The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 29, 1012. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT. Editob and Manaqkb. 



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Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897, 

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

 March 3. 1879. 



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INDEX TO ADVERTISEES, PAGE 110. 



CONTENTS. 



Geraniums — Geranium Foliage Curling 11 



— Diseased Geranium Leaves 11 



— Fungus on Geranium Foliage 11 



— Diseased Geranium Foliage ii 



Huebner's New Antirrhinum (illus.) li 



Dreer's Big Automobile (illus. ) 12 



The Retail Florist — Dellrery Methods 12 



— The Cross of Valley (illus. ) 12 



The Aster and Its Culture 13 



Carnations — Varieties for a Beginner 14 



— Probably Thrips 14 



— Plants Have Turned Yellow 14 



— Fairy Ring 14 



— Thirty Per Cent Split 14 



— A Big Carnation House (illus.) 15 



European Notes 15 



Forwarders Are Fined . . . . , 16 



State Florists' Association 16 



The New York Federation 16 



Who Gets Trade Prices ? 16 



Flowers As a Field Crop 17 



Palms at Los Angeles (illus. ) 18 



Lily Foliage Brown at Tips 19 



Treatment of Candytuft 19 



Adiantnms 19 



Primula Obconlca 19 



Effect of Sulphur In Water 19 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lilies 20 



— Ampelopsis Veitchli 20 



— Feverfew ... 20 



— Cinerarias for Faster 20 



— Seedling Primulas 20 



— Fancy Caladiums 20 



— Hydrangeas 20 



— Vegetable Seedlings 20 



— Foliage Plants 20 



Business Embarrassments 20 



Petunia Plants Turn Yellow 20 



Hanging Out the Wash (illus.) 21 



Gladioli a Second Season 21 



Leaf Miners on Marguerites 21 



Gladiolus Troubles 21 



Sweet Peas — Sweet Pea Stems Are Short 22 



Greenhouses Wrecked (illus.) 22 



New York 22 



Obituary 28 



News Notes 23 



Dr. Trelease Resigns 24 



Chicago 24 



St. Louis 31 



Wichita, Kana 34 



Madison, N. J 36 



Dayton, Ohio 36 



Cincinnati 38 



Philadelphia 40 



Temperature for Primroses 46 



Peat Versus Leaf Mold 46 



Preparing Land for Asters 46 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore BO 



— San Francisco, Cal 50 



— Lorralnes on the Coast (illus.) 52 



— Making a Start 62 



Vegetable Forcing— Early Outdoor Tomatoes. . 55 



Pittsburgh 58 



Buffalo 69 



Boston 60 



Steamer Sailings 64 



Seed Trade News 66 



— Ferry at Twin Falls 67 



— The Amzi Godden Interests 70 



— Peas in Washington State 70 



Nursery News — Field Roses in England 76 



Cleveland 78 



Indianapolis 80 



Amherst. Mass 82 



Milwaukee 84 



Mitchell, S. D 86 



Bowling 88 



Lenox. Mass 88 



Greenhouse Heating — Cement Wash for Pipes. 100 



— Quantity of Fuel 300 



— Three Detached Houses 100 



— In Western Ohio 102 



Detroit 104 



Denver 106 



Boctaester ](g 



SOOIETT or AMEBICAN IXOUBXt. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



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

 White Marsh, Md.; vice-president, Aagnst Poebl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111.; secretarv, John Toang, 

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

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, HI., Aogust 20 t6 

 23, 1912. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Some of the growers are having their 

 own troubles in rooting Pink Delight car- 

 nation cuttings. 



Some of the houses best worth dealing 

 with do not allow wholesale rates to those 

 who do not have printed letter-heads. 



Some of the big growers say there is 

 no demand for Lorraine begonia — all the 

 buyers want Glory of Cincinnati for next 

 Christmas. 



This is the Leap Year Number of 

 The Review, the first edition ever dated 

 February 29 and the first time five pub- 

 lication days ever have fallen in the 

 month of February. 



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. 



Anonymous inquiries still come in, al- 

 though it has been stated over and over 

 again that no attention is paid to any 

 communication which does not show the 

 full name and address of the writer. 



Mes. F. F. Thompson, whose beauti- 

 ful place at Canandaigua, N. Y., is one 

 of the show places of the country, has 

 contributed $500 to be used towards se- 

 curing foreign exhibits for the National 

 Flower Show and Chairman Totty ex- 

 pects to have a great many more such 

 donors within a short time. 



The preliminary plant schedule of the 

 Third National Flower Show haa been 

 issued in pamphlet form, bound in a 

 bright red cover, and mailed to all who 

 are thought to be interested. Anyone 

 who has been overlooked can secure a 

 copy by dropping a line to John Young, 

 secretary, 54 West Twenty- eighth street. 

 New York city. 



EAST AND WEST. 



The circulation of The Review is dis- 

 tributed pretty evenly over the trade 

 of the entire continent — the paper goes 

 wherever there are florists, and the 

 location of the advertiser appears to 

 make little difference in his ability to 

 use the paper with success. For in- 

 stance, one mail brings the two letters 

 printed below, one from New England 

 and one from Wisconsin: 



Please withdraw my advertisement for carna- 

 tion cuttings. I have had good sales from it, 

 am all sold out and have had to refuse a lot of 

 orders. — James Wheeler, Natick, Mass., February 



25, 1912. 



We have a great many inquiries for the differ- 

 ent items that we offer in The Review. It puts 

 us on the map, and we are yours for more busi- 

 ness. — Haentze Co., Fond du Lac, Wis., Febrnary 



26, 1912. 



DB. TBELEASE BESIONS. 



Dr. William Trelease, director of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden since the 

 death of its founder, Henry Shaw, in 

 1889, has tendered his resignation to 

 the Board of Trustees. Dr. Trelease 

 gives as his reason for his action t> 

 need of more leisure for scientific 

 search. He is ranked among the wor 

 famous botanists. No successor 

 |i!een appointed. 



Dr. Trelease was selected for the di- 

 rectorship more than twenty-two years 

 ago by Henry Shaw, the creator of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, commonly 

 known by his name. He has built tt© 

 garden up to be the finest botanical 

 garden in America, with 12,000 species 

 of living plants, 700,000 herbariun 

 specimens collected from the flora of 

 the world and a library of 70,00(> 

 books. 



Dr. Trelease will remain in St. Louip, 

 for the present at least, as he is mak- 

 ing special studies for which the gar- 

 den facilities offer exceptional oppor- 

 tunities. 



PENCIL PUSHERS WANTED. 



Practically all the larger cities of thu 

 United States, from 100,000 up, are 

 represented in these columns by a 

 weekly news-letter. Most of the cities 

 are well represented — all the news is 

 faithfully and impartially reported. 

 But there are a few cities that are not 

 represented in proportion to their im- 

 portance in a trade sense. Here are 

 some of them: 



Washington, D. C. 



Louisville, Ky. 



Nashville, Tenn. 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Omaha, Neb. 



Spokane, Wash. 



The Review would be glad to hear 

 from anyone who has an inclination for 

 pencil pushing, located in any of the 

 above cities, or others that may not be 

 regularly represented in these columns. 

 Correspondents should be connected 

 with the retail branch of the business. 



CHICAGO. 



The Oreat Central Market. 



Two blizzards within the week of 

 February 21 to 27 pretty thoroughly 

 demoralized the Chicago market. The 

 fall of snow February 21 was the heav- 

 iest of the winter and, of course, the 

 weather conditions retarded the rapidly 

 rising tide of cut flower production; 

 but the same conditions cut down de- 

 mand even faster than they cut down 

 production. The result was that after 

 the first storm the market was seriously 

 overloaded and had no more than ef- 

 fected a clean-up Saturday, February 

 24, than another all-day blizzard ar- 

 rived February 26 to again cause stock 

 to accumulate badly. 



Old heads at the business say that 

 they cannot recall a year in which the 

 general line of cut flowers gave such 

 low average prices in the last week of 

 February as has been the case this sea- 

 son. Only a imall part of the receipts 

 were required to satisfy the legitimate 

 demand, and the balance of the stock 

 was sold for whatever it would bring, 

 no inconsiderable quantity going to 

 waste. The result was that the fair 

 prices realized for a small quantity of 

 selected "tock were reduced to an ex- 

 trem*-' ■ average by the sacrifices 



nee is said that the average 



v lines of stock have 



^ week in the month 



•ere up to St. Val- 



"s that are not 



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