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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Febbdaby 2, 19J1. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Qt. L. GRANT, Editob and Manaqeb. 



PUBLISHED EVKET THUESDAY BY 



The FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530.S60 Caxton Bnilding, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Habbison 5429. 



■zoibtkbed cable addbe8s, flobview, ohioaoo 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin:. Shaw, Manaoeb. 



Subscription price, $1.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00. 

 to Europe, $2.60. 



AdTortlsing rates quoted upon request. Only 

 Itrlctly t-ade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897, 

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

 March 3. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 110. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Valentine's IJa.v (illus.), 



— Getting Ready for Rush 



— Spring Uses for Sweet Peas 



— Baum's Roosevelt Wreath (Ulus. t 



— The Wedding Bunches (illus.) 



Fertilizer for Gladioli 



Orchids — Seasonable Notes 



Chloride of Lime Again 



Mums for Christmas 



House of Chadwlcks (Illus.) 



Carnations — Next Season's Plantings 



^ The Carnation Novelties (illus. ) 



— Too I.,ate for Benching 



— The Use of Old Soil 



A Visit to Peter Fisher. 



Musa Ensete from Seed 



Violets — Violets with Other Stock 



— Conditions at Rhinebeck 



— Violets with Sliort Stems 



— A Violet Establishment (illu!-. t 



Roses — The Rose Novelties (Illus. 1 



Tuberoses in the South 



Ast(-rs Under Glass 



Salvias from Seed 



Seasonable Suggestions — Lillum Speoiosum . . . 



— C.vclamens 



— Bougainrilleas 



— Fuchsias 



— Fibrous-rooted Begonias 



— Gloxinias 



— Hydrangeas 



— Asters 



To (Jet the Most Sunllglit 



Paper Whites and Romans 



Boston 



William Sim (portrait) 



Illinois Florists to Meet 



Shasta Daisies 



New York 



New^s Notes and Comments 



Ladles' S. A. F 



Obituary 



Chicago 



Indianapolis 



Philadelphia 



St. Louis 



Kansas City 



New Orleans 



Steamer Snilings 



Pacific Coast — Portland, Ore 



— Victoria, B. C 



— San Francisco, Cal 



Transplanting Bulbs 



Seed Trade News 



— Notes from Holland 



— Braslan's Will Probated 



— Christmas Hyacintlis 



— Value of Azaleas 



^ Those Free Seeds 



Wichita. Kan 



Nursery News— Good in the Northwest 



Time to Sow Seeds 



Providence 



Amherst, Mass 



Taunton. Mass 



North Manchester, Ind 



Cincinnati 



New Bedford. Mass 



Greenhonsc Heating — The Coiil M.-iikei 



— Crude Oil as Fuel 



— Boiler Higher than Returns 



— Use of Second-hand' Pipe 



— Coal. Coke or Gas? 



— Tlie Slope of the Pipes 



Vegetatile Forcing — Vegetable markets 



— Vegetables Indoors and Out 



Wood Lice or .Sow Bugs 



Cleveland 



I'ittsbnrg. Pa 



Rochester, N. Y 



Wlnthrop. Mass 



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Blossburg, Pa. — Petor Bnieilly has 

 raised a seedling geranium that is 

 quite distinct and of which he plans to 

 work up stock for dissemination. 



SOCIETY or AHEBIGAN FL0BI8T8. 



Ihoohpobatxd bt a^ox of GoiiaBxss. Uaboh 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 16 to 

 18. 1911. 



Results bring a<lvertislng. 

 The Review liriiigs re.'^nlts. 



The price of glass is creeping up, but 

 a lot of it has been bought low. 



Don't bother about "the fellow down 

 the street" — the chances are the things 

 you hear are not true. 



Coal is one of the important items 

 that does not cost the greenhouse operator 

 as much this winter as it did last year. 



Cuttings of White Enchantress are in 

 fctrong demand, but buyers want to be 

 assured that they are getting the pure 

 white strain. 



The supply houses are reporting their 

 most Aclive season. The accessories are 

 now scarcely less necessary than the 

 flowers themselvei. 



R0SE.S have been oflf crop and scarce 

 through the length and breadth of the 

 land these last three weeks, as an after- 

 math of the heavy supplies at Christmas. 



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. 



In reading The Review I often have 

 thought that if some of the other indus- 

 tries that are near to the soil were as 

 well represented, in magazine form, as 

 the florists are in your journal, the crowd- 

 ing of cities and the abandonment of 

 farms would cease to be national prob- 

 lems. — Dugald Campbell. 



Two full pages and two half pages of 

 advertising were omitted from this is- 

 sue of The Review for the reason that 

 the copy arrived after the forms had 

 closed. It is a weekly experience to re- 

 ceive desirable advertisements too late 

 for insertion in the issue intended. Ad- 

 vertising forms close at 5 p. m. Tuesdays. 



It I.S a safe prediction that more than 

 one rose grower will next season bring 

 a part of his place into crop for a 

 cut the latter part of January. Pretty 

 nearly every one now times his crops 

 successfully for Christmas, and for the 

 last two years white roses especially have 

 been worth fully as much in late January 

 as they were at the holidays, and consid- 

 erably more than in mid-December and 

 early January, when the heavy crops were 

 just coming on and going off. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



The following committees have been 

 appointed to act for the Ladies* So- 

 ciety of American Florists at the Na- 

 tional Flower Show: 



Prize committee — Mrs. Chas. H. May- 

 nard, Mrs. J. A. Peterson, Mrs. I. L. 

 Powell and Mrs. R. Wittman. 



Theater committee — Mrs. W. H. El- 

 liott, Mrs. W. J. Stewart, Mrs. Peter 

 Fisher and Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy. 



Reception committee — Mrs Albert M. 

 Herr, Mrs. .Tulins Roehrs, Jr., Mrs. 

 Chas. H. Totty and Mrs. J. C. Vaughan. 



By order of Mrs. J. V. Phillips, presi- 

 dent. Mrs. Chas. H. Maynard, Sec 'y. 



OBITXJABY. 



F. A. Schluter. 

 F. A. Schluter, a florist and gardener 

 of Durango, Colo., died in Ochsner hos- 

 pitol, January 19, after a painful and 

 lingering illness. He was born in Ger- 

 many, but had spent the greater part 

 of his life in the United States. He had 

 been a resident of Durango for thirty 

 years and had been in the florists ' trade 

 for the last twenty-five years, building 

 up a substantial business. Besides his 

 wife, he is survived by a daughter, 

 Mrs. Thomas Dupraw, and three step- 

 sons, August, Henry and Emil Klahn. 

 The business will be continued by Mrs. 

 Schluter. 



Henry Mundt. 



Henry Mundt, once a well known grow- 

 er for the Chicago market, died January 

 5 at his home in Forest Park, 111., and 

 was interred January 29 at Concordia 

 cemetery. He was 53 years of age and 

 is survived by his wife. Mr. Mundt re- 

 tired from business three or four years 

 ago. For many years he had grown three 

 houses of carnations and quantities of 

 sweet peas, peonies, asters, etc., for sale 

 through Chicago commission houses. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Demand has continued as strong as 

 the supply. All last week there were 

 more orders for roses than it was pos- 

 sible to furnish. Toward the end of 

 the week, McKinley day, almost for- 

 gotten locally, was felt in the increased 

 call for carnations, for which prices 

 stiffened because it was not possible to 

 supply the demand. The shortage in 

 roses and carnations turned a portion 

 of the demand to bulbous stock, of 

 which there was an abundance, so that 

 no one need go without flowers. Vio- 

 lets also were in plentiful supply and 

 received little benefit from the advanc- 

 ing tendency of prices for other flowers. 



The present week opened with condi- 

 tions only slightly modified as a result 

 of a slackening demand and one or two 

 bright days. Rose crops are on the up 

 grade, but thus far the change has been 

 slight; some growers say it will be an- 

 other week or ten days before there is 

 any material increase in the supply, but 

 others say two or three days more of 

 bright, warm weather will make an ap- 

 preciable difference. The demand for 

 roses has subsided more or less, because 

 buyers feel it will be difficult to get 

 their orders filled, and therein lies one 

 of the unpleasant features of the situa- 

 tion: It will take the buyers some 

 little time to get their trade going again 

 when roses once more become plentiful. 

 Instead of calling for short roses, the 

 buyers now are ordering either white 

 carnations or white tulips. 



The call for carnations at the open- 

 ing of this week was not so strong as it 

 was at the close of last week; in fact, 

 some tendency to weakening prices was 

 noted January 28. The cut has not in- 

 creased to any great extent, but there 

 will be an abundance of carnations the 

 moment there are enough roses. The 

 stock now offered is of the finest qual- 

 ity seen this season. Splits are not so 

 numerous as they were. White is in 

 special demand. 



Sweet peas have shortened up, but 

 the stock coming in is of improved qual- 

 ity. Cattleyas are less plentiful, but 



