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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 13, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editoe and Managbe. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



630-560 Caxton Building, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



bkgistebkd cable aodbeb8, flobvie'w, chioaoo 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Mamaqee. 



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

 To Europe, $2.60. 



AdvertlslnK rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising 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 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Frees Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Retail Advertlslns (illus.) 5 



^ The Lesson In a Window 



— Another Western Weddiup (illus.) 6 



— A Waterproof Ribbon 7 



Storing Gladiolus Bulbs 7 



Violets — Gov. Herrlck Violets 7 



Roses — Two New Roses 8 



— Protecting Outdoor Roses 8 



— Rose Manettl 8 



Sweet Peas — Fall Seeding of Sweet Teas 8 



— Best Butterfly Sweet Pens 9 



Carnations — For Summer Blooming 9 



— Leaf -Spot on Lawson 9 



— Weak Stems, Small Blooms 9 



— Moles In Greenhouse Soli 9 



Hydrangea Arboreseens 9 



Disease in the Giganteums (illus. i 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Liliuin Harrisli 10 



— Formosa Lilies 10 



— Primulas 10 



— Hydrangeas 10 



— Rambler Roses 10 



— Canterbury Bells 10 



— Freeslas 10 



Edward A. Forter (portrait ) 11 



Illinois State Fair 11 



A New Plant Stand (illus.) 12 



A Kokomo E:stabllslin)ent (illus.) 13 



Ferns— Scale on Ferns aiiil Vincas l.S 



— Nephrolepis 13 



Springfield, 14 



Pittsburg. Pa 14 



Orange, N. J 14 



George E. Browne (portrait i 15 



Cincinnati 15 



New Orleans 16 



Alton. Ill 16 



Washington, D. C 16 



New Bedford, .Muss 16 



Wintering Wallflowers 16 



News Notes and Comments 17 



Society of American Florists 18 



Obituary— Miss Emily Schultheis 18 



Chicago 18 



I^ulsTille, Ky 24 



Boston 25 



Philadelphia 30 



Providence 30 



New York 32 



Name of Plant 35 



Vegetable Forcing — Cucumbers and Tomatoes. 36 



— Celery for Christmas 36 



St. Louis 36 



Milwaukee 40 



Columbus. 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Pacific Coast — Portland. Ore 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Seed Trade News — Nebraska Soerl Crops .50 



— Imports 52 



— ETcrything Short 52 



— Michigan Vine Seed Crops 52 



— Too Wet for Beans 52 



— Aster a Good Crop 52 



— With Holland Bulb Growers 53 



— Tomato Seed 54 



— Boston Seed Trade Notes 54 



— Two Currle Firms Now 54 



— Catalogues Received 56 



— Hearing on Insecticides 56 



— A Horticultural Shipload 58 



Nurserv News — Gulf Coast Nurserymen 64 



Wichita, Kan 66 



Indianapolis 68 



Detroit 70 



EvansvlUe, Ind 72 



Greenhouse Heating — Water Boils Over 82 



— Piping for Cutting Bench 82 



— Crude Oil for Fuel 82 



— Piping for a Lean-to 83- 



— Galvanized Heating Pipes 84 



— Capacity of Boiler 86 



— Diameter of Riser 86 



Richmond, Ind 88 



Cleveland 90 



Rochester 92 



SOCIETY OF AHEBIGAN FLOBISTS. 



INOOBPOBATED BY AOT OF CONOBEBS. MABOH 4 • '01 



Officers for 1910: President. F. R. Plerson. Tarry ' 

 town. N. y.: vice-president. F. W. Vlck. Rochester- 

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

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



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

 Boston. Mass.. March 26 to April 1.^911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 to 

 18. 1911. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Be a good collector, but in the first 

 place don't grant credit where it isn't 

 due. 



The price of glass has gone up through 

 the chipping of another five points oft' 

 the discount. 



The gladiolus and the dahlia certainly 

 have made long strides in popular favor 

 these last few years. 



You get out of a business just what 

 you put in it; if you don't put anything 

 in you can't expect to get much out. 



Large numbers of florists who grow 

 for their own retail trade are this season 

 planting patches of peonies of the better 

 cut flower varieties. 



It is a peculiar fact that a lot of 

 men in this trade who would not think of 

 cutting prices will grant wholesale rates 

 just because they are asked, if there is 

 no better reason. 



When you send photographs to an 

 editor, write the title on the back. The 

 Review frequently receives pictures with 

 no clue by which the sender can be iden- 

 tified, not even a postmark. 



The fertilizer manufacturers say bone 

 meal never again will be sold at the old 

 prices, for the same reason that meats 

 are permanently higher. The demand has 

 increased much faster than the supply. 



The sixteenth annual exhibition of the 

 Dutchess County Horticultural Society 

 will be held in the state armory at Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., October 27 and 28. For 

 prize list and entry blanks address the 

 secretary, Herbert G. Cottam, Wappin- 

 gers Falls, N. Y. 



The Maryland State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, of which B. Vincent, Jr., of White 

 Marsh, is president, will be assisted by a 

 number of other organizations in a big 

 exhibition and congress, November 28 to 

 December 2, at the Fifth Regiment ar- 

 mory, Baltimore, the building in which 

 the S. A. F. is to meet next August. A 

 flower show will be one of the features. 



The final schedule of premiums has 

 been issued for the fifteenth annual 

 flower show of the Morris County Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Society, to be held 

 at Morristown, N. J., November 3 to 4, 

 in conjunction with the exhibition of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America. 

 Copies may be had by addressing Ed- 

 ward Reagan, secretary, Morristown, 

 N. J. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FI.OBISTS. 



Department of Begistration, 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 the J. W. Ross Co., of Centralia, 111., 

 oflfers for registration the coleus de- 

 scribed below. Any person objecting 

 to the registration, or to the use of the 

 proposed name, is requested to commu- 

 nicate with the secretary at once. Fail- 

 ing to receive objection to the registra- 



tion, the same will be made three weeks 

 from this date. Raiser's description: 

 Leaves, large to very large; color, rich 

 velvety crimson, shading outwardly to 

 pink, often having gold blotches in the 

 point; beautifully edged with green and 

 gold. Name: Fanny Ross. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 

 October 6, 1910. 



IT PAYS. 



Advertising is a many-sided subject 



— no publication can exi^ji*— without it, 



and no more does it hold a full measure 



of interest for its readers unless it 



carries a big line of ads; the paper 



that carries the most ads is always the 



best advertising medium, and the best 



for the subscribers: 



I never fail to tell them we saw your ad 

 in The Review. Have bought a new Burn- 

 ham boiler and tliousands of plants from ads 

 in The Review and have always got full value 

 for my mone.v. Don't want to miss a single 

 copv, as it is a great benefit to us. — Tom 

 O'Connor. (Jrcensboro, N. C, October 6, 1910. 



OBITUARY. 



Miss Emily Schultheis. 



Miss Emily D. Schultheis, of Scran- 

 ton, Pa., Qied suddenly, September 21, 

 after a few days' illness. Miss Schul- 

 theis had conducted a florists' estab- 

 lishment in Scranton for the last seven 

 years. She had been extremely well 

 for the last few months, after an ex- 

 tended trip over the Great Lakes. She 

 also attended the S. A. F. convention at 

 Rochester, and from there took a trip to 

 the Thousand Islands, Montreal and 

 Quebec. The funeral was held Septem- 

 ber 24 and was largely attended. Dor- 

 othy C. Schultheis states that the busi- 

 ness will be carried on by the remain- 

 ing family. 



CHICAaO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The general report now is that busi- 

 ness is running well ahead of the same 

 date last year, but that prices on the 

 whole are hardly up to those realized 

 for stock at the same time last season. 

 The production has been so increased 

 that even at lower prices most whole- 

 salers are taking in more money than 

 before. 



The chrysanthemum now dominates 

 the market. Supplies are large, larger 

 than ever before at this date, and there 

 is a great deal of difference in the 

 quality of the flowers. Yellow is most 

 abundant, with only moderate supplies ^ 

 of white and not many pink yet to be 

 had. Some of the stock is excellent and 

 some of it is extremely poor. The best 

 grade sells quickly and the poorest 

 grade much slower than the growers of 

 it would like. It is possible to fill any 

 order at prices which should be satis- 

 factory to buyers, except that some 

 buyers never will learn their advantage 

 in making their requirements known 

 early in the day. There usually is a 

 fairly close clean-up of stock late in 

 the afternoon. 



The Beauty market reminds one of 

 the children's titter-totter. For a few 

 days the supply is on the up grade and 

 then it turns and goes down again, 

 with prices going in the opposite direc- 

 tion, just as the youngsters do on the 

 seesaw. Where last week Beauties were 

 abundant and prices weak, this week 

 they are less plentiful and prices 



