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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 16, 1910. 



best collection of twelve new gladioli 

 not yet on the market, three spikes 

 each to be exhibited. 



From Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago 

 and New York — Vaughan's Seed Store 

 silver medal, for the best twenty-five 

 spikes of Gladiolus Mrs. Francis King. 



Will all who wish to exhibit at the 

 first show of the American Gladiolus 

 Society in connection with the annual 

 exhibition of the S. A. F. at Eochester, 

 August 16-19, please communicate with 

 me at once, so that adequate space can 

 be secured? 



L. Merton Gage, Cor. Sec'y. 



Orange, Mass. 



GLADIOLUS PINK BEAUTY. 



Referring to the item which recently 

 appeared in The Review, C. J. Speel- 

 man & Sons, Sassenheim, Holland, state 

 that they have been appointed sole 

 agent for the dissemination of this va- 

 riety by P. Vos Mz. As instancing the 

 earliness of this variety, they say that 

 Mr. Vos sold to C. de Jong, of Loos- 

 diunen, near The Hague, a number of 

 bulbs of Pink Beauty, which the latter 

 planted last November, together with 

 other long-stocked gladioli. In the 

 early part of February they were 

 brought into a forcing temperature. 

 The first blooms were cut May 5. The 

 other varieties under the same treat- 

 ment did not bloom before June 5. 

 Mr. Vos loaned to Vranen & Van Delft, 

 of Rynsburg, 1,000 bulbs of Pink 

 Beauty, which were planted November 

 12 and which flowered May 28. Speel- 

 man & Sons say these two experiments, 

 in conjunction with those conducted 

 with other varieties, prove the new 

 sort to be the earliest blooming of all 

 long-stocked gladioli of which there is 

 knowledge in Holland. 



IMPOSTS. 



The imports of seeds through the 

 port of New York for the week ending 

 June 4 were as follows: 

 Kind. Pkgs. . Val Kind Pkgs Val. 



Annatto .... 3$ 61 Fennel ..... 5$ 51 



Anise 6 77 Fenugreek . . 165 665 



Caraway ...100 642 Grass 188 2,153 



CarTmom "72 1,990 Mustard ....387 3,647 



Clover 45 1,711 Rape 150 1,170 



Coriander ...222 520 Other 1.462 



Cummin 109 1,713 



In the same period the imports of 

 bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 

 $8,665. 



Vegetable Forcmg. 



CUCUMBEES DO NOT MATUEE. 



We have one house planted with cu- 

 cumbers. The vines are full of blooms 

 and little cukes, but the cukes turn yel- 

 low and drop off. Can you tell me what 

 is the cause of this? Do they need 



shading on the glass? 



Z. & G. 



It is highly probable that this grower 

 has no bees in his cucumber house. 

 Many growers depend upon bees com- 

 ing in from outside, but this is poor 

 policy. The bees will not come into 

 a cucumber house if they can get plenty 

 of blooms of other kinds to work on 

 outside, and on rainy days they do not 

 come in at all, so it is necessary to 

 have a swarm in each house for best 

 results. 



If the pollen is not transferred from 



the male to the female blooms, the 

 young cukes will not mature, but turn 

 yellow or brown and fall off. The male 

 blooms are open only one day, then dry 

 up and fall off, but the female blooms 

 will stay open about three days, await- 

 ing pollen; then, if none is transferred 

 to them, the little cucumbers which are 

 already formed must dry up and not 

 mature. If these female or fruit-bear- 

 ing blooms are pollinated the first day 

 they are open, they close up soon 

 afterward. 



The tiny pickle will sometimes turn 

 brown and fall off from other causes, 

 either from injury by being allowed 

 to get extremely cold, or by injury 

 from some kinds of fumigation being 

 too strong, etc., but these cases are rare. 

 If no bees are kept *in the house, the 

 grower need look no farther for his 

 trouble. H. G. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



From the reports of most of the re- 

 tailers, and from the way stock sold 

 at all of the wholesale houses, trade 

 must have been good all of last week. 

 There were a great many weddings in 

 all parts of the city and much work 

 for school commencements. The weath- 

 er seems to have steadied down at last, 

 with good, warm, clear days. The sup- 

 ply at the wholesale houses was fairly 

 good all last week, with plenty of roses 

 at reasonable prices, long Beauties 

 bringing not over $3 per dozen. Car- 

 nations also were plentiful, with extra 

 fancy up to $3, but the bulk of the 

 stock brought $2, and common $1 to 

 $1.50 per hundred. Sweet peas sold 

 better, and the market cleaned up 

 daily. Valley and gladioli also had a 

 good call. In greens the market had 

 everything. 



Florists' Club Meeting. 



The twenty-third anniversary meet- 

 ing of the Florists' Club, held Thurs- 

 day afternoon, June 9, was a great suc- 

 cess, there being fifty members present. 

 This was the largest attendance the 

 club has had this year. 



The trustees reported through Chair- 

 man Bentzen that they had secured 

 Romona park, in St. Louis county, for 

 the club's annual picnic and that they 

 had decided on Thursday, July 21. This 

 was accepted by the members and $50 

 was donated by the club. C. De Wever 

 reported for the bulletin committee, 

 which was ordered to make a full re- 

 port at the next meeting. The Big 

 Four railroad sent in a communication 

 regarding rates to Rochester for the 

 S. A. F. convention. J. J. Beneke was 

 named as a committee of one to look 

 up the matter and report at the July 

 meeting. H. A. Eirick, of Webster 

 Groves, made application for member- 

 ship. The treasurer's report showed a 

 big balance to the club's credit. 



For the good of the club the trustees 

 had several boxes of cigars and an 

 extra one donated by Harry Balsley, 

 who was present in company with S. S. 

 Skidelsky, of Philadelphia. President 

 Windier asked the secretary to read an 

 essay on "Brotherly Love Among the 

 Florists," which was written by Fritz 

 Blumenschnider, which caused a great 

 deal of merriment. The question box 

 was well stocked. The question as to 

 what caused the high prices of cut 

 stock for Memorial day brought out a 



THE cost of labor saved 

 in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



Mention The Review wtien you write. 



Vegetable Plants 



Cabbase. All Head, Succession, Second Early, 

 Early Summer, Flat Dutch, Sure Head, Danish 

 Round and Ball Head, at 20c per 100, ll.OO per 

 1000, 10,000 and over 85c per 1000. 



EkK Plants. Black Beauty and New York 

 Improved, 40c per 100, $2.00 per 1000. 



Peppers. Bull Nose, Ruby King and Sweet 

 Mountain, 40c per 100, |2.0O per XOOO. 



CASH WITH OBDER. 



WUte Msnh 

 Md. 



R.Vincent, Jr., & Sou Co., 



Mention The Review when you write. 



great ^^ussion from three sides, the 

 retaileivthai wholesaler and the grower, 

 which tooli^p a large part of the after- 

 noon, and will be more fully discussed 

 at the next meeting, July 14. The 

 nomination of officers will take place 

 then, with the election at the August 

 meeting. 



Various Notes. 



The Eetail Florists' Association held 

 an important meeting Monday, June 6, 

 in the K. of C. hall, with eighteen mem- 

 bers present and C. C. Sanders in the 

 chair. Further discussion will take 

 place at the next meeting in the same 

 hall, June 20, at 8 o'clock. 



The members of the Ladies ' Home 

 Circle spent a pleasant day and night 

 at Chautauqua, 111. They left the Union 

 station Wednesday evening, June 8, 

 and returned Thursday evening. Dur- 

 ing the day a meeting was held in the 

 Meinhardt cottage, where S. A. F. mat- 

 ters were discussed and Mrs. F. H. 

 Meinhardt read a paper on "Wild 

 Flowers." The rest of the day was 

 spent exploring the hills. The party 

 consisted of Mesdames Weber, Steidle, 

 Koenig, Miller, Meinhardt, Berning, 

 Beneke, Schitzle and the Misses Mein- 

 hardt and Weber. The next meeting of 

 the circle will be held at the home of 

 Mrs. John Steidle the first week in 

 July. 



At the Florists' Club meeting W. J. 

 Pilcher, of Kirkwood, showed a fine lot 

 of cut sweet peas, all new varieties 

 grown by him. Mr. Pilcher has had a 

 great success with sweet peas this sea- 

 son. 



A. S. Halstead, head of the St. Clair 

 Floral Co., Belleville, exhibited at the 

 club meeting a lot of fine blooms from 

 seedlings from Queen of the West gera- 

 nium. 



L. P. Jensen, who has charge of the 

 Adolphus Busch greenhouses, returned 

 last week from a trip to New York, 

 where he supervised a lot of landscape 

 work on Mr. Busch 's place along the 

 Hudson river, where Mr. Busch will 

 build a fine residence and conserva- 

 tories. 



During the big rain Thursday, June 



