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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Decembeb 21, 1911. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. PAOE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 1] 



— A Seattle Store Opening (illus. ) 11 



— A Man's Pride (lUus.) 11 



— Progressive Plttsburghera (Illus.) 11 



— Designs from Nebraska (Illus. ) 11 



Looks Good to Us 11 



Asters to Follow Tomatoes 11 



Forcing Spanish Iris 11 



Dahlia and Gladiolus Growers Meet 12 



— The Western Association 12 



— Hybridizing and Culture 12 



— Gladiolus and Its Future 12 



— American Bulbs 14 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gardenias 14 



— Show Pelargoniums 14 



— Hydrangeas 15 



— Calceolarias 15 



— Seed Sowing 15 



— Smllax 15 



Carnations— Stem-rot l(i 



— The Trouble Is Stem-rot 16 



— Carnations In Kiigland (Illus.) Iti 



— Mulch for Carnations 17 



Gladioli In Beuclios 17 



Farf uglnni from Seed 17 



Roses — A New Beauty Grower (Illus.) 18 



— Spots on Kose Foliage 1,S 



American Hose Society 18 



Fumigating with Cyanide 18 



White Fly on Coleus 19 



Boston 1!) 



Thomas Pegler (portrait I 10 



Plant Growers on Tour (lllns. i 20 



Toronto 20 



Hartford. Conn 20 



Obituary 21 



F^plgranis from Evergreen 22 



Gladiolus Society 22 



Chicago 22 



New York 26 



nilladelphia 28 



Oetrolt .10 



St. Louis .S4 



Vegetable Forcing ,"?(; 



^Formaldehyde for Sterilizing .Se 



— Tomato Blooms Drop Off 'Mi 



Bowling nx, 



Indianapolis ;{tl 



Providence 40 



Steamer Siillings 44 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Commerce In Seeds 40 



— Imports 40 



— At Green Bay 40 



— Groningen a Seed (!enler 47 



— California Sweet Pens 50 



— Imports from Holland .">2 



— Valley Pips r,2 



Nurserv News 00 



— Citrus Men Meet (!0 



— The Western Associatidii OO 



Cincinnati Ott 



Clevelanrl 02 



Pacific Coast (!2 



— Tacoma, Wash 02 



— Sau Francisco 0:{ 



— Seattle 04 



Glen Cove, N. Y 00 



Kocliester OS 



Scranton. Pa 7<( 



Spartanburg. S. C 70 



Baltimore 72 



Brampton, Ont 74 



Louisville. Kv 74 



Pit tsburgh .*«.•{ 



Greenhouse Heating S4 



— Average Quantity of Conl S4 



— A Connecticut (ireenlKiiise 84 



— How Much Hard Conl .S4 



— Boiler and Piping 80 



Dnvton. 8.8 



Denver 90 



SpriiiKtii'ld. 02 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqee. 



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80CIETX OF AXERICAir FLORISTS. 



Incorporated bj Act *t Congress, March 4, 1001. 



Offlcera for 1811: President, George Asmns, 

 Cblcage; rice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., Whits 

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

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



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

 White Marsh, Md.; Tice-presldent, AuKust Poelil- 

 mann, Morton Grore, III.; aecretair, John Young, 

 Bedford Hills, N. X.; treainrer, W. F. Kaating, 

 Buffalo, N. T. 



Annual conTemtiOB, Chicag*, III., Aogost 20 t* 

 23. 1912. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



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 way the sweet pea has jumped in 

 favor beats anything heretofore known 

 in the flower business. The production 

 in the next few months will far exceed 

 the supply of other years and everyone 

 should take advantage of the fact to 

 feature peas before the public. No 

 question of good peas making a hit with 

 tlie flower buyers. 



EPIGRAMS FROM EVERGREEN. 



M. E. McGraw is the manager of the 

 Caldwell business at Evergreen, Ala., 

 and has much of that keen insight into 

 human nature that made The Woods- 

 man famous. Among his latest epigrams 

 are: 



"There is one commodity not con- 

 trolled by n trust — it is honesty." 



"There is one commodity in which 

 there is little competition — it is 

 quality." 



"The man who has quality for sale, 

 and fairly and honestly tells his quality 

 claims, will build for himself a name 

 and a trade as enduring as time." 



GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



A meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety was held in New York city De- 

 cember 6, with the following members 

 present: Arthur Cowee, A. T. Bod- 

 dicgton, E. W. Fengar and I. S. Hend- 

 rickson. 



The matter of a die and medals was 

 taken up and discussed. It was finally 

 decided to purchase a die and offer ten 

 sets of medals the first year to as many 

 local horticultural societies. It was 

 thought best to offer a silver medal 



for first prize and a bronze medal for 

 second prize, the ten sets of medals to 

 cost $70. 



The matter of a registration bureau 

 was then taken up, and it was decided 

 to combine this committee with that of 

 the nomenclature committee, already 

 established, with trial grounds at Ith- 

 aca, N. Y., where all tests can be made. 



The matter of certificates of merit 

 was then taken up, and it was the sense 

 of the meeting that these certificates 

 should be awarded only by the nomen- 

 clature committee, and not by judges 

 appointed for the annual exhibition. 



President Hendrickson has appointed 

 Arthur Cowee and Professor Beal as 

 members of the color chart committee. 

 L. Merton Gage, Cor. Sec'y. 



TWO POINTS OF VIEW. 



There always are two points of view, 



and usually both are interesting. The 



readers' point of view, according to the 



best publishing precedent, comes first: 



The essential necessities of a florist's 

 establishment are good stoclt, good pots, 

 good soil, good heating, plenty of sunshine 

 and The Review, so here Is my dollar 

 for 1912. — A. L. Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 December 4, 1911. 



Then there comes the advertisers' 



point of view, though you could guess 



that, with the readers feeling like Mr. 



Miller: 



I shall have to ask you to take out my 

 advertisement for geraniums, as all the 

 cuttings and 2-lnch stock are sold and 

 I have orders booked ahead for all that 

 I can root this season. I have had to 

 return a great many orders and cash where 

 I could not handle the orders. Also, the 

 4-Inch Bostons are all sold. — D. R. Herron, 

 Olean, N. Y., December 13, 1911. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Though in reality Christmas does not 

 come until next week, the week ending 

 December 16 generally was referred to 

 as the week before Christmas. Com- 

 parisons with the week before Christmas 

 last year are not favorable. The mar- 

 ket was too heavily supplied with stock 

 and with many the Killarneys were de- 

 cidedly off color. At the same time the 

 inclination was to hold up prices be- 

 cause of the approach of Christmas and 

 the rather unusual spectacle was pre- 

 sented of some stock going to waste 

 "the week before Christmas," White 

 Killarney being the item that caused 

 the most trouble. 



This week things are different. At 

 the opening of the week it might truly 

 be said that "next week is Christmas" 

 and the market began to take on the 

 usual pre-holiday aspect. Monday, De- 

 cember 18, receipts were extremely light 

 and it was difficult to fill orders for 

 carnations. Prices were advancing and 

 the Christmas level was well within 

 sight. The run of mail orders Monday 

 morning was said by many to have been 

 the heaviest in their experience. Thurs- 

 day, Friday and Saturday are the ship- 

 ping days, December 22 having the 

 bulk of the orders thus far received. 

 There is an unusual disagreement as to 

 what the latter part of the week will 

 bring forth. Some able buyers believe 

 that the experience of the last two 

 years is to be repeated, at least in some 

 measure, and quite a few wholesalers 

 also are of the opinion that supplies 

 generally will be adequate. These 

 wholesalers expect to see enough Beau- 

 ties and a fair supply of Richmond, 



