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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febbdabt 24, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



03O-S6O Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



kbgistbrhd cable address, flokvibw, chicago 



Nftw 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-oftice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVEailSERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Till; Itutail Florist o 



— Trials of a Couutry Floriet ; . .' 5 



— 'ICeuietory iJt'livt'ries 5 



— Wliiit Would You Do? 5 



— The CroUit System 5 



Roses — Packing for l^ibipnieut 



— Uoscs on Solid Beds 6 



— llose P.'aiits from Benches 6 



Cattleya Labiata (Ulus.) 7 



The Godfrey Calla 7 



Ferns — Feru Fronds Turning Yellow 8 



— MlUepeds in Fern House 8 



— ^ The Spore Cases on Ferns 8 



Violets — Propagating 8 



— Marie Louise Violets 8 



— Dark Double Violet 8 



Mulching Gladioli 8 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lily of the Valley . . 



— Hybrid Perpetual Koses !) 



— • Lorraine Begonias y 



— Seed Sowing 9 



— Dahlias a 



Cbrysantbemumii — Chrysanthemum Bust 9 



— Notes from Great Britain 9 



Carnations — Rust on Unrooted Cuttings 10 



— Salt Solution for Spider 10 



— Blooms from Outdoor Stock 10 



— Carnations with Sweet Peas 11 



— Stigmonose 11 



— Fairy Ring 11 



— Hydrocyanic Acid Gas 11 



— House of Alma Ward (lllus.) 11 



— Outdoor Carnation Blooms 11 



A Brooklyn Firm (illus.) 12 



.\t Framingham, .Mass 12 



The Illinois Association l;j 



— C. L. Washburn (portrait) 13 



— Why Xot Peoria Ne.\t? 13 



— Charles Loveridge (portrait) l.J 



Automobile Delivery (iUus.) 14 



Hanging Baskets 14 



E. C. Amllng Store and Office (lllus. ) 15 



Coloring Flowers 15 



Obltuaiy 15 



Chicago 16 



St. Louis 21 



Cincinnati 23 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 26 



New Bedford, Mass 28 



Toronto 29 



Boston 29 



Baltimore 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— The Pleters- Wheeler Seed Co 41 



— Imports 41 



— Western Seed Corn 42 



— Notes from Great Britain 42 



— Death of Joseph B. Fuller (portrait) 44 



— Against Free Seeds 46 



— Adulterated Seeds 46 



Detroit 48 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable ilurkets 50 



— Strawberry Forcing 50 



— Diseased Lettuce 50 



— Onions from Field Sown Seed 50 



St. Paul 50 



Nursery News — Name of Hedge Plant 5(j 



Minneapolis 56 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore . 58 



— San Francisco 58 



— Los Angeles, Cal. 59 



Buffalo 60 



Indianapolis 62 



Rochester, N. Y 64 



Dayton Ohio 66 



Greenhouse Heating — A Store and Greenhouse 76 



— Warm Air for Ventilation 76 



— Vapor on Shed Walls. 76 



Providence **.V»v«^. , 77 



Ifatlck, Mass 78 



Yonkers, N. Y... ...r. 80 



Wayside Notes 82 



New Orleans 84 



BOCIETI OF AMEBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



OfBcera (or 1910: President, F. B. Plermn, 

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., Augoat 

 16 to 18. 1910. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Apparently the ground hog mu8t have 

 seen his shadow. 



The more the trade comes to know 

 Primula Kewensis the more people there 

 are who grow it. It has a place of its 

 own at a certain season of the year. 



There will be no publicity of corpora- 

 tions ' tax returns; the administration 

 found public sentiment too strong and 

 devised a way of beating the devil around 

 their own bush. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The complete premium list for the 

 spring exhibition of the American Eose 

 Society, to be held at New York March 

 16 to 18, has been issued. It contains 

 a long list of special prizes, all of which 

 have received publication in previous is- 

 sues of the Review. Intending exhibitors 

 can obtain copies of the premium list and 

 rules by addressing the secretary, Benj. 

 Hammond, Flshkill, N. Y. 



Everyone speaks well of J. A. Peter- 

 sou's new begonia, Cilory of Cincinnati. 

 At the recent meeting of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association it received the 

 only certificate of merit recommended by 

 the judges," and the plantsmen all were 

 taken with it. Mr. Peterson carries in 

 his pocket a big bundle of nice letters 

 about it, written him by some of the lead- 

 ing florists of the country. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Reeistratiotu 



Public notice is hereby given that J. 



A. Peterson, of Westwood, Cincinnati, 

 O., offers for registration the begonia de- 

 scribed below. Any person objecting to 

 the registration, or to the use of the pro- 

 posed name, is requested to communicate 

 ^vith the secretary at once. Failing to 

 receive objection to the registration, the 

 same will be made three weeks from this 

 date. 



Raiser's description: Parentage, Soco- 

 trana x a sport of Lorraine type; foliage, 

 large, round, resembling the foliage of 



B. Socotrana, but smaller; height, one 

 to one and one-half feet; color, deep, 

 soft, satiny pink; the individual flowers 

 are about two inches across; flowering 

 period, from October to April, being at 

 its best during latter part of December; 

 propagation by leaf cuttings, or by split- 

 ting up the foliage, as with the Rex va- 

 rieties; soil, a light, sandy loam and leaf- 

 mold, with a little well-rotted cow 

 manure; its lasting quality is especially 

 recommended. 



Name: Glory of Cincinnati. 



Corrections. 



The name, Alice of Ingleside, was 

 omitted from the registration, January 

 12, 1910, of the rose offered by South- 



wick Gary Briggs, of Washington, D. C. 



In the change of registration, January 

 20, 1910, by S. Cockburn & Sons, of 

 Woodlawn, Now York, the name of the 

 chrysanthemum should have been Mrs. 

 Jane Cockburn, instead of Mrs. Jane 

 Cochran. H. B. Corner, Sec'y. 



February 17, 1910. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The weather in the closing days of last 

 week was too cold for the best interests 

 of the cut flower business and the gen 

 eral report is that the market would have 

 stagnated had it not been for a fair 

 amount of shipping trade. This week 

 opened on Sitnday with an extremely 

 good run of business. Monday also 

 brought an active demand, the observ 

 ance of Washington's birthday adding 

 largely to the usual Monday requir»> 

 ments. Later, demand slackened and the 

 market lapsed into its usual midweek las- 

 situde. 



It is a matter of general comment that, 

 the quality of much of the stock in the 

 market is not what it should be at this 

 date. Neithefr Beauties nor roses, gen 

 erally speaking, are up to the standard; 

 many carnations are soft, and there is an 

 unusually large number of splits; the 

 Rhinebeck violets also are poor, some of 

 them being so poor that it is difficult to 

 find any buyer who will handle them. 

 The wholesalers are receiving more oi 

 less complaint from out of town on the 

 quality of the stock shipped, even where 

 much care was used in selection. The 

 complaints are specially numerous witli 

 regard to carnations. 



Beauty crops have increased only 

 slightly, but the demand is extremely 

 light and the moderate receipts are fully 

 up to the market's requirements; in- 

 deed, prices have retrograded much 

 farther than production has advanced. 

 While there is an abundance of roses, 

 Killarney appears to be slower in com- 

 ing into crop than other roses. Of Brido 

 there are large supplies and the stock 

 averages fully as good as any other in 

 the market, but prices are depressed be- 

 cause there is now nothing to make any 

 special demand for white roses. The 

 shorter Richmond also are moving slowly 

 and prices generally on roses are down 

 to a point where any buyer can take hold 

 with freedom. 



Carnations are coming in heavily, but 

 the average quality of the stock is so 

 poor that the best grade of goods still is 

 bringing fair prices, where there is a 

 large quantity that is jobbed off at ex- 

 tremely low rates, even with some loss on 

 splits. Now and then there has been a 

 part of a day on which it was not easy 

 to find all the white carnations that were 

 needed, but this condition has been 

 speedily corrected when the word went 

 out to the greenhouses. Enchantress is 

 more abundant than any other color. 

 Good bright pink is in demand. 



The supplies of bulbous stock are tlu> 

 heaviest of the season. Tulips are com 

 ing in much more rapidly than hereto 

 fore and daffodils and jonquils are in 

 large supply. There also are increased 

 receipts of Paper Whites, and Romans 

 are in good supply. The result is that 

 bulb stock is selling at lower prices than 

 at any time so far in 1910. Daffodils 

 and jonquils are not worth more than 

 half as much as they were a month or six 

 weeks ago, though the quality is much 

 finer than the early crop. Valley contin- 

 ues in good supply, but the demand has 



