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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



May 12, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS* REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Managke. 



PUBLISHED BVKKY THURSDAY BY 



The Florists* publishing Co. 



63p*560 Caxton Balldins, 

 834 Dearburu Street, Chlcaso. 



Telephone, Harbison 54'29. 



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New York Office: 



Borough Park... Brooklyn, N. Y 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription 11.00 a year. To Canada. 12.00. To 

 Europe, J2.50. SubBcrlptlons accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertlslnjf accepted. 



Advertlsi ments must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

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

 March 3, 187U. ^ ^ 



» This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEETISEEB, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



Mothers' Day and the Florists 5 



— How Mothers' Day Grew 5 



— Mothers' Day Sales o 



— Mothers' Day Prices o 



— These Took the Hint o 



— Write to the Review 6 



The Ketall Florist *» 



— A Credit to the Street o 



— Casket Covers (lUus.) J 



— Won by Waiting and Working (lllus.) 7 



To Attack Express Uates 7 



Bulbs in Virginia (lllus.) o 



Seasonable Suggestions | 



— Dahlias | 



— Hardy Nyniphseas g 



— Lilies : ° 



— Perennial Phlox ° 



— Polnsettlas ^ 



Fuchsia as a Basket Plant (lllus.) » 



Hardy Plants for Borders » 



Geraniums Jx 



— Geraniums for Wholesaling 10 



RO86S • ,,,,..»•••••••••••••••••••• ^^ 



— A New Yellow Forcing Rose (lllus.) 10 



— Lyon Rose a Keeper 10 



— Summer Roses '• 11 



Gladioli • il 



Seedling Amaryllis (lllus.) 1^ 



Late Tulips }i 



Hiram E. WUson (portrait) " 



Failure with Hyacinths 1^ 



Sweet Peas — Under Glass W 



Peonies— Ptony Society <-onvention 14 



— Mr. Good's View \* 



— Storing Peonies !■* 



The Commercial Car (lllus.) 1* 



Obituary— Henry Blanksma 14 



— W. E. Hall 15 



— Henry ElckhofT Jo 



Mrs. .McKellar (portrait) lo 



Duty on Plants In Tubs 10 



Ward's Epigrams Jo 



Chicago J« 



Cincinnati $^ 



Boston ~f 



Minneapolis *4 



Indianapolis *^ 



Pittsburg *» 



Philadelphia i° 



New York fO 



Manchester, Mass °* 



Ants on Lawns o4 



Wichita, Kan ^o 



Minneapolis °° 



St. Louis 40 



Steamer Sailings *f 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Duty on Rhubarb Roots 44 



— Duty on Hyacinths 4b 



— Imports • J° 



— Business of Seed Growing 48 



Vegetable Forcing o^ 



— Vegetable Markets og 



— Growing Strawberry Plants 06 



— Diseases and Prevention oi 



Louisville °* 



Pacific Coast °J 



— Portland, Ore ^ 



— San Francisco °* 



Nursery News ; «^ 



— The Season w 



— Blooming of White Lilac o^ 



Kansas City, Mo «* 



Washii.ston ^« 



Baltimore °° 



Columbus, Ohio ^^ 



Milwaukee jA 



Greenhouse Heating f* 



— A Range In New Mexico »4 



— Heat for Fall and Spring »5 



Providence °2 



Rochester *° 



Detroit »" 



Dayton, Ohio ^ «^ 



Brockton, Mass «^ 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



Inoobpobated bt Aot of C0NOBK88, Maboh 4, '01 

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

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

 N. Y.: secietary, H. b. Dorner, Urbana, III.; 

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



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

 to 19, 1910. 



Besults bring advertising 

 The Review brings results. 



With this issue the Eeview completes 

 its twenty-fifth semiannual volume. 



Get a printed letter-head if you want 

 the man to whom you send an order to 

 have respect for your business ability. 



The florists' business has "evoluted" 

 to the point where a little selling ability 

 is a great help, no matter how expert the 

 grower may be. 



Do you know how far you travel in 

 plowing an acre of land? If the furrows 

 are a foot apart the plow, and plowman, 

 myist go just eight and a quarter miles to 

 the acre. 



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. 



Nephrolepis Elegantissima has made 

 so great a hit in Australia that the larg- 

 est firm of seedsmen and plantsmen in 

 the antipodes devotes to it the whole back 

 page of its 100-page catalogue. 



HAIL. 



One of the most destructive hail storms 

 in the history of Kansas swept over 

 Wichita on the night of May 1. Possibly 

 an average of greater than seventy-five 

 per cent of all glass was destroyed, with 

 a corresponding damage to stock. All 

 florists were insured except one, who had 

 allowed his insurance to lapse by non- 

 payment of the twentieth assessment. 

 J. G. Esler, See'y. 



DUTY ON PLANTS IN TUBS. 



Wadley & Smythe, New York, imported 

 a number of large plants which the cus- 

 toms collector classified as palms under 

 paragraph 251, tariff act of 1897, and 

 as nursery or greenhouse stock under 

 paragraph 252. The importers con- 

 tended for classification under para- 

 graph 560, relating to tropical and semi- 

 tropical fruit plants for the purpose of 

 propagation or cultivation. The protest 

 was overruled. The following is a sum- 

 mary of the finding of General Appraiser 

 Waite : 



' ' This is an importation of forty-nine 

 trees, comprising thirty-five orange 

 trees, six myrtle, four oleanders, one 

 palm, and three pittosporums. 



"The examiner of nursery stock at 

 this port testified that he personally ex- 

 amined this importation; that it consist- 

 ed of old and fully matured trees, which 

 were intended for ornamental purposes 

 about the grounds of the importer; that 

 these trees were planted in large tubs, 

 and were moved in and out of the green- 

 house to protect them from the rigors 

 of this climate; that they were not in- 

 tended or used for propagation or cul- 

 tivation. 



"Paragraph 560, under which the 

 principal claim in the protest is made, 

 reads as follows: '560. Fruit plants, 

 tropical and semitropical, for the pur- 

 pose of propagation or cultivation.' In 



framing this paragraph, we think the 

 intention of Congress was to admit with- 

 out duty, for the purpose of encouraging 

 agricultural and horticultural pursuits, 

 such plants as were intended to be used 

 in increasing the stock or for cultivation 

 in raising and producing fruit. To give 

 this paragraph any other interpretation 

 would deprive the words 'for propaga- 

 tion or cultivation * of any force or ef- 

 fect. This importation is therefore not 

 classifiable thereunder, 



"We do not think these trees and 

 plants should be classified under the 

 first of paragraph 252, but rather under 

 the latter part of the paragraph as 'nur- 

 sery or greenhouse stock not specially 

 provided for,* " 



WARiyS EPIGRAMS. 



Ralph M. Ward & Co., New York, 

 have sent out a set of cards in line with 

 the prevailing craze for epigrams, each 

 having in some way a connection with 

 the florists' business. No claim for 

 originality is made, but many of them 

 are new. Here are a few: 



"He who owes money at Easter has 

 a short Lent." 



"Are you a real Florist or just mere- 

 ly a Potter-up?" 



"The man who thinks he can't is 

 usually right." 



"Every business is a good business, 

 but how good depends on the man." 



"To escape criticism, do nothing, say 

 nothing, and be nothing." 



"The lowest bidder sometimes cuts a 

 big figure with his competitors, but that 

 is before he gets the contract." 



"If your competitor talks about you 

 put him on your pay roll. Never mind 

 what he says so long as be talks. ' ' 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



To Mothers' day is to be given the 

 credit for the best week's business ever 

 enjoyed in the Chicago market in the 

 period between Easter and Decoration 

 day. The extra money taken in as a re- 

 sult of the popular observance of the new 

 flower day amounted to thousands of dol- 

 lars to the local wholesalers. They all 

 shared in it. Locally Mothers' day did 

 not arouse anywhere near the interest that 

 was taken in it in smaller cities. It takes 

 a prodigious amount of stirring to wake 

 up the people in Chicago; so the reports 

 of local retailers are not particularly en- 

 thusiastic, though most of them did a 

 little extra business. But the demand 

 from out-of-town was something extraor- 

 dinary; it was far beyond what the most 

 optimistic had anticipated. White carna- 

 tions were principally called for and were 

 so far short of the demand that trade 

 was necessarily turned to other items. 

 White roses were second choice and 

 sold splendidly. All carnations real- 

 ized much better prices than in any recent 

 week. There was some complaint of the 

 sharp advance in prices, particularly for 

 white carnations, but the greater part of 

 the stock was sold to the public one flower 

 at a time for boutonnieres, and the re- 

 tailers found there was no special objec- 

 tion to the price, even though it were two 

 or three times the ordinary rate ; it would 

 have been different if the sales had been 

 in dozens and larger quantity. 



Last week opened dull ; it was not until 

 Thursday that the awakening came, but 

 the last three days were much busier than 



