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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 2, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-ofQce at Chicago, 111,, under the act of 

 March 3, 187U. 



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 Press Association. 



IKDEX TO ADYEBTISEBS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Groat Boston Orchid Show (lllus.) 5 



American Gladiolus Society 8 



National Flower Show 9 



John K. M. Ij. Farquhar (portrait) 9 



Robert Cameron (portrait) 9 



Memorial Day 9 



I'tfonles — Peony Classification 10 



Funkia Undulata V'arlegata 10 



Chrysanthemums 10 



— Good Sorts to Start With 10 



— Mums In Unfinished House 10 



Carnations 11 



— \ Private Gardener's Ideas 11 



Graptophyllum Pictum (lllus.) 12 



Sea.sonable Suggestions v 12 



— Allamnnda VVilUamsl 12 



— Achlmenes - 12 



— Hydrangeas 12 



— Cannas 12 



— Nerines 12 



— Vari-?gated Vinca 12 



— Astllbe .JapoBica 12 



— Astilbe Queen Alexandra 13 



— Lorraine Begonias 1.3 • 



— Tender Nymphseas . . . .^. 13 



Alost of New Orleans (portrait) 13 



CarrlUo & Baldwin's Place (lllus. i 14 



Duty on Willow Baskets 14 



Powder Pastes 14 



Hardy Plant for Borders 15 



Obituary ' 15 



— William E. Kelley (portrait ( 15 



— Joseph W. Holsizer 15 



— David Neely 15 



A Legal Question 18 



June 16 



Chicago 16 



New York 22 



Rochester 25 



Philadelphia 26 



Boston 28 



Heavenly Houston 32 



Clncinuati 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Peas in Wisconsin 38 



— Peas in Michigan 38 



— Thankful It Isn't Worse 38 



— The Seed Season 40 



— Imports 45 



Stevlas 46 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable -Markets 46 



— Forcing Strawberries 46 



Pacific Coast— San Francisco 48 



— I>09 Angeles 48 



Nu.-eery News 54 



— Keeping Tab on Imports 64 



— The New Customs Court 55 



Memorial Day Trade 58 



Mulching Outdoor Peas 68 



Louisville, Ky 60 



Pittsburg 62 



Providence 76 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— House. Boiler and Chimney 76 



— Two-Inch Pipe for Steam 77 



— Painting the Pipes. 77 



St. Lonis 77 



Carnations continued 80 



Baltimore 84 



Camden, Me. — The Lily Pond Nur- 

 series is the name under which George 

 Glaentzel conducts his place. He re- 

 ports a Jarge increase in his sale of 

 bedding plants, and in his cut flower 

 sales for MautOrial day, giving tlMi 

 credit for the gain to the advertising 

 he di(^ during the latter half of May;- . . 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Inoobpobated by Act of Congress, Maboh 4, '01 



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

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

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

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



When is a geranium not. a geranium? 

 When it isn't in flower at bedding-out 

 time. 



Here is a word of wisdom from John 

 E. Lapes, of Cedar Eapids. "Competi- 

 tors ni«y imitate, ' ' he says, ' ' but they do 

 not, in"" any strict sense, follow." 



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. 



Some growers think that the way to 

 pjet the most money out of their stock is 

 to put it iu competition with itself by 

 shipping to two commission houses in 

 the same city. 



That question of express rates is as 

 deep as the rates themselves are high; 

 express charges affect railroad income, 

 and the cost of transportation adds to 

 the expense of growing stock, and of 

 marketing it. 



The frosts that put outdoor flowers 

 out of commission for Memorial day may 

 have been an ill wind for those who look 

 to this source for a little extra money, 

 but it "blew good" to a lot of growers 

 under glass who can make equally good 

 use of the coin. 



The Ladies' Home Journal for June 

 pictures a dozen styles of graduation 

 bouquets by Charles Thorley, New York. 

 Such publicity is a great thing for the 

 trade; the more people see of the way 

 other people use flowers, the better it is 

 for all concerned in* the production and 

 distribution of flowers. 



A LEGAL QUESTION. 



In regard to the legal question asked 

 by G. H. P. on the contents page of 

 The Eeview, in the issue of May 26, 

 I do not think he has any direct remedy 

 against the cemetery association for sell- 

 ing stock outside of the grounds. His only 

 course would be to notify the county 

 auditor and treasurer of the facts and 

 ask them to put the whole cemetery, 

 if possible — i. e., if any of the stock 

 sold is grown on the burial grounds, or 

 if not, that part used as the conserva-. 

 tories — on the tax duplicate. If the 

 county officials then neglect to do this, 

 G. H. P. should go to court and man- 

 damus them to compel them to tax the 

 cemetery association. 



A few years ago the county treas- 

 urer in this part of Ohio placed some 

 property owned by a local cemetery 

 upon the tax duplicate, because corn 

 was grown upon the cemetery land. 

 As soon as this was done, the ceme- 

 tery association stopped growing the 

 grain, though it had been used to feed 

 the stock that worked in the cemetery, 

 and sowed the soil with grass seed and 

 plante<Jt<4ornamental shrubbery. A Penn- 

 sylvania case holds thol/'when the leg- 

 islature exempts from taxation prop- 

 erty used for a specified purpose, the 



exemption includes such property only 

 as is directly and immediately usee' 

 therefor, and cannot be extended to 

 other property, even though the incomi' 

 received therefrom is entirely devoteci 

 to furthering such purposes." 



Therefore the managers of a cemo 

 tery can be compelled to pay taxes, 

 and if this does not make them sto); 

 selling stock to outside parties, it will 

 at least put them upon the same level 

 of competition as the florist with whom 

 they are competing. C. H. H. 



JUNE. 



Time to Make Collections. 



In addition to its many other activ 

 ities, .Tune is a time to get busy on 

 collections. Eemember that as schools 

 close in June, your best customers, 

 those probably who owe you the largest 

 balances, will be leaving for their sum- 

 mer homes. If you don 't get your 

 money before they get away, the 

 chances are you will have to wait for 

 it until they return in the autumn. In 

 that case will you be able to meet your 

 own bills? Or will you be compelled 

 to stand off the wholesaler, the 

 seedsman and the local growers, to say 

 nothing of the grocer and butcher f 

 Many a florist has the reputation of 

 being ' ' slow ' ' when he simply is slow 

 to get after his own money. Collecting 

 is .iust a little more important than 

 selling. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The volume of business for Decora- 

 tion day exceeded the expectations of 

 the most sanguine — and that is saying 

 considerable. 



The business in the Chicago market 

 has grown so steadily and so rapidly 

 that the regular holiday reports of in- 

 creased sales as compared with the 

 same holiday in previous years have 

 come to be lightly regarded, but no 

 one who spent any portion of the three 

 days of May 27 to 29 in the market 

 will for. a moment question the state- 

 ment that the Memorial day business 

 brought the biggest increase recorded 

 for any holiday of recent years. Every 

 house in the market had all the busi- 

 ness it could handle, from the moment 

 the first shipping orders went out right 

 up to noon of the holiday itself. 



While the demand proved stronger 

 than had been anticipated, the supply 

 of stock was just the reverse. It seemed 

 that every buyer wanted carnations in 

 large quantities and, though the re- 

 ceipts were large, it was impossible to 

 fill all orders. In roses it was more 

 nearly possible to meet all require- 

 ments. The peony supply, except with 

 one or two houses, was less than it 

 usually is and the result was that every- 

 thing cleaned up at fine prices. Sweet 

 peas and the odds and ends did not do 

 so well as the shipping flowers up to 

 the time that city buyers had a hear- 

 ing. The out-of-town orders do not call 

 for much in the way of the small and 

 miscellapeous stock and these did not 

 share in the general advance in prices 

 until Saturday and Sunday. 



There was considerable compjaint of 

 the sharp advance In i^es; but when 

 the business had all gone out it was 

 found that prices were not so very 

 much higher than usual, after all. ^Thc 



