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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 16, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Managkk. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINQ CO. 



030-560 Caxton Baildlng:, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 Europe. $2UX). Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



Advertlsingr rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising: 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. 189", 

 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 ACVSHTIBERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



American Peony Society 7 



— The Boston Meeting 7 



— Eertrand H. Farr (portrait) 7 



— Officers Reelected t . 7 



— Date is Too Eftrly 7 



— The Awards 7 



— Miscellaneous Exhibits 8 



— Business Session 8 



— President's Address 8 



— Peony Festlva Maxima (lUus. ) 8 



— Secretary's Remarks 10 



— Peony Marie Lemolne (iUus.) 10 



— Peony Boule de Nelge (illus.) 10 



— Nomenclature Committee 11 



— Philadelphia Next 11 



— Peony .Teanne d'Arc (lllus.) 11 



— Peony Mrs. Willock (illus.) 11 



— RpRolutlons 12 



— Among Those Present 12 



— Peony M. Jules Elie (lllus.) 12 



Rooting Poinsettlas 12 



Peonies — Peony Synonyms 12 



— Peony Mme. De Vemevllle (lllus.) 13 



— Notes on Varieties l.S 



— Tree Peony Queen Elizabeth (illus.) 14 



— Single Peony The Bride (lllus.) 14 



Motor Delivery (lllus.) 15 



Boston 15 



A Modern Cooling Room — (lllus.) 16 



Obituary— H. J. Billings 16 



— John Maxwell 16 



— Charles Eisner 16 



— Samuel Weber 16 



— Frank DeWltt 16 



News, Notes and Comments 17 



Name of Weed 18 



American Rose Society 18 



Society of American Florists 18 



Chicago 18 



Pittsburg 24 



Providence 24 



Philadelphia 26 



Ngw York • . .•>.• 2R 



The Hitchings Cup (liluV. ) '. ". '. ". ". ". '. ". '. '. '. '. '. '. ! ! ! ! 29 



Cincinnati .36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News '. . 40 



— Crop Safe it Land Owned 40 



— Surprised the Tree Men 41 



— Conditions In Nebraska 41 



— Holland Bulbs 41 



— Iowa Seed Dealers Meet 41 



— Commerce In Seeds 42 



— More Sweet Pea Prizes 42 



— American Gladiolus Society 42 



— Gladiolus Pink Beauty 46 



— Imports 46 



Vegetable Forcing 46 



— Cucumbers do not Mature 46 



St. I-ouls 46 



Pacific Const 48 



— Callas in California 48 



— San Francisco 48 



Nurser.v News 54 



— Progress in the Trade 54 



— President Stark (portrait) 54 



— The Denver Convention 64 



— Choosing a Vocation 55 



— E. S. Welch (portrait) 65 



Springfield, Mass 68 



North Ablngton. Mass 68 



Glen Cove, N. Y 60 



Des Motces 60 



Westerly. R. 1 62 



Manchester, Mass 62 



Baltimore 64 



Rochester 66 



Boston Notes 75 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Extremes in Size of Pipe 76 



— For Either Steam or Water 76 



Milwaukee 77 



New Bedford, Mass 80 



Albany, N. Y 82 



Indianapolis 84 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FL0BIST8. 



Inoobpobated by Act of Conobbss, Mabch 4, '01 



Officers for 1910; President. F. R. Pierson. Tarry- 

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

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

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Keview brings results. 



Now that Congress has bent to the 

 will of the people to the extent of giving 

 them postal savings banks, let's get a 

 parcels post. 



The cashier of a bank in North Da- 

 kota is inquiring of Secretary Esler 

 whether the Florists' Hail Association 

 will write a line on thirty acres of po- 

 tatoes. 



Louis Wittbold, secretary of the 

 George Wittbold Co., Chicago, says he 

 has proven to his complete satisfaction 

 that the cheapest way to sell plants to 

 the trade is on mail orders procured by 

 advertising. 



The guarantors for the second Na- 

 tional Flower Show will within a few 

 days be called on to pay the first twenty 

 per cent of the amounts subscribed. 

 Thus far the committee has carried the 

 work without funds. 



In line with the policy of many ad- 

 vertisers to concentrate their advertising 

 in the publication giving best results, 

 double-page spreads are becoming quite 

 the fashion. The Eeview has published 

 five of these impressive ads in the last 

 five issues. 



Money is to a business what gasoline 

 is to an automobile — ^you can not run 

 your business machine with the money 

 that is coming to you any more than you 

 can make the auto wheels go round with 

 the gasoline still in the barrel. Be a 

 good collector. 



NAME OF WEED. 



I am sending you a sample of weed 

 which I cannot kill. I have cultivated 

 for seven or eight years once every 

 week in summer, and it only makes it 

 come thicker. Please tell me the name 

 and something that will kill it. Any 

 information you can give me will be 

 appreciated. B. F. 



I do not know the weed which you 

 enclose a sample of. Send a plant to 

 the state agricultural college of your 

 state for identification. They will also 

 advise you how to best get rid of it. 

 Some troublesome weeds are best 

 cleared out by planting the lend for a 

 season with some vigorous growing 

 crop, like fodder corn, which helps to 

 smother them out. C. W. 



AMEBICAN BOSE SOCIETY. 



The time fixed by the by-laws for 

 the annual change of officers of the 

 American Rose Society is July 1, but 

 in practice it has been found advisable 

 to make the formal change during the 

 annual convention of the Society of 

 American Florists. This year this will 

 be held in Rochester, at which time a 

 regular meeting of the American Rose 

 Society will be held. We at that time 

 desire to start a list of special prizes 

 for the coming great National Show at 

 Boston. 



Every special prize has been dis- 

 tributed. The man who carried off the 



largest number of prizes at the New 

 York show, held in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, was H. C. 

 Steinhoff, of West Hoboken, N. J. He 

 took Mayor Breitmeyer's prize. 



The Dorrance prize has been won 

 only three times in ten years; first by 

 Robert Simpson, of Clifton, N. J.; 

 second by Poehlmann Bros. Co., Mor- 

 ton Grove, HI., and third by Benjamin 

 Dorrance, of Dorranceton, Pa, 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Department of Begistration. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the regis- 

 tration of the fern, Nephrolepis Roose- 

 velt, by the American Rose & Plant Co., 

 of Springfield, becomes complete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



June 9, 1910. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week opened with everything 

 in an extremely satisfactory condition, 

 but by the middle of the week stock 

 was being received so heavily that 

 average prices went down all along the 

 line. It is noticeable in June that the 

 better class of buying is early in the 

 week. This is accounted for by the 

 fact that most of the weddings and 

 school functions occur too early in the 

 week to help the market on Wednes- 

 days and Thursdays. By Friday there 

 comes buying for the cheap sales of 

 Saturday, which suffiCo;S to clean up 

 stock, though at extremely low prices. 

 Last week the market was almost 

 stagnant on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 but active on Friday, and a fair clear- 

 ance was made Saturday at prices the 

 lowest of the year to date. It was, in 

 fact, impossible to make prices low 

 enough to dispose of all the carnations. 

 Too many were of poor quality; such 

 poor quality, indeed, that even the 

 cheapest of the cheap street salesmen 

 would not handle them, insisting on 

 having stock of fair quality at their 

 cheap prices. 



The current week opened with a 

 lighter run of business than Monday 

 has brought in recent weeks. Tuesday 

 found the market also weaker than on 

 preceding Tuesdays, largely because tl;c 

 better class of schools have now closed, 

 and the middle of the week finds the 

 market in a depressed state. The inter- 

 mittent spring apparently has at la?t 

 given place to settled summer. The 

 heat has made a great increase in su} ■ 

 plies, and the market is in a worse 

 glutted condition than has been tli? 

 case at any time in 1910. But ther^ 

 are a great many mitigating circum- 

 stances. From the wholesaler's point 

 of view, things are not so bad. In tli** 

 first place, there continues to be ^ 

 quite fair call for the selected graded 

 of stock; a call from people who will 

 pay fair prices for good flowers. The 

 less critical buyers are taking larj^e 

 quantities at cheap prices, and the 

 flower stand and special sales peoph'- 

 being able to buy the balance at about 

 whatever they choose to offer, are doin^ 

 a big business. The result is a better 

 total for the wholesaler than his booU^^ 

 showed in the middle of June last year. 

 Reference to last year's records also 



