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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 30, 1010. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managee. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THUESDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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 834 Dearborn Street, Cbicago. 



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 Europe, 92M. 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-o£Qce at Chlcagro, III., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Is This the Record? 5 



— Paiidaniis L'tills (lllus.) 5 



— Discovered iu Time 5 



— How About ItV 5 



— The Bride's Bouquet (ilius.) 5 



A Word for the Columbiue 6 



Pansies 6 



Cyanide In Summer 6 



Legal Respoiislhllity 6 



Snapdragons for Winter 6 



Scblzanthus Wisetonensls (illus.) 7 



European Notes 7 



Boses — Roses to Carry Over 8 



— Mildew on Helen Gould 8 



— Rose Princeton 8 



— Thrips 8 



Gladioli for Christmas 8 



Orchids — Seasonable Orchid Notes 8 



— Cattleya Mosslae Alba (lllus.) 9 



Double Cornflowers 9 



Peonies — The People's Flower 10 



Ferns— Hardy Roadside Ferns 10 



— One- Year-Old Table Ferns 10 



— Nephrolepls in Summer 11 



— Nephrolepls Neubertl ' 11 



Tulips Not Flowering 11 



Julius Roehrs, Sr. (portrait) 11 



To Destroy Moles 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — Cyclamen 12 



— Palms 12 



— Rambler Roses for Forcing 12 



— Bouvarillas 12 



— Digitalis 13 



Geraniums — Winter Geraniums 12 



— Names of Geraniums 12 



Sweet Peas — Outdoor Sweet Peas 13 



— Winter Sweet Peas 13 



— Asparagus With Sweet Peas 13 



Weak Growth of Cailas 13 



Chrysanthemums — Plants Running to Bud.... 13 



Violets— Outdoor Double Violets 14 



Trimming Hedges 14 



When In Doubt 14 



Obltuiry 14 



News, Notes and Comments 15 



Peter Barr Memorial Fund 16 



Society of American Florists 16 



Chicago 16 



Cincinnati 20 



Pittsburg 21 



St. Louis 22 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 26 



Boston 29 



Rochester, Ind 30 



Seasonable Suggestions (continued) 32 



— Canterburv Bells 32 



— Brief Reminders 32 



Fall River, Mass 34 



Providence 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News — Merger at Boston 38 



— Atlantic City Convention 38 



— Valley Pips 42 



— The Rocky Ford District 43 



— Disappointed 43 



— Such Is Fame! 43 



— Imports 44 



Vegetable Forcing — PolJenlzing Cucumbers... 44 

 Pacific Coast — Spokane, Wash 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Nursery News — ^Retailers' Association 52 



— Too Many Varieties 62 



Indianapolis 56 



Milwaukee 68 



Greenhouse Heating 66 



— Heat for Bedding Plants 66 



— Davis Invents a Valve (lllus. ) 66 



— Pipe Facts 69 



— Three Illlnoia Houses 69 



New Bedford, Mass 70 



West Grove, Pa 72 



Baltimore 73 



Erie, Pa 74 



Uncoln, 111 75 



Yonkers, N. Y 76 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobpobatbd by Act of Conobxss, Maboh 4, '01 

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



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The president of the French republic 

 has conferred upon M. Auguste Nonin 

 the cross of the Legion of Honor in 

 recognition of his services to French 

 horticulture. M. Nonin is known through- 

 out the world as the raiser of many 

 good chrysanthemums. 



Greenhouse property is much easier 

 to sell now than it will be later, when 

 the price must include the value of the 

 summer's work and the stock planted for 

 next season's crops. The Want Ad de- 

 partment of The Eeview brings buyers 

 and sellers together. 



It is the custom of many firms in the 

 trade to print their terms of sale on the 

 top, bottom, or even on the back of let- 

 ter-heads, but it has been well established 

 in law that no part of that which may 

 be on a letter-head is a part of a con- 

 tract of sale except that part which ap- 

 pears between the date line and the sig- 

 nature, unless it be specially referred to 

 in the body of the letter and thus 

 brought practically within the letter it- 

 self. 



PETER BABR MEMORIAL FUND. 



As chronicled in The Review some 

 months ago, the members of the nar- 

 cissus and floral committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, London, formed 

 themselves into a general committee 

 for the purpose of raising a fund to 

 perpetuate the name of Peter Barr, and 

 for the purpose of suitable recognition 

 of his life work. Several men well 

 known in the trade, not only in Eng- 

 land but around the world, are members 

 of the committee, but it transpires that, 

 to quote from a letter from one of 

 them, "the appeal has not been so well 

 responded to as the promoters of this 

 scheme could wish. ' ' Personal appeals 

 for contributions from America have 

 now been sent out and several who have 

 received such have interested them- 

 selves to the extent of sending out 

 letters to the press, among these being 

 David Fairchild and Peter Bisset, of 

 the division of seed and plant intro- 

 duction, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The treasurer of the Peter Barr Me- 

 morial Fund is H. B. May, Stanmore, 

 Chingford, England. The committee as 

 constituted has, of course, no American 

 members, but those who wish to assist 

 the fund, unless they wish to address 

 the treasurer direct, doubtless will find 

 either Mr. Fairchild or Mr. Bisset glad 

 to receive and forward contributions. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the reg- 

 istration of the rose, Red Killarney, by 

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

 becomes complete. 



H.. B. Dorner, Sec 'y. 



June 23, 1910. 



. WARNING! 



Don't Pay Money to Strangers. 



The latest subscription swindler is 

 reported from Toledo, O., where he 

 took subscriptions for The Review at 

 cut rates. Of course such subscriptions 

 never are turned in to the publishers — 

 and would not be accepted if they were 

 — positively no one is authorized to 

 offer The Eeview at less than the regu- 

 lar subscription price. 



Don't be duped by these petty 

 swindlers. Never pay money to 

 strangers for The Review or on any 

 other account. Review representatives 

 all are well known members of the 

 trade in their respective localities. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



Glass factories are now pretty much 

 shut down for the usual period of sum- 

 mer inactivity, and stocks on hand, 

 particularly of greenhouse sizes, are 

 extremely low. There is, however, 

 little fear of any considerable rise in 

 prices between now and the resump- 

 tion of production, partly because the 

 larger requirements are by now pretty 

 well filled, but also because prices are 

 already about all that the traffic will 

 bear. Within the last week 16x18 

 d. s. a. has sold at Chicago in 100-box 

 lots at $4.15, and 16x24 at $4.55, or 

 rather more than double the low prices 

 of two years ago. And yet, with glass 

 7 to 9 cents per square foot, more 

 of it has been sold for greenhouse use 

 than in any previous season. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The glut has passed. The principal 

 difficulties wholesalers now experience 

 arise from so great a proportion of the 

 stock being below the grade required for 

 shipping orders. 



(^uite in keeping with the experience 

 of other years, no great length of time 

 was required for the extreme heat and 

 low prices to set the growers busily at 

 work throwing out old stock and pre- 

 paring for the new season. For this rea- 

 son the receipts of roses are greatly re- 

 duced, and the same may be said of 

 carnations. There continue to be ade- 

 quate supplies of roses, in spite of the 

 reduction in quantity, but it is char- 

 acteristic summer stock and it is by 

 no means easy to fill orders. An im- 

 mense amount of sorting is required, 

 and even then the wholesalers find 

 themselves under the necessity of doing 

 a good deal of running around the 

 market to fill their orders. The result 

 is that anything which can be classed 

 as good stock has a real value. All 

 roses are bringing better prices than 

 in the last few weeks. A large pro- 

 portion of the stock is from young 

 plants. Killarney and Kaiserin are the 

 best varieties. Kaiserin never was 

 finer. 



A good many growers have ceased 

 cutting carnations, at least from a 

 part of their places, and are beginning 

 the work of clearing the houses for re- 

 planting. It is said that plants in the 

 field have generally made excellent 

 growth, and early replanting is in order 

 to get a good start for fall. The carna- 

 tions now coming in are as good as 

 could be expected at this date and in 



