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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Januabt 12, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



6. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaqkb. 



PUBLISHED BVEBT THVBSDAT BT 



The FLORISTS' Publishing Co. 



SSO-SeO Caxton BuUdins, 

 834 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Habbison 5429. 



keoibtxbkd cable addbxb8, xxobview, ohioaoo 



New Yoek Office: 



*ark Brool . 



, Austin Shaw, Manages. 



BorouKb Park....^ ^Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Snbecription price, (1.00 a year. To Canada, (2.00. 

 To Karope, |2JiO. 



AdTertiBlng rates quoted apon request. Only 

 ■trlotly tnule advertising accepted. 



Advertlsemente must reach as by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to insure Insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December S, 1897, 

 at the poat-ofBce at Chlcacro, 111., under the act of 

 lUrch 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Ohlcaffo Trade 

 Pre* Association. 



Index to Advertisers PaKe 83. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— A "Different" Window (lllus.) 5 



— Some Dutch Windows 5 



— The Business Side of Things 5 



— Retailers' Delivery Cars (lllus. ) 6 



— The Cost of Ribbons 6 



— The Success of Two Sisters (illus.) 7 



Outside Air for Refrigerator 7 



Climber to Cover Fenoe 7 



Carnations 8 



— Chloride of Lime In Water s 



Roses 8 



— The Naming of a Rose 8 



— York and Lancaster (illus.) 9 



The Glass Market !» 



Verbenas and Petunias 9 



The Socnted-Leaved Plants !t 



Seasonable Suggestions 10 



— Rambler Roses 10 



— Marguerites 10 



— Palms 10 



— Linum Trigynum 10 



— Euphorbia Jacquiniicflora 10 



Ferns 10 



— Adiantums 10 



Geraiiiums 11 



— Geraniums for Memorial Day 11 



— Foliage Burned 11 



— Young Stock 11 



Sweet Peas 11 



— Outdoor Sweet Peas 11 



National Sweet Pea Society 11 



Pittsburg, Pa 12 



National Show Trade Display 12 



Toronto 12 



Providence 12 



Rochester 13 



George B. Hart (portrait) 13 



Yonkers, N. Y I 13 



New York 13 



How a Sample Worlis 14 



Boston 14 



News Notes 15 



The Oldest Subscriber Ifi 



The Plant Mailing Radius 16 



Obituary 10 



— George W. Budlong 1« 



— Charles Brice Bowditcb 16 



Chicago 16 



Cincinnati 23 



Philadelphia 26 



Milwaukee 28 



Springfield 32 



Salvias for May 32 



Dayton, O .34 



St. Louis 36 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— H. R. 29, 163 42 



— Imports 46 



— Catalogues Received 46 



The Seller's Best Friend 46 



Evansville, Ind 46 



Vegetable Forcing 48 



— Vegetable Markets 48 



— Double Glass in Greenlionse 48 



Columbus, 48 



Begonia Lnmlnosa h 40 



A Unique Calendar 49 



Pacific Coast 54 



— Portland, Ore .54 



— San Francisco. Cal VA 



— Centralia, Wash 55 



Nursery News 56 



— Retrospect and Prospect '. . : 56 



Zanesvllle, O ,58 



Buffalo 58 



Detroit 60 



New Orleans 62 



Indianapolis. Ind 64 



Greenhouse Heating 74 



— From Hot Water to Steam •. 74 



— Greenhouses and Dwelling 74 



— Attaciiing a Generator 76 



New Bedford, Mass 78 



Cleveland 80 



SOCIETY OF AMEBIGAN FL0BI8T8. 



INOOBPOBATBD BT AOT Or OONaBBBS. 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. 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 U to 

 18. 19U. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



NoAV is the time to advertise your 

 carnation cuttings. 



When is a florist not a florist? When 

 he has no printed letter-head for his 

 business correspondence. 



Says a keen observer: "The improve- 

 ment of a publication is measured by the 

 volume of advertising carried." 



Violets are having a bad season, re- 

 turns to growers in practically all 

 wholesale markets being much below those 

 of other seasons. 



Pink Delight is not one of the easiest 

 . of carnations to root, but it is one of 

 the easiest to sell, either cuttings or cut 

 blooms. 



If "Beginner," who asks about chrys- 

 anthemums, will send his name and ad- 

 dress his inquiry will be answered. 

 Anonymous inquiries cannot be replied to. 



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. 



Jackson Dawson, of Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass., has been awarded the second 

 George Robert White medal of honor 

 for distinguished services to horticulture. 

 The medal was pictured in The Review 

 for December 8. 



When a florist tells you business is 

 poor, ask him just how poor it is and 

 usually he will say, ruefully: "Not over 

 ten per cent ahead of last year." So 

 many in the trade have become accus- 

 tomed to doubling sales every three or 

 four years that they cannot be reconciled 

 to anything less. 



THE OLDEST SUBSCRIBEB. 



I commenced taking The Review with 

 Vol. 1, No. 1, and think I can use it one 

 year more, so inclose the dollar. If I 

 live three months more I shall be 85 

 years of age. I am taking entire charge 

 of my greenhouse. M. H. Mills, 



Binghamton, N. Y. 



THE PLANT MAILING RADIUS. 



One of the large eastern mail order 

 plantsmen recently made a test to see 

 for himself the condition of his stock 

 after going through the mails for long 

 distances. To do this one of the mail- 

 ing tubes made by the Standard Manu- 

 facturing Co., which are used for the 

 regular shipments, was used. The tube 

 was 3x20 inches and contained several 

 plants. It was sent by mail to a point 

 in Alaska. The party to whom the 

 package was addressed was asked to 

 mail it back as soon as received, with- 

 out opening it or disturbing the con- 

 tents. This was done, and the tube and 

 contents arrived in due time at the 

 {)cdnt -from which it was originally 

 mailed, and both package and contents 

 were found in good condition after hav- 

 ing traveled approximately 10,000 miles. 



OBITUARY. 



George W. Budlong. 



George W. Budlong, 80 years of age, 

 the oldest resident of Norwood, R. I., 

 died Monday, January 2, following a 

 shock on the previous night. He was 

 born in the old homestead between the 

 railroad track and the Pawtucket river, . 

 on September 20, 1830, and was the next 

 to the oldest of nine children of George 

 Washington Budlong. The deceased had 

 always conducted the farm, raising gar- 

 den truck, carnations and other flowers 

 until his health compelled him to give it 

 up. He is survived by a wife and one 

 daughter, Mrs. Nels G. Fierson, whose 

 husband has taken over the floriculture 

 and extended the greenhouse ranges. 



Charles Brice Bowditcb. 



Charles Brice Bowditch, for thirteen 

 years florist at the Michigan Soldiers' 

 Home, died after a week's illness of 

 pneumonia at his home, 1012 Hall 

 street. Grand Rapids. He was 43 years 

 old. He came from England to Grand 

 Rapids twenty-one years ago, and is 

 survived by a mother, three brothers 

 and a sister. He belonged to the Elks, 

 the Woodmen of the World and the 

 Masons. Grand River Lodge, No. 4, F. 

 & A. M., had charge of the funeral. 

 Mr. Bowditch was a nephew of Mrs. 

 F. A. Chapman, florist of Grand Rapids 

 and now retired. He came to Mrs. 

 Chapman's on his arrival in this coun- 

 try, and after Mr. Chapman's retire- 

 ment from the business, conducted his 

 greenhouses until his appointment to 

 the position he held when he died. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The severely cold weather in the mid- 

 dle of last week had the usual effect 

 upon the demand for flowers and caused 

 a considerable accumulation of stock, 

 with the result that the end of the 

 week was marked by the move- 

 ment of a great quantity of flowers in 

 certain lines at prices such as always 

 are necessary whenever old stock is to 

 be cleaned up. The accumulation was 

 particularly unwieldy in the line of 

 flowers for corsage work; violets natu- 

 rally are slow sale when people cannot 

 wear them out of doors. Carnations 

 also accumulated and were cleaned up 

 at cheap prices on Saturday. Last week 

 there was an abundance in practically 

 every line, except Beauties; these stif- 

 fened in price, where most other lines 

 weakened. 



The present week opened with milder 

 temperature and the absence of any spe- 

 cial city demands, but with exceptional- 

 ly good shipping trade. Prices are mod- 

 erate, but there is a tendency toward 

 stiffer rates for roses and the probabil- 

 ity that other flowers will sell better 

 now that the rose crops are on the 

 down grade. 



Beauties are in good request; the 

 supply is not excessive and only part of 

 the receipts can be called strictly first- 

 class. Roses are much less plentiful 

 than they have been. White, which 

 was a glut around Christmas time, is 

 now no greater than the demand. There 

 is an abundance of roses of the special 

 long grades; in fact, for many weeks 

 these extra fancy flowers have not been 

 bringing prices in proportion to their 

 quality; the best demand, and rela- 

 tively the best price, has been for the 



