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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SKPTKMBElt 1, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



a. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoxb. 



PUBLJSHBD KVXBY TUCB8DAY BT 



The Florists* PublishinoCo. 



580-560 Caxton BulldlnKt 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Hakrison 5429. 



RKGIsntBKD CABUC ADDBK88. nABTirW. OHICAOO 



New Yokk Orrics: 

 Borough Park Brooklyn, N . T. 



Subscription price, $1.00 a year. 

 To Kurope, $2,80. 



To Canada. 92.00. 



Only 



AdvertiBlng rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertlslnK accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 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 !l. 187<J. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Kxprt'SH IJnti'K Ordered Down 



— ^ The Wedge Hub Entered 



^— WaHuingtuii Must Act 



TukiUK Ulurlu Buds 



Sweet I'eaH 



— Sweet I'eas for Christmiis 



— Wluter-Bowerlng Sweet I't'us 



The Ketall Florist 



— The StuiidinR Wreath ( illiis. ) 



— ChargeB for Storing IMiiiits 



— An Link lull Suggestion 



— Another New idea (illiis. ) 



tiardenias 



'I'lie Aster Disease 



t'oreopsls and Shasta .See<l 



Dahlia Stems Too Short 



Ureyu Caterpillars 



fS^asonahle Suggestions 



-- Lilluni (^andlduni 



— Berried Solanunis 



— Vallota Purpurea 



— Eupliorblu Jaequiniietlora 



— Annual I.url<spurs 



> (Jeranluins 



— Cernnlum Cuttings 



— Geranium (.'uttings in liencli 



Half .Mile Fronts (iihis. » 



Cruoke<l (iiudioins Stems 



Variegated Vinous 



Carnations 



— An Averafe'e Crop 



— Tiie Normal Temperature 



Lilies for Easter 



Pot Plants for Christmas 



Worms in Soil 



Miss Margaret Armstrong ( portrait i . . 



New York 



Boston 



Uochester 



Minneaiiolis 



Ciucinnatl 



Erie 



Detroit 



Providence 



Columbus, O 



Obituary — I'eti-r Casey 



— John W. Young 



— Edward F. O'liara 



— W^ B. Whlttler 



— E. 'C. Lufklu 



— VV. CJ. Uano 



News, Notes and Comments 



Chicago 



Wichita, Kan 



Philadelphia 



•St. Louis 



Allegany, N. Y 



Steamer Sailings 



•Seed Trade News 



— The World's .Seed Sltuhtion 



-Dutch Bulbs 



- 1 mjKtrts 



Blrmingliam, Ala 



Pucltlc tX)ast 



- Corvallls, Ore 



- Seattle tHW 



- Son Francisco 



Nursery News 



- .Soutliern Nurserymen Meet (ilius.) 



— Evils of the Kepiuee Polley 



Toledo, O 



Pittsburg 



New Bedford, Mass 



Manchester, .Mass 



<;reenhouBe Heating 



Ueat for Florist's Kesidence 



- For Either Steam or Water 



Steam Boiler and Hot Water 



— Boiler and Itadlatlon 



gault Ste. Marie, Mich 



Maywood, III 



Hllsworth, Me 



Vegetable Forcing 



Yellow Cucumber Foliage 



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SOCIETT OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



IMOOBPOBATKD BT ACT OF COHOBXSS, MABCH 4. '01 



Officers lor 1910: President. F. R. Plerson. Tarry- 

 town, N. v.; vlce-preeldent, F. W. Vlck. Kocheeter. 

 N. Y.; se<-retary. M. B. Dorner. Urbana. III.; treas- 

 urer, W. F. Kastlrfl, Buffalo, N. Y. 



SpecUl convention and National Flower Show 

 Boston, Mass., March 20 to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore. Md., August 16 to 

 18, 1911. 



Sesults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



Pecky cypress, the best bench lumber, 

 still stands at the old price, but the finer 

 grades of cypress are steadily climbing. 



If The Eeview does not already carry 

 in its Classified Department all the heads 

 you would like to use, the ones you want 

 will be put in for you. 



One of the best as well as the pleas- 

 antest indications of prosperity in our 

 trade is the absence of important fail- 

 ures among florists during the summer 

 now drawing to a close. 



The Want Ad department of the 

 Review has grown till two pages will no 

 longer carry it. Every advertisement in 

 the department represents the actual need 

 of some subscriber, and it pays to watch 

 and use these pages. 



The committee in charge of the S. A. 

 P. souvenir album has about a hundred 

 copies on hand. A copy will be sent to 

 any one, while they last, who will send 

 twenty-five cents to E. F. Rowe, 53 Audu- 

 bon street, Rochester, N. Y. 



E. E. Stewart, Rives Junction, Mich., 

 sends The Review a fine bunch of Gla- 

 diolus Golden Queen, the variety with 

 which he won the Arthur T. Boddington 

 trophy for best yellow exhibited at the 

 Rochester show of the American Gladiolus 

 Society. 



The one disappointing feature of the 

 S. A. F. convention, so far as the Roche.s- 

 ter florists are concerned, is said to be the 

 meager attendance of gunners. The com- 

 mittee is said to feel that the participa- 

 tion of only eight gunners does not jus- 

 tify the work and expense incident to 

 holding the shoot on the scale of th^s 

 year. 



The thirty-one reports of state vice- 

 presidents of the S. A. F., presented at 

 Rochester, almost invariably started oflf 

 with the statement that 1910 has thus 

 far proved the banner year for all de- 

 partments of the florists' business. Many 

 of the reports also spoke of greater rapid- 

 ity of increase in the call for the better 

 grade of stock. 



INDEXING THE EEVIEW. 



I send herewith $1 for another year 

 of The Review. It is a splendid paper, 

 but I believe it could be bettered in 

 one respect. In the back of the paper 

 every six months, or once a year, an 

 index to all the articles would be a 

 great help. We often wish to refer 

 back to some article and are unable 

 to find it. I dislike to cut articles out 

 of The Review because it spoils it as 

 a magazine. C. S. S. 



The publication of a complete index, 

 (and one incomplete would be valueless) 

 to the 2,460 pages that comprised the 

 last semiannual volume, would entail 

 an expense which seems out of propor- 

 tion to its usefulness, since each num- 

 ber contains a table of the contents of 



that edition. A arge percentage of 

 Hiibscribers file their copies of The Ee_ 

 view. One way to make articles of 

 special interest readily available is to 

 jencil on the upper front cover of each 

 ssue a word or two indicating the sub- 

 oct of such article. Then a glance 

 through the pile of copies serves to lo- 

 ciite the article wanted. ^ 



A r^EAL TEIBUTE. 



\ vouug English girl, who visited 

 Boston, sent the following to friends 

 in that city on her return home: 

 "If strict ideas ever come true, 

 A Boston lady had em; 

 She did not say 'Chrysanthemuin , 

 She said 'Chrysanthemadam.^^ ^^^^^ 



EESULTS AEE COUNTINO. 



It is an old saying that "kissing goes 

 hv favor," and a good many factors 

 have influenced the placing of adver- 

 tising orders; but men iu this trade are 

 coming more and moret<rtmyi^g:^4ver- 

 tising on the samF^aSis they buyNolther 

 necessities— on the basis of valu^jfor 

 their money: 



Hereafter when I have any stock for iale I'll 

 advertise it in The Keview for two ^ef^'^^nd 

 I'll get orders for two months; and not >n tne 



Z , where you advertise t*o/monthB 



and not get a single reply or InquWyl I re- 

 ceived orders for mouths after I stopitea my ad 

 in Tlie Review in May. That's whereXadvertis- 

 Ing pays.— Wm. J. lihmann, Jr., Corttt, N. Y. 

 August 11, 1910. 



CHICAQO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week the weather was perhaps 

 the most important factor in the mar- 

 ket. Early in the week it hurt, but 

 later it helped. Excessive heat and 

 humidity caused the demand to run 

 down hill until Thursday, August 25, 

 which many houses report to have been 

 not only the dullest day of the week, 

 but of the month, while some say it 

 was the dullest day of the summer. 

 However dull it was, there was a 

 prompt recovery as soon as the cool 

 wave struck, and by Sunday noon the 

 rather alarming accumulations of stock 

 had been cleaned up. It was warmer 

 again at the opening of the current 

 week, but Monday showed a really first- 

 class demand, calling principally for 

 asters and roses, and the following 

 days have seen a fair measure of ac- 

 tivity. Everyone feels that the cor- 

 ner has been turned and that busine* 

 will increase steadily during the next 

 three months. 



The supply of Beauties has increased 

 slightly since last report. Most of the 

 crop is of medium length, coming from 

 young stock, but there is enough of 

 the longer stemmed flowers so that buy- 

 ers of hundred lots who are not too 

 particular as to quality have been able 

 to negotiate some concessions in price 

 Of other roses there has been some de- 

 crease in supply, the first crop from 

 the early planted houses having passed 

 off and the cut from the rested plants 

 and the later planted houses being still 

 m prospect with many growers. The 

 best roses come from houses grown spe- 

 VrfVfy-'' '"'"^^' crop, but all roLs 

 vor^M '°1 P'J'"" *^at compare fa- 

 vorably with the value of the same 

 grade of goods at other seasons."^ Bride 

 ior a|Sn!°^ '" ^' something of a fac- 



Asters are in large supply and there 



