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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Makch 18, 1900. 



INDEX TO ASVESTISEaS, PAGE M. 



CONTENTS. 



American Kose Society r> 



— Tbe Buffalo Conveiitlon 3 



— The Awards 5 



— President Foublinaun (portrait) 3 



— Tue business besslon 5 



— fresiueut's Address 5 



— Secretary's Ueport tJ 



— Treasurer's Utport 6 



— Papers Head 7 



— TUe Visitors 7 



Primula and Cinerarias 7 



Uauuuculus 7 



Koses 8 



— Growers WUo Fall with Roses 8 



— W. VV. Coles (portrait) 8 



— The Uose Garden 8 



— J. F. Huss (portrait) 9 



GerauiumE 10 



— Trouble with Geraniums 10 



— UligUt ou Geraniums 10 



The Cross of Uoses UHus. ) 11 



Society of American h iorists 11 



Sea^ouable Suifgesiions 12 



— Lorraine Begonias 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



— Gardenias 12 



— Azaleas 12 



— Seed Sowing 12 



— Hotbeds 13 



— Dahlias 13 



Smith's Plant Stand (illusj 13 



Wlnterich's I'lace (iiius.) 13 



Spider on Palms and Privets i:t 



Carnations 14 



— Temperature for Cuttings 14 



— Carnations In Solid Beds 14 



Obituary 14 



— Louis M. Noe (portrait) 14 



Amherst, Mass 15 



The Class at Amherst (illus.) 15 



Two Sides 1« 



American Carnation Society 16 



Chicago 10 



Hamuionton, N. J 10 



Providence, U. 1 20 



Columbus, Ohio 21 



St. Louis 22 



Philadelphia 24 



Boston 2tJ 



New York 28 



Short-sten.med Sweet Peas 30 



Wootl-Llce or Sow Bugs 3<) 



Bedding Plants 32 



Baltimore 34 



Steamer Sailings 30 



Seed '1 rade News 8« 



— Clover Seed 30 



— Imports 40 



— Faiuiers Oppose Free Seeds 40 



— Adulteration of Seeds 40 



— Seed for Lawn 42 



— Catalogues ilecelved 42 



Cincliiuati 42 



Tulips Not Flowering 44 



Short-stemmed LongiUorum^ 44 



Pacific Coast £2 



— Sao Francisco WZ 



— Pailflc Coast Shrubs 02 



Cleveland 53 



Nursery News S4 



Minneapolis R t 



Orange. N. J S6 



Hillsdale. Mich ftU 



Vegetable Forcing 68 



— (irecniiouse Vegetables 58 



— Tomato Uust 58 



New Orleans 58 



Erie. Pa 60 



KHlaniazno, Mich UO 



RIvfH .Iiinctlou, Mich «» 



Milwaukee 62 



Lexington, Ky. 04 



IndiauaiHilIs 66 



Newl.uigh. N. Y C« 



Detroit «8 



Sparta, Wis 68 



Dayton. Oiilo 70 



GreenlioM«e IleatlnK 82 



— The Coal Market 82 



— GreenlKiiise and Store 82 



— Steam for Complete Itange 82 



Montreal 80 



Pittsburg 88 



Lenox, .Maw 00 



New Reilford. Mass 02 



Tarrytown. N. Y 92 



Your |)aptfr has prove<l very beneficial 

 to us this season thri)Ugb our advertise- 

 ments. — J. B. Shurtleff & Son, Revere, 

 Mass. 



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 hill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Enclosed you will find a check for the 

 renewal of my subscription to the Re- 

 view. I let it run out a few weeks ago 

 and I have missed the paper very much. 

 I think it it the best trade paper pub- 

 lished. — H. C. Uolmes, MoTrinown, N. J. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



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 334 Dearborn Street, CbicaKO. 



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Subscription 81.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade 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., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



INCOSPOEATED BY ACT OF CONGRESS MARCH 4, '01 



Officers for 1909: President. J. A. Valentine. 

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 19 

 to 22, 1808. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, ac- 

 knowledges orders with a set of picture 

 post-cards illustrating scenes at the nurs- 

 eries at Riverton. 



It is reported that the new tariff bill 

 introduced in congress this week pro- 

 vides for a material reduction in the 

 duty on window glass. 



J. H. BuRDETT, Chicago, has begun the 

 distribution of the third annual spring 

 series of press notices for the National 

 Council of Horticulture. 



Well, the ground hog was right, all 

 right! The last six weeks have been as 

 wintry as any part of the season. But 

 now it's time for spring. 



Bricks at Chicago have advanced ' to 

 $5.75 and $6 per thousand, an increase 

 of over $1 within thirty days. Concrete 

 can be used economically for almost 

 every purpose for which florists employ 

 bricks. 



Turn through this issue of the Re- 

 view wi.h the thought in mind that be- 

 fore you lies one of the plainest evi- 

 dences of the recent rapid development 

 of the florists' business. Note the vol- 

 ume of advertising. There is nothing 

 "special" about this issue — it is all in 

 the day's work — but the advertising in 

 this issue would, not so many years ago, 

 have been considered a good run of busi- 

 ness for one of the periodical special 

 numbers. Indeed, there are publishers, 

 even at this day, who would congratulate 

 themselves and their readers if they 

 could occasionally gather up as great a 

 showing of advertising for a "special" 

 number. A thought may well be given 

 to the great diversity of the trade offers 

 appearing each week. A reader of the 

 Review can supply his every want from 

 its columns, as, indeed, many of them 

 do — you can buy of the advertisers any- 

 thing from an iron-frame greenhouse to 

 a microscopic wire staple for mending 

 split carnation calyxes, from a pin for 

 fastening ferns on mossed designs to a 

 swell delivery wagon. 



TVO SIDES. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an advertiser part of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



We are exceedingly well pleased with the ad- 

 vertisement we have been carrying In your 

 paper and have received very satisfactory re- 

 turuH from same. Parker Mfg. Co. 



Boston, Mass., March 5. 1000. 



We are getting fine returns from the adver- 

 tisement carried in the Review. 



D. U. Augspurger & Sons. 

 Peoria, 111., March 11, 1909. 

 We have had good returns from the advertise- 

 ment in yuur classilled columns. 



Henry Field Seed Cu. 

 Shenandoah, la., March 8, 1809. 



But there is another side equally in 

 portant from the viewpoint of the pub- 

 lisher : 



I feel I cannot miss a single Issue of tlie 

 Review; it is a great help to every florist, 

 young or old, and to experienced ones as well as 

 to beginners. Joseph Scbuler. 



Newcastle, Ind., March 9, 1909. 



I subscribed for the Review In January and 

 bought 1,U00 gladiolus bulbs from an ail in it 

 last week. The paper certainly is interesting 

 and all right and on this gladiolus purchase I 

 saved more than enough to pay two. years' sub- 

 scription. J. W. Shepherd. 



Brockport, N. Y., March 8, 1900. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y., 

 register The White House, color white, 

 very large, with stiff stem and excellent 

 calyx; a good keeper, good bloomer and 

 good grower. 



Albert M. Here, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market* 



Business improved steadily in the lat- 

 ter part of last week and made the week 

 the best one since Lent began. There 

 was an appreciable falling off the first 

 few days of Lent, but business soon 

 picked up and has been fully as good 

 as it was in any earlier part of the sea- 

 son. This week opened with a scramble 

 for white carnations. The extent to which 

 these flowers are dyed for St. Patrick's 

 day use is far beyond what anyone would 

 have thought possible when the green 

 dye first came into use. At the begin- 

 ning of this week practically every ship- 

 ping order called for quantities of white 

 and all the local buyers required large 

 numbers, so that prices advanced sharp- 

 ly. Good white was held firmly at 4 

 cents and any fair s.ock was thought to 

 be worth 3 cents. Of course, there was 

 more or less pickled stock that the whole- 

 salers would not think of shipping and 

 that the local buyers did not want, which 

 pulled down the average; also, some 

 growers made 'their heaviest shipments 

 after the special demand had passed. 



The weather for some days has been 

 unfavorable for flower production and 

 under the influence of the darkened skies 

 receipts have fallen off in all depart- 

 ments. The possible exception is the 

 American Beauty. Some houses are not 

 yet able to report any increase in the 

 cut, but others are favored with a con- 

 siderable increase. Quali.y has improved 

 little, but the demand is such that all 

 Beauties sell. Of other roses, Killarney 

 is more abundant and selling well. Prices 

 average better than they did a week ago, 

 although there is little change in the 

 quoted rates. Some first-class Bride are 

 seen. 



Carnations have shortened, the same as 

 everything else, and growers predict 

 there will be no heavy supplies between 

 now and Easter. Prices have improved 

 in proportion to the falling off in sup- 



