianapolis 22 



Springfield. 60 



Chassell. Mich W 



i ;reenhou9e Heating w 



Evansville, Ind TO 



Providence, R. I ^f 



Baltimore J* 



Grand Rapids to 



SOCIETY OF AIEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 

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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1910: President, F. R. Plerson, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. ; vice-president, F. W. VIck, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Domer, 

 Urbana, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg, 

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. T., August 

 IG to 19, 1910. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



I 



Many of the wholesale firms say col- 

 lections are even slower than usual in 

 August. 



Glass contines to be low in price; sev- 

 eral times the market has started up, but 

 it has not gone very far and has slipped 

 back again. 



Now comes the season for state and 

 county fairs. Get in on them; they af- 

 ford splendid opportunity for advertis- 

 ing the business. 



Primula Littonia, recently exhibited 

 before the Boyal Horticultural Society 

 in London, by Messrs. Bees, Ltd., Liver- 

 pool, received a first-class certificate. 



DOES THE BUSINESS. 



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. 



The Review is certainly the paper to do the 

 business; the orders came in fast, and are still 

 coming; the dracsenas are all sold, so cut out 

 the adv. — Geo. W. Haas & Son, Meadvllle, Pa., 

 Aug. 18, 1909. 



Please cancel my advertisement of carnation 

 plants, sold out. — Willis W. Klnyon, South 

 Bend, Ind., August 21, 1909. 



Please discontinue our adv. of carnation plants 

 In the Review. The first two Insertions sold 

 20,000 plants. — Frey & Frey, Lincoln, Neb., 

 August 21, 1909. 



LORRAINE BEGONIAS. 



The time has arrived when the Lor- 

 raine begonias begin to grow much 

 faster and the heart of the cultivator is 

 cheered by the celerity of growth, as 

 compared with that of a month ago. The 

 earliest batch of plants should now be 

 of suflicient size to go in the pots or 

 pans they are to flower in. For mod- 

 erate sized plants 6-inch is a good size of 

 pan, while 8 -inch will grow big speci- 

 mens, two feet across or even more. Only 

 where big plants are in request can those 

 as large as 10-inch be used. As a gen- 

 eral rule the small 6-inch pans are the 

 best sellers. If pots are used in pref- 

 erence to pans, be sure to use abundant 

 drainage. We always have found pans 

 will give better results than pots. 



Some staking up should now be done. 

 Use light, neat sticks and let them be a 

 little longer than the shoots are at this 

 time. Pinch any runaway shoots and 

 nip off any flowers appearing. Remem- 

 ber that this begonia wants a light com- 

 post, plenty of flaky leaf -mold, some old, 

 decayed manure passed through a half- 

 inch screen, sand and loam. The leaf- 

 mold should comprise half of the whole. 

 Lorraines grow best in a house kept 

 tolerably close and without much shade. 

 From now on they will require constant 

 care in staking, potting and spacing. 

 Never allow them to become crowded so 

 that they touch each other. 



In the case of late rooted cuttings, 

 the best plan is to place several together 

 in a pan, although there is some sale for 



little plants in 3-inch pots. Many grow- 

 ers rely on securing their stock each year 

 from specialists. Any such should lose 

 no time in purchasing their plants if they 

 want to grow them into salable plants 

 for the holidays. 



WINTERING WALLFLOWERS. 



Will you inform me whether or not 

 •wallflower, Cheiranthus Cheiri fl. pi., is 

 considered a hardy plant in southern 

 New York? If so, should it be wintered 

 outside in hotbeds or in' a hothouse ? 

 E. L. S. 



Wallflowers are not hardy plants in 

 southern New York and should have the 

 protection of either a coldframe, from 

 which all but -light frost is excluded, or, 

 better still, a cold greenhouse kept just 

 clear of freezing. Wallflowers will with- 

 stand considerable frost, but it is not 

 safe to expose them to a lower tempera- 

 ture than ten to fifteen degrees above 

 zero. If you plant your wallflowers in a 

 frame where they will have the neces- 

 sary head room, about the end of Oc- 

 tober, it will be suflBciently early. Leave 

 the sashes off as long t^a possible and 

 air freely at all favorable opportunities 

 during winter. When severe weather 

 sets in, it is an advantage to pack dry 

 leaves loosely among the plants, but a 

 covering of board shutters or mats will 

 also be needed during the coldest 

 weather. C. W. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



It was the general report that last 

 week was an excellent one for midsum- 

 mer. The demand was such that prac- 

 tically everything of useful quality 

 found a purchaser at a fair price, though 

 it is true the supply of stock was not 

 large. The result, however, was that 

 the wholesalers were able to report a 

 most satisfactory total of sales consid- 

 ering the season. Shipping trade re- 

 mains the chief reliance of the market. 

 There is a good out-of-town demand, 

 especially for roses and asters. It ap- 

 pears the Chicago district is not the 

 only one in which asters have done poorly 

 this season. City trade still is largely 

 limited to the demand for funeral work. 

 Augusta gladiolus is largely used. 



This week supplies are somewhat in- 

 creased, but the demand continues fair 

 and the market is regarded as excellent 

 for the latter part of August. 



Beauties have been somewhat off crop, 

 but the supply is now on the increase. 

 There is excellent call for these, espe- 

 cially the medium length of stems. Of 

 other roses, Killarney holds the lead, 

 being in largest supply and first in de- 

 mand. Much of the stock is good, though 

 considerable mildew is seen. Kaiserin of 

 course holds first place among white 

 roses, Bride not comparing with it in 

 quality and White Killarney not being 

 sufficiently abundant to cut a figure ; but 

 the best white roses are White Killarney, 

 and when it becomes plentiful Kaiserin 

 may have to take a back seat. My Mary- 

 land is becoming more abundant. Some 

 growers already are cutting superb flow- 

 ers on long stems and others are send- 

 ing in stock that is showing rapid im- 

 provement. There is no special demand 

 at this date for Maid or Richmond, and 

 Chatenay is pretty well out of the run- 

 ning. 



Carnations from the field are now re- 

 ceived in considerable quantity and have 



