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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVBMBEE 9, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



Q. L. GRANT. Editoe and Manaokb. 



PUBLISHED KVEBY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



580-560 Caxton Bailding, 



508 South Dearborn St., ChlcaKo. 



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New York Office: 



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Sabacriptlon price. tl.OO a year. To Canada. 92.00 

 To Europe, $2.60. 



AdvertlBiDgr rates quoted upon reqaeet. Only 

 Itrlctly trade adTerttslng sxMsepted, 



AdTertlsementa must reach us by 6 p. m Taeeday, 

 to Insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897. 

 at the poet-office at Chicago. 111., under the act of 

 Uarch 8. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. PAOE IQg, 



CONTENTS. 



The Autumn Exhibitions 



— St. Louis 9 



— Tarryto^vn, N. Y. (lUus.) 9 



— MacKorle-McLaren Group (illus.) 



— Philadelphia 10 



— Stamford, Conn 10 



— Glencove. N. Y 10 



— Chicago (Illus.) 11 



— Chestnut HIU, Pa 11 



— New York 12 



— Poughkeepsle, N. Y 12 



Sweet Pea Society 12 



Chrysanthemums — Bainbrulge's Success (Illus) 13 



— Work of the Mum Society 13 



C. S. A. Annual Meeting 14 



Work of H. R. Fisher (Illus.) 14 



Bulbs Eaten by Moles 14 



To Kill Moles and Rats 14 



Vlncaa For Spring Sales 15 



Violets — In a Frame 15 



Hyacinths 15 



Seasonable Suggestions — Canterbury Bells.... 16 



— Coreopsis Graudiflora 16 



— Stevia 16 



— Llnum Trigynum 16 



— Biennials and Perennials 16 



— Polnsettias " 16 



Carnations — Both Have Stigmonose 16 



— What is Eating the Plants? 17 



A Start In Ericas 17 



J. Otto Thilow (portrait) 17 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 18 



Sweet Peas — For Summer 18 



— Gladioli or Sweet Peas 18 



That Thin Concrete Bench 19 



MUlepeds . . . ^ 19 



Floral Hill Greenhouses (Illus. ) 19 



Ferns — Caterpillars on Ferns 20 



— Spores, Not Scales 20 



EvansTllle, Ind 20 



Obituary 20 



News Notes 21 



When Thermometers Differ 22 



The Western Association 22 



Chicago 22 



New Orleans 28 



Minneapolis 28 



Philadelphia 30 



Richmond, Ind 33 



New York 34 



Boston 37 



Pacific Coast — San Diego. Cal 42 



— A Los Angeles Seed Store (Illus.) 42 



— Portland, Ore 42 



— San Francisco 44 



Rochester 45 



St. Louis 47 



Steamer Sailings 50 



Seed Trade News 54 



— Exports of Japanese Bulbs 54 



— Valley Pips 56 



— Holland Bulbs 56 



— Residue Seed Crops ."ie 



— Noxious Seed Laws 58 



— German Seed Crops 60 



Washington, D. C 62 



Vegetable Forcing — Grubs on Strawberries 62 



Livingston, Mont 61 



Nursery News 68 



— Caterpillar on Fruit Trees 68 



— California Privet 68 



— San Jose Scale 68 



— Nurseries In Idaho 68 



Detroit 70 



Cleveland 72 



Dayton 74 



Columbus, 76 



Baltimore 78 



Herlngton, Kan 80 



Providence 90 



Cincinnati 91 



Greenhouse Heating — Eastern Fuel Market... 92 



— Three Kansas Houses 92 



— Return Pipes Are Cold 94 



— Trouble With the Draft 95 



Westerly, R. 1 96 



Springfield, 96 



Indianapolis 98 



Bowling 100 



Soathington, Conn 100 



SPECIAL 



AUTUMN NUMBER 



This annaal edition will be issued 

 at the time of the big fall flower 

 shows, and just in time for the 

 Thanksgiving trade,' i ., • 4 



NOVEMBER 16 



It will be in every way up to the 

 high standard that has made these 

 special issues so popular with all 

 in the trade. 



Advertisers will do well to 

 send copy as early as possible. 



Ftrnu cine at S f. m. Ntvember 14. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS, 

 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. P. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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

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

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

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

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention. Chicago, 111., August 20 to 

 23, 1012. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



At the Tarrytown show eight silver 

 cups were offered as prizes. 



Printed letter-heads are so cheap that 

 it is an extravagance to do without them. 



The two most' popular pompon mums 

 in the middle west are Diana, white, 

 and Klondike, yellow. 



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. 



Swinging around the circle of the 

 western flower shows, President-elect R. 

 Vincent, Jr., of the S. A. F., is following 

 the precedent set by other presidents in 

 his neighborhood, getting in touch with 

 the people. 



WHEN THERMOMETERS DIFFER. 



Can some reader of The Review en- 

 lighten us on the thermometer ques- 

 tion? We find that our thermometers 

 disagree, registering from 2 to 15 

 degrees apart, either in hot water or 

 while hanging together in the same 

 spot. We have many different kinds, 

 mostly colored so as to be easily read 

 at a distance, but we have no way of 

 knowing which one, if any one, is right. 



We have bought high-priced ones and 

 cheap ones and find that the more cost- 

 ly ones vary about as much as the oth- 

 ers. Each season we have bought a 

 new one with which to test the old 

 ones, and for this purpose we select 

 one from a dozen or two, choosing the 

 one that registers the farthest from the 

 two extremes. Yet, only a short time 

 after testing and marking all our col- 

 lection of thermometers, they all begin 

 to vary again. Though "children of 

 one family," as in the nursery rhyme, 

 yet they do not agree. 



We also find that some thermometers 



register slowly; hence, though we may 

 look at two or more of them now and 

 find the readings several degrees apart, 

 if we look again in a half hour w'e may 

 find that they agree, or nearly so. 



What kind of thermometers do you 

 other florists use, and how do you know 

 what the temperature of the room is 

 when you do look at the thermometers? 



John Tenbrook. 



THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION. 



On account of the late season for 

 harvesting and the inability of mem- 

 bers to attend, the adjourned meeting 

 of the Western Dahlia and Gladiolus 

 Association, of August 5, that was 

 called for November 15 at the Sherman 

 House, Chicago, will be adjourned till 

 Friday, December 15, at The same time 

 and place. An exhibition of bulbs will 

 also be held in connection with the 

 meeting, in some appropriate place to 

 be decided later. An evening meeting 

 is also planned, at which papers on in- 

 teresting topics connected with the busi- 

 ness will be offered. The program will 

 be published in full in Bulletin No. 

 2 of the association, about December 1. 

 All growers are cordially invited to 

 attend. 



E. S. Thompson, giec'y. 



H. W. Koerner, V.-Pres. and 

 Chairman. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The week now under review was not 

 so lively as the one preceding — it 

 lacked the stimulus of the big ' All 

 Saints' day demand from the south — 

 but it made, nevertheless, an excellent 

 record compared with what is usual in 

 the first seven days of November. City 

 trade is not especially strong as yet, 

 consisting largely of funeral work, of 

 which there has been a great deal at 

 times, but shipping business is active, 

 showing that the much discussed vol- 

 ume of greenhouse building at outside 

 points has as yet done nothing to cir- 

 cumscribe this market; the increase in 

 glass has not equaled the outside in- 

 crease in demand. 



Prices barely have held the advance 

 made a fortnight ago. Short Beauties 

 and short roses are scarce, but of other 

 stock there has been enough, though 

 with little to spare. Supply and de- 

 mand have been pretty well balanced; 

 not so strong demand as the whole- 

 salers like, not so large supplies as re- 

 tailers prefer to see. 



Chrysanthemums have come in heav- 

 ily* yet there has been no glut. Visit- 

 ors here say Chicago mums are ten 

 days ahead of those of other sections. 

 High prices have not been made, but 

 good average figures have been realized 

 thus far. The growers are pushing the 

 mums in as fast as they can, to replant 

 with sweet peas. Pompons are more 

 plentiful than ever before. 



Beauties have been doing firSt-rate, 

 considering that it is the middle of the 

 mum season. The quantity is fairly 

 large, the quality generally excellent. 

 Of the other roses, the range of choice 

 is large; never has the market offered 

 so many varieties. There probably are 

 as many Killarney and White Killarney 

 as all other varieties combined, but 

 Maryland is offered in considerable 

 quantity. Ward is the one the buyers 

 take on sight; "the ladies have given it 

 a splendid welcome in the retail stores 



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