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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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April 22, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



630-560 Caxton Building:, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



KKGISTBRBD CABLB ADDRBSS, FLORVIBW, CHICAGO 



New York Office: 



Borouzb 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, lU., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



SOCIETY OF A9IEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobpoeated by Act of Congress March 4, '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg/ 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVEKTISERS. PAGE 8». 



CONTENTS. 



Roses— A Comparison of Results 5 



Schulz's Show (lUus.) 6 



The Spray of Lilies (lUus.-) 6 



Aster Seedlings 6 



How Old is Ann? 7 



Sweet Peas Dying 7 



Asters Under Glass 7 



Chrysanthemums — Notes on Autumn Queen.. 8 



A Fine Private Range (lllus.) 9 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — West 10 



— Yellow Spots on Foliage 10 



— Loss of Lower Foliage 10 



— Carnation Mary Tolman (lllus.) 10 



— Overdose of Wood Ashes 11 



— Wheat Ground for Carnations 11 



— Yellow Carnations 11 



Fischer's Field • (lllus.) 11 



Mealy Bug on Palm Roots 11 



Seasonable Suggestions— Bedding Stock 12 



— Show Pelargoniums 12 



— Cyclamens 12 



— Calceolarias 12 



— Outdoor Annuals 12 



— Hard.v Perennials 12 



Geraniums— Leaves Diseased ^ 12 



— Diseased Geraniums 12 



At Frank's (illus.) 13 



Violets— Single Violets 13 



European Notes 13 



Pelargoniums 14 



A Gotham Group (lllus.) 14 



Obituary 14 



— John Scott (portrait) 15 



Recipe for Killing Weeds 16 



Chicago 16 



Boston 20 



St. Louis 22 



Grand Rapids 24 



New York 25 



Buffalo 27 



Philadelphia 28 



Baltimore 29 



Albany, N. Y 30 



Insect Powder 30 



To Clean Smoky Glass 32 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables.. 32 



Providence, R. 1 34 



Lonlsville. Ky 85 



Steamer Sailings 36 



Seed Trade News 38 



— California Coops 38 



— Seed Trade Approves Aldrlch BUI 40 



— Free Seed Distribution 41 



— To Exploit Canned Goods 43 



Nursery News — Nurseries In Kentucky 60 



— Connecticut Inspection 60 



— Cut Worms 60 



Pacific Coast — Want Us to Eat Raisins 62 



— Bulbs In the Northwest 62 



— McMlnnvIlle, Ore 63 



— San Francisco 63 



Detroit 64 



Indianapolis 66 



Denver 68 



Lexington, Ky 60 



Dayton, Ohio 62 



GYeenhouse Heating — The Smoke Problem... 74 



— Two Small Houses 74 



Cincinnati 76 



Evansville, Ind 78 



New Orleans 80 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Easter will be early in 1910 — March 



27. 



Senator Aldrich, of tariff bill fame, 

 ought to be in sympathy with the trade, 

 all right. Look at his greenhouses on 

 page 9. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Eeviev/ $2, $3, or occasionally $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The English trade papers chronicle the 

 death of a grower through drinking nico- 

 tine extract. In America those who wish 

 to live can find something better to drink, 

 and those who wish to die need not 

 choose so painful a method. 



An item has recently been going the 

 rounds, to the effect that Julius Eoehrs, 

 Mrs. Eoehrs, their daughter and son-in- 

 law have gone to Europe and will visit 

 the Ghent quinquennial show. An Eng- 

 lish correspondent notes that as the 

 next quinquennial is in 1913 the travelers 

 need not make haste. 



VALUABLE TO EVERYONE. 



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. 



The Florists' Review has proved itself a very 

 valuable paper to everyone interested in the flo- 

 rists' business. AMOS F. BALFOOT. 



Albany, N. Y., April 19, 1909. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Committee Appointments. 



President Valentine has appointed the 

 remaining two members of the advisory 

 committee for the trade exhibition at 

 Cincinnati. The committee now stands: 

 Albert McCulIough, chairman; E. Witter- 

 staetter and E. G. Gillett. 



W. N, EUDD, Sec'y. 



April 16, 1909. 



RECIPE FOR KILLING WEEDS. 



Eef erring to page 37 of the Eeview 

 of April 1, please see if the recipe for 

 killing weeds is correct. You sta^e that 

 two pounds of soda, one pound of ar- 

 senic and ten gallons of water, boiled, 

 etc., will cost one cent per gallon. Ar- 

 senic cannot be bought here for less than 

 40 cents per pound and soda at 3i^ cents. 

 That would make the material cost 47 

 cents for ten gallons. Is there not some- 

 thing wrong with your reckoning? 



W. A. M. 



The foregoing query was submitted to 

 Theodore Wirth, the author of the for- 

 mula for weed destruction to which W. 

 A. M. refers. Mr. Wirth replies as fol- 

 lows : 



"In answer to your inquiry regarding 

 the cost of the weed killer which I rec- 

 ommended, I wish to say that the figures 

 given in my statement are correct. We 

 are paying 8.5 cents per pound for the 

 white arsenic, and 1.1 cents for soda, 

 making the total cost for the quantities 

 of materials used in the prescription 

 given 10.7 cents. The one pound •f ar- 

 senic and two pounds of soda, boiled in 

 three gallons of water as described in 

 my prescription, and diluted by seven 

 gallons of water added after the cooking 

 is done, make ten gallons, which makes 

 the cost per gallon a trifle more than 

 1 cent." 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Mrs. J. C. Vaughan, President L. 8. 

 A. F., has appointed the following com- 

 mittees on resolutions: Mrs. Geo. Aamus, 

 Mrs. E, F. Winterson and Mrs. James P. 

 Foley, upon the death of Mrs. P. J. Haus 

 wirth, Chicago; Mrs. W. J. Vesey, to ap- 

 point two associates to act with her upou 

 the death of Mrs. D. E. Gorman, Wil] 

 iamsport. Pa. ; Mrs. F. H. Traendly, Mrs. 

 John Scott and Mrs. John V. Phillips, 

 extending sympathy to E. V. Hallock's 

 family. Will the above committees re 

 port to the secretary as soon as possible i 

 Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



After a holiday there nearly always is 

 a lull in the demand, and Easter was no 

 exception; the trouble is that the market 

 has not yet recovered. In fact, produc- 

 tion has been greatly increased by the 

 few days of spring weather, and practi- 

 cally everything is in oversupply. It is 

 possible to sell through the usual chan- 

 nels only a small part of each day's re- 

 ceipts, and after the needs of the regular 

 buyers have been supplied it is a case of 

 move the surplus in any manner possible. 

 In cut flowers the only scarcity is of 

 cattleyas, for which the grand opera has 

 made a special demand. The price has 

 advanced to from $6 to $9 per dozen, 

 and it is not possible to fill all orders. 

 Smilax also is short of the demand, and 

 hardy cut ferns are running low, so that 

 the price has advanced to $3 per thou- 

 sand. Bulbous stock is pretty well at an 

 end. Southern jonquils are over, and 

 there are light receipts of daffodils grown 

 under glass. Tulips also are about all 

 marketed, but there is no special call for 

 these items. 



Eoses have suffered rather more than 

 anything else. The increase in produc- 

 tion has been so great, of Beauties as 

 well as other roses, that the regular trade 

 can use only a small part. The quality 

 is superlatively good. No better rosea 

 ever were seen in this market, and any- 

 one who can use a quantity of stock can 

 do specially profitable business at this 

 time. Maid is suffering severely because 

 Killamey is so plentiful, and those grow- 

 ers who are beginning to cut Kaiserin 

 find a decidedly slow market because 

 Bride is so good. 



The carnation growers are not picking 

 all they could. Average prices have gone 

 down so that a good many growers are 

 letting the stock hang on the plants in 

 the hope that a day or two will bring a 

 change, but experienced observers feel 

 that there is little prospect of improve- 

 ment in the market for some time. With 

 a majority of the growers, crops are just 

 at the stage where bright weather will 

 bring enormous production. The weather 

 has been cold and dark for weeks, and a 

 turn to pleasant spring days is due. It 

 can mean nothing less than a still further 

 increase in production. Enchantress and 

 Eose-pink Enchantress are suffering more 

 than other carnations. There still is a 

 fair call for white. It is almost sure to 

 be a case of accumulating supplies until 

 Friday, with a cheap clean-up to the de- 

 partment stores and others who run 

 special Saturday sales. 



Sweet peas had a day or two of better 

 prices, but the spring crops are coming 

 in with the largest growers. The weather 

 has been especially favorable for the 

 sweet pea growers, continuing cool and 



