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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OECfiMBEB 9, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT. Editor and Manaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVEET THUESDAT BT 



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Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

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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 Chicago Trade 

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IKDEX TO ADVEBTISESS, PAGE 98. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 13 



— Common Sense in Designing 13 



— Novelties In I'ottery (.lUus. • 13 



— A Spokane Store (lllus.) 14 



— Dobb's Designs (lllus. ) 14 



Average Prices 14 



Smilax and Plumosus 14 



European Notes 15 



Hard Water for Ferns 15 



Roses — Mildes on Roses 16 



— Old Richmond Rose Plants 10 



— Hill's New Rose 16 



— Grubworms in Rose Benches 16 



— Ramblers Make Poor Growth 16 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 17 



— Carnation Mrs. Ward (lllus.) 17 



— Pyfer's Purchase 18 



Perns and Fern Dishes (lllus.) 18 



Orchids— Orchid Jottings (lllus.) 18 



In the National Capital 19 



Chrysanthemums — Failure with Mrs. Jones... 20 



— Mums in Unheated Houses 20 



Shrubs for Easter Flowering 20 



The Policy of Prices 21 



— Fox Fears 'Tls Folly 21 



Charles Henry Fox (portrait) 21 



The Dobbs New Range (lllus. ) 22 



Cyclamens at Craig's (lllus.) 23 



Holiday Plants at Chicago 23 



Seasonable Suggestions 24 



— Rambler Koses (lllus. ) 24 



— Bedding Geraniums 24 



— LlUum Candidum 24 



— Berried Plants 24 



— Small Ferns 24 



— Calceolarias 24 



Polnsettias Bleeding 25 



Dahlias for Memorial Day 25 



Obituary 25 



American Rose Society 26 



Chicago 26 



New York 32 



Detroit 36 



Milwaukee 38 



Boston 3J 



Milwaukee Plans Show 38 



Baltimore 88 



Philadelphia 40 



Pittsburg ._^ 42 



St. Louis. . rrP. 43 



Providence. R. 1 44 



How Cement is Made 46 



Buffalo 50 



Cincinnati 50 



Steamer Sailings 52 



Seed Trade News 54 



— Duncan Bankrupt 66 



^~ Imports 56 



— Clark's Green Bay Plant 56 



Seasonable Suggestions (continued) TO 



— Callas 5a 



— Lilacs W 



— .Japanese Anemones W 



— Pansies 22 



— Propagating «* 



— Compost 5~ 



Pacific Coast— Roses at Portland (lllns. ) . . . . 68 



— Spokane, Wash ^ 



— Los Angeles, Cal »» 



— San Francisco .;: • v Sx 



Nurserv News— Packing Nursery Stock 70 



Vegetable Forcing— Vegetable Markets 71 



— Starting Early Cabbage 71 



— Forcing Watercress 4f 



mica. N. Y I* 



Amherst. Mass '" 



Rochester ^? 



Evansvllle, Ind V i,' ' ',' ' 'l'^ So 



Greenhouse Heating- Diameter of Smokestack 88 



— Houses Adjoining Dwellings 88 



— Piping for Hotbeds »» 



— A Watertight Pit 90 



Indianapolis "f 



Minneapolis ^ 



Hannibal, Ohio »* 



Washington "" 



THE ANNUAL 



CHRISTMAS NUMBER 



will be issued 

 DECEMBER 16, 1909. 



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advertising copy must reach the Review 

 office by 5 p. m. Tuesday, December 14, 

 to be in time, and earlier will be better. 

 Some desirable advertisements usually 

 are received the morning after going to 

 press with a Special Edition. Send 

 today. Don't get left. 



SOCIETY OF AMKBICAN FLORISTS. 



iNCOBPOEATED BY ACT OF CONOEESS MABCH 4, '01 



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

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, B. Q. GlUett, Cin- 

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

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

 burg. 



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

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. T., Aogust 

 16 to 19, 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The velvet poinsettia gives every in- 

 dication of running the natural article a 

 close race this month, and it has endur- 

 ance on its side. 



Don't substitute on your wholesale 

 plant orders, except with permission; 

 give the customer what he orders or send 

 his money back. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The legal department of the city of 

 Worcester, Mass., has decided that grow- 

 ing flowers is not "manufacturing," and 

 that florists are not entitled to the spe- 

 cial water rate given factories. 



This issue of the Review is not a spe- 

 cial edition — it is all in the day's work 

 — but it contains 100 pages, not to men- 

 tion Mr. Heacock's little contribution in 

 colors, and constitutes a rather more 

 plainly visible evidence than any other 

 how wonderfully the commercial side of 

 floriculture has developed these last few 

 years. 



IT IS THE PLACE. 



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. 



Yon can stop my advertisement, as I have 

 enough orders to dispose of our Surplus stock. 

 The Review certainly is the place for adver- 

 tising, as It brings quick results. — R. W. White- 

 head. Hammond, La., December 4, 1909. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



, The coming rose show is gaining at- 

 tention in various ways. John Cook, of 

 Baltimore, Md., sends on a prize of $15 

 for the best fifty My Maryland rosesf^ 

 Robert Scott & Son, Sharon Hill, Pa., 

 say, "We would like to offer a prize 

 of $25 for the best vase, of Mrs. Jardine 

 rose." The Conard & Jones Co. says, 

 "We offer a prize of $4 for the best pot 

 grown rose, American Pillar, and also a 

 $4 prize for the best six sprays of the 

 new rose, American Pillar. ' ' Henry A. 

 Dreer, of Philadelphia, $5 for the best 

 six plants in bloom of the Harry Kirk 

 rose, and $3 for the second prize for the 

 same. Peter Henderson & Co., New York 

 city, for the best vase of roses, not less 

 than twenty-five or more than fifty 

 bloo'his, one or more varieties, arranged 

 for effect, accessories in other flowers, 

 foliage and also ribbon permitted; ex- 

 hibitors may supply their own vase for 

 this prize; first prize, $15; second, $10. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., for the best 

 pot grown new rose, Charles Dingee, first 

 prize, $4 ; second, $2 ; for the best blooms 

 of the new rose, Charles Dingee, first 

 prize, $4, and second prize, $2. His 

 Honor the Mayor of Detroit offers a 

 prize of $100 for the exhibit of pot 

 grown roses. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York, under whose auspices this show is 

 to be held, in the American Museum of 

 Natural Histoi?y, Seventy-seventh street 

 and Central Park West, is desirous of 

 having so fine an exhibit that the splen- 

 did quarters offered to the rosarians of 

 America for their exhibit in the greatest 

 flower-consuming city in the world will 

 be a success in both quality and attend- 

 ance. Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



December 4, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business ran down hill steadily last 

 week until Friday, December 3, when it 

 started on the up grade, and it has been 

 going up ever since. Sunday, December 

 5, was a dark, disagreeable day, Monday 

 was the coldest day of the season to 

 date, and Tuesday brought a blizzard. 

 The result has been a decided curtail- 

 ment of supply, a consequent stiffening 

 in prices, with a sharp advance in one 

 or two lines, and an assumption of nor-, 

 mal winter conditions. As is almost 

 always the case in bad weather,, the de- 

 mand fell off through the operation of 

 the same causes that reduced the supply, 

 but this will not be for long. The mar- 

 ket now is looking forward to a run of 

 good, lively, winter business. The 

 chrysanthemums are about out of the 

 way. There are a few stragglers left, 

 but the muni season is practically over, 

 not only in Chicago, but in the towns 

 to which Chicago ships the most flowers, 

 and this condition marks the real open- 

 ing of the winter season. 



There were plenty of Beauties last 

 week, but the demand was so good that 

 prices worked upward, and this week, 

 with slightly reduced supplies, the Beauty 

 market is entitled to be called strong. 

 The soft weather at the end of November 

 and the beginning of December made 

 soft roses, and quality of the average 

 stock has been nothing to brag about, 

 but the arrival of real winter is expected 

 to work a quick improvement. Some ex- 

 cellent Richmond are in the market and 

 are selling well. The Killarney also are 



