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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OcxoBEH 28, lOOjt. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30-560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



kbgistbrbd cable address, florview, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manaqeb. 



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-oftice 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. 



Tilt' Ketail Florist •"> 



Autumn Table Decoration (lllus.) 5 



— Ferns, Decoratlvcly Speaking 5 



— A Wreath with Shower (lllus.) « 



— Kerr's Wedding Decoration (lllus.) 



Society of American Florists 7 



Chicago Premium List 7 



.\nmes of Plants 7 



Chrysanthemums 8 



— .Seasonable Suggestions 8 



— Virginia Poehlmann (lllus.) S 



— Thrips on Mums 9 



— The Mrs. Kelley Mum 9 



— Chrysanthemum Society 9 



Cost of Metered Water 9 



Seasonable Suggestlons^Schlzauthus 10 



— Shamrocks 10 



— .\maryllls 10 



— Hydrangeas 10 



— Pansles 10 



— Bulb Planting 10 



— Winter Geraniums 10 



— Coreopsis Grandlflora 10 



Canadian Florists' Society 10 



Carnations 11 



~ Not Thrips, but Leaf -Spot 11 



— A Bed of Shasta (lUns) 11 



— Started In a Roofless House 11 



- American Carnation Society 12 



The Employer and Employee 12 



- Two Sides to a Question 12 



— .\n Employee's View 12 



— -Vn Employer's View 13 



Washington 14 



Decatur, 111 14 



Indianapolis 14 



Ohitnnry — Percy Jones 14 



— Knianiiel Sutermelstor (iwrtralt) 15 



— Patrick J. Keller 15 



— Mrs. Benjamin B. Smalley 15 



Wayside Notes 15 



A Call to Organize 16 



Sweet Pea Society 16 



Chicago 16 



Cincinnati 22 



New York 23 



Springfield, Ohio 28 



Mlhvnnkee 26 



Marlon. Ind 27 



Phll.ndelphia 28 



Portland. Me 31 



St. Paul 31 



Pittsburg US 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Seeil Trade News 42 



— The Danish Seed Crops 43 



— Imports 44 



— National Sweet Pea Society 44 



Glen (30Te, N. Y 46 



Detroit 48 



Davtou, Ohio 48 



Pariflc Coast 54 



— Portland. Ore 54 



— Siiii Francisco's Fall Show 54 



— Sun Francisco 65 



Ntirser.v News 55 



^ Catalpas for Posts 56 



— Propagating Shrubbery 56 



Pes Moines, la ,"58 



Baltimore 60 



New Orleans 62 



Rvansville, Ind 64 



Boston 72 



flreenhonse Heating 74 



— The <3oal Market 74 



— Capacity of Boiler 74 



— Size of Smokestack 74 



— Heat for a Frame 7!\ 



— Lack of Circulation 75 



St. Louis 76 



Erie. Pa 78 



Louisville. Ky 80 



Providence. R. 1 82 



New Bedford. Mass S4 



80CIBTY OF AHEBICAN FL0BIST8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 

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

 Denver, Colo.; Tlce-presldent, B. O. Oillett, 

 Cincinnati, O.; eecretary, WIUIr N. Radd, Mor- 

 gan Park, 111.; treaauier, H. B. Beatty, PitU- 

 burg. 



Officera for 1010: Preiident, F. E. Pleraon, 

 Tarry town, N. Y.; vlce-preaident, F, W. Vlck, 

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., Augnst 

 16 to 19, 1010. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Many a business finds itself potbound 

 because more eflfort is made to make 

 sales than to collect and conserve the 

 proceeds. 



Now is the time to advertise your stock 

 ])lants of chrysanthemums. Some varieties 

 will sell better than others, but some- 

 where there will be florists who want just 

 the particular variety you have, no mat- 

 ter what it is. 



The schedule of prizes offered by the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society for 

 its annual exhibition, November 9 to 12, 

 has been issued. Copies may be pro- 

 cured by addressing David Rust, secre- 

 tary. Horticultural hall, Philadelphia. 



Otto G. Koenig states that since the 

 issuance of the final premium list for the 

 St. Louis show, November 9 to 12, a local 

 jewel house has offered a beautiful silver 

 cup for the best 100 American Beauties, 

 same to be staged the first day of the 

 exhibition, November 9. 



W. Wells, the famous English chrysan- 

 themum grower of Merstham, England, 

 sailed from Liverpool October 23 to be 

 the guest of C. H. Totty, at Madison, N. 

 J., for several weeks. He will act as 

 judge at the exhibition of the American 

 Chrysanthemum Society in New York 

 November 10. 



C. li. Washburn says that while the 

 flower business did not feel the depres- 

 sion so severely as did most lines of trade 

 in 1907 and 1908, it is sharing to the full 

 in the return of prosperity to other in- 

 dustries. In other words, the florists' 

 business is showing a notable increase 

 this season and is better today than it 

 ever was in autumn. 



A CALL TO ORGANIZE. 



Relieving there is need of united action 

 ■Tinong growers of outdoor flowers, espe- 

 cially the gladiolus, dahlia and the hardy 

 plants. I should be pleased to meet, No- 

 vember 5 and 6, at the Chicago flower 

 show, any and all who are desirous of 

 organizing for mutual benefit. The west 

 needs a good, strong working organiza- 

 tion for these interests. 



E. S. Thompson. 



Benton Harbor, Mich., October 26. 



IT PLEASES US TO PLEASE YOU. 



There is no greater satisfaction to a 

 business man than to know that, while he 

 is making a living for himself, he is 

 ])Ieasing those who patronize him. A 

 publisher prizes nothing higher than sin- 

 cere words of approval, for the standing 

 of a publication with its readers is the 

 key to the success of the business: 



Enclosed is my check for another year of the 

 Review, as I should be lost without It. I find 

 the Review the best paper published In the flo- 

 rists' line, as It gives volumes of information to 

 the men sailing in the craft. I for one have 

 obtained many points from It. and no doubt all 

 who read It have done the same. — Kudolpli 

 Kaiser, Annapolis. Md.. October Ift, 1909. 



A VOICE FROM THE EAST. 



There are many factors which may m. 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



Kindly discontinue my advertisement of viuio, 

 plants, as the stock Is all sold. Send bill ami 

 I will mall check, for the Review does it'; unr? 

 well.— Richard Langle, White Plains, \ v* 

 October 21, 1009. " • 



SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



There will be a meeting of the Na- 

 tional Sweet Pea Society of America, hold 

 in the Museum of Natural History, Xew 

 York, November 3, at 7 p. m., to dig. 

 cuss the future of the society and other 

 important business. All who are intor- 

 ested are invited to attend. 



Harry A. Bun yard, Sec'y, 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



As last week progressed the supply of 

 stock increased in all lines and the mar- 

 ket became much easier in tone at the 

 latter end of the week than it was at 

 the opening. While prices eased ofi', the 

 increased supply permitted a greatly in- 

 creased volume of business and the Meek 

 went on record as excellent from almost 

 every point of view. The greatest change 

 was in the chrysanthemum supply, de- 

 mand and prices. The supply increased 

 to several times what it had been at any 

 other time this season, and while the de- 

 mand increased, prices became weak; it 

 was a buyer's market on mums. Eoses 

 became sufficiently plentiful so that 

 prices weakened, and even carnations, 

 Avhich have been a real shortage, became 

 sufficiently plentiful for the demand. 



This week opened with last week's 

 conditions accentuated. The chrysanthe- 

 mum season is at its height and the mar- 

 ket is overloaded. Prices, which have 

 thus far this season averaged rather bet- 

 ter than last year, have fallen off to the 

 point where growers are making com- 

 plaint. Even the best of stock feels the 

 pressure of the large receipts, and for 

 the smaller grades cheap prices must be 

 made to move the large quantities. One 

 depressing factor is the failure of the 

 Halliday crop this year. The flowers of 

 this variety are coming flat and open 

 centered and the buyers who need good 

 stock cannot use them. The result is 

 that they must be sold at the cheapest 

 of figures to the stores where quality is 

 not the first consideration. There is some 

 doubt as to what caused the Halliday 1" 

 fail to turn out its usual fine flower, but 

 it appears that the variety was so early 

 this year that the growers did not taki' 

 the bud they usually do, and the later 

 bud proved a flat failure. White mun's 

 recently have been selling better thnn 

 yellow, just the reverse of the ca.*-*' 

 earlier in the season. There are many 

 large orders booked for shipment to Ne\' 

 Orleans the latter part of this week, hvA 

 they all are at cheap prices; the AH 

 Saints' day demand calls for quantity 

 rather than quality. Pompons are in 

 larger supply and are selling well. 



Roses of all varieties are much mori' 

 abundant than a week ago. The specin'. 

 long-stemmed stock is particularly pie' 

 tiful; short roses command a premium, 

 compared to the specials, because tli'- 

 demand for shorter is strong and the 

 supply lighter. This is especially true 

 of white. Killarney continues the best 

 selling rose, but a call for good Brides- 

 maid has developed which is hard t " 



