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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Adgcst 4, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqek. 



PUBLISHED EVEEY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. * 



630-560 Caxton BalldinK, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Cbicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



bkoi8tkbed cable address, flobyiew, ohjcaoo 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00. To 

 Europe, $2.60. SubscrlptloDs accepted only from 

 thoee In tbe trade. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade adveitlslng 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-ofHce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 187U. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Sweet I'oas — The Winter Bloomers 7 



— Outdoor Sweet Peas 7 



Chinese Primroses 7 



ChrysantluMiiums 7 



— Pry Kollage and Bust 7 



— When to Take Buds 7 



— Too Late to Propagate 7 



Seasonable Suggestions 8 



— Marguerites 8 



— Paper Whites and Komans 8 



— Trumpet Majors and Golden Spurs 8 



— Calceolarias 8 



— Asparagus Spreugeri 8 



— Bouvardias 8 



The Loochoo LongiUorum (illus. ) 8 



A Rochester Seed Firm (illus. ) 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Memorial Day.... 9 



— Trouble with Geraniums 9 



Carnations 10 



— Mealy Bugs 10 



— Bench-Grown Enchantress 10 



— Cleaning Infected Houses 10 



Abraham Moltz (portrait) 10 



Richard Elchling (portrait) 11 



Boston 11 



Boston Outing (illus.) 12 



St. Louis Groups (illus. ) 12 



New York 12 



Obituary 14 



Society of American Florists 16 



— Convention Notes 15 



— Hotels at Rochester 16 



— Department of Registration 15 



— Those 8. A. F. Amendments 15 



Want Us to Know 16 



Census of Floriculture 16 



American Gladiolus Society 16 



Chicago 16 



St. Louis 21 



PhUadelphla 24 



Washington 26 



Lenox, Mass 26 



American Carnation Society 80 



Name of Flowers 80 



Seed Trade News 82 



— First French Bulbs 82 



— Too Much Rain in Ohio 82 



— Dutch Bulbs 84 



— Harrisil Bulbs 34 



— The Situation In Nebraska 34 



— Criticism of French Bulbs 34 



— The Season at Rocky Ford 36 



— Bermuda Onion Seed 86 



— Samples of Seeds 88 



— In Oklahoma 88 



— Imports 38 



— Clark's Long Auto Trip 38 



Railroad Gardeners 89 



Detroit 39 



Vegetable Forcing 39 



— Ashtabula Growers 39 



— Striped Cucumber Beetles 80 



Cincinnati 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Portland. Ore 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Nursery News 62 



— Tree Bleeding 62 



— Evils of the Replace Policy 63 



Providence 64 



New Orleans 66 



EvansviUe, Ind 58 



Minneapolis 68 



Greenhouse Heating 66 



— Open Air Coal Storage 66 



— Underground Supply Pipe 66 



— The Coal Situation 66 



— Using 4-lnch Pipe 67 



— A Small Violet House 68 



— Unsatisfactory Piping 68 



Buffalo 70 



Baltimore 72 



Columbus, 74 



Pittsburg 76 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobpobated bt Act of Conobbss, Mabgh 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. Easting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 16 

 to 19, 1910. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Don't let surpluses of field-grown car- 

 nation plants go to waste. Even if 

 you have only a few hundreds it will pay 

 to offer them in The Review's Classi- 

 fied Department. Someone wants just 

 what you have to spare. 



Retail florists who have tried automo- 

 biles for delivery purposes find it is neces- 

 sary to keep them busy if expense is to be 

 kept Avithin reasonable limits. If they 

 stand idle they "eat their heads off" 

 much faster than does a horse. 



Otto G. Koenig, secretary of the St. 

 Louis Horticultural Society, advises that 

 at a recent meeting of the executive 

 committee a resolution was adopted 

 "against the advisability of inviting the 

 S. A. F. to St. Louis for 1911." 



New Orleans wants the S. A. F. con- 

 vention in 1915, when the city expects to 

 have the Panama exposition. Harry Pap- 

 worth says: "You all may think you 

 will find a hot south in August [he isn't 

 considering the possibility of a change of 

 date. — Ed], but instead you will find one 

 of the coolest and healthiest of cities in 

 the states, fanned by the breezes of Lake 

 Ponchartrain and the Mississippi river. ' ' 



WANT US TO KNOW. 



One of the pleasant features of pub- 

 lishing The Review is that so many sub- 

 scribers and so many advertisers write 

 to tell of their satisfaction with the 

 paper and its work — they are not con- 

 tent simply to accept the service and 

 pay the bill, but are impelled to put in 

 words their appreciation: 



We would like to let you know that the ad in 

 your paper has been doing fine work for us. — 

 Marinus De Wltte, Kalamazoo, Mich., July 29, 

 1910. 



Results from advertising to date are very 

 satisfactory. — Wm. Toole & Sons, Baraboo, Wis., 

 July 30, 1910. 



Your ad got us busy on Klllarney; bad to 

 send back over $100. — Frey & Frey, Lincoln, 

 Neb., July 30, 1910. 



The Review's Convention Number 

 comes out August 18, with a full report 

 of the S. A. F. meeting at Rochester. 

 It will be a specially good issue for ad- 

 vertisers. 



CENSUS OF FLORICULTURE. 



The census of floriculture will be 

 taken by the special enumerators who 

 have handled the other industries — it 

 can't be taken by mail. 



In taking the census of floriculture, 

 and of the nursery trade, the census offi- 

 cials prepared blanks, approved by a 

 committee of the S. A. F., which were 

 mailed to all the names purchasable — 

 but the list was by no means complete, 

 many failed to respond, and others did 

 not supply information sufficiently com- 

 plete. 



The census bureau has had a large 

 organization in the field collecting spe- 

 cial information on the industries of the 

 country and on this force, not yet 

 through with its work, dependence is 

 placed in the matter of floriculture. In 



each district the special enumerator vvi|| 

 check up the lists of florists and nuf. 

 serymen, visit those who have not re. 

 turned the blanks properly or comp],'te- 

 ly filled and make the census of tl ese 

 trades on the same basis as others. The 

 work already has been begun. It \vi\\ 

 be a long time before it will be ci-m- 

 pleted. 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



As an addition to the prizes alre.-nly 

 announced, to be awarded at the 

 Rochester show, Kelway & Son, Lang- 

 port, Somerset, England, have offered 

 the Kelway medal, for the best collec- 

 tion of named varieties of Kelway 's 

 Large-flowering Gladioli, their current 

 Manual of Horticulture to be taken as 

 a guide to the names eligible, and these 

 to include only the Large-flowering Gla 

 dioli, Kelway 's strain. Entries for this 

 prize should be made under No. IG, 

 Open Class. L. Merton Gage, 



Cor. Sec 'v. 



CHIOAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The demand is extremely erratic. 

 Now and then there comes a day when 

 the telegraph messengers flock to the 

 whole district and everybody is on the 

 jump to supply the out-of-town de- 

 mand; and it usually happens that on 

 such days there also is a fair run of 

 local trade. But following an ex 

 tremely active day there will come two 

 or three days of deadly dullness. Last 

 week, with its extreme heat, there was 

 nothing whatever doing in the middle 

 of the week. Saturday brought a fine 

 run of business, cleaning up everything 

 that was in any way usable, and Mon 

 day of the present week also was 

 marked by great activity; the call for 

 stock exceeded the supply of good 

 quality. 



There really are few good flowers 

 now in the market, and many buyers 

 have to content themselves with ma 

 terial which they would not otherwise 

 consider usable. The supply of Beau 

 ties has fallen off materially; there are 

 few good ones to be had and for the 

 best of the long grade $4 per dozen is 

 asked, with a corresponding advance in 

 prices of other lengths. Of roses there 

 is a fair supply. One commission 

 house reports having handled 75,000 

 last week, largely Killarney and White 

 Killarney, with lesser quantities of Kai- 

 serin, My Maryland and Richmond. 

 Local buyers like Maryland, but there 

 is extremely light call for Richmond. 

 Maid and Bride are not often seen. 

 There are more of the Killarneys than 

 of all other roses put together. When 

 one has in mind the superb stock of 

 late spring, the present supply appears 

 extremely poor in quality, but such as 

 it is there is enough to go around, and 

 the quality probably is as good as it 

 ever was at the opening of August. 



Carnations are practically out of the 

 market. There continue to be light re- 

 ceipts, but most of the flowers are so 

 small that they have little value. Any- 

 thing that can be classed as good is 

 worth real money. The asters are ag- 

 gravating wholesalers and retailers; 

 they seem to be more backward in com- 

 ing forward than ever before. There 

 are plenty of the open-centered small 

 white asters that sell for a cent this 



