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TheWcckly Florists' Review. 



Afbil 21, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor amd MAMAaER. 



PUBLISHED EVERY TUtTRffDAY BT 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



580-560 CaxU^n BuildtnK, 



334 Dearborn ,0treet, Chicago. 



Telephon^, Harrison 5429. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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

 Europe, $2.60. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those in the trade. 



AdyertlBing rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertisini; accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday 

 afternoon to Insure Insertion in the issue of that 

 week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the post-office at Chicafiro, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ASVEBTISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



Mother's Day and the Florist B 



— A Day We Must Push 5 



— Suggestion for Mother's Day AdTertising . . 5 

 The BetaU Florist 



— A Wedding Pergola (lUus.) 6 



— Trouble With Refrigerator 6 



— Fleas Pandurata 7 



— An Odd Side Line 7 



— A Birthday Table (Ulus.) 7 



— Special Designs (lllus ) 7 



— The Uplifting Influence (Ulus.) 8 



— Lilies on an Auto (lllus.) 8 



Hyacinths a Second Year 8 



Plants for Marshy Ground 8 



A White Salvia 9 



Harmony 9 



Good for Pot Plants 9 



The S. A. F. Trade Exhibit 10 



— Ground Plan of Convention Hall (Ulus.).. 10 



Sport of Begonia Feastii (lllus.) 10 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Cyclamens 10 



— Asters 10 



— Gloxinias 11 



— Coldframes 11 



— Sweet Peas 11 



— Herbaceous Peonies 11 



Carnations 12 



— Tbrlps 12 



Bobrer's Strasburg Place (Ulus.) 12 



Hyacinth Spikes Decaying 12 



Camphorated Tobacco Stems 12 



New York 12 



Pittsburg 14 



Milwaukee 14 



Postmaster Crowell (portrait) 15 



ProTldence 15 



Obituary 16 



— Hermann WUd 16 



— Henry G. McPlke 16 



Flower Shows Bring Crush lf$ 



Composition of Manure 16 



Chicago 16 



PhUadelpbla 22 



Boston 24 



St. Louis 26 



Cincinnati 27 



Indianapolis 30 



Detroit 32 



LoniSTllle 34 



Dayton, Ohio 34 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— Onion Sets 38 



— Imports 40 



— Peas and Beans 40 



— California Conditions Fine 40 



— Maryland's Seed BUI 41 



— European Notes 42 



— Catalogues Received 42 



New Bedford, Mass 40 



Pacific Coast 46 



— San Francisco 46 



Ionia, Mich 47 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable Markets 48 



— Diseases and Prevention 48 



— Publications Received 48 



Nursery News 54 



— Reappraiseraents 64 



— Nursery Hints for Florists 64 



— Evergreens 64 



— Trimming a Privet Hedge 68 



Cape Jasmines 68 



Des Moines, la 60 



Rochester 60 



Buffalo 62 



Yonkers, N. Y 64 



Glen Cove, N. Y 66 



Canal Dover, Ohio 66 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— Modern Heating Systems 78 



— Consuming the Smoke 79 



Orange, N. J 82 



New Orleans 84 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobfobatkd by Act of Conobxss, 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. Dorner, Urbana, lU.; 

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



RESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



It is reported that sphagnum moss is 

 on the scarce side and to be picked up 

 when the. opportunity offers. 



The jobbers of window glass predict 

 still higher prices, but say previous ad- 

 vances have not appeared to affect flo- 

 rists ' buying. 



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. 



Ip "I. O. U., " who writes with green 

 ink, will send his full name and address 

 the Review will be pleased to reply to 

 his question. Anonymous inquiries can- 

 not be answered. 



iW- 



The Ladies' Society of American 

 rists, of which Mrs. W. J. Vesey was 

 the first president, has adopted suitable 

 resolutions on her death, as has the St. 

 Louis Ladies' Home Circle, and numer- 

 our florists' clubs. 



OBITUARY. 



Hennann Wild. 



Hermann Wild, for forty-two years a 

 resident of Sarcoxie, Mo., died at his 

 home on Sunday, April 10, of old age. 

 Born in Rosswein, Saxony, December 24, 

 1824, he left his native country at the 

 age of 20, arriving in New York. From 

 that city he went to Milwaukee, Wis., 

 and in 1848 was married to Miss Maria 

 Haase, who survives him". 



One of the early settlers at Sarcoxie, 

 he purchased a tract of land and com- 

 menced farming, later establishing a 

 business as a nurseryman. He was a man 

 of kindly nature and benevolent disposi- 

 tion. Recently he and his wife presented 

 to the city a tract of land for a park. 



Besides the widow, one brother and 

 six children survive him. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Odd Fellows' order for forty 

 years, and his body was laid to rest 

 with Odd Fellow honors. 



Henry G. McPike. 



Henry G. McPike, better known as the 

 "Illinois Burbank," died suddenly at 

 his home in Alton, 111., Monday morn- 

 ing, April 18. Mr. McPike was well 

 known in horticultural circles through- 

 out the country. He originated the now 

 well-known McPike grape. Mr. McPike 

 was born in 1825 and had been a resi- 

 dent of Alton since 1847 and twice 

 served that city as mayor. 



FLOWER SHOWS BRING CRUSH. 



Some day in the big cities of America 

 horticulture will be as popular with the 

 public as it now is in Great Britain, 

 where the Royal Horticultural So<liety 

 has a fellowship exceeding 11,000 and is 

 struggling with the problem of how to 

 avoid the physical discomforts incident 

 to the overcrowding of its flower shows. 

 This spring the applications for exhibi- 

 tion space have been so numerous that 

 It has been necessary to set the tables 



close together and the attendance has 

 become so large that in the middle of the 

 afternoon the crush has made movement 

 practically impossible. The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle recently printed an illustration 

 reproduced from a photograph made in 

 Horticultural hall during the height of 

 , the crush. The discomfort of those who 

 came to enjoy the exhibition was all too 

 plainly evident. 



COMPOSITION OF MANURE. 



The following table gives the average 



composition of the most important ani- 

 mal manures: 



►- ^ ci o o er 



1 b| r if 



Fertilizer. Pet. Pet. Pet. Pet 



Cow manure 0.34 0.41 0.40 0.18 



Horse manure 0.58 0.70 0.63 0.28 



Sheep manure 0.83 1.00 0.67 0.23 



Hog manure 0.45 0.54 0.60 0.19 



Hen manure 1.63 1.98 0.85 1.64 



Mixed stable manure.. 0.50 0.60 0.63 0.28 



CHICAGO. 



) The Great Central Market. 



Market conditions did not improve last 

 week, as was expected. Indeed, the week 

 proved a distinct disappointment to 

 growers and wholesalers. It had been 

 hoped that the worst of the congestion 

 and low prices was past, and it proved 

 that supples were diminished, but de- 

 mand also fell away, with the result that 

 there was no improvement in the aver- 

 age prices, while the volume of sales 

 was considerably reduced. The opening 

 of the present week did not bring a 

 change for the better. A good business 

 at wholesale was done Friday and Sat- 

 urday, but rains were general wherever 

 Chicago flowurs go, on Saturday, Sun- 

 day and Monday, with the result that 

 retailers found themselves with enough 

 carried-over stock so that they did not 

 need to buy heavily at the beginning of 

 the present week. 



There is an abundance of material in 

 almost every line, in spite of the fact 

 that the weather shows radical change 

 from the midsummer conditions of the 

 last three weeks; where we have been 

 experiencing 30 degrees above normal, 

 now we have 10 degrees below ordinary 

 April temperature. One would expect 

 it to result in a sharp reduction in sup- 

 plies, but no one need want for flowers. 

 Also, the extremely low prices which 

 prevailed after Easter have resulted in 

 rose growers prosecuting replanting 

 operations much more industriously than 

 usual during April. Ordinarily some be- 

 ginning at the work is made this early, 

 but this year the middle of April found 

 many growers well along toward the 

 completion of their replanting. Of 

 course, rose growers do not nowadays 

 replant all their places in any one year, 

 so the effect of throwing out old stock 

 is not so apparent in the market's re- 

 ceipts of roses as was the case in earlier 

 times. Neither the weather nor the re- 

 planting has suflSced to cut down rose 

 supplies; the receipts are still ahead of 

 requirements, extremely low prices pre- 

 vail, and the quality of the stock is so 

 good that splendid values are to be had 

 in all varieties. Retailers certainly should 

 be doing a large, satisfactory and highly 

 profitable business. Killarney is by far 

 the best selling rose; Maid will be a 

 scarce article next season. Some superb 

 White Killarney also are seen. There is 

 an oversupply of long Beauties of in- 



