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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Septemdeb 29, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT. Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-660 Caxton Building, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



BorouKh Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Sabacription price, $1UX) a year. To Canada. $2.00. 

 To Europe. I2JS0. 



AdvertlBln? rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reaoli 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 3. 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Frees Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Dutch Bulbs 7 



— The Forcing of Bulbs (illus.) 7 



— Various Bulbs 8 



— Paper Whites for Christmas 8 



Charles W. Schmidt (portrait) 8 



Wlnterlch's Bright Idea (lUus.) 9 



Violets 9 



— Packing Violet Plants 9 



Aucuba Japonlca 9 



Palms 9 



Chrysanthemums 10 



— .Seasonable Suggestions 10 



Are You Sold Out ?. 10 



The Retail Florist 10 



— Corsage Bouquets (illus.) 10 



— Wedding Flowers 11 



— The Question of Credit 11 



Seasonable Suggestions 12 



— Azaleas 12 



— Ericas 12 



— Callas 12 



— Lorraine Begonias : 12 



— Eucbarls Amazonlca 12 



— Nerlnes and Amaryllis 12 



— Mignonette 12 



Giganteum for Easter 12 



Carnations 13 



— Fairy Ring 13 



— Distribution of the Pipes 13 



Boston 13 



New York 14 



St. Louis 15 



Propagation 16 



Salvias for Memorial Day 16 



Providence 16 



News Notes and Comments 17 



Knows a Good Thing 18 



Amerioan Rose Society 18 



Obituary 18 



— Mrs. Mary M. Keltsch 18 



Chicago 18 



Rochester 24 



Philadelphia 26 



BernardsviUe, N. J 28 



Dayton, 30 



Grand Rapids 31 



Vegetable Forcing 34 



— Vegetable Growers Meet 34 



Seed 'J'rade News 36 



— Duty on Bulbs 36 



— Imports 38 



— Dntch Bulbs 38 



— Busy in Boston S8 



— French Bulbs 40 



— German Grass Seeds 40 



— For Better Seeds 40 



— Catalogue Received 42 



Cincinnati 46 



Bar Harbor. Me 48 



Steamer Sailings 50 



Pacific Coast 52 



— Victoria, B. C 52 



— Portland, Ore 52 



— San Francisco, Cal _. 52 



Nursery News '. 58 



— Reappralsements 58 



— With Texas Nurserymen 58 



Newport, R. 1 60 



Milwaukee 62 



Wapplnger's Falls, N. Y 64 



Flower Industry in France 7,3 



Dehydrated Vegetables 73 



Pittsburg, Pa 74 



Brie. Pa 74 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Natural Gas for Fuel 7(j 



— Car Shortage Has Come 76 



— Coal 76 



— Throe California Houses 77 



— Slow Circulation 78 



— Boiler and Piping 78 



Council Bluffs, la 79 



Madison, N. J 1B0 



Indianapolis 82 



New Bedford, Mass 81 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobpobated by Act of Conobess, Maboh 4 -'01 



Officers for 1910: President, F. R. Plorson, Tarry- 

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

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; treas- 

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



Special convention apd National Flower Show, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md.. August 15 to 

 18, 1911. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



With the present prices of material, 

 it costs about $15 per running foot to 

 build such houses as are characteristic 

 of the big ranges in the Chicago market. 



So far as the retail florist is concerned, 

 the horse has had his day. Whether or 

 not it is cheaper, the automobile is ever 

 so much more stylish, and it also is 

 quicker. 



Business is picking up in fine fall 

 fashion. Every mail brings confirmation 

 of the conviction that trade is better with 

 the great majority of florists than it 

 ever has been before at this season. 



Benj. Hammond, of Fishkill, N. Y., 

 widely known in the trade, was at Sara- 

 toga this week as a delegate to the re- 

 publican state convention that has been 

 attracting the attention of the whole 

 country. 



KNOWS A GOOD THINO. 



No wide-awake florist nowadays lets 



a surplus go to waste; he offers it in 



the Classified Department of The E-- 



view and gets a prompt clearance: 



That Review of yours certainly Is a good sales- 

 man. On the third day after my ads appeared 

 I got orders enough to clean me out of celestial 

 peppers. I was surprised, but I guess I will 

 keep a good thing. — Harry Tredway, Dayton, 0., 

 September 19, 1910. 



It is just such an experience that has 



led many a man, not content with his 



limited local field, to work up stock and 



eventually give most of his attention 



to the unlimited wholesale mail order 



end of the business. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The schedule for the spring show of 

 1911 will soon be issued, giving the list 

 of premiums to be offered for special 

 prizes at the coming national show in 

 Boston. 



At the last annual meeting, special 

 letters were issued to Eichard Vincent, 

 Jr., as representative of the American 

 E0S6 Society at the national exhibition 

 held in Belgium and also the one held 

 in the Eoyal Botanic Gardens at Ee- 

 gent's Park, London. Mr. Vincent re- 

 ports back that he has received the 

 kindest attention and that the people 

 in charge were delighted with the fact 

 that the American Rose Society had ex- 

 tended the courtesy of a special repre- 

 sentative. The honorable secretary, Ed- 

 ward Mawley, of the National Eose 

 Society of England, writing under date 

 of September 6, says: "We were 

 pleased to see the representative of 

 your society, the Eev. S. S. Sulliger, and 

 to welcome him at our leading exhi- 

 bition, July 8, and we are glad to hear 

 from him that he much enjoyed the 

 time he spent with us." These are 

 pleasant acknowledgments of courtesy, 

 which tend to cement the friendship be- 

 tween the nations — the most desirable 

 thing in these days of continued com- 

 munication between civilized people. 



The American Eose Society aims to 

 have a "rose for every home and a 

 bush for every garden," and it is a 

 fact that more outdoor roses are now 

 in bloom and have been planted within 

 the last three years than ever before 

 saw the sunlight in America. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. Mary M. Keitsch. 



Monday, September 26, Buffalo lost 

 one of its pioneer florists in the death of 

 Mrs. Mary M. Keitsch. She had been 

 active in the business for the last fifty- 

 six years. She came to this country 

 with her husband, who started green- 

 houses here, and after his death she 

 assumed entire control, and up to the 

 time of her death was an important 

 factor. A few years ago the firm was 

 organized under the name of the 

 Charles H. Keitsch Sons Co., of which 

 Mrs. Keitsch was president, and her 

 timely advice was the means of build- 

 ing the business they now possess. Mrs. 

 Keitsch lived to the ripe age of 77 

 years, and is survived by three sons 

 and one daughter, all members of the 

 firm. The business will be carried on 

 by the remaining family. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business is spotty. Some days there 

 is a rush, and other days things are 

 decidedly quiet. Also, where one whole- 1 

 saler is busy, another will have few 

 shipping orders, though the next day 

 conditions may be more or less reversed. 

 The result is that only a general sum- 

 mary of conditions will fail of contra- 

 diction when applied to the experience 

 of individuals. 



The opening of the present week saw 

 a sharp reduction in supplies in practi- 

 cally all lines. There had been three 

 days with scarcely a glimpse of the 

 sun, and for weeks the weather has 

 been cloudy. Asters are practically out 

 of the market, and carnations not yet 

 sufficiently abundant to take their 

 place. Within the week it has been 

 necessary to turn down a large number 

 of orders on which nothing but select 

 asters could be sent, for it is one of the 

 seldom failing circumstances that as 

 stock becomes scarcer, the demand 

 for it increases. Also, wholesalers 

 who have carried standing orders for 

 regular shipments of asters have been 

 compelled to notify their customers 

 that they could no longer supply 

 satisfactory stock. Carnations are 

 steadily increasing in quantity and 

 improving in quality. There now is 

 much nice clean stock on stems of fair 

 length, but the departure of the aster 

 has thrown so much demand on carna- 

 tions that prices for the short stock for 

 funeral work look a trifle high to buy- 

 ers, while the best grades are bringing 

 what retailers call stiff rates, forgetting 

 that always at the passing of summer 

 they are required to pay these prices. 



Of the roses the supply of Beauties 

 appears to fluctuate more than any 

 other. Supply was lighter at the open- 

 ing of this week, and prices are firmer; 

 the man who wanted only selected buds 

 on longest stems had to pay extra for 

 them, while those who would not ex- 

 ceed last week's price limit had to be 

 content with less careful selection. The 



