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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JuNB 22, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G, L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton Building, 



508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



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New York Office: 



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J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription prlc«, tl.OO a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 To Europe. $2J50. 



Advertlslnfir rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly ti-ade advei'tlsltig accepted. 



AdvertiscmentH must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion In the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter Deceml)er 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 

 PreM Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS 



The Retail Florist 7 



— Summer Uses for Sweet Peas 7 



— AdTertislng a Retail Store (lllus.) 7 



— Cashing the Checks 8 



Society of American Florists 9 



Ants on Lawns 9 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Sowing Late Annuals 10 



— Cosmos 10 



— Polnsettlas 10 



-— Winter Geraniums 10 



— Gloxinias " 10 



— Rambler Roses 10 



— Crotons 10 



— Seasonable Repairs 10 



Hoses 11 



— Varieties to Grow _ 11 



Ardisias ( 11 



Chrysantbemuras .V: 11 



— Mums Budding Too Early 11 



— Golden Glow and Robinson 11 



Bllcher's Place (illus.) 12 



Pruning the Shrubbery 12 



— When, Why and How 12 



Hall at Baltimore 13 



Establishment of James Hamilton (illus.) 13 



Louisville Want S. A. F 13 



Who Owns the Air? 13 



Freesia Purity (lllus.) 14 



Proposes Government Express 14 



Mrs. EStlll, of Moberly (lllus.) 14 



New Orleans 15 



New York 15 



Obituary 16 



— W. D. Bastow 16 



— Petter Ott 10 



— William Taat 16 



— Edward B. Voorhees 16 



News Notes and Comments 17 



Sweet Pea Society 18 



Have You a Surplus? 18 



Won't Let it Drop 18 



Chicago 18 



Rochester 21 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 26 



St. Ix)uls 32 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News .18 



— Marbiehead Meeting , . 38 



— Erford L. Page (por^ltUt) .• 38 



— Side Lines for Seedsmen 38 



— Seeds at Rocky Ford 42 



Pacific Coast 48 



— A Fruitless Holly Tree 48 



— Portland, Ore 48 



— Lawn Overrun by Moss 48 



— San Francisco 49 



Yellow Marguerites 49 



Nursery News 60 



— The St. Louis Convention (lllus.) 60 



— J. H. Dayton (portrait) 60 



— A Nursery Firm Reorganized 51 



Dayton. 62 



Glen Cove, N. Y 64 



Toronto 6C 



Pittsburg 58 



St. Paul, Minn 58 



New Bedford 60 



West Grove, Pa 60 



Evansvllle, Ind 62 



Washington, D. C 62 



Mr. Baur's Plans 72 



Vegetable Forcing 72 



— Building a Lettuce House 72 



— Asparagus In the Garden 72 



— Early Cabbage Plants 72 



Greenhouse Heating 74 



— Heat for Lettuce House 74 



— Does Not Heat Evenly 74 



— Radiation In Dwellings 76 



— Montana Houses and Lean-to 76 



Milwaukee 78 



Baltimore 80 



Detroit , 82 



Kansas City 84 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



Fourth of July, a legal holiday, 

 this year falls on Tuesday, the 

 busiest day of the week in The 

 Review office, and the day on 

 which advertising forms close. 



Advertisers and correspon- 

 dents are urged to mail matter 

 for the issue going to press 

 July 5 



ONE DAY EARLIER THAN USUAL 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1911: President, Geor^ Asmus, Chi- 

 cago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., Whito Marsh, 

 Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111 ; treas- 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 to 

 18 1911. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



When you telegraph an order add the 

 code word "Transmit," which means 

 * * Mentioned in your advertisement in the 

 Florists' Review." 



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. 



June is not only the month of roses, 

 but in the Pacific northwest it is the 

 month of rose festivals. Portland has the 

 big show, but a dozen other cities have 

 won their shares of distinction in the last 

 fortnight or so. 



Secretary H. B. Dorner has mailed 

 to each member of the S. A. F. a 

 letter enclosing an application blank 

 and emphasizing that if each member 

 gets one additional member, the mem- 

 bership can be doubled before the Bal- 

 timore convention. 



Hardly a day passes without some Chi- 

 cago florist calling The Review on the 

 telephone to get the name of a florist 

 in a town not yet represented in the De- 

 partment for Leading Retail Florists, 

 to whom an order can be sent. If your 

 town is not represented, a word to the 

 wise ought to be suflBcient. 



SWRUT PEA SOCIETY. 



The National Sweet Pea Society of 

 America will hold its annual meeting 

 and exhibition at Philadelphia June 29 

 and 30. The following is the program: 



THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 3 P. M. 



Address of welcome. 



President Burpee's address. 



Secretary's report. 



Nomination of officers for 1911. 



Invitations for the next meeting place. 



"The History of the Sweet Pea" — Leonard 

 Barron, managing editor of the Garden Magazine, 

 Now York. 



Election of officers. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 7 P. M. 

 Vote on the next meeting place. 

 Paper by Professor Craig or Mr. Beal, of 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Addresses and discussions. 



FRIDAY, JUNB 30, 11 A. M. 

 Question box. 

 Unfinished business. 



FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNB 30. 

 On the invitation of W. Atlee Bnrpee, the 

 members of the National Sweet Pea Society will 

 visit the trial grounds of W. Atlee Burpee Sc Co. 

 at Fordhook farms, Doylestown, Pa. 



The Want Ad department of The Re- 

 view is growing steadily. 



Louisville wants the S. A. F. conven 

 tion in 1912 and will send a strong dele- 

 gation to Baltimore to press its invi- 

 tation. 



HAVE YOU A SURPLUS? 



It is quite the rule for those who ad- 

 vertise their surplus stock in the Clas- 

 sified department of The Review to get 

 jill the orders they can use. 



Enclosed find check for |1.30 to cover bill. The 

 flrcit Issue for mums sold more .than I had. I be- 

 lieve I have bad orders and inquiries for more 

 than 100,000, and only had about 5,000 to sell. — 

 Mt. Park Greenhouse, Rldgway, Pa., H. W. 

 Girton, Mgr., June 12, 1911. 



WON'T LET IT DROP. 



I want to thank The Review for its 

 kind attention to this matter of es- 

 tablishing a Fathers' day. I also want 

 to thank those brother florists who so 

 kindly seconded my nominations. 



My heart is wholly in this matter, 

 and I trust the florists throughout this 

 country will cooperate with me in es- 

 tablishing a Fathers' day. To me, the 

 name of father is the dearest name 

 on earth. We all know that being ap- 

 preciated is one of our greatest pleas- 

 ures and when the fathers throughout 

 this flower-strewn land of ours realize 

 they are really loved and appreciated 

 it can not but add pleasure to their 

 lives. 



Now that the nomination has been 

 made and seconded, that we establish a 

 Fathers' day, the second Sunday in 

 November, and that the chrysanthemum 

 shall be the flower, will The Review 

 call for a vote on the question, sug- 

 gesting a time and manner of taking 

 the vote? If s6meone else can suggest 

 a better day and a better flower,, by all 

 means let us adopt it. All I ask is, 

 do not drop the matter till Fathers' 

 day is established. 



Mrs. L. M. Smith. 



CHICAGK). 



The Great Central Market. 



The market situation improved meas- 

 urably in the latter days of last week 

 and the present week opens with con- 

 ditions much better than they have been 

 at any time since Memorial day, when 

 the first severe hot wave struck. Sup- 

 plies are materially reduced, though 

 there still is plenty of stock in nearly 

 eyery line, if the buyer is not too crit- 

 ical of quality. 



The reduction in supplies is most ap- 

 parent in roses. There continue to be 

 plenty of short roses, but either they 

 have popped open and therefore cannot 

 be shipped, or else, if cut tight, the . 

 buds are so small that wholesalers do 

 not like to send them out. The supplies 

 of long-stemmed roses are decidedly 

 light and values have improved all along 

 the line. Kaiserin is in lequest, for 

 most of the growers have dropped it and 

 are placing their sole dependence on 

 White Killamey. This begins to show 

 the pinkish or yellowish tinge that ia 

 the characteristic of summer, and such 

 Kaiserin as come in command a pre- 

 mium. Maryland also is showing up 

 better. There can now be no complaint 

 as to the values of any really good 

 roses. Beauty cuts also are down, but 

 there still is all the stock the orders 

 call for. 



Carnations have become much better 



