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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 4, 1909. 



INDEX TO ASVEaTIBERS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist B 



— ijbeaf and Sickle (lllus.) 6 



— Luncheou Baskets 6 



— b lower Balls 6 



— The I'reseutatlon Basket (lUus.) 7 



— 1 he Cascade W reatu (lllus. ) 7 



Average crop uf Asparagus 7 



Uydraugeas 7 



Tubaccu Trust Intlueuces 7 



Census of floriculture (lllus.) S 



I'riuu'uses 8 



Grasshoppers 9 



Boston irade Kxhlbltlou (lllus.) 9 



Preserving Ureenhouse Wood 11 



Temperature for Asparagus 11 



Crop tor »maU House 12 



Carnations— Kuhl's Kut (lllus. ) 12 



— Leaf 8pot Diseases 12 



— In Favor of Indoor Culture 12 



— Location of Varieties 12 



— Uesults from Top Cuttings 12 



— Overieediug 12 



Koses — To Hetard Uoses 13 



— New Hose Apple Blossom 13 



— Uutside Uoses for Cutting 14 



Seasonable Suggestions 14 



— l.eiuuu V eroenas 14 



— Lantauas 14 



— Sweet Alyssum 14 



— Canuas 14 



— Mignonette 14 



— Marguerites 14 



— Giauioli .14 



New York Club Dinner (lllus.) 15 



Araucaria Excelsa 15 



Fuchsia Kmii de Wildman 15 



Leat Curl on Cinerarias 15 



itoston on Bench 15 



Planting for a City Lot 15 



Cyclamen 16 



Manure for Asters 16 



Summer I< lowers Under Glass 16 



Obituary 16 



— E. V. Hallock (portrait) 16 



— ^H. A. Terry 17 



— Kugene Germain 17 



Publications Keceived 17 



Convention Preparations 17 



Civil Service Uxamlnations 18 



Everything Klght 18 



A Word with Advertisers 18 



Chicago 18 



New York 22 



Philadelphia ^26 



Washington 29 . 



Seasonable Suggestions ((Continued)... 30 



— • Seeds and Seedlings 30 



— Vegetable Seeds 30 



— • Rambler Roses 30 



— Allmanda WUUamsi 30 



Responsibility for Claims 31 



Some Problems in Roots 32 



Roses (Continued) 34 



— Garden Roses 34 



American Rose Society 34 



Waterproof Crepe Paper .tv . 36 



St. Louis > 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— The Dickinson Fire 40 



— Freights on Jap Lilies 42 



— New York Pure Seed Law 42 



— German Seed Notes 43 



— Reappraisements 44 



— Imports 44 



— Haarlem Jubilee Flower Show 44 



— Catalogues Received 44 



Society of American Florists 44 



The French Trumpet Major 46 



Boston 46 



Sweet Peas 47 



Forget-me-nots In Winter 48 



Chlidanthus Fragrans 48 



Pacific Coast 54 



— Carnations In California 54 



— San Francisco 64 



Nursery News 56 



— Rhode Island Inspection 56 



— An Osage Hedge from Seed 56 



— A Lime Sulphur Wash 56 



Pelargoniums as Bedders 57 



Cinerarias for Christmas 57 



Sweet William Drying Off 57 



Vegetable Forcing 58 



— (iTeenhouse Vegetables 58 



— Starting Cucumbers Inside 58 



— Insects on Cauliflower 58 



— Forcing Green Onions 68 



Columbus, Ohio 60 



Buffalo 60 



Detroit 62 



Atlantic City, N. J 62 



Pittsburg 64 



Cleveland 66 



Fairmount, Ind 66 



New Bedford, Mass "68 



SprlngBeld. Ohio 68 



Denver 70 



Carnations (Continued) .'. 80 



— Inside or Outside Culture 80 



— Buds Turn Yellow 80 



Greenhouse Heating \\ 82 



— Four Parallel Houses , , 82 



— A Plumber's Plan ......'. 82 



Lexington, Ky 84 



Providence, R. 1 86 



Baltimore 88 



Cincinnati 90 



Erie, Pa 92 



Norwich, Conn 92 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Makaqer. 



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

 To Europe, $2.50. SubscriptloDB accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertlslni? rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly tradt 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 3, 

 1897, at the post-office at Chicago, 111., tmder the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 I^ess Association. 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incorporated bt Act or Congress March 4, '01 



Oeacers for 1909: President. J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo.; vice-president, E. G. Gillett, 

 Cincinnati, O.; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

 gan Park, 111.; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pitts- 

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1909. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



RocHESTEB, N. Y., wants the S. A. F. 

 convention in 1910. 



March came in like a lamb — and you 

 knpw the old saying. 



The white paper consumed in printing 

 this issue of the Review weighed 5,940 

 pounds, or only sixty pounds short of 

 three tons. 



From a dispassionate viewpoint it 

 looks as though there is more room for 

 new dark pink carnations than for those 

 of any other color. 



If W. W., La Crosse, Wis., will send 

 his full name the Review will do its best 

 to help him with his phcenbc. Anonymous 

 queries receive no attention. 



Well, Teddy has 'gone to hunt lions 

 and Taft has come in as the Prosperity 

 President, so it's time everybody got 

 ready for a big spring season. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Review $2, $3, or occasionally $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits c t the paper. 



If Constant Reader, who dates his let- 

 ter Pittsburg, February 23, will supply 

 his name, the Review will be glad to 

 answer his questions, but if he will con- 

 sult the leading trade catalogues he will 

 find part of the information for himself. 



Good men again are in demand in all 

 departments of the trade. Last spring 

 retrenchment made idle many men who 

 had left gardening for some other em- 

 ployment, and experienced help was abun- 

 dant, but better times, both out and in 

 the business, seem likely to send wages 

 up again this spring. 



aVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. 



The United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission has issued announcements of two 

 examinations on subjects connected with 

 the horticultural trades. Both examina- 

 tions will be held March 30, 1909. The 



purpose of one of the examinations is 

 "to fill a vacancy in the position of as- 

 sistant curator (male), Division of 

 Plants, National Museum, at $1,200 per 

 annum, and vacancies requiring similar 

 qualifications as they may occur." 

 Among the requirements for this exami- 

 nation are "a general knowledge of sys- 

 tematic botany, Latin, and preferably 

 also of French or German." Age limit, 

 20 years or over. Those desiring to take 

 this examination should apply to the 

 United, States Civil Service Commission, 

 Washington, D. C, for application 

 "Form 304 and special form." 



The other examination is for the pur- 

 pose of ' * filling a vacancy in the position 

 of laboratory aid in agricultural tech- 

 nology (male), at $50 a month, in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry." Age limit, 

 17 to 25 years. Application blanks. Form 

 304, may in this case be secured either 

 at Washington, D. C, or at certain lead- 

 ing postoffices in each state. 



EVERYTHING RIGHT. 



There are many factors which may 

 influence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time: 



Please discontinue onr Classified Ad of gladio- 

 lus bulbs until further notice, that we may have 

 an opportunity to catch up with our correspond- 

 ence. When one has the right goods at the right 

 price, the Review is the right paper to do the 

 business. We have tried the same ad In another 

 trade paper and have not even received an in- 

 quiry therefrom. 



THE W. E. KIRCHHOFF COMPANY. 



Pembroke, N. Y., February 27, 1909. 



A WORD WITH ADVERTISERS. 



The next two months are the heaviest 

 of the year wil!h the Review — the 

 ones in which ac^ertising patronage is 

 greatest. 



The Review aiiks to take care of every 

 advertising order, ifor any issue, received 

 up to 12 'clock, \oon, on Wednesday, 

 the day of going to pr^ss^.^^-nrts^ermits 

 advertisers to mail "copy" on the 18- 

 hour trains that leave New York at 3:45 

 on Tuesday afternoon, Philadelphia at 

 4:55, and be in time. 



The Review will be found as prompt 

 to discontinue advertisements that have 

 served their purpose, as to insert new 

 ones. 



But to give this prompt service to all 

 patrons it is necessary that we have their 

 cooperation. Don't ask us to do regu- 

 larly on Wednesday what you might ag 

 well give us to do on Tuesday, or on 

 Monday. Make it a rule to mail your 

 advertising instructions to reach us Mon- 

 day, or Tuesday at the latest. Then we 

 shall have the decks cleared for you on 

 the occasional weeks that you have im- 

 portant instructions you cannot place in 

 bur hands until Wednesday. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



It may be true, as often said, that 

 Lent no longer is observed as it was 

 years ago, but it is, nevertheless, the 

 fact that business in the Chicago market 

 took a decided drop Ash Wednesday, and 

 in the two or three days before the 

 buyers came back the bright, warm days 

 produced a considerable increase in sup- 

 plies, so that prices went down to a 

 somewhat alarming extent. Friday and 

 Saturday proved to be good days, how- 

 ever, and the market was well cleaned 

 up Saturday night. Now that prices are 

 down to where the department stores can 

 be interested, it is possible to ship out an 

 immense amount of stock on Fridays. 



The current week opens with the mar- 



