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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



DeceMbbb 23. 1900. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaqeb. 



PUBLISHED KVKEY THUE8DAT BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



BS0-S60 Caxton Building, 



834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephonb, Habbison 5429. 



xbgistkrbd cablb addkbss, flokvikw, chicago 



New Yobk Office: 



Borouffh Park Brooklyn. N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Managke. 



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-oflice at Chicago. 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEKTISESS. PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Eble's New Store (Ulus.) 7 



— Eventide 7 



— Frost on Show Windows 8 



— The Bride's Bouquet (Ulus.) 8 



— He Pushed the Button 8 



— The Flelscbman Auto (Ulus. ) 8 



— Christmas Cut Flowers 9 



Seasonable Suggestions — Sweet Peas 9 



— Polnsettias 9 



— Amaryllis 9 



— Hydrangeas 10 



— Ten Weeks' Stocks 10 



— Gladioli 10 



— Mignonette 10 



— Adiantums 10 



— Asparagus Sprengerl 10 



The Harris Store (lllus.) 10 



Taxation of Florists' Stock 10 



Carnations 11 



— Weber's Carnation House (lllus.) 11 



— Eleven Divisions In Culture 11 



— Weak Stems 12 



Roses — Cuprum for Black Spot 12 



— Mildew on Roses 12 



— Care of Cut Stock 12 



Appleton's Exhibit (illus.) 13 



Pentecost's Polnsettias (lllus.) 13 



Some of the New Plants 13 



Florist to King Leopold 14 



Notes from England 14 



Tomato Trials (lllus.) 15 



Imperial Glass Co. a Go 15 



Burkl's Asparagus 15 



Boston 16 



EvansviUe, Ind 16 



Milwaukee 16 



Los Angeles 17 



Portland. Ore 17 



Obituary 18 



Chicago 18 



Dayton, Ohio 22 



Philadelphia 24 



Grand Rapids 25 



New York 25 



St. Louis 27 



Poughkeepaie, N. Y 28 



Trouble with Soil 30 



New Orleans 31 



Tewksbury, Mass 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Imports 41 



— Oppose Free Seeds 41 



— Valley Pips 42 



— One Hundred Years Ago 42 



— The Situation in Holland 42 



— Catalogues Received v 43 



Pacific Coast— Seattle 48 



— San Francisco 48 



— Los Angeles, Cal 49 



Nursery News — American Peony Society 50 



— Propagating Privet 60 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 61 



— To Discourage Green Fly 51 



— Grapes with Inside Border 51 



— Lettuce at Grand Rapids 62 



— Ants on Lettuce 52 



Pittsburg 64 



In Michigan 58 



Hartford. Conn 58 



Rochester oS 



Phoenix, Ariz w 



Indianapolis fiO 



Reading. Pa « 



Detroit 68 



Greenhouse Heating— No Fuel Shortage 68 



— Steam for Three Houses 68 



— House for General Stock 68 



— A Kentucky Range 70 



— Size of Main Flow 71 



Providence, R. 1 72 



New Bedford. Mass 74 



Cincinnati 74 



Washington "8 



80CIBTY OF AHEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



Incobpobatkd bt Act of Oonobess Maboh 4, '01 



Officers for 1900: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, B. O. Glllett, Cin- 

 cinnati, 0.; secretary, WlUla N. Rndd, Mm- 

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1910: President, F. B. Pleraon, 

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

 Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Cr- 

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Bocbester, N. T., Angnst 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The severely cold weather has been 

 decidedly unfavorable for the Christmas 

 business. 



One can ill afford to be careless in 

 making deliveries in zero weather. A 

 little neglect may cause the loss of many 

 aays' profits. 



"When the days begin to lengthen 

 the cold begins to strengthen," accord- 

 ing to the old adage. Well, we hope not 

 this season. Not in many years have 

 the shortest days of the year been so 

 cold as in 1909. •* 



OBITUARY. 



Robert Graham. 



Robert Graham, of Harrisburg, Pa., 

 died at his home in that city December 

 14, after a long illness. He was born in 

 Scotland in 1845. At the age of five 

 years he came to this country with his 

 parents, who located in Philadelphia. 

 Twenty-three years later he removed to 

 Harrisburg and engaged in the florists' 

 business at the corner of Cameron and 

 Maclay streets. Eight years ago his 

 health began to fail. He had been bed- 

 fast eight weeks. 



He left a widow and one daughter, 

 Mrs. Weber, of Hollidaysburg. A 

 brother resides on Seventh street, Harris- 

 burg. 



George W, Ostertag. 



George W. Ostertag, superintendent of 

 parks at St. Louis, died December 20, 

 after a lingering illness. He was a 

 brother to Henry C. and Fred Ostertag, 

 of Ostertag Bros., and of Miss Mary 

 Ostertag. Mr. Ostertag was at one time 

 connected with the old firm of S. Mount 

 & Co., wholesale florists. He leaves a 

 jife, who is a sister to Miss Theresa 

 Badaracco, well-known St. Louis florist, 

 and four children. His mother also sur- 

 vives. The funeral took place on 

 Wednesday, December 23, from his late 

 residence, 1524 Deer street, to Belle- 

 fontaine cemetery. There were many 

 beautiful floral designs sent by his many 

 friends in the trade. The employees of 

 the park department were his pallbearers. 



Mrs. Olive Btirbank. 



Mrs. Olive Burbank, mother of Luther 

 Burbank, died December 16 at the home 

 of her son at Santa Eosa, Cal. She was 

 96 years of age and a native of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



GLADIOLI IN POOR SOIL. 



When the soil is poor and sandy and 

 barnyard manure not to be had, what 

 commercial fertilizer is best to use to 

 obtain good blooms and how should it 

 be applied, below the corms when planted 

 or by later and repeated dressings? 

 Also, H. H. Groff asserts that he gets 



the best blooms from %-inch to %-incli 

 bulbs. This has not been my experience. 

 How does he do it? M. P. 



In reply to the inquiry of M. P., I have 

 had no experience with land so poor ant! 

 in such a hopeless position, that, though 

 near a town of upwards of 1,000 popu- 

 lation, no manure could be had. 



I would advise manuring for corn, and 

 planting to gladioli the following season 

 with an application of hardwood ashes 

 or potato fertilizer on the drills at, or 

 after, planting. If, however, some 

 humus can be obtained from a con- 

 venient location, top-dress liberally, 

 work well in, and add fertilizer as above. 

 The preference for the smaller planting 

 sizes is due to the fact that they possess 

 a higher ratio of vitality on approaching 

 maturity than after. This means greater 

 multiplying powers, better adaptability 

 to change of location and, on good soil, 

 satisfactory blooming the first season. 



H. H. Geoff. 



PATS ON THE BACK. 



The value of a newspaper, from an 

 advertiser's standpoint, depends largely 

 on the way that newspaper stands with 

 its readers. The value of the circula- 

 tion is enhanced in proportion to the 

 interest taken by the readers. 



Here Is renewal for afiotber year of the best 

 trade paper published. — George Payne. Dover. 

 N. J.. December 14. 1909. 



I find the Review to be the leading up-to-date 

 Journal in its field today.— John G. Gardner. 

 Bryn Mawr, Pa., December 13, 1909. 



Enclosed Is my dollar for another year of the 

 Review. I will not do without It as long as 1 

 am In the business. — William P. Hlegert, Dal- 

 las, Tex., December 14, 1909. 



I was bom and reared in the florists' busi- 

 ness and have read all kinds of papers, but the 

 Review has them all heavily handicapped. — 

 W. H. Fisher, Muncie, Ind., December 13, 1909. 



Your letter notifying me that my subscription 

 to the Review has expired is received. I am 

 only too glad and anxious to have same renewed, 

 as I think your valuable paper is as necessary 

 for a florist as pots are to grow plants in. 

 Wishing you success and prosperity. — A. L. 

 Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y., December 14. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Not only has there been the usual lull 

 which comes before the holidays, but 

 this year this has been accentuated by 

 the extremely cold weather. For nearly 

 a fortnight now the temperature has 

 been far below normal, from 10 to 2() 

 degrees colder than it should be. Zero 

 weather always is a handicap to the 

 flower business and, coming at this time, 

 it seems to have been felt more keenly 

 than usual. Of course there have been 

 extremely light supplies of stock, but 

 the demand has been so limited that the 

 advance to Christmas prices was longer 

 delayed than it should have been and 

 when prices did go up it was with a jerk 

 that added to the diflSculties of both 

 wholesalers and retailers. 

 ^ Early this week supplies were con- 

 siderably increased, a day or two of 

 bright weather having helped some, but 

 principally because the growers were 

 afraid to hold the stock longer, it being 

 customary for the Christmas prices to 

 be in effect by December 20. When a 

 grower frankly stated that his consign- 

 ment early in the week was hardly ship- 

 ping stock, he did not realize how he 

 put the wholesaler up against it. There 

 was no city trade; no demand for stock 

 for immediate use. If the stock could 

 not be shipped or kept, whiat could be 



