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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 6, 1011. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



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 To Europe, |2JS0. 



Advertising i-atee quoted upon request. Only 

 •trlctlr trade advertising 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 poet-office at Chicago, 111., under the act o{ 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



Index to advertisers pace St. 



OONTSNTS 



National Sweet Pea Society 7 



— The Philadelphia Meefiiij; (iliiist 7 



— Wllltam Sim (portrait) 7 



■ — .Secretary Bunyard's Report 9 



— Observations on Sweet Peas 10 



— W. Atlee Burpee (portrait) 11 



Propafcation of Kieus 11 



The Uetall Florist 12 



— Nasturtium Notions 12 



— A Good Roads Window (illus.) 12 



Notes on Hardy Perennials (Illus.) ]:{ 



Trouble with MaRRots \:i 



Leaf Miner on Begouias i;{ 



Carnations l"^ 



— Poor Growth in the Field. . ......'. 14 



— Chicken Manure in Benches 14 



— Plants Drowned Out ■' 14 



— Soil Deficient in Pliosphate 14 



— Carnation Pot Plants 14 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Achlmenes ,4 



— Tuberous Begonias '.'.'. ij 



— Mignonette Jl 



— Transplanting Perennials ...'..'.'.'. i.«5 



— Propagation ,r, 



— Compost Piles i'i 



— Outdoor Work ]?, 



Hoses at Bagatelle Gardens 15 



The Taeoma Rose Show (illus.) n 



Fancy Caladlums in 



Boston jl, 



Harvesting Freittla Bulbs ' (iiYiis i i« 



New York i-r 



Obituary il 



— J. A. McPluTon ,7 



— Paul De Longpre ,4 



The Weather \l 



Not Like .Some Others .... ,0 



In Favor of Father's Dav. . is 



Express Rates ,S 



Chicago ]2 



Milwaukee iS 



Philadelphia ST 



Rochester ~ 



St. Louis ; iL 



Steamer Sailings ,S 



Seed Trade Notes «o 



— New Position for Dlsrlnlnier' (iVlui)' -in 



— Burpee Sails Without Pajamas.... jS 



— Rolmert Increases Acreage In 



-Hard on the Peas JA 



— Maine Potato Outl<M>k... 40 



— A Century of Bulb Growing. '. Tn 



— Imports T, 



— Holland Bulb Crops.! • 3} 



— Philadelplila Seed I^-ague in 



Vegetable Forcing it 



— Destructive Insects jl 



— Cucumber Vines Wilting.. Jl 



Pacific Coast tX 



— California Nurs<>cvmen . . . ! ! ^ 



-Pacific Coast Nursewmen. . . . i.' IS, 



— San Francisco . VV 



— Portland. Ore r] 



Nursery News V'i 



— Inspection In England ...'.'.'. r^ 



— Extending Wholesale Trade '^n 



Indianapolis 'Jr 



Louisville. Kv "Ji 



New Bedford. Mass 'Jy 



Providence 2a 



Is It a Shamrock? JSJ 



Pinching Back Cosmos JS 



Greenhouse Heating 2^ 



— A Small Wisconsin House. . . rrn 



— Two Colorado Houses in 



— In Eastern Kansas iji 



— Extending the Coils iX 



— Two Illinois Houses 7, 



BaflTalo if 



Cincinnati it 



Pittsburg 42 



Hail Near Saginaw. Mich 70 



W AHhlngton, D. C '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..' 80 



SUCIETT OF AMEBIGAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, ItiOI. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmus, Chi- 

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

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

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



Annual cunvcntion, Baltimore, Md., August IS to 

 18 lull. 



licsults bring advertising. 

 The Keview brings results. 



Charge enough to make it possible to 

 give the best service you are capable of 

 furnishing. 



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. 



An advertiser not given to the use of 

 slang in affairs of business is offering 

 Melody as "the Ultima Thule in roses." 

 If that occurs to you as being "the 

 limit" you will be sure of it after con- 

 sulting Webster. 



The weather has been unusually hot all 

 over the middle west in the last few days, 

 reducing the volume of business to the 

 lowest level. Ordinarily, this week is 

 about the dullest of the year, even with 

 normal weather, for firecrackers and flow- 

 ers never did go well together; when 

 people are buying one they neglect the 

 other. The demand should now improve 

 rather than retrograde. 



THE WEATHER. 



Statement July 4 by the weather 

 chief in Washington: 



* ' The present hot wave is more exten- 

 sive and more intense than any in our 

 records. It affects almost all of the 

 Mississippi valley and the east. ' 



"There is no immediate relief in 

 sight. The hot wave is caused by an 

 abnormally high barometric pressure 

 over the Atlantic ocean. This condition 

 has existed since June 13. 



"Nothing like it in intensity has 

 been known to meteorological science in 

 the experience of the students of this 

 generation. ' ' 



NOT UKE SOME OTHERS. 



The Florists' Hail Association, dur- 

 ing its entire lifetime, has paid losses 

 promptly. Not everyone is sufficiently 

 appreciative to write the officers in 

 thanks, but whenever one does so it 

 serves to lighten the labors of the day. 

 The following letter, addressed to Jo- 

 seph Heacock, treasurer, is sent in by 

 Secretary Esler: 



We desire very much to thank you for your 

 prompt settlement and courteous treatment in 

 adjusting the loss Incurred by us during a recent 

 hall storm at this place. It was that prompt 

 attention not common to Insurance companies. — 

 Kemble Floral Co., per Arthur H. Smith, Boone, 

 la., June 24, 1911. 



IN FAVOR OF FATHERS' DAY. 



Please put me down as heartily in 

 favor of pushing for a Fathers' day on 

 the second Sunday in November. Not 

 only do I favor the celebration of such 

 a day, but I am in favor of that par- 

 ticular date, as it comes just six months 

 after Mothers' day and it would also 

 help wonderfully in this Colorado town 

 in opening up our fall business. In 

 our territory everyone is slow in taking 

 hold of the greenhouse flowers at that 



time of year. If we could get the 

 newspapers aroused to encourage it 

 and could secure the appointment of 

 that day as Fathers' day, with the 

 chrysanthemum as the flower, it would 

 give our business a start in the fall 

 and our customers would wake up at 

 once to the fact that the frost had 

 not done away with all the flowers and 

 good cheer, L. J. Keid. 



E:SPRESS RATES. 



July 1 brought two important an- 

 nouncements with regard to express 

 transportation, a vitally important 

 factor in the JJorists' business. In the 

 first place, the Interstate Commerce! 

 Commission announced that it will make 

 a thorough investigation of all matters 

 relating to the express business, and 

 those who have given the subject any 

 study feel sure this can not but bring 

 out facts that will lead to changes in 

 favor of the shippers. At the same 

 time the companies announced that Au- 

 gust 1 they will do away with the dou- 

 ble graduation of express rates between 

 exclusive points and put in effect in- 

 stead the single graduation, which has 

 always been in effect between common 

 points. The change will take place on 

 the lines of all the companies with the 

 exception of the Long Island railroad. 

 An example of how other rates will 

 be changed is, where a shipper was 

 charged $1 for shipping a package 

 which has to travel over two companies, 

 the charge will be but 85 cents. 



CHICAGO. 



Tbe dreat Central Market. 



The week of July 4 usually is named 

 as the dullest of the year, and this 

 time the week has the added handicap 

 of excessive heat. With such weather 

 as has prevailed since June 30 it is a 

 wonder that there is any business at 

 all, or any stock. But, on the contrary, 

 there has been, on most days, a quite 

 fair demand. It has come principally 

 from out of town, and the orders have 

 not been large, but it has served to 

 show that the ice men are not now the 

 only ones who can do business in sum- 

 mer — good flowers now sell every day 

 in the year in this market. 



The heat has been so excessive that 

 it is not strange that flowers average 

 poorer than they have in years — the 

 wonder is that there are any good flow- 

 ers at all. The first days of July again 

 broke the heat records, Sunday was 

 the hottest July 2 in the history of the 

 weather bureau, and July 3, 4 and 5 

 were worse. Coming after such a six 

 weeks as we have had since the first hot 

 wave in May, the effect was to about 

 finish off the carnations and still further 

 decrease the size of the roses. There 

 are so few really first-class carnations 

 that there has been an advance in the 

 price of the best. The first asters ap- 

 peared with the hot wave, however, and 

 it will not be long before the carna- 

 tions can be spared. 



Beauties continue in good supply, but 

 the cut is nearly all long-stemmed; buy- 

 ers who need medium or short Beau- 

 ties would better order early in the 

 day, or they stand little chance. Of 

 course the quality is not up to what it 

 is in cool weather, but it is remarkably 

 good when one considers the temperature 

 in the greenhouses. The same can be 

 said of the other roses. The Killarney 



