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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 8, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS* REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoxb. 



PUBUSHED KVERY THUESDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co, 



530-56O Cazton Building, 

 508 South Dearborn St., Chicago 



Telephone, Harrison 6429. 



beoibtkbkd oablk address, fiio^pew, ohioa< 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brookljm, N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



□AGO 



SabscriptloD price, f 1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00 

 To Europe, $2J50. 



AdTertisingr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 Btrlctly trade advertlslngr accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicago, III., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chlcaflro Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, FAOE 86. 



CONTENTS 



The Retail Florist 7 



— Cattleyas In Bride's Bouquets (iUus.) 7 



— Rock's Ways 7 



— The CornUower In Design 7 



— Wedding Bouquet of Valley and Cattleyas 



(lllus.) 8 



Hardy Perennials 8 



Orchids 9 



— Seasonable Notes (lllus.) 9 



Chrysanthemums 10 



— Benching Young Stock 10 



— Mums In Lettuce Soil 10 



Roses 10 



— Thoughts for Rose Growers 10 



— Establishment of Wendland & Kelmel 



(lllus.) 11 



— Growth on Carnot Roses 11 



Direction of Houses 11 



Carnations 12 



— Barson's Seedling (lllus.) 12 



— Building Solid Beds 12 



— Five Acres of Carnations (illus.) 12 



The Temple Show, London 12 



An Anglo-American Dinner 13 



National Sweet Pea Society 13 



Who Owns the Air? 14 



A Woman's Viewpoint 14 



New York 15 



Milwaukee 16 



Indianapolis 1« 



St. Louis 16 



Boston 17 



Obituary 18 



— Mrs. J. M. Charlton 18 



— John Eagle 18 



— John Jorden 18 



— John Flanagan 18 



Chicago 18 



Philadelphia 24 



Detroit 26 



Providence 80 



Rochester 32 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Lessons in Seed Testing 38 



— English Disclaimer Falls 40 



— Holland's Bulb Expyrts., 40 



— Convention Program . . .'. 41 



— Imports 42 



Pacific Coast 48 



— Portland, Ore 48 



— San Francisco 48 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— Plants Yellow and Stunted 49 



— Mlllepeds on Cucumbers 49 



— StrawlM'rries from Seed 4M 



Nursery News 50 



— European Nursery Conditlous 50 



— Reappraisements 51 



Dayton, 52 



Baltimore 54 



Waterbury, Conn 54 



Pittsburg 56 



Worcester, Mass 68 



Cleveland 60 



New Haven, Conn „ a. . . 62 



Greenhouse Heating ,Jk 74 



— The Coal Market Jf 74 



— Two Connected Houses . .tT 74 



— A Tile and Concrete Stack .^,. . . 74 



SouthingtoMponn >.h .74 



Denver .•■. •, . tK'>-. , '. " ... 7r. 



Cincinnati . *. .-^ Ttj 



Buffalo 78 



Yonkers, N. Y , ,', 78 



Toronto '.[', 80 



Westerly, R. 1 82 



Kalispell, Mont 82 



Meriden, Conn 81 



Trenton, N. J , .'. 84 



Flint, Mich. — About seventy-five per 

 cent of the glass in the big Hasselbring 

 greenhouse plant was broken by hail 

 June 4. 



80CIETT OF AMEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, Marcli 4, 1901. 



OfBcers for 1911: President, Oeorge Asmus, Clil- 

 cago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., White Marsli, 

 Md.; secretary, H. B. Corner, Urbana, III.; treas- 

 urer. W. F. Kastlntr, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 to 

 18 1911. 



BESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Good geraniums of the right color, in 

 bloom, are again scarce. 



Now is the time to present bills. If 

 collections are not made soon, many ac- 

 counts that are of the best will have to 

 wait until after the vacation season; 

 people will be away. 



The bedding plant trade has been 

 immense all over the country, in spite of 

 the fact that a quick transition from 

 winter to midsummer, as this year, is 

 not the most favorable condition for this 

 business. 



Express rates are much too high, but 

 when you consider that half the money 

 goes to the railroad, what the express 

 company gets is earned. It is the rail- 

 roads that are overpaid for carrying ex- 

 press matter. Relief will not be had 

 until it is made illegal for a railroad to 

 own stock in an express company. 



The June Everybody's Magazine has 

 an article, "The Quest of the Perfect 

 Eose, ' ' that makes goc 1, easy reading, 

 and which would be good publicity 

 work for gardening and for the trade 

 were it not for such statements as that 

 "the profits from rose culture in Amer- 

 ica are fifty per cent," and that 227,- 

 000 roses cut annually in the big house 

 at North Wales, Pa., are calculated to 

 bring in $113,000. 



OBITUAEY. 



Mrs. J. M. Charlton. 



Mrs. Charlton, wife of J. M. Charl- 

 ton, of the nursery firm of John Charl- 

 ton & Sons, Bochester, N. Y., died May 

 27. The Rochester Florists' Associa- 

 tion sent a handsome bunch of Amer- 

 ican Beauties to the funeral, which 

 was largely attended by members of 

 the trade. 



John Eaa^e. 



John Eagle, of Boston, who for 

 thirty-five years had conducted a flo- 

 rist's store and was well known to 

 the trade, died of a paralytic stroke 

 June 1. Interment was June 4, and 

 many florists were among the mourners. 



John Jorden. 



John Jorden, who some years ago was 

 a prosperous nurseryman in Geneva, N. 

 Y., died May 28 at the City hospital, 

 Geneva, at the age of 73 years. He 

 had been taken to the hospital a few 

 days previously, for an operation. He 

 was born in Ireland, and, with his 

 parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 

 ; Jorden, came to ^enQVa wbe% ha Was 

 3 years of age. ''6e md resiftd Miflre 

 since that' time. In early life Wf en- 

 gaged in the nursery business and 

 amassed considerable property. For 

 the last fifteen years he had lived a 

 retired life at his residence, 29 Middle 

 street. He took an active part in 

 politics, and was elected t^nittfe of the 

 Third ward on the Democrat ticket 

 under the village government for sev- 

 eral terms. He was a charter member 

 of the Geneva council of the Knights 



of Columbus, and was formerly trustee 

 of the St. Francis De Sales church, from 

 which the funeral was held. He leaves 

 one brother, Patritk Jorden, and one 

 sister, Mrs. Michael Murphy, both of 

 Geneva. 



John Flanagan. 



John Flanagan, a well known land- 

 scape gardener, died June 1 at the 

 home of his daughter, at Berkeley, Cal. 

 He had reached the age of 85 years and 

 had retired from active business about 

 five years previously. He spent over 

 forty years in the neighborhood of 

 Cambridge, Mass., before removing to 

 California and many private parks in 

 New England were started under his 

 supervision. He was a gardener of the 

 old school, kindly, generous and a 

 thorough plantsman. He had a mar- 

 velous memory and his experiences in 

 the landscape line, extending over half 

 a century spent in many parts of the 

 United States, made his conversation 

 intensely interesting to the younger 

 generation of gardeners. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



Ever since Memorial day the market 

 has been struggling along under the 

 burden of heavy receipts of stock of 

 extremely poor quality. Demand con- 

 tinues fair; it is nothing remarkable 

 that orders should be on the light side, 

 when June 4 gave a temperature of 

 95.3 degrees at the weather office at 

 the top of the post-office dome. On the 

 street it was a great deal hotter, and 

 in the greenhouses conditions were 

 such that one almost wonders that 

 there is any good stock at all. 



The excessive heat has brought the 

 peony season to an end at about the 

 time the cutting of the local crops 

 ordinarily begins. Practically all the 

 peonies are now cut; there will be a 

 few small lots from northern fields, but 

 the bulk of the stock either has been 

 disposed of or is in storage. The qual- 

 ity of the peonies haa been extremely 

 poor this season, and in general those 

 thus far disposed of have realized 

 much lower prices than ever before. 

 There has been an enormous waste and 

 there are quantities in storage which 

 will have little if any value later. At 

 the same time, really good peonies 

 have sold first-rate and have brought 

 what should be considered satisfactory 

 prices. The good stock in storage 

 should realize the usual values, for the 

 good peonies really are the best flowers 

 now on the market. 



Beauties are more abundant, and 

 some of the growers who have begun 

 cutting from plants run specially for 

 a summer crop are getting really fine 

 flowers. Of these the supply is so large 

 that the quantities of low grade 

 Beauties are left with an extremely 

 poor market. Good roses are scarce; 

 the bulk of the stock is short in etem 

 and smaM in flower. It has b^en so 

 hot that tbo growers have- 'tfeifn able 

 to do hardly any other work than the 

 necessary watering and cutting; the 

 result is a much larger proportion than 

 usual of short-stemmed flowers. The 

 best grades of Killarney and Richmond 

 are selling fairly well. 



Carnations are rapidly taking on the 

 midsummer characteristics; they are 

 small and soft. It is noticeable that 

 the demand for carnations has been un> 



