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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 24, 191U. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. ORANT, Editob and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVEEY TH0E8DAY BT 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



SSO-S60 Caxton Building, 

 884 Dearborn Street, CliicaKO. 



Telephone, Haeeison 6429. 



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New Yoek Office: 



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, Austin Shaw, Manaqee. 



Borough Park . . . .^ Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 8, 

 1897, at the post-ofltice at Chicago, 111., luider the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Season.ible Suggestions — Hydrangeas . 



— Gardenias 



— Antirrhinums 



— Canterbury Bells 



— Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



— Fibrous Rooted Begonias 



— Double Fevi'i-few and Candytuft.. 



— Perennial Phlox 



— Lorraine Begonias 



— Aclilnilnes 



E. H. Wilson (portrait) 



Lord and Burnbam Build West 



Well Water for Plants 



Begonia Pink Pearl (lUus.) 



Women We Meet (portrait) 



Liliuui Speclosum Rubrum 



Philadelphia Spring Sliow 



American Rose Society (lllus.) 



— William H. Elliott (portrait) 



Florists' Course at Amberst (lllus.). 



Ten Weeks' Stock 



Lupines for Winter 



Bedding Plants in Shade 



Name of Plants 



Outdoor Asters 



Outdoor Lily of the Valley 



Roses — Mildew on Klllarney 



— Young Stock 



— Pot Roses for Easter 



— The Rose and Its History 



Carnations 



— A SoLd Bed for Carnations 



— Throw Out the Old Plants 



Perennials for Memorial Day 



British Notes 



Boston 



New York 



Rochester 



Albany, N. Y 



Business and Other Notes 



Results arc What Count 



Society of American Florists 



Obituary 



— John Bootli 



Modest Mr. Vesey 



Chicago 



Indianapolis 



Springfield, O 



Philadelphia 



Providence 



New Bedford, Mass 



Ottumwa, Iowa 



Wayside Notes 



OsLaloosa, Iowa 



Pittsburg 



Steamer Sailings 



Seed Trade News 



— California Conditions 



— 'Rocky Ford Melon Ruling 



— Rochester .Seed Trade Notes 



— Imports 



— Gregory's Will 



— Commerce In Seeds 



— Guernsey Sliver Spur 



Vegetable Forcing 



— ■ Vegetable Slarkets 



— Diseased Lettuce 



Plants for Memorial Day 



Pacific Coast 



— Los Angeles 



— San Francisco 



Nursery News 



— The Rose and Its History 



Baltimore 



Minneapolis 



Greenhouse Heating 



— Two Small Houses 



— Mushroom House and Lean-to 



— Heat from Coll In Furnace 



— A Coll Boiler 



Richmond. Va 



St. Louis 



Erie, Pa 



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SOCIETY UF AMERICAN FL0RI8TS. 



INCOBPORATED BY ACT OP CONOBEBS, MaBCB 4, '01 



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

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

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; 

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



Annual convention, Rochester, N. Y., August 16 

 to !'.». 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Get a printed letter-head. It pays to 

 look business-like. 



Those night letters by telegraph will 

 still further increase the deficit in the 

 postoffice department. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 distributed the first installment of the 

 season's press service March 15. It was 

 a set of four articles on the subject of 

 early planting. 



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. 



Because of the steady increase in cir- 

 culation and the rapid growth of adver- 

 tising patronage, the Review finds it 

 necessary to close its advertising forms 

 Tuesday night, in order that the paper 

 may be printed and mailed to reach its 

 subscribers at the same hour each week. 



H. H. Groff, Simcoe, Ont., has issued a 

 pamphlet entitled "Physical Disintegra- 

 tion of the Tissue, or Natural Death of 

 Plants. " He states that it is presented 

 as a reply to the question often asked by 

 growers of gladioli and is published as 

 an expression of his confidence in the 

 progressive intelligence of the modem 

 amateur grower, who, he has always con- 

 tended, is eminently capable of assimi- 

 lating advanced knowledge and appre- 

 ciating the most intricate results of sci- 

 entific investigation. 



RESULTS ARE WHAT COUNT. 



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. 



We are completely sold out of the petunias, 

 polnsettias. cyclamens an<l cinerarias advertised 

 in the Review. — Krueger Bros., Toledo, 0., 

 March 19. 1910. 



Please discontinue my advertisement of primu- 

 las, as orders that took all the stock came In 

 four days. — J. Sylvester, Oconto, Wis., March 

 20, 1910. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Department of Registratioiu 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the regis- 

 tration of the rose, Wm. R. Smith, by 

 the Conard & Jones Co., of West Grove, 

 Pa., becomes complete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



March 17, 1910. 



OBITUARY. 



John Booth. 



John Booth, one of the oldest and best 

 known gardeners of Newport, died at his 

 home on Roseneath avenue, in that city, 

 at an early hour Saturday morning, 

 March 19. He had been in poor health 

 for some little while, but had showed 

 signs of improving, so that his physician 

 and family were hopeful of his ultimate 

 recovery. He had lived in Newport for 

 more than a third of a century, and was 



gardener for the late Governor Willi;, „, 

 Beach Lawrence, when the Ochre Poi;;t 

 district was one great field. After i o 

 breaking up of the Lawrence homestc. 1 

 he went into the grape growing bu8in( s 

 on Roseneath avenue and had steadi v 

 followed that with his gardening and i\>\- 

 rist business since. He was one of thi, e 

 who did his work faithfully, brought i |p 

 a large family in the way they should o,,^ 

 and finally has himself gone to his To- 

 ward. He leaves, besides a widow, sevt n 

 children, nearly all of whom are married. 

 There are also nine grandchildren. 



MODEST MR. VESEY. 



Ed. Review: — In your last week's edi 

 tion you kindly mention my name in con 

 nection with the presidency of the S. A. 

 F. for the next term. I naturally fed 

 proud of the distinction of having mv 

 name mentioned in that connection. To 

 be president of the society is an honor 

 that is properly coveted by all men quali 

 fied for the position. I, however, hold as 

 a matter of principle that the chief ex- 

 ecutive oifices of the society should he 

 held by men who entirely, or nearly so. 

 devote their time to floriculture. Ttiis 

 disqualifies me in my own mind for the 

 position at this time. In later years 1 

 may be able to qualify for the place, it 

 has been suggested to me that Professor 

 Cowell, of Buffalo, would accept the po- 

 sition. To me this would appear a most 

 desirable selection. W. J. Vesey. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



It is almost unanimously reported that 

 the week in which St. Patrick's day fell 

 was an excellent one. Prices, while a 

 little firmer than they had been, were 

 not high, except for white carnations, 

 but an immense quantity of stock was 

 moved and it was possible to make some 

 sort of a clearance each day. Early in 

 the week buyers refused to pay the price 

 for white carnations, but as St. Patrick 's 

 day approached it was found that the 

 demand, both local and shipping, was 

 heavier than it ever has been before and 

 that there were not enough whites to gu 

 around. Consequently, everything of sat 

 isfactory quality for dyeing was taken 

 up at good prices. For some months 

 white carnations have commanded a pre 

 mium as compared to other colors of th'' 

 same grade, and that condition still main 

 tains. Fancy whites are worth mon' 

 than any other carnations. 



In no other line was there any scarcity 

 last week. Supplies were somewhat re 

 duced, probably due to the desire of th ' 

 growers to accumulate something exti i 

 for this week, but everybody's wani- 

 could be filled at a price to meet tl. • 

 necessities of the buyer. 



Roses are in splendid crop. Beautii - 

 are abundant and the quality is bettt > 

 than it was a few days ago. Some reall 

 superb Killarney, White Killarney an '- 

 Richmond are offered and nearly a'l 

 the flowers of these varieties, whatevci' 

 the length of stem, are of satisfactoi 

 quality. The indications arc that thei 

 will be no shortage this week, thoug' 

 Easter orders are running heavy. It i" 

 noted by some of the wholesalers th.it 

 orders now are calling for Bride an 1 

 Maid, instead of Killarney, the buyei^ 

 apparently thinking that the old f'' 

 vorites are better shippers in sprint' 

 weather than is Killarney. While thci. 

 are good supplies of fine Maid an 1 

 Bride, Killarney is much moje abundant 



