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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 17, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managxb. 



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THE FLORI8T8' PUBLI8HINQ CO. 



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 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 S, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Ohicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISEBS, PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



Easter — The Flowers of Blaster 23 



— Rose Mrs. Cutbush (lllus.) 25 



— Handling the Rush 26 



— Azaleas for Easter (lllus.) 27 



— The Ready Sellers (lllus.) 28 



-Primulas at Easter (Ulus.) 29 



— Display Pieces (lllus.) 29 



— Hydrangeas In Baskets (lllus.) 29 



— Receptacles for Bulb Stock (lllus.) 29 



— Lilies Like Ladles (lllus.) 30 



Weather Possibilities 30 



Bankrupts Must Talk 30 



White Fly 31 



Violets — Seasonable Advice 31 



Seasonable Suggestions — Easter Plants 32 



— Outdoor Sweet Peas 32 



— Hotbeds 32 



— Marguerites 32 



— Annual Climbers 33 



National Sweet Pea Society.'. 33 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Memorial Day .... 33 



— Reddish Geranium Foliage 33 



— Double Red Geraniums 34 



Stevla's Aftermath 84 



S. A. F. Board Meets 34 



The Market for Glass 35 



Birch for Bench Posts 35 



A Fine Variegated Fern 35 



Delphinium Belladonna 35 



American Rose Society 36 



— New York CJonventlon 36 



— The Awards 36 



— Joseph A. Manda (portrait) 37 



— Business Sessions 37 



— Fresilent's Address 37 



The Brightest of Flowers 38 



A. Farenwald (portrait) 38 



North Pacific Ckjast Roses 39 



Hostetter of Manhelm (lllus.) 40 



Wlnterlch's House (lllus. ) 40 



Home-grown Harrisli Bulbs (lllus.) 40 



Boston 42 



New York 42 



Columbus, 44 



St. lionls 44 



Providence 45 



Dayton, Ohio 45 



Detroit 46 



Washington 46 



Obituary — Edward Hatch 46 



Chicago 48 



Philadelphia 56 



New Bedford, Mass 60 



Evansvllle, Ind 64 



Seed Trade News 70 



— Lima Beans 72 



— Grass Seed Markets 74 



— Seed Trade In Germany 74 



— Bermuda Onion Seed 75 



— Fertilizer Markets 76 



Pacific Coast— Los Angeles, Cal 84 



— Portland. Ore • §4 



Vegetable Forcing — Strawberry for Forcing.. 85 



— Roots Attacked by Insects »5 



— The Chick Pea ff 



Nursery News — Fire at Knoxville 86 



— Freight on Dormant Roses 88 



— Trimming Privet 90 



— Evergreen Hedge 90 



— The Apple Package Bill 90 



Indianapolis ^ 



Milwaukee ^ 



Grand Rapids 96 



Pittsburg IW 



Denver ,.......»•••••••••••••• iviS 



Greenhouse Heating 106 



Salt Lake City 1J2 



Plants for a Palm House 114 



Best Outdoor Sweet Peas 116 



New Orleans 118 



Glen Cove. N. Y 120 



Hvdrangens Doing Poorly 122 



Concrete in Greenhouses 124 



Wood Lice or Sow Bugs 128 



80CUTT OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



INOOBPOBATXD BT AOT OF OONQBESS MABOH 4, '01 



Offlcers for 1810: President, V. B. Pteraon. 

 Tarry town, N. Y.; Tlce-pregldeat, F. W. Vlck, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; aecretary, H. B. Domer, Or- 

 bana. 111.; treesarer, H. B. Beatty, Pittaoorg, 

 Pe. 



Annnal conveation, Boetaester, N. X., Aogoat 

 16 to 18. 1810. 



BESULTS. 



We give them. You get fkvm. 



We both have tluin. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 this edition of the Review weighed 9,372 

 pounds, or almost five tons. 



According to the TJ. S, Treasury De- 

 partment, the population of the country 

 now is 89,883,000— not yet all flower 

 buyers. 



It is reported that a recent purchase of 

 freshly imported orchid plants by A. N. 

 Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., approximated a 

 value of $8,000. 



The general market for fertilizers is 

 advancing steadily and the special fertil- 

 izers used by florists are carrying their 

 full share of the advance. 



Window-glass of greenhouse sizes is a 

 full dollar a box higher than it was a 

 few months ago, the advance being prac- 

 tically fifty per cent on the low price of 

 last autumn. 



The counselors appear to have se- 

 lected W. J. Vesey, of Fort Wayne, as 

 the man best qualified for the presidency 

 of the S. A. F. in the year of its second 

 national flower show. 



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. 



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. 



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. 



Theodore Wirth, superintendent of 

 parks at Minneapolis, sends the Review 

 a beautifully printed and freely illus- 

 trated volume containing the twenty- 

 seventh annual report of the Board of 

 Park Commissioners. 



There won't be many Bridesmaids 

 grown another season, and White Killar- 

 ney will displace Bride to a large extent. 

 As White Killarney is not a good early 

 autumn rose, its color being off, Kaiserin 

 should be more than ever profitable for 

 summer, as Bride passes off the stage. 



Charles W. Johnson, secretary of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America, has 

 issued a tabulation of the work of the 

 examining committees for the season of 

 1909. The work of the committees was 

 recorded in the Review from week to 

 week during the chrysanthemum season. 



While occasionally a carnation is sent 

 out that nobody will buy in its second 

 year, it often happens that cuttings of a 

 variety are in much greater demand the 

 second season than they were in the year 

 of dissemination. If one instances Bay 

 State as an example of the first class he 

 can point to Pink Delight as of the latter. 



DATES OF EASTER. 



Easter is the Sunday which follows 

 that fourteenth day of the calendar moon 

 which falls upon or next after March 21. 

 But as the average man is fully as bad 

 off with the rule as without it, here are 

 the dates for the next five years: 



1911 April 16 



1912 ...AprU 7 



1913 March 23 



1914 April 12 



1915 April 4 



' It is interesting to note that three 

 years hence Easter will fall four days 

 earlier than it does this year, but that 

 from then to 1940, thirty years, it will 

 not occur earlier than it does this year. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Beginning • with Tuesday of last week, 

 March 8, the market experienced the three 

 worst days of the season to date. The 

 "Weather was mild and bright, with cut 

 flower receipts the heaviest of the spring. 

 Local demand was extremely light, and 

 shipping nothing to brag about because 

 cuts are large through all the territoiT' 

 that draws a part of its supplies from 

 this market. It is doubtful if any March 

 will show three days when average prices 

 were lower than they were in the middle 

 of last week. The flower stand salesmen 

 who use quantities became critical of 

 qualities because for the time being they 

 made the market. 



Friday brought an immense amount of 

 shipping. It seemed that business sud- 

 denly had revived with the better claas 

 of flower stores, both locally and out-of- 

 town, but by far the largest part of the 

 stock went to those who run the Satur- 

 day special sales. One department store 

 took 20,000 carnations and there were 

 many orders for from 5,000 to 10,000. 

 Saturday also brought good business, Sun- 

 day morning the market was exception- 

 ally active and Monday, as it nearly 

 always does, brought a heavy run of 

 shipping. The city retailers also were 

 buying heavier than for some time. But 

 it was not until Monday that the in- 

 creased volume of business began to af- 

 fect prices. While the big orders were 

 being got out Friday it was possible to 

 find anything wanted at cheap prices, 

 with the single exception of white car- 

 nations, and Saturday the big buyers of 

 cheap lots laughed in the faces of the 

 wholesalers who tried to push up prices 

 a notch from the low level. Monday's 

 receipts were much lighter than for any 

 day in the week preceding and values 

 were slightly better. Those who had been 

 expecting fancy prices for white carna- 

 tions because of St. Patrick's day were 

 disappointed. The supply was not large, 

 but the buyers had become so accustomed 

 to getting their stock at low rat^rhat 

 they refused to go beyond the needsrof 

 actual orders, unless the white carnations 

 were extremely good or moderate in 

 price; 2 cents to 3 cents was the prevail- 

 ing rate. 



Beauties are in large supply, but hard- 

 ly can be called first-class in quality. 

 The special long is better than the me- 

 dium and short grades. The quality of 

 Bride seldom has been better, and some 

 extremely good Maids are seen, though 

 not nearly so many as of Killarney. The 

 latter always is good and now some mag- 

 nificent stock is being cut, both of Kil- 

 larney and the white sport. These and 

 Richmond are available in quantity with 

 stems more than three feet long. The 



