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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVBMBBB 3, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manager. 



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INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Pompons for Table Work 

 (lllus.) 



— Thanksgiving Windows 



— The Retail Clerk 10 



— New Los Angeles Store (lllus.) 10 



— Palmer's Special Delivery (iUus.) 10 



— The Debutante (lllus.) 10 



Color Effects in Bedding 11 



Propagating Double Alyssum 11 



The Floral Picture Frame (lllus.) • 12 



A Picture Table (lllus. ) 12 



Plants for Enclosed Porch 12 



Wintering Double Daisies 12 



Wilting of Poinsettlas 12 



The Omaha Salesladies (lllus.) 13 



Azaleas for Christmas 18 



Double Poinsettlas 13 



Carnations — Curling of the Leaf Tips 18 



— Cut Worms on Carnations 13 



American Carnation Society 13 



Calla Stalks Rotting 18 



The Autumn Eshlbitions — Pougbkeepsie, N. Y. 14 



— Glen Cove, N. Y 14 



— Rochester, N. Y 14 



Chrysanthemum Society — Elmer D. Smith (por- 

 trait) 15 



[.enox, Mass 15 



Seasonable Suggestions — Azaleas 10 



— Storing Biennials or Perennials 16 



— Calendulas 16 



— Berried Plants for Christmas 16 



— Paper Whites and Roman Hyacinths 16 



— Rambler Roses 16 



— General Outdoor Work 17 



Hilda, Sport of Maryland (lllus.) 17 



Stocks Not Flowering 17 



Chrysanthemums — Chrysanthemum Society .... 18 



— Mums at Binley's (lllus.) 18 



— Yellow Touset 18 



— Stock Becomes Mixed 18 



— Flowers Fading 10 



Scale on Plumosus 19 



Forms for Concrete 19 



Orchids— Cattleya Buds Rotting 20 



Water vs. Oil 20 



Princeton, N J 20 



Lily of the Valley— Valley In Coldframes 20 



New Notes and Comments 21 



Obituary 22 



Failures in England 22 



Society of American Florists 22 



Ladles' S. A. F 22 



Chicago 22 



Boston 29 



Cincinnati 34 



Erie, Pa 85 



Philadelphia 36 



New Orleans 39 



New York 39 



New Bedford, Mass 42 



Vegetable Forcing — Soil for Lettuce 44 



— Thrlps 44 



St. Louis 46 



Steamer Sailings 481 



Pittsburg 51 



Detroit s . . 52 



Seed Trade News 64 



— Clover and Grass Seeds 55 



— Seed Crops at Randolph 56 



— The Introduction of Seeds 56 



— Dutch Bulb Industry 58 



— Catalogues Received 60 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 66 



— San Francisco 66 



— Imported Tea Roses 67 



Wintering Gladioli 67 



Nursery News — San Jose Scale on Lilacs 68 



— Storage of Nursery Stock 68 



Wichita. Kan 72 



Milwaukee 74 



Greenhouse Heating — Water I'ndcr Pressure. . 84 



— Capacity of Boiler 84 



Toledo, 85 



Newburgh. N. Y 86 



Providence 86 



Irrigation 88 



Dayton, 90 



Baltimore 92 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



Inoobfobated by Act of Conqbess, 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. 111.; treas- 

 urer, W. F. KasUng, 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. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The flower markets all have showed a 

 little better tone in the last week. The 

 weather is the greatest single factor in 

 this business. 



Four of the largest flower shows to 

 be held this season will be in progress in 

 the west next week. It makes it hard 

 for exhibitors. 



There has been a sharp drop in the 

 price of window glass. Some big orders 

 have been placed this week much below 

 recent quotations. 



There is prospect of a comparative 

 shortage of chrysanthemums for Thanks- 

 giving. Early midseason and late sorts 

 have all been on the market at the same 

 time and many growers had cut the 

 larger part of their crop before October's 

 end. 



C. S. Baenett, who in addition to 

 being a florist and chrysanthemum spe- 

 cialist is superintendent and county ex- 

 aminer of the public schools at Eureka 

 Springs, Ark., advises that the Civic Im- 

 provement Association there will hold its 

 eighth annual flower show this week, 

 November 4 and 5. 



OBITUABY. 



Mattliew N. Enox. 



Matthew N. Knox, 71 years old, a re- 

 tired nurseryman of San Antonio, Tex., 

 died recently at his home, 1702 North 

 Comal street, after an illness of six 

 months. He was born in Mississippi, 

 September 6, 1839, and removed to 

 Brenham, Tex., in 1860. He was mar- 

 ried February 22, 1862, and enlisted 

 that summer in the Twentieth Texas 

 Confederate Infantry, serving to the 

 close of the war. He made his home in 

 San Antonio in 1868, engaged in the 

 nursery business in 1876 and continued 

 his active connection with the trade 

 until four years ago. He was a member 

 of the Southern Methodist Church and 

 Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, United 

 Confederate Veterans. 



He is survived by his widow, Mrs. 

 Anna W. Knox, and four children, Ed- 

 ward W. and William J. Knox, of San 

 Antonio; Mrs. C. W. Palma, of Chicka- 

 sha, Okla.; Mrs. C. F. Goodenough, Jr., 

 of Sutherland Springs, and a sister, 

 Mrs. Allan Harris, of Batesville. 



John Grant. 



John Grant, a florist and farmer of 

 Portsmouth, N. H., died at the Cottage 

 hospital, in that city, October 22, after 

 a long illness. He was 67 years old. 

 For forty years or more he had con- 

 ducted greenhouses on his farm and 

 had built up a good business. He is 

 survived by two brothers, D. W. Grant, 

 of Portsmouth, and C. M. Grant, of 

 Haverhill, and by three sisters, Mrs. 

 M. E. Joaquin, Mrs. Lydia McClusky 

 and Mrs. Clara Gillett, all of Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



FAILURES IN ENGLAND. 



What the trade press in England has 

 said about dwindling profits of florists, 

 nurserymen and gardeners in that coun- 

 try seems hardly borne out by the gov- 

 ernment reports on business failures in 

 these trades. Close records are kept, 

 from which it appears that in the last 

 five years there were only 204 failures, 

 involving total liabilities of $1,007,250, 

 the English pound being figured as $5 

 in the following record: 



Year. Failures. LlablUtles. 



1905 31 $135,326 



1906 32 811,715 



1907 45 177,835 



1908 48 219,056 



1909 48 168,820 



This makes an average liability for 

 each of the 204 failures of only £987, 

 or, in round figures, $4,900. 



Similar figures are not available for 

 the United States, but if they were it 

 is to be doubted if they would make 

 an equally good showing, certainly not 

 in number of failures, and probably not 

 in percentage of failures as compared 

 with the numbers engaged in the flo- 

 rists, nursery and gardening business, or 

 in the smallness of the average liabil- 

 ities. And this in spite of the fact that 

 the period covered includes the most 

 prosperous years the rapidly expanding 

 horticultural trades of this country ever 

 have experienced. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the regis- 

 tration of the coleus Fanny Eoss, by 

 the J. W. Eoss Co., Centralia, 111., be- 

 comes complete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



October 27, 1910. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



All members of the Ladies' S. A. F. 

 and visiting ladies to the St. Louis 

 flower show the week of November 9 

 are requested to meet at the Coliseum, 

 Wednesday, November 9, for theater 

 party and dinner at 6. Entertained by 

 Ladies' Home Circle of St. Louis. 



Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



It has been the weather that has 

 been playing titter-totter recently. 

 Following a week of abnormally high 

 temperature came three days much 

 colder than usual; at the greenhouses 

 readings as low as 18 degrees were 

 reported on the morning of October 28, 

 and outdoor flowers are now out of the 

 running for this season. Since the cold 

 snap the temperature has moderated 

 and then taken another sharp drop. 

 The flower business has not yet recov- 

 ered its equilibrium. There was good 

 business October 29 and 31, but de- 

 mand was light the first two days of 

 November. 



The chrysanthemum continues to 

 dominate the market. Receipts are 

 heavy, but there is a change since a 

 week ago; Bonnaffon and the later, 

 larger and better varieties, such as 

 Eaton, are coming in, so that better 

 prices are being received without there 

 having been any special change in the 



