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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



January 20, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



PCBLISHED EVBBT THUBSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



630-560 Caxton BnUdlng, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



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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 

 Btrictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 foUowing 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 ASVEBTISEBB PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— The Brlde'8 Bouquet (lllus.) 5 



— Retail Design Catalogues 5 



— Sbaring the Prottts .'5 



— They Liked It 5 



— Troublesome Problems 5 



— Retailer's Advertising (illus. ) 6 



Trouble with Sweet Peas 6 



Greranlums 7 



— Winter Flowering Geraniums (lllus.) 7 



Asters for Memorial Day 8 



That Tax on Growing Stock 9 



Plants for Small House 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 10 



— Thrlps 10 



— Fairy Ring 10 



— Rooting Carnations In Soil 11 



— Carnations Getting Larger (illus.) 11 



— On to Pittsburg 11 



English Room In Fort Pitt Hotel (illus.) 11 



Roses— White Klllarney 12 



— Temperature for Kaiserln 12 



Time to Flower Bulbs 12 



Uly of the Valley 12 



— An All-the-Year-Round Crop 12 



Peterson's Newest Begonias (illus.) 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Coreopsis Grandiflora. 13 



— Rhododendrons 13 



— Lorraine Begonias 13 



— Campanula Medium 14 



— Dutch Bulbous Stock 14 



— Erica Melantbera 14 



— Lobelias 14 



— Petunias 14 



— Cleaning Foliage Plants 14 



— Seed Supplies 14 



— Palnthig 14 



Boston 14 



Detroit 15 



Rockford, 111 15 



Providence, R. 1 15 



Obituary 16 



Chicago 16 



Indianapolis 20 



Milwaukee 22 



Springfield, Ohio 22 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 24 



St. Louis 26 



Orange. N. J 32 



Dayton, Ohio 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Imports 38 



— A New Gladiolus 38 



— Crossing of Sweet Peas 38 



— Fast Mails for Free Seeds 89 



— Agricultural Chemicals 40 



Vegetable Forcing 44 



— Vegetable Markets 44 



— Worms in Vegetable Houses 44 



— Worms in Lettuce Roots 44 



— Transplanting Onions 44 



Cleveland 45 



Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 60 



— San Francisco 60 



— Los Angeles, Cal 50 



— Holly from Seed 61 



Nnrsery News — Texas Nurserymen Meet 52 



Portland, Ore 54 



Evansvllle, Ind 66 



New Haven, Conn 58 



Cincinnati 60 



Madison, N. J 62 



Greenhouse Heating 70 



— Average Quantity of Coal 70 



— Scale In Boiler 70 



— Unsatisfactory Piping 70 



— In Northern Illinois 72 



New Bedford, Mass 74 



Pittsburg 76 



Rochester 78 



Baltimore 80 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobpobated bt Act or Conqbess Mabch 4, '01 



Ofilcers for 1910: President, P. E. Plerson, 

 Tarry town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, 

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



KESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Sign full name and address and your 

 queries will receive prompt attention. 

 Anonymous questions are not answered. 



Cut flowers appear to be realizing bet- 

 ter prices in the east than in the west 

 this season. A year ago it was the other 

 way about. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 tne Eeview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



J, A. Peterson says he is not the 

 "creator" of certain new begonias — he 

 objects to the use of the word in that 

 connection and prefers to be spoken of 

 as the hybridizer of the varieties in ques- 

 tion. 



The S. S. Pennoek-Meehan Co., whole- 

 sale florists of Philadelphia and Wash- 

 ington, have issued a folder on "Cul- 

 ture of Asparagus Plumosus, " edited by 

 Charles E. Meehan, who is one of the 

 largest growers of asparagus for the 

 Philadelphia market. 



J. A. Valentine, chairman of the com- 

 mittee charged with the organization of 

 the proposed retail florists' delivery as- 

 sociation, has called a meeting of this 

 committee and others interested, to be 

 held at the Fort Pitt hotel, Pittsburg, 

 during the meeting of the American Car- 

 nation Society, January 26 and 27. 



OBITUARY. 



Luther A. Line. 



Luther A. Line, of Carlisle, Pa., died 

 January 6, as the result of a paralytic 

 stroke. He was 75 years of age and had 

 formerly been engaged in the florists' 

 trade. He was a close friend of (Jeneral 

 Fitzhugh Lee. 



Mrs. J. C, Craig, 



Mrs. Nellie C. Craig, wife of "Joe" 

 Craig, a well-known character in the 

 trade in Chicago, died at her residence, 

 738 South Oakley boulevard, and was 

 buried in Mount Carmel cemetery after 

 funeral services January 18 in the 

 (^urch of the Most Precious Blood. Mrs. 

 Craig had been a resident of Chicago for 

 forty-six years. She was the mother of 

 Arthur, Herbert, Lrene, Joseph, John 

 O'Callaghan, Raymond and William 

 Craig. The sons are engaged in the 

 flower business with their father. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Department of Resfistration. 



Public notice is hereby given that the 

 application of Southwick Cary Briggs, 

 of 1719 Lamont street, Washington, 

 D. C, for the registration of the rambler 

 rose described b^low, having been sub- 

 mitted to the American Rose Society on 

 December 13, 1909, and no reply hav- 

 ing been received from them within the 



required time, the registration becomes 

 complete. 



Raiser's description: Color, delightful 

 shade of deep pink; flower, three inches 

 in diameter, semi-double, free-flowering, 

 five to seven blossoms on a spray; habit, 

 vigorous grower and very hardy; parent- 

 age, hybrid of Madame Gabriel Luizet z 

 Wiehuraiana, seedling crossed by Baron 

 de Rothschild. H. B. Dobnek, Sec'y. 



January 12, 1910. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Wanoka Greenhouses, Barneveld, N. Y., 

 registers Carnation Rainbow, white seed- 

 ling crossed Enchantress; white overlaid 

 with pink ; size, three and one-half inches ; 

 grand habit; large, high-built flower, 

 making fine display; fragrant, with long, 

 stiff stem and fine calyx; fine keeper and 

 shipper. Also Carnation Sultana, Gov. 

 Roosevelt crossed Mrs. Lawson; light 

 crimson, three to three and one-half 

 inches; fine form, free worker, ideal 

 habit, long, stiff stem and fine calyx. 

 A. F. J. Baub, Sec'y. 



NEW ENGLAND APPROVES. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertisM" part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



The Review is the best paper before the trade, 

 both for news and for advertisements. — G. J. 

 Benedict, Concord, N. H., January 6, 1910. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has turned one of its 

 periodical flip-flops since last report. All 

 through last week receipts were greater 

 than the demand, in spite of the fact 

 that the cut was at no time heavy. But 

 at the opening of this week the supply 

 out through the country had become so 

 reduced that a large number of shipping 

 orders were received, and a considerable 

 shortage developed. For some time white 

 roses have been under the demand, and 

 last week all short roses sold exceedingly 

 well, while this week finds the rose mar- 

 ket decidedly stiff. The only adequate 

 supplies are in medium and long Beau- 

 ties and in the extra special grades of 

 Killarney, Richmond and to a less extent 

 other roses. There continue to be ample 

 supplies of Beauties, but the price has 

 stiffened because of increased demand 

 and decreased receipts, with a prospect 

 of stiU further advancement in value. It 

 has been the ease nearly all winter that 

 the extra special grade of Killarney and, 

 indeed, other roses, has been, in propor- 

 tion to the demand, more abundant than 

 the medium grades. This still is true; it 

 is easier to find the stock for the order 

 which calls for the highest grade than it 

 is to find the roses for the buyer who 

 wants the medium lengths. Growers say 

 the extra special grade has at no time 

 this season realized its full value in com- 

 parison to the price obtainable for the 

 medium lengths. Just now a short rose 

 is worth one-third to one-half the price 

 of an extremely long one, which is out 

 of proportion to the cost of production. 



While the cuts of carnations have not 

 been reduced as sharply as those of roses, 

 the increased demand has brought a wel- 

 come advance in prices of carnations. 

 Last week stock was so abundant that it 

 was difficult to find any buyer who would 

 take the splits and other low grades; 

 this week everything has a value, and 



