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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 20, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoer. 



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 To Europe. $2 JSO. 



AdTertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 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 ». 1879. 



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 Frees Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86, 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 7 



— The I.uiiK-SuffiTiiiK Ui'tailer 7 



— A Japiiiii'so I.iiiiclu'on (illiis.) 7 



— An Aviiitioi) l.iiiiclieuii 7 



— Hnlluwf'cn Windows 7 



— Sonu> of tlio Xew Stori-s (illiis.) 7 



Deud Leaves on (iardenlHs 8 



RefrlKeration for Florists 8 



I^ntiinas and Heliotropes 9 



Propagating Koiivardlai; 9 



Seasonabie SuKKPstions — I'oinsettlas 10 



— I. ilium Multitloruni 10 



— ('annas 10 



— Mar);nerites 10 



— Autlrrhininns 10 



Uoses — Princeton 10 



— Insects on Killarhe.vs 11 



— Hose Aplils 11 



Chrysantbemunis — Seasonable Snggestions. . . . 11 



CUrysautlieniuui Society 11 



The Florist' K Wife 12 



Violets — Violets witli Sweet I'eas 12 



John Berlern.ann (portrait) 12 



Toledo, Ohio i;{ 



Cleveland i;! 



Denver i;^ 



New York 14 



Cincinnati 14 



Erie, Pa 15 



Amherst, Mass l,!, 



Yonkers, N. Y l.'i 



Trouble with Lorralnes H, 



Milwaukee 10 



Obituary — Peter Lambert (portrait ) l(i 



News Notes and Coniinents n 



Improvement in Ventilation 18 



Chicago 18 



St. I.onis 2:{ 



Phlladelpliia 2« 



Boston 28 



Buffalo .'{2 



Catskill, N. Y r ru 



Madison, N. J '.u 



Louisville. Ky HO 



Vegetable Forcing — Onions for Karlv Spring.. .'17 



Want Advertisements ;iJ 



Glen Cove. N. Y 40 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News 4(i 



— Imports 47 



— The Fese\ies , 47 



— Cup for Mr. Bruggerliof 49 



— F. W. Bruggerliof (portrait) .lO 



— A Horticnltnral Shipload .')0 



To Flower Poinsettias .^.'i 



Nursery News .'i.S 



— Nurseries of Missouri ,">K 



— Treatment for Hollow Tree (iO 



Paelflc Coast— Seattle til 



— San Francisco. Cal til 



Omaha (i2 



Albany. N. Y «2 



New Bedford, Mass »i4 



Mlnneapol is »ili 



Greenhouse Heating — Lealj in Holier "ti 



— Defect in Ih'ating .System 7(! 



— A Partitioned (ireenlionse 7(i 



— Piping In Illinois 77 



Providence "8 



Kingston, N. Y W» 



Orange. N. .1 82 



PlUsbnrg. I'll 84 



Amarlllo, Tex. — Thos. A. Gettys, of 

 the Amarillo Greenhouses, now has a 

 quarter of a block under glass, includ- 

 ing rose houses which were added dur- 

 ing the last few months. He has just 

 installed another boiler, a duplicate of 

 the one formerly in use. Besides roses, 

 he grows carnations, chrysanthemums 

 and general stock. 



SOCIETY OF AHBBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



Tnoobpobated bt Aot of Congbess. Maboh 4 • '01 



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

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

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

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



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md.. August IS to 

 18. 19U. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



The Want Ad pages of The Review 

 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 Review, but anony- 

 mous inquiries are not answered. 



The preliminary premium list has been 

 issued for the big exhibitfon to be given 

 by the Milwaukee Florists' Club Novem- 

 ber 9 to 13. Those wishing to procure 

 the list may address H. V. Hunkel, 462 

 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee. 



The premium list has been issued for 

 the fall flower show of the State Flo- 

 rists ' Association of Indiana, to be given 

 in Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis, Novem- 

 ber 8 to 12. Copies of the list may he 

 had by addressing A. F. .1. Baur, Thirty- 

 eighth and Senate avenue, Indianapolis. 



John G. Esler, secretary of the Flo- 

 rists' Hail Association, calls attention that 

 since March, 1907, upwards of .$90,000 

 has been paid out for breakage of glass, 

 the sum being nearly as great as was paid 

 in the whole of the preceding twenty 

 years. Although two assessments have 

 become necessary this year, it is worth 

 while recalling that in years of light 

 losses assessments were omitted. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society, 

 Otto G. Koenig, secretary, for its ex- 

 hibition November 8 to 12 purposes to 

 try the effect of big premiums. In each 

 of three classes $500 is offered in one 

 prize. One of these classes is for dis- 

 play of chrysanthemums, another for car- 

 nations and the third for roses. The 

 exhibitors can use one or more varieties 

 and arrangement counts, though acces- 

 sories are not permissible. 



H. J. Jennemann, of Webster Park. 

 Mo., grows dahlias for cutting only, using 

 mostly German varieties. He finds Berg- 

 man's Silver the best white, extremely 

 free-flowering, with good stem, and with- 

 out an equal as a money-maker. Other 

 varieties that he thinks well of are W. W. 

 Rawson, pink; Cardinal, red; Wolfgang 

 Von Goethe, salmon pink; Fortschritt, 

 velvety maroon; Freudenteuer, red, and 

 -Mauve Queen, mauve. Some specimen 

 blooms sent The Review -show that the 

 sorts certainly are at home at Webster 

 Park. 



THE ULTIMATE TEST. 



There are many factors which influ- 

 ence the placing of advertising; com- 

 paratively few men buy advertising 

 space through the application of the 

 same tests they would apply in buying 

 other merchandise; but in the end the 

 results count. 



Please stop all m.v advertisements in The Re- 

 view: all stock sold as the result of the first 

 l^nsertlon, and I could have sold much more; 

 returned money on a number of orders I could not 

 fill. Send your bill and I will gladly remit, as I 

 was well paid. — N. P. Colberg. Princeton. III., 

 October 17. 1910. 



IMPROVEMENT IN VENTILATION. 



• With regard to the suggestions given 

 by H. G., under the head of "Operat* 

 Vents by Power," on page 11 of The 

 Review of October 6, I wish to say that 

 I believe he has^struck the keynote of 

 improvement in ventilation. I also wish 

 to say that in a short time, after se- 

 vere tests, there will be placed on the 

 market an improved ventilator, which 

 will not be too expensive and which can 

 be placed in one house or iu a thousand 

 houses at will. It can be set for any 

 temperature in any house, and can be 

 changed at will at any time to any tem- 

 perature wanted in any house, without 

 affecting the other houses in any way. 

 It is so constructed that it will almost, 

 if not entirely, eradicate mildew. 

 Whether the night man is asleep or 

 awake, it will do its work. There will 

 not be any more worry about ventilat- 

 ors being blown open and glass broken 

 by sudden storms of wind. AH that will 

 be necessary will be to set it by a 

 thermometer at the temperature de- 

 sired; it will do the rest, as far as is 

 within reason. Thomas Chapman. 



CHIOAOO. 



The Great Central Market. 



For more than a week the market has 

 been suffering from an attack of too 

 fine weather. Daily temperatures have 

 been running to 84 degrees in the shade 

 and midsummer conditions have pre- 

 vailed, both on the street, in the green- 

 houses and in the wholesale establish- 

 ments. A big volume of business must 

 necessarily be being done; otherwise 

 the enormous receipts could find no 

 outlet except by way of the garbage 

 wagon. It is the general report that 

 the supply of cut flowers never before 

 was so large during the second and 

 third weeks of October. Naturally, 

 prices have been and are weak. This 

 is a point which may be disputed by 

 the out-of-town buyers. Whenever 

 there comes a spell of unseasonably 

 hot weather, it affects the quality of 

 stock; the roses are open and all flow- 

 ers are soft, so that a great deal of se- 

 lection is required to get out shipping 

 orders. As a result, the selected ship- 

 ping' stock is commanding a premium, 

 while the discard, which could under 

 no possibility be shipped and arrive in 

 usable condition, has to be sold so 

 cheaply that averages are extremely 

 low. 



The chrysanthemum dominates the 

 market. The flowers have been hast- 

 ened to such an extent that receipts are 

 many times what they were a week ago. 

 Some sort of a sale is found for every- 

 thing, but prices are decidedly below 

 those which growers have been accus- 

 tomed to receive. It is noted that the 

 call is for the medium sizes; where a 

 dozen large flowers are called for, a 

 hundred are salable at from 6 cents to 

 10 cents, or possibly a little more. 



All roses have been in large supply 

 and there has been difficulty in finding 

 a buyer for the open flowers. Beauties 

 have suffered because of the oversup- 

 ply of mums; when the mum is cheap 

 the Beauty must be offered at a moder- 

 ate price if buyers are to be interested. 

 The southern trade is calling for Maid 

 and Bride, the least abundant of roses. 



Carnations have felt the effect of 

 the heat and it is complained that they 

 go to sleep quickly. For size of flower 



