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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Februaby 10, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



6. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVEBY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



630-56O Caxton Building;, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Habbison 6429. 



kkgisterbd cablb addrbss, flokvikw, chicago 



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 

 itrictly 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-oilice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 • act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEETISEKS, PAGE 86 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— The Credit System 7 



— I'Mlling Feru Dishes (lllus.) 7 



— Advertising Pays 8 



— Mall Euclosures 8 



Outdoor Sprengerl 8 



Illinois Florists to Meet (illus.) 9 



Propagating Poinsettias 9 



Plants for Christmas 9 



Cannas from Seed 9 



Chrysanthemums 10 



— Chrysanthemum Golden Glow 10 



— Preparing to Propagate 10 



— Early Pot Plants 10 



Carnations — Fisher's Carnations 10 



— Carnation Rust 10 



— Rust on Enchantress 11 



— Cutworms in Benches 11 



— Potting Rooted Cuttings 11 



— Spider and Stlgmonose 11 



— Carnation Niagara (illus.) 11 



American Carnation Society 11 



Geraniums — Stock for Memorial Day 12 



— Geraniums and Coleus 12 



— Geranium for Name 12 



Rust on Begonia Rex 12 



Sleeping in a Greenhouse 12 



Roses — Raised vs. Solid Benches 12 



Viburnum Utile (illus.) 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Heliotropes 13 



— Spiraeas* 13 



— Dutch Bulbous Stock 13 



— Azaleas 13 



— Ten Weeks' Stocks 13 



— Lillum Candidum 14 



— G«nistas 14 



— Flcus Elastlca 14 



— Adiantums 14 



— Show Pelargoniums 14 



Texas Handicaps Florists 14 



New York 15 



New York and New Jersey Plant Growers' 



Dinner (illus.) 15 



Kansas City 10 



American Rose Society 10 



Among Boston Growers 10 



Obituary 18 



Council of Horticulture 18 



Tax on Growing Stock 18 



Chicago 18 



Boston 24 



Philadelphia 28 



Indianapolis 32 



Amherst, Mass 34 



Buffalo 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 40 



— Temperature for Lettuce 40 



— Worms on L«ttuce 40 



— Sifting Radish Seed 40 



St. Louis 40 



Seed Trade News 42 



— H. E. Fiske (portrait) 44 



— In Tennessee 45 



— Imports 40 



— The French Floods 46 



— Catalogues Received 47 



Providence 48 



Nursery News — Wistaria and Magnolias.... 56 



— English Ivy in Shade 56 



Pacific (3oast — Los Angeles, Cal 58 



— San Francisco 58 



— Camellias In California 59 



Taunton, Mass 60 



Louisville, Ky 62 



Milwaukee 64 



Tarry town, N. Y 66 



Pittsburg 75 



Greenhouse Heating — Boiler and Smokestack 76 



— Three Defects in Piping 76 



— Boiler Boils Over 77 



— Install Another Flow 78 



Cincinnati 80 



West Salem, 111 81 



Cleveland 82 



Yonkers, N. Y 82 



Detroit 84 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



INCORPOBATBD BY ACT OF CONGBESS MABOH 4, '01 



Ofllcers 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 10. 1010. 



KESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Eetailers like Carnation May Day 

 because of its superior keeping qualities. 



Anonymous inquiries are not answered. 

 Sign your name if you expect attention. 



J. A. Valentine says that the selling 

 prices of florists' products have not ad- 

 vanced in proportion to the cost of high 

 living. 



IvOT a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Don't substitute. The fact that you 

 gave a better variety, or a higher priced 

 sort, as often is the case, does not count 

 in the average purchaser's mind; what he 

 wants is what he ordered or his money 

 back — promptly. 



FINDS IT SUFFICIENT. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time,, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



I have saved every copy of the Review Issued 

 since I first subscribed, several years ago, and 

 would not take |1 (the price of a whole year's 

 subscription) for any one copy. The Review 

 is the only florists' paper I take, as it Is qnlte 

 sufilclent and covers the ground in an up-to-date 

 manner; It Is beyond comparison with any sam- 

 ple copy of other florists' papers I have ever 

 seen.— H. C. Smith, Mgr., Colvllle Nursery and 

 Greenhouses, Colvllle, Wash., Feb. 3, 1910. 



OBITUARY, 



Eugene K. Dieiner« 



Eugene K. Diemer, aged 39 years, head 

 of the Diemer Floral Co., St. Louis, Mo., 

 died last week after a lingering illness. 

 He leaves a wife and son to mourn his 

 loss. The funeral took place from his 

 late residence, 1805 South Broadway, Fri- 

 day, February 4. Quite a few in the 

 trade were in attendance. Mrs. Diemer 

 will continue the business. 



COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 held a meeting at the Congress hotel, 

 Chicago, January 17, 1910. There were 

 present C. E. Kendel and C. Cropp, from 

 the American Seed Trade Association; 

 E. D, Smith and W. N. Eudd, from the 

 Society of American Florists; J. H. Bur- 

 dett, of the press bureau service; J. C. 

 Vaughan, chairman, and H. C. Irish, sec- 

 retary. Letters or telegrams were read 

 from J. Horace McFarland, J. Otto 

 Thilow, F. E. Pierson and C. L. Watrous. 



The term as delegates at large of Pro- 

 fessors W. B. Alwood, S. A. Beach and 

 S. B. Green having expired. Professors 

 Alwood and Beach were elected to suc- 

 ceed themselves and Professor J. C. Blair, 

 of Urbana, 111., was elected to succeed 

 Professor Green. It was announced that 

 C. Cropp and C. E. Kendel were the 

 authorized representatives in the council 

 from the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion, J. Otto Thilow, E. D. Smith and 

 W. N. Budd from the Society of Ameri- 



can Florists, C. L. Watrous and Guy .\. 

 Bryant from the American Associat i )n 

 of Nurserymen, H. S. Watson and J. F. 

 Wilson from the National Nut Grower' 

 Association. 



The secretary reported $183.22 on hit kJ 

 and $200 available from the Ameri<,;n 

 Seed Trade Association, or a total t 

 $383.22 for the current year's work. 



J. H. Burdett made a report on tne 

 press bureau work. The secretary w.i> 

 instructed to ask the assistance of ex 

 perts in the preparation of articles and 

 to arrange a schedule for their distribu- 

 tion as soon as practicable. Some sixly 

 subjects were suggested, one-half of 

 which the members present pledged te 

 prepare. It was arranged to send out at 

 least ten installments this spring, begin 

 ning the latter part of February. 



H. C. Irish, Sec'y. 



THE TAX ON GROWING STOCK. 



Eeaders of the Eeview may remember 

 that a recent number of the paper — the 

 issue of January 13 — contained a letter 

 from Christ. Winterich, of Defiance, 0.. 

 giving a brief account of his experience 

 in connection with the taxation of the 

 stock in his greenhouses. In another 

 letter, just received, Mr. Winterich 

 speaks of the urgent need of a general 

 agitation of this subject, and suggests 

 that it would be an excellent topic for 

 discussion at the next convention of the 

 S. A. F. Mr. Winterich also encloses a 

 letter which was written to him by James 

 E. Norton, of Akron, O., and which reads 

 substantially as follows: 



"I noticed in the Eeview your letter 

 under the head of 'Tax on Growing 

 Stock. ' Now, growing stock in green- 

 houses is not taxable, according to the 

 statutes of Ohio. They wanted to tax me 

 here, in Akron, but I went to the board 

 of review and made a kick and they ad- 

 mitted they could not tax the growing 

 stock in my greenhouses, though they 

 could tax my tools. There was a florist 

 in Youngstown, O., who was threatened 

 with a tax on his house of Easter lilies, 

 but he took the matter into court and the 

 judge threw the case out, on the ground 

 that no valuation could be placed on the 

 lilies or on other growing stock. ' ' 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Supplies were on the upgrade all last 

 week, and prices naturally traveling in 

 the opposite direction. Beauties and 

 roses held their own in good shape, the 

 principal weakness being in carnations. 

 It has happened now for several weeks 

 in succession that the early part of the 

 period would see a stiff carnation market, 

 with such an increase in supply that the 

 later days brought a slump. Each week 

 of the last three qr four this eondition 

 has become more pronounced. Last week 

 the weakness in prices was accentuate' i 

 by the sudden drop in the temperature, 

 which shut off all the buyers who do busi- 

 ness outdoors and also cut down the tran- 

 sient trade which on Saturday takes im- 

 mense quantities of stock, especially car- 

 nations, out of the Greek stores. 



The present week opened with the mar 

 ket much easier than it has been on any 

 recent Monday. The supply of Beauties 

 is not large, but the demand seems to 

 have fallen away to a point where mod- 

 erate receipts suflBce to satisfy the buy- 

 ers. The price already was weaker Feb- 

 ruary 7, and the prospect for the first 



