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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 31, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Eoitob and Managkb. 



PUBUSHKD KVEHY THUB8DAT BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30-660 Caxton Building, 

 508 South Dearborn St., Chicago. 



Telephone, Haeeison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



BorouRh Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manageb. 



Subscription price, fl.OO a year. To Canada, $2.00 

 To Europe. $2J50. 



Only 



Advertising: rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advei-tlsinK accepted. 



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

 to insure Insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

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

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 PreM Association. 



INDE^TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS 



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Tlie Retail FUnist— Souvpnirs for Store 



iiigs (illiis. ) 



I'lautlng Perennials 



Uosi>8 — Uiscolored Host- FollaKe 



— Siwtted Rcjse Leaves. 



— Wintering Hardy Kosesi 



Publications Uecelve<l 



Ilonie-saveil Cyclamen Seed 



ithaiiis MulM'lliforiiiis (IIIiih. ) 



Carnfttiun.s — Fertilizer for Carnations 



— Topping Ciirnation.s 



— Preparing Carnation Soil 



ScbizantliUH In Pols 



•Seusonalilu SuggestiouN — Cinerarias 



— .Vlarguerites 



— Cyclamen 



— Bulb Compost 



— Transplanting Evergreens 



— Poinwettias 



Cosmos Lady Lenox 



The Wittman Family (lllns. ) 



I)is<!iiscd Iris 



Oeranlnms — Propngattng 



— Winter (ierauiunis 



Dividing Hydrangea Otaksa 



Winter Storage of Plants 



.Supports for Houses 



I'eonles— Planting Time 



— I'eonlpB not Blooming 



The Teacher Florist (portrait) 



Mite on Cyclamen Leaves 



Pyle in Europe 



.Name of Plant 



Ground Beds on Alkali Soil 



Plants Under Pines 



Mrs. Terry's Prosperity (portrait) 



New York 



Rochester 



Kxhihit of F. R. Plerson Co. (Illus.) 



Dlsi'lay of Revere Rubber Co. (illus.) 



Obltiiary— W. F. Heikes (portrait) 



— G. M. Haecker 



— John F. FliK)d 



— Joseph BocIf 



— Joseph R. Freeman 



— Kolx'rt Llnney 



— Joseph Schmidt 



Jown Florists Meet 



News Notes and Comments 



Chicago 



Hinsdale, 111 



Philadelphia 



Boston 



St. Louis 



Lexington, Ky 



Washington 



Steamer Sailings 



Seed Trade News 



— Preparing Seed for Market (illus.) 



— Japanese Lily Bulbs 



— Imports 



— Holland Seed Crops 



— French Bulbs 



— Hvaclnths in Hulland 



— Harrlsil Bulbs 



— Dutch Bulbs 



Toronto 



Nursery News 



— Department Makes Statement 



— Nurserymen at Greensboro 



Newark, N. Y 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 



— I'ortland, Ore 



Indianapolis 



Kvansvllle, Ind 



Providence 



Suffolk, Va 



Columbus, O 



Greenhouse Heating — Four CallfomlA Houses 



— Steam for Lettuce Houses 



— Two Narrow Houses 



— Steam for Illinois Range 



— Effect of Cinders on Pipe 



— In Washington State 



T onisvlllp, Ky; 



Pittsbnri; 



KiacK liall. Conn 



New Bedford, Mass 



C< lumbus, O 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



OtBcers for 1911: President, George Asmus, 

 Chicago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Mai-sh, Md. ; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 

 III. ; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Officers for 1912: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md. ; vice-president, August Poehl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.; secretary, John Young, 

 Bedford Hills, N. Y. ; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, 

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, HI., August 20 to 

 23, 1012. 



Ifesults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



"A SIGN is for the man who wants to 

 find you ; an advertisement is for the 

 man you want to find. ' ' — Tuthill. 



J. A. Peterson, of Cincinnati, sends 

 The Review a postcard from Kristiania, 

 Norway, under date of August 11, on 

 which he notes that it is a grand country 

 for scenery. 



The call is more and more for made 

 up plants of kentias and arecas; the 

 made up plants take precedence over 

 single specimens in the larger sizes for 

 decorative work. 



While the price of immortelles un- 

 doubtedly will advance by reason of the 

 shortage, it may not go so high as some 

 dealers appear to expect, for there 

 always is a level at which demand is 

 shut off. 



A HANDSOME corsage bouquet consisted 

 of large, perfect blooms of Gladiolus 

 America, picked from the stalks and 

 wired, with adiantum and a pink tie of 

 the same shade as the flowers. It was 

 fine enough for anyone. 



N. F. Flitton, secretary of the Balti- 

 more Gardeners' and Florists' Club, 

 writes to The Review to say that mem- 

 bers of the S. & F. who have not re- 

 ceived a copy of the Baltimore souvenir 

 program can have one mailed to their 

 address by applying to Philip B. Welsh, 

 Glenn Morris, Md. 



Manufacturers of man-blown window 

 glass held a meeting last week to plan 

 more effective competition against ma- 

 chine-made glass. Attending manufac- 

 turers say they seek simply to solve con- 

 ditions that have resulted in a fifty per 

 cent drop in the price of window glass 

 and a forty per cent decrease in the 

 wages of window glass workers in the 

 past seven months. 



George L. Graham, of Bradford, Pa., 

 claims for his son, G. Donald Graham, 

 aged 9 years, the honor of being the 

 youngest voter in the hotly contested S. 

 A. F. elections at the Baltimore conven- 

 tion. Probably the youngest member of 

 the society still is Charles Albert 

 Traendly, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who be- 

 came a life member in January, 1909, 

 when 3 three years of age. He is the 

 son of ex-President Frank H. Traendly. 



Charles H. Totty advises that a 

 swindler has been operating in his sec- 

 tion and it would be well to warn the 

 trade so that they may be prepared for 

 him. "He has evidently worked at the 

 florists ' business, ' ' writes Mr. Totty, ' ' as 

 he can talk glibly enough regarding the 

 different varieties of roses and carna- 

 tions. He has victimized several of the 

 tradesmen of Madison, N. J., by the use 

 of small forged checks, claiming a long 

 acquaintance with mo and other florists. 

 He is of medium height, with dark hair, 

 and gains attention by claiming to be 

 an Elk of a Virginian lodge, so florists 

 would be well advised to see the card of 

 any man looking for favors under the 

 plea that he is an Elk. ' ' 



The Missouri College of Agriculture, 

 at Columbia, has just added fifteen new 

 men to its staff. 



The expected shortage of field-grown 

 carnation plants has not developed. 

 There are a great many small surpluses 

 all over the country, as may be noted 

 from the six columns of classified ad- 

 vertisements in this and recent issuen 

 of the Review. 



The Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica has issued the annual volume con- 

 taining the oflicial report of the last 

 meeting and exhibition, held at Morris- 

 town, N. J., November 2 to 4, 1910, also 

 the registrations for the year, list of 

 members, and the preliminary list of 

 special premiums for the exhibition to 

 be held at St. Louis, November 7 to 11, 

 1911. C. W. Johnson, Morgan Park, 111., 

 is secretary. 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association is using a full page adver- 

 tisement in the September magazines to 

 emphasize the fact that ' ' those who 

 make greenhouses a business build of 

 cypress" and to exploit a booklet of 

 * ' valuable guidance for amateur green- 

 hou.se folks." The advertisement repro- 

 duces a letter from the John C. Moninger 

 Co., Chicago, in Avhich they state that 

 they have used cypress exclusively since 

 1885. 



E. H. Wilson, after a visit to Eng- 

 land extending over three months, has re- 

 turned to Boston by the steamship Zee- 

 land. He returned to America for the 

 purpose of examining, on behalf of 

 Harvard University, the specimens col- 

 lected by him during his last two ex- 

 plorations in China. The herbaria num- 

 ber roughly about 50,000 specimens, in- 

 cluding some 3,000 species. Coniferse, 

 collected at high elevations on the 

 Chinese Tibetan frontier, form a consid- 

 erable part of the eollection. 



RETURNS STEADILY GOOD. 



Advertising in The Review not only 



brings good returns, but they are 



steadily good, as witness the following 

 letters: 



July 29, 1911. — We are having great success 

 with our Silver Pink antirrhinum, and as we are 

 using only The Review the credit must go to 

 yon. — G. S. Uamsburg, Somersworth, New Hamp- 

 shire. 



August 21, 1911. — Please have my advertise- 

 ment read September delivery, instead of August 

 and September; you are rushing us too hard. — 

 G. S. Ramsburg, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 



August 26, 1911.— Shall have to ask you tc 

 dNcontinue both my display advertisement and 

 'he liner in the Classifled department until I can 

 catch up with the orders. One needs an un- 

 limited supply to keep the pace with a Review 

 Adv.— G. S. Ramsburg, Somersworth, New Hamp- 

 shire. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The middle of last week did not 

 make good on the promises of the first 

 of the week; business started with 

 some increase, but quickly fell awaj* 

 and the middle of the week brought 

 probably the dullest days of the sea- 

 son. Friday showed some improvement 

 and Saturday was fair. The present 

 week started with a considerable re- 

 duction in the receipts of stock, partly 

 due to the passing of the heaviest cuts 

 of gladioli and asters and partly duo 

 to cooler weather conditions, which 

 served to curtail the rose crops. There 

 is, however, an abundance of stock for 

 all demands and there has been little, 

 if any, improvement in prices; in fact, 



