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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBKR 11, 1!)09. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamagkr. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BT 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



S30-56O Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, CbicaKO. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rbgistbrbd cablk address, florvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borougb Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manaoer. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertisini; rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 foUowiug 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 Tiade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERIISEBS, PAGE 58, 



CONTENTS. 



TUe Aulimin E.vhibition.s — Cliicago (ill;i-. i... 1!( 



— Boston 22 



— Dobb's Ferry, N. V 2;i 



— New Haven, Conn 24 



— Glencove, .\. Y 24 



— Poughkeepslc, N. V 24 



— White Plains, .\ . Y 24 



— Hartford, Conn 2.") 



— Washington 2.") 



— Philadelphia 2.". 



— New York (illus. i 2(! 



— Mt. KIsco, N. Y 2t! 



— Amherst, Mass 21 



The Retail Florist —For Thanksjjivhi;; 2T 



— Plan Delivery Associatidii 2S 



— Retail Delivery AssociMiinii 28 



— International Deliver.^ 30 



— Advertising by KetailiTs lilli.s. i ao 



Cost of Metered Water :{0 



Canadian Florists Meet 31 



Transportation of Flowers 31 



Harry E. Philpott (portrait i .32 



Glorlosa Rothsckildiana (illiis. i ;{;! 



The Things that Happen .34 



A Review of the Year 34 



New Work for the C. S. of .\ 3."> 



Chrysanthoninin Society .3ti 



Providence, R. I ." 3(5 



Pittsburg 36 



Boston 30 



Cincinnati 38 



A Visit to .M.Miiit Clemens ."iS 



Obituary ,38 



Budlong Brothers (portiiiil i .3!) 



Dr. Van Fle.'t (ioes West 40 



Value of the Fluwer SImjw 40 



Chicago 4(» 



Milwaukee 44 



Indianapolis 4.-, 



Detroit 4»i 



Philadelphia 48 



Washington ."il 



New York r,2 



Vegetable Forcing -(iiciuers tiigiuiliiiMl .""(ii 



— Insects on Lettuce .")li 



— Profits in .Mushrooms ."lil 



— Green Fly on Vegetahles .'i!i 



— Oreen Fly on Lettuce .-(9 



Louisville. Ky «1> 



Steamer Sailings (!4 



Seed Trade News tiij 



— Gorman Seed Crops (iS 



— A Horticultural Shliilnad (ill 



— Sweet Pea Society 60 



— Imports 70 



— Mr. Pfltzer's Trip 70 



— Seed Businesses Mer;ri'd 71 



— The Corn Crops 72 



Dayton. Ohio 72 



Pacific Coast — Los Aiigilcs. ( -.i I SO 



— Portl.tnd. Ore SO 



— San Francisco 8ii 



— Seattle 81 



— McMlnnville. Ore SI 



Cleveland SI 



Nursery News Let's I'lilj 'ri:;:cilici .81' 



— J. H. Dayton (porti;iil i S2 



Des Moines, la .S<! 



Azaleas for Faster S8 



Name of naiit 8S 



Evansvlllc. liid !I0 



Denver !t2 



Buffalo <)4 



Minneapolis JiO 



MeCook. Xch !M! 



Baltimore 07 



Greenhouse Heating 100 



— Repairing Furnace Coils 100 



— A Small Ohio House ]00 



— Construction and Healing 100 



St. Louis 101 



Brie, Pa 100 



Kansas City. . ins 



Wayside Notes 112 



SUCIBT¥ 0¥ AJIEBICAN rLOBIMS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



Officers for 1009: 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. 



OtUcers for 1910: President, F. R. Plerson, 

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

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

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

 Pa. 



.Vnnuul convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 10 to l"j, 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



There is a florist at Pekin, 111., whose 

 •lanie should be a business asset. It is 

 •Idhn Bloompot. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 ihis issue of the Review weighed 7,055 

 pounds, or slightly more than three and 

 one-half tons. 



The granular cyanide of potassium, 

 iiiney-eight per cent pure, now so largely 

 i.sed for fumigating greenhouses, is 

 quoted at 33 cents per pound in the gen- 

 oral drug markets. 



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. 



The population of the United States 

 is growing at the rate of about 1,400,000 

 <i year and the purchasing power of the 

 people is growing faster than the popu- 

 lation. And yet some folks think the 

 Hower business is overdone. 



The man who hesitates to ask his cus- 

 tomers to pay up is usually the one who 

 becomes angry when he finds "Please 

 remit ' ' on the bottom of some statement 

 of account he has himself neglected. Be 

 a good collector and you will soon get a 

 reputation as prompt pay. 



DR. VAN FLEET GOES WEST. 



Having ceased active work for the 

 Rural New-Yorker and being about to 

 remove to Chico, Cal., I would advise 

 discontinuance of the copy of your ex- 

 cellent periodical which I have received 

 for many years. I have always regarded 

 the Review as the best, brightest and 

 newsiest of all florists' periodicals, and 

 could not dispense with it if still en- 

 gaged in horticultural writing. I think 

 a copy comes to the United States plant 

 introduction garden, Chico, Cal., where 

 I am to be engaged and I can therefore 

 dispense with the one sent to my present 

 address. W. Vax Fleet. 



Little Silver, N. .T. 



VALUE OF THE FLOWER SHOW. 



Editorializing on the closing day ot 

 tlie flower show, the Chicago Tribune had 

 this to say: 



"The flower show, which has reached 

 a successful end, has come to mean more 

 tiian an exhibition of beautiful jilants. 

 To its esthetic and artistic value it is 

 ailding. more and more every year, a 

 practical and utilitarian worth. It would 

 l)e impossible to weigh exactly the in- 

 creased incentive towards lionie beautifi- 

 cation which hundreds of Ciiicagoans find 

 in each exhibition, but one seeing the 

 crowds at the show and observing the 

 interest which they take in the displays 

 is conscious that a tremendous influence 

 is exerted, 



"When Chicago finally succeeds in its 

 now painful search for rounded and com- 

 plete municipal beauty it will be because 



each individual has contributed accord- 

 ing to his abUity and his opportunity, 

 and these flower exhibitions are doing 

 much to discover the individual ability 

 and the individual opportunity. The hor- 

 ticultural society is striving consciously 

 to bring this about, and not the less ef- 

 fectively because of the element of per- 

 sonal interest which enters into the ef- 

 forts of flower sellers to create flower 

 lovers. ' ' 



HEATING DEPARTMENT READ. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



I wish to say that from my previous adver- 

 tisements in the Review I have received 

 a great many inquiries, much to my satisfaction. 

 — Wm. W. Castle, Boston, Mass., November 2. 

 1909. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week did a great deal to confirm 

 the belief held by some of the whole- 

 salers that flower show week always is 

 a dull one from a market standpoint ; but 

 the flower show cannot be blamed for the 

 conditions existing now that the show is 

 passed, and there has been little, if any, 

 improvement thus far. 



The trouble last week appears to have 

 been due to a period of unusually warm, 

 bright weather coming on just at the 

 time the chrysanthemum crop was at its 

 height. The result of the bright, warm 

 sun was a great acceleration of produc 

 tion in all lines of stock, just when there 

 was the least demand for flowers. There 

 always is a time when chrysanthemums 

 are on that the shipping trade becomes 

 light. All through the country which 

 draws upon the Chicago market there are 

 local supplies of chrysanthemums, and 

 while these are ready the buyers push 

 the sale of the locally grown mums in- 

 stead of sending orders to Chicago for 

 iiuims, roses or carnations. As quickly 

 as the chrysanthemums are cut out the 

 shipping demand springs up again, and it 

 doubtless will be so this year, as hereto 

 fore. Seasonable temperature alone will 

 work a great benefit to the market. 



Last week the receipts of chrysanthe- 

 mums were far heavier than the market 

 could use at satisfactory prices and there 

 are reports of sale.s which would appear 

 ridiculous if it were not for the fact 

 that any sale was a good sale for the less 

 desirable grades; it was a case of tak- 

 ing cheap prices or letting the stock go 

 to waste. Bonnaffon was the best selling 

 variety on the list. A large part of the 

 receipts were of the indifferent grade 

 turned out by those who handle mums 

 merely as a catch crop, and this still is 

 the character of a considerable propor 

 tion of the supply. There has been little 

 change thus far this week, but at the 

 rate the stock is rushing in the season 

 seems likely to prove a short one. Singles 

 and pompons have been almost as over- 

 ahuiidant as tiie lar^c hlooius. but they 

 are now generally used. 



The pressure of the large crops of long 

 Beauties has let up a little, but there 

 still are abundant supplies. The medium- 

 stemmed Beauties are not crowding the 

 wholesalers, and shorts still are in light 

 supply. The absence of shipping orders, 

 combined with the increased receipts, 

 caused a serious accumulation of roses 

 last week, especially of the long, fancy 

 stock, which many growers now are cut- 

 ting in quantity. When the quantity 



