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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



September 30, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS* REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30>560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, ChicaKO> 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rbgistbrbo cablb address, plorvibw, 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. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly 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 10 ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 82. 



CONTENTS. 



The Rotail Florist— Baskets and Itibbons... 3 



— Designs for n Governor (iUus. ) 4 



— A Funeral Design (illus.) 4 



Notes from Scotland 5 



The Natural Grower 5 



Notes from England 6 



Dutch Bulbs — Seasonable Suggestions 6 



.\n Engine In Flowers (illus. ) 7 



Frogs for Fertilizing 7 



Cold Storage Lilies 8 



(.'hrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions.... 8 



— Chrysanthemum Society 8 



Valker's Greenhouse (illus. ) 9 



.Milwaukee's New Auditorium (illus.) 9 



Lily of the Valley — Time to Flower Valley . . 10 



— Cold Storage Valley 10 



Snails In Greenhouses 10 



Carnations — Carnation Notes. — p:ast 10 



— A Beginner's Work (illus. ) 1 



— Carnations In Canada 1 



Koses — Rambler Roses 1 



— Own-Root Richmond 1 



— Beauties for Summer 1 



Bassett's Dahlia Farm (illus. j 12 



Import Stock 12 



Lifting and Storing Ciiinia>< 12 



Failure with Asparagus 12 



Obituary 13 



Business and Other Notes 13 



Society of American Florists 14 



American Carnation Society 14 



Chicago 14 



Indianapolis 19 



Louisville, Ky ' ' 19 



St. Paul ! ! . 20 



Milwaukee 21 



Philadelphia . 22 



New York 24 



Boston 27 



St. Louis ,,, 28 



Ilhinebeck, N. Y 82 



Providence, R. 1 32 



Steamer Sailings 34 



Seed Trade News 36 



— Burpee's California Plans 36 



— Steele-Briggs Removal 37 



— Duty on Celery Seed 38 



— Agricultural Chemicals 40 



— Sutton's Solanum Cros.ses 40 



— English Sweet Pea Seed 42 



— Commerce in Seeds 42 



— Imports 42 



— Dutch Bulbs 42 



^ German Grass Seed 42 



Paeifio Const— Soil for Nursery Stock 48 



— Portland. Ore 48 



— San Francisco 49 



Vegetable Forcing 49 



— Vegetable Forcers' Program 49 



— Forcing Asparagus 49 



Nursery News — Spiraea Thunbergii 50 



Buffalo 50 



.Miami. Fla 50 



New Bedford, Mass 52 



Clinton, .Mass 52 



Pittsburg 54 



Cincinnati 56 



Detroit 58 



Erie, Pa 60 



North Easton, Mass 60 



Greenhouse Heating — Choice of Boilers 70 



— To Double Glass Later 70 



— Capacity of Pipes 71 



— Not Enough Radiation "71 



— Three Vegetable Houses '71 



— Check Valve Needed 72 



— Coil Boilers 73 



Denver 74 



Madison, N. J "75 



Dayton, Ohio 76 



Rochester, N. H 78 



Taunton, Mass 78 



Newport 80 



Hrockton, Mass 80 



SOCIETY OF AMEBIGAN FLOBIKTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 

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

 Denyer, Colo.; vice-president, B. G. Olllett, 

 Cincinnati, O.; secretaiV, Willis N. Budd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1910: President, P. B. Plerson, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. ; vice president, V. W. Vlck, 

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., Aagnst 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Look out for frosty You are likely 

 to lose your outdoor stock any night now. 



The reports are of great activity in all 

 branches of the iron and steel trade, but 

 the price of black pipe continues on 

 about the lowest level. 



Secretary A. F. J. Baur, of the 

 American Carnation Society, has sent 

 out a circular announcing the early pub- 

 lication of the premium list of his 

 organization and soliciting special 

 premiums and advertisements. 



It is unfortunate that dissensions 

 should have occurred in the ranks of the 

 New England Dahlia Society. There is 

 enough to be done in carrying forward 

 the work of any of the trade societies 

 without dissipating strength in factional 

 disputes. 



Harry A. Bunyard, with Arthur T. 

 Boddington, New York, states that for 

 two years in succession they have sold one 

 grower in Pennsylvania thirty-five pounds 

 of their Christmas Snowbird sweet pea 

 seed. Mr. Bunyard says the variety will 

 flower within two months of sowing and 

 has been known to flower within six 

 weeks. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



M. J. Van Leeuwen advises that Ber- 

 beris Thunbergii, var. Silver Beauty, 

 originated in 1905 instead of 1908 as 

 published, a mistake having been made 

 by him in writing the date in his applica- 

 tion. W. N. RuDD, Sec'y. 



September 24, 1909. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Department of Re£istration. 



Grimm & Gorley, St. Louis, Mo., regis- 

 ter new carnation Vincent's Pink; par- 

 entage. Guardian Angel x Enchantress; 

 color, Bridesmaid pink; size, three to 

 three and one-half inches; compact and 

 vigorous grower, with no surplus grass; 

 five years' trial proven satisfactory. 

 A, F. J. Bavr, Sec 'v. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



There was another advance in the price 

 of glass September 22, bringing the in- 

 crease since early spring to approxi- 

 mately thirty per cent; but there is 

 a doubt in the minds of some well in- 

 formed men in the glass trade as to 

 whether the latest advance will hold when 

 it comes to applying it to the larger or- 

 ders for greenhouse work. The latest 

 price makes 16x18 double A figure 

 around $2.80 per box, but it is thought 

 a man who was in the market for any 

 quantity could still get in under the 

 old discounts, that would figure about 

 $2.70. Not so long ago $2.60 was quoted 

 at Chicago for the same article, and 

 early in the year, $2. 



The glass trade is extremely active at 



present — the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. 

 reports sales running twenty to tweni/. 

 five per cent ahead of the banner year 

 of 1907 — for general building is en-jov. 

 ing a boom. There is a fair amount of 

 greenhouse business moving, principally 

 small orders for repairs and for stock 

 to be carried against a time of need. 



DOLLARS FOR PENNIES. 



There are many factors which may iii- 



fluence an advertiser part of the tini'^, 



but it is actual results which influencr; 



him most of the time. 



Please take our advertisement out of the 



Review; we are all sold out and have to kei ;> 



sending the money back. — D. T. McCarthy ,t 



Sons, Lockport, N. Y., September 22, 1909. 



The above letter was written after the 

 advertisement had received one insertion 

 only. The offer was of a definite num- 

 ber of surplus field-grown carnation 

 plants, $80 worth. The Review's charge 

 for the advertisement was 60 cents. And 

 yet some people still let surplus stoel; 

 go to waste. 



DON'T WAIT. 



A subscriber has sent the Review a 

 marked copy of the local newspaper con- 

 taining an obituary notice ■and also sends 

 a postal card on which he wrote: 



Probably you have heard of this, but I send 

 it anyway; If everybody waited for the other 

 fellow you would not get It at all. 



The Review appreciates the thought- 

 fulness of its readers in sending it not 

 only important items, but those of minor 

 importance as well. It has happened 

 that because someone thought "Oh, well! 

 They know all aboxrt this," and did not 

 act on his first impulse to drop us a line, 

 or send us a wire, we altogether missed 

 an important piece of news. Don't sit 

 back and wait because you think some 

 other fellow has sent in the same piece 

 of news. Important matters should be 

 reported by wire if mail will not arrive 

 Wednesday. Telegrams containing news 

 matter only are accepted by the tele- 

 graph companies at a special rate, if 

 marked ' * Collect press rate. ' ' The night 

 rate is half the day rate. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The weather has been the dominating 

 factor in the Chicago market for the 

 last week or more. Early last week 

 skies were bright and the sun was warm. 

 The result was an increase in production 

 that weakened the market. Then came 

 dark days with the temperature some 10 

 degrees below the normal. Supplies 

 shortened up all along the line and, 

 while quoted prices saw little change ex- 

 cept on carnations, the average improved 

 materially; it became possible to clean 

 up at fair figures, in marked contrast to 

 the condition earlier in the week, when 

 it was difficult to make a clearing even 

 if the buyer named the price on the sur- 

 plus. The present week opened with con- 

 tinued cool weather and production still 

 is light, although growers say one or 

 two warm days will bring in large cuts 

 again. 



Whenever production shortens up, de- 

 mand increases. In a way, the same 

 weather conditions which reduce cuts 

 cause people to do those things which 

 make for the use of flowers; also, when 

 crops lighten in the Chicago market, they 

 also are reduced all through its terri- 

 tory, with the result that those who have 



