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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Januauv 4, 1912. 



INDEX TO AOVEETISEXS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



Si)clety of American Florists f) 



— President's Appointment8 9 



— An Appeal !( 



Rambler Roses for Easter !» 



Fire at Onarga 9 



Carnations— Benches vs. Solid Reds 10 



— Single Blooms on May Day 10 



— Buds Do Not Open 10 



— Carnation Rainbow (illus.) 10 



— A Mixture of Fertilizers 10 



.Soil and the Florist 10 



The Detroit I"roj?rani 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Cannas and Dahlias 12 



— Greenhouse Tubers 12 



— Canterbury Bells 12 



- — I'oinsettlas In Kentucky (illus.) 12 



— Dimorphotheca Aurantliica 12 



— Candytuft 12 



— Shamrocks 12 



The Right Dose of Cyanide 12 



Wlnterlch, of Defiance (Illus.) ]:! 



When to Sow Salvia 1.'! 



(ihrysanthemums 11 



— I'ropagatlou of .Mums H 



— Mum Mrs. Drabble 14 



Sweet Peas— Seed Sowing 14 



Electric Ad. In Plants (illus.) l.'i 



Purpose of Ventilation 1."> 



Ferns — Propagation of Farleycnsc id 



— Caterpillars on Ferns 1,1 



A Denver Design (illus.) Hi 



Boston Ill 



Wm. .T. Kennedy (portrait) 17 



Waterloo, la 18 



A Christmas Pumpkin (illus.) IS 



Providence 18 



Berg^'s New Store (illus. ) 19 



New Orleans l'» 



Kansas City, Mo 19 



Obituary 2(t 



Humfeld Among the Rabbits (Illus.) 20 



News, Notes and Comments 21 



Name of Plant 22 



National Sweet Pea Society 2 • 



( 'hicago 21 



Rochester. N. Y 2li 



Cincinnati 2S 



Plilladelphia 30 



New York .'{2 



Vegetable Forcing .16 



— Stem Rot of Radishes :{»> 



Cleveland ;;8 



I^uisville 40 



Denver 41 



Washington. 1». C 4:! 



Steamer Sailings 4"i 



Seeil Trade News 48 



— Mr. Smith Finds Joke ."id 



— Suit Over Seeds r.') 



Dayton, Ohio ol 



Nursery News — Nursery Imports dO 



— Plants for the Seashore (id 



Pacific Coast (i2 



— Portland, Ore «2 



— San Francisco, Cal 01 



— Seattle, Wash 02 



— lios Angeles, Cal ! 



— Tiieoma, Wash (!.'> 



St. Iiouls d 1 



• Irand Rapids, Mich 70 



New Bedford, Mass 72 



lti>wling — At (/hicaito 74 



Creenhonse Heating 84 



— Ran the Flows Downhill S4 



— I'nsatlsfactory Piping 84 



— Piping for a r,ean-to 8« 



Names of Plants 87 



Pittsburgh 88 



Itranipton, Onl 90 



WieUita. Knn 92 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOKISTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

 White Marsh, Md. : vice-president, August Poehl- 

 maun, Morton Grove, III.; secretary, John Young, 

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

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, 111., August 20 to 

 2.), 1912. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



In the year just closed The Review car- 

 ried a total of 5,338 pages. The white 

 paper consumed in the printing weighed 

 slightly more than 185 tons. 



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. 



There is a growing sentiment in favor 

 of a law prohibiting railroads to own 

 stock in express companies, or one ex- 

 press company to own the stock of an- 

 other — but the recent convention of the 

 National Association of Railway Com- 

 missioners brought out another idea. It 

 was proposed that the railroads be com- 

 pelled to take over the express business 

 and carry it on at reasonable rates. It 

 was shown, in the case of two rail- 

 way companies now receiving under their 

 contracts with the express companies 

 fifty-five per cent of the gross revenue, 

 that the cost of conducting the business 

 in the case of one of these roads is 37?4.') 

 per cent of the gross amount received, 

 and in the case of the second road the 

 cost is 41.8 per cent of the gross amount 

 received. In other words, the railroads 

 pocket as profit more than half but not 

 quite two-thirds of their income from the 

 express business. 



NAME OF PLANT. 



Can The Review give me the name 

 of a shrub of which I am forwarding a 

 sample in this letter? The shrub is 

 about three feet tall and hardy in New 

 York state. J. L. 



Euonymus radicans variegata. 



C. W. 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



At the meetings of the schedule com- 

 mittee of the National Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety, Saturday, December 9, and 

 Thursday, December 28, 1911, Presi- 

 dent Sim presiding, the preliminary 



schedule for the annual exhibition and 

 convention to be held in Boston, in 

 conjunction with the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, July 13 and 14, 

 1912, was arranged and ordered printed. 

 The total amount of this schedule 

 is nearly $2,500 and much enthu- 

 siasm was shown at the meetings, the 

 prospects being that it would be 

 the largest exhibition of sweet peas 

 held anywhere, providing the weather 

 conditions are favorable. 



The list, which is an exceedingly 

 comprehensive one, covering eight 

 closely typewritten pages, will be ready 

 for distribution in a few days and 

 copies may be had by addressing 

 Harry A. Bunyjird, secretary, 342 

 West Fourteenth street, New York. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There was no shortage of stock be- 

 tween Christmas and New Year's, but 

 demand was fairly active, so that there 

 was no surplus. Shipping trade was 

 excellent for New Year's and the paar- 

 ket was well cleaned up. The local 

 demand was not so good as it would 

 have been if the weather had been 

 more favorable. December 30 there 

 was rain and snow. Sunday the old 

 year went out to the accompaniment of 

 a genuine blizzard. New Year's day 

 was cold but bright and enough busi- 

 ness was done so that many of the 

 retailers kept open all day. Nearly all 

 the wholesalers kept open all day Sun- 

 day, as they had the Sunday before 

 Christmas. 



The special Christmas demand for 

 red also was apparent at New Year's, 

 the only shortages being Richmond 

 roses and red carnations. Beauty 

 crops, which with some growers were 

 just a little late for Christmas, were 

 coming on strong enough so that there 

 was no trouble in filling New Year's 

 orders. The prospect is that Beauties 

 will be plentiful and cheap for the 

 next couple of weeks. Killarneys were 

 plentiful all last week. The long- 

 stemmed White Killarney made more 

 or less trouble, just as they did at 

 Christmas. The principal demand for 

 white is for work and the greater part 

 of the supply for some weeks has been 

 of a grade too long for work. 



Between Christmas and New Year's 

 carnations held up rather better than 

 roses. During the first half of this 

 season carnations have not come in so 

 strongly as usual. Nor have they been 

 in special request, the result being that 

 the carnation has been a rather less 

 important factor than usually has been 

 the case. The new year starts with 

 quality excellent. 



After Christmas the violet growers 

 ship lightly, for they need to save up 

 for New Year's. The wholesalers who 

 had carried violets over from Christ- 

 mas, instead of slaughtering prices, 

 were able to clean up at fair money. 

 The violet is in special request at New 

 Year's, but the bulk of those that came 

 in New Year's eve were on advance 

 orders. The prices were nearly the 

 same as at Christmas. There was a 

 New Year's flurry in valley. Cattleya 

 Trianae is coming in much stronger. 

 Percivaliana is on the wane. The glut 

 of Paper Whites is said to be over. 

 Lilies are not abundant, but the buyers 

 have become so accustomed to low 

 prices that it is difficult to make an 



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