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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 7, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED KVKBY THURSDAY BY 



The Florists- publishing Co. 



530-660 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rkoistebed cable address, flobview. chigaao 



New York Office: 



BorouKh Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subacriptlon 11.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00. To 

 Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■triotly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure iDsertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

 at the post-of&ce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVIStTISEBS, PAGE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



Roses— Rose Saf rano (illus. ) 5 



— Rose Beetles 5 



— Feeble Rose Plants 5 



— Eel worms and Knotted Roots 5 



The Retail Florist 6 



— An Electric Car (illus.) 6 



— Decorating Autos (illus. i 6 



— Obertln and His Outfit (illus.) 6 



Moschosma liiparlum 6 



Salvias from Seed 6 



Building a Pit 6 



National Sweet Pea Society 7 



American Gladiolus Society 7 



Beside the Potting Bench 8 



— The Men and the Boss 8 



Winter Stocks 9 



Formula for Putty 9 



An Inside Glazed House (illns. ) 9 



Lillum Tigrinum Splendens (illus.) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— CUvlas •. 10 



— Hollyhocks 10 



— Empty Flower Pots 10 



— Perennial Lupines 10 



— Perennial Larkspurs 10 



— Late Outdoor Annuals 10 



— Antirrhinums 11 



— Bulb Compost 11 



— Summer Ltlles 11 



New York 11 



New York Florists' Club (illus. ) 11 



Orchids 12 



— Calantbes 12 



— Seasonable Orchid Notes 12 



Lillum Candldum 12 



Obituary 12 



— Louis A. Smith 12 



— Mrs. Gus .\. Geng 12 



News, Notes and Comments 13 



In Case of Doubt 14 



Society of American Florists 14 



Ladies S. A. F 14 



Chicago 14 



Dayton, 19 



Philadelphia 20 



Helena, Mont 22 



Boston 22 



Minneapolis 23 



Beverly, Mass 23 



Ashes for Concrete Walls 24 



Providence 28 



St. Ix)ui» 30 



Stenmer Sailings .32 



Seed Trnde News .S4 



— Erford L. Page (|x>rtralt i 34 



— Texas Firms Consolidate 36 



— Boston's New Firm 36 



— Peas and Beans .S6 



— The Onion Set Situation G6 



— Catalogue Season Again 37 



— Tlie Free Seeds 38 



— Imports 40 



A Bed of Pansles 40 



Name of the Plant 40 



Vegetable Forcing 40 



— Cucumbers Turn Yellow 40 



Credits the Parcels Post 40 



Salt Lake City, Utah 41 



Nursery News 46 



— United States Nursery Lands 46 



Pacific Coast 48 



— Portland, Ore 48 



— San Francisco, Cal 48 



— Gladioli In California 49 



New Bedford, Mass 50 



Louisville, Ky 52 



Greenhouse Heating 60 



— An Ontario Range 60 



— A Combination Heater 00 



— Three Connected Houses 62 



Buffalo 63 



Rochester, N. Y 63 



Milwaukee 64 



Columbus. 65 



Cincinnati 66 



Indianapolis 68 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BIST8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, '01 

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

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



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two copies. 



Advertisers never should permit an 

 ofifer to stand after they have sold out 

 of stock, and if orders come after stock 

 is gone the golden rule requires that no- 

 tice be sent immediately. 



The larger cemeteries now nearly all 

 have greenhouse departments and cater 

 actively for the business florists formerly 

 secured from lot-owners, in the majority 

 of cases prohibiting outside florists from 

 doing work in the cemetery. 



Southern mill owners say that the 

 demand for pecky cypress is strong. 

 Under such a condition they do not seek 

 orders from florists, or for stock for 

 florists' benches, as other trades will 

 take random widths and the bench build- 

 er wants only 6-inch boards. 



N. H. BOLLER, of Darling & Co., Union 

 Stock Yards, Chicago, says that all the 

 fertilizers that are by-products of the 

 abattoirs will, in his opinion, be short 

 of the demand for an indefinite time, 

 because of light supply of raw material. 



IN CASE OF DOUBT— 



Ask The Beview. 



The Review always is glad to reply to 

 inquiries concerning any part of the 

 flower business, but please don't ask us 

 to decide bets — the sporting editor is 

 on vacation — or to say which is right in 

 a business dispute — everyone knows the 

 fate of the peacemaker, and we wish 

 to avoid it. 



Q. — I am building a greenhouse 18x 

 60; what make of boiler should I buy! 

 Ans. — We are not in the habit of rec- 

 ommending any boiler as best adapted 

 to any given situation. All the boilers 

 advertised in The Review are good 

 boilers, and the advertisers sell them on 

 their merits. Write to them, and they 

 will give you all necessary information 

 to enable you to make a choice for 

 yourself. 



Q.— I find it difficult to get trade 

 prices from some of the houses that are 

 best worth dealing with; how shall I 

 proceed? Ans, — Probably if you used 

 a printed letter-head that showed your 

 connection with the florists' business 

 you would have no further trouble — a 

 business man may reasonably be ex- 

 pected to have business stationery. 



SOCIETY or AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Separate Sections at Convention. 



At the mid-Lent meeting of the exec- 

 utive board the following resolution was 

 passed: "Resolved, That if five or more 

 members write to the secretary express- 

 ing an especial interest in any floricul- 

 tural topic and request the organizing 

 of a section devoted to that subject, 



the secretary shall assign a place on the 

 program to that topic and shall desig- 

 nate it by a suitable name as a separate 

 section." 



A place on the program has been re- 

 served for such sections and the secre- 

 tary will be pleased to hear from any 

 members who wish the organization of 

 such a section. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



June 30, 1910. 



LADIES S. A. F. 



Miss Meinhardt, president of the 

 Ladies' Society of American Florists, 

 has appointed Mrs. Richard Vincent, 

 Jr., of White Marsh, Md., on the board 

 of directors to fill out the unexpired 

 term of Mrs. W. J. Vesey, deceased. 

 Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Orders have not decreased in the same 

 proportion that the supply of good stock 

 has fallen off. Business, though not 

 rushing, is good for July. Receipts are 

 nearly at the lowest ebb, and the qual- 

 ity of stock is that typical of midsum- 

 mer. 



Those houses which have made special 

 provision for a summer cut are getting 

 some first-class stock, but the small 

 growers, whose facilities are not equal 

 to running a part of the place for sum- 

 mer, are just between seasons; a good 

 many are cutting nothing and many 

 others are cutting either the last from 

 the old stock or the first from the early 

 replanted houses, and in neither case is 

 the stock equal to the needs of the ship- 

 ping trade. Within the last week not a 

 few orders for roses have been turned 

 down because the wholesalers could not 

 find flowers of the quality necessary to 

 stand an overnight journey. At the 

 same time there were plenty of short 

 and open roses that were sold cheaply. 

 White Killarney is beginning to come in 

 heavily, and with a few growers would 

 be capable of competition with Kaiserin 

 except for the fact that White Killar- 

 ney is not clear in color until cool 

 weather comes. The Beauties are mostly 

 from young stock, or from stock planted 

 specially for a summer crop. The qual- 

 ity is good for this time of year, but 

 the demand is not extensive. 



The receipts of carnations have be- 

 come light, and the demand even light- 

 er. Buyers already are inquiring for 

 asters, but the prospect for these is not 

 especially bright. Locally the weather 

 through June was too dry. Outdoor 

 gladioli from southern Illinois are com- 

 ing in heavily, together with a few 

 asters from that section. The glads, 

 though not of specially good quality, 

 are selling quite well. Sweet peas, now 

 all from the open ground, have been far 

 in excess of the demand. Many are 

 well sold at 5 cents a bunch, for not all 

 can find a buyer at any price. 



The peonies in storage have been nar- 

 rowed down to practically two lots. 

 The holders of both these have shoved 

 off their poor stock along with the quan- 

 tities stored by other growers, so that 

 the stock remaining is of pretty fair 

 quality, especially by comparison with 

 that taken out of storage in the last 

 few days of June and the first few days 

 of July. Many of the flowers showed 

 frost marks when they went into stor- 

 age, and many heads dropped promptly 

 upon being brought again into summer 



