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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Dbcxmbbb 8, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



(V. L. GRANT, Editob and MANii^XB. 



PUBUSBXD KVXBT THUBSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



630-560 Caxton BaildinK» 



884 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Tklxphone, Hasbison 5429. 



bkgistxbkd cabins asdbess, ixobyitw, ohjoaoo 



New Yoek Ofpick: 



>ark Brool 



, Austin Shaw, Managsb. 



Borough Park . . . .^ .Brooklyn, N . Y. 



Snbscrlption price, $1.00 a year. To Canada, 12.00. 

 To Kurope, $2 JX). 



Advertlslngr rates quoted npon request. Only 

 i ftrtcUy f^^e advertising accepted. 



AdTertlsements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tueeday, 

 to insure Insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

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

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Ohlcaco Trade 

 Prees Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 102. 



OOXTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— A Unique Design (111ns.) 13 



— The Bridal Ring or Wreath 13 



— The Review Tells Most 14 



— The Floral Aeroplane (illus.) . .• 14 



— Smyth's New Store (illus.) 15 



— A Sad Episode 1,5 



Azaleas. Etc., In the South 16 



Name of Plant 15 



The Modern Flower Store (lUus.) 16 



Stock to Follow Narcissi 16 



Names of Begonias •, 16 



How to Grow Smllax 17 



Fnmes from Heating Pipes 17 



Shamrocks 17 



Seasonable Suggestions — Dutch Bulbs 18 



— Freesias i 18 



— Cyclamens 18 



— Llllum Candldum 18 



— Hydrangeas 18 



— San Jose Scale 18 



Chrysanthemnms — Good Late Pink and Red.. 18 



— Good Mums for a Start 18 



— Is it a Sport? 18 



Boses — Confusion in Rose Names 19 



— Another Hill Rose 19 



— Rambler Roses 19 



Carnations — Fumigating Carnations 19 



— A Variegated Enchantress 19 



— Enchantress Temperature 19 



Ferns — Scale on Ferns 20 



— Insect on Ferns 20 



Shamrocks 20 



Stock for Azaleas 20 



Weak Growth of Harrisli 20 



To Make Shows Successful 20 



New York 21 



Boston 22 



Gets First White Medal (lUus.) 23 



Providence 23 



Obituary — Charles P. Braslan (portrait) 24 



— William Kennedy 24 



— B. A. Moeckel 24 



Callas Wilting 24 



News Notes and Comments 25 



Calendars Received 26 



Trade Conditions In England 26 



American Gladiolus Society 26 



Chicago 26 



Philadelphia 34 



Hudson, N. Y 44 



Immortelles 44 



Vegetable Forcing — Greenhouse Vegetables. . . 44 



— Tomatoes and Eggplants 44 



— A Start in Lettuce Forcing 44 



Cincinnati 46 



Steamer Sailings 49 



Bowling a t Cincinnati 51 



Detroit 51 



Seed Trade News 54 



— Imports 56 



— VaUey Pips 56 



— Bolglano's Expansion 56 



— Orlswold Co. Incorporates 56 



— Free Seeds and Bulbs 56 



— Foreign Red Clover Crops 68 



— Catalogues Received 61 



Pacific Coast— Victoria, B. C 68 



— San Francisco, Cal 68 



Chrysanthemum Society 69 



American Carnation Society 69 



Nursery News — Association Affairs 70 



Convention Commiftees 72 



Champaign. Ill 78 



Pongbkeepsie, N. Y 78 



Kansas City, Mo 80 



Brie, Pa 80 



MUwaukee 82 



Greenhouse Heating 92 



— Steam for Thre^ Houses ^ . . . 92 



— Unsatisfactory Piping ..,, ■^98 



— Water Under Pressure. T^ ^. , . >.92 



— InJBfflclent Radiation . .T JS^.X' 98 



St. Lools .TtT 94 



New Castle, Ind 96 



Baltimore , 98 



Pittsburg, Pa 100 



THE ANNUAL 



CHRISTMAS NUMBER 



will be issued next week, 

 DECEMBER 15, 1910. 



Don't Forget: — 



advertising copy must reach the Eeview 

 office by 5 p. m. Tuesday, December 13, 

 to be in time, and earlier will be better. 

 Some desirable advertisements usually 

 are received the morning after going to 

 press with a Special Edition. Send 

 today. Don't get left. 



SOCIETI OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



IMOOBPOBATKD BT AOT Of CoKOBKes. Maboh 4 ■ *01 



Officers for 1910: President. F. R. Plerson. Tarry- 

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

 N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbana, III.; 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 15 to 

 18. 1911. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



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. 



General business is excellent in the 

 middle west. Clearings at Chicago are 

 running a million dollars a day ahead of 

 last year in spite of the fact that bank 

 consolidations have reduced the number 

 of checks that must pass through the 

 clearing house. 



The Lord & Burnham Co., New York, 

 has just issued a new catalogue that 

 should help the flower business in general, 

 as well as the business it was designed to 

 push. For the book shows private green- 

 houses in a way that ought to make 

 everybody who sees it keen to possess 

 such structures. More than usual stress 

 has been placed on growing fruit under 

 glass, but all sorts of houses are illus- 

 trated, from glassed-in porches to the 

 great range at Bronx park. Each sub- 

 ject has a plan number, and a ground 

 plan is shown, as well as an exterior and 

 interior view. The book is an example of 

 modem printing art and bears the im- 

 print of the Tuthill Ad Agency, New 

 York. 



CAI^NDABS RECEIVED. 



T^ 1911'^lendars a/e coming into 

 full 'M'qD. T^e first received are from 

 the l%rni Carolina Evergreen Co., Ban- 

 ners Elk, N. C, and ^he National Co- 

 operative Show Gardens, Spencer, Ind. 



TRADE CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND. 



I have read' -with- interest your re- 

 marks and quotations of statistics of 

 the condition of the horticultural trades 

 in England during the last five years, 

 and compared with the failures in the 

 States we appear to have the advan- 

 tage. Yet statistics are not always 

 conclusive, and our British trade press 

 is correct in the conclusion that the 

 trade in England, generally speaking, 

 is not what it should oi* could be. For 

 while few firms entirely fail, all too 

 many are on the verge of it, which I 

 imagine, perhaps in ignorance, is not 

 the case with you in America. We want 

 more of the "neck or nothing" princi- 

 ple about us over here. Our smaller 

 nurserymen will not speculate or ad- 

 vertise and generally push their busi- 

 ness in a manner more in keeping with 

 other walks of life, but they live from 

 hand to mouth, or, as a more apt writer 

 puts it, they "try to live by taking in 

 each other's washing." I can assure 

 you that quite half of our provincial 

 nurserymen are on the verge of bank- 

 ruptcy, and yet they carry on between 

 themselves a ridiculous cut price com- 

 petition, which means microscopic prof- 

 its and eventual bankruptcy, or the 

 equivalent to it, and that is why I 

 write, not to belittle ourselves or our 

 fellow craftsmen, but with the object 

 which I have so repeatedly aimed at 

 over here — to point out the folly before 

 it is too late. 



Montagu C. Allwood, 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



The following is a list of the prizes 

 to be offered for forced gladioli at the 

 National Flower Show at Boston next 

 March: 



Dinner table, set for four, decorated with 

 forced gladioli, first, $10; second, $6; third, $3. 



Most artistically arranged basket of blooms, 

 first, $5; second, $3; third, |2. 



Centerpiece, first, $10; second, $5; third, $3. 



Twenty-four spikes, not less than four large 

 flowered varieties, first, $5; second, $3; third, $2. 



Display of named gladioli, to occupy twenty 

 square feet of space, first, $12; second, $8; 

 third, $6. 



Display of gladioli, ColvlUel type, to occupy 

 twenty square feet of space, first, $10; second, 

 $5; third, $3. 



Fern, asparagus, smllax or foliage may be used 

 for effect in all classes, 



H. Youell, 



Chairman Exhibition Committee. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business is swinging along at the 

 brisk pace of a normal winter, with 

 no special feature except a compara- 

 tive shortage of carnations. Other 

 lines of stock are in larger supply than 

 usually is the case in December, but 

 carnations continue on the short side 

 compared to the excellent demand. 

 Quality generally is excellent and the 

 receipts would be sufficient to take 

 care of normal requirements. It ap- 

 pears, however, that all through this 

 part of the country production is run- 

 ning rather light and demand rather 

 hdavy, so that the calls made on the 

 Chicago market are sufficient to hold 

 the prices of^ carnations at a level 

 rather above what is usual at this date. 

 Most orders are filled in full, but some 

 of those received late in th^ day are 

 difficult to supply. White is more '"in 

 demand than other colors, with red 

 selling better than pink. 



Beauty crops are not quite so heavy 



