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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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March 2, 1911. 



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THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



Q. L. GRANT, Editor and Managkb. 



PUBLISHED BVERY THUESDAT BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



630-560 Caxton Building, "* 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



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New York Office: 



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J.Austin Shaw, Manager. 



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

 To Europe, $2.60. 



Adyertising; rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly ^Tide advei-tlsing 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. 

 kt the post-office at Clilca«o, 111., under tlie act of 

 March 3. 1H79. _ ^ 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE 102. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist » 



— The Vacant Chair (lllus.) » 



— The Science of Price 8 



— The World Design (lllus.) 10 



— Featuring the Accessories (lllus.) 10 



The B.'giuner 10 



Olganteum Lilies 11 



To Make Hydrangeas Blue 11 



Sweet Peas — Seasonable Suggestions 12 



Shamrocks 12 



Forcing Shrub Bloom 12 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions.... 12 



Carnations— Fertilizing the Field Soil 13 



— Name of Carnation 13 



American Carnation Society 13 



The Soil or the Fertilizer? 13 



Lily of the Valley— Valley In Cold Storage.. 13 



Seasonable Suggestions — Azalea Mollis 14 



— Acacias 14 



— Amaryllis 14 



— Show Pelargoniums 14 



— Stevias 14 



— Gardenias 14 



Geraniums — Propagating Geraniums 14 



Jackson Dawson (portrait) 15 



Fine Things Noted by Knight 15 



Violets — Fumigation of Violets 16 



— The Best Violets 16 



Propagation of Petunias 16 



The Irrigator Flower Pot (lllus. ) 16 



Good Varieties of Asters 16 



Manda's Polypodlum (lllus.) 17 



National Flower Show 17 



American Rose Society 17 



Outdoor Culture of Dahlias 18 



MUe-a-Minute Vine 18 



Toronto 18 



Bonton 18 



Buffalo M 



Dayton, 20 



Obituary— John H. Taylor 20 



— 8. J. Galloway 21 



— Robert Rodden 21 



— F. K. Phoenix 21 



Business and Other Notes 21 



Burning Tobacco Stems 22 



License to Sell Plants 22 



Chicago 22 



Columbus, 27 



PhUadelphla 28 



New York 30 



Milwaukee 38 



Providence 40 



Stenmdr Sailings 44 



Seed Ivrade News 46 



— The Ohio Grass Seed Bill .' 47 



— Imports 48 



— Garden Seeds are "Pure" 48 



— Testing Farm Seeds 54 



— Catalogues Ueceived 65 



Lilies for Memorial Day 55 



Vegetable Forcing 66 



— Vegetable Markets 66 



>— Indoor Brussels Sorouts 56 



— New York Growers Organize 56 



Pacific Coast * 62 



— Portland, Ore 62 



— San Francisco 62 



— Croweanums in California 63 



Nursery News 64 



— Inimical Bill in Iowa 64 



Indianapolis 68 



FIndlay, 70 



FrHmlngbam, Mass 72 



EdwardsvUle, 111 74 



Baltimore 76 



Detroit 78 



Bar Harbor, Me 78 



Greenhouse Heating 90 



— Good Oil Burner Wanted 90 



— Boiler Is Too Large 90 



— A Succession of Troubles 90 



St. Louis 92 



Clay Center, Kan 94 



Lenox. Mass 94 



New Bedford, Mass 96 



Pittsburg 98 



London, Ont 98 



Cincinnati 100 



80CIITT OF AHEBICAN FLOBI8T8. 



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



Otflcers for 1011: President, George Asmus, 

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

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Domer, Urbana, 

 111.; treasurer, W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., Aucoat IB 

 to 18, 1911. 



BesultB bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



We are in Lent, but Lent in recent 

 years has had little effect on the flower 



business. 



Sunshine has come again — and cut 

 flowers are no longer at all scarce. The 

 condition is generaLaJl over the country. 



Manufactubees of greenhouse build- 

 ing material report requests for estimates 

 coming in at a quite unprecedented rate, 

 probably as a result of the low price of 

 glass. 



Western growers are receiving a great 

 many inquiries for carnation cuttings 

 from the east, indicating scarcity there, 

 for buyers ordinarily look for stock near 

 home. 



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. 



The National Flower Show committee, 

 under date of February 22, sent out a 

 call for the payment of eighty per cent 

 of the guarantee fund, twenty per cent 

 having previously been called. 



The complete schedule for the Na- 

 tional Flower Show, Boston, March 25 

 to April 1, has been issued in pamphlet 

 form. Copies may be had by addressing 

 Chester I. Campbell, superintendent, 5 

 Park Square, Boston, Mass. 



The telegraph companies now send a 

 "day letter" of fifty words at half 

 again as much as the charge for the 

 popular night letter. Transmission is 

 at the company's convenience, full rate 

 messages having precedence. 



The florists in the towns where work 

 has begun on the fall shows are getting 

 the benefit of a great deal of publicity 

 in their local newspapers. Columbus, O., 

 and Rochester, N, Y., are doing specially 

 well on the publicity feature. 



Reduced rates to the National Flower 

 Show have now been granted from as 

 far west as Buffalo. The Central Pas- 

 senger Association has a meeting March 

 8 at which it is hoped the special fares 

 will be made effective from the- Missis- 

 sippi river and eastward. 



BUSNINQ TOBACCO STEMS. 



I wish to give others the benefit of 

 my method of burning tobacco stems in 

 my greenhouse. I had a tinner make 

 me some galvanized pig troughs thirty 

 inches long. I chop the stems into short 

 pieces, so that they will lie close in the 

 troughs. Then I set them in the aisles, 

 filled with stems, and fire them at one 

 end, using a little coal oil. They will 

 burn from six to twelve hours, killing 

 all insects that the fumes will kill, with 

 the least injury to the flowers. 



The iron should be cut nine inches 

 wide, bent in the middle and turned 

 down a half inch at the edges to stiffen 

 it, with end pieces riveted on eight or 

 ten inches long to hold the trough in 

 position. W. N. Tharp, 



LICENSE TO SELL PLANTS. 



' The seed dealers throughout the coun- 

 try have been having quite a little 

 trouble during the last few years with 

 bills which propose to regulate the sale 

 of seeds, but heretofore no legislature 

 has been suflBciently foolhardy to un- 

 dertake regulating the sale of geraniums, 

 roses and other greenhouse plants,, 

 bulbs, etc. However, a bill just intro- 

 duced by Senator Chapman in the Iowa 

 legislature, if passed, would make it 

 necessary not only for the florist to 

 take out a $5 license, but he would be 

 compelled to take out a duplicate 

 license costing $1 additional for each 

 employee, including the delivery boys. 

 He would also have to guarantee each 

 plant, root and bulb sold to be true to 

 name, to be free from insects and dis- 

 ease; to specify whether seedling,, 

 grafted or budded, and not misrepre- 

 sent by picture or other means the 

 stock offered; in other words, every 

 plant sold must be exactly like the 

 picture in the catalogue. A state in- 

 spector would have the right to charge 

 him $10 per" day for examining his 

 stock, and apparently would have the 

 right to confiscate and destroy without 

 recourse. 



Chas. N. Page, of Des Moines, is lead- 

 ing the fight on the bill, which alt 

 Iowa florists, nurserymen and seeds- 

 men hope can be killed in committee. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A few days of bright sunshine have 

 had a pronounced effect on the market. 

 The break in prices occurred in the 

 later days of last week and the present 

 week opened with abundant supplies- 

 and prices much lower than those which 

 have prevailed since the middle of 

 January. 



While the increase in roses is con- 

 siderable, prices in this department still 

 are holding fairly well. The greater 

 part of the receipts are of the better 

 grade. There now is an abundance of 

 the special lengths of Killarney and 

 other varieties; no orders go unfilled. 

 Of the shorter lengths the supply still 

 is less than the demand, though the de- 

 mand is far from being strong. It has 

 been six weeks since rose supplies have 

 been adequate. During that time or- 

 ders have been cut and prices charged 

 have seemed high by comparison with 

 the prices that prevailed during the 

 last months of 1910. As a result, a 

 great many buyers have become afraid 

 to order roses. As in previous in- 

 stances of the kind, it will take them 

 a week or two to find out that rose sup- 

 plies are once more adequate and start 

 the buyers to ordering freely once 

 more. Beauties are not in heavy sup- 

 ply, though several growers say their 

 crops are nearly ready. The quality of 

 the special grade of Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Maryland and Richmond 

 leaves nothing to be desired; finer roses 

 seldom have been offered. 



The change in the price of carna- 

 tions is called a slump, it is so radical. 

 At the first of last week it was impos- 

 sible to fill orders, but at the first of 

 the present week it was impossible ta 

 move all the carnations except by job 

 lot sales at buyer's prices. Not only 

 have receipts increased decidedly, but 

 demand for the small lots has fallen off 

 and the big buyers have not yet awak- 



