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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januahy 13, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



PUBUSHKD KVKBY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING GO. 



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334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Hakeison 5429. 



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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 Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketail Florist p 



— Lincoln's is Rose Day 5 



— Delivering Cemetery Orders 15 



— Wreath on Easel (lUus. ) •"> 



— Smith's Pittsburg Store (illus.) 5 



— Building up a Retail Trade 



— Renting Decorative Plants (lUus.) S 



— How to Keep Greens 8 



Tax on Growing Stock 8 



Forcing Hydrangeas 9 



Fred Wlttbold (portrait) 9 



Roses — Leafless Rose Plants 10 



— The Propagating House 10 



Bay Trees 10 



Outdoor Sprengeri 10 



Ferns — Diseased Bostons 10 



— Culture of Fern 10 



Carnations 11 



— How We Grow Carnations 11 



— Withered Leaves and Blooms 11 



— Crops Come Slowly 12 



Ludwlg's Stand (illus.) 12 



Superphosphate of Lime 12 



Bad Effects of Tar Fumes 12 



Chrysanthemums 13 



— Success with Jones Mums 13 



— Not Good Indoor Stock 13 



Chysanthemum Society 13 



Bulbous Stock for Spring 13 



The Acorn (illus.) 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Azaleas 14 



— Acacia Armata 14 



— Hydrangeas 14 



— Shamrocks 14 



— Marguerites 14 



— Show Pelargoniums 14 



— Lilies 14 



— Spiraeas 14 



Milwaukee 14 



Detroit 15 



St. Louis 15 



Council of Horticulture 16 



Obituary 16 



— H. McK. Twombly 16 



— Mrs. Josephine Garland 16 



Chicago 16 



Des Moines 22 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 26 



Boston 32 



Steamer Sailings. ? 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Commerce In Seeds 38 



— Imports 38 



— Win Enforce Seed Law 38 



— Profits in Aster Seed 38 



— Hercules Aster 38 



— Origin of Spencer Peas 40 



Pittsburg 42 



Pacific Coast 48 



— Propagating Holly 48 



— San Francisco 48 



— Los Angeles 49 



Nursery News 50 



— Salt In Whitewash oO 



— Necessity's the Mother 50 



Vegetable Forcing 52 



— Vegetable Markets oz 



— Celery in Unheated House 52 



— Root Rot in Brasslcas 52 



— Maggots In Turnips 52 



Providence, R. I °2 



Cincinnati 52 



Columbus, Ohio 58 



New Orleans •• W 



Greenhouse Heating— Tomato House 67 



— A Partitioned House 68 



— The Fuel Famine 70 



New Bedford, Mass 72 



Tiffin, 72 



Dayton, 74 



Minneapolis J« 



Waahlngton 76 



80CIBTT OF AMEBICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congekss Mabch 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Collections are said to be good. 



Did you send each debtor a statement 

 of account January 1? 



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 Review frequently receives per- 

 fectly legitimate inquiries from those 

 whose modesty prompts them to omit 

 name, address or other mark by which 

 they can be identified. Anonymous in- 

 quiries never are noticed. But one to 

 hand this week contains 50 cents to pay 

 for a reply, with no means of identifying 

 the sender. If that party will supply 

 name and address, the money will be re- 

 turned. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



There will be a meeting of the Na- 

 tional Council of Horticulture at the Au- 

 ditorium Annex, Chicago, January 17, 

 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m., to arrange de- 

 tails for next year's work. All inter- 

 ested in exploiting horticulture along 

 broad lines, or in other matters properly 

 belonging to the work of the Council, 

 are invited to cooperate. It is earnestly 

 hoped there will be a good attendance. 

 H. C. Irish, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



H. McK. Twombly. 



Hamilton McKown Twombly, capitalist 

 and railroad man, died January 11 at his 

 home in Madison, N. J., after a long ill- 

 ness. Mr. Twombly married Adele Van- 

 derbilt, the daughter of William H. Van- 

 derbilt, and for many years was an active 

 figure in the direction of the Vanderbilt 

 railroad interests. He was a director in 

 forty railroad and other corporations. 



Mr. Twombly was a patron of horti- 

 culture and was engaged, at the time of 

 his death, in a large landscape undertak- 

 ing at his estate in Madison, where Ar- 

 thur Herrington is superintendent, and 

 where a part of the glass operated by 

 Charles H. Totty is located. 



Mrs. Josephine Garland. 



Mrs. Josephine Garland, wife of the 

 late Solomon Garland, died Friday, Janu- 

 ary 7, at 715 Buckingham place, Chicago, 

 the residence of her son-in-law, Fred 

 Wittbold. 



Mrs. Garland was 69 years of age, and 

 was well known to the older generation 

 of florists in and about Chicago. Solomon 

 Garland was for years, in the early days 

 of the industry, a leading grower for the 

 Chicago market, and it was because of hia 

 establishment, and those of his sons, that 

 Des Plaines became a well-known center 

 in cut flower production. Mrs. Garland 

 was the mother of Warren, Frank, 

 George, Solomon, Jr., Mrs. Percy Jones 

 and Mrs. Fred Wittbold, all the sons 

 being growers except George, who is a 

 greenhouse builder, and the daughters 



being the wives of florists, Mrs. Jones 

 now conducting the wholesale commission 

 business of her late husband. 



The funeral was held at the old family 

 home at Des Plaines, HI., on the after- 

 noon of January 10, and was largely at- 

 tended, there being many flowers. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market was completely frozen up 

 in the middle and latter part of last week 

 and, in spite of moderating weather, 

 there has been no great change this week, 

 although conditions are slowly improv- 

 ing. 



It is not often that business is as light 

 in this market as it was during the below- 

 zero days of last week. The cold was so 

 severe and has been so long continued 

 that nothing more than the necessary 

 things were done by anyone, meaning an 

 almost complete suspension of the flower 

 business. Shipping fell away to a lighter 

 volume than at any time this season, and 

 the city trade was confined to a few good 

 jobs for the retailers who eater to the 

 social element, and to funeral work for 

 the rank and file. About the only stock 

 for which there was any real demand 

 was white roses, and there was an ac- 

 cumulation in almost all other lines. The 

 average prices made by carnations would 

 hardly compare with those made in mid- 

 summer or during the time of the spring 

 glut, and Beauties seldom have sold lower 

 than they did last week. 



The supply of stock was not large for 

 the season, the accumulation being almost 

 entirely due to the absence of demand. 

 Hardly any of the flower stands about 

 town have been operating, and these 

 stands under favorable conditions sell an 

 enormous quantity of stock. They are 

 able to move large quantities at mod- 

 erate prices, and they give a strength to 

 the market which is not thoroughly ap- 

 preciated until a time comes when this 

 support is withdrawn. Then the neces- 

 sity for these stands is brought out in 

 sharp relief. 



As the weather has become warmer 

 there has been a little improvement in 

 demand, but trade still is light and the 

 supply in excess of the requirements. All 

 the wholesalers feel, however, that as soon 

 as the weather gets warm enough for 

 people to get about in some comfort 

 there will be a prompt increase in busi- 

 ness and that the market will advance 

 sharply to somewhere near seasonable 

 values; all that is needed to tone the 

 market up is a place to put the sur- 

 plus, such as the Greek stands afford. 



Beauties are in extremely large supply, 

 of splendid quality and selling at as low 

 prices as ever were recorded in January. 

 Other roses are in comparatively light 

 crop. The call for funeral work is mak- 

 ing a good demand for short roses, and 

 these sell relatively better than the longer 

 grades. It is the long, fancy stock, espe- 

 cially of Killarney, that is moving slowly 

 and failing to realize the price it should 

 have. Carnations are not in specially 

 large supply, but there are many more 

 than the demand has required — in fact, 

 carnations have been the wholesaler's 

 principal problem, and some extremely 

 low averages have been made. Violets 

 also have suffered severely during the 

 unusually cold weather. The demand is 

 so largely for corsage wear that when 

 people cannot go on the streets the sale 

 is limited. Quality is excellent, and many 

 retailers have been making funeral work 



