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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SEPTEMBER 14, 1011. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



O. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqeb. 



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INDEX TO ADVERTI6EBS, PAGE 94. 



OOXTENTS 



The Kotiiil Florist 7 



— Lettering on Designs (llius.) 7 



— Photographs and Drawings 7 



Chrysantlieuiams 8 



— Whei! to Take tlie Bud 8 



— Taking the Bud 8 



— Both have Fungous Disease 8 



Sweet Peas 8 



— Sweet Peas Duuiping Off 8 



Dutch Bulbs 9 



— How to Make them Pay 1» 



Knlght-Struck-Darlington (lilus.) 10 



Will Improve Soil 11 



Picking off Primula Buds 11 



Lilies in Cool Houses 11 



Compost for Dutch Bulbs 11 



New York 11 



The Bayersdorfer Building (lUus.) 12 



Toledo, 1.3 



Boston 13 



St. Louis 14 



Stamford, Conn 14 



Providence 15 



Rochester 15 



Des Moines, la 15 



Bernardsville, N. J 15 



Pittsburg 10 



Indianapolis 16 



Columbus, 10 



Obituary 17 



— Lewis Chase 17 



— Louis Nadig 17 



— John Leavy 17 



Terre Haute, Ind 17 



The Western Society 18 



Gladiolus Topics 18 



Express Rates Reduced 18 



Chicago 18 



Soutblngton. Conn 24 



Cleveland 24 



Philadelphia 26 



St. Paul, Minn 27 



Westerly, H. 1 29 



New Bedford, Mass 30 



Dayton, Ohio 34 



Erie, Pa 30 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Nuriery News 44 



— Texas Nurserymen Meet 44 



— Borers on Norway Maples 46 



Pacific Coast 46 



— Aberdeen, Wash 46 



— Portland, Ore 46 



— San Francisco 47 



Seed Trade News 50 



— Harvesting Seed Crops at Wuldo Kohnert's 

 (lllus. ) 50 



— Peas in Utah .52 



— Bad Prospects 54 



— Holland Bulbs 50 



— Imports ,58 



— Catalogues Received !)8 



Vegetable Forcing 60 



— Cucumbers for Tl.nuksgivlng 60 



Evansville, Ind 02 



Milwaukee 04 



Washington, D. C 60 



Buffalo 08 



Wichita, Kan 70 



Minneapolis 82 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— In Northwestern Louisiana 84 



— A Canvas Covtred House 84 



— In Western Canada 80 



Baltimore 88 



Toronto SK) 



Cincinnati 00 



New Orleans 92 



Ne^B<burgh, N. B".— The fNew.burgh 

 Floral Co. is opening a downtown 

 branch which is to be up-to-date in 

 every respect. A full line of seeds and 

 nursery stock will also be carried. 



BOOIETT OF AXEIIICAN FL0BI8T8. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmus, 

 Chicago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md. ; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Officers for 1912: President, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md.; vice-president, August Poehl- 

 maun, Morton Grove, 111. ; secretary, John Young, 

 Bedford Hills, N. Y.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention, Chicago, III., August 20 to 

 23, 1912. 



Kesults bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



It is poor economy to save coal at the 

 expense of a buoyant atmosphere in the 

 greenhouses. Give the plants air. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Review $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The sixteenth annual flower show of 

 the Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society will be held at Madison, 

 N. J., October 26 and 27. A schedule 

 may be had by addressing Edward Rea- 

 gan, secretary. 



This is fair season, and in many state 

 and county exhibitions the florists are 

 taking a more conspicuous part than 

 heretofore. It is good advertising and 

 usually reaches a class of people not to 

 be got in touch with by the usual means. 



Ruscus has been sold in great quan- 

 tities this season and promises to be the 

 popular Christmas specialty — but it 

 comes from Italy, where the cholera is 

 disorganizing business, especially ship- 

 ping, and no one knows what the supply 

 Avill be. 



Preparations for the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion of 1912, which is expected to break 

 all records, were begun September 7, 

 when, at a well attended meeting, the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club voted authority to 

 President H. E. Philpott to organize a 

 full list of committees to carry on the 

 work. 



THE WESTERN SOCIETY. 



The Western Dahlia and Gladiolus So- 

 ciety will hold its adjourned meeting 

 at Wiegand's conservatories, 1610 North 

 Illinois street, Indianapolis, Ind., Sep- 

 tember 26. All growers are invited to 

 attend and exhibit. 



E. T. Barnes, President. 



GLADIOLUS TOPICS. 



I have just returned from a most en- 

 joyable trip through Massachusetts to 

 the gladiolus farm of L. Merton Gage, 

 of Orange, the secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Gladiolus Society. Among his ex- 

 tensive collection are many seedlings 

 worthy of perpetuating, of his own 

 raising, also many of the latest Eu- 

 ropean novelties, and a large block of 

 Mrs. Frank Pendleton, Jr., the exquis- 

 ite pink which received the society's 

 certificate of merit at Baltimore. 



I noticed this year among my seed- 

 lings one which has creamy-white varie- 

 gated foliage. A broad white stripe 

 runs through each leaf and up through 

 each flower sheath. The flower is cerise 

 scarlet, of good form and size and six 

 open at once on the spike. It is also 

 a vigorous appearing plant. 



As this is a novelty to me I thought 

 perhaps it might be of interest and 

 would like to. know if anything of the 

 sort has ever appeared in other collec- 

 tions. H. E. Header. 



EXPRESS RATES REDUCED. 



A general reduction in express rates 

 applying to all shipments within the 

 state and ranging from ten to twenty- 

 five per cent was ordered last week 

 by the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse 

 Commission, to take effect October 1. 

 The reductions, which have been sought 

 by the Chicago commercial interests 

 for several years, were promulgated by 

 the commission in Express Tariff No. 

 2, prescribing reasonable maximum 

 rates for the state, in which every 

 change is a reduction. 



The tariff prescribes a new schedule 

 of rates per 100 pounds, according to 

 distance, and also a new system of 

 graduate scales, applying on shipments 

 of less than 100 pounds weight, com- 

 prising the great bulk of the express 

 business. The most important single 

 reduction is in the rate for 100-pound 

 shipments for distances up to thirty 

 miles, which is placed at 40 cents. The 

 express companies have been charging 

 50 cents. This covers the Chicago 

 suburban district. The reductions in the 

 graduate scales, however, cover prac- 

 tically all kinds of shipments. 



Although there have been threats of 

 a new legal contest by the express 

 companies, several have advised the 

 commission that they are willing to 

 give the new rates a trial. 



The schedule of merchandise 100 

 pound rates ranges from 40 cents for 

 thirty miles or less up to $2 for 500 

 miles. Between thirty and sixty miles 

 the rate is 50 cents and between ninety 

 and 120 miles it is 60 cents. These 

 rates are not comparable with the pres- 

 ent charges because the rates are not 

 now consistently based on distance. 



CHICAOO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There has been more or less improve- 

 ment since last report, but it has been 

 what the Irishman described as * ' steady 

 by jerks." Some days there would be 

 a run of telegraph orders that would 

 make the day look like the real opening 

 of the busy season, but after the spurt 

 the market would relapse to the quiet 

 conditions which have prevailed for 

 some weeks. The aster continues to be 

 the obstacle to a brisk demand in other 

 lines. The expected shortening of 

 supplies in the aster department has 

 not occurred, though the approach of 

 the end of the season is apparent in the 

 condition of some of the stock now 

 coming in. There continue to be more 

 high grade asters than there is any 

 demand for, and there are quantities of 

 the lower grades for which there is no 

 possibility of satisfactory sale. The 

 weather is so fine that the aster growers 

 find everything in their favor except 

 the condition of the market. 



T&9 increase which has been noted 

 in t^e demand has largely been for 

 Beauties, the better grades of Kil- 

 larneys, and for chrysanthemums. Some 

 of the city stores that handle Beauties 

 in quantity are again doing a fair 

 amount of business and the shipping 

 orders are largely running to roses. 

 Apparently the out-of-town buyers have 

 all the asters that they can use on 

 their cheaper work and they also ap- 

 pear to have as many short roses 

 as are fleeded. The rose supply here 

 continues good. Killarney and White 

 Killarney are the leaders, of course. But 





