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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Maucu 3, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managek. 



PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



630-S60 Caxton Bnildlng:, 

 884 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rkgistbrkd cablb addrbss, flokvikw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Eui'ope, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 moruiiig to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



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 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— Advertising < 7 



— .An Ireland Window (ilhis.) . . . 7 



— Trials of a Country Florist 7 



— Orcliid Tables by MoConiiell (illus.) 8 



Peter Murray's Place (illu.s.,) S» 



Boston Midwinter Show 9 



A Steel ijuncli (illus. > 10 



.Seasonable Suggestions— Kaster Lilies 10 



— Spiraeas 10 



— Dutch Bulbs 10 



— Rambler Roses lo 



— Sclilzautbus 10 



— Bedding Geraniums 10 



The Brown Deer Plant (Illus. ) 11 



Roses — My Maryland 11 



— Rambler Roses 11 



— Weak-Necked Roses 11 



Peter M. Miller (portrait) 12 



Spot Diseases on Gladioli V2. 



Cyclamen Culture (illus. r. \2 



Carnations .' 14 



— The Trend of the Tinios ...........'. 14 



— Carnation Alma Ward (illus.) 15 



— Carnations In England 15 



— Rust and Fairy Ring 15 



Well's Writings n; 



Hydrocyanic Acid Gas (illus. ) 10 



.Vsters iu Pots Kj 



William Blacker's Place (illus. ) .....'.'. 17 



At Ridgeway, Pa. (illus.) 17 



(ibituary 17 



— George W. Schroyer ........'. 17 



— .Maurice Butterheld 17 



— F. A. Plnoteau ...]'. 17 



— John C. Hubbard 17 



Covers the Field . . . . 18 



.Society of American Mcirists 18 



The Godfrey Callas \\ is 



Chicago : is 



St. Louis \ 25 



Drainage for Retentive Soil 27 



Birch for Bench Posts 27 



Philadelphia 28 



Boston ....'. ai 



Seasonable Suggestions continued 83 



— Tuberous Begonias'. ; . 33 



— Shamrocks ww 



— Shading ww 



— Propagation , 34 



— Freesla 34 



Hardy Phloxes \M\ 



Seed Trade News 38 



^- Land of the Free — Seeds 39 



— Imports 40 



— The Situation in Seeds 40 



— The Holland Bulb SImjw 40 



. — The Free Seeds 41 



— Catalogues Received .' 42 



.New York 42 



Sprengerl from Seed 4t; 



Providence 50 



Erie, Pa 51 



Beverly, .Mass 51 



Pittsburg .52 



Wayside Notes 52 



Steamer Sailings ; ? 54 



Pacific Coast 56 



— Spokane, Wash ,56 



— San Francisco 56 



Nursery News 62 



— The Dock Inspection Bill 62 



Vegetable Forcing 64 



— Vegetable Markets 64 



— Planting Seed 64 



Cleveland ' 6H 



Detroit 68 



Denver 70 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— Underground Smoke Flue 84 



— Estimating Radiation 84 



— Size of Grate and Stack 84 



MlnneopoUs 88 



Columbus, Ohio 90 



Milwaukee 92 



SOCIETY OF AHEBIGAN FL0BI8TS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



Officers for 1910: President, F. R. PlerMn, 

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

 Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Domet, Ur- 

 bana. 111.; treasurer, H. B. BeattT, Pittsburg, 

 Pa. 



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 

 16 to 19. 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 Thk Keview brings results. 



March is here, and we all are ready 

 for spring. 



A Holland firm has a seedling of 

 Caroline Testout and Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, named White Caroline Testout, 

 that they think will prove the best rose 

 ever. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Review $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Every advertisement in the Want de- 

 partment of the Review represents a 

 legitimate, actual need — and that the 

 needs of the trade are many a glance at 

 that section of the paper will show. 

 Watch the Wants — and use them. 



It now is proposed, in England, to 

 raise a fund to institute a Peter Barr 

 Memorial Medal, to be awarded annually 

 in connection with work among daffodils; 

 and the provision of a fund for the main- 

 tenance of an orphan through the medium 

 of the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund. 

 To carry out these proposals a general 

 committee has been formed, with C. H. 

 Curtis, Adelaide Road, Brentford, Mid- 

 dlesex, as secretary. 



Albert M. Herr, last president of the 

 American Carnation Society, thinks there 

 are too many commission houses in the 

 large centers and advances the new the- 

 ory that their competition is "hard on 

 tlie growers. ' ' Not many, we think, will 

 agree with him. Commission house com- 

 petition appears to the Review to be 

 the strongest of guarantees that the 

 grower will not only get every penny 

 that is coming to him but that keen in- 

 telligence will be indef.atigably applied to 

 making the stock realize every dollar it 

 is worth. The commission man works 

 fa,r harder for the growers' interests 

 than the growers tliemselves would work 

 were there no commission men. 



COVERS THE FIELD. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



You have the best advertising medium we have 

 found. It covers the field. — A. B. SilUman & 

 Co , Boone, la., February 23, 1910. 



You may be interested to know that we re- 

 ceived today from Holland an order for 10,000 

 cannas from a buyer who said. "Saw your ad 

 tn the Review." — -Arthur T. Boddington, New 

 York, February 25, 1910. 



Special Spring (Easter) Number will 

 be out March 17. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Res[istration. 



Public notice is hereby given that the 

 Conard & Jones Co., of West Grove, Pa., 

 offers for registration the rose described 

 below. Any person objecting to the reg- 

 istration, or to the use of the proposed 

 name, is requested to communicate with 

 the secretary at once. Failing to receive 



objection to the registration, the same 

 will be made three weeks from this date. 



Raiser's description: Flowers are 

 large, full and double and most exqui- 

 sitely formed; the petalu are so firm they 

 look like wax; softly curled; colored 

 cream, with flesh tint tips, buff yellow 

 base and the center a heart of. pink ; per- 

 fect buds; the flowers are borne on long, 

 strong stems, just right for making bou- 

 quets; fragrance is delightful. Name: 

 Wm. R. Smith. Originator^ Richard 

 Baggs, of Bridgeton, N. J. Introduced 

 by John Shellem and E. G. Hill. 



February 24, 1910. 



H. B. DoRNEE, Sec'y. 



THE GODFREY CALLA. 



In the Review of February 24, page 

 7, T. N. makes an inquiry with reference 

 to the Godfrey calla, asking how it should 

 be cultivated and whether it is better 

 than the common calla. Accprding to our 

 experience, it is far superior to the com- 

 mon calla. It produces more flowers, 

 which are a purer white and not so 

 coarse. We have had bulbs no larger 

 than hickory nuts produce flowers the first 

 season. Our first stock was in 2-inch pots 

 when we received it in June, and the fol- 

 lowing winter they produced four flowers 

 to the plant. 



It produces more flowers to the square 

 foot of bench room than any other calla 

 we ever grew. The size depends upon the 

 age of the bulbs and the richness of the 

 soil. Our oldest bulbs are about five 

 years old and are producing flowers 

 about the size of the ordinary varieties, 

 while the younger bulbs produce smaller 

 flowers. 



We plant in the house in August, for 

 winter flowers, and in May or June we 

 dry them off and take up the bulbs. The 

 small ones we plant out in the field, tak- 

 ing them up in the fall and planting 

 them in the house. These produce from 

 two to four flowers per plant, while the 

 large ones run from six to eight in a 

 season. We plant the largest bulbs six 

 inches apart each way, covered with 

 about an inch of soil. 



We use the same soil as for carna- 

 tions and plant them in the side benches, 

 where it is too shady for carnations to 

 do well. We also use boxes, three feet 

 long, six inches deep and seven inches 

 wide; these hold ten plants and can be 

 placed at the ends of the houses. We 

 keep the temperature as near 50 degrees 

 at night as possible. After growing it 

 beside the old variety for two years, we 

 kept it in preference and feel confident 

 that any carnation grower can have good 

 success with it. E. E. H. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



An immense amount of stock has come 

 in and gone out during the last seven 

 days. Sales have run into a pretty fair 

 sum of money with all the wholesalers, 

 in spite of the extremely low prices at 

 which a large proportion of the receipts 

 have been moved, but the wholesalers al- 

 ways are happiest when stock is com- 

 paratively scarce; depression of prices is 

 reflected in personal temperaments. And 

 the wholesalers have not only had a week 

 of depression, but the indications are 

 that the conditions of the last week are 

 only what might be called a taste of 

 that which is to come. In some cases 

 the cancellation of standing orders may 



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