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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 28, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



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IirSEX TO AOVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Flowers of Summer 5 



— Herbaceous Borders (illus.) 5 



Kochester a Flower Center 6 



t'arpet Bedding 7 



tJodetias 7 



Violets — Violets Slow to Bloom 7 



The Retail Florist — The Rennison Store 



(illus.) 8 



— Table Decorations (illus.) 8 



The Expansion at Dreer.'s 8 



Stevlas 9 



Lycoris Squamigera 9 



tieraniums-^Seasonable Notes 9 



.Sweet Peas— Sweet Peas in England (illus.). 10 



Ericas .' 10 



c:arnations-<-Carnetions on Sour Soil 11 



— Stolba's Carnation House (illus. ) 11 



— Feeble, Sleepy Plants 11 



Seasonable Suggestions — Mignonette 12 



— Berried Solanums 12 



— Ardisia Crenulata 12 



— Asters 12 



Roees — Plerson on White Killarney 12 



Society of American Florists 13 



— Special Rates to Rochester 13 



— Headquarters 13 



— Dues 13 



— Amendments to Constitution 13 



— Convention Hall (illus.) 13 



— Convention Preparations 14 



— Hotels at Rochester 14 



— Partits to Rochester 14 



Canadians to Meet 14 



The Gladiolus Secretary (portrait) 14 



Obituary — Daniel Spillane 14 



News Notes and Comments 15 



(Convention Invitations 16 



St. Louis Flower Show 16 



American Gladiolus Society 16 



Mothq in Greenhouse 16 



Chicago ; 16 



Providence 21 



BoHton • 22 



Shading for Houses 23 



I'biladelphJa 24 



New York 26 



St. Louis 28 



Seasonable Suggestions continued 30 



— Scbizantbus Wisetonensis 30 



— Chrysanthemum Maximum King Edward 

 VII 30 



— Coreopsis Grandiflora 30 



A North Coldframe 32 



Cincinnati 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News— At Rocky Ford 38 



— Bromfleld & Colvln Sell Out 38 



— Mangelsdorfs Reorganize 39 



— First Dutch Bulbs 39 



— • Bacteria .Corporation Fails 40 



— Lily Bulbs 42 



— Seed Trade in Rochester 42 



^Charles W. Crosman (portrait) , 42 



— • Seedmen's Personalty 44 



— Imports 44 



New Orleans, La • 45 



Vegetable Forcing — White Fly on Cucumbers. 47 



— Nematodes or Eel- Worms 47 



To Clean Old Glass 47 



Pacific Coast — San Mateo, Cal 48 



— San Francisco 48 



— Spokane, Wash 49 



Ventilation 49 



Nursery News 54 



— A New Association 55 



— Evils of the Replace Policy 55 



New Bedford, Mass 58 



Birmingham, Ala 60 



Possibilities 67 



Greenhouse Heating — Get Your Coal Now 68 



— A Partitioned House, 69 



Milwaukee .....V.... :.. 70 



Erie, Pa. 74 



Washington, D. O. 74 



Indiana Florists Meet 75 



Indianapolis 76 



Franklin, Pa 76 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobpobatkd bt Aot of Conobess, Maboh 4, '01 



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



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



This is the time to plan the lines on 

 which you will push with the opening of 

 another season — for of course you wUl 

 push ! 



"Collections are not so good as they 

 might be," remarks a contemporary. 

 Verily, brother, they are not; but they 

 always are just as good as the credit 

 man's judgment, and never are any bet- 

 ter. 



Usually at this season there is an 

 abundance of experienced greenhouse 

 help, but this year the places open out- 

 number those seeking employment. Note 

 that in the Want department there are 

 more Help Wanted advertisements than 

 Situations Wanted. 



Consider that when you lump your 

 business your account becomes valuable 

 to the house that has it — worth watching 

 and working to retain — but when you 

 buy a little here, a little there and a lit- 

 tle everywhere it does not amount to 

 enough to anyone to command special 

 attention. 



The number of retail flower stores in 

 the smaller cities is increasing with nota- 

 ble rapidity. In most cases they are con- 

 ducted in connection with greenhouses in 

 the outskirts, but in many not large 

 places a retail store drawing supplies 

 from a city market has proved its ability 

 to stand on its own feet. 



CONVENTION INVITATIONS. 



The S. A. F. is so greatly in demand 

 that it is becoming the practice to speak 

 years in advance for its conventions. 

 At its last meeting the New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society made a bid for 

 1915. It makes the list of invitations 

 stand as follows: 



St. Louis 1911 



Montreal 1912 



New Orleans 1915 



WON'T MISS ANY. 



Many subscribers send, instead of 

 the dollar-bill that insures fifty-two 

 visits of The Review, $2, $3 or occa- 

 sionally $5 — it saves the bother of 

 yearly renewal. 



Enclosed yon will find |5 for five years. I 

 would not miss The Review for anything; It's 

 the best paper out- — P. L. Larson, Fort Dodge, 

 la., July 20, 1910. 



ST. LOXnS FLOWER SHOW. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society 

 gives notice that, in addition to the 

 regular listd of premiums offered for 

 the fall show, which will be held in the 

 Coliseum, November 8, 9, 10, 11 and 

 12, the following special prizes are 

 offered: For best display of roses, $500; 

 best display of chrysanthemums, $500; 

 best display of carnations, $500. 



The addition of the $1,500 in prizes 

 is mtvde possible through the citizens' 

 committee, who, under the leadership 

 of Capt. Kobt. McCulloch, are cooperat- 

 ing with the Horticultural Society and 

 will give St. Louis one of the greatest 

 flower showis ever held. All growers 



throughout the central states and ihe 

 east are urged to stimulate the offer ng 

 of prizes in such liberal quantity by 

 prompt and liberal entry in the ab >ve 

 classes. Prospective exhibitors v.-in 

 please apply for spaces requirdd ; nd 

 further particulars to Otto G. Koei ig 

 secretary. 



AMERICAN GLADIO 



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SOCIETY. 



In addition to the premiums alrei;dy 

 announced, to be awarded at the Ech- 

 ester show, August 16 to 19, a prize of 

 $10 has been offered by H. H. Groff 

 for the best exhibit in white and ligiit, 

 dark, yellow and blue hybrids; not more 

 than three spikes of any one variety 

 (i. e., one to three spikes); one or more 

 vases of each color section; quality aiul 

 value only to govern. 



'^•i^,: L. Merton Gage, Cor. Sec'y. 



MOTHS IN GREENHOUSE. 



In The Eeview of July 21, page 12, 

 T. B. tells of a certain kind of moths 

 which invaded his greenhouses by the 

 hundreds, and which he was unable to 

 exterminate by means of nicotine fu- 

 migation or spraying. I think the pests 

 which troubled him were probably the 

 same as those which I once had in my 

 houses, and which are called leaf-tiers. 

 It may seem odd, but the only effective 

 remedy we found for them was to hit 

 them with a piece of lath. This process 

 took some time, but we Anally cleaned 

 them all out, Adolph Frost. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Some of the wholesale houses say that 

 the market has now become a three- 

 days-a-week affair, but they all agree 

 that Friday, Saturday and Monday busi- 

 ness is good; some of them find some- 

 thing doing other days, and on the 

 whole it may be said that business is 

 excellent for the season. Several houses 

 that found early July business about 

 on a par with last year are now report- 

 ing fine increases as compared with a 

 year ago. 



There is so little good stock in tho 

 market that the off-hand version is that 

 a great deal more business might be 

 done if supplies were larger, but tk ' 

 fact is that the call for flowers is nc t 

 suflBciently insistent to carry prices 

 much above the ordinary summer levc; 

 buyers simply walk out if prices ai ' 

 not to their liking. 



The principal demand is for roses, bi t 

 the principal shortage is of asters. K • 

 tailers appear to be using roses becaus- 

 they are better and more abundai 

 than other flowers. Beauty crops no < 

 are light and Killarney is the mo^' 

 plentiful of roses. White roses are sel • 

 ing well, because a large part of th 

 work this season is for funerals. Whit " 

 Killarney is more abundant than Kai'^- 

 erin. It would be the ideal summf' 

 rose if the color were purer. In pin'^ 

 roses, My Maryland is coming in quit ' 

 heavily, but it is not selling so well as 

 • Killarney. The buyers like My Mary- 

 'lato^lffa rdle, but those out of town 

 say it does not reach them in as goo<' 

 shape as Killarney. Shipping quality 

 is one of the most important factors 

 that go to make a flower good for thi^ 

 market. Eichmond is slow sale; peopl^^ 

 do not want red in red hot weath%r. 

 The carnations are about at the low- 



