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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Dgcbmber 2, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton Building. 



334 Dearborn Street, ChlcaKO. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



bbgistbrbd cablb address, florvibw, 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-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chic&go Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERXISEBS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Tbe Retail Florist 7 



— An Elaborate Funeral (illus.)...- 7 



— Loose Designing 7 



— Automobile Dellver.v 8 



— Working Hours in England 8 



Spiraea Japonica 



Azalea Mollis 9 



Violets— Spot on Violets 10 



— Baronne Rotbschlld Violet (Illus.) 10 



— Spot on Double Violets 10 



— Names of Violets 10 



— Alkali Water for Violets 10 



Callas Rested In Frames 10 



Carnations — Best Sorts for Beginner 11 



— Fairy Ring and Stlgmonose 11 



— American Carnation Society 11 



— Name of Carnation 11 



Taking the Chill from Water 11 



Pennlsetum 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gardenias 12 



— Azaleas 12 



— Lily of the Valley 12 



— Antirrhinums 12 



— Dutch Bulbous Stock 12 



— Hardy LlUes 12 



— Camellias 12 



— Genistas 12 



Geraniums — Some New Geraniums (Illus.).... ];i 



— Name of Geranium 13 



European Notes 13 



Chrysanthemums 14 



— Ivory, the Money Maker (llhis.) 14 



— Scottish Mum Show 14 



— Chrysanthemum Society 14 



— The Several Sections 14 



— Klondike and Diana (illus. ) 10 



White Grubworms 15 



Ferns — Trouble with Bostons l.'i 



— Nephrolepls MarshalU 15 



Aster Innocence (illus. ) 10 



Society of American Florists 1(! 



Klndler of St. Cloud (illus.) It! 



Obituary— H. F. A. Lange 16 



— Carl Jurgens (portrait) 17 



— Miss Anna Cronln 17 



— George H. Brown 17 



The Glass Market 18 



Thanksgiving Business 18 



Chicago 18 



Cleveland 21 



Columbus. Ohio 22 



Kansas City 23 



Baltimore 24 



New Orleans 25 



Boston 25 



Waterbury. Conn 2C 



New York 27 



Wichita, Kan 29 



The Verbena 30 



Philadelphia 32 



Indianapolis 35 



Washington 35 



Pacific Coast— Los Angeles. Cal 36 



— San Francisco 36 



Reseeding Lawn 40 



Dayton, Ohio 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Seed Trade News — Valley Pips 46 



— Free Seeds are Pure Seeds 46 



Vegetable Forcing — Sickly Cucumber Plants.. 52 

 Nursery News — Need Federal Inspection 58 



— Edward S. Osborne (portrait) 59 



Providence, R. 1 60 



Denver 62 



Detroit 64 



Des Moines, la 66 



Fort Wayne, Ind 66 



Cincinnati 68 



Greenhopse Heating 76 



New Bedford, Mass 77 



St. Lonls 78 



Minneapolis 80 



Milwaukee 82 



Pittsburg 84 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. G. Glllett, Cin- 

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

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

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

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

 Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, II. B. Dorner, Ur- 

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19, 1910. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Eeview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



G. W. D., who sends the magnolia leaf, 

 forgot to date or sign his inquiry. Ques- 

 tions perfectly legitimate when they show 

 the writer's identity become impossible 

 to consider when anonymous. 



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. 



Please discontinue my vinca advertisement; 

 stock all sold. T^'e Review certainly does the 

 business. — G. E. Fink, Roselle, N. J., November 

 20, 1909. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



The market for window glass already 

 is responding to the prospect of an early 

 combination of the independent makers 

 of hand blown glass' and the prospect is 

 fbr an almost certain early advance in 

 quotations. The organization of the Im- 

 perial Glass Co. is a matter of a large 

 amount of detail, but it is progressing 

 satisfactorily and it appears that early in 

 1910 the makers of window glass will be 

 in a position to control the output. Prac- 

 tically all the factories using hand labor 

 in blowing glass will be in this new com- 

 bination, and all the machine glass is in 

 the hands of the American Window Glass 

 Co., which will work in harmony with the 

 new combine. The result will be a pos- 

 sible curtailment of production and a cer- 

 tain withholding of the product from the 

 market except at profitable prices. 



Any grower knows that when he has 

 bought 16x18 glass at $2 per box or lit- 

 tle more, no manufacturer has been get- 

 ting rich off such sales. At $2 per box it 

 makes the glass only 4 cents per square 

 foot, delivered many hundreds of miles 

 from the place of manufacture. The fact 

 has been that a good many factories were 

 not in a position to make their own 

 prices, but have been compelled to sell 

 for whatever they could get during the 

 last year or two. 'As a part of this new 

 combine these factories will be supplied 

 with the means of storing their product 

 against a profitable demand. 



Prices have not yet advanced to any 

 special degree, 16x18 having sold recently 

 at low figures for cash in carload lots, 

 but there is already a stiffening tendency 

 and as soon as the combine actually be- 

 gins to operate prices are pretty sure to 

 go back up the scale to a point where the 

 makers can get some profit. Well in- 

 formed jobbers in glass say that any 

 greenhouse man who will need quantities 

 in the spring of 1910 will be doing well 

 to buy now, and it is known that some of 

 the large growers who have the capital 

 have bought merely for stock, as a sort 

 of insurance. 



THANKSGIVING BUSINESS. 



The Thanksgiving business proved to 

 be exceptionally good throughout almost 

 the entire country. The only section 

 from which there is complaint is that 

 part along the Atlantic seaboard, where 

 there was rain of the cold, drizzling, dis- 

 agreeable character, which keeps people 

 indoors. In practically all other parts of 

 the country the weather was pleasant 

 and the sale of cut flowers greater than 

 ever before at Thanksgiving. 



The supply of stock was large, be- 

 cause of the pleasant weather which had 

 prevailed, and the quality of the stock 

 generally excellent. Chrysanthemums 

 were in largest supply where stock is 

 grown by the florists for home trade, and 

 they nearly all cleaned up the season's 

 crop in most satisfying shape. In many 

 cities it was found that the big, fancy 

 mums were slow to move, where the small 

 stock sold well. The reason is that most 

 of the Thanksgiving flowers are for table 

 use and the average flower buyer does 

 not need the decorating grades for a 

 dinner table. Carnations were gener- 

 ally in full crop and sold well. Eoses 

 were in lighter supply, but also in some- 

 what less demand than mums and car- 

 nations. Violets appear to have been no 

 more abundant than usual, but in whole- 

 sale markets did not realize the prices 

 they have in recent years. Thanksgiv- 

 ing is not a day which calls for high 

 priced flowers. The purchases usually 

 are in small lots for the customer's own 

 use, and after having paid 30 cents a 

 pound for the Thanksgiving turkey the 

 inclination is to go easy on the flowers. 

 Any marked advance in prices only serves 

 to restrict demand. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The carnation growers once more had 

 it demonstrated that Thanksgiving is not 

 a holiday to be compared with Christmas 

 and Easter, but more in the line of 

 Memorial day, when large quantities of 

 stock can be moved if prices are mod- 

 erate. The fact is, the effort to secure 

 enhanced values for carnations has 

 proved a failure at Thanksgiving year 

 after year, this season the same as last. 



The Thanksgiving market was in every 

 way satisfactory, except that accumulated 

 carnations could not be sold. The buyers 

 would not pay more than moderate prices 

 and insisted on having fresh stock. 

 Some consignments that carried marks of 

 age were left unsold and pulled down 

 averages in a disappointing fashion. 



Some special fancy stock brought 

 rather good prices, but the ordinary run 

 of fancy carnations could not be sold 

 above $3, $2 was the popular price for 

 good stock and sales of off grades were 

 made as low as 75 cents, and even 50 

 cents. Violets also were carried over, > 

 but roses cleaned up well and chrysan- 

 themums found a satisfactory market. 



On the whole, the Thanksgiving trade 

 was better than it usually is. It came 

 after several days of dark weather, which 

 did much to curtail the crops of those 

 who grow part of their own stock or who 

 get a part of their supplies from their 

 home growers. The result was an excel- 

 lent shipping demand. 



Since Thanksgiving the market has 

 been running down hill. Warm weather 

 increased supply and decreased demand, 

 with the result that practically every- 

 thing is plentiful and carnations border- 

 ing on the condition of oversupply. Buy- 



