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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jink 9. 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Cbicaso. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 Europe, $2.60. Subecriptlons 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 Decembers, 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 ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The U.'tMll Flori-st . •". 



— The Wedding Umuniets (Ulus.l .'> 



— Art In >Iasslve Desigulng J; 



Tragacanth as a i'aste 7 



The Trade's .Display 7 



Hardy I'lants for Borders « 



The Wenland & Kelmel I'laiit (iUiis. i !» 



Kerns "•> 



— Kerns (irown in Kraines 



-- Discolored and Dead Fronds. i> 



Orchids — A Commercial I'nnxmition.- : .' . 10 



— Deudrobiums ^^ 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Asters 10 



— <;vc«s Revoluta 10 



— Smllax 10 



— rriining Klowerlup Shrubs 11 



— Cinerarias 11 



Chrysanthemums 11 



— \ B'»glnnlng in Mums U 



— Mildewed Mums 11 



— jOutdoor Mums 11 



'Cfcatment for Gloxinias 12 



Primulas In Summer 12 



Iris for Identlttcatlon 12 



Antirrhinums for Market ,. ■ 12 



(irulleman's Success (illus.) 13 



Aster Beetles !•! 



Amarvills After Klowerlng l-< 



Late Gladioli l^' 



1. S. Hendriekson (portrait* 14 



Marguerites 14 



Larva' In Rosebuds 14 



Boston J^ 



News. Notes and Comments l.j 



American Rose Society 1^ 



Society of American Florists 10 



Chicago IS 



St. Louis £> 



N*ew Bedford, Mass 22 



Yonkers. N. Y 25 



I'hlladelphla 26 



Detroit 28 



Des Moines. la *>" 



Dayton, Ohio ^ 



Cincinnati ^ 



Seed Tr.ide News 38 



— Imports ■ 38 



— The Seed Season ■io 



— Catalogues Received .18 



— Bulbs a Second Year 40 



Boston Florists' Club 40 



Buffalo 42 



Vegetable Forcing 4(> 



— Vegetable M.irkets 40 



— The Hoskins Cukes (illus.) 40 



— Diseased Cucumbers 4C 



Erie. P.1 fg 



Pacific Coast 48 



— Portland, Ore 48 



— Spokane. Wash 48 



— San Francisco 4l» 



Nursery News •>4 



— The Denver Coiwentlon iA 



— President Stunnard (portrait) .54 



— The Finances S4 



— Funds for I'ubliclty 54 



— Secretary Hall (iM)rtraltl .55 



Columbus. Ohio •';** 



Minneapolis '•JJ 



Evansvllle. Ind '••' 



Providence o4 



Grand Ilaplds 66 



Boston Notes 76 



Gri-enlious"' Heatliig H 



A New .TiTsey Range ^7 



— Size of Poller ••• 77 



— Location of Builer 78 



— A Shalliiw Boiler I'lt 78 



Wappinjrer's Falls. N. Y 



Newlmrgli. N. Y... 



Pougllkeepsic. N. Y 



Rochester. N Y 



Indianapolis, Ind 



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SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Inoobpobatkd BY Act of Conobebs, Maboh 4, '01 



Officers for 1910r President. F. B. Pierson, Tarry- 

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

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

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



Results brinjj; advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



What would you think of a business 

 man who didn't have any business sta- 

 tionery? 



The Associated Press reports that Bur 

 bank is about to spring a couple more 

 "creations," a poppy and a primrose. 



If you want to buy, sell or exchange 

 real estate or greenhouse materials, boil- 

 ers, etc., try The Review 's Want Ad de- 

 partment. 



In many central western localities 

 Avhere bedding out usually is pretty well 

 along by the middle of June, it hardly 

 has been started this season. 



We have so much bad weather this 

 spring that, if the seasons are to average 

 up, as they usually do, it should mean 

 a iine summer and autumn. 



The price of glass, of putty, of paint 

 and of oil is what even sellers call ' ' way 

 up," but the price of the products 

 grown under them is normal. 



J. A. Valentine and Mrs. Valentine 

 are busy this week extending the glad 

 hand to the visitors at the nurserymen 's 

 national convention, now in progress at 

 Denver. 



IsoT a few ^bscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Review $2, .$3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fil'ty- 

 two copies. 



Secretary A. H. Fewkes announces 

 that, owing to continued cool weather, it 

 has been found neftessary to postpone the 

 annual meeting and exhibition of the 

 American Peony Society, at Boston, from 

 June 9 and 10 to Tuesday and Wednes- 

 ilay, June 14 and 15. 



C. W. Johnson, secretary of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, has issued 



New York ' 2:r-j— tl»e annual volume. It contains, in addi 



tion to the report of the convention, 

 essays and prize awards of the meeting 

 held at New York last November, and 

 published at the time in The Review, a 

 list of the new varieties disseminated in 

 1909, both American and foreign, and a 

 list of the society's 118 members.^ 



AMERICAN EOSE SOCIETY. 



A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., has 

 filed with the American Rose Society no- 

 tice of registration of a new sport of 

 Killarney, originating in 1908. It is 

 identical with the Killarney, except in 

 color, which is much brighter, showing 

 a strong tendency to red, some blooms 

 having been as dark in color as the 

 Richmond, and the average of the crop 

 for the entire year of 1909 only a shade 

 lighter. 



The question has been addressed to 

 the secretary, whether the American 

 Rose Society will have a June show, but 

 up to this writing there have been no 

 steps taken toward such an exhibition. 



The Minnesota State Rose Society has 

 applied for a bronze medal to be offered 

 at its summer exhibition for the best 

 exhibit by an amateur. The definitior 



which the society gives of an amateiii 

 is, "One who grows the plants himseit 

 or herself, but does not regularly emplov 

 a gardener to grow them, and one wlic 

 does not grow or sell plants as a busi 

 ness. ' ' Last year the American Rose 

 Society offered its bronze medal, and 

 this was awarded to Mrs. F. H. Gibbs, 

 St. Paul, Minn. 



Benj. Hammond, Sec 'y. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, Conn., 

 offers for registration the rose described 

 • below. Any person objecting to the 

 registration or to the use of the pro- 

 posed name is requested to communi- 

 cate with the secretary at once. Fail- 

 ing to receive objection to the regis- 

 tration, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. Raiser's de- 

 scription: A sport of Killarney, orig- 

 inating with A. N. Pierson, Inc., in 

 1908. It is identical with Killarney, 

 except in color, which is much brighter, 

 showing a strong tendency to red, some 

 blooms having been as dark as Rich- 

 mond, the average the entire year a 

 shade lighter than Richmond. Name: 

 Red Killarney.- 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 

 June 2, 1910. 



CHICACK). 



The Oreat Central Market. 



If the month holds out to the end as 

 well as it did through the first week, 

 June will go on record as one of the 

 best ever known in this market. Some 

 wholesalers think the unusually active 

 conditiqn of the market since Memorial 

 day has been largely due to the scarcity 

 of outdoor flowers; others think the 

 cool weather is responsible, delaying 

 the arrival of that time of the year 

 when people seek their pleasures in the 

 open air and without the aid of flow- 

 ers; still others say the exceptionally 

 high quality of the stock available as 

 a result of the cool weather has stimu- 

 lated the business, while others point 

 to the general prosperity of the west 

 and say the June increase is no more 

 than the normal gain, apparent all 

 through the first five months of the 

 year. But everyone agrees on the fact 

 that business last week was excellent. 

 The out-of-town demand is better than 

 the city business, and the call is prin- 

 cipally for the finer grades of stock. 



Since Memorial day there has been a 

 considerable improvement in the qual- 

 ity of the stock, with the possible ex- 

 ception of Beauties. Most of the whole- 

 salers will say that really first-class 

 long Beauties are scarce, though there 

 are plenty of cripples. Of other roses 

 there is an abundance of notably fine 

 quality. The cool weather recently pre- 

 vailing has restored the color and 

 texture, leaving nothing to be desired 

 in roses. It is possible to procure Kil- 

 larney, Richmond, White Killarney, 

 Marvland, Jardine, Cardinal and Rhea 

 Reid with stems of exceptional length 

 and buds in proportion, while those old 

 favorites. Maid and Bride, have again 

 come into the race. Kaiserin is abund- 

 ant and fine. While Killarney continues 

 to be the best seller, the call for red 

 Vrs improved and Richmond, Cardinal 



