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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Apbil 8, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



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 To Europe, $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



AdvertisinE: 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 master December 3, 

 1897, at the post-office bt Chicago. 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. , „ , „ ^ 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



INOOBPOBATED BY ACT OF CONaSSSS MABCH 4, '01 



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

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

 Cincinnati, 0.; secretary, Willis N. Rudd, Mor- 

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTI8RB8 PAGE 78. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— Galax and Sweet Peas (lUus. ) 5 



— The Yale Scene (lllus.) 5 



— Publicity (lllus.) 5 



Camellia Japonica 5 



An Independent Glass Trust 5 



How to Make Good Lawns 6 



— Sod and Sodding 



Angleworms 7 



Seasonable Suggestions — Hydrangeas 7 



— Bedding Plants 7 



— Brief Reminders 8 



A House of Callas (iUus.) 8 



How Old Is Ann ? 8 



Greenhouse Foundations 9 



Wanted— Improved Zinnias 9 



Geraniums — Diseased Geraniums 9 



Ornamental Crab Apples (illus.) 9 



Carnations 10 



— Carnation Sbow In London 10 



Roses — Rambler Roses 11 



— Hardy Roses 12 



Boston 12 



Herman D. Schilling (portrait) 12 



Obituary— William Hagemann 12 



— WiUlam Freytag 12 



— J. B. Boland 12 



— W. G. Palmanteer 13 



— Charles Read 13 



— Henry Eberhardt 13 



— Horace C. Smith 13 



— WlUlam H. Derby 13 



Florists' Automobiles (lllus) 13 



Sweet Pea Society 14 



American Carnation Society 14 



Chicago 14 



Mllwankee 18 



New York 20 



Society of American Florists 22 



Brie, Pa 23 



Philadelphia- 24 



St. Louis 26 



Scranton, Pa 30 



Steamer Sailings 32 



Richmond. Ind 82 



Seed Trade News — Tariff Matters 34 



— Imports 35 



— Japanese and French Bulbs 36 



— Resolutions on Free Seeds 36 



— Farmers Holding Clover Seed 37 



Boston, Continued 38 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 46 



Vegetable Forcing _ 47 



— Greenhouse Vegetables ' 47 



— Asparagus and Rhubarb 47 



— Diseased Tomato Plants 47 



— Fertilizer for Tomatoes 47 



— Endive 47 



Cleaning Greenhouse Glass 47 



Nursery News 48 



— Evergreen Seedlings Free 48 



— Another Hardy Hydrangea 48 



— Tree Surgeons Organlie 48 



Minneapolis 52 



Indianapolis 54 



Baltimore 58 



Worcester, Mass 58 



Greenhouse Heating — Data on Heating 70 



— Radiating Surface of Pipe 70 



New Bedford, Mass 71 



Montreal 72 



Pittsburg 74 



Lexington. Ky 74 



Cincinnati 76 



Calumet, Mich 76 



EESULTS. 

 We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. » 



An observer says : ' ' Bits of everything 

 is something of nothing to sell, but a 

 good staple crop always pays its way." 



Send in a report of Easter trade in 

 your town, but do it so it will reach the 

 Review not later than Wednesday morn- 

 ing, April 14. 



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 of the paper. 



If G. G. F., Batavia, III., who is not a 

 subscriber, sees this and will send his 

 full name and address, the Review will 

 take pleasure in replying to his questions 

 of April 4. Anonymous communications 

 never can receive attention. 



The New England Dahlia Society has 

 issued the schedule of premiums for its 

 second annual exhibition, to be held at 

 Boston September 10 to 12. Copies may 

 be had by addressing the secretary, 

 Maurice Fuld, 5 Union street, Boston. 



The proceedings of the eighteenth an- 

 nual meeting of the American Carnation 

 Society, held at Indianapolis, January 27 

 and 28, have been issued by the secretary. 

 It is a pamphlet of 108 pages and con- 

 tains, in addition to the report of the 

 meeting, chronicled in the Review at the 

 time, a list of the carnations registered 

 during 1908 and a list of the members 

 of the society. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The Review has openings for corre- 

 spondents in Toronto, in Washington, 

 Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Omaha 

 and other cities not now represented reg- 

 ularly in these columns. A pleasant con- 

 nection for those having interest in news- 

 paper work. . 



SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



Those who in this country devote any 

 considerable amount of attention to sweet 

 peas have for a long time felt the de- 

 sirability of a special organization of 

 those interested in that flower. The move- 

 ment to organize has now taken definite 

 form, Harry A. Bunyard, with Arthur T. 

 Boddington, New York, taking the ini- 

 tiative in sending out a call as per the 

 subjoined letter, which has been ad- 

 dressed to something over 100 persons. 



The primary object is to increase the 

 love for sweet peas in a general way, to 

 make them more popular with the ama- 

 teur, to classify the varieties in their 

 colors and to eliminate the too-much-alike 

 varieties; also to straighten out some of 

 the kinks in the nomenclature. Mr. Bun- 

 yard's call for organization June 14 is 

 as follows: 



Acquiescing in the desire to start a 

 National Sweet Pea Association, on the 

 lines of other kindred societies, I write 

 to ask you for your support in an effort 

 to stimulate a general acceptance of the 

 idea, and to give impetus to the good 

 seed that has fallen, so that it may bring 

 forth a hundred fold and blossom into a 

 live and useful organization. 



The sweet pea is the poor man's or- 

 chid, easy of culture and loved by all, is 

 becoming more popular every year and 

 can be seen in flower practically all the 

 year around, thanks to the so-called 

 Christmas varieties. 



Harry Turner, president of the New 



York Florists' Club, will lend his i-flu. 

 ence to the project, insomuch that the 

 June meeting (with the consent oj the 

 club) will be set aside for a sweet pea 

 exhibition; on this date, June 14, ;» jg 

 proposed to organize the National S, eet 

 Pea Association and to arrange a oro- 

 gram for future action. 



The exhibition will be a modest first 

 effort. W. Atlee Burpee writes that ' ' he 

 would be pleased indeed to offer a cup 

 and contribute towards the expense- of 

 establishing such a society." Arthi:r T. 

 Boddington also promises a cup and any 

 necessary contribution. 



Won't you help the cause along either 

 by your good wishes and moral 8up])ort 

 or other manifestations of good will and 

 interest? It is going to be a success— it 

 must be a success. 



Harry A. Bunyard, Sec 'y Pro Tcm. 



THE SUBSCRIBERS' VIEW. 



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. And the results 

 are in direct proportion to the position a 

 publication has earned with its readers. 



I wish your valued paper every success It 

 merits, as It Is the most Instructive trade pub- 

 lication printed today, and I would wish that 

 you were compelled to use ten tons of paper, 

 instead of nearly three, as I truly believe every 

 florist would be Instructed that would read it. 

 But then, again, you might become bankrupt, 

 as you surely give lots of reading for the 

 money. Frank M. Bakei-. 



Attleboro, Mass., April 4, 1909. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Notice to Members. 



Members, please take notice that all of 

 the papers, etc., pertaining to the secre- 

 tary's ofiice have been forwarded to our 

 new secretary, A. F. J. Baur, Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind. Dues, registrations and all 

 other matters pertaining to this office 

 should now be addressed to Mr. Baur. 



Albert M. Herk. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There was pronounced improvement in 

 the market the latter part of last week, 

 and conditions at the close of the week 

 were in marked contrast to the state of 

 affairs at the beginning. Carnations stif- 

 fened in price much more than any other 

 item, but roses also came to the fiont 

 April 2 and 3, bringing decidedly better 

 prices than they had two or three days 

 before. This week starts off with a 

 pleasingly active market, an activity 

 which is expected to increase day by day 

 until April 8 and April 9 are expeited 

 to make a new record for volume of biisi- 

 ness in this market. 



The consensus of opinion is that there 

 will be an abundance of stock in all li'i^s. 

 except possibly of carnations, and of 

 these latter no special shortage is ex- 

 pected. As early as Monday, April 5, 

 sales of carnations were made at 6 ct nts, 

 but it is not fair to assume that this vas 

 a market price, as it only applied to 

 special stock or under special cirdim- 

 stances. There will be enough carnations 

 so everyone can get some at reasonable 

 prices, although fancy white is likeU to 

 be considerably short in demand, vnd 

 will be held at fancy figures. 



Of roses there is an immense sui I'ly- 

 Beauties are in only fair crop, but the 

 Beauty is not an Easter flower, and the 

 supply is likely to equal the demnnd. 



