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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



May 10, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVKKY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton BuildinR, 

 334 Uearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



bboi8tebkd cable address, flobview. .chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. V 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions acce|)ted only from 

 those in the trade. 



AdTertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertlsiniir accepted. 



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

 to Insure insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter Decembers, 1897. 

 at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



Tills paper is a membtM- of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 48. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ucttiil I'lorist— .V .Momnrinl Wreath 



(illiis.t 1,-) 



— Memorial Duy 15 



— For Decoration Duv (illns. ) 10 



— Delivery (illus.) 1(5 



— Telegraph Orders 16 



— Cape Jasmine Wreath (illus. ) 17 



Mothers' Day 17 



Fathers' Day 18 



Chr.vsanthemums — Seasonnlih' Suggestions. ... IS 



— Some Good Varieties 10 



— Mums .at Almost All Seasons (Illus.) 10 



Yellow Petunia Foliage 10 



Killing Cemetery Vases 20 



Bedding Out (illns. ) 21 



Brussels E.xpositlon (illus. ) 22 



Polnsettlas 2."! 



European Notes 2-'; 



.\mericans in Holland (illus.) 2.'i 



Sweet Peas — Butterfly Sweet Peas 21 



— Winter Flowering Peas 24 



— Sweet Peas for Outdoors 24 



— • Sweet Pea Prizes 24 



Carnations — CarriedOver Carnations 24 



Geraniums — White Fly on Geraniums 25 



— Bedding Geraniums 25 



— Name of Geranium 25 



Ornlthogalum Arabicum 25 



Jtoses — The Planting Season 25 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gardenias 2<> 



— Bedding Out 2(! 



— Vases and Window Boxes 2(! 



— Memorial Day Crops 2(i 



— Cyolamens 26 



— Brief Reminders 27 



Decornting Automobiles (illns. ) 27 



Pure Superphosphate 27 



Distance Apart for Colens 27 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 2S 



Cincinnati 28 



Boston Club Meeting 29 



Detroit 2JJ 



American Rose Society 29 



Chicago .30 



May wood. Ill :?(! 



New York 37 



Washington :«t 



Philadelphia 40 



Boston 42 



Des Moines, la 48 



Wellington, Ohio 40 



St. Louis 52 



Steamer Sailings 54 



Seed Trade News 58 



— Imports 59 



— Commerce in Seeds 59 



— As Sluis Sees Conditions 50 



— Value of Biennials 00 



. — Transparent Packets 03 



— Kentia Palm Seeds 03 



Vegetable Forcing 04 



. — Vegetable Markets 04 



— Diseases and Prevention 04 



Pacific Coast 00 



— San Francisco 00 



— .\nnuals in California 00 



Glen Cove. N. Y 07 



Nursery News 72 



— Commerce in Nursery Stock 72 



• — In the Southwest 72 



— Ueappraisements 72 



— The Spiraeas 72 



Providence 74 



Rochester 70 



Orange, N. J 78 



Milwaukee 80 



New Bedford, Mass 82 



Pittsburg 84 



Indianapolis 80 



Greenhouse Heating 98 



— An Alabama House ' v, ... 98 



— Twin Boilers 98 



— PIph)g !n Portland. Ore 98 



— Residence and (Jreenliouses 100 



Kvansville 102 



Dayton. Ohio 104 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



INCORFOBATED BY'ACT OF CONGBESS, MaBCH 4, '01 



Officers for 1910- President. F. R. Plerson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y. ; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; secietary. H. H. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; 

 treasurer, W. ¥. Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 16 

 to 19, 1910. 



RESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Tkue, you can hire your selling done, 

 hut, also, if you are a salesman you can 

 iiire the growing done. 



When the mum and the aster were in 

 season together it was considered a mar- 

 vel, but now the mum and the peony 

 stand side by side in flower stores! Good 

 Golden Glow are seen. 



The comet has got past at last. If it 

 is in any way responsible for the weather 

 conditions of the last few months, nearly 

 everyone will be glad it appears only once 

 in seventy-five years. 



' ' Ten months of the year it is not a 

 question of supply, but of one's ability 

 to find an outlet for the stock." The 

 speaker was one of the leading commis- 

 sion-men of the country and his words 

 support the Review 's statement that mer- 

 chandizing ability is now one of the 

 essentials for success in this trade. 



At Ida Grove, la., a minister, im- 

 pressed by the general observance of 

 Mothers' day, designated May 15 as 

 Fathers' day, and asked each member of 

 his congregation to wear the flower that 

 person thought best suited to the day. 

 Communication with Ida Grove being 

 somewhat slow, a waiting world has not 

 yet heard how Father stands in that com- 

 munity. 



EXPRESS RATES. 



The uprising against the rates charged 

 by the express companies has, all at once, 

 become general. From all parts of the 

 country, and from many business or- 

 ganizations, is coming the demand for a 

 thorough investigation of the subject by 

 the government, either through the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission or a com- 

 mittee of Congress. At both New York 

 and Chicago meetings have been held 

 at which numbers of commercial bodies 

 have joined in resolutions voicing the 

 consensus of opinion that conditions de- 

 mand an investigation of the present sys- 

 tem of charges. The New York meeting 

 last week not only went on record in 

 strong language, but provided a com- 

 mittee with funds to push along the 

 work with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. A day or two later a Chicago 

 congressman introduced a resolution in 

 Congress calling for an investigation of 

 express companies, their capitalization 

 and their charges, lay a committee of the 

 House of Representatives. 



The S. A. F. has pointed with pride 

 to the work accomplished when the gen- 

 eral special rate was obtained for plant 

 shipments. If general revision of rates 

 becomes a fact as the result of the agi- 

 tation now in progress, the S. A. F. will 

 have an opportunity not only to defend 

 what it once obtained, but to look after 

 the interests of cut flower shippers, for 

 it is almost certain that without adequate 

 representation for cut flower interests, 

 the companies will seek to maintain pres- 

 ent rates on the plea that special service 

 is given on all such shipments. 



WARNING! 



Don't Pay Money to Strangers. 



A\ithin the last few days the Review 

 lias received several complaints from east- 

 ern Pennsylvania that "a smooth-talking 

 young fellow" has been falsely repre- 

 senting himself as working for the Re- 

 view and soliciting new subscriptions or 

 renewals in its name. If a receipt is 

 given it never is on printed blanks, some-, 

 times bears no name or address, but in 

 one case was signed ' ' H. Hunter. ' ' 



Don't be duped by this petty swindler. 

 If ' ' II. Hunter ' ' shows up, call the po- 

 lice and wire the Review. 



Never pay money to strangers, for the 

 Kkvieav or on any other account. Re- 

 vjKW representatives all are well known 

 members of the trade in their respective 

 localities. 



A POWDER PASTE. 



Do you know the name of a firm in 

 New Jersey that makes a paste put up 

 in a powder form called "Paste Substi- 

 tute"? We have used it and it is the 

 finest thing for putting the label on cut 

 flower boxes we have ever seen, but un- 

 fortunately we have lost the address. I 

 think it was made by some milling con- 

 cern as a by-product, either in Newark or 

 Paterson. If you can help us find the 

 name of this concern we shall greatly 

 appreciate it. C. F. C. 



Who knows the name and address? 

 The Review will be glad to have some- 

 one supply the desired information. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has enjoyed another week 

 of excellent business. The special de- 

 mand for Mothers' day cleaned up every- 

 thing so closely that it gave tone to the 

 market for several days after. In addi- 

 tion, also, the spring months often show 

 considerably greater activity on Tues- 

 days and Wednesdays than is the case 

 at other seasons of the year. This is 

 accounted for by the special call for 

 flowers for weddings and commencements, 

 Avhich ordinarily are held not later than 

 Thurs(Jay8. Friday, Saturday and Mon- 

 day ordinarily are the best days of the 

 week in this market, so that everyone 

 has been happy for a fortnight or more. 

 Now interest is centering on Decoration 

 day. 



One of the reasons that business has 

 been so satisfactory is that there has 

 been neither shortage nor oversupply of 

 stock; the daily receipts have been just 

 about equal to requirements, prices ad- 

 vancing slightly, but at no time exceed- 

 ing the rates at which stock will move 

 freely. Fair supplies and fair prices re- 

 sult in more money than can be gath- 

 ered in from the high prices that go only 

 with short supplies, or the large cuts 

 which sometimes glut the market. 



The quality of all the stock in the 

 market continues extremely good for so 

 late in the season. Beauties have much 

 larger heads and better color than one 

 expects to see the latter part of May. 

 Killarney is in good form and yielding 

 well with most growers. Richmond is 

 fine, both in color and stem. White Kil- 

 larney is compelled to compete with first- 

 class * Kaiserin, now available in consid- 

 erable quantity. Maid and Bride are 

 good, but these roses now are second 

 choices. Some flne Jardine, Maryland, 



