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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBEB IT, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



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INDEX TO ADVEKTIBEBS, FAOE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Autumn Exhibitions 13 



— Indiauapolis (illus.) 13 



— Philadelphia 14 



— St. Louis 15 



— Chicago (illus.) 16 



— MUwaukee (illus.) 19 



— New York (illus.) 22 



— Minneapolis 24 



— Lake Geneva, Wis 24 



A Silver Anniversary 24 



— M. Rice (portrait) 25 



The Surprise Box (illus. ) 26 



Obituary — Henry C. Fruck 26 



— Luther T. Seaver 26 



— Charles Edward Pease 26 



— P. J. Berckmans (portrait) 27 



Chicago 28 



St. Louis 31 



Philadelphia 34 



Boston 86 



Providence 42 



Steamer Sailings 45 



Cincinnati 47 



Vegetable Forcing 47 



— Best Tomatoes for Forcing 47 



Kprlngfleld, 50 



Seed Trade News 52 



— Foreign Values of Azaleas 52 



— The Des Moines Seed Co 54 



— Imports 64 



-- Valley Pips 64 



— A Horticultural Shipload 54 



New York 55 



Kansas City, Mo 66 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco 66 



Chrysanthemum Society 67 



Names of Plants 67 



Remedy for Mealy Bug 67 



Nursery News 68 



— Pot Grown Trees and Vines 68 



Baltimore 70 



New Bedford, Mass 72 



Orange, N. J 74 



Omaha, Neb 76 



Greenhouse Heating 86 



— Residence and Greenhouse 86 



Denver 86 



Detroit 90 



Toledo, O '. 92 



EOSLYN, N. Y. 



At the meeting of the Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society at Pembroke hall 

 November 10, Messrs. Barton, Marshall 

 and Westley acted as judges and made 

 the following awards: Twelve white 

 mums, J. McDonald, first; twelve pink 

 and twelve yellow, L. J. Trepess, first 

 on each. A cultural certificate was 

 awarded to Mr. McDonald for a fine 

 vase of mums and to F. Fetroecia for 

 celery, also honorable mention for 

 celeriac. 



J. Forbes, winner of the Troy cup, 

 passed that trophy around filled with 

 Meet & Chandon's feest, and there were 

 good ciga];^, so everybody had a good 

 time. 



The next meeting will see a contest 

 with violets, sweet peas and poinsettias. 

 O. E. A. 



Marlboro, Mass. — W. Phelps recently 

 iniade a fine showing of mums at his" 

 greenhouses, 121 Pleasant street. 



, SOCIETY OF AHEBICAN FLORISTS. 



InoobpobaTbd bt Act of Conobkss. Maboh 4 -'01 

 Officers for 1910: President. F. R. Pierson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vlck, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; treas- 

 urer, W. F. KasUng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

 Boston. Mass., March 26 to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 16 to 

 18, 1911. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You g?t them. 



We both have them. 



With this issue The Keview begins its 

 fourteenth year. 



The most successful flower shows of 

 the year were those in which the retail 

 florists took part. 



What has become of that fad for wear- 

 ing artificial flowers that some retailers, 

 a few months ago, thought would be the 

 ruination of the business? 



The glass market has fluctuated vio- 

 lently in the last few weeks, one day up 

 and next day down, the lowest prices 

 being beyond question below the cost of 

 production. Beasons for the situation are 

 not apparent and even those in the glass 

 trade are in doubt as to the future course 

 of the market. 



How to attend three big flower shows 

 in two days was demonstrated last week 

 by H. W. Buckbee, of Bockford, 111., and 

 E. D. Smith, of Adrian, Mich. They 

 spent November 9 at the Minneapolis 

 show, November 10 at the Milwaukee ex- 

 hibition and the evening of that day at 

 the Chicago show and banquet. 



DOES A NATIONAL BUSINESS. 



Time was when florists were content to 

 do local business only, but now many of 

 them are awake to the fact that it is 

 easier to do mail order wholesale trade 

 and that the business all over the coun- 

 try can be handled without interfering 

 in the least with the local retail end. 

 All one has to do is work up stock and 

 advertise in the Eeview: 



Please cancel my ad of Asparagus plumosus 

 and primulas; all gone; you have sold for me 

 about 40,000 of these plants this season. — U. G. 

 Hargleroad, Shippensburg, Pa., Nov. 8, 1910. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business is good again. The mum 

 glut, while it was rather worse than 

 usual this year, was passed and ended 

 weeks ahead of the usual time. The 

 market has been slowly recovering and 

 now that the chill of autumn is in the 

 air things have taken their usual late 

 November swing. There continues to 

 be plenty of chrysanthemums, but they 

 are no longer the weight that they 

 were earlier in the season. The bulk of 

 the receipts now are Bonnaffon; it is 

 far more plentiful than any other va- 

 riety and in some houses is received in 

 greater quantity than all other va- 

 rieties put together. Those which can 

 be sold at from 8 cents to 12 cents go 

 best; it is the frequent complaint that 

 the large, fancy stock, which should 

 command 25 cents or more, is salable 

 only in limited quantity. 



Beauties have become more plentiful 

 for commercial purposes since the flow- 

 er shows, though there is not yet an 

 abundance. Taking the present cut as 

 a Whole, the quality never was better. 

 The greater part of each d^'s receipts 



are long stems, whereas medium stems 

 are most in demand, but for size of 

 bud, color, strength of stem and perfec- 

 tion of foliage the Beauties now being 

 cut leave little to be desired. Killar- 

 ney. White Killarney, Richmond, Mary- 

 land, Jardine and the several other 

 varieties handled in smaller quantities 

 are being cut in about the usual quan- 

 tity, but demand has improved to such 

 an extent that less stock is seen stand- 

 ing in the wholesale houses. It is 

 noticeable that the stock that moves 

 slowly is the special long fancy grade. 

 It looks as though the production of 

 these finest of flowers may be ahead 

 of the demand and that the longest 

 roses may not realize their full value 

 as compared to the selling value of 

 the short and medium lengths. No 

 finer roses could be asked for than 

 those now coming in. Few flower 

 shows have had better roses than those 

 daily offered in the Chicago market. 



Carnations have come in for their 

 share in the increased demand, but the 

 call seems to be running largely toward 

 Enchantress. Last season Enchantress 

 was rather overdone and many growers 

 have this year planted other varieties, 

 especially white, cutting down to some 

 extent on Enchantress. The result is 

 that with a fair run of business in 

 the carnation department wholesalers 

 find themselves with plenty of good 

 white and not enough light pink. 

 White Enchantress and White Perfec- 

 tion both are fine and abundant. 



Violets are not being received as 

 heavily as in other years and the price 

 has worked up to a point which should 

 encourage the growers to increase their 

 shipments to this market. A large de- 

 mand for violets for Thanksgiving is 

 anticipated. Cattleyas have become 

 even less plentiful than a week ago 

 and there are instances where as much 

 as $1 apiece has been paid in case of 

 necessity. The demand for valley 

 continues strong and there is difficulty 

 in filling late orders. Harrisii are 

 abundant. 



The advance orders indicate an ex- 

 cellent Thanksgiving business. Thanks- 

 giving is not a holiday like Christmas 

 or Easter; it is a day when people buy 

 flowers for their own use and high 

 prices are not to be thought of. It 

 has been the almost invariable expe- 

 rience that growers held back too 

 much stock and that on the eve of 

 Thanksgiving the market broke badly 

 because of too heavy receipts. Whole- 

 salers are urging their shippers to 

 keep the stock coming right along each 

 day through the next week, feeling 

 that if this course is pursued the mar- 

 ket will have a splendid week's 

 business. 



Big Buying of Glass. 



During the big break in the glass 

 market a couple of weeks ago, when 

 glass was offered below recent costs 

 of production, several growers bought 

 heavily. The fact that Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. bought 4,000 boxes has 

 already been recorded and it now de- 

 velops that they placed another order 

 for 2,000 boxes, a total of about fifteen 

 carloads. Bassett & Washburn ordered 

 3,000 boxes, or over seven cars. Peter 

 Reinberg took two cars. J. A. B'udlong 

 ordered a car. Wendland & Keimel or- 

 dered nearly five cars. Ernest Weiss 

 bought for his ney^ place at Elmhurst 

 ajld " probably others " placed orders 



