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The Weekly FIorist3' Review* 



NOVBMBEB 30, 1911. 



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THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaokb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897. 

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INDEX TO ASVEBTIBERS, FAOE 110. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 10 



— Timely Advertising 19 



— Funeral Work (lllus.) 19 



— Throwing In the Art 19 



— Cemetery Wreaths 20 



— Denver Anto Decorations (illus.) 20 



Florists But No Flowers 20 



Begonias in England 20 



King and His Castle (Ulas.) .:.. 21 



Cost of Water 21 



Tie Western Association 21 



Cinerarias in Bud 21 



Baonymus Radlcans ^1 



A Bedding OMlty (lUns.) 21 



Chrysanthemums — Chrysanthemum Stock.... 22 



— BonnafTon Leaves Spotted 22 



— Mum Mrs. Hensbaw (lIIus.) 22 



— The Helen Newberry (illus.) 22 



— Exhibition Mums 22 



— Chrysanthemum Society 24 



To Keep Dry 24 



From a Gladiolus Specialist (illus.) 24 



OlalioIuB Topics 24 



Berried Plants 24 



The Halifax Garden Co. (Illus.) 25 



Carnation Rust 26 



Rust on Enchantress 20 



American Rose Society 26 



Names of Plants 26 



With Klagge at Mt. Clemens (illus.) 26 



Forcing Lily of the Valley 27 



Seasonable Suggestions — Cyclamens 28 



— Poinsettlas 28 



— Schisanthus Wiietonensls 28 



— Cinerarias 28 



— Mignonette 28 



— Gladioli 28 



— Lilinm Candidum 28 



New York 28 



At Petorson's (iUns.) 29 



Minneapolis 29 



New Orleans 30 



Rochester, N. Y 30 



Washington 30 



Pittsburgh 31 



Milwaukee 81 



News Notes 31 



Express Service Improved 32 



Obituary — Wellington Hughes 32 



Chicago 32 



Boston 38 



Philadelphia 40 



Benton Harbor, Mich 48 



Dayton, Ohio 48 



Vegetable Forcing — Cucumbers in Pots .10 



Providence . . : 59 



Nashville, Tenn ei 



Steamer Sailings 64 



Peed Trade News 66 



— Field Seeds in Dakota « 66 



— Growtn of Canning 68 



— Imports 68 



— Horticultural Imports 69 



— The Seed Shortage nu 



— Government Seed Tests 70 



St. Lonib 71 



Nursery News 74 



— The Meeting at Alvin 74 



Cincinnati 75 



Pacific Coast — Oil for Fuel 76 



— Celifomla Nurserymen Meet 76 



— San Franci'ico 77 



— Portland, Ore 78 



Oreonbouse Management 7S 



Hold the Hydrangeas Back ; 79 



Cleveland ^ 80 



New Bedford, Mass 82 



Indianapolis 84 



LanKing, Mich 86 



Brie, PlB 88 



Longmeadow, R. 1 88 



Detroit 90 



OreenlMuse Heating 102 



— One Boiler or More ? 102 



— Greenhouses and Hotbeds '. . 102 



—^ Installed by Local Plumber 104 



Amherst, Mass 106 



Bowling 108 



"TTQ — X 



80CIETT OF AXERIi 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, Ififtl. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmns, 

 Chicag*; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., Wliite 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Drbana, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. . 



Officers for 1912: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md.; vlce-pr«Bldent, August Poehl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.; aecretary, John Young, 

 Bedford HUIs, N. Y.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, 

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, III., August 20 to 

 23, 1912. 



RESULTS. 

 ^'"^ y^l^ give them. Y«u get them. 

 We both have them. 



All attention now is centered on the 

 preparations for Christmaa. 



The year 1912 promises to be a favor- 

 Able one for the building of greenhouses. 



Good holly becomes no more plentiful 

 as the years pass, but a fair supply is 

 reported for the present season. 



Boxwood has become one of the big 

 Christmas specialties — especially fine for 

 cemetery wreaths, as well as for bells, 

 balls and window wreaths. 



Bulk bouquet green will be a decided- 

 ly scarce article long before Christmas 

 arrives. The average holder of bulk 

 green needs all he has in sight for 

 wreathing. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Beview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The finest chysanthemum plant of the 

 season was shown at the exhibition of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York. It 

 was grown by John Canning, superin- 

 tendent for Adolph Lewisohn, Ardsley, 

 N. Y. J. W. H. Campbell was the gar- 

 dener. 



In passing on a protest arising over 

 the assessment of duty on ginseng root, 

 the Board of General Appraisers holds 

 that ginseng is not nursery or green- 

 house stock, as claimed by the importer, 

 but a drug, and that the rate of duty 

 depends on its crude or cleansed state. 



In the last couple of years the price 

 of freshly imported plants of Cattleya 

 labiata has advanced from about $40 

 per case to about $65 per case, the num- 

 ber of plants per case increasing as the 

 sise of the plants has decreased. Pre- 

 dictions are made by collectors that with- 

 in another couple of years the price will 

 be $100 per case, with a still further 

 decrease in size of the plants. 



EXFSESS SEBVICE IMPBOVED. 



The following supplementary report 

 of the Tariff and Legislative Committee 

 has been forwarded to Secretary Dor- 

 ner, of the S. A. F., by Chairman John 

 G. Esler, of that committee: 



The Tariff and Legislative Com- 

 mittee of the S. A. F. is able to an- 

 nounce that in the controversy with the 

 United States Express Co., which has 

 been going on during the last six 

 months, over the inefficient delivery of 

 cut flowers, the company has ac- 

 ceded to the representations of the 

 committee and has established a satis- 

 factory and efficient delivery, without 

 ail appeal to the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. 



The chairman desires to state that if 

 the florists of the country could only 

 understand the effectiveness of concrete 

 action, over individual effort, in dealing 

 with corporations, every producer of 

 and dealer in floral products would be- 

 come a member of the S. A. F. forth- 

 with. John G. Esler, Chairman. 



If you did not have cause for Thanks- 

 giving you are entitled to sympathy a*; 

 being the exception among florists. The 

 rate at which the trade is growing never 

 was beaten. 



KIND WORDS. 



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Editors are like other people; they 

 like to be told of it when people think 

 they are doing the right thing. Also 

 the publisher likes to know that the 

 editor is earning his salary, for a 

 paper so edited that it pleases the sub- 

 scribers is sure to please the adver- 

 tisers. 



Enclosed find $1 for The Review for another 

 year. It is practical and Just what I need in 

 my business. — J. P. Murphy, Independence, la. , 

 November 20, 1911. 



I enclose check for $1, for which you wiD 

 please extend my subscription to The Review 

 for another year. You are giving the trade a 

 big dollar's worth and I boost you all I can, for 

 a boost for The Review is a boo-^ t for the trade 

 in general. — W. Bennlng, Sr., St Joseph, Mich., 

 November 24, 1911. 



OBITUABT. 



Wellington Huglies. 



Wellington Hughes, one of the moat 

 widely known of Michigan florists, died 

 November 18 at his home at Hillsdale. 

 He was born in Utica, N. Y., November 

 12, 1832, and was therefore 79 year» 

 and 6 dayi§ old when he died. He 

 located at Hillsdale in 1848 and while 

 a young man worked at the trade of 

 carpenter and cabinet maker. Ip the 

 civU war he took charge of a party of 

 bridge builders, and returned home 

 after being injured while engaged in 

 this work. After the war he engaged in 

 business as a florist and followed that 

 vocation for more than forty years. 

 He was a member of the Presbyterian 

 church and served as member of the 

 session for twenty-one years. He was 

 the oldest Odd Fellow in the city. No- 

 vember 19, 1861, he married Elizabeth 

 J. Porter, who survives, as do their two 

 children, Charles and Clara Hughes, 

 both of this city. 



CHIOAOO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



Last week's business in the Chicago 

 wholesale cut flower market presented 

 few special features. There was a 

 large supply of stock, due largely to 

 the fact the chrysanthemum over- 

 supply continued and served to curtail 

 the demand for other flowers, depress- 

 ing prices. Had it not been for the 

 unwieldy receipts of mums, other stock 

 would have moved much better. This 

 became apparent toward the end of the 

 week, when receipts were reduced both 

 by weather conditions and the disposi- 

 tion of the growers to hold back for 

 ihe anticipated stronger market for 

 Thanksgiving. With reduced receipts 

 and a fair volume of business, the week 

 ended with the market well cleaned 

 up and prices moderately firm. 



The present week opened with^much 

 heavier receipts, for during the first 

 three days the growers poured in all 

 the stock they had been holding back 

 for Thanksgiving. The volume of busi- 

 ness for the holiday proved to be prob- 

 ably the largest on record, exceeding 

 even the excellent record of last year. 

 There was, however, a manifest dispo- 

 sition to limit prices. The bnyei"* 

 would not pay anything like fancy 

 rates for stock. The exception was on 



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