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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



APKiL 27, 1911, 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manager. 



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INDEX TO ADVEBTISERS, PAGE M, 



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CONTENTS 



Mothers' Day and the Florists (illus. ) 7 



— The Lord Helps Those 7 



— These Took the Hint 8 



Sweet Peas Spotting 9 



Frisco's Newest Store (Illus.) 8 



Oermlnatlng Asparagus Seed U 



The Retail Florist 10 



— Helper Flowers 10 



— Benson's Bubble (Illus.) 10 



Gladiolus Bulb Rot 10 



Annuals 11 



The Fre^port Store (illus. ) 11 



Roses — Roses in Florida 12 



Smilax 12 



Geraniums — Seedling Geraniums 12 



— Winter-Flowering Geraniums 12 



Chrrsanthemums - 13 



— Cuttings Fall to Root 13 



— When to Take the Buds 13 



Dahlias 13 



Ferns — Seasonable Notes 13 



Bamsburg's New Antirrhinum (illus.) 14 



Reasonable Suggestions 14 



— Hardy Perennials 14 



— Canterbury Bells 14 



— Fuchsias 14 



— Asters 15 



The San Francisco Show (illus.) 15 



liOuisTUle, Ky 16 



ProYldence 16 



Boiton 16 



New Orleans 17 



Obituary 18 



Chicago 18 



Baltimore 22 



St. Louis 23 



Philadelphia 26 



New York 28 



Pittsburg 34 



Steamer Sailings 38 



Seed Trade News 40 



— Seed Crops in Holland 40 



— Selection for Stock (illus.) 41 



— Cabbage Copenhagen Market 42 



Westerly, R. 1 46 



Pacific Coast 66 



— Portland, Ore 56 



— San Francisco 67 



Nursery News ■ 58 



— Exports of Apples B8 



Toronto , 60 



New Bedford 64 



Dayton, 68 



Indianapolis 68 



Brockton. Mass 68 



Vegetable Forcing 70 



— Vegetable Markets 70 



— Red Spider on Cucumbers 70 



Greenhouse Heating 84 



— Boiler on Ground Level 84 



— In Maryland Climate 84 



Montgomery, Ala 86 



Grand Rapids. Mich 88 



New Hayen, Conn 90 



Detroit 90 



Merlden, Conn 92 



Southlngton, Conn 92 



St. Louis, Mo. — The preliminary pre- 

 mium list has been issued for the fifth 

 annual autumn show of the St. Louis 

 Horticultural Society, with which is to 

 be held the annual exhibition of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of 'America. 

 The dates are November 7 to 11. The 

 money premiums are liberal and there 

 are many special cups, medals, etc. The 

 executive committee is C. B. Nicholson, 

 F. H. Meinhardt, 0. C. Sanders, Henry 

 Young, Theodore Miller, H. W. Pilgrim 

 and Otto G. Koenig, secretary, to whom 

 all correspondence should be addressed. 



SOGIITT or AMIBICAir FLOBI8T8. 



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



Offlcera for 1911: Prealdant, Ocorfe Aamoa, 

 Chicago; Tlce-prMldent, B. Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marah, Md.; aecretary, H. B. Domer, Urbana, 

 111.; treaanrer, W. F. Kaatlns, Bnftalo, N. T. 



Annual conrention, Baltimore, Md., Aucnet 16 

 te 18, 1911. 



Besults bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



With this issue The Review reaches 

 the venerable age of 700 weeks. 



One of the most hopeful signs of the 

 times is the growing tendency of the re- 

 tail florists to use advertising space in 

 their local papers. 



The whole country has been heavily 

 stocked with cut flowers since Easter, 

 most of the wholesale markets being de- 

 cidedly overstocked. 



E. H. Wilson, widely known as a plant 

 explorer, has returned from his second 

 trip to China for Harvard Botanic Gar- 

 den, his journey being cut short by the 

 accident with which he met early on the 

 trip. 



Right away after Easter wholesale cut 

 flower dealers began receiving inquiries 

 and orders for Mothers' day — not alone 

 for white carnations, but for other colors, 

 for the trade realizes only a fraction of 

 the demand can be supplied if white 

 alone is pushed. 



It appears that the Mothers' day ar- 

 ticles in this week's issue of The Review 

 should have appeared last issue, for every 

 delivery of mail this week has brought 

 inquiries about "When is Mothers' 

 day?" and within the last day or two 

 the inquiries have been coming by tele- 

 graph. 



THE WEATHEB FORECAST. 



The weather bureau in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington, D. 

 C, will furnish free of charge to any 

 shipper of perishable stock a daily sheet 

 of weather forecast, with a case for 

 filing them in. These reports give fore- 

 casts for the next twenty-four hours — 

 the maximum and minimum thermome- 

 ter and the thermometer during the last 

 twenty-four hours at some 140 stations 

 throughout the country, and other in- 

 formation of value to long distance 

 shippers. These reports are furnished 

 daily. 



OBITUAKY. 



Edward A. Moseley. 



Edward A. Moseley, best known to 

 the country in general as secretary of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 and the originator of much labor legis- 

 lation,, but intimately known to many 

 florists as a horticultural enthusiast and 

 a life member of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists, died at his home in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, April 18, after a long ill- 

 ness. The immediate cause of death 

 was heart failure, superinduced by 

 acute kidney disease. Funeral services 

 were held at Washington, April 20, and 

 the body was taken to Newburyport, 

 Mass., where he was born sixty-five 

 years ago, for burial. 



As an intimate friend and personal 

 adviser of presidents, cabinet officers, 

 representatives, senators and other pub- 

 lic officials during the last quarter of a 

 century, Mr. Moseley accomplished no- 

 table results, particularly along humani- 

 tarian and philanthropic lines. He was 

 recognized as an authority upon all 



measures designed to insure the safety 

 of railway employees and travelers, and 

 was instrumental in securing the enact- 

 ment of laws requiring the use by rail- 

 ways of safety devices. In recognition 

 of these services he received the thanks 

 of the legislature of Massachusetts and 

 of practically all the great railway 

 labor organizations. 



Mr. Moseley was a thirty-second de- 

 gree Mason, former president of the 

 American-Irish Historical Society, mem- 

 ber of the Society of the Cincinnati, 

 Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the 

 Revolution, Sons of the American Revo- 

 lution, American Economic Association, 

 American Academy of Social and Po- 

 litical Science, American Geographical 

 Society, American Institute of Civics, 

 and was secretary of the National Asso- 

 ciation of Railroad Commissioners. 



D. D. Beebe. 



Dickerman D. Beebe, for many years 

 employed by S. J. Reuter & Son at 

 Westerly, R. I., died April 17. He had 

 been ill since last September. Many 

 beautiful decorations were sent to his 

 funeral by local florists. 



Ernest Schacht. 



Ernest Schacht, who was employed 

 by Anton Schultheis at College Point, 

 N. Y., died at the Flushing hospital 

 April 17, at the age of 35 years. He 

 was born in Northeim, Hanover, Ger- 

 many, and had no relatives living in 

 this country. 



CHICAaO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Chicago is, indeed, a great market, 

 but its capacities nevertheless are not 

 equal to the profitable marketing of the 

 enormous quantity of flowers now being 

 received. Practically everyone con- 

 nected with the trade in Chicago agrees 

 that the production since Easter has 

 been the heaviest ever known here, and 

 the quantities of each day's receipts 

 have been far above the possibilities of 

 any legitimate sale; while the regular 

 channels are moving large quantities of 

 stock, it is necessary to dispose of the 

 bulk of the arrivals by means of job 

 lot sales at low figures. It is pulling the 

 growers ' averages down to a point lower 

 than anything heretofore recorded this 

 year, and below the values which pre- 

 vailed at this date last season. 



It is a great deal easier to comment 

 on the items that are scarce, or in 

 ,50od demand, than to catalogue the ones 

 that are in oversupply. At the open- 

 ing of the present week valley was the 

 principal scarcity, but the shortage is 

 likely 'to be relieved before the end of 

 the week, as it often has been noted 

 that the principal demand for this ar- 

 ticle is in the early days of the week. 

 The opening of the week also found red 

 carnations in active demand, although 

 there were r.ncounted thousands of 

 white, and especially of Enchantress, 

 for which no acceptable oflfer could be 

 had. Smilax also was on the short side 

 and prices asked ranged from $2 to $3 

 per dozen. Aside from these items the 

 best selling flower on the list was the 

 sweet pea. The popularity of the sweet 

 pea seems due to a combination of sev- 

 eral causes. In the first place, the peas 

 now coming in are exceptionally fine; 

 they are a far different article from 

 the sweet pea of only a few years ago. 

 Also, the practical departure of the 



