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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 26, 1011. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. GRAKT, Editob and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED KVEBT THUESDAT BY 



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Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 ftt the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 llarch 3. 1879. 



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 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVESTISEBS, PAGE 86. 



The Retail Florist 5 



— Valentine Preparations 5 



— Cupid and the Florist (Ulus.) 5 



— As True as Preaching 6 



The Primroses 6 



Tuberous Begonias 7 



Figuring the Profit 7 



Time to Sow Primrose Seed 7 



Carnations — More About Chloride of Lime 8 



— Both Have Stlgraonose 8 



Mile a Minute Vine 8 



Orchids 8 



— The Commercial Cattleya (lllus.) 8 



Forget-me-nots in the South 9 



Roses — A Check In Growth 10 



— Rambler Roses 10 



— A Start In Roses 10 



Cost of Making a Lawn 10 



Seasonable Suggestions — Sweet-Scented Ver- . 



benas 10 



— Gardenias 10 



— Spiraeas 10 



— Dutch Bulbous Stock 11 



— Double Feverfew 11 



— Ten Weeks' Stocks 11 



Fumigating with Sulphur 11 



G. R. Cause (portrait) 11 



Musa Ensete from Seed 11 



Societies— Illinois Florists to Meet 12 



— New England Dahlia Society 12 



— American Rose Society 12 



— Society of American Florists 12 



National Flower Show 12 



Fred H. Weber (portrait) 13 



Haerens' Azaleas 13 



Potash in Greenhouse Soil 13 



One Reduction in Rates 13 



Boston 13 



Cincinnati 14 



Pittsburg, Pa 14 



Denver 16 



Cleveland 16 



Rochester 16 



News Notes and Comments 17 



Obituary — J. E. Andrews 18 



— J. W. Ramagen 18 



— James Reynolds 18 



— Peter H. Anderson 18 



— Mrs. H. B. Smith 18 



Chicago 18 



Milwaukee 24 



Buffalo 25 



Philadelphia 26 



New York 30 



LoulBville. Ky 34 



Providence 36 



St. Louis 38 



Steamer Sailings 40 



Seed Trade News 42 



— Imports 44 



— The Modern Seed Store 44 



— Catalogues Received 50 



— Duty on Giant Spurry Seed 50 



Cobaea Scandens 51 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 52 



— Cabbage Plants 52 



Dayton, 52 



Glen Cove, N. Y 53 



Pacific Coast — San Francisco, Cal.... 58 



— Portland .• 58 



Trouble with Worms 59 



Nursery News 60 



— Tennesseeans Meet 60 



Evansvllle, Ind 62 



Detroit 62 



Lincoln, Neb 63 



Baltimore 64 



Jamestown, N. Y 64 



Columbus, 66 



New Bedford 68 



Erie. Pa 68 



Greenhouse Heating — Crude Oil as Fuel 78 



— Building a Smokestack 78 



— Boiler In Residence Cellar 80 



— A Small New Jersey House 80 



— Poor Circulation 82 



Toronto 84 



CONTENTS. 



SOCIETY OF AHBBICAN FL0BI8T8. 



IkOOBPOBATXD BT AOT OV CONOBBSa. Haboh 4 .'01 

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

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

 N. T.; secretary. H. B. Dorner, Urbana, III.; treas- 

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



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August Ifi to 

 18. 1911. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



The more the retailers advertise, the 

 more flowers will be used. 



W. H. Gulp conducts a column, "The 

 Home Florist," in the Wichita Eagle. 



To the next electrician you meet put 

 the question, "What is electricity?" Af- 

 ter that you won't wonder at a florist's 

 lack of knowledge of cause and effect. 



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. 



Before there can be any reduction in 

 express rates the grip of the railroads 

 must be broken. For instance, the Wells- 

 Fargo is required to pay to the St. Paul 

 railroad sixty per cent of all it collects 

 as a carrier. 



It always is the unexpected that hap- 

 pens. In the early autumn practically 

 everyone associated with the fuel industry 

 anticipated a famine as soon as winter 

 set in. The reverse is the case; there is 

 an overstock of coal. Production was 

 forced, there has been no severe weather 

 to hinder transportation, railroads have 

 had no rush of other business and could 

 move coal promptly. 



OBITUARY. 



J. E. Andrews. 



J. E. Andrews, head florist for Mrs. 

 Addie I. Colburn, at Gardner, Mass., 

 died of valvular heart disease at his 

 home, 45 Graham street, January 13, at 

 the age of 58 years. He was born in 

 England and leaves a daughter by a 

 first marriage residing there. He came 

 to this country about eighteen years 

 ago, and carried on a successfiil florist 

 and market gardening business for Mrs. 

 Addie I. Colburn at Billerica. He was 

 afterward employed in the Worcester 

 Conservatories, in Worcester, and re- 

 moved to Gardner only about three 

 weeks before his death. He is survived 

 by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. 

 Wm. M. Hunt, of Canton, Mass. 



J. W. Bamagen. 



J. W. Eamagen, for thirty years a 

 florist and landscape gardener at Lima, 

 O., died January 2. C. H. Eamagen, a 

 son, is continuing the business. 



James Beynolds. 



James Eeynolds, a nurseryman, of 

 Geneva, N. Y., was drowned in the 

 Cayuga and Seneca Canal January 18. 

 The body was recovered. 



Peter H. Anderson. 



Peter Henry Anderson, proprietor of 

 the Anderson Floral Co., at St. Cloud, 

 Minn., died suddenly at his home in 

 that city, January 18. Death was due 

 to pneumonia and heart failure. His 

 sudden death was a shock to his many 

 friends, as many of them did not know 



that he was ill. He was born in 

 Sweden forty-one years ago and came 

 to this country when a young man. 

 Soon after his removal to St. Cloudy 

 he bought the Campbell greenhouses 

 and moved the plant to the present 

 location, where he built up a successful 

 business. Twelve years ago he was 

 married to Miss Anna Wilson. His 

 wife and two children, Harold and 

 Elsa, survive him. There are also sur- 

 viving him in Sweden two brothers and 

 a sister whom he visited last summer, 

 when he made a trip to Europe with his 

 family. Another brother, Louis, lives 

 in Minneapolis. 



Mr. Anderson was a member of quite 

 a number of lodges, being affiliated 

 with the Masons, the Elks, Eed Men, 

 Modern Woodmen of America, Eastern 

 Star, Eagles and Maccabees. 



Mrs. H. B. Smith. 



Mrs. H. B. Smith, for ten years a 

 florist at Lyons, Kan., passed quietly to 

 rest after a long illness. She was born 

 at Linville, 111., March 17, 1850, and 

 lived in Illinois, near Decatur, until the 

 family removed to Kansas a decade ago. 

 Mrs. Smith made her start in the flo- 

 rists' business many years ago, in Hli- 

 nois, and had built up a prosperous es- 

 tablishment at Lyons, which will be 

 continued by a daughter. Miss Eutb 

 Smith, in addition to whom three other 

 daughters and their father survive. 



WHAT IT COSTS. 



The way to measure the cost of ad- 

 vertising is by the results. This is the 

 way it figures out in the Classified de- 

 partment of The Review: 



Please cut out my ad of geraniums, for the 

 first mail brought orders for 10,000 cuttings. 

 What will it be by the end of the week? — B. A. 

 Muchow, Clarence, N. Y., January 23, 1911. 



The advertisement cost 30 cents. The 

 cuttings were $10 per thousand, so the 

 one mail brought $100 worth of busi- 

 ness. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week was marked by the most 

 acute scarcity this market has seen in 

 a year. There are many who will say 

 that the shortage of roses was the 

 worst ever experienced, but in these 

 days everything is the biggest, small- 

 est, best or worst that ever happened, 

 and the experience of the last few days 

 is merely a repetition of what hap- 

 pened one year ago, with sales, in fact, 

 running ahead of a year ago. At that 

 time the market was short of roses for 

 four consecutive weeks. The scarcity 

 this year has now lasted a little more 

 than a fortnight. Up to the opening 

 of the present week it was growing 

 worse each day, but the beginning of 

 this week found receipts a little heavier 

 in all departments. Growers say that 

 the rose crops are now on the up-grade. 

 The increase will be slow for another 

 week or ten days, but after another 

 fortnight large crops will be on again. 

 The development of the crops has 

 been hastened this week by sev- 

 eral days of exceptionally warm, 

 bright weather. In the latter part 

 of last week it was utterly im- 

 possible to fill all orders for roses. 

 The scarcity has been particularly pro- 

 nounced in the short and medium 

 grades. These, when located, have 

 commanded special prices. The scarc- 

 ity of short roses turned the demand 



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