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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembeb 9, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT. Editor and Manaqxb. 



PUBLISHED KVEEY THURSDAY BY 



The Florist^' publishing Co. 



530-56a^axton Building^, 

 834 Dearborn Street, ChicaKO. 



Tblkphonk, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



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, Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertisins rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moming to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the 

 •Ct of March 8, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO AOVERTISEKS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 3 



— The Advertising Habit (lUiis.) 3 



— iSuggeKtlons for Windows 3 



— The Bentzen Store (illus.) 4 



— The Fireman's Helmet (Ulus.) 4 



What Climate Does (Ulus.) 5 



Best Hardy Lilies 5 



Koses — Uoscs Under Ulbbed Glass (illus.).... 6 



— Lifting Forcing lloses ti 



Blood and Bone 



Our Needs In Gladioli ti 



Sweet Peas for Marlcet U 



Best Winter Sweet Peas ti 



The Oldest Ex-presldent (portrait) 7 



Iowa Florists Meet 7 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East S 



Belgians Studying Us 8 



A Question of Fairness 8 



Lilies for Early Easter S 



Seasonable Suggestions — Fire Heat S 



— Polnsettias 8 



— Berried Solanums 8 



— Bedding Geraniums 9 



— German and Japauese Iris it 



— Mignonette 



— Pansles and Violas 9 



Cattleya Portia (Ulus. ) 9 



Prize Winners in Parades (Ulus. ) 10 



Stocks for Winter 10 



Smllax and Asparagus 10 



Violets— Housing Field Violets 10 



Notes on Bedding Plants 11 



Boston 12 



Toledo, Ohio 12 



New Bedford, Mass 12 



Joseph Heacock (portrait) 13 



Buffalo '. 13 



Obituary — John W. Dunlop 14 



Chicago 14 



Pittsburg 19 



Milwaukee 20 



Denver 20 



St. Paul 21 



Philadelphia 22 



New York 24 



St. Louis 30 



Erie, Pa 31 



Springfield, Ohio 31 



Steamer Sailings 32 



Seed Trade News 34 



— Nebraska Seed Crops 35 



— French Bulbs 35 



— Iowa Seed Co 35 



— Dutch Bulbs .'{6 



— Frost In Michigan 36 



— Reappraisements 38 



Wading River, N. Y 39 



Providence, R. 1 40 



Vegetable Forcing— Tomatoes In England 42 



Plants for Name 42 



Name of Plant 42 



Seasonable Suggestions, continued 4.S 



— Freesias 43 



— Antirrhinums 43 



Nursery News 48 



— Southern Nurserymen Meet 48 



— Names of Conifers 48 



— The Bennett Apple 48 



— Shrub for Name 49 



* Evansville. Ind 49 



Pacific Const— Tree Roses in California ») 



— Spokane, Wash W 



— San Francisco ^'2 



New Orleans < •' 54 



Newburgh. N. Y •;« 



Minneapolis ■,•■:••■; ;.o 



Greenhouse Heating— Kind of Fuel (>8 



To Stop Short Circuiting <>8 



— A Small Ohio House 08 



— Two Connected Houses h8 



— From Hot Water to Steam 6!t 



Grand Rapids l'- 



Baltimore '•' 



Columbus, Ohio ^4 



Taunton, Mass '•> 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBIKTS. 



Incorporated by Act op Congress March 4, '01 

 Officers for 1909: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. G. GlUett, 

 Cincinnati, O.; secretary, WlUls N. Rudd, Mor- 

 gan Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pitts- 

 burg. 



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

 Tarrytown, N. Y. ; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, 

 Urbana, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pittsburg, 

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19, 1910. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Bear in mind that Easter, 1910, falls 

 on March 27, two weeks earlier than last 

 year. 



Many subscribers save the bother of 

 renewal, and at the same time insure not 

 missing a copy of the Beview, by send- 

 ing $2, $3 or occasionally $5, instead of 

 the $1 that pays for a single year's sub- 

 scription. 



There is complaint by far western flo- 

 rists that eastern houses use unneces- 

 sarily heavy boxes in packing plant ship- 

 ments, thereby transferring much of the 

 florist's possible profit to the express 

 companies. 



The confidence which the president- 

 elect of the S. A. F. has in the White 

 Killarney rose is shown by the fact that 

 the F. R. Pierson Co. has planted 25,000 

 of it at its place at Scarboro for cut 

 flowers for the New York market. 



Latania Borbonica is about as much 

 out of fashion as hoop-skirts are. J. G. 

 Crozer, Dubuque, la., says he still has 

 on hand some of the larger latanias he 

 bought at the auction in Chicago when 

 Albert Fuchs went out of business years 

 ago. 



The holding of joint annual meetings 

 by the American Rose Society and Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society, as proposed at 

 the Cincinnati convention of the S. A. F., 

 will meet with the approval of practically 

 every man who attends either of these 

 meetings. 



MAGAZINE WORK. 



(The appeal.) 

 Dear Editor: I'd like to do 



Work for your magazine; 

 I've wrote In verse to show you that 



In such I am not green. 

 I can do stories just as well. 



In fact, most anything; 

 If you would like to try me on. 



Just let me know the strlng.- 



(The answer.) 



Dear Sir: You say you'd like to work 



Upon our magazine? 

 Then hustle out and get some "subs," 



'Twould help us most, I weon. 

 Inclosed find blanks, which are for "prose." 



Don't worry o'er the verse; 

 We answer, too, in rhyme, to sliow 



That w^e are not so worse. 



— Boston Hera1(l 



OBITUARY. 



John "W, Dunlop. 



John Wilson Dunlop, Milwaukee's first 

 professional florist, died at the home of 

 his daughter, Mrs. J. C. Martin, at Wau- 

 watosa, W'is., September 1 ; he was 96 

 years of age. Mr. Dunlop was in excel- 

 lent health up to within the past few 

 months, and remained active until three 

 years ago. Last winter he sustained a 

 fall which injured his hip, and since then 

 he had not been as robust, but only a few 

 days ago his strength began to fail and 

 he took to his bed. Mr. Dunlop was to 



have been the guest of honor at the 

 Juneau dinner of the Pioneers' Associa- 

 tion September 14, to celebrate the an- 

 niversary of the coming of Juneau to 

 Milwaukee in 1818. 



John W. Dunlop was born in the parish 

 of Cragie, near Tarbolton, Ayrshire, 

 Scotland, October 16, 1813. He learned 

 his trade as a gardener at a nearby castle, 

 Caprington, and upon finishing his ap- 

 prenticeship took charge of an estate with 

 houses and ground in and near London. 

 About 1840 he came to America, locating 

 in Milwaukee, where he resided ever since 

 with the exception of a couple of years 

 spent near Sacramento, Cal. Soon after 

 his arrival in Milwaukee he established 

 himself as a florist and he raised flowers 

 in Milwaukee for a great many years, 

 first being established on the square di- 

 rectly east of Notre Dame convent, later 

 on the west side of Jackson street in the 

 block directly north of the court house 

 and finally at the Rose Hill nursery near 

 Forest Home cemetery. 



Mr. Dunlop was a member of the coun- 

 cil from the district now known as the 

 Eleventh and Fourteenth wards a great 

 many years ago, and obtained the estab- 

 lishment of a public school on Forest 

 Home avenue. He was connected with the 

 sheriff 's office oflf and on for a matter of 

 ten years either as deputy or undersheriff. 



Since locating in America he made one 

 trip to his home in Scotland, and drove 

 across the plains to California at the head 

 of a little expedition of his own, returning 

 a couple of years later via Nicaragua and 

 New York. A great many years later he 

 visited California again, but by means of 

 a much faster mode of transportation. He 

 went to Washington, D. C, a few years 

 ago to visit the botanical gardens and 

 Smithsonian Institute and talk Burns 

 with that great collector of Bumsiana, 

 Wm. R. Smith. 



For a number of years after retiring 

 from business Mr. Dunlop was superin- 

 tendent of Juneau park. 



Mr. Dunlop was married in 1848 to 

 Miss Ann Eliza Griswold. He is survived 

 by his widow, Mrs. Ann Dunlop, 80 years 

 of age; a daughter, four sons, sixteen 

 grandchildren and ten great grandahil- 

 dren. 



The funeral was held September 3. The 

 floral offerings from the Old Settlers' 

 Club, the Milwaukee Pioneers' Associa- 

 tion, the Board of Public Works, under 

 which Mr. Dunlop served many years, 

 and from other organizations and private 

 individuals were notably beautiful. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The business done in this market 

 during the last seven days has been en- 

 tirely satisfactory, and many houses re- 

 port that the week has given them the 

 best business they ever had at the open- 

 ing of September. 



The weather conditions have been such 

 tliat the production of stock has been cur- 

 tailed, while quality has been improved. 

 The result has been an acceleration of 

 the demand ; a greater increase than usu- 

 ally comes at this season, because of the 

 .unusually cool weather and the fact that 

 crops are light not only in the vicinity 

 of Chicago, but in places that draw at 

 least a part of their supply from this 

 market. The increase in demand, while 

 it has been sufficient to take up all flow- 

 ers of usable quality, has not been such 

 as to produce any special change from 

 the summer prices previously quoted, ex- 



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