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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 5, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530-560 Caxton Building, 



384 Dearboru Street, Cbicngo. 



Telephone, Uabbison 6429. 



bxoi8tebxd cable addbeb8. elobtixw, chicaoo 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription Jl.OO a year. To Canada. $2.00. To 

 Europe, $2JBO. Subscriptions accepted oniy from 

 tliose in tlie trade. 



AdvertiBing rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure insertion In the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter Deceml)er 3, 1897. 

 at the post-oflBce 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 90. 



CONTENTS, 



The Retail Florist— Don't Kill the Goose n 



— A Laurel Wreath (lllus.) o 



— Brides' Bouquet Pictures 5 



— At Market Rates ,(lllus.) 6 



— Retail Advertising 6 



Cut Flowers to Canada o 



The Big House 6 



Plants for Carpet Bedding ^ 



Annuals for Winter Blooms 7 



Roses — Roses Past and Present 8 



— Antolne Wlntier (portrait) 8 



— Trained Roses (lllus. ) A 



Fumigation for Sweet Peas O 



Outdoor Sweet Peas 8 



Supports for Sweet Peas » 



Maggots In Cow Manure 9 



Seasonable Suggestions— Show Pelargoniums. 10 



— Asters 10 



— Hotbeds JO 



— Primulas 10 



— Gladiolus and Iris 10 



— Llnum Trlgynum 10 



— Bedding Plants 11 



— Compost for Vases and Boxes 11 



— Dutch Bulbs in Beds 11 



Crotons (lllus.) = Jl 



Limitation of Liability 12 



Platycllnus Glumacea (lllus.) 1^ 



Tankage for Bench Crops 12 



Carried Over Azaleas 12 



A New New Hampshire Firm (lllus.) 12 



Violets— A Start In Violets 13 



Business and Other Notes 1^ 



Gurney Hill 18 Insurgent (portrait) 14 



The Newer Hardy Asters 14 



Shade for Asparagus 15 



Milwaukee Jp 



Obituary J-J 



Society of American Florists 1« 



Firemen and Florists 10 



Outdoor Asters In Arizona 10 



Chioago 10 



Boston 22 



St. Louis 24 



Philadelphia • 28 



New York 30 



Des Moines. Iowa oZ 



Spotted Foliage • 32 



Vegetable Forcing 34 



— How to Grow Chives 34 



— Renewing Old Soil 34 



— Diseases and Prevention 34 



Cincinnati 38 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Seed Trade News— Michigan Peas., 42 



— Peas in Wisconsin 42 



— Conditions in CallfoBBlj 42 



— Imports 42 



— Business of Seed Growing 42 



— Catalogues Received 50 



Pacific Coast "0 



— I»s Angeles 50 



Kansas City, Mo ol 



Nursery News — Nurserymen Oppose Bill fm 



— The Denver Program •'>0 



— Offlclnl Route to Denver 57 



— The Season 5S 



— Peterson Woods for Park 60 



Mothers' Day at Salt Lake 62 



Charleston. W. Va 62 



Detroit 04 



I")enver 06 



Rochester 06 



New Bedford. Mass 68 



Greenhouse Heating 80 



— A Small Ohio House 80 



— Piping an Illinois Range SO 



— One House, with Partition 80 



— Boiler and Building 81 



Providence 82 



Albany, N. Y 84 



Norfolk, Va 84 



Davton, Ohio 86 



New Orleans 8," 



Alvln, Tex 88 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Inoobpobatxd by Act of Conobebb, Maboh 4. '01 



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

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

 N. Y.; secietary, H. K. Dorner, Urbana, III.; 

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



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

 to 19, 1910. •' 



RESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



There are business chances in plenty 

 on pages 35 to 37 — three pages of Wants 

 and For Sales. 



N. S. DuNLOP, head gardener for the 

 Canadian Pacific railroad, aspires to have 

 his line known as the Road of Roses. 



Ex-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT visited the 

 jubilee bulb show at Haarlem, Holland, 

 May 1, and report has it that he was 

 ' ' dee-lighted. ' ' 



The Yearbook of the Department of 

 Agriculture is ready this year some two 

 months earlier than usual. Your congress- 

 man will send a copy if you are inter- 

 ested. '' 



You may hear it said that wire frames 

 are not used as commonly as they once 

 were for funeral flowers, but just the 

 same there is a big scarcity of wire- 

 workers. 



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 copies. 



One of the freight rate increases an- 

 nounced last week is on ground bone, 

 Kansas City or Omaha to Chicago. The 

 old rate was 20 cents, the new 23 cents, 

 or an advance of fifteen per cent. 



Run over in your mind the names of 

 the men whom you know who are making 

 the greatest successes in the florists' 

 business. How many of the successful 

 ones graduated into the trade from some 

 other line? How many owe their success 

 to afcility as business men rather than 

 to ability as growers? How many give 

 their personal attention to the merchan- 

 dising end? 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Thomas De Voy's Son, of Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., offers for registration the violet 

 described below. Any person objecting 

 to the registration, or to the use of the 

 proposed name, is requested to communi- 

 cate 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 : Sport of Marie 

 Louise, 1907 ; identical with parent plant 

 in foliage and habit of growth; flowers 

 double and of a dainty, light wistaria 

 shade. Name: Marie Elise. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec 'y. 



April 28, 1910. 



EMERSON SAID. 



"If a man can write a better book, 

 preach a better sermon, or build a better 

 mouse-trap than his neighbor, even 

 though he build his house in the wilder- 

 ness, the world will make a beaten track 

 to his doorway." 



Sure, the world will, if given time 

 enough, but unless the mouse-trap builder 

 is very young and very patient he would 

 better advertise. 



FIREMEN AND FLORISTS. 



The National Firemen's Association 

 will hold its annual convention at Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., August 17 to 20, the same 

 week that the S. A. F. will hold its con- 

 vention there, and by a curious coinci- 

 dence a florist is president of the fire- 

 men's organization. He is John M. Sher- 

 wood, of Neosho, Mo., manager of the 

 Neosho Florist Co. 



OUTDOOR ASTERS IN ARIZONA. 



Under separate cover, I am sending 

 ~the~jeditor a few aster blooms. I believe 

 I am right in thinking April is quite 

 earjy to have them in bloom. The seeds 

 were sown outdoors last fall, were out 

 all winter, without protection, although 

 we had an unusually cold winter, below 

 freezing the most of nearly a month. In 

 February I transplanted them into my 

 greenhouse, solid beds; no heat except 

 from the sun, not having put in my 

 heating apparatus. These blooms opened 

 April 21. I have many that will be in 

 full bloom this week, and by Memorial 

 day I will have plenty, and anticipate a 

 good sale. 



I read Mr. Michell's little joke in the 

 Philadelphia column and you may say to 

 him that the Review finds its way even 

 to the "jumping off place" away out in 

 Arizona, as many advertisers know. 



Globe Floral .Co. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There was a rift in the clouds the 

 latter part of last week and business 

 seemed at once to feel the inspiration. 

 Wholesalers nearly all say that the week 

 was an excellent one and that the vol- 

 ume of business on Friday and Saturday 

 was well above anything that has been 

 enjoyed since Easter. Prices were not 

 high in any department. Large quan- 

 tities of stock were moved, with the 

 result that an excellent money total was 

 recorded. This week opened with an 

 exceptionally dull Monday. A cold, raw 

 rain and high winds kept people off the 

 street and discouraged city trade. Ap- 

 parently the out-of-town buyers had car- 

 ried over considerable stock from Satur- 

 day, or else, which is not at all prob- 

 able, business had suddenly fallen off 

 with them, for telegraphic orders were 

 not numerous, and altogether the market 

 had one of the dullest Mondays of recent 

 weeks. Monday usually is the busiest 

 day of the early part of the week, Tues- 

 and Wednesday being less active, but this 

 week the succeeding days were busier 

 than Monday. 



Beauties are once more in extremely 

 large supply and prices of even the best 

 long stock are being shaded to the buy- 

 ers of hundred lots; indeed, if it were 

 not for the buyers who take from 100 

 to 500 it would be wholly impossible to 

 clear out the daily receipts of long 

 Beauties — the orders for a dozen or two 

 at a time are not numerous enough to 

 make any impression upon the supply. 

 Medium and short Beauties are relatively 

 much less plentiful than long and they 

 command relatively better prices. Those 

 who have medium and short Beauties of 

 good quality find a brisk sale and hold 

 their prices stiff. The average quality 

 of the Beauties now in market is ex- 

 ceptionally good, much better than it 

 was a few weeks, or even days ago. 



Ten days of dark weather has affected 

 the color of Killarney and Maid; these 



