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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



JANUABT 18, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Mamaokb. 



PUBLISHED KVEBY THURSDAY BY 



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 Strictly trade adTertlsing accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by R p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



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 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



Geraniums 9 



— Seasonable Notes 9 



Sweet Peas 9 



— Sweet Peas Damping Off 9 



— Sweet Pea Buds Dropping 9 



Convention Aftermath 10 



— American Carnation Society 10 



— American Rose Society 10 



— The ,<»moker 10 



— Convention Comment 10 



— Fred Dorner as a Hybridizer 11 



— Herman B. Domer (portrait) 11 



— Among the Roses in Europe (lllus.) 13 



— Roses In Mississippi Valley 1* 



Seasonable Suggestions — Spirseas 16 



— Marguerites 16 



— Bougainvllleas 16 



— Double Feverfew 16 



— Lilies For Easter 16 



— Stocks 16 



That Three-named Rose 16 



Spider On Roses 16 



Carnations — Weak-stemmed Enchantress .... IT 



— Washington (illus.) 17 



— Thrips and Weak Stems 17 



— Lean-to for Carnations 17 



Gardeners' Association 17 



Missouri Botanical Garden 18 



Obituary 18 



In His Eighty -first Year (lllus.) 18 



The Mighty Hunters (lllus. ) 19 



State Nursery Dinner (lllus.) 19 



Southampton, N. Y 19 



Greenwich. Conn 19 



Heading Back Box Elders 19 



Hall Screen Over Glass 20 



Vapor On Store Windows 20 



Jerusalem Cherry from Seed 2» 



Chicago 20 



Pittsburgh 24 



Milwaukee 25 



Philadelphia 26 



St. Louis 28 



Boston 29 



Denver 34 



New York i 36 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Washington 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Peas in Montana 44 



— The Canners' Output 45 



— Lily Bulb Exports 48 



Koerner's Novelties 48 



Valley For Easter 50 



Vegetable Forcing 60 



— White Fly on Lettuce 50 



— Too Cool for Cucumbers 50 



— Slow Growth of Cucumbers 51 



— Propagating Vlncas 51 



Pacific Coast 56 



— California Yellow Bell 56 



— San Francisco 56 



— Victoria. B. C 56 



— Pasadena, Cal 56 



^ Tacoma, Wash 56 



— Seattle, Wash 57 



— Portland. Ore 67 



— Los Angeles, Cal 68 



Azaleas After Flowering 5>J 



Nursery News 60 



— Tlie Boston Convention 60 



— Federal Law Taking Shape 60 



— Privet in North Dakota 61 



Amherst, Mass 61 



Toronto 62 



Cleveland 62 



Danville, 111 62 



Providence, R. 1 64 



Cincinnati 66 



Glen Cove. N. Y 68 



Omaha. Neb 68 



Bowling 70 



Greenhouse Heating SO 



— Construction of Iron Stack 80 



— Control of Temperatures 80 



— Boiler Probably too Small 82 



Rochester, N. Y 84 



Louisville. Ky 88 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS, 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

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

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

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

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, III., August 20 t6 

 23, 1912. 



EESULTS. 



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. 



January is an excellent month for 

 pushing along on the collections. Get 

 everyone who owes you to pay at least 

 something on account — and then do the 

 same by those whom you owe. 



Have you noted that the character of 

 men employed on the successful, progres- 

 sive places has improved in marked de- 

 gree in the last few years? Prize-winning, 

 money-making stock is not grown by un- 

 skilled labor. 



The S, a. F. board of directors, at the 

 Detroit meeting last week, received an 

 education in the matter of metropolitan 

 rents. The society at present is nego- 

 tiating for two big halls, one at Chicago 

 for the trades ' display in August and one 

 at New York for the National Flower 

 Show of 1913. After listening to the 

 terms for the Grand Central Palace, New 

 York, the price of the Coliseum at Chi- 

 cago seems quite picayunish. 



OBDEBS COST TWO PER CENT. 



Every now and then an advertiser 

 reports that there has been no response 

 to his offer in the Classified depart- 

 ment, and wants to be told why. We 

 wish we knew. Sometimes, of course, 

 the stock offered is out of season, but 

 in most cases that appears to make 

 little difference; everything is season- 

 able somewhere in this big country, and 

 The Eeview goes everywhere. Usually 

 the report of those who offer small 

 surpluses in the Classified department 

 is like this: 



My last adv., costing 60 cents, brought 

 orders that amounted to $35. — Clark W. 

 Brown, Ashland, Mass., January 6, 1912. 



HAIL SCREEN OVER GLASS. 



Having had the misfortune last sum- 

 mer to lose all our glass and plants, as 

 well as all other crops, by hail, we 

 are contemplating protecting them by 

 wire netting this spring, and would 

 ask through The Review if any of the 

 readers of The Review could give us 

 any information as to the best meth- 

 ods. We h:;ve several plans of doing 

 the job, but would be thankful to any 

 of our folks who may have some expe- 

 rience and could give us advice in the 

 matter. We have two houses, con- 

 nected, each 32x200 feet, and intend 

 to stretch the wire across the two 

 houses, keeping it twelve inches or 

 more above the glass; or is there a 

 better way of doing itt 



Lethbridge, Alta. Frache Bros. 



VAPOR ON STORE WINDOWS. 



The Review of December 14, page 33, 

 contained an inquiry in regard to va- 

 por on store windows, with a re- 

 ply by H. S. Agreeing with the 

 Greeks of old, H. S. says in the last 



paragraph that "water is the best." 

 The idea occurred to me that it might 

 be practicable to run a small perforated 

 water pipe along the top of the window, 

 on the inside. The perforations could 

 be quite small and some four to six 

 inches apart. The pipe would be set 

 so that a small stream could be run 

 down the inside of the window, and 

 drainage or an outflow could be ar- 

 ranged at the bottom of the window. 

 This might be made to work merely 

 by turning on or shutting off a faucet, 

 as the case might be. This, of coui^se, 

 is only an untried suggestion, which I 

 pass along for consideration. 



Arthur E. Chilman. 



JERUSALEM CHERRY FROM SEED. 



When should the seeds of Jerusalem 

 cherry be planted! How long does it 

 take the seeds to germinate f Is there 

 any special care that should be given 

 the plants? I am located in southern 

 New Hampshire. S. E. P. 



The present month or early in Feb- 

 ruary is a good time to sow Jerusalem 

 cherries, Solanum Capsicastrum. Sow 

 in pans of leaf-mold and sand, in a 

 warm house. They will germinate with- 

 in two weeks and need no special care. 

 Pot off singly when of sufficient size 

 and plant outdoors, in your latitude 

 about May 20. Dig up and repot them 

 about the middle of September. Field 

 culture will give you much finer plants 

 than pot culture. C. W. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There has been no respite from the 

 severely cold weather, which has now 

 prevailed uninterruptedly for nearly 

 three weeks. Only on one day in the 

 first fortnight of the new year did the 

 temperature fail to go below zero. It 

 has been a stretch of unfavorable 

 weather breaking all records. For the 

 first few days the market got aloi)g 

 fairly well, but within the last week 

 there has been a marked falling off in 

 the out-of-town business, which was the 

 chief sustaining factor. It has been 

 so cold that the flower business has 

 been confined to two classes of trade: 

 funeral work and telephone trade. In 

 other words, the necessities have been 

 represented by the demand for fu- 

 neral flowers, while the luxuries 

 have been reflected in the orders 

 that came to the retailers by phone. 

 Some of the largest buyers of stock 

 have little funeral trade and less 

 telephone trade, and their demands have 

 been extremely light ever since the 

 first of the year. The severe weather 

 has been general throughout the ter- 

 ritory that draws its supplies from 

 Chicago, and the same conditions have 

 prevailed in all the towns that use Chi- 

 cago flowers. Business not only has 

 been light, but trains have been so de- 

 layed that there was no certainty when 

 stock would arrive, and losses by freez- 

 ing were frequent. The result has been 

 that many standing orders have been 

 canceled and telegraph orders are less 

 numerous than usual. What business 

 there is comes in rushes, followed by 

 complete stagnation. 



There has been an abundance of 

 stock. Practically the only flowers that 

 have been in demand above the supply 

 have been short roses. There have been 



