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The Weekly Florists' Review* December so. 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORIST8' PUBLISHINO Co. 



630-560 Caxton BuildinK, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 6429. 



kegistbrbd cabls addkbss, florvuw, chicago 



New York Office: 



BorouKb 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 Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Christmas Trade 6 



— Grown-up Fern Dishes (lUus.) 5 



— Decorating in Small Towns 5 



— Some Classic Decorations (iUus.) 6 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 7 



— Pollworth's Perfection (Ulus. ) 7 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Spring 8 



— Geranium Flowers Fading 8 



Polygonum Baldscbuanlcum 8 



Chrysanthemums — Mums for Christmas 8 



— Golden Glow In England 8 



— Chrysanthemum Golden Glow 9 



— To Follow Mums 



— Frey's Single Mums (Ulus. ) 9 



Moschosmas for Market 10 



Roses — Burkl's Notes on Varieties 10 



A New Way to Tie 10 



Concrete Greenhouse Posts 10 



Illinois State Association 10 



An Albuquerque Range (Ulus. ) U 



Ferns — Diseased Bostons 11 



— Brown Scale on Ferns 11 



Red Spider on Araucarlas 11 



Trouble of the Boss ll 



NIc Zwelfel (portrait) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Hybrid Perpetual Roses 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



— Astllbes 12 



— Tulips 12 



— Marguerites 12 



— Dahlias 12 



— Azaleas 12 



— Sweet-scented Verbenas 13 



— Gloxinias 13 



— Lorraine Begonias 13 



— Rex Begonias 13 



.Milwaukee Florists' Club 13 



— John G. Heltman (portrait) 13 



— Eugene Oestrelcher (portrait) 13 



— Alex. Klokner (portrait) 13 



Here's Homelike Housing (illus.) 14 



Boston 14 



Obituary 10 



Chicago 16 



Dayton, Ohio 20 



Milwaukee 22 



Cleveland 24 



Kansas City 24 



St. Louis 27 



Philadelphia 28 



Louisville, Ky 29 



New York 30 



Des Moines, la 82 



Salem, Ohio 86 



Grand Rapids 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News — Valley Pips 40 



— With the Canners 40 



— Seeding of Waved Sweet Peas 42 



— How Beans are Handled 46 



— Burpee's New Annual 47 



— Imports 48 



— Commerce In Seeds 48 



— Catalogues Received 48 



Baltimore 48 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 64 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 66 



— Early Cabbage Plants 55 



Evansvllle, Ind 65 



Nursery News — Western Nurserymen Meet.. 56 



— Rhododendrons 56 



St. Paul 60 



Minneapolis 62 



Columbus. Ohio 64 



Indianapolis '1 



Greenhouse Heating— Gas or Coal 72 



— fieat for Vegetable House 72 



— Piping In Western New York 72 



— The Highest Point 72 



Providence, R. 1 2* 



Detroit 76 



Pittsburg ''8 



Hillsdfllo. Mloh 80 



80CIBTT OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Conobesb March 4, '01 



Officers for 1909: Preiident. J. A. Valentine, 

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

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

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

 burg. 



Otficers for 1910: President, F. B. Pleraoa, 

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., Angoit 

 16 to 19, 1910. 



BesultB bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings result*. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has issued a second revise of its bulletin 

 on the use of hydrocyanic acid gas for 

 fumigating greenhouses. 



The Chambre Syndicale des Horticul- 

 teurs Beiges has been in existence since 

 1880, has a body of 500 trade members, 

 and has been of immense benefit to the 

 trade generally. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



TAX ON GROWING STOCK. 



The Massachusetts state tax commis- 

 sioner, William D. T. Trefry, has given 

 an opinion that the growing stock of 

 florists is a proper subject of taxation, 

 which hits the trade in almost every city 

 and town of size throughout the common- 

 wealth, as there are few instances where 

 assessments have been levied upon the 

 growing plants by city and town asses- 

 sors. 



Commissioner Trefry 's supervisors 

 have been visiting many places and held 

 conferences with local boards over the 

 subject, as a result of which a concerted 

 movement is about to be inaugurated 

 throughout the state by which florists are 

 to be assessed upon their growing stock, 

 the same as manufacturing concerns and 

 shopkeepers. The local assessors say they 

 have the support of the state tax commis- 

 sioner in the movement they are about to 

 take and can see no reason why the 

 florists should not be assessed in accord- 

 ance with the value of the stock carried. 



A test case will be instituted by the 

 trade if the threatened assessments are 

 made, as reported in the Beview of 

 December 23. 



OBITUARY. 



James T. McKevitt. 



James T. McKevitt, of Bristol, E. I., 

 who for several years has been a con- 

 siderable raiser of greenhouse vegeta- 

 bles and some flowers, exclusively for the 

 Fall Biver, Mass., markets, was the vic- 

 tim of a most peculiar accident recently. 

 He was having a playful struggle with 

 his daughter for the possession of an 

 umbrella. In the mock battle the point 

 of the umbrella penetrated one of his 

 eyes and hemorrhage of the brain fol- 

 lowed, causing death. The accident oc- 

 curred at his home in Bristol, and he was 

 removed to the Ehode Island hospital, in 

 Providence, where he died. He was 54 

 years of age and had been in business 

 in the suburbs of Fall Biver for a num- 

 ber of years, but sold out his holdings 

 about six years ago on account of ill 

 health and removed to Bristol. About 

 a year ago he reentered the business and 



was beginning to develop his old line 

 of trade. 



George Serviis. 



Death came to George H. Serviss, .,t 

 Batavia, 111., December 23, followiiicr 

 an illness of many months, at his hoae 

 at 75 Harrison street. The deceased had 

 lived in Batavia for twenty-five years. 

 and had conducted a greenhouse estab 

 lishment for a long period of time. He 

 leaves a widow and two children. 



THE PRICE OF GLASS. 



The price of window glass was au 

 vanced three times in the last half of 

 December and it is regarded as certaia 

 that the Imperial "Window Glass Co., now 

 almost ready to do business, will be the 

 means of putting the market consider 

 ably higher. Most wholesale dealers in 

 greenhouse glass have withdrawn all pre- 

 vious quotations and are making prices 

 only for immediate acceptance, waiting 

 for the market to find itself. 



It seems certain that the price of green 

 house glass will be higher next spring 

 than it now is — much higher, some of the 

 jobbers say — but whether or not any com 

 bination of the manufacturers will per 

 manently solve their business troubles re- 

 mains to be seen. Production has been 

 greater than demand for the last couple 

 of years, and prices so low there was no 

 profit, but it hardly seems possible that 

 so simple an expedient as the one now 

 influencing the market can permanently 

 overrule so fundamental a law as that of 

 supply and demand. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The Christmas business this year would 

 have been much the best ever recorded 

 had December 24 and Christmas morning 

 given the results anticipated. The sup- 

 ply proved to be considerably larger than 

 anyone expected; indeed, it was the larg 

 est supply this market ever has seen at 

 Christmas. Early in the week receipts 

 were light, many orders were shipped 

 short, and many others were refused, call- 

 ing for Beauties and other special items. 

 But when the big shipping days arrived, 

 December 22 and December 23, it is 

 probable that every house in this market 

 filled its orders more nearly as given 

 than they ever before were filled at this 

 holiday. When the business leaps to four 

 or five times the normal volume, it never 

 is possible to fill every order just as 

 wanted. The wholesalers must keep 

 things moving; they cannot let ordeis 

 lie until they get in the stock to fill out 

 some one item; sorting, packing and 

 shipping must go on continuously from 

 morning until late at night. Thus :t 

 happens that an order may go out short a 

 part of one item, when a half hour latti 

 that wholesaler may have plenty. Th'S 

 Christmas, however, the supply was s ' 

 large throughout the two shipping da; s 

 that pretty nearly everyone got what )i'' 

 wanted, and all he wanted. 



The shipping business never was better 

 but when the wholesalers got throug! 

 Thursday evening a good many of the'' 

 found they still had quite a quantity oi 

 stock on hand, some of them great quan 

 titles, and Thursday evening the mark''!^ 

 began to weaken. The day before Christ 

 mas brought the storm andi the bus; 

 ness done that day fell far below ex- 

 pectations. Christmas morning there was 

 extremely Uttle doing. The result is that 



