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The Wcckiy Florists' Review. 



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4. itet. 



INDEX TO ASVEaTISEBB, FAQE 70. 



CONTENTS. 



The aetaU Florist 21 



— Store Displays for Saster 21 



— Preparatlotfs for the Rush 22 



— Dwarf Azaleas (Ulus. ) 24 



— The Rambler Roses (lllus. ) 24 



— The Genista (Ulus.) 24 



— Two Good Sellers (Ulus.) 24 



— Grassy Twig Hampers (lllus. ) 24 



— Hampers of Plants (Ulus.) 24 



— The Baby Ramblers (Ulus. ) 25 



— The Basket of Brunners (lllus.) 26 



— Regulating the ReUUers 25 



— The Rock of Ages (Ulus. ) 26 



— That Worthless Check 28 



— Cut Out the Cigars 27 



Floriculture In lUlnols 28 



Roses 28 



— Greenfly In Rose Houses 28 



— Moving KUlarney Roses 28 



— Rose Anthracnose 29 



— Rose Plants for the Bench 29 



— White Ants in Rose Soil 29 



— Budded vs. Own-Root Roses 29 



— Boses for a Grmve 80 



Florlcultaral Bducatlon (Ulns.) 30 



Seasonable Suggestions 30 



— Kaster {'reparations 30 



-.- Easter L!ii«>s SI 



— Fancy -Ijeevwi Galadlums SI 



— Ckladlum E wml eM l iiai SI 



— Outdoor Bulbous PlaiitB St 



— ■M«4y Perennial Plants SI 



— '^enatal Phlox SS 



Keep Up "«» Sate SS 



The New Secretmr (portrait) SI 



How Old is Ann? SS 



Cleaning Greenhouse Glass 9S 



St; Louis Spring Show S8 



Boston Spring Show (Ulus. ) 34 



Roland's SUver Medal Group (Ulus.).., 84 



MacMuIkin's Mantel Decoration (lUus.) 34 



Farquhar's Japanese Garden (lllus.) 35 



Baker and His Background (lllus.) 36 



G«ranlums 36 



— The Bedding Stock 36 



— Geranium Leaves Diseased 36 



— Geraniums In Solid Beds 36 



— Pinching Geraniums 36 



— Geraniums for Memorial Day 36 



— Treatment for PlanU 37 



Gloriosa Uothschildiana (Ulus.) 37 



Killing Weeds 37 



Violets 37 



— Violets Light Colored 37 



— Princess of Wales 87 



Worcester, Mass 87 



Carnations 38 



— Cuttings Fail to Root 38 



— Rust on Rooted Cuttings 38 



— Used Old Sou (Ulus.) 38 



— Carnations in England 38 



American Carnation Society 38 



HaU's Concrete Bench (lllus.) 39 



Obituary 30 



— Edward GUI 39 



WIU SeU Out 40 



Cloth for Coldf rame 40 



Business is Good 40 



Cliloago 40 



Buffalo 44 



Philadelphia 46 



New York 50 



St Louis 52 



Boston 53 



Seed Trade News 56 



— March in the Seed Trade 69 



— Government Work on' Seeds 62 



Vegetable Forcing 65 



— Greenhouse Vegetables 65 



— French Endive 65 



— Quantity of Seed Per Acre 65 



Indianapolis 68 



Cincinnati 76 



Steamer Snilings 78 



It'ls to Laugh 78 



Pacific Coast SO 



— California Gums for limber SO 



— Santa Cruz, Cal RO 



— San Francisco 81 



— Primula Seed S2 



NoTHPrv News 84 



— LlabUlty Is Doubled 84 



— ^ Bones as a Tree Fertilizer S4 



— (Jovprnment Willow Culture 86 



Baltlfcore 88 



New Bedford, Mass 90 



Ashtabula. Ohio 90 



Milwaukee 92 



I^exlneton, Kv 94 



Pittsburg ^'i 



Minneapolis 98 



Dayton, Ohio lOO 



Detroit ; 102 



Columbus, Ohio 110 



GrasHhopppfs in Aster Field 1 12 



Toledo. Ohio 112 



Greenhouse Building 114 



Black Ants ; ;•. . . .114 



PuWirntions Received 116 



Chooidng the -Shrubs 116 



Greenhouse ITeatlng 118 



— An Underground Steam Pipe 118 



— Diameter of Smokestack 118 



— Capacity of Boiler 120 



— Plp.'ne fnr an Extension 1''0 



Peckv Crpress 122 



Nephrolepls Whltmani 122 



Albuquerque, N. M 124 



Erie, Pa 128 



Halifax. Mass : : . . . .126 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqbk. 



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Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

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 following day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 

 1897, at the post-oflftce at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCISn 99 AKEBICAN FLORISTS. 



ijrooKPtwiTBB an Act ot Congress March 4, '01 



OSmxb for 19Wt PvHrident, 3. A. Valentine, 

 Denrer, Oate.; vteeipresident. . E. G. GlUett, 

 CtnelBoxtl. ^.•, msi\muj . Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

 gan Park, lU.i treatnicer, H. B. Beatty, Pitts- 

 burg. 



.\nnual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



In March the Review provided for its 

 readers 380 pages of matter, more than 

 ever before were printed in four consecu- 

 tive issues. 



And now the French growers have 

 organized a special society for the car- 

 nation. Its title is La Soci6t6 Nationale 

 des CEillettistes. The general secretary 

 is M. Jules Grec, of Antibes. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle, London, 

 prints .a picti^re of a range of seven 

 houses, each 12x300 feet, that recently 

 collapsed utterly under the weight of 

 snow. It was W. Wood's place at Dart- 

 ford Heath. 



W. J. Palmer & Son, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 referring to the item on page 18 of last 

 week 's Beview noting the illustrations of 

 their bridal bouquets in the April Ladies ' 

 Home Journal, say they also provided 

 the photograph from which the cover de^ 

 sign of the Journal was prepared. 



This week 's set of notices for the gen- 

 eral press, sent out by the National Coun- 

 cil of Horticulture, are entitled "Sweet 

 Peas and Other Good Annuals," "How 

 to Select Shrubs," and "What to Plant 

 in April," the latter referring to vege- 

 table seeds. Many florists and nursery- 

 men arrange with their local papers to 

 advertise the stock referred to in these 

 press notices in the same i^sue in which 

 the articles appear. If your local paper 

 does not receive the notices, write J. H. 

 Burdett, 1720 West One Hundred and 

 Fourth place, Chicago. 



WILL SELL OUT. 



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. 



Please discontinue our classified advertise- 

 ment. r.4»st week's issue sold 8,800 plants and 

 as we had only about 20,000 we care to sell, we 

 think we will be liable to dispose of the balance 

 iin the orders that will still be coming along. 



WARRICK BROS. 



Wasllington, Pa., Milrch 27, 1909. 



Haedly a day passes that the Bevmw 

 does not receive a perfectly proper re- 

 quest for information from someone who 

 writes on plain paper and signs only 

 initials. No one cares to answer anony- 

 mous questions, and of course where the 

 initials do not correspond with those of 

 someone on our mailing list at that post- 

 office there is nothing to do but put the 

 query in the waste-basket. Full names 

 never are used in the Review in replying 

 to a question, but that we shall know the 

 identity of the one who asks the question 

 is due us both as a matter of courtesy 

 and as a guaranty of good faith. 



CLOTH FOR COLDFRAME. 



The Review has received the following 

 inquiry : * ' Will you kindly send me the 

 addresses of firms that furnish elotb that 

 is prepared to be used on eoldframes? 

 The cloth is oiled or waxed and is used 

 in the place of glass." 



If any reader knows of the manufac- 

 turer of such an article the Review 

 would be glad to hear the address. 



BUSINESS IS GOOD. 



Business already is good with the 

 plantsmen who grow spring stock. A. B. 

 Reimers, of the Mosb«ek Greenhouse Co., 

 writes as follows: 



"We have been studying all the week 

 what we should advertise specially in the 

 Easter Number, and are at a loss what 

 to make special mention of. Either your 

 paper is doing exceptionally fine work, or 

 this is an unusual season, for we are 

 already rushed with orders and it is hard 

 for us to keep the supply up to the 

 demand. It is four times as easy to sell 

 a dollar's worth of plants this year as it 

 was last, and from all quarters we hear 

 that the stocks in retailers' hands have 

 been unusually low, and the same way 

 with wholesalers." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market suffered an attack of indi- 

 gestion last week, but relief came on 

 Friday in the shape of an unusually 

 heavy run of large orders from the 

 special sales people. There were dozens 

 of buyers who took from 500 to 5,000 

 roses, or from 1,000 to 10,000 carnations. 

 The prices were low compared to rates 

 for the preceding fortnight, but were 

 good considering the accumulation of 

 stock. This week there has been a re- 

 lapse, one which may be described as 

 acute, although everyone hopes it is not 

 to become chronic. Practically everything 

 is piling up and the short and distasteful 

 word glut is almost the only one which 

 can be used to describe the present con- 

 dition. 



It always is noticeable that when crops 

 come on in the Chicago market, they also 

 come on with those who produce part of 

 their own supplies, or who get part at 

 home, and who thereupon cancel their 

 standing orders in this market. A large 

 number of people have regular orders 

 here. By regular they apparently mean 

 orders which are to be shipped regularly 

 as long as they want the stock and to be 

 canceled at pleasure, in Spite of the fact 

 that the cancellation always comes when 

 the wholesaler is most anxious that the 

 shipment should go out. Every now and 

 then it happens that the cancellation 

 comes in by wire after the box is packed 

 and entered in the express book. But all 

 the wholesaler has to do is to look pleas- 



