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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



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Mabch 30, 1911. 



80CIITT OF AMBBICAN FL0BI8TS. 



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



Officers for 1011: President, George Asmna, 

 (Thlcago; Tlce-presldent, R. Vincent, Jr., White 

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

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



Special convention and National Flower Show, 

 Boston, Mass., March 2B to April 1, 1011. 



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., Augnit 16 

 to 18, 1011. . 



CONTENTS. 



The National Flower Show (illus.) 2i 



— A Wonderful Exhibition 2o 



— F. R. I'lergon (portrait) 25 



— Some Special Features 26 



— The Trade Exhibition 28 



— The Carnations ^{2 



— Tiie Rosos 33 



— Private Gardeners' Exhibits 35 



— Miscellaneous Cut Flowers '-i^ 



— Ferns 3r> 



— Flowering Bulbs 36 



— Orchids 36 



— Palms and Foliage Plants 36 



— National Show Management 37 



— Local Hospitalities 37 



— American Rose Society 38 



— George Asmus (portrait) 38 



— American Carnation Society 38 



— Sweet Pea Society 30 



— Telegraph Delivery 30 



— President Burlii's Address 30 



— W. H. Elliott (portrait) 30 



— A. Farenwald (portrait) 30 



— President Elliott's Address 40 



— V/. Atlee Burpee (portrait) 4b 



— Secretary Baur's Report 41 



— F'red Burki (portrait) 41 



— Ciedits and Collections 43 



— J. A. Valentine (portrait) 43 



— Science of Growing Roses 4.^ 



— Wallace R. Pierson (portraitl 45 



— Novelties in Sweet Peas 48 



— Patrick Welch (portrait) 48 



— Thomas Roland (portrait) 40 



— E. Allan Pelrce (portrait) 40 



Society of American Florists 50 



Obituary 50 



— David Mundell ■. . ; 50 



— Mrs. George Schwartz 50 



— A. J. Selders 50 



— Herman Lawrentz 50 



— Miss Fannie M. Anderson 50 



Chicago .50 



St. Louis 55 



Philadelphia 56 



New York 58 



Providence 63 



Boston 08 



Dayton, 71 



Steamer Sailings 73 



Vegetable Forcing 75 



— Vegetable Markets i 75 



— Stem-rot of Lettuce 75 



Seed Trade News 80 



— Catalogues Received »0 



— Imports 81 



— Improvement of Asters 81 



— Improvement In Seed Growing 88 



— Dodder in Chilean Clover 01 



Pacific Coast fl6 



— San Francisco 06 



— Victoria. B. C 06 



— Portland. Ore 97 



— Los Anseles Opportunities 97 



Nursery News 08 



— A New Iris (lllus.> 9S 



— Montana Nursery Laws 1"<> 



Pansy Flowers Eaten "2 



Stocks Under Glass 104 



Toronto 106 



Baltimore . 108 



Pittsburg 110 



Columbus, 112 



Evansvllle. Ind 114 



Minneapolis, Minn ! . . . ! 11 1 



Milwaukee 110 



Greenhouse Heating '.'. 122 



— Capacity of Boiler 122 



— Crude Oil as Fuel 122 



Detroit 128 



Galvanized Iron Work ! . 130 



Land Salt . . ; 132 



Advertising the Station .' ! 1.S4 



Charlton and Ampelopsis i.so 



Hydrangeas Coming White .I.SS 



Azalea Doiitsohe Perle 1.38 



Soils us Related to Sports !.!!!!l40 



Ivy on Graves 140 



LenoT, Mass 142 



Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. — Benjamin 

 Hammond, of Hammond's Paint & Slug 

 Shot Works, celebrated the opening of 

 his finely equipped new factory by in- 

 viting the school children of the com- 

 munity to visit the premises on Satur- 

 day afternoon, March 11, and by treat- 

 ing the youngaters to Florida oranges. 

 Hundreds of the pupils attended, in 

 company with their teachers, and found 

 the tour of inspection not only instruct- 

 ive, but highly enjoyable, in spite of 

 the fact that one of the boys dropped, 

 feet first, into a barrel and was im 

 mersed to the waist in green paint. 



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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the roses, Double White 

 Killarney and Killarney Queen by A. 

 N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, Conn., 

 becomes complete. 



H. B. Domer, Sec 'v. 



March 23, 1911. 



OBITUARY. 



David Mundell. 



D.ivid Mundell, gardener at the In- 

 stitution for Feeble Minded in Glen- 

 wood, la., died recently at his home in 

 that town, as the result of cancer. He 

 was born at Yonkers, N. Y., and was 

 about .'50 years of age. He was em- 

 ployed for fourteen years at the Hos 

 pital for the Insane at Independence, 

 la., and then he removed to Monti- 

 cello, la., where he engaged in busi- 

 ness for himself. About two yeai-s ago 

 he received the appointment at the 

 Glenwood institution. 



Mrs. George Schwartz. 



Maria Theresa Schwartz, wife of 

 George Schwartz, a retired wholesale 

 florist of Brooklyn, N. Y., died March 

 21 at her home, 36 Schaeffer street, 

 Brooklyn, at the age of 78 years. She 

 was born in Germany, came to this 

 country fifty-three years ago and had 

 lived in Brooklyn for forty-one years. 

 She is survived by her husband. 



A. J. Seiders. 



A. .J. Seiders, one of the best land- 

 scape gardeners in Texas, died March 

 24 at the family residence, 1106 West 

 Thirty-eighth street, Austin, at 40 

 years of age. He had suffered from 

 consumption for five years, but had 

 been confined to bed for only a short 

 period. He was born in Austin and 

 had lived there nearly all his life. He 

 was a man of close observation and 



original thought. As a landscape gar- 

 dener he knew the native plants and 

 conditions and possessed good taste in 

 arrangement. Texas owes him much as 

 an introducer of plants and ideas that 

 have become established successes in 

 the peculiar climate of that state. 



He is survived by his mother, Mrs. 

 Edward Seiders; by his widow and six 

 children. Misses Myrtle, Stella, Kate 

 and Bessie, and Charley and A. J. 

 Seiders, and by five brothers, J. D. and 

 H. B. Seiders, of Taylor; John W. and 

 R. L. Seiders, of San Saba, and Fred 

 Seiders, of Austin. 



Herman Lawrentz. 



Herman Lawrentz, who for many 

 years conducted greenhouses on the 

 Torrington road, Litchfield, Conn., died 

 March 17 of heart disease, at the age 

 of about 70 years. He was apparently 

 in good health when he retired to bed 

 the previous evening. 



Miss Faotmie M. Anderson. 



Miss Fannie M. Anderson, of the firm 

 of Anderson & White, at Lexington, 

 Ky., died March 20. The two ladies, 

 Miss Anderson and Miss White, had 

 been associated in business at 159 

 Georgetown street for many years and 

 had built up a large trade from a small 

 beginning. Miss White attended to the 

 general management of the business, 

 while Miss Anderson acted in the ca- 

 pacity of clerk and took charge of the 

 orders. Miss White has the sympathy 

 of her many friends in the ^eath of 

 her partner. 



. CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has shown practically 

 no change in the last week. Eeceipts 

 continue heavy in all departments. A 

 comparatively small part of the sup- 

 ply is taken by the stores of recog- 

 nized standing and that are willing to 

 pay a price. Business is not bad with 

 the retailers, and they are able to buy 

 so reasonably that they are pushing 

 for business because of the extra profit 

 to be had at this time, but the fact 

 •is that the greater part of each day's 

 cut finds its outlet through the people 

 who operate the cheap sales. . When 

 ever it becomes generally known that 

 cut flowers of good quality are to be 

 had at cheap prices so long as the 

 buyer is willing to take what is of- 

 fered him an^i clean up the lot, there 

 at once spr>rlgs up a host of buyers 

 who are not seen in the market when 

 crops are low. These people have been 

 operating extensively in the last two 

 weeks and have served to give the 

 market a somewhat better tone. They 

 do not care whether they handle roses, 

 carnations, sweet peas, violets or bulb 

 stock^it is all one to them. Were it 

 not for these people there would be 

 no possibility of moving the enormous 

 quantity of stock which comes into 

 the Chicago market when crops are 

 on. It is recognized by everyone that 

 when crops are at the heaviest with 

 the growers who supply this market, 

 Quts also/ are at the heaviest in the 

 towns that otherwise would draw a 

 Impart of their supply from here. Con 

 sequently when crops are on at Chi 

 cag^ the legitimate shipping demand 

 is apt to be lightest, and vice versa. 



There are so many flowers in the 

 market that if anything is scarce its 

 absence passe? unnoticed; the buyer 



