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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



November 4, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT. Editob and Managkb. 



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 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 isBue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

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

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISESS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



The Autumn Exhibitions 5 



— Chicago (lllus.) 5 



— Rochester 8 



— Lenox, Mass 9 



— Madison, N. J. (lllus.) 10 



Eoses— Rhea Reid 10 



— At the Edgely Rose Range (illus.) 10 



Begonia Incarnata 11 



Cyclamen Mite 11 



Tbrips on Foinsettias 11 



Aspect for Houses 11 



The Retail Florist 12 



— Just a Few Suggestions 12 



— Samuelson's New Store (lllus.) 12 



Seasonable Suggestions— Calendulas 14 



— Canterbury Bells 14 



— Mignonette 14 



— Begonia Glolre de Lorraine -14 



— Antirrhinums ; 14 



— Chrysanthemum Stock 14 



— Bedding Geraniums 14 



— Myosotis 14 



An Afternoon Call (illus.) 15 



American Carnation Society 15 



Aster Plants Turning Yellow 15 



A Trip to Adrian (illus.) 16 



Name of Flower 16 



Cost of Metered Water 17 



Hydrangeas for Easter 17 



Gladioli for Memorial Day 17 



Pansies for Spring Sales 17 



Totty's Place (lllus.) 17 



Name of Fuchsias 17 



Obituary — Albert Relchsparr 18 



Chrysanthemum Society 18 



East and West Agree 18 



Chicago 18 



Washington 22 



Detroit 23 



Providence, R. 1 24 



New York 26 



Boston 28 



Wayside Notes 20 



Society of American Florists 29 



Philadelphia 30 



Rambling Jottings 33 



Cincinnati 40 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Virginia Bulb Growers 45 



— The Value of Seeds 45 



— Imports 50 



— Tlie Onion Crop 60 



Vegetable Forcing — Trouble with Worms 51 



— Worms on Cucumber Leaves 51 



— Worms on Lettuce 51 



— Vegetables with Carnations 51 



Pacific Coast — Tacoma, Wash 52 



Los Angeles, Cal 52' 



— San Francisco 52 



— The Seattle Exposition 53 



Nursery News^Hall Succeeds Seager 68 



— John Hall (portrait) 58 



Kansas City 58 



Pittsburg 60 



Milwaukee 62 



Des Moines, Iowa 64 



Columbus, Ohio 66 



Buffalo 68 



Minneapolis 70 



Huntington, Ind 70 



Westfleld, Mass 70 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— A Range of Five Houses 78 



— Piping In Eastern New York 78 



— Larger Pipes Needed 79 



— Oil for Fuel 80 



St. Louis 80 



Indianapolis 84 



New Bedford, Mass 86 



Erie, Pa 86 



Muskegon, Mich 86 



St. Paul 88 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORIKTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4,"01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Officers for 1910: President, F. R. Pierson, 

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

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

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

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19, 1010. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Azaleas may be scarce in Belgium, 

 but the stock that has come in appears to 

 be of excellent quality this year. 



You take out of a business just about 

 what you put into it; don't expect some- 

 thing for nothing, or you'll find your an- 

 ticipations have a bad attack of cutting 

 bench fungus. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



• Otto G. Koenig advises that another 

 silver cup has been donated by a St. 

 Louis jeweler for competition at next 

 week's flower show there, for the best 

 100 chrysanthemum blooms, to be staged 

 November 9. 



The preliminary schedule of premiums 

 has been issued for the exhibition of the 

 Americs|n Rose Society to be held at New 

 York in March, 1910. Copies may be 

 had by addressing Benj. Hammond, sec- 

 retary, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



OBITUARY. 



J. M. Niuffer. 



John Martin Niuflfer, of Springfield, 

 O., died October 27 after a week's illness 

 with Bright 's disease. He was 66 years 

 of age. 



Albert Reichspfarr. 



Albert Reichspfarr, one of the best 

 known florists of Richmond, Ky., died the 

 morning of November 1. Burial will be 

 at Louisville, Ky. He leaves a wife and 

 two children. 



Mr. Reichspfarr had been in business 

 about ten years, and prior to that time 

 was for several years with Nanz & 

 Neuner, of Louisville. 



CHHYSANTHEMUM SCXIIETY. 



Work of CommitteeB. 



At New York October 23, Elmer D. 

 Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., exhibited 

 Oroba (No. 197-5-08), white, Japanese. 

 On the commercial scale it scored as fol- 

 lows: Color, 16; form, 13; fullness, 8; 

 stem, 15; foliage, 13; substance, 13; size, 

 8; total, 86, 



At Cincinnati, October 23, Elmer D. 

 Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., exhibited 

 Oroba, white, Japanese. It scored as fol- 

 lows: On the commercial scale — Color, 

 17; form, 12; fullness, 9; stem, 14; foli- 

 age, 11; substance, 13; size, 10; total, 

 86. On the exhibition scale — Color, 9; 

 stem, 5; foliage, 4; fullness, 14; form, 

 13; depth, 13; size, 30; total, 88. 



At Cincinnati, October 23, Elmer D. 

 Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., exhibited 

 Donatello (No. 36-44-08), yellow, Japa- 



nese incurved. On the commercial scale 

 it scored as follows : Color, 18 ; form, 14 j 

 fullness, 10; stem, 14; foliage, 10; suL 

 stance, 14; size, 8; total, 88. 



At Madison, >J. J., October 27, Chas. 

 H. Totty exhibited Mrs. W. Arnold, white, 

 Japanese. On the commercial scale it 

 scored as follows: Color, 17; form, 13; 

 fullness, 10; stem, 14; foliage, 13; sub- 

 stance, 13; size, 8; total, 88. 



Through an error it was reported to 

 the secretary that David Eraser would 

 present a paper at the New York meet- 

 ing. It is Thomas Proctor, of Lenox, 

 Mass., who is to read a paper on "Pot- 

 grown Chrysanthemums for Exhibition 

 Cut Blooms. " C. W. J ohnson, Sec 'y. 



EAST AND WEST AGREE. 



Here are three letters, all written the 

 same day, but representing the sentiment 

 of the east, the west and the middle 

 west. They all agree: 



I send another dollar, as I think the Review 

 is the greatest florists' paper I ever read. — D. 

 T. Quick, Woodlawn, Md., October 26, 1909. 



The Review Is the best trade paper In print 

 today. — C. S. Meek, Mt. Vernon, la., October 

 26, 1909. 



The Review is the only florists' paper I take 

 now, for it fills the bill.— M. W. Walters, Betts- 

 vlUe, O., October 26, 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The most satisfactory feature, from a 

 wholesale point of view, in last week's 

 market was the aggregate money value of 

 sales. The total in dollars and cents was 

 quite satisfactory, but average prices 

 were not what sellers would have liked 

 them to be, for values weakened all along 

 the line. This week opened with supplies 

 still further increased and the quality in 

 many lines showing the bad effect of two 

 extremely warm days; it was almost mid- 

 summer on the last day of October. But 

 after the heat wave came a chilly rain, 

 and the weather man is predicting cooler 

 weather, which wili be extremely welcome. 



The chrysanthemum has dominated the 

 market. The supply has been extremely 

 heavy, and a large proportion of the re- 

 ceipts have been of indifferent quality. 

 Wholesalers of long experience say they 

 never have known a time when greater 

 effort was required to move the low grade 

 mums than has been the case in the last 

 week, especially during the storm No- 

 vember 1. There was an extremely large 

 volume of shipping to New Orleans for 

 All Saints' day, but since that date the 

 shipping trade on chrysanthemums has 

 fallen away to little or nothing, the rea- 

 son being that every grower who has any 

 glass at all is now cutting mums, his own 

 mums, and the same factor has affected 

 the general shipping trade — any one who 

 has mums of his own is going to push 

 them, rather than push the sale of roses 

 or other stock that must be ordered from 

 the wholesale market. There is nothing 

 finer in the market than the Virginia 

 Poehlmann, but the late varieties are al- 

 ready crowding in upon the midseason 

 sorts. Bonnaffon and Appleton are here, 

 and so are Eaton, Alice Byron, Maud 

 Dean, Viviand-Morel, and the Ivories are 

 legion. The prices all along the line are 

 a shade under those of other years. 



The supplies of Beauty have increased 

 heavily since last report. Long Beauties 

 are now in more than abundant supply, 

 but of medium grades not so many are 

 available, and short Beauties are scarce. 

 The heat October 31 drove in a big cut of 

 open Beauties that broke the market 

 locally and had some effect on the values 



