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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Skptembeb 8, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton BQllding, 



334 Dearborn Street, Cbicaeo. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



BEGI8TKBED CABLE ADDRESS, FLOBYIKW. CHICAOO 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J . Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription price, $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To Europe, $2.60. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advei-tislns; 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 poet-ofllce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press AssoclatioQ. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Rotail Florist— The Tie (illiis.) 5 



New Azaleas 7 



Crotons for Pot Culture 7 



The Aster Disease 7 



Plants for Office Windows 7 



White Insects on Coleus 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gardenias 8 



— Hollyhocks 8 



— Transplanting Evergreens 8 



Insects on Alternantberas 8 



Sweet Peas — Home-Saved Sweet Pea Seed ... 8 



— Winter Care of Sweet Peas 8 



Mum Committees Get Busy 9 



Smith's New White Mum (lllus.) 9 



Kerns — Scale on Ferns 9 



— Care of House Ferns 9 



— To Prevent Reversion 9 



Roses — La France Not Blooming 10 



— Storing Rose Plants 10 



— Rose Plants Dying 10 



A W^ell Kept Place (illus.) 10 



Spot on Cyclamen Leaves 10 



Protection for Pansles 10 



An Unheated House 11 



Dreer's New Plant 11 



As it is in Kansas (lllus.) 11 



iieoTge T. Boucher (portrait) 12 



Bar Harbor, Me 12 



Milwaukee 12 



Hall at Cedar Rapids (lllus. ) 13 



Iowa Florists Meet 13 



The State Fair 13 



News Notes and Comments 14 



Obituary— Lyman B. Craw (portrait ) 15 



— Edward Morrison 15 



— Charles Schramm 15 



— Mrs. Charles K. WIngate 15 



Inipatiens Sultanl 15 



Albany. N. Y 15 



Chicago 16 



Troy, N. Y 20 



Baltimore 20 



Jamestown, N. Y 21 



Philadelphia 22 



Hammonton, N. J 24 



Newburgh, N. Y 24 



New York 24 



.\uburn, N. Y 27 



Providence 28 



Pittsburg . . . . 28 



Saratoga Springs, N. Y 29 



BaldwInsTlUe, N. Y ! . 29 



Erie, Pa 30 



St. Louis 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News — Impurts 38 



— Floods Destroy .Tapan Bnllis 38 



— Dutch Bulbs 39 



— Danish Seed Crops 40 



— The California Crops 40 



— Holland's Seed Crops 41 



— .Imzi Godden's Capital Rise 41 



— French Bulbs 42 



— Catalogues Received 42 



Boston 44 



EvansvlUe, Ind . . 47 



Cincinnati 47 



Nursery News — Cement for Trees .'. 52 



— Reform ! Reform ! 52 



— No Apple Standardization ] 52 



— Eflfect of Gas on Privet 52 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 54 



— San Francisco. Cal ,54 



— Victoria, B. C r,r> 



Detroit ,-,6 



Helena, Mont nS 



Franklin, Pa fjO 



Chllllcothe, Mo 00 



Creenhouse Heating — ^PatchliiK a Bdiler 70 



— With the Fuel .Men 70 



^ Violet House and Lean-to 72 



Indianapolis 74 



Vegetable Forcing 70 



— New Cucumber Disease 70 



— Asparagus and Rliubarb 70 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



INCOBPOBATKD BT AOT OF COMOBKB8, MaBGH 4, '01 



Officers for 1910: Prpsident, F. R. Pierson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; secretary. H. B. Dorner, Urbana, III.; treas- 

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



Special convention and National Flower Show 

 Boston. Mass., March 2G to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 to 

 18, 1911. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Keview brings results. 



Easter, in 1911, falls on a date three 

 weeks later than in 1910. It is April 1(3. 



This is the season of innumerable 

 flower shows at state and county fairs, 

 (live them your support. 



The Jamestown, N. Y., Post lists the 

 Lake View Rose Gardens as among that 

 f'ity 's most important manufacturing 

 [)lants. 



Much needless correspondence will be 

 avoided, if want advertisers will state 

 in what section of the country they de- 

 sire employment or help. 



The Illinois coal operators and their 

 men have not yet settled their differ- 

 ences, but are likely to get together any 

 day now. In the meantime rose growers 

 already are consuming fuel. 



M. Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, O., 

 sends The Review a sample spike of the 

 new gladiolus, Miss Sill, a quite dis- 

 tinct shade of deep pink that appears to 

 have a place with America, Mrs. King 

 and Augusta for retail cut flower work. 



A LONG SEASON. 



Here is the floral calendar for the 

 season now opening: 



Thanksgiving day, Thursdav, Novem- 

 ber 24, 1910. 



Christmas, Sunday, December 25, 1910. 



New Year 's, Sunday, January 1, 1911. 



Lent begins Wednesday, March 1, 

 1911. 



Easter, Sunday, April 16, 1911. 



GOES EVEEYWHEBE. 



There is no civilized country on the 



face of the globe where The Review is 



not a weekly visitor to leading firms. 



.\s a result of our advertising in The Review 

 we have sold our flower boxes to florists in 

 nearly every state in the Union, and have been 

 very gratified at the results therefrom. We were 

 somewhat surprised, however, upon receiving In- 

 quiries from foreign countries. We did not 

 think your circulation reached farther than the 

 .\merican boundaries. We have Just received an 

 inquiry from Liverpool, England, for our Self- 

 Watering Flower Boxes In answer to a Review 

 ad.— Illinois Heater & Mfg. Co., Chicago. 

 September 3, 1910. 



LADIES' S. A. F, 



Mrs. John V. Phillips, of Brooklyn. 

 N. Y., wishes to thank the members of 

 the Ladies' S. A. F. for their kind sup- 

 port in electing her as their president 

 for the ensuing year. She will endeavor 

 to be as faithful as her predecessors. 

 Mrs. Phillips was not able to thank the 

 ladies in person, as she had to leave 

 Rochester on account of the illness of 

 Mr. Phillips. Mrs. John V. Phillips. 



RESULT OF GARDENING. 



"Gardening has restored young Sprig- 

 gles to health. Great thing, garden- 

 ing! " 



"It was gardening that knocked him 

 out in the first place." 



"That's strange. What kind?" 

 "Roof."— Newark News. 



TO REMOVE PUTTY. 



T have a number of sashbars that 

 were glazed with a mixture of white 

 lead and putty. I have tried to soften 

 it with lye, but did not have much 

 success and shall be thankful if you 

 can tell me of some way of removing 

 it. It is about as hard as cement. 



G. H. 



Try corrosive sublimate. This chem- 

 ical, however, is very poisonous and 

 caustic, and great care is necessary so 

 as not to get it on the skin. If this 

 does not remove the putty, there is no 

 recourse left but the chisel and ham- 

 mer. Ribes. 



PROPAGATING HOUSES. 



We are thinking of building one or 

 two small houses for propagating. 

 Which would be the proper direction 

 for them to run, east and west or north 

 and south? What is the best width for 

 a propagating house? Our location is 

 southeastern Iowa. D. H. S. & S. 



It is often convenient to put in a 

 north-side lean-to house, in which case 

 it need not be more than six feet wide 

 inside; but if an even-span house is 

 used it can run in any direction, as will 

 be most convenient, and a width of 

 nine feet, inside measurement, will an- 

 swer well. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A Saturday half holiday, a Sunday 

 and Labor day having fallen in suc- 

 cession during the week just ended, the 

 record of business naturally is not ex- 

 tra good. Many of the class that buy 

 flowers were out of the city for the 

 triple holiday, and local demand was 

 smaller than it otherwise would have 

 been. There was a fair business Sep- 

 tember 1 and 2, and the shipping houses 

 were busy on the morning of Labor 

 day, one or two of them having enough 

 orders to keep them going all day long, 

 though most of the houses, if they did 

 not close at noon, were able to do so 

 before the whole of the afternoon had 

 passed. Recently business has appeared 

 to dwindle during the three days fol- 

 lowing Monday and the present week 

 appears to hold out no better pros- 

 pect. 



Supplies of stock are in every way 

 adequate to the needs of the moment. 

 There are perhaps two flowers on which 

 it is not possible to fill all orders. 

 These are carnations and orchids. The 

 supply of cattleyas is extremely light, 

 but there is no steady demand; the 

 spasmodic calls sometimes cannot be 

 met; advance orders are safest. A few 

 indoor carnations are now being re- 

 ceived, characteristically short of stem: 

 the outdoor carnation crop has not 

 amounted to much this year. There 

 are quite a few orders for carnations 

 and the small quantity with fair stems 

 is realizing excellent prices. 



Receipts of roses are on the increase 

 and prices are slightly lower. There 

 are enough Beauties for all require- 

 ments and with many houses the qual- 

 ity is excellent for this date. The cut 

 of Killarney also is on the up grade 

 and other roses are proportionately 

 more abundant. The growers who 

 planted early are now getting into the 



