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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



March 26, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqke. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINQ CO. 



SSO-SeO Cazton Building:, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rbgistkrbd cablb address, florvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 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. 



INDEX TO ASVESTISERS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Another Pillow (lUus.).. 7 



— Correct Designing 7 



American Koee Society (lUus.) 8 



The Boston Exhibition 8 



F. R. Plerson Exhibit (illus.) 8 



Roses — Springfield Rose Industry 10 



— George D. Leedle (portrait) 10 



— Rose Society's Exhibition (lUus.) 11 



Cbrysantbemums — Mums in 6-Inch Pots 12 



— Mums in Pots 12 



— Dorner's New Mums (Illus. ) 12 



— Early Flowering Pot Plants 12 



Violets — An Annex for Violets 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Show Pelargoniums.. 13 



— Easter Bulbous Stock 13 



— Calceolarias 13 



— Stevia 13 



Carnations — Carnation Cut 14 



— Another Record 14 



— It Is Thrlps 14 



— Carnations in Germany 14 



— New Stock Diseased 14 



— Carnation Novelties (illus.) 15 



Buffalo 15 



Plant Growers on Tour (illus. ) 16 



Obituary — Mrs. P. J. Hauswlrth 16 



— Ernest Weber 16 



A Salable Window Box (Illus.) 17 



A Visit to Aschmann 17 



Easter Lilies for Shipping 17 



J. A. Peterson's Field of Iris (illus.) 17 



Letter from Mrs. Scott 18 



Chicago 18 



Boston 22 



Philadelphia 24 



New York 28 



St. Louis 30 



Vegetable Forcings-Greenhouse Vegetables.. 32 



— Sweet Potatoes in Illinois 32 



— Lettuce Soil too Rich 32 



— Onions from Seed 32 



Baltimore 32 



Providence, R. 1 33 



Plumosus and Sprengerl 34 



St. Paul 36 



Steamer Sailings ,v 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Imports 40 



— The New Tariff Bill 41 



Society of American Florists 44 



Cincinnati 45 



Seasonable Suggestions Continued 52 



— Cinerarias 52 



— Spiraeas 52 



— P.ambler Roses 52 



— Pruning Hardy Climbers 52 



— Propagation 52 



^ Polnsettias 52 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 52 



— Los Angeles. Cal 53 



— Palms as Sidewalk Trees 53 



Nursery News 54 



— Jamesla Americana 54 



— Park Superintendents 55 



Pittsburg 56 



Terre Haute, Ind 56 



Detroit 58 



Indianapolis 60 



Evansvllle, Ind 62 



Milwaukee 64 



Lexington, Ky 64 



Denver 66 



Toledo. Ohio 66 



New Orleans 68 



Greenhouse Heating 80 



— Hot Water for Long House 80 



— Piping in Ohio 80 



— Hot Water for Two Houses 81 



— Heat for Kansas Range 81 



— An Addition for Carnations 82 



— Cement for Foundation 82 



Louisville, Ky 84 



Syracuse. N. Y 84 



English Ivy for Graves 86 



The Leaf Miner 86 



Plants for Shady Location 88 



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is printed Wednesday evenin^f and 

 mailed early Thursday taoroiag. It 

 is earnestly requested that all adver- 

 tisers and correspondents mail their 

 "copy** to reach us by Monday or 

 Tuesday at latest^ instead of Wed- 

 nesday morning:^ as many have done 

 in the past. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBIC AN FL0BIST8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, 0., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



The Ladies' Home Journal for April 

 contains six halftone reproductions of 

 brides' bouquets made by W. J. Palmer, 

 Buffalo. 



It is surprising how many florists still 

 write letters ordering stock and use plain 

 paper. They forget that "the apparel 

 oft proclaims the man, ' ' 



J. A. Valentine thinks that if there 

 ever has been exhibited a vase of roses 

 more notable than the Killamey staged 

 at Chicago last year by Wm. H. Elliott, 

 it was A. Farenwald's Eichmond, shown 

 at Buffalo. 



It was a false alarm in the matter of 

 the duty on greenhouse glass being 

 changed. Large sizes of window glass 

 are to be admitted at a lower rate if 

 the new tariff bill is not amended, but 

 greenhouse sizes remain the same. What 

 the bill provides for horticultural im- 

 ports is shown on page 41 of this issue. 



The Gardeners ' Chronicle, London, has 

 been following the lead set by the Re- 

 view in 1905 by publishing in serial 

 form an alphabetical list of "The Pro- 

 nunciation of Plant Names." The list 

 has now been reprinted in book form, 

 for sale at 1 shilling, or 28 cents if by 

 post. ^ 



LETTER FROM MRS. SCOTT. 



Ever since the movement was started 

 to erect a monument to my beloved hus- 

 band, I wanted to thank you for your 

 thoughts. The idea, starting as it did 

 in the minds of a few, soon spread into 

 many. And later, at Niagara Falls, 

 when in so short a time a sufficient sum 

 was raised for the placing of the stone, 

 I felt that it was true and sincere appre- 

 ciation of that which he had given you. 

 Whatever he did for the profession of 

 floriculture and for the florists them- 

 selves, he did with all the willingness 

 he could put forth. Shakespeare said, 

 "The evil that men do lives after them; 

 the good is oft interred with their 

 bones." Although true in cases, it was 

 not so with my dear husband, for no 



greater tribute could be paid to the dead 

 than that which you have erected to his 

 memory. When, as in this case, one 

 dear in memory to you, we stand and 

 read what you have said, which is all 

 that could be said of any man, however 

 great in the hall of fame, the massive 

 stone and coldness of the situation dis- 

 appear and only that remains which 

 means so much to us. 



I wish I could thank you, one and all, 

 for myself and family, but I will resort 

 to the press, which has been so kind in 

 this case. 



Mrs. Wm. Scott and Family. 



THE REVIEW DID IT. 



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 have had a nice trade this season on 

 pansles — the Review did It. 



J. H. KRONE, JR. 



Fort Smith, Ark., March 15. 1909. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOQETY. 



Bertermann Bros. Co., Indianapolis, 

 Ind., registers Carnation James Whit- 

 comb Riley; color, clear golden yellow; 

 parentage, Lawson and unknown yellow 

 seedling; size, three to three and one- 

 half inches ; habit, like Lawson, but with 

 longer stems. Albert M. Hebr, See'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The feature of the market for the last 

 ten days has been the active demand for 

 carnations and the consequent good 

 prices. White carnations have been in 

 special demand. This was expected to 

 be the case at St. Patrick's day, when 

 the stock was wanted for dyeing, but 

 it has been a surprise that the special 

 call for white has continued uninterrupt- 

 edly ever since, and white stock has com- 

 manded a premium. Where white has 

 been in special demand and selling above 

 the general run of varieties, Enchant- 

 ress has been in most abundant supply 

 and selling lower than the dark pinks or 

 reds. All carnations have, however, been 

 in much less supply than a year ago at 

 this time, and prices have been averag- 

 ing well above those of this date last 

 year. 



When one of the principal items of 

 supply is in light crop, it nearly always 

 means a good general business and in- 

 creased demand for the more abundant 

 flowers. This has been the case in the 

 last week. Because carnations were held 

 at so much stiffer prices than at the be- 

 ginning of the month, the demand has 

 in part turned to roses, which are in 

 larger supply, and to bulbous stock and 

 other flowers, which were in such large 

 supply that a better sale did not affect 

 prices. 



The general report is that the week 

 from March 15 to 21 was one of the best 

 this market has experienced in years. 

 The current week started off with good 

 business, but with increased supply, es- 

 pecially of roses, and a tendency toward 

 somewhat weaker prices. 



A few consecutive days of bright sun 

 have done much to bring out the stock. 

 -Even Beauties, the one item which has 

 been in short supply for some time, have 

 come on freely and the quality also has 

 been improved. Killamey is abundant, 

 but with many growers the color is pale; 

 . otherwise the stock is fine. The market 

 ' never has had better Maid and Bride 



