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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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FlBBUABT 23, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



' G. L. GRANT. Editob and Manaoxb. 



PUBLISHED KVKEY THURSDAY BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHINO CO. 



530<560 Cazton BuUdinK, 



884 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Teucfhonb, Habbisom 6429. 



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New Yobk Office: 



Borougb Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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Snbacriptlon price, $1X0 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 fo iCorope, $2JS0. 



AdTertiBlng rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trlctly f'ttde adverttslDg accepted. 



AdTertlsements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion in the issue of tliat week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3, 1897, 

 at the poet-office at Ohicaco. 111., under the act of 

 March 8. 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the OhlcaffO Trade 

 Press Association. 



nnOEX TO ADVERTISESS, PAGE 94. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist. .'T 5 



— The Roman Forum (iUus.) 5 



— Plants In Design Work 5 



— Pushing the Carnation (illus.) 6 



Paper Whites for Spring 6 



Gladioli for Memorial Day 8 



The Goose Plant (illus.) 7 



Lilies for Easter 7 



The Little Godfrey Calla 8 



Roses 8 



— Klllarney Cuttings Eot 8 



— Spider on Roses 8 



— Worms in Rose Beds 8 



.\ster8 for Summer Blooms 8 



Left-over Lorraines 8 



Carnations 8 



— Cutworms on Carnations 8 



— ^ On Newly Broken Sod 8 



Seasonable Suggestions 9 



— Cannas 9 



— Schizanthus 9 



— Shamrocks 9 



— Marguerites 9 



— Lilacs 9 



— Crotons and Dracaenas 9 



Sweet Peas 9 



— Sweet Peas Outdoors 9 



Orchids 10 



— Baum's Orchids (illus.) 10 



Gardenias for Easter 10 



Chrysanthemum Society 11 



Hegonla Leaf Cuttings 11 



Gladioli for Outdoors 11 



The Horticultural Dmmmer 12 



Rochester 13 



New York 13 



Columbus. 13 



Testimonial to Wm. Toolo 14 



William Toole (portrait) 14 



St. Louis 14 



Boston 15 



ProTidenoe 16 



Framingham, Mass 16 



News Notes and Comments 17 



Visitors to Kew 18 



Obituary 18 



— Aaron H. Green 18 



ETngllshmen are Coming 18 



ChR>ago 18 



Denver 24 



Philadelphia 26 



Kansas City 32 



Yonkers. N. Y 34 



New Orleans 38 



Detroit 40 



Council Bluffs, Iowa 42 



Steamer Sailings 42 



Seed Trade News 44 



— Seedsmen's Welfare Work (illus. > 46 



— More Free Seeds 50 



— In Holland 50 



— Imports 51 



— The Canned Goods Market 51 



— Catalogues Received •12 



Cincinnati , 52 



Manchester, Mass ,.= .■:'. .53 



Pacific Coast 58 



— Portland. Ore ; .58 



— San Francisco 58 



— Los Angeles .59 



— A Myrtle in Oregon .59 



Nursery News 60 



— Reciprocity with Canada 60 



Vegetable Forcing 62 



— Vegetable Markets 62 



— Aphis on Lettuce 62 



Toronto 64 



Erie, Pa 66 



Cleveland 68 



Pittsburg. Pa 70 



Evansvllle, Ind 72 



Greenhouse HpntiiiK 84 



— Installing a Boiler 84 



— New House, Enlarged BoUer 84 



— In Eastern Massachnsetts 84 



— A Range of Four Houses 86 



Milwaukee 88 



LonlsvIIle, Ky 90 



Baltimore 92 



80CIITT OF AMBBICAN FLOUSTS. 



Incorporated by Act of Congress, March 4, '01. 



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmus, 

 Chicago; vice-president, B. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Dorner, Urbaua, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kasting, Buttalo, N. Y. 



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

 Boston, Mass., March 2S to April 1, 1911. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., August 15 

 to 18, 1911. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 

 We both have them. 



The growing use of nicotine in Europe 

 for insecticidal purposes has led to ex- 

 periments in the cultivation of tobacco 

 especially for the nicotine content. 



E. W. Neubrand, secretary of the Tar- 

 rytown Horticultural Society, announces 

 that the fall show of the organization 

 will be held October 31 to November 2. 



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. 



Many people will tell you that the best 

 index to a publication's closeness to its 

 readers is the Want Ad department. And 

 The Review's Want department is grow- 

 ing even faster than other parts of the 

 paper. 



German floricultural papers record 

 some pronounced successes in feeding 

 chrysanthemums with chemical manures 

 instead of the natural article. The flow- 

 ers of plants fed with phosphates, potash 

 salts and nitrogen had particularly fine 

 color. 



The express rates in Illinois will not 

 be reduced June 1; Judge Kohlsaat, in 

 the United States Circuit Court, has de- 

 clared the Illinois Railroad and Ware- 

 house Commission has no authority to 

 order such a reduction. The Illinois 

 State Florists' Association was one of 

 the organizations that joined with the 

 Chicago Association of Commerce in a 

 complaint to the commission. An ex- 

 haustive investigation was made, with the 

 result that the commission ordered a re- 

 duction of twenty-five per cent. Six ex- 

 press companies joined in asking an in- 

 junction, which was granted to June 1 

 and has now been made permanent. The 

 next step will be to get jurisdiction 

 through the state legislature. 



VISITOBS TO KEW. 



Perhaps no other one fact so well 

 illustrates the general interest in flori- 

 culture in England as does the attend- 

 ance at Kew. According to the Kew 

 Bulletin, 3,546,302 visitors to the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens were recorded during 

 the year 1910. These figures show an 

 increase of 186,081 over those of the 

 previous year, and are the largest num- 

 bers on record. During the ten years, 

 1900-1909, 20,023,749 persons have vis- 

 ited the gardens, giving an average of 

 2,002,374. 



OBITUABY. 



Aaron H. Oreen. 



Aaron H. Green, of the firm of Kerr 

 & Green, in Baltimore, Md., died Feb- 

 ruary 8, of heart failure. While stand- 

 ing at a street corner, engaged in con- 

 versation with his partner, he suddenly 

 fell to the pavement, and was dead 

 before a physician could be summoned. 

 He had not been confined to bed by ill- 

 ness in fifteen years. 



Born in Washington county, Mary- 

 land, he received his education in the 

 schools there. After graduating he 

 took up farming, but soon gave up that 

 occupation and removed to Baltimore, 

 where he secured a position in the 

 Poole iron foundry. This position he held 

 for nearly thirty years, after which he 

 entered the florists' business with Mr. 

 Kerr, his brother-in-law. Besides his 

 widow, Mr. Green is survived by his 

 two brothers, Charles and George 

 Green, and also by six sisters, namely. 

 Misses Alice, Annie and Josephine 

 Green, Mrs. Emanuel Hines and Mrs. 

 John Barrett, of Keyser, W. Va., and 

 Mrs. Charles Welch, of North Carolina. 



ENOUSHMEN ABE COMING. 



Reference previously has been made 

 to the plan of J. S. Brunton, editor 

 of the Horticultural Trade Journal^ 

 Burnley, England, to conduct a party 

 of British horticultural traders to the 

 United States at the time of the Na- 

 tional Flower Show. Mr. Brunton states 

 that the trip "now is an assured suc- 

 cess. Fourteen gentlemen are already 

 booked. The party will sail from Liver- 

 pool on board the Lusitania March 11. 

 Nineteen days will be spent in the 

 United States, and the return will be 

 made from New York April 5 on the 

 Mauretania. Philadelphia, Washington, 

 Richmond, Ind., Chicago, Niagara Falls, 

 Boston, New York, etc., will be visited, 

 including the National Flower Show at 

 Boston." 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market had a couple of quiet 

 days in the middle of last week, during 

 which carnations accumulated, to be 

 jobbed off at low prices, but on the 

 whole business continues excellent. The 

 weather was dark and gloomy up to 

 February 20 and held back production. 

 At the same time, outgoing shipments 

 were heavy Friday and local demand 

 was good on Saturday. The present 

 week opened with another good run of 

 shipping trade, followed by active city 

 business February 21, Washington's 

 birthday being responsible for consider- 

 .ible extra demand. 



So long as the dark weather lasted 

 there was no possibility of any con- 

 siderable increase in rose supplies, 

 though growers agree that good cuts 

 are in early prospect, given a few days 

 of bright sun. Since last report there 

 not only has been trifling increase in 

 rose cuts, but Beauties actually have 

 become scarcer. The one or two grow- 

 ers who were cutting heavily of Beau- 

 ties have gone oflF crop, and those 

 whose crops are on the up grade have 

 been able to show little progress. Rose 

 prices have held firmly, because it has 

 not been possible to fill all orders. Few 

 short roses are to be had; those coming 

 in are already spoken for. Most of the 

 receipts are medium or long. The spe- 

 cial lengths continue to show excep- 

 tionally fine quality, considering the 

 dark weather. One hardly could ask for 

 finer Killarney, White Killarney or 

 Richmond, and some excellent Mary- 

 land and Jardine are offered, with mod- 

 erate quantities of Cardinal, Reid and 

 other varieties. 



Although carnations suffered a set- 

 back for a couple of days last week, 

 the recovery was prompt and this week 



