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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



September 23, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED KVEEY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



630*560 Caxton Building:, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



■kgistbrbd cable address, florvikw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertdsing rates quoted upon request. Only 

 itrlctly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning 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 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— Wreath on Base (illus.) 5 



— Cyclamens as Cut Flowers 5 



— A Prize Design (Ulus. ) C 



— Llndacher's Prize Auto (illus.) .' 



Double Tulips 6 



New York's Show Hall (Illus.) 7' 



Shamrocks ; 7 



Callas for Easter Blooming 7 



Bugs on Asters 7 



Clematis Davidiana 7 



Ceranium Red Wing (illus.) 8 



Ferns — Soap on Fern Fronds 8 



— Trouble with Boston Ferns 8 



Hyacinths and Paper Whites 8 



Lilium Harrlsil 8 



Wintering Echeverlas 9 



Dahlia Cuttings 9 



Christmas Sweet Peas 9 



Hoffman's Houses (illus.) 9 



Plants for Hanging Baskets 9 



Alfred Burton (portrait) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Azaleas 10 



— Calceolarias 10 



— Oladlolus Colvillel Alba 10 



— C.vclamen 10 



— Propagating Bedding Plants 11 



— Shading 11 



Roger H. Miirphev (portrait) 11 



Storing Hardy Cut Ferns 12 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 12 



— To Check Early Blooming 12 



— Sow Bugs in Bench Soil 12 



American Carnation Society 12 



An Ohio Establishment (illus.) i:{ 



To Remove Whitewash 1."? 



Detroit 13 



Pittsburg 14 



Obituary — Peter Barr (portrait) 14 



— S. B. Chester ( portrait) 1.5 



Louisville, Ky 15 



c;ood Asters 16 



Chicago 16 



New York 21 



Boston 25 



Philadelphia 28 



<!rand Rapids 32 



Buffalo , 34 



New Bedford, Mass 36 



Milwaukee .'^fi 



New Orleans 38 



Steamer Sailings 40 



>>oo(l Trade News — Sweet Pea Seed Crop 42 



— A Record Crop of Beet (Illus.) 4.1 



— Ozark Seed Co 43 



— Dutch Bulbs 44 



— Holland Seed Crops 44 



— Festuca Elatlor 44 



— French Bulbs 46 



Dutch rtulb Growers' Society 46 



St. Lonis 47 



Providence, R. 1 49 



Vegetable Forcing — Best Tomato 50 



— Changing the Soil 50 



— Convention of Growers 50 



Rochester, N. Y .50 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 56 



— Los Angeles, Cal 56 



Nursery News 57 



— To Invade Spanish America 67 



— American Pomological Society 57 



Columbus. Ohio 60 



Springfield, Ohio 62 



Baltimore 64 



Clinton, Mass 64 



Evansvllle, Ind 66 



Des Moines, la 66 



Newport 75 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— A Falling Chimney (illus.) 76 



Wappingers Falls 79 



Connersville, Ind SI 



Indianapolis 82 



Minneapolis 84 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 

 Officers for 1900: President, J. A. Valenthie, 

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

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

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1010: President, F. B. Plerson, 

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

 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. 



It doesn't pay to cut short roses in the 

 late summer ; one good rose is worth four 

 short ones. 



A. J. Jackman, of Woking, recently 

 was elected president of the British Hor- 

 ticultural Traders' Association. 



By far the largest part of the stock 

 now received in the Chicago market by 

 express is shipped in corrugated paper 

 boxes. 



The offering of F. Dorner & Sons Co., 

 for the season of 1910, will be Crimson 

 Glow, a carnation for which there is 

 thought to be a good opening. 



E, Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co. announces 

 the third annual harvest home festival 

 and dahlia show at its place at White 

 Marsh, Md., for September 28 to Octo- 

 ber 1. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Review $2, $3, or occasionally $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



E. S. Thompson, of Benton Harbor, 

 Mich., proposes that growers in that sec- 

 tion organize the Western Dahlia So- 

 ciety, along the lines of the New England 

 association of growers who specialize on 

 that flower. 



McHutchison & Co., New York, have 

 sent each of 3,000 firms in the trade a 

 * ' Duty Card, ' ' carrying in tabulated 

 form the new tariff rates on seeds, plants, 

 trees, bulbs, cuttings, stocks, etc. The 

 card has a string for hanging up. 



BOTH SATISFIED. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results Avhich influence 

 him most of the time. 



In handing you this check it is only fair 

 to state for your own satisfaction that my 

 advertisements in your splendid paper have 

 brought me many Inquiries from American seeds- 

 men, and this fact shows that your Review Is 

 well read throughout the United States. — Fed- 

 orlco ('. Varela, Xenerlffe, Canary Islands, Au- 

 gust 25, 1909. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Registration of Rose. 



The application of Alex. Montgomery, 

 of the Waban Rose Conservatories, 

 Natick, Mass., for the registration of 

 the rose described below, having accord- 

 ing to the rules of this society been sub- 

 mitted to the American Rose Society 

 August 23, 1909, and no reply having 

 been received within the required time, 

 the registration becomes complete and is 

 hereby made public, as follows: 



Name — Climbing Killarney. Descrip- 

 tion — A sport from Killarney, with strong 

 climbing habit, making growths twelve 

 to fifteen feet in length, clothed with 



strong, heavy foliage; flowers identiial 

 with the parent plant and come all alo::g 

 the cane as wood matures. 



W. N. EuDD, Sec'y, 

 September 18, 1909. 



GOOD ASTERS. 



I note an article in the Pacific Coa-t 

 page of the Review for September (> 

 regarding the Crego aster. Don't t.e 

 writers rather mislead the greenhorn e]> 

 ment among your readers? If the Crejo 

 is the only good aster that they grow, I 

 have an idea that they do not have .s 

 long a shipping season as if they usid 

 Early Wonder, Queen of the Market, 

 Early Branching, Late Branching and 

 Roosevelt, together with several other 

 good asters that I do not mention. I 

 grow Crego, and intend to keep on grow- 

 ing it; it is a splendid aster. But theie 

 are others. I have customers who will 

 not look at it alongside of the beautiful 

 silvery white of a well grown Late 

 Branching. Certainly Herbert & Fleis- 

 hauer will not say that it ships or keeps 

 as well as this latter? It certainly is 

 easier to get a large flower on Crego, or 

 on any of the Comets, for that mattoi. 

 but comparing them with any of the 

 other type of asters seems like compar- 

 ing Paul Neyron with Crimson Ram- 

 bler. They're both good. 



Ohio. R. E. Huntington. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The visit of President Taft, the bank- 

 ers' ball, the opening of the Hotel La 

 Salle and several department store dec- 

 orations combined to make an excellent 

 volume of local business last week, from 

 which those who shared in the work must 

 have made an excellent profit, because 

 the market was extremely weak during 

 the larger part of the period. The mar- 

 ket was especially in the buyer's favor 

 on roses. Early in the week the receipts 

 were several times what they have been 

 previously, and it was with the utmost 

 diflBculty that the wholesalers moved the 

 stock. Later in the week receipts de- 

 creased and the market firmed up to some 

 extent, but the opening of the present 

 week again found receipts on the increase 

 because of a return of warm weather. 



Beauties, as well as other roses, are in 

 large supply, and the quality generally is 

 excellent, extremely good value being of- 

 fered at current prices. The way the 

 Killarney, White Killarney, Maryland. 

 Richmond and others have improved 

 during the last week is notable. It is 

 doubtful if this market ever has had so 

 good roses in the third week in Septem- 

 ber. Any buyer can get what he wants, 

 be it 6-inch stems or 36-inch stems, in 

 any variety. Killarney is of superb color 

 and easily holds first place in point of 

 supply and demand. Some extra long 

 White Killarney are now seeen, of good 

 color and with large flowers. Kaiserin 

 is right at the height of its season, fine 

 flowers being offered on long stems, but 

 unfortunately the demand for white is 

 not for the extra length of stems. 



Asters are about at the end of their 

 season. It still is possible to find dozens 

 of buckets of them in the wholesale 

 houses, but the quality is such that only 

 the cheapest class of buyers will use 

 them; really first-class asters are ex- 

 tremely scarce. That the same condition 

 prevails generally throughout the terri- 



