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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



May 26, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30-560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



bsoi8teked cable address, flobview. chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. To 

 Kurope. $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising 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 at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ABVEBTISERS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Flower Store for Charity. 7 



— In a New York Church 7 



— Wedding Bouquets (illus.) 7 



— Everybody Wants (illus. ) S 



— Decorations at Bridge Party 8 



— Mothers' Day at Calgary 8 



— A Duplicated Mothers' Day 8 



— Fathers' Day 8 



— Palmer's Comet (Illus.) !) 



Mrs. E. M. Gill (portrait) 10 



Srcilax and Asparagus 10 



Roosevelt Visits Haarlem (illus.) 11 



Orchids— Cattleya Fly 12 



— Feeding Orchids 12 



— Cypripediums 12 



Carnations — Carnations in Old Soil 12 



— Hog Manure in Compost 12 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Stock 13 



— Planting Lawn Beds 13 



The Compost Heap 13 



Repairing Benches 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Hardy Roses 13 



— Peonies 13 



— Outdoor Flower Crops 13 



— Canterbury Bells 14 



— Sowing Perennials 14 



— Rambler Roses in Pots 14 



— Left-Over Azaleas 14 



Euonymus Radicans (illus.) 14 



The Work at Cornell 14 



Begonia lacarnata (illus.) ; 1.' 



News Notes and Comments 10 



Gladiolus Bulblets 17 



Away Down South (Illus.) 17 



Obituary 17 



A Powder Paste 18 



A Legal Question 18 



Society of American Florists 18 



Chicago 18 



Boston 23 



Phlladelplii:i 26 



Provldeisco 28 



New York 29 



Smilax Turning Yellow 32 



Fighting Aphis 34 



Spanish Iris 34 



St. Louis 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Seed Trade Convention 41 



— Imports 42 



— Commerce in Seeds 42 



— Seedsmen Reclaiming Swamp 42 



— Seed Testing In Missouri 42 



— Seed Growing at HoUister 42 



— Exports of Grass Seeds 44 



— Potato Blackleg 44 



Dayton, Ohio 48 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable Markets 48 



— Eggplant Damping Off 48 



— Aphis on Lettuce 48 



— Diseases and Prevention 48 



Pacific Coast 60 



— Portland, Ore 60 



— San Francisco 60 



Detroit 66 



Nursery News 68 



— Lilacs at Arnold Arboretum 68 



— The Shrubby Lonlceras 58 



Columbus 62 



Milwaukee 64 



New Orleans 66 



Denver 68 



Rochester 68 



Greenhouse Heating 80 



— Illinois Coal Sltnation 80 



— Five Iowa Houses 81 



— Piping in Louisiana 81 



Cincinnati 82 



New Bedford, Mass 84 



Manchester, Mhss 85 



Pittsburg 86 



East Liverpool, 86 



Baltimore 88 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobpobated by Act of Conqbkss, Mabch 4, '01 

 Officers for 1910; President. F. II Pierson, Tarry- 

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

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, TJrbana, 111.; 

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



What would you think of a business 

 man who didn't have any business sta- 

 tionery? 



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 copies. 



Supposing a firm wanted to sell you 

 goods and wrote on a plain piece of pa- 

 per — what would you think of them? 

 Well, then, why not get a letter-head that 

 shows who YOU are, to use when you 



BUY. 



It often happens that good geraniums 

 in 4-inch pots are scarce in the begin- 

 ning of June and overabundant later, 

 when stock comes into bloom. Good ge- 

 raniums now are in first-class demand 

 and realizing rather better prices than 

 a year ago. 



Have you filled out the blanks for the 

 census of floriculture? If neglected in 

 this busy time, do it as soon as possible, 

 and with care. If you have a greenhouse 

 you should have received the blank. If 

 you did not receive it, drop The Review a 

 line on your printed letter-head and you 

 will be supplied. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety has issued a schedule of prizes for 

 the peony exhibition, to be held jointly 

 by itself and the American Peony Society, 

 at Horticultural hall, Boston, June 9 and 

 10. Copies of the list may be obtained 

 by addressing W. P. Rich, secretary, 

 Boston. 



A POWDER PASTE. 



In looking over The Review of May 

 19, I noticed on page 30 an inquiry 

 about a "powder paste" called Paste 

 Substitute. Now, though I can not 

 give any information about that par- 

 ticular sort of paste, there is another 

 brand of powder paste which I can 

 recommend. It is used by my firm, by 

 the Henry A. Dreer corporation and 

 other florists, and also by the Adams 

 Express Co. It is called Dextrine and 

 is manufactured by the Steele & At- 

 wood Co., of Chicago. I think it is the 

 best paste that can be had for attach- 

 ing labels. A. W. L. 



A LEGAL QUESTION. 



I have a question that I should like 

 to ask, though I do not know whether 

 it is in your line to answer such ques- 

 tions in the columns of The Review. 

 The question is this: Is it legal for a 

 cemetery company to grow plants 

 within the cemetery grounds and sell 

 them to people for planting outside the 

 cemetery? You will understand that 

 the cemetery is exempt from taxation 

 in this state, the state of Pennsylvania. 

 G. H. P. 



The Review will be pleased to hear 

 from any reader who has positive 

 knowledge on this point, or who has 

 had experience in any case of a similar 

 character. 



WARNING! 



Don't Pay Money to Strangers. 



Within the last few days the Review 

 has 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." 



A victim of "H. Hunter" describes 

 him as follows: About 24 years old, 

 clean shaven, fluent talker, about five 

 feet six inches tall, fair, dark suit, not 

 new. 



Don't be duped by this petty swindler. 

 If "H. Hunter" shows up, call the po- 

 lice and wire the Review. 



Never pay money to strangers, for the 

 Review or on any other account. Re- 

 view representatives all are well known 

 members of the trade in their respective 

 localities. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that the 

 American Rose & Plant Co., of Spring- 

 field, O., offers for registration the fern 

 described below. Any person objecting 

 to the registration, or to the use of the 

 proposed name, is requested to com- 

 municate with the secretary at once. 

 Failing to receive objection to the reg- 

 istration, the same will be made three 

 vveeks from this date. Raiser's descrip- 

 tion: A sport from Nephrolepis Bos- 

 toniensis that is a great improvement 

 over that variety, being of the same 

 habit, but of somewhat more vigorous 

 growth, with fronds six to eight inches 

 in width. The edges of each of the 

 pinnae are decidedly rufiled in wavelike 

 undulation that is very distinctive. As 

 the fronds mature the undulations be- 

 come more pronounced, giving the indi- 

 vidual fronds and the plant as a whole 

 a marked wavy effect. Does not run 

 back, the type being fixed. Name: Ne- 

 phrolepis Roosevelt. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the regis- 

 tration of the violet, Marie Elise, by 

 Thomas De Voy 's Son, of Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., becomes complete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



May 19, 1910. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The gyrations of Halley's comet have 

 been no more erratic than the changes 

 in the weather and in the Chicago 

 market during the last week. 



The weather always is the most im- 

 portant factor in regulating supply and 

 demand in this market. Sometimes it 

 is possible to count with some slight 

 degree of certainty upon what the 

 weather will do to the supply, but this 

 year conditions are so abnormal that 

 strange tricks are played. Unseasona- 

 bly cool conditions had prevailed for 

 some time up to the latter part of last 

 week. Then came three days of mid- 

 summer. Growers who had been letting 

 the stock hang on the plants just a 

 bit longer than was necessary, in order 

 to accumulate a resetVe for Memorial 



