The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 25, 191©. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. ORANT, Editor and Managxb. 



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INDEX TO ABVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 9 



— A Carbone Wreath (illus.) 9 



— Fastening Flowers to Pews 



— Meeting the Local Demand 9 



Convention Aftermath 10 



— The Closing Session 10 



— Various Notes 10 



— Visiting Ladies at Highland Park (illus.). 10 



— The Outing at Manltou (illus.) 11 



— Bowling 11 



— Experiment Stations 12 



— Concrete Construction 13 



— Sweet Pea Socletj*. 14 



— American Rose Society 14 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— Formosa Lilies 14 



— Callas 14 



— Antirrhinums 14 



— Annual Lupines •. 15 



The Lord & Burubam Model (illus.) 15 



Chrysanthemums 15 



—•■ Seasonable Suggestions 15 



Carnations 16 



— Carnations for Christmas 10 



— On Sub-irrigated Ijind 10 



— To Prevent Bust 1« 



— Fairy Ring 10 



Method of Burning Cayenne 10 



Insects on Dahlias 10 



Rochester Exhibit of Kroeschell Bros, (illus.) 10 



Mabernia Odorata 17 



Making Leaf-mold 17 



John Conuon (portrait) 17 



New York • 17 



Providence 17 



Hartford, Conn 18 



Cincinnati 18 



For Wide-awake Retailers (Illus.) 18 



News, Notes, and Comments 19 



Outdoor Work 20 



Primulas 20 



Obituary— F. A. Katoll 20 



— Louis Dragon 20 



Chicago 20 



Dayton. 24 



Erie, I'a 20 



Philadelphia 26 



St. Louis 29 



Hardiness of Boxwood Trees 32 



New Orleans 34 



Pittsburg ' 35 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News — Dutch Bulbs 38 



— Duty on Swiss Chard 38 



— Hyacinth Case Decided 38 



— Allow for Dirt in Seeds 40 



— French Bulbs 42 



— Growing Bean Stock Seed 42 



New Bedford, Mass 44 



Boston 48 



Nursery News 54 



— A Nurserymen's Field Day (illus.) 54 



Indianapolis 55 



Pacific Coast— San Francisco 56 



Milwaukee 58 



Evansvilie, Ind 60 



(Jreenhouse Heating 68 



— Steam for Ti^-o Houses 68 



— Oregon Carnation House 68 



— Piping In .Missouri 69 



— Changing Boilers 70 



— A Geranium House 72 



Baltimore 74 



Vegetable Forcing 70 



— Some Big Cucumber Houses 76 



— Manure for Lettuce 76 



Buffalo, N. Y. — Park Superintendent 

 David A. Seymour has announced that 

 two new greenhouses will be erected in 

 Delaware and Humboldt parks. 



SOCIETY OF AHBBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incobpobateo bt Act of Conobkss. Maboh 4. '01 



Officers for 1910: President, f. R. Pie rson. Tarry- 

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

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, III.; treas- 

 urer. W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Special convention and Katlonal Flower Show, 

 Boston. Mass., March 26 to April 1. 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 16 to 

 18. 1911. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 has begun its midsummer press service 

 with articles on "Starting Plants for 

 Next Year," "Strawberry Plants Set 

 Out in Summer," and "The White or 

 Madonna Lily." 



J. S. Beunton, editor of one of the 

 English trade papers, each spring con- 

 ducts a party on a tour of some country 

 of trade interest and next season will 

 bring a score or more of British nursery- 

 men and florists to the National Flower 

 Show at Boston. 



If you have a surplus of field-grown 

 carnation plants you can find a quick 

 buyer for them through the classified de- 

 partment of The Review. Field-grown 

 plants are scarce in almost all parts of 

 the country and such . as there are are 

 only medium size. 



This is too big a country to please 

 everybody in the matter of locating the 

 S. A. F. convention. The thing to do 

 may be to adopt President Pierson's sug- 

 gestion of two meetings a year, holding 

 one in the east and the other in the 

 west. Consolidate with the winter meet- 

 ing the meetings of the Carnation So- 

 ciety and Rose Society, and then everyone 

 ought to be happy. 



OUTDOOR WORK. 



It is a welcome relief when the tem- 

 perature is up in the high nineties to 

 let all hands get outdoors. There is 

 always plenty to do at this season. No 

 matter how frequently we stir the soil, 

 weeds will come, and they grow with 

 such rapidity at this season that in a 

 week or ten days, if given a free hand, 

 they will practically smother other 

 crops. Hand weeding is a necessity 

 now, but it must be done with care, or 

 many plants will be pulled up which it 

 is desired to leave. Many of the more 

 robust weeds can be cut off nef^e the 

 ground, which is better than r ^nning 

 the risk of pulling up flowering plants. 

 Place all weeds in heaps and «vhee' or 

 cart them away. Do not U<ave *;hem 

 to rot, grow again, or loo'<< uns'^htly. 

 You can probably find some loir piece 

 of ground suitable to lump i^tnn, where 

 they will rot and eventually make a 

 little vegetable mold. 



■pi&IMJJJiAS. 



During hot weatKer the primulas, in 

 common with ma^y o',her plants, are 

 greatly benefited by being lightly 

 sprayed ovtr se^i^ral times a day. Be 

 sure to keep tb'^m shaded from the hot 

 sun, but «xpo*e tb> plants altogether 

 on cool, -Joudjr dayi, as well as at night. 

 The dews r' tresis the plants and re- 

 moving the sash' s helps to keep them 

 sturdy. 



The obconicas will already be throw- 

 ing up some flower spikes. Pinch these 

 out as fast as they appear. To keep 

 the plants compact and well leaved, 

 thev must never be allowed to crowd 



one another, and it will be necessary 

 to give them a spacing apart once in 

 ten days. Scratch over the surface soil. 

 Remove any weeds and pick off any 

 decaying leaves when doing this. 



Pots five and six inches in diameter 

 are suitable sizes for flowering the 

 Chinese section in, but Kewensis and 

 obconica, if good sized plants are 

 wanted, should have 7-inch pots. Of 

 course, nice plants can be grown in the 

 smaller sizes. A suitable compost for 

 the last potting would be equal parts of 

 fibrous loam, rotted cow manure and 

 partially rotted leaves, adding a dash 

 of soot and some sharp sand to it — the 

 latter for porosity, the former to assist 

 in keeping the foliage a dark green 

 color. 



OBITUARY. 



Frederick A. Katoll. 



F. A. Katoll, a well-known florist of 

 976 Ellicott street, Buffalo, N. Y., died 

 August 16, as the result of a fractured 

 skull. 



While Mr, Katoll was seated in a 

 buggy in the yard in the rear of his 

 home, Saturday afternoon, August 13, 

 the horse started up suddenly and Mr. 

 Katoll was thrown to the ground. He 

 landed on the back of his head, 



Mr. Katoll was 74 years old. 



Louis Dragon. 



The death of Louis Dragon, at his 

 home on Warwick avenue, Lakewood, 

 R. I., on Tuesday, August 8, removes 

 a well-known man in the florists' and 

 gardeners' circles of that vicinity. For 

 a* score of j'cars, up to about two years 

 ago, he did a considerable business in 

 growing bedding stock, small vegetables 

 and shrubs, which he sold from wagons 

 wliich visited the different sections 

 thereabouts. He was 65 years of age, 

 and removed to Lakewood from Woon- 

 socket, R. I., about 1890. He purchase 1 

 an abandoned farm, built a number of 

 small greenhouses, and did a thriving 

 business. W. H. M. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



Demand steadily gathered volume last 

 week, the record for the seven days 

 proving to be an excellent one. Of 

 course it is midsummer business, but 

 for all that there is considerable real 

 life to the demand. No high prices 

 can be exacted, but there is a fair sale 

 for any good stock offered at moderate 

 prices. The present week opened with 

 intense heat and little local demand, 

 but there was a good number of ship- 

 ping orders for Monday, and the cooler 

 weather following Monday night's 

 storm has helped all along the line. 



The aster is the predominant flower. 

 Supplies are now at their height. 

 Quality is much better than earlier in 

 the season; much splendid stock now 

 is available. The receipts are not un- 

 wieldy in any grade. Although some 

 houses say the buyers back off if the 

 price named is not strictly of the popu- 

 lar variety, still all the good asters, 

 clean up without much delay, and there 

 is enough funeral work to take up all 

 the short-stemmed asters at low figures. 



Gladioli occupy second place in point 

 of present importance. It is the same 

 old story: there is good sale for Amer- 

 ica, such reds as Mrs. King and such 



