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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 23. 1911. 



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THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



' G. L. GRANT, Editob and Managxb. 



PUBU8HXD EVSRT THUBSDAT BT 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



03O-56O Caxton BuUdlvK, 



884 Dearborn Street, Chicaso. 



Tkliphomb, Habbison 6429. 



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New Yobk Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. T. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manaokb. 



SnlMcriptlon price. UM a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 fo Korope, (2JX). 



AdTerttalnir rates quoted tipon reqnest. Only 

 Itrictly '^'-ade advertlslnK accepted. 



AdTertlsements must reach ua by 6 p. m. Tneoday, 

 to Insure Insertion in the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 8. 1897. 

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

 March S. 1H79. 



This paper is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEBS. PAGE 110. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist — Some Simple Color Laws. . 11 



— A Brlflge In Flowers (lUus. ) 11 



— Mr. Valentine's New Store (Ulus.) ISi 



— One Way 12 



Trouble with Glganteums IS 



Ros«^8^New Rosps Worth Growing 14 



Geraniums — Geraniums for Memorial Day. .... 14 



— Trouble with Geraniums 15 



Hotbeds Without Manure (iUus.) 16 



The Horticultural Graduate 15 



Get Your Gun (lllus.) 16 



Carni^ttonE — American Sorts In England 16 



— The Carnation 10 



— The Pink Boston Market (lllus.) 18 



Seasonable Suggestions — Show Pelargoniums.. 18 

 -^ Potting PoliRge Plants 18 



— Rambler Roses 18 



— Calreolarlas 18 



— Pansies and Myosotls 18 



— Pansies Outdoors 18 



— Pruning Hardy Climbers 18 



— Perennial Phlox 18 



— Annual Climbers 19 



— Splriea Queen Alexandra 19 



— Araleas 19 



— Gladioli 1« 



— Primnla Obconica 19 



Business Booming (lllus. ) 19 



Fertilizers for Florists 20 



— What They Are and How Used 20 



Hiram K. Wilson (portrait) 20 



The Wilsons of Rochester 21 



Edwin P. WllsMi (portrait) 21 



Boston 21 



Hiram W. Wilson (portrait) 22 



Denver 22 



R. W. Wilson (portrait) 23 



Milwaukee 23 



National Flower Show 24 



The National Flower Show Manager (portrait) 24 



Ladles' S. A. F 24 



Ameriean Rose Society 24 



Mr. Wirth Disclaims Credit 24 



Another Show In Boskoop 24 



Chrysanthemum Society 2* 



Revised Program of Boston Meetings 25 



Obituary — John Lavey 26 



— William A. Blaedel 26 



— George Lorenz 26 



— M. E. Longfellow 2« 



— B. F. Washington 26 



Chicago 26 



Philadelphia 32 



New York 40 



Batavia, N. Y 46 



St. Louis 46 



Steamer Sailings 50 



MlUepeds In Fern Soil 50 



Seed Trade News .18 



— Cabbage In Washington .'58 



— California Seed Crops 58 



— The California Storm 59 



— Canada's Seed Imports 59 



— Imports 60 



— Spring in Holland 60 



— South Texas the Garden 62 



Pacific Coast— Portland, Ore 66 



— San Francisco 66 



Vegetable Forcing — Vegetable Markets 67 



— Tomatoes to Folltfw Violets 67 



— For a Summer Crop 67 



Nurserv News 68 



— Cold Storage 70 



Baltimore 72 



New Bedford, Mass 74 



Cleveland 70 



New Orleans 78 



Buffalo 80 



Plttsbnrg 82 



Providence 84 



Greenhouse Heating 98 



— Heating with Exhaust Steam 08 



— Heat for Three Houses ft8 



PelHrgoniums for Spring 100 



Indianapolis 102 



Yonkers, N. Y 104 



Alliance, 104 



Detroit 106 



Rochester 108 



SOCIETY OF AMIBICAM FLORISTS. 



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



Officers for 1911: President, Oeorge Asmoa, 

 Clilcago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., Wblta 

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

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



Special convention and National riower Show, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., Aiunut 16 

 to 18, 1911. 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



Speaking by the almanac, spring is 

 here; arrived Tuesday at noon. 



No, gentle reader, this is not a special 

 number of The Review. The specials 

 come March 30 and April 6. 



The rains in California have interfered 

 with the picking of Mexican ivy and the 

 supply therefore has been temporarily 

 short. 



If L. S. J., Cleveland, will send his full 

 name and address his questions will be 

 answered. Anonymous inquiries never 

 are answered. 



In other lines of trade it certainly is 

 not the custom to allow wholesale rates 

 simply because the would-be buyer asks 

 for them or may know what they are. 

 Why, then, should it be done with flo- 

 rists ' or nurserymen's products? Ther^ 

 is only one answer — the fear that "the 

 ♦ other fellow ' will if I don 't. ' ' 



A COPY of ''The Carnation Year 

 Book, ' ' published by the Perpetual Flow- 

 ering Carnation Society of Great Britain, 

 has reached The Review. It is a volume 

 of seventy-six pages, not counting the ad- 

 vertising section, and gives in concrete 

 form the status of the carnation in Eng- 

 land today. The volume is edited by J. 

 S. Brunton, Burnley, and is sent ])Ost 

 free on payment of 30 cents. 



The failure of the new rose. Rayon 

 d'Or, distributed last year by Pernet- 

 Ducher, has been the subject of much 

 comment in the trade in Europe. The 

 raiser acknowledges that the stock sent 

 out was not as strong as it might have 

 been, but places the blame on climatic 

 conditions, over which he had no control; 

 he had "either to deliver the best stock 

 he had or default on his contracts. ' ' 



In commenting on the paper of E. G. 

 Hill, read before the Illinois State Flo- 

 rists' Association and printed in The 

 Review for February 16, the Horticultural 

 Advertiser (English) says: "Mr. Hill's 

 name is familiar to most of us as a lead- 

 ing American authority on new plants. 

 His opinions are the result of actual ob- 

 servation, and not mere gleanings and ex- 

 cerpts from catalogues which are often 

 served up in the press as 'information' 

 on novelties and which are often of le^s 

 value than the paper they are printed 

 on." 



In an address to the florists of his 

 state the venerable Mr. Burrell, vice-pres- 

 ident of the University of IJlinois, pad 

 this to say : " It is an axiom fhjit demand 

 creates supply, but you flower growers 

 have also to consider the opposite law, 

 that supply creates demand. It is your 

 work not only to prodjice flowers but to 

 show them to the people, that their love 

 of the beautiful may be quickened and 

 that the supply you have provided may 

 beget the demand that brings you profit. 

 Fortunate are you flower men in this land 

 of ninety million prosperous people that 

 you can create your supply and so easily 

 create the. demand to keep pace with that 

 supply to your own enrichment." 



OBITUABT. 



John Lavey. 



John Lavey, ground foreman at the 

 nurseries of F. E. Grover & Co., at 

 Brighton, Rochester, N. Y., died March 

 8, of valvular disease of the heart. He 

 fell to the floor while engaged at his 

 duties in one of the storage rooms, and 

 died almost instantly. He was 50 years 

 old, unmarried, and had been employed 

 about the nurseries for eight years. 



WiUiam A. Blaedel. 



William A. Blaedel, 402 West Twenty- 

 third street, New York, died Friday, 

 March 17. He was one of the pioneer 

 retail florists of New York and was 

 highly respected by all, conducting a 

 prosperous business for nearly half a 

 century. 



George Lorenz. 



Announcement is made of the death of 

 George Lorenz, Woodside, N. Y., who was 

 one of the oldest growers on Long Island 

 and well and favorably known in the New- 

 York market. He was a member of the 

 Society of American Florists for the last 

 ten years. 



M. E. Longfellow. 



Marcus E. Longfellow, a florist of 

 Yorktown, Ind., died recently at his home 

 in that town, at the age of 51 years. He 

 had returned only a few days previously 

 from Florida, where he had spent the 

 winter. He is survived by his wife, one 

 daughter and two sons. 



B. F. Washington. 



Benjamin F. Washington, of North 

 Stoughton, Mass., died at the home of 

 his daughter. Miss Adeline Washington, 

 March 14, at the age of 71 years. He 

 was born in Boston and had resided in 

 Stoughton for about thirty years. He 

 was a member of Gen. Nelson A. Miles ' 

 command. Union Veterans' Union, of 

 Brockton, and tor several years had 

 been quartermaster of Post 72, G. A. R., 

 of Stoughton. Besides his daughter, he 

 leaves one son, Benjamin Washington, 

 Jr., a resident of Somerville, Mass. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week was carnation week, while 

 this is rose week, for with bright skies 

 and spring-like weather, "the melancholy 

 days have come, tjie saddest of the 

 year"; the days when scarcity and high 

 prices are still fresh in mind, but the 

 ice-boxes are so crammed with stock that 

 no ofter, reasonable or otherwise, is re- 

 fused for the accumulations of fast de- 

 teriorating flowers. Once every spring 

 we get the glut. This year it has been 

 longer delayed than most of those in 

 this market thought possible. There is 

 a large volume of business being done, 

 but the receipts of flowers are so far 

 beyond the legitimate demand that it is 

 impossible to make any sort of clearance. 

 While fair prices still are being re- 

 ceived for the selected stock required by 

 the high class stores, the accumulations 

 are jobbed oflF for whatever they will 

 "^ring. By far the greater part of the 

 cut goes at the job-lot prices, with the 

 result that averages returned to growers 

 are extremely low. 



The only item in the list which can be 

 called short is the American Beauty, 

 which is extremely scarce in the longer 

 grades. Cuts of Beauty are not nearly 



