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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jdlx 14, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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 334 Dearborn Street, CblcaKo. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada. »2.00. To 

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 those In the trade. 



Only 



Advertlslnfir rates quoted upon request. 

 Btrlctly 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, 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 ASVEBTISEBB, FAOE 74. 



CONTENTS. 



Carnations 5 



— Red SpiiJcr on Carnations 5 



— Some English Alalmalsons (lUus.) 5 



— Pinching Ward Carnations 5 



The Retail Florist C 



— Cost of Auto Delivery (iUus.) 6 



— Air Plant or Sea Moss 6 



— The Cook Store (lllus. ) 6 



— Express Co. Responsible 6 



American Gladiolus Society C 



July Crop Report 7 



Chinese Red Tuberoses 7 



Sweet Peas 8 



— National Sweet Pea Society 8 



Roses 8 



— York and Lancaster 8 



— Pruning Hardy Roses 8 



Orchids 9 



— Flowering Time of Cattleya 



— The Cattleya Fly 8 



Germination of Cocos Seed 9 



Phlox Turning Yellow 9 



Formula for Putty 9 



Geraniums 9 



— Geranium Foliage Dying 9 



Begonia Corallina Lucerne (illus.) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Seasjnable Repairs 10 



— Outdoor Work 10 



— Hydrangea Arborescens 10 



— Brief Reminders 11 



Cincinnati 11 



Obituary 12 



— J. W. Dudley 12 



— Thomas W. Dee 12 



— J. W. H. Krumm 12 



Stump and Ismene (illus.) 12 



Society or^Amerlcan Florists 12 



News, Notes and Comments 13 



Propose Spring Convention 14 



In Case of Doubt 14 



Chicago 14 



Boston 20 



Plants for Memorial Day 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Tractaelium Cseruleum 23 



New York 24 



Detroit 28 



St. Louis 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Nebraska Crop Conditions 36 



— Holland Seed Crop 36 



— In Southern Michigan 37 



— Ferry s increase Capital 87 



— Imports 38 



— The Pack of Peas 38 



— The Field Seed Business 38 



— Bulb-Growing in France 40 



Vegetable Forcing 43 



— Vegetable Growers to Meet 43 



— Strawberry Runners 43 



Pacific Coast 44 



— Study of Plant Diseases 44 



— San Francisco 44 



Nursery News 60 



— Protective Association 60 



— United States Nursery Lands 50 



Providence 62 



Erie, I'a 63 



Oaillardias 63 



Fertilizer for Sweet Peas 63 



New Bedford, Mass 54 



Indianapolis 66 



Greenhouse Heating 64 



— The Coal Market 64 



— Using 4-lnch Pipe 64 



— A Small House 64 



— Three Violet Houses 64 



— One Iowa House 65 



— Improved Thermostats 66 



Pittsburg, Pa 66 



Albany, N. Y 68 



Minneapolis 70 



Evansvlile, Ind 71 



Rochester, N. Y 72 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobpobated bt Aot of Conobkss, Maboh 4, '01 

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

 town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, 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 Review brings results. 



You who are looking for opportunities 

 to go into business wiU find many such 

 in The Review's department of Want 

 advertisements. 



The international flower show to be 

 held at London, England, in 1912 is 

 planned to open May 22. It is hoped to 

 secure American cooperation. 



The rate of one and three-fifths fares 

 for the round trip, on the certificate plan, 

 has been authorized by the railroads for 

 the S. A. F. convention at Rochester next 

 month. 



Many people will tell you that the best 

 index to a publication's closeness to its 

 readers is the Want Ad department. And 

 The Review's Want department is grow- 

 ing even faster than other parts of the 

 paper. 



It appears that the cut flower pos- 

 sibilities of the peony are nowhere any 

 better than in the section where they 

 never fail to bloom by May 10 to 20. 

 Fair prices always are realized in 

 northern markets for good flowers well 

 handled at Memorial day, and fre- 

 quently fine prices are obtained, as 

 was the case this year in middle west- 

 ern cities. 



PROPOSE SPRING CONVENTION. 



It is stated that the necessary steps 

 have been taken to bring before the 

 S. A. F., in form for action at Rooliester, 

 a proposal to change the date of the 

 annual convention from midsummer to 

 early Lent, a date corresponding with 

 that of the society's National Flower 

 Show at Boston in the spring of 1911. 



For some time there has been com- 

 plaint that the multiplication of trade 

 societies was working disadvantageous- 

 ly in many ways: disadvantageously to 

 individuals, who find they can ill afford 

 the time and money required for at- 

 tendance at all the meetings their in- 

 clination and interest prompts, and dis- 

 advantageously to the parent society 

 and the special societies by dividing up 

 the attendance and financial support. 

 It has been apparent that the attend- 

 ance at the conventions of the leading 

 trade societies was not increasing at 

 anything like the rate that the trade 

 itself is growing; that the membership 

 lists are not in any way representative 

 of the trade at large as it exists todav 

 in this country, and that the value of 

 the societies is impaired by a constantly 

 increasing diffusion of the energies of 

 the limited number of men whose serv- 

 ices are available for such work. 



To correct the tendency in the wrong 

 direction has been a problem which has 

 engaged the thought of some of the 

 best men in the business, but little ac- 

 tual result was apparent until individual 

 interests began to be strong enough to 

 overcome the several strong special ob- 

 jections to concentration, the first real 

 success being in combining the Carna- 

 tion Society's show and the Rose So- 

 ciety's affair with next year's National 

 Flower Show at Boston. 



To effect a change of date of the S. 



A. F. convention and permanently com- 

 bine these three meetings may not prove 

 so easy a matter, but there undoubtedly 

 now are many who would welcome a 

 change to a spring date for the S. A. F. 

 meeting irrespective of other than busi- 

 ness and personal considerations. August 

 is no longer the dull month it once was 

 for the growers, and experience has 

 shown that a considerable number of 

 those who have leisure in that month 

 prefer to spend it otherwise than in a 

 hot convention hall. 



IN CASE OF DOUBT- 



Ask The Review. 



The Review is glad to answer ques- 

 tions concerning any phase of the busi- 

 ness. 



Q. — We are bulb growers in Holland 

 and want to procure topographical and 

 common maps of the states of Oregon 

 and Washington. Ans. — Address Rand, 

 McNally & Co., 166 Adams street, Chi- 

 cago. 



Q. — There is a man in our town who 

 calls on the family or friends of a de- 

 ceased person and simply stays with 

 them until he gets an order, often mis- 

 representing other florists; we want to 

 know how to deal with him. Ans. — 

 The crepe chaser is beyond human 

 reach. 



Q. — I want to know how to deal with 

 San Jose scale that infests my fruit 

 trees and the neighborhood. Ans. — Ap- 

 ply for aid to your state experiment sta- 

 tion or the state entomologist. 



CHXCAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week's market, especially the 

 latter part, was undeniably dull; the 

 most optimistic could find nothing in it 

 more encouraging than the diminishing 

 supply of stock. The weather was the 

 hottest of the year to date, and demand 

 lighter than in any week this year; in- 

 deed, some of the wholesalers said they 

 have not had so dull a week within two 

 summers. The local retailers seem to 

 have ceased pushing for business, mak- 

 ing no further effort than to supply the 

 few funeral designs that are called for. 

 Many of them have no cut stock what- 

 ever in their windows and little in their 

 ice-boxes. Shipping trade has been bet- 

 ter than local business, but called prin- 

 cipally for roses. Conditions are 

 slightly better this week, because of 

 showers and cooler weather. 



The call for roses is in excess of the 

 supply of really good stock. Rose re- 

 ceipts are not heavy and a large part 

 of the stock continues to be of ex- 

 tremely poor quality, not usable on or- 

 ders for anything but the cheapest of 

 funeral work. The result is that after 

 the wholesalers have done the large 

 amount of sorting necessary to separate 

 the few good flowers from the much 

 greater number of poor ones, they ex- 

 pect and are able to demand good prices 

 for the best, while there is almost no 

 sale whatever for the culls. Beauties 

 are not so abundant as they have been 

 and are now pretty fair sale. KiUarney 

 IS again proving the best summer rose 

 among the pinks. White KiUarney is 

 fine in everything except color, but 

 Kaiserin still has the call. Richmond 

 IS in large supply in several houses and 

 IS not in special request. 



The receipts of carnations have been 



