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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 13, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managke. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



530-560 Caxton Building, 

 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



kbcistbrbd 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. 



Only 



Advertising rates quoted upon request, 

 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 AHEBIGAN FLOBISTS. 



Incoepoeated by Act of Congeess Maech 4. '01 



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

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

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

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

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 



to 20, 1909. 

 • 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEES, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



XUe Uelail Florist— Ualax and Flowers (lllus.) 5 



— The Successful Designer 5 



— SInram's Stores (illus.) G 



— Mothers' Day G 



A Louisianian In California 7 



European Notes 7 



Seasonable Suggestions— Bedding Plants."! 8 



— Hardy Bulbous Plants 8 



— Primulas 8 



— Winter-flowering Geraniums 8 



— Berried Solanums 8 



— Cut Worms 8 



Window and Piazza Boxes (lllus.) ..'. 8 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Easter 10 



Splrsea Gladstone 10 



Another Double Canna (lllus.) lo 



Hail Losses XO 



Plant Development !!!!.!.' 11 



Montana's Largest Uange (illus.) '....'. 11 



Carnations — North and South Houses 12 



—Judging Seedlings 12 



Ellison's New Store (illus.> '. 12 



White Fly on House Plants 12 



A Few "New" Insecticides ' 12 



Flcus and Phoenix In Florida (illus.) 13 



Obituary j;j 



An Equalizer or Air Escape .........' 13 



Chicago ■ 14 



St. Louis 18 



Boston 20 



Pittsburg ;.'.'.;.■.'.■ 21 



Dayton, Ohio ' ' " ' ^2 



Oklahoma City , . .'. 2"! 



Bracondalo, Out -nt 



New York ^ 



Philadelphia '.'.'.'.'.'.'..'. 28 



Akron, Ohio " ] 3(j 



State Studies for Florists . ........'. 30 



Leucothoe Catesbaei 32 



Some Favorite Forsythias 3'> 



For Seaside Planting 32 



Providence, I£. I [] 3(j 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Bad Winter in Holland 41 



— Imports ' _ 4 J 



— The Situation in Seeds 41 



— Climatic Influence 41 



— Diseased Bulb Fields 42 



— Some Newer Sweet Peas 42 



Louisville, Ky " '_ ' 43 



Vegetable Forcing — Cucumbers. . . . . . . ." . ! ." .' .' '. 40 



— Winter Onions 46 



Denver !!!!!.!!!!!!!!.' 46 



Nursery News — Nurserymen's Convention...! 52 



— Pomological Society 52 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco .54 



— California Bulb Culture 55 



Ionia, Midi [ [ 55 



Baltimore ! ! 55 



Minneapolis !!!!!!!!!!!!! 58 



Lexington, Ky !!!!!!!!!! GO 



Indianapolis '. ' ' 62 



Columbus, Ohio ! 64 



Kockford, 111 !!!!!!!!! 75 



Greenhouse Heating !!!!!!!! 7G 



— Steam Boiler for Water !!!!!!!! 76 



— A New Texas Place !!!!!!! '76 



— A Two Section House !!! 70 



Cincinnati ' " ' 78 



Cleveland ! ! ! ! go 



Detroit !!!!!!! 82 



New Bedford, Mass ! ! ! ! ! Si 



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RESULTS, 

 give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



Now an open market has been declared 

 by the cement trust. Use concrete. 



The English trade papers continue to 

 voice complaints of bad business at 

 Covent Garden market and generally 

 throughout the industry in that country. 



The latest press bulletins of the 

 National Council of Horticulture are en- 

 titled "The Cockscomb," "Window 

 Gardening," "The Syringa or Mock 

 Orange Bush," "Phlox," "Eoses for 

 the Home Garden, ' ' and ' ' Peonies, ' ' 



PLENTY OF MONEY. 



Secretary J. G. Esler, Saddle Eiver, 

 N. J., says the Florists' Hail Association 

 IS in affluent circumstances, in spite of 

 the drain on its treasury by reason of the 

 more than usually numerous and severe 

 hail storms this season. He writes: 



"After adjusting all losses of which 

 we are at present notified, the association 

 will have remaining in its emergency 

 fund ,$30,000, and in its reserve fund 

 $21,000." 



PLENTY OF ORDERS. 



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 cut out our advertisement of carna- 

 tions and also of seeds, for we are sold out of 

 stock. Please attend to this at once, as we do 

 not want to answer any more letters. Thanking 

 you for past favors. — ScharfC Bros., Van Wert, 

 Ohio, May 3, 1909. 



I'lease discontinue the advertisement for Cedar 

 Acres gladioli; it has brought us all the orders 

 we need. — B. Hammond Tracy, Wenham, Mass., 

 -May 5, 1909. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTs. 



New National Flower Show Committee. 



President Valentine has appointed the 

 following committee to take up and 

 formulate plans for holding another 

 national flower show: F. R. Pierson, 

 chairman; F. H. Tracndly, New York; 

 J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston; W. J. 

 Stewart, Boston; Edwin Lonsdale, Phila- 

 delphia; Kobert Craig, Philadelphia. 

 The committee to liave power to add to 

 its membership at discretion. 



It is the intention that this committee 

 shall have entire cliarge of formulating 

 the preliminary arrangements for a show 

 and that it will be prepared to report at 

 the next convention, suggesting a time to 

 hold the show, the city in which it shall 

 be held, and to perfect and present a 

 complete organization to carry forward 

 tlie project to completion. 



W. N. Kudd, Secy. 



May 7, 1909. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



President Elmer D. Smith has ap- 

 pointed Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., 

 Edwin Jenkins, Lenox, Mass., and I. W. 

 Powell, Millbrook, N. Y., to serve as the 

 executive committee for the ensuing year. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety and the Lenox, Mass., Horticultural 

 Society have affiliated with the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America for the 

 year 1909, and C. S. A. trophies will be 

 offered for chrysanthemums at the fall 

 shows of these societies. 



As secretary of this society, I heartily 

 indorse all that President' Smith has 

 written regarding the wishes of the offi- 

 cers of the Chrysantlienuim Society to in- 



crease its membership. We need everr 

 chrysanthemum enthusiast, and shall 1 • 

 pleased with the support of everyone wh 1 

 grows a chrysanthemum. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



CONDITION OF FARM CROPS. 



The monthly crop report of the Di 

 partment of Agriculture, under date 

 May 7, summarizes the condition of ce: 

 tain crops as follows: 



May l_the area of winter wheat to in 

 harvested' was about 27,871,000 acres, oi 

 2,478,000 acres (8.1 per cent) less tha: 

 the area harvested in 1908, and 2,163,00i 

 acres (7.2 per cent) less than the are,-: 

 sown last fall. 



The average condition of winter wheat 

 May 1 was 83.5, compared with 82.:^ 

 April 1, 89.0 May 1, 1908, and 86.0, the 

 average for the last ten years on May 1. 



The average condition of rye May 1 

 was 88.1, compared with 87.2 April 1, 

 90.3 May 1, 1908, and 89.1, the average 

 for the last ten years on May 1. 



The average condition of meadow 

 (hay) lands May 1 was 84.5, compared 

 with 93.5 May 1, 1908, and a ten-year 

 average. May 1, of 89.5. 



The average condition of pastures May 

 1 was 80.1, compared with 92.6 May 1, 

 1908, and a ten-year average. May 1, of 

 88.0. 



May 1, 64.1 per cent of spring plow- 

 ing was completed, compared with G6.G 

 per cent May 1, 1908, and a ten-year av- 

 erage. May 1, of 65.4 per cent. 



May 1, 51.9 per cent of spring plant- 

 ing was completed, compared with 54.7 

 per cent and 47.0 per cent May 1, 1908 

 and 1907, respectively. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The wholesalers were all well satisfied 

 with the business for the first week in 

 May. In the middle of the week there 

 were two days of summer heat, which did 

 much injury to the quality of stock, but 

 cool weather came again in time to pre- 

 vent serious overproduction, Thursday 

 and Friday, and Friday always is a good 

 shipping clay, were strengthened by the 

 special demand for Mothers' day. This 

 celebration had little effect locally, but 

 many out-of-town order? were received 

 which specified white stock for Mothers' 

 day. The result was steady if not high 

 prices, and on the whole the week was an 

 exceptionally good one. 



The rose market weakened perceptibly 

 when the temperature shot up to summer 

 altitudes last week, and has not yet re- 

 covered. The supply of Beauties is now 

 the largest that it has been this spring 

 and prices are down about to the lowest 

 levels. More growers than over before 

 have provided for a summer crop, and 

 fine stock is being cut, both from plants 

 given a winter rest and from young 

 stock which was planted in new houses 

 late last fall. There is a larger propor- 

 tion than usual of medium and short 

 lengths of fine quality. Killarney con- 

 tinues to hold the lead among other roses, 

 both in supply, in popularity and in 

 price, while in quality it outranks Maid 

 or Bride and is fully as good as Eich- 

 mond. The hot weather produced a 

 swarm of thrips in many rose houses, and 

 the sudden fluctuations in temperature 

 brought mildew to not a few growers, so 

 the quality of roses is not what it has 

 been, but is again improving with cooler 

 weather. 



Next to roses and carnations, sweet 



