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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Fbbruaey 3, 1910, 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



PUBLISHED BVEBT THCBSDAT BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton BuUdlne:, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicaso. 



Telephone, Habbison 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 

 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 ABVEKTISEBS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 7 



— Vuk'iitliies nnil the Florist (iUus.) 7 



— McKinley Ijay 8 



— Boston Ketail iSusluess .S 



— IHjIlverlug Cenietory Orders 8 



— Department Store Schem-o U 



— Novel Advertising 9 



Karly Asters 9 



Seed Flats 9 



Convention Aftermath 10 



— The Pittsburg Banquet (illus.J 10 



— Trip to Bakerstown (Ulus.) 12 



Society of American Florists 12 



— William t. Kastlng (portrait) 13 



Greenhouse I'ests 13 



Alters Under Ulass 13 



Visiting the Fatherland 13 



Name of Plant 13 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Easter Lilies 14 



— Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 14 



— Cyclamens 14 



— • Kambler Hoses 14 



— Sweet Peas 14 



— Verbenas 14 



Carnations 14 



— Carnation Notes. — East 14 



Why Join the Rose Society? 15 



Kansans Will Organize 15 



Evausvllle, Ind Itj 



Baltimore, Md 10 



Glen Cove, N. Y 10 



St. Louis, Mo 16 



New York, N. Y 17 



S<K-ii'ty of American Florists 18 



Obituary 18 



— Elius Emery 18 



— E. C. Burrows 18 



— H. W. Meek 18 



Chicago 18 



Sl()\ix City, Iowa 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Dayton, Ohio a.'> 



(.'olumbus, Ohio 27 



Champaign, III 32 



Seed Trade Xews 30 



— Opaque Packets Mailable 38 



— Anotlier Pure Seed Bill 38 



— Catalogues Uecelved 38 



Boston, Mass 38 



Coleus for Names 44 



Mlllcpeds 44 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable Markets 48 



— Funilj?atlug in Cold Weather 48 



— Cloth-Covered Frames 48 



— Effect of Gas on Mushrooms 48 



— I'l-opagating Rhubarb 48 



Providence. R. 1 50 



Nursery News 50 



— Shrubs for Front of Veranda .ir. 



— Hydrangea Otaksa M 



Pacific Coast 58 



— Romans in Forty-two Days 58 



— Overforced Plants 58 



— Portland. Ore 58 



— San Francisco •18 



Milwaukee, Wis 62 



Pittsburg, Pa 64 



• Manchester, Mass 66 



Fort Wayne, Ind 66 



Hadley, Mass 74 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Piping in Wyoming 76 



— Wrong System of Returns 76 



— Capacity of Boiler 78 



— A Traction Engine Boiler 78 



Hudson, Mass 79 



Fall River, Mass 80 



Indianapolis, Ind 82 



Detroit, Mich 84 



Cincinnati, 86 



Minneapolis. Minn 88 



Lincoln, Neb 88 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8T8. 



INCOBPOBATED BY ACT OF CONOBKSS MABCH 4, '01 



Officers for 1010: President, F. R. Plerson, 

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



BeBults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Variegated carnations, quite popular 

 in the Boston market, are seldom seen in 

 the western markets. 



N. ZwEiPEL, North Milwaukee, Wis., 

 says he will put his new pink carnation, 

 Bright Spot, on the market in 1911. 



C. W. Ward, of Cottage Gardens, went 

 last week to the gulf coast of Mississippi, 

 where he will spend the rest of the win- 

 ter. 



And now the new combination of win- 

 dow glass manufacturers is to be at- 

 tacked as a trust by the attorney general 

 in Ohio. 



The pure insecticides bill looks good 

 for passage at this session of congress. 

 There seems little opposition, even among 

 insecticide manufacturers themselves. 



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 average grower of cut flowers for 

 the wholesale markets is a specialist, 

 growing only a few things, whereas the 

 grower for home trade must produce a 

 great variety of stock. 



The "Want" and "For Sale" adver- 

 tisements in the Review are worth look- 

 ing over. This department has grown, 

 along with the rest of the paper, and 

 there are many good offers there every 

 week. 



It is reported that the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society plans remodeling 

 its splendid building in Boston to in- 

 crease the space available for exhibitions. 

 The contemplated improvements are said 

 to involve the expenditure of $100,000. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission announces that an examination 

 will be held March 3, 1910. for the pur- 

 pose of securing a list of eligibles to 

 be used in filling a vacancy in the posi- 

 tion of landscape gardener, engineer of 

 Department at Large, and vacancies re- 

 quiring similar qualifications as they may 

 occur. Those desiring to take the exam- 

 ination should apply either to the United 

 States Civil Service Commission, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, or to the secretary of the 

 board of examiners in the capital or 

 other large city of each state. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



S. Cockburn & Sons, of Woodlawn, 

 N. Y., make application to have the name 

 of their chrysanthemum, previously regis- 

 tered as Dr. Frederick A. Cook, changed 

 to Mrs. .Tane Cochran. Public notice is 

 hereby given of the application, and un- 

 less objections to the change are received 

 within twenty days from publication of 

 this notice, the change will be made. 

 H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



January 20, 1910. 



OBITUAHY. 



Elias Emery. 



Elias Emery, known to the trade as a 

 horticultural writer, died at his home ir 

 Omaha, Neb., January 23. He was born 

 in Circleville, O., February 26, 1826. He 

 removed to Omaha in 1862 and was p 

 member of the territorial legislature in 

 the early '608. He engaged in the real 

 estate business till 1884, when he retired 

 from that occupation and devoted his 

 time to horticulture, in which he took a 

 great interest. He made a special study 

 of the rose and wrote a number of 

 treatises on that flower that attracted 

 attention throughout the country. He was 

 also the author of numerous works on hor- 

 ticultural subjects. 



Mr. Emery was one of the founders 

 and a charter member of the Omaha 

 Philosophical Society. He leaves three 

 sons, Charles J., of Omaha, and Solon and 

 Elias, of Cheyenne, Wyo. 



E. C. Burrows. 



E. C. Burrows, well known in the trade 

 in St. Louis, of the old-time firm of 

 Pilcher & Burrows, commission brokers, 

 and a former member of the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club, died last week. The body 

 was taken to the family home in Peoria, 

 111., where the funeral took place Satur- 

 day, January 29. 



H. W. Meek. 



H. W. Meek, president of the California 

 Nursery Co., of Niles, Cal., died at his 

 home at Haywards, Cal., January 21. He 

 was one of the best known orchardists 

 and horticulturists in California and he 

 had accumulated a large fortune from his 

 interests. He was 53 years of age and 

 is survived by a widow and three grown 

 children. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There has been an excellent week "s 

 business since last report. The supply of 

 stock has increased' slightly, but not 

 enough to affect the out-of-town demand, 

 which has continued strong, and for the 

 entire week there has been a good market 

 for practically every variety of stock. 

 About the only exception has been the 

 violet, which has not shared in the gen- 

 eral favor. There are those of the com- 

 mission men who say the average price 

 received for violets last week was the 

 lowest of the season to date. At the same 

 time, receipts were not as large as they 

 wore a few weeks ago, and the quality of 

 much of the stock is not up to the mark. 



Beauties are decidedly on the short 

 side, some of the largest growers cutting 

 hardly more than a single armful per 

 (lay, but $6 per dozen seems to be about 

 as high as the buyers are willing to go. 

 even for the best stock. Of other roses 

 the supply is slightly increased, at least 

 by comparison to the demand, for the 

 call has been curtailed by the general 

 knowledge that roses are scarce and 

 prices stiff; the out-of-town buyer is 

 using more carnations and more miscel- 

 ilaneous stock and fewer roses; he hesi- 

 tates to order that which he knows will 

 cost a stiff price if, indeed, his order is 

 filled. White and Killarney continue to 

 have the call, with Richmond going slower 

 than any other variety and therefore be- 

 ing in comparatively better supply; you 

 can get red roses at moderate price when 



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