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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Januaby 6, 1910. 



THE FLORISTSV REVIEW 



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INDEX TO ASVERTISEBS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— A Woodmen's Wreath (lUus.) 5 



— Color Life 5 



— Walker's Window (lUus.) « 



— Boatwrlght's Japanese Booth (Ulus.) C 



Cbrysauthemums — Cuadwick a Keeper 7 



— Good Commercial Varieties. . . , 7 



— Nitrate of Potash for Mums 7 



Iris from Seed 7 



Time to Start Caniias 7 



Pfelffer's Hounds (illus. ) 7 



Carnations — Cuttings to Take 8 



— For a Cloudy Climate 8 



— New Hampshire Seedlings (illus.) 8 



— Amount of Nitrate of Soda 9 



— Outdoor Carnations 9 



— Imperfect White Perfection 9 



American Carnation Society 9 



To Remove Lead Shading 9 



Romans for Kaster 9 



Roses — Ground Bone for Itoses 10 



— A Rose Garden 10 



— Caroline Testout (illus. ) 10 



— Rose Radiance (Illus.) 11 



Bulbs for Easter 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — New Year's Musings 11 



— Seed Sowing 11 



— Propagation 12 



— Hydrangeas 12 



— Ramblers 12 



— Bedding Geraniums 12 



— Spanish Iris 12 



— Easter Lilies 12 



— Cinerarias 12 



Society of American Florists 12 



— President's Appointments 12 



— Director Willis N. Kudd (portrait) 12 



— Director Robert Craig (portrait) 13 



Frozen Christmas Stock 13 



News, Notes and Comments 14 



Snow Increases Cuts 15 



A Crop for Easter l.'i 



Asters for Memorial Day 15 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Bedding 15 



Obituary — Mrs. C. Frauenf elder 16 



— Frederick Sunkel 16 



— Frederick L. Bruenig 16 



The Situation in Glass 16 



Chicago 16 



Boston 22 



Providence, R. 1 24 



Lilies for Easter 25 



Philadelphia 2G 



New York 27 



Polypodlums in Dwellings 30 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegi-tablo Markets 32 



— A Poor Crop of I>;ttuce 32 



Denver 34 



Louisville, Ky 35 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Nebraskan's Troiiblt's 38 



— Catalogues Received 38 



— The Season's Pack 38 



— European Notes 40 



— Adulteration of Seeds 44 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 52 



— Los Angeles, Cal 52 



— San Francisco 53 



Nursery News 54 



— Germans Set .Minimum Price 54 



— Manure for Rhododendrons 54 



Grasshoppers 55 



St. Louis 56 



Chflmpalgn, HI 67 



Indianapolis 58 



St. Paul 60 



Pittsburg 64 



Greenhouse Heating 71 



— A Novel Heating Plant 71 



— To Heat Greenhouses .,. 71 



— In Ontral Massachusetts 72 



Springfield, Ohio 72 



Cincinnati 76 



New Bedford, Mass 78 



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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



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 December 24, 1909. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. C. Frauenfelder. 



Martha Frauenfelder, wife of Conrad 

 Frauenfelder, the well known retail 

 florist on West Madison street, Chicago, 

 died early in the morning of January 1, 

 after an illness dating back to last 

 spring. She was operated on April 28 

 and for a brief time was improved in 

 health, but for the greater part of the 

 time which has elapsed she was confined 

 to her couch. Mrs. Frauenfelder thor- 

 oughly appreciated the hopeless charac- 

 ter of her illness, but it was her wish 

 to be spared until after the Christmas 

 holidays, and at Christmas time she was 

 able to participate in the children's tree 

 and to prepare with her own hands a 

 number of the gifts for friends. 



Mrs. Frauenfelder left two children, 

 Edna and Hazel. She also is survived 

 by her father, George H. Froboese, and 

 a sister. Mr. Froboese is associated 

 with Mr. Frauenfelder in the flower 

 business. The funeral was held from 

 the residence, 3343 West Madison street, 

 Chicago, on the afternoon of January 4 

 and was largely attended. There was an 

 exceptionally large showing of floral 

 pieces, for Mr. and Mrs. Frauenfelder 

 were widely known in their neighborhood 

 and in the trade. A large number of 

 Chicago florists were in attendance. The 

 remains were placed in the vault at 

 Waldheim cemetery. Mr. Frauenfelder 

 is himself in precarious health. 



Frederick Sunkel. 



Frederick Sunkel, a well known land- 

 scape gardener, died at his home in Ala- 

 meda, Cal., December 24. He had re- 

 sided in that town for fifty-four years 

 and was 78 years of age at the time of 

 his death. He is survived by three sons 

 and two daughters. Mr. Sunkel was a 

 native of Germany. 



Frederick L. Bruenig. 



Frederick L. Bruenig, of St. Louis, 

 Mo., father of Mrs. Henry Berning, died 

 Wednesday, December 29, after a long 

 illness. He was 63 years of age. Mr. 

 Bruenig 's wife died only a week ago. 

 The funeral took place from the resi- 



dence of Mr. Berning, Friday, Deceml r 

 31,, and was attended by many fri,ei is 

 in the, trade, who sent beautiful flo ii 

 designs. The trade extends its sympat y 

 to Mrs. Berning and Otto Bruenig, tL y 

 having lost both mother and father insi ie 

 of ten days. 



THE SITUATION IN GLASS. 



It is stated by manufacturers in t e 

 vicinity of Columbus, O., that the buyii g 

 movement in window glass has started u 

 earnest, and the outlook is for the be-t 

 trade in the history of the industry, it 

 was but a few months ago that the manu- 

 facturers were selling their product ;it 

 fifty-six per cent of the list price, ami 

 now they are getting seventy-five per cent 

 of the list price, and cannot fill orders. 

 Dealers delayed buying all during the 

 fall, but now they are in the market and 

 the factories are being operated to their 

 full capacity. It is now practically cer- 

 tain that the Imperial Window Glass Co., 

 the new selling agency of the independent 

 factories, will open its offices in Pittsburg 

 about January 10, and be an active factor 

 in the glass trade. The new company 

 now has contracts signed with all but one ' 

 or two of the glass factories of the coun- 

 try outside the American Window Glass 

 Co., and will handle the output of over 

 2,000 pots. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The conditions attending the departure 

 of the old year were without precedent in 

 this market. Never before has there been 

 anything like the quantity of stock be- 

 tween Christmas and New Year's, and 

 never at this season have prices varied 

 so widely. Not so many years ago the 

 prices of cut flowers held practically at 

 the Christmas level until after New 

 Year's, but for several seasons there has 

 been a tendency for lower values, and 

 this year the extremely large receipts 

 produced a decline in prices that was 

 without parallel. The slump was most 

 severe right after Christmas, and there 

 was a general improvement as the week 

 progressed and buyers again came into 

 the market. Many houses say that be- 

 cause of the large supplies of stock, and 

 in spite of the unusually low prices, their 

 sales for the final week of the year beat 

 all records for the corresponding period. 

 Toward the latter part of last week busi- 

 ness was exceptionally good and prices 

 varied less widely as between the stock 

 sold on the legitimate demand and that 

 jobbed off. The trouble has been for 

 some weeks that the weather was so se 

 vere that the cheap salesmen were prac 

 tically out of business. The result ha^ 

 been that after the requirements of thi- 

 shipping trade and the local retailers had 

 been met, there was practically no outlet 

 for the surplus, which therefore realize(! 

 far less money than it would have re- 

 alized had the people who cater to thr 

 transient trade in loose flowers been 

 operating, as they do in mild weather. 



The New Year's demand was excel- 

 lent, but the unfortunate Christmas ex 

 perience with carnations was repeated, 

 though the unsold quantities were not 

 quite so great. There is considerable 

 unrest among the carnation growers be- 

 cause they did not realize what they 

 expected either at Christmas or New 

 Year's. One wholesaler says he handled 

 between Christmas and New Year's at 

 least three times as many flowers as he 



