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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Max is, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The Florists* Publishinq Co. 



630>560 Caxton Building, 

 508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



Tklkphonk, Harrison 5429. 



itkbjifd cable addbk88, flobvisw. chiqaoo 



„ '' ' N»w York Office: "^ 



Borough Park Brooklyn. N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager; 



BXOIB 



Subscription price, $1.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 To Europe. $2J50. / 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 Btrlctly trade advertising: accepted. 



Advertisements must reach ns by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 8, 1897, 

 at the poet-ofBce at Chicago. 111., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, FAOE US. 



CONTENTS 



Memorial Day and the Florists 19 



— Don't Neglect Advertising (lllus.) 19 



— Memorial Day Windows 20 



— A Refrigerator Window (lllus.) 20 



— Two Timely Windows (lllus. ) 20 



— For Memorial Day 21 



— Cemetery Wreaths (lllus. ) 22 



Tagging with Flowers 22 



European Notes 23 



Trouble with Caterpillars 23 



Roses 23 



— Mildew and Leaf Rollers 23 



— Roses in Alabama 23 



Geraniums 24 



— Discolored Geranium Foliage 24 



— Geraniums not Flowering 24 



— Winter-flowering Geraniums 24 



Filling Cemetery Vases (lllus.) 24 



For Porch and Piazza (lllus.) 25 



Hanging Baskets 25 



Peonies 26 



— Peony Culture 26 



Roses for the Coronation 27 



Carnations 28 



— A Bad Case of Tbrips 28 



— The British Carnation Show (lllus.) 28 



— Cultural Notes 28 



Outdoor Insect Pests .-. 29 



Seasonable Suggestions .SO 



— Memorial Day Crops 30 



— Asters 30 



— Marguerites 30 



— Primulas 30 



Impressions of America 30 



— W. A. Cull 30 



— C. Englemann 30 



Mixing the Compost (lllus. ) 31 



St. Louis 31 



Columbus, 32 



Springfield, 32 



New York 33 



Louisville, Ky 33 



Rochester 33 



Dayton, O , 34 



Glen Cove, L. I 34 



Dtica, N. Y 34 



Obituary 34 



— Gustave Peters 34 



— George HoUis 34' 



— C. O. Hunt 34 



— Geo. F. Chadburn 34 



News, Notes and Comments 35 



Chicago 36 



Philadelphia 44 



Boston 47 



Denver 64 



Steamer Sailings 58 



Seed Trade News 62 



— Hyacinth Duty and Grammar 62 



Pacific Coast 74 



— The San Jose Meeting 74 



— San Francisco • 74 



— Portland, Ore 75 



Nursery News 76 



— The Quarantine Bill 76 



Vegetable Markets 78 



Merideu, Conn 84 



Baltimore 86 



Waterbury, Conn 88 



Toronto ^y, 90 



Greenhouse Heating 104 



— In Eastern Massachusetts 104 



— A Range In Sweden 104 



— One Detached House 106 



— Rebuilding Greenhouses 106 



Er!e, Pa 108 



Cincinnati 110 



Milwaukee • 110 



Southington, Conn 112 



Pittsburg 114 



New Bedford, Mass 114 



Providence 116 



Natick, Mass. — Kobert Montgomery 

 is building an addition to his green- 

 houses. 



80CIITT OF AHIBIGAIf FI1OBIST8. 



Incorpor»tod bj Act of Oon irMi , ICaKIi 4, "01. 



Offlcen (or 1»U: FrMidnit, Omtm Ambu. 

 Obleago; Tlce-prMlduit, B. Vincent, Jr., Wuta 

 Manli, Ifd.; McrtUry. H. B. Dorner, Urbua. 

 111.; tTMunircr, W. F. Kutlng, BafTalo. M. x. 



Annoal conTentloo, Baltimore. Md., Angnat 10 

 to 1«. IML 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Curious, but all the suggestions for 

 Fathers' day come from lady florists. 



Mothers' day ftis year was quite a 

 little better than the Memorial days of 

 not so very many years ago. 



In printing this issue of The Review 

 8,800 pounds of white paper were con- 

 sumed — almost four and one-half tons. 



The florists' business appears to be at 

 present quite -a little better than in the 

 lines of what are known as the necessi- 

 ties. 



There are four double-page spreads in 

 this issue of The Review. When an ad- 

 vertiser's story takes two pages in the 

 telling, you may rest assured there's 

 something in it worth knowing, and 

 knowing thoroughly. 



At the recent carnation show inLj 

 don, Bertie Bell, of Guernsey, won 

 American challenge cup, 'offered for three 

 American novelties, with J. W. Riley, 

 described as very fine; Gov. Deneen and 

 Bay state. Now what do you know 

 about that! 



Checks for the refund of the sums 

 paid by guarantors of the National Flow- 

 er Show were mailed May 9 by E. Allan 

 Peirce, treasurer. Complete financial 

 statement is not yet ready, but financial 

 success called only for the reimburse- 

 metft of guarantors. 



Last week's issue of The Review broke 

 all previous records for the amount of 

 classified plant advertising carried. Thero 

 were thirty-five columns of it. Review 

 classified advertisements are such great 

 little business-bringers that- ' ' once tried, 

 always used" is the rule. 



The popularity of Mothers' day leads 

 to a demand for Fathers' day, after 

 which no doubt someone will propose a 

 day for sister, brother, aunt. One trou- 

 ble with success is that a lot of people 

 want to overdo it. But thus far no one 

 has proposed a day for mother-in-law. 



The so-called Simmons bill recently 

 introduced in Congress, to give the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture authority to prohibit' 

 the importation of nursery stock accord-' 

 ing to his judgment, provides that flo- 

 rists' field grown stock shall be included. 

 The full text of the bill will be found 

 on page 76 of this issue. 



Harry A. Barnard, who made many 

 friends in America on the occasion of 

 his recent trip to this country in the in- 

 terest of Stuart Low & Co., Bush Hill 

 Park, London, celebrated, April 29, the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his connection 

 with the firm of Low. His fellow em- 

 ployees presented him with a testi- 

 monial, suitably inscribed. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central l^arket. 



ci 



May, 12 was Fathers' day in the Chi- 

 cago market — father was just as busy 

 as busy could be, getting out orders 

 for white carnations for the florists 

 who were pushing Mothers' day. The 

 shipping demand was heavy, far exceed- 

 ing any previous year, but locally 



Mothers' day did not amount to much, 

 the city retailers having done little, if 

 anything, to work up interest in the 

 occasion. Consequently, after the ship- 

 ping orders were out the market was 

 rather flat. There were large supplies 

 of stock in all lines, but the call was 

 almost exclusively for white carnations; 

 the advance orders included colored 

 stock, but the late calls were only for 

 white, possibly for the reason that 

 roses and colored carnations are abun- 

 dant in all the lesser markets through 

 the country as well as in Chicago. But 

 it was much the biggest day this n^r- 

 ket has had since Easter, a nice little 

 holiday now well established and sure 

 to grow. It was not possible to fill 

 all the late orders for white carnations, 

 and all colors cleaned up nicely. Prices 

 were good, but not beyond reason. Lit- 

 tle overripe stock was seen. At no 

 time last week was it possible for the 

 wholesale houses to clean up on other 

 lines. The heat wave, running up to 

 87 degrees May 11, brought all flowers 

 along much too fast for the demand. 



The current week opened with the 

 market as heavily overstocked as it 

 has been at any time this season. After 

 ~a day o(?i;wo of seasonable temperature 

 the weather again turned hot, forcing 

 all crops and causing deterioration in 

 quality. Practically everything is in 

 oversupply, including the best grade of 

 Beauties, as fine orchids as have been 

 seen this season, fancy long-stemmed 

 sweet peas, all varieties of roses, carna- 

 tions, with the possible exception of 

 white, fancy snapdragons, first-class 

 Spanish iris, and gla^ipli of both the 

 large and small flowered varieties. The 

 regular demand, while fair, is not near- 

 ly strong enough to consume the enor- 

 mous receipts; the bulk of the stock 

 is moved by the people who run the 

 cheap sales, and even at the buyer's 

 own price it is not possible to sell 

 everything that comes in; the waste is 

 large. 



Of the few flowers not suffering, the 

 peony is first. While there is no spe- 

 cial demand at the mopient, the stock 

 coming in is of better average quality 

 than in previous seasons and is going 

 into storage in fine shape in anticipa- 

 tion of the special demand for Memo- 

 rial day. Outdoor flowers in gen- 

 eral have had a bad time of it. 

 Enormous quantities of lilac have been 

 in. Much of the stock has arrived 

 in such poor condition that noth- 

 ing whatever couid be done with 

 it, for the best has sold slowly at low 

 prices. Such outdoor flowers as violets 

 have been a total loss. Cape jasmine 

 is not so abundant as in other seasons. 



Memorial Day Prospects. 



The consensus of opinion is that the 

 outdoor flowers will be pretty well out 

 of the way by Decoration day; a week 

 of such hot weather will about finish 

 them. Then will come an enormous de- 

 mand for Memorial day. The whole- 

 salers are looking forward to extremely 

 large supplies of all indoor flowers, 

 vFith the possible exception of carna- 

 tions; it is figured that there will be 

 enough of other things so that the 

 passing of the heaviest cut with the 

 carnation growers will occasion no 

 diflaculty. Reports have it that the 

 supply of peonies will be far ahead 

 of other years. Everyone ' -ffe looking 

 for the heaviest business ever handled 

 for May 30, which has become one of 

 the most important flower days on the 

 calendar. 



