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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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August 3, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-S60 Caxton BnildinK. 

 508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrisqn 5429. 



bxoibtbbsd cable address, flobyixw. ohioaoo 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N . Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.60. 



Advertlslner rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly 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 post-office a^ Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Preaa Association. 



INDEX TO ASVESTISEaS, PAGE »0. 



CONTENTS 



The Retail Florist 9 



— What the Accessories Mean 9 



— The Fetters Automobile (lUus.) 9 



— A Few Summer Windows 9 



Chrysauthemums 10 



— Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Time to Take Buds 10 



— Bush Plants In the South 10 



— Prolific White Sorts 11 



— Shade for Mums and Asters 11 



A New Market Fern (lllus.) 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — Antirrhinums 12 



— Hydrangeas 12 



— Callas 12 



— Liiium Harrisli 12 



— Formosa Lilies 12 



— Polnscttlas 12 



Geraniums 12 



— Geranium Stems Eaten 12 



Roses — Nitrate of Soda for Roses 13 



— A Start In Rose Growing 13 



— Hardy Roses Losing Color 13 



Gladiolus ColvUlei 13 



Orchids 13 



— Seasonable Notes 13 



Christmas Peppers 14 



Cutting Gladiolus Spikes 14 



Asters Benched Too Late 14 



Omaha Florists' Club's Outing (illus.) 14 



Harrisli in Bermuda (lllus. ) 15 



Sweet Williams for Spring 15 



Louisville, Ky 15 



Boston 16 



St. Louis Florists' Club's Outing (illus.) 16 



Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club's Outing 



(lllus.) 17 



Obituary 17 



— Jeremiah Galbraith 17 



— Miss Minnie Johnson 17 



— Mrs. C. H. Woolsey 17 



Grasshoppers in Greenhouse 17 



Society of American Florists 18 



— The Convention Hall (lllus.) 18 



— Getting Together 18 



— Hotels In Baltimore 18 



News Notes and Comments 19 



Reaching the Buyers 2o 



Chicago 20 



Philadelphia 26 



Cincinnati 29 



St. Louis 2» 



Detroit 84 



New Bedford, Mass 84 



Rochester, N. Y 36 



Wind Storm at Pembroke, N. Y 39 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Seed Trade News 42 



— Harrisli Bulbs 44 



— Imports 44 



— Olds' Growth 44 



— St. Davids' Harrlsii 46 



— Teneriffe Onion Seed 45 



Omaha 46 



New York 46 



Nursery News 56 



— To Kill Out Poplar Shoots 56 



— Connecticut Nurserymen (lllus.) 56 



— "Texas Nurserymen Meet 56 



Pacific Coast 58 



— Portland. Ore 58 



— San Francisco 58 



— Los Angeles. Cal 58 



Columbus 60 



Buffalo 62 



Springfield, U 64 



Milwaukee 66 



Mite on Cyclamen Leaves 74 



Mealy Bug on Begonias 74 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Gas or Coal as Fuel 78 



— Steam for Five Houses 76 



— Returning the Condensation 77 



— Piping an Ohio Range 77 



Providence 78 



Pittsburg ..i.4. , 84 



Vegetable Fdrdtag '.i...<J. . ,^^*-. .. .;. .Hj;,. 85 



— Cucumbers In Frames .'."Tv /. . . 85 



New Orleans 86 



New Bochelle, N. Y 88 



Northern Indiana Florists 88 



Annual Special 



Convention Number 



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OUT AUGUST 17 



Even larger and finer than 

 in other years. It marks the 

 opening of the ne^r season. 

 Reserve your space now^. 



' ' Every one in the Trade reads 

 The Review ; the replies to my 

 small advertisement prove it." — 

 W. Bay. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAM FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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 convention, Baltimore, Md.. August 15 to 

 18 19U. 



RESULTS. 



"We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Now is the time to advertise field- 

 grown carnation plants — also the time to 

 buy them. 



Cheap insurance for greenhouses: A 

 quantity of glass bought at present prices 

 and stored in some safe place. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Eeview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



If I. X. L. and others, who tear oflF the 

 printed heading of the paper on which 

 they send inquiries, will sign full name 

 and address, the questions will be care- 

 fully answered. Anonymous inquiries 

 never can receive attention. 



The seventeenth annual exhibition of 

 the Dutchess County Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 November 2 and 3. Preliminary sched- 

 ules may be had by addressing Herbert 

 C. Cottam, secretary, Wappingers Falls, 

 N. Y. 



The secretary of the S.A.F., in sending 

 out the 1911 badges to the members who 

 have paid their dues, advises that no one 

 will be admitted to the exhibition hall at 

 the Baltimore convention unless he be a 

 member of the S.A.F. or the Baltimore 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 



Montagu C. Allwood, who has 

 achieved some fame in England as a car- 

 nation grower on the American system, 

 has left Stuart Low & Co. to join his 

 brother, George W. Allwood, who has had 

 six years' experience in America, in 

 growing carnations at WlVelsfield Nur- 

 series, Hayward's Heath, Sussex. 



A MEMBER of the city council at Min- 

 neapolis has introduced an ordinance re- 

 stricting the location of greenhouse es- 

 tablishments. If the measure passes it 

 will provide that greenhouses can be 

 jere<}t#d only by special permission of the 

 eity council and with the written con- 

 sent of both aldermen of the ward in 

 which they will be located. 



BEACHINa THE BUnOtS. 



A constantly increasing number of 

 advertisers think it would not pay them 

 to multiply their advertising expendi- 

 ture to reach the few trade buyers who 

 do not read The Eeview. 



We are having great success with our Silver 

 Pink antirrhinum, and as we are using only 

 The Review the credit must go to you. — G. 

 S. Ramsburg, Somersworth, New Hampshire, 

 July 29, 1911. 



CmCAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There has been a marked increase 

 in the supply since last report, but it 

 was not until the opening of the present 

 week that the increase in production 

 began to affect the demand. Saturday, 

 July 29, was one of the best midsum- 

 mer days the market ever has known, 

 though the preceding day there was a 

 little less shipping than on other Fri- 

 days during the month. On the whole, 

 July has been the best ever. Of course 

 growers who were cutting little may 

 not have found it so, but prices never 

 were better in July and those who had 

 something to sell reaped the harvest. 

 Retailers did not find July especially 

 good — sales not heavy and such stock 

 as was acquired cost more than it usu- 

 ally has in July. 



Asters, which have been late, have 

 arrived in force and now dominate the 

 market. The quality of the stock is as 

 yet nothing to brag about, though some 

 excellent asters grown under glass .ire 

 seen. The dry weather has affected the 

 bulk of the crop and its effects have 

 not been wholly overcome by a few 

 recent showers. The aster has practi- 

 cally displaced the carnation, though a 

 few carnations from the old crop are 

 still coming in, with a few from the 

 field, and a few from the early plant- 

 ings under glass. 



The rains also have benefited gladioli 

 and increased the receipts. Prices have 

 fallen, though the quality is improved. 

 Now that asters are abundant, gladioli, 

 are not in such strong demand. 



Beauties are in light supply, but there 

 are increased receipts of roses. Prices 

 on roses are unchanged, but the buyer 

 gets a better rose for his money. Kil- 

 larney is the principal item in roses; 

 more Killameys are received, white and 

 pink, than all other varieties combined. 

 Several growers are cutting Killarneys 

 of superlative quality. The White Kil- 

 larney is not really white, but the pi'ik 

 Killarney is pinker than in a long 

 time; no better color ever was seen. 

 Mrs. Aaron Ward is lengthening in stem 

 and is popular with the buyers, as is 

 Prince de Bulgarie. 



Easter lilies are once more in good 

 supply and there continue to be plenty 

 of auratums and rubrums. Not many 

 sweet peas are coming in, but the 

 arrivals include some flowers much bet- 

 ter than those that came in before the 

 rains. 



One of the curiosities has been the 

 absence of demand for orchids during 

 the time that other flowers were in such 

 keen request. Last week everything 

 sold well, except cattleyas, some of 

 which actually were lost for lack of 

 a buyer at any price. 



All greens are plentiful, except galax. 



Wm. Wienhoeber Enters Firm. 



William Wienhoeber entered the 

 Ernst Wienhoeber Co. August 1 and 

 will devote the future to the business. 



