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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sbftdmbxb 22, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THUESDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



03O-56O Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Cblcaso. 



Telephone, Harbison 5429. 



BJEOIBTKBED CABLB ADDBK8B, FLOBTIEW, OHIOAOO 



New York Office: 



BorouKb Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Kurope, $2JS0. 



Only 



AdvertiBing rates quoted upon request, 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 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 8. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Frees Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, FAOE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Ketail Florist 7 



— The Casket Design (lUus. ) 7 



— Automobile Delivery (lllus.) 7 



— Cost of Auto Delivery 7 



The Canna ot Today 8 



Freeslas for the Market 8 



Iris Mtne. Chereau (lllus.) 9 



Violets 9 



— Ureen Fly on Violets 9 



— Gov. Herrick Violet 9 



Asters for Forcing 9 



Geraniums 10 



— Geranium Culture 10 



— Jean Viaud Geranium (lllus.) 10 



Draining a Garden 10 



A Novel View (lllus.) 11 



Primula Obconlca 11 



Formula for Thrlps 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Dutch Bulb Compotit 12 



— Show Pelargoniums 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



— Brief Reminders 12 



Boston 12 



Cincinnati 13 



Washington 14 



Baltimore 14 



St. Paul 14 



St. Louis 14 



Providence 16 



Syracuse, N. Y 15 



Columbus, 15 



Detroit 16 



Obituary 16 



— John H. Sievers (portrait) 16 



— Mrs. Charles Dickinson 16 



— Max Leichtlin 16 



— Katherlne Sherman 16 



— James M. Kennedy 16 



— George Wlttbold (portrait) 17 



— John Donn 17 



"Money Good Enough" — Gude 18 



Sell your Surplus 18 



Chicago 18 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 25 



Indianapolis 29 



Minneapolis 30 



New Orleans 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Imports of Seeds 38 



— Imports 40 



— Rain on the Llmas 40 



— Dutch Bulbs 42 



— State Correspondents 42 



— Catalogues Uecelved 46 



Vegetable Forcing 45 



— Grand Rapids Convention 46 



Lexington, Ky 47 



Nursery News 52 



— Imports of Nursery Stock 52 



Pacific Coast 54 



— Seattle, Wash 54 



— San Francisco 54 



Milwaukee 66 



Denver 58 



Pittsburg, Pa 60 



Springfield, 60 



Evansville, Ind 60 



Greenhouse Heating; 70 



— Overhaul the System 70 



— Natural Gas for Heating 70 



— Two Michigan Houses 72 



Louisville, Ky 74 



Glen Cove, N. Y 76 



Elmhurst, 111. — Wendland & Keimel 

 have completed a new stack, ninety feet 

 high and four and one-half feet in dia- 

 meter. They now have ten houses and 

 the stack will take care of quite an ad- 

 dition, probably not far distant. 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Imcobpobatkd by Aot or Conobbss, Maboh 4, '01 



Officers for 1910: Prosident, P. R. Pierson, Tarry- 

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

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

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



Special convention and National Flower Show 

 Boston. Mass., March 26 to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 16 to 

 18, 1911. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



The trade reports collections as having 

 improved considerably within the mouth. 



The waterproof chiffon is not only a 

 money-maker for the supply houses but is 

 a boon to the retailer. 



The Florists ' Club at Springfield, Ohio, 

 the home of several great mail order plant 

 houses, has contributed $25 to the funds 

 of the Postal Progress League. 



The "Want Ad pages of The Eeview 

 are worth watching every week. Many 

 fine opportunities are shown there — not 

 merely a few, but a hundred or more each 

 week. 



Inquiries must be signed with full 

 name, and address must be given, to re- 

 ceive reply. Signatures are not used for 

 publication in The Eeview, but anony- 

 mous inquiries are not answered. 



J. W. Eoss, Centralia, 111., sends The 

 Eeview specimen blooms of the new 

 dahlia, "Wm. Eoss, deep scarlet, large 

 flower, of the show type; also foliage of 

 a new seedling coleus of striking colors. 



When you send photographs to an 

 editor, write the title on the back. The 

 Eeview frequently receives pictures with 

 no clue by which the sender can be iden- 

 tified, not even a postmark. Among the 

 unmarked pictures recently received was 

 the portrait of a lady and two \iews in a 

 flower store. 



The United States government always 

 has classed as nursery stock all imports 

 of bulbs and all imports of certain plants 

 handled only by florists, such as palms, 

 azaleas and orchids; but the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor in 1909 sepa- 

 rated "orchids, palms, dracsenas, crotons, 

 azaleas, tulip and other bulbs, bulbous 

 roots or corms cultivated for their flow- 

 ers" from "other plants, trees, shrubs 

 or vines, ' ' and found that the imports of 

 the former aggregated an invoice value 

 of $954,399, or almost half the total of 

 ' ' all nursery stock, ' ' in which these seed 

 trade and florists ' items still are included. 

 The completed figures by countries from 

 which the imports came will be found on 

 page 52 of this copy of The Eeview. 



"MONEY GOOD ENOUGH"— GUDE. 



As readers of the daily papers know, 

 a Chicago gentleman who occupies for 

 the moment the office of Secretary of 

 the Treasury has conceived the bright 

 idea of leaving his mark upon the 

 finances of the United States by reduc- 

 ing the size of the paper money. The 

 average person is too deeply concerned 

 with the decreasing purchasing power 

 of the dollar to regard a decrease in the 

 size of the bill itself either as im- 

 portant or inappropriate, but commer- 

 cial bodies are opposing the change. 

 William F. Gude, who, besides conduct- 

 ing a flower store, is president of the 

 Washington Chamber of Commerce and 

 director in a bank, is quoted in a New 

 York paper as saying: 



"If the United States government is 



reduced to the necessity of instituting 

 an economy by cutting down the size of 

 our bank notes it is in pretty bad shape, 

 it seems to me. It looks to me like a 

 case of saving at the spigot and wast- 

 ing at the bunghole. The economy re- 

 sulting would be so inflnitesimal com- 

 pared with the annoyance and addi- 

 tional labor' and expense that would be 

 imposed upon the banks and the busi- 

 ness people that it would not be worth 

 while talking about. 



"I believe in economy in govern- 

 ment, but it appears to me that this 

 proposition would not be an economy. 

 The present size of our notes is all 

 right. The people are used to it, and 

 I can see no good reason for making 

 a change. It surely would take ten 

 years to retire the present circulation, 

 and in that time the expense to the 

 people would be far greater than the 

 saving to the government. I do not 

 like it. I am satisfied with the cur- 

 rency as it is." 



SELL YOUB SURPLUS. 



No matter what your surplus is, some- 

 where there are pretty sure to be buy- 

 ers who need just that stock. And The 

 Eeview reaches the whole trade: 



The little ad In The Review brongbt ns too 

 many results with the first insertion, but they 

 came a little too late to head off the second in- 

 sertion.— L. C. Stroh & Sons, Batavla, N. Y., 

 September 12, 1910. 



The success with which they moved 



surpluses by advertising in The Eeview 



has caused many a florist to work up 



stock and get into the wholesale line. 



No need to be content with a limited 



local trade. 



CHICAGO. 



Census Count Is 2,185,283. 



If the Chicago market had been com- 

 pelled to rely for its business in the 

 last week on the 2,185,283 people that 

 Uncle Sam found within the city lim- 

 its, business would have been a great 

 deal worse than it really was; the 

 week has been a quiet one, the bulk 

 of the stock going to the many ad-ii- 

 tional millions of people who contrib- 

 ute the shipping orders that are the 

 dependence of this market. The local 

 retailers are doing a little more each 

 week, but the city business is not yet 

 large enough to cut much figure as 

 compared to the shipping demand. 

 There was a decrease following Sep- 

 tember 12, but weather conditions at 

 the end of the week served to cut down 

 the supply. The same was apparently 

 the case throughout a wide stretch of 

 country, for September 19 there was 

 a nice increase in shipping demand, but 

 since then nothing exceptional has been 

 stirring. Business is not bad, but it 

 is not good; the market might easily 

 become oversupplied. 



After having been in the background 

 for some little time, roses again occupy 

 a conspicuous place. The supply or 

 quality of other stock is such that 

 whatever business there is stirring ifl 

 reflected in the demand for roses. Beau- 

 ties once more are in abundant supply; 

 many growers are on the upgrade with 

 their crops and quality is excellent. A 

 considerable proportion of the cut is 

 on long stems, whereas a good part of 

 the demand is for medium-stemmed 

 stock. The fall openings also are mak- 

 ing a special call for short Beauties, 

 and the short to medium grades are 



