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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 7, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



O. L. GRANT, Editob and Mamaoib. 



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Entened as second class matter December 8, 

 1897, at^the post-office at Chicago. 111., under the 

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INDEX TO ADVEHTISESS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist r, 



— Violets auti Valley (llhis.) ."> 



— Retell Delivery .-) 



— Flower Store Conditions 5 



—r Retailer's Advertislnji; (lllus. ) :, 



— Ringing in the Weddings (lllus.) « 



Mr. Elliott Accepts 6 



Starting Cannas U 



Coleus and Vlnca (j 



Destruction of Eel Worms (i 



Asters for Cut Flowers 7 



Max Herzog's New Place (lllus. ) . .'. 8 



Seasonable Suggestions 8 



— IJardy Herbaceous Perennials 8 



— Planting Deciduous Trees and Shrubs 8 



— Planting Evergreens 8 



— Propagation 8 



— Seed Sowing 8 



— Poinsettlas 8 



— Stevla Serrata 9 



— Rambler Roses 9 



The Dutch Bulb Growers' Jubilee Exhibition 



(lllus.) 9 



Miller on Bulbs 10 



Hardy Vines 11 



Forcing Lilies for Easter 12 



— No Easy Task 12 



— New Way to Pot 12 



— Who Gets the Money 12 



Gladiolus Bulb RBtMHIus.) 13 



Carnations . . . ./ 14 



— The Carnatlob 14 



Pansles Winter Killing 15 



Good Herbaceous Perennials 15 



Hollyhock Plants 16 



Business and Other Notes J. . . 16 



Chrysanthemum Society /. . . 17 



Profits from Plumosus ./ . . . 17 



To Test Glass Combine A. . . 18 



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— Mrs. W. B. King >. . 18 



— Mrs. Sarah Escott Smith 18 



Chicago 18 



From the Bay State 23 



Philadelphia 24 



Baltimore 27 



Indianapolis , 28 



New York 29 



St. Louis 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Fire at Trenton. N. J 38 



— LlTingston's Trial Grounds (lllus. ) 40 



— Fertilizer Markets 40 



— The Minneapolis Seed Shop 40 



— Catalogues Received 42 



— Imports 42 



Boston 42 



Compost for General Stock 44 



Vegetable Forcing ." 46 



— Vegetable Markets 46 



. — Mums as a Catch Crop 46 



— Chicory , : 46 



Pittsburg 46 



Nursery News 52 



— The Denver Meeting 52 



— Spraying 54 



Pacific Coast r 56 



— Los Angeles 56 



— San Francisco 56 



Trouble with Plants 57 



Tx>ulsville 68 



Washington 60 



Evansvillo 60 



Milwaukee 62 



Rochester 64 



Greenhouse Heating 76 



— Data on Heating 76 



— Size of Smokestack 76 



— Radiating Surface of Pipe 77 



Providence 77 



Salvage - 79 



Grand Rapids 80 



Detroit 82 



New Bedford. Ma.~^ 84 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. \ 



INOOBPOBATBD BT AOT OV CONaBKSS, MaBOH 4, '01 



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

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

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

 treasnret-, W. F. Kastlng. Buffalo, N. Y. 



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

 o 19. 1910. 



1-. RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Next year Easter falls April 16, three 

 weeks later than this year, but it 's not 

 likely to be any hotter. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two copies. 



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 Commissioner of Internal Rev- 

 enue, charged with the collection of the 

 new Taft tax on corporations, has ren- 

 dered a decision (No. 27) that the Flo- 

 rists' Mutual Hail Association is re- 

 garded as an insurance company and 

 not as an agricultural association, and 

 therefore is liable to the tax. - 



Look out for mildew when the weather 

 changes. It is too much to expect that 

 we shall have no more cool nights — we 

 get them even in the regular summer 

 months — and a bad dose of mildew whUe 

 rose markets are oversupplied means 

 that the affected stock goes to the dump. 

 Good, clean stock wiU sell well a little 

 later. See that yours is in that class. 



The complete schedule for the orchid 

 exhibition to be given at Boston May 26 

 to .'0 has been issued by the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. This is the 

 exhibition at which a told medal and 

 $1,000 are offered as ^rst premium for a 

 group of orchid plants, with other simi- 

 larly valuable premiumii» Copies of the 

 list may be had by addressing W. P. 

 Rich, secretary, Horticultural haU, Bos- 

 ton. 



__an-XESTJGLASS OOMBIHE. 



Every one agrees that the manufac- 

 turers of window glass are entitled to a 

 living profit — probably to a better profit 

 than last summer's low prices on green- 

 house sizes gave the makers — but that 

 ^hey took the right way to get their 

 Kofit is being questioned by the United 

 States government. Indictments are to 

 be \sked against the organizers of the 

 Impe^l Window Glass Co. in the United 

 States Cburt at Pittsburg, where the dis- 

 trict attorney, Mr. Jordan, said: "The 

 investigation of the Imperial Window 

 Glass Coj has been under way for the 

 past ninety days and agents of the De- 

 partment of Justice have visited every 

 one of the thirty-three plants operated 

 under the charter of the company in 

 eleven different states. 



' ' The company was incorporated in 

 West Virginia early this year and its 

 alleged control of the window glass busi- 

 ness is to be probed with intent to show 

 that it is a monopoly in restraint of 

 trade. 



"United States Assistant Attorney 

 General Grosvenor of Washington is here 

 at present and is preparing the gathered 

 data to place it before the special grand 

 jury which has already been drawn. 



"Subpoenas have been served on glass 



manufacturers in Chicago, Cleveland and 

 elsewhere for their appearance here. 



"The Imperial Window Glass Co. is a 

 holding organization, the manufacturers 

 pooling their output and selling through 

 the company exclusively. Prices have 

 been (fcmpared with the American Glass 

 Co. and there is but slight difference." 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. W. E. King. 



Orisa Ann King, wife of W. E. KinM 

 the florist of Santa Cruz, Cal., diea*^ 

 March 28, at her home on Pennsylvania 

 avenue, of cancer of the stomach, at the 

 age of 55 years. The^ deceased was a 

 native of Massachusetts and had lived in 

 Santa Cruz for twenty-three years. She 

 had been sick for the last year, and in 

 bed just before her death for four 

 months. She will be missed by a large 

 circle of friends, and great sympathy vidll 

 go out to the bereaved family. Besides 

 her husband, Mrs. King leaves a son, 

 Charles F. Spitfler, by a former husband, 

 and a daughter, Mrs. Nettie Fullom, who 

 lives at home. 



Mrs. Sarah Escott Smith. 



Mrs. Sarah Escott Smith, mother of 

 Henry Smith, the florist of 36 East 

 Bridge street. Grand Rapids, Mich., died 

 Saturday morning, April 2, aged 76 

 years, at the Smith fruit farm on ^West 

 Bridge street road. She had been in poor 

 health for about two years. Mrs. Smith 

 was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1833, 

 and came to Grand Rapids with her par- 

 ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Escott, in 

 1839. In 1856 she married George Smith. 

 They lived on a farm at Englishville till 

 1870, two years previous to her husband 's 

 death, when they moved to the West 

 Bridge street home, where she died. 



'Mrs. Smith took an active interest in 

 all agricultural matters and was a promi- 

 nent fruit grower in this section. She 

 is survived by a son, Henry Smith, and 

 one brother, George Escott, of Charlotte, 

 N. C. She was much esteemed and had 

 a wide circle of acquaintances. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



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It has not often happened that the 

 market has had so bad a week as the one 

 w^ich immediately followed Easter, and 

 thus far in the present week there are no 

 signs of betterment. 



All the troubles which came upon the 

 wholesalers during the Easter rush were 

 due to the unseasonably hot weather, and 

 as the weather did not change with the 

 passage of the Easter extra demand, the 

 troubles simply were accentuated — things 

 were worse than ever. Under the influence 

 of the hot sun, crops continued excessive 

 and the quality of much of the stock was 

 such that buyers would not touch it. At 

 the same time, crops were large through- 

 out the entire section that gets a part 

 of its supplies from Chicago, and the' 

 shipping trade ran down to the minimum, 

 as it always does when orders are most 

 needed in this market. The more stock, 

 the less business; the less stock, the more 

 business; that's the rule. The bulk of 

 the supply must now be disposed of out- 

 side the regular channels. 



It is possible to record a scarcity in 

 just one item — orchids. The departure 

 of Lent always brings a crop of early 

 spring weddings, and it found an insuffi- 

 cient supply of cattleyas. Valley also 



