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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 16, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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

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INDEX TO ADVEKTISEBS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



'J'Ue Retail Florist — Luncheon Tables (llliis.) 3 



— Good Will Tokens 3 



— Always State How to Ship 4 



Wilson Sails for America 4 



Violets — Marie Louise Violet 5 



Society ot American Florists 5 



I uutei'bury Bells - 5 



Cbrysantliemums 6 



— To ilemove Bordeaux Mixture 15 



— Seasonable Suggestions U 



White Urubs In Soil 



Ueraulums — Trouble with Ueraulums (i 



— Ueraniums for Spring Sales 6 



Koseti — -Vly Maryland Uose 7 



— Uoses Under itibbed Ulass (lllus.) 7 



— Lifting F ield Uoses 7 



— Uoses for F'uneral Work 7 



— American Uose Society 7 



Carnations— Carnations in I'ots S 



— Thrips not to Blame 8 



— For a Christmas Crop .S 



— White Spots on Leaves 8 



^Carnations In the Field i) 



— A yuaiter Million Blooms (lllus.) a 



U. Uusconl (portrait) 10 



.Seasonable Suggestions — Cinerarias 10 



— Ericas 10 



— Lilies 10 



— Marguerites 10 



— Uydraugea Otaksa 10 



^ Lemon-scented Verbenas 10 



— Kucbarias Amazonlca 11 



— Late Asters. . . ; 11 



— KnglisU Ivy 11 



• ieorge B. Windier (portrait ; 11 



Aster Bti'tles 11 



i>ellvery Wagons (ilius.i l;; 



Obituaiy 12 



Tbe Crops 14 



Wild Smllax H 



Cbicago 14 



St. Louis 18 



Detroit at 



I'lovldence, U. 1 '21 



St. Paul 122 



I'biladelphla 24 



Boston 20 



Hingbam, Mass 28 



Vegetable Forcing — Uadisbes and Lettuce.... 34 



— The New ManviUe Tomato (iUus.) 34 



— Cucumbers in England 34 



.Seed Trade News 36 



— Holland Seed Croi)s 38 



— The Crops 38 



— Cause ot Diseases In Lilies 39 



— The Worlds Seed Situation 40 



— French Bulbs 42 



— Dew Fonda 42 



— Dutch Bulbs 43 



I'lttsburg 4t> 



Indianapolis 40 



Steamer Sailings 48 



Washington 50 



PacltJc Coast— Portland, Ore 56 



— San Francisco 56 



— Seattle 56 



— . The Crego Aster in Oregon 57 



Nursery News — I'eterson is Knighted 58 



— Hardiness of Privet 58 



Kansas City 58 



North Texas 5i> 



Milwaukee (jt) 



New Bedford, Mass 62 



Cleveland 64 



Dayton, Ohio 68 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Radiation for Small House 76 



— Three Connected Houses T 6 



— Partitioning a Greenhouse 76 



— Covering for Steam Pipe 76 



— Making Briquettes 77 



Lincoln, Neb 78 



Buffalo 82 



i:o,k Island, 111 84 



SOCIETY OF AHBBICAN FLOBINTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 

 Officers for 1909: President, 3. A. Valentine, 

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

 Olnclnnatl, 0.; secretary, WIUIb N. Rudd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1010: President, F. R. Pierson, 

 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 10, 1910. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



Fob the printing of this issue of the 

 Review. 5,555 pouncJs of white paper were 

 required. 



The lily and the sweet pea, once flow- 

 ers of a fleeting season, are now all-the- 

 year -around stocks of steadily increasing 

 importance in the wholesale markets. 



From all over the country comes the 

 optimistic report that from all appear- 

 ances the trade stands at the opening of 

 a more prosperous season than any yet 

 recorded. 



The florists' trade is weakest in the 

 matter of business methods, especially in 

 credits and collections. The industry 

 would advance much faster if payments 

 were more prompt. 



Some of the leading firms do not ac- 

 cept orders at trade prices from those 

 who have no printed letter-heads, at least 

 until evidence of connection with the 

 trade has been obtained. 



The American Association of Nursery- 

 men has a committee on National Council 

 of Horticulture, of which C. L. Watrous 

 is chairman, but made no appropriation 

 for the use of the council's press bureau. 



At the new place to be started by the 

 Joseph Heacock Co., near Philadelphia, 

 the first house to go up will be 55x600, 

 nearly an acre of ground under one roof, 

 following closely the style of construc- 

 tion that hds given such excellent satis- 

 faction to the F. R. Pierson Co., the 

 Cottage Gardens Co., and many other 

 large growers of cut flowers for the 

 New York market. 



In the vicinity of New Orleans much 

 success is being made with the growing 

 of outdoor flowers on raised benches, 

 from the fact that a good drainage is 

 obtained, weeds are ea-sily kept out, and 

 stock in hot weather does not bum so 

 easily. Chas. Eble says roses, asters, 

 chrysanthemums, carnations, asparagus 

 and much other stock has done exception- 

 ally well in this way. 



THE CROPS. 



According to the statistical bui'eau of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 crop conditions in the United States, in 

 the aggregate, declined during August, 

 1909, about 6.9 per cent, which compares 

 with a decline in August last year of 4 

 per cent, and an average decline in Au- 

 gust of the past ten years of about 3.2 

 per cent. September 1 general crop con- 

 ditions (including crops harvested be- 

 fore August 1, with their condition at 

 time of harvest) were about 2.6 per cent 

 lower than September 1, 1908, and 2.9 

 per cent lower than the average condi- 

 tion September 1 of the past ten years. 

 As a consequence of the unfavorable Au- 

 gust, general prospects were changed 

 from above average August 1 to below 

 average September 1. Compared with 

 the ten-year average condition, which is 

 represented by 100, the condition Sep- 



tember 1 of important crops was : Spring 

 wheat, 115; oatJ and grapes, 105; flax- 

 seed, 103; rye and potatoes, 101; hops, 

 100; hay, 99; tobacco, 97; barley, 96; 

 rice, sweet potatoes and sugar cane, 95; 

 buckwheat, 94; corn, 93; sorghum, 90; 

 cotton, 87; apples and peaches, 80. 



The following tabulation is a summary 

 for the United States of crop conditions 

 September 1, with comparisons: 



Condition September 1. 



10-yr. Aug.l, 



Crops. 19O0. 190S. Av'e. 1909. 



Corn 74.6 79.4 80.6 84.4 



Spring wheat 88.6 77.6 77.0 91.6 



Oats 83.8 69.7 79.8 85.5 



Barley 80.5 81.2 83.7 85.4 



Rye (yield bu.) 16.0 16.4 15.8 



Rye (quality) 92.9 92.7 91.4 



Buckwheat 81.1 87.8 86.4 86.:i 



Flaxseed 88.9 82.5 86.2 92.7 



Bice 84.7 93.5 88.7 84.5 



Tobacco 80.2 84.3 82.7 S3.4 



Hey (yield tons) 1.41 1.52 1.43 .... 



Hay (auallty) 93.0 94.5 90.9 



Clover (for seed) 76.2 89.7 77.8 



Potatoes 80.9 73.7 80.4 85.8 



Sweet potatoes 81.3 88.7 85.4 88.9 



Apples 44.5 52.1 55.5 46.3 



Peaches (production)... 43.6 67.5 54.2 



Pears 53.6 74.1 .... 56.4 



Grapes 87.2 84.6 83.4 89.7 



Watermelons 71.8 80.8 75.6 



Cantaloupes (pi-oduct'n) 7.'{.1 81.0 



Oranges 87.0 88.2 86.3 



Lemons 87.1 92.9 87.0 



Tomatoes 81.3 82.5 &4.2 



Cabbages 78.2 80.3 85.3 



Onions 86.1 85.8 .... 88.8 



Beans (dry) 85.9 82.8 .... 89.1 



Beans (Uma) 82.0 85.7 



Peanuts 83.3 86.0 85.1 



Broom corn 76.2 76.6 83.5 



Hemp 86.5 73.0 .... 91.7 



Hops 85.7 79.3 85.3 82.7 



Sorghum 77.5 85.5 86.0 83.0 



Sugar cane 85.4 91.3 89.6 88.0 



Sugar beets 88.8 86.0 90.4 



Cotton 63.7 76.1 .... 71.9 



Cranberries 82.8 67.7 



WILD SMILAX. 



W. E. Lynch, of E. H. Hunt's, Chi- 

 cago, has been canvassing the situation 

 in wild smilax and in response to his in- 

 quiries has received uniformly good re- 

 ports from the wild smilax shippers in 

 the south. They all report that the sea- 

 son has been an excellent one, with plenty 

 of rain, affording a good supply and bet- 

 ter average quality than for some years 

 past. 



Wild smilax is an important item with 

 many wholesale florists, and without it 

 the retail firms that execute the big 

 decorations would be greatly handi- 

 capped. Some of the larger decorating 

 concerns use wild smilax so extensively 

 that they buy it by the carload, about 

 eighty cases constituting a car. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Following a fortnight during which 

 light overcoats were decidedly comfort- 

 able in the evening, midsummer returned 

 September 11; September 13 the oflScial 

 temperature was 89 degrees, and unoffi- 

 cial thermometers put it well above that. 

 Under the circumstances there could be 

 but one result; the market loosened up 

 all along the line. Receipts were largely 

 increased and the demand fell off, with 

 a consequent accumulation of stpck, in 

 spite of the best efforts of the whole- 

 salers. Average prices, which had been 

 excellent for a fortnight or more, became 

 of the hot weather variety. The market 

 has received a bad setback, but the 

 weather man now is predicting season- 

 able temperature again, and when it 

 comes another change may be expected. 



The increase in supply since last re- 

 port is particularly noticeable in roses. 

 All varieties are now received in much 

 greater quantity than at any time before 

 this season. While the hot weather has 

 made the stock open quickly, the quality 





