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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jdlx 21, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor akd Manaobr. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, CliicaBO. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subecrlptlon 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 

 Btrlctly trade advertising accepted. 



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

 to Insure insertion in the issue of that m^ek. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897. 

 at the post-o£Qce at Chicago, III., under the act of 

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEKTISERS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Roses — A Complication of Diseases 5 



— Kose Rust 5 



Convention Program ." 



I'erns — Black Aphis on Ferns 5 



Sweet Peas — The Society and Its Future... <! 



Good Commercial Peonies (! 



Carnations — Sorts for a Beginner (J 



— Sheep Manure in Compost (i 



— A Sample of Soil 7 



— Roses with Carnations 7 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions .... 7 

 Seasonal)le Suggestions — Loirulne Begonias... S 



— Cyclamens 8 



— Poicsettlas 8 • 



— Aehlmenes 8 



— Adiautums 8 



• — Clerodendron Fallax 



— Genistas !) 



Another Formula for Putty , !( 



Herbert Greensmith (illus.) 9 



Snaps and Callas for Market i) 



Seasonable Seed Sowing — Pansies 10 



— Bedding Violas 10 



— Myosotis ' 10 



— Double Daisies 10 



Freesins (illus. ) 10 



Flower Shows in London 10 



Baseball and Crescent (llliis. ) 11 



Removing Cement from Tile 12 



Ones' Own Mistakes 12 



Tax on Growing Stock 12 



Cinch Bugs on Asters 12 



Moths in Greenhouse 12 



Phlox and Hollyhocks 12 



A Tj-plcal Establishment (Illus. » 13 



The Posslbllitifs of Today 13 



Glen Cove, N. Y 13 



Obituary — Mrs. Nathan Smith 14 



— Mrs. Annie Russler 14 



— GuEtav Drobisch (portrait) 14 



American Gladiolus Society 14 



Buffalo 14 



Storing Begonias 14 



News Notes and Comments l.T 



foclety of .Vmerlcan Florists Iti 



merlcan Rose Society Hi 



Hotels at Rochester 10 



Chicago 10 



PhllKrtolphla 22 



New York 24 



Albany, N. Y 20 



Washington D. C 20 



Seed Trade News— The First Harrlsil .SO 



— Imports ,30 



— FormoFa Lilies 30 



— Commerce in Seeds 31 



— .Holland Bulbs 31 



— V/ork of Seedsmen's Attorney .32 



— Cathlogues Received 32 



— Made in Columbus (illus.) .34 



Columbus,' .3.J 



Newport, R. I .36 



Boston 36 



Vegetable Forcing — White Spine Cucumbers.. 39 



Providence 42 



West Grove, Pa 44 



Ctucirnati 44 



Steamer Sailings 46 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 48 



— San Francisco 48 



Nursery News — Pacific Coast Meeting 54 



— Nurseries to Combine? 55 



— Infected Nnrsery Stock US 



— Japanese Maples 56 



— A Native Juniper ,^6 



Rochester, N. Y 58 



Manchester, Mass 58 



Detroit 60 



Greenhouse Heating — Burns Too Much Coal... 68 



— Four Separate Houses 68 



— In Southern Pennsylvania 69 



St. Louis 70 



Pittsburg, Pa 74 



New Bedford, Mass 75 



Baltimore 76 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BIST8. 



Ingobpobated by Act of Oonobsbs, 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. 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. 



Now is the time to begin advertising 

 your surplus of field-grown carnation 

 plants. 



The first half of July is the dullest 

 time of the florists' year — we all are on 

 the up grade once more. 



Now while trade is dullest is an ex- 

 cellent time to collect the bills outstand- 

 ing on last season's business. 



There are a lot of good things offered 

 in the Want ad columns of The Review. 

 It pays to watch these pages. 



St. Louis wants the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion in 1911 and it is said the Florists' 

 Club and Horticultural Society there will 

 join hands in an endeavor to secure a 

 favorable vote at Rochester. Montreal 

 will not renew its invitation for 1911, 

 but will be in the field for 1912. 



Our neighbors in Canada are as bad 

 off as are the people of the United States 

 in respect to the tariff; the florists there 

 are not satisfied with the rates, but do 

 not agree among themselves as to what 

 they should be. They will make an ef- 

 fort to ^reconcile differences of opinion 

 at the convention at St. Catherines next 

 month and, by united action, get the tar- 

 iff shaped to the ideas of the majority. 



SOCIETY OF AMEEICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Kessler Bros., 52 West Twenty-eighth 

 street. New York, and G. Dreyer, Wood- 

 side, L. I., offer for registration the 

 fern described below. Any person ob- 

 jecting to the registration, or to the 

 use of the proposed name, is requested 

 to communicate with the secretary at 

 once. Failing to receive objection to 

 the registration, the same will be made 

 three weeks from this date. Raiser's 

 description: A sport of Nephrolepis 

 Bostoniensis and of the Scottii type; of 

 compact growth, with flat leaves of 

 dark green color; the fronds are narrow 

 and droop over the pot when the plant 

 is full grown. Name: Nephrolepis 

 Dreyerii. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



July 14, 1910. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Rochester is making a strong effort to 

 have a great show f(jf the S. A. F. in 

 August, and the American Rose Society 

 will call a meeting during the conven- 

 tion. President Elliott will do all that 

 is in his power to push the society 

 along, following in the footsteps of the 

 able men who were his predecessors. 



A matter of some importance that 

 will be brought up for consideration 

 at Rochester will be looking forward 

 to special prizes to be offered at the 

 spring show of 1911. The American 

 Rose Society, in the combined show of 

 all flowers, wants to take the lead. 



Probably sixty per cent of all flower 

 raised for sale in America are roses-, 

 and what we want to do is to get in 

 advance enough people interested to 

 make the rose show in 1911 the best 

 exhibit that can be produced. W- 

 would like to have prizes enough to 

 warrant drawing exhibits from every 

 point within transportable distances^. 

 Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 



HOTELS AT ROCHESTER. 



The hotels at Rochester are preparing: 

 to accommodate all who may attend the 

 S. A. F. convention, but the wise visitor 

 will engage his room at an early date. 

 Although Rochester is well supplied 

 with first-class hotels, it is not at all 

 improbable that they will be crowded 

 during convention week. Even now 

 various clubs have booked advance or- 

 ders for their members. The following 

 are the leading hotels and their rates; 

 all &f them are near Convention hall: 



Hotel Rochester. Main street west. European 

 plan. Rates, $1.50 to $2.50 without bath, $2.50 

 to $3.50 with bath. 



Powers Hotel, Main street west. European 

 plan. Rates, $1.50 to $4. 



Hotel Seneca, Clinton avenue south. European 

 plan. Rates, $1.50 to $3.50, single; $3 to $5, 

 two persons. 



Oshurn House, 104 South avenue. American 

 plan. Rates, $2.50 to $3.50. 



Hotel Eggleston, 159 Main street east. Euro- 

 pean plan. Rates, $1 to $2. 



W^hltcomb House, 209 Main street east. Euro- 

 peon plan. Rates, $1 to $3. 



Eastern Hotel, 102 Clinton avenue south. 

 Men only. European plan. 



The Bristol, 25 Central avenue. European 

 plan. 



Clinton Hotel, South avenue and Court street. 

 American plan. Rates, $2. 



E. F. R. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The Chicago wholesale cut flower 

 market is noted far and wide for its 

 quick changes of condition, but it sel 

 dom has made a more sudden reversal 

 of form than since the last issue of 

 The Review. The earlier part of last 

 week was exceptionally dull; there was 

 scarcely anything stirring until Friday 

 afternoon. Saturday, July 16, marked 

 the change. Supplies, which had been 

 slightly on the decrease for several 

 days, dropped off sharply, and at the 

 same time orders became more numer- 

 ous, with the result that there was 

 much skirmishing for stock. Prices 

 took a quick advance, and the market 

 that night was practically bare of flow- 

 ers. 



It is the same old story: Everyone 

 throughout the broad territory supplied 

 from Chicago performs the same cul- 

 tural operations at about the same timf 

 and under the same conditions, with 

 the result that when supplies are ex 

 tremely heavy in Chicago they also arc 

 large in other towns, and when sup- 

 plies fall off in the great central market 

 they also fall off at other points, with 

 a consequent quick increase in the ship 

 ping demand. Last week about the 

 last of the old rose plants were either 

 thrown out or dried off, and the re 

 planting of carnations was begun in 

 earnest; this cut down the supply in 

 Chicago and elsewhere, and it brought 

 about a condition where whatever de 

 mand there is through a big stretch 

 of country now centers in this market. 



The Killarney roses constitute the 

 bulk of the stock in this department. 

 With a number of houses White Kil- 

 larney is even more abundant than the 

 pink variety, the young stock of the 



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