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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mat 4, 1911. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managke. 



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INDEX TO ADVEETISERS, PAGE 98. 



CONTENTS 



Mothers' Day Preparations 9 



— The Trade Gets Ready 9 



— Mothers' Day Sales 9 



Disbudding Peonies 9 



The Retail Florist 9 



— An Iris Study 9 



— Palmer and the Auto (illus. ) 10 



— Automobile Delivery 10 



— The Vacant Chair (illus.) 11 



The Dahlia ■ U 



Ladles' S. A. F 12 



Impressions of America 12 



A Des Moines Store (illus.) 13 



Mansfield's First Store (illus.) 13 



More About Primula Obconica... 13 



Meyer (portrait) 14 



Geraniums — Scented Geraniums 14 



— Thrlps on Ivy Geraniums 14 



— Geraniums Once Frozen 14 



Duty on Immortelles 14 



Carnations — Grelveldlns's Methods (Illus.) 16 



— American Sorts In Germany 16 



— Weak-stemmed Carnations 16 



Ferns — Seasonable Notes 16 



— Growing Ferns in Frames 16 



Bedding Plants 16 



Roses — Rambler Roses 17 



— Chemicals for Roses 17 



Bays and Box Trees 17 



Seasonable Suggestions — Gladioli 17 



— Nerlnes 17 



— Stevlas 17 



— Annuals for Cutting 17 



New York 18 



Cincinnati 18 



Cleveland 18 



Pittsburg 18 



Milwaukee 19 



Boston 19 



Waterbury, Conn 20 



Denver 20 



Meriden, Conn 20 



Obituary — Jacob Rndesule 21 



— George Engle 21 



— Mrs. William Winter 21 



— Mrs. Caroline O. Schllder 21 



Kansas City 21 



American Gladiolus Society 22 



American Rose Society 22 



Chicago 22 



Philadelphia 28 



State College, Pa 32 



Buffalo 34 



New Bedford 86 



WichlU, Kan 38 



St. Loula 41 



Omaha 48 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Seed Trade Newa 62 



— Big Pea Crop Needed 64 



— Onion Sets 64 



— Those Government Seed* B4 



— Commerce In Seeds 66 



— Imports 66 



— Snow in Wisconsin 65 



— Catalogues Received 06 



— April Polled Up 66 



— Spring Arithmetic 68 



Detroit 68 



Pacific Coast— San Francisco 60 



— Portland, Ore 61 



Nnrsery News 62 



— Contract Held Not Binding 62 



Vegetable Forcing 66 



— Vegetable Markets 66 



Davenport, la 66 



Dayton, 68 



Mnncle, Ind 70 



Lexington. Ky 72 



Providence 74 



Southlngton, Conn 87 



Madison, N. J 87 



Toronto 87 



Oreenboaae Heating - 88 



— Two Connected Houses 88 



— A Concrete Stack 90 



Qolumbns, 92 



Bochester 94 



Indianapolis 96 



80CIKTT OF AMEBICAN FI1OBIST8. 



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



Officers for 1911: President, George Asmns, 

 Chicago; vice-president, R. Vincent, Jr., Wtaite 

 Marsh, Md.; secretary, H. B. Domer, Urban*, 

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



Annual convention, Baltimore, Md., Angnst IB 

 to 18, 1911. 



EESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



What are yoit doing to advertise 

 Mothers' day? Nothing yet! Well, bet- 

 ter get busy. Mothers' day is May 14 

 this year. 



Don't give Mothers' day a black eye 

 by selling anything but the freshest flow- 

 ers. No need to pickle at this season. 

 There will be enough without it. 



When a dozen British "horticultural 

 traders," as they called themselves, visited 

 the "United States at the time of the 

 National Flower Show the craft in this 

 country found much pleasure in offering 

 such entertainment as the hurried nature 

 of the trip made possible. The leader of 

 the party was J. S. Brunton, editor of 

 the Horticultural Trades' Journal, and 

 for The Review he has written his "Im- 

 pressions of America." The opening ar- 

 ticle, in this issue, might better, perhaps, 

 have been entitled -"Impressions -of 

 Americans." In subsequent issues Mr. 

 Brunton will speak of the business aspect. 



The rose growers are busy with the 

 early replanting of their houses. It does 

 not appear that the Killarneys will be 

 any less predominant than in the season 

 now drawing to a close. In fact. Bride 

 and Maid will be dropped in many of 

 the not large number of places in which 

 they were retained last year. My Mary- 

 land also will be cut down on. Golden 

 Gate and Uncle John will share a like 

 reduction. Cardinal and Bhea Eeid will 

 occupy little space. But Melody, Prince 

 de Bulgarie and Mrs. Aaron Ward will 

 get space for thorough trial, and so will 

 several sports of the Killarneys. 



AMEBICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



There has recently been organized in 

 England the National Gladiolus Society 

 and I am informed by the secretary, K. 

 Atkinson, Locksheath, Southampton, 

 that they are working much along the 

 same lines as the A. G. S. and will 

 gladly cooperate with us for the mu- 

 tual interest and advancement of the 

 gladiolus. I hope to give at an early 

 date further particulars of this new 

 society. Now then, Germany and 

 France, all together, and an interna- 

 tional society for the gladiolus is here. 



The Henry F. Michell Co., Philadel- 

 phia, has offered for our Baltimore ex- 

 hibition a silver cup valued at $25, to 

 be awarded for the best twenty-five 

 spikes of the new gladiolus Kunderdi 

 Glory, exhibited in one vase. 



L. Morton Gage, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN SOSE SOCIETY. 



At the Boston exhibition a matter 

 was suggested in regard to the perma- 

 nent registration and record by the 

 American Bose Society of all the roses 

 that had been originated in America 

 for the last twenty-five years and to 

 embody the list as a permanent record 

 in the next bulletin. During the last 

 two years records have been received 

 of several new varieties or sports, and 

 the same have been published. We 

 want to go further than that and 

 gather an accurate record of all the I 



roses and the stock from which they 

 were obtained and place the same in a 

 book of registration for general infor- 

 mation. This idea was suggested to the 

 secretary and, in speaking with a few 

 rosarians, the plan was deemed an ad- 

 visable one to carry out, if possible, 

 and therefore I would ask all parties 

 who may have any accurate informa- 

 tion bearing on this subject or who may 

 be the originator of a new rose to file 

 a statement with the idea of compiling 

 an accurate list and publishing the 

 same by the American Rose Society. 

 Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There have been few times in the 

 history of this market when the over- 

 supply has been so unwieldy as in the 

 last fortnight, but May day, though it 

 was wet and the coldest in many years, 

 gave evidence of the approach of a 

 change in the market situation. Ap- 

 parently crops are going off, and val- 

 ues have been so low that growers are 

 hastening the work of throwing out for 

 replanting. The result will be before 

 many days have elapsed a return to 

 something like the normal spring con- 

 dition. Already orders from out of 

 town are on the increase. 



It is interesting to note that in spite 

 of the overstocked condition of the 

 market sweet peas have been steadily 

 in excellent demand, with first-class 

 prices prevailing, in accordance with 

 quality, and the possibility of selling 

 more than were received. The sweet 

 pea has had a wonderful appreciation 

 in popular favor. The Butterfly peas, 

 as the Spencer varieties are locally 

 known, are being received in greater 

 quantity, but the supply has been held 

 in check by several days of cold, dark 

 weather. With the return of spring 

 sun there will be a quick jump in the 

 production, prices undoubtedly will 

 come down and there will be peas for 

 everyone. Valley has recovered from the 

 few days' shortage and is now equal 

 to the demand. Cattleyas also are much 

 more abundant. 



The quality of the spring crop of 

 Beauties is doing something to make 

 up for the winter shortage. Beauties 

 never were finer and there is so great 

 an abundance that the retailers are 

 again running each other to see who 

 can sell the largest quantity at the 

 lowest margin of profit; they are buy- 

 ing high priced space in the dailjy news- 

 papers to offer cheap Beauties, m some 

 cases at $4 per dozen for the best. 



In the last week it has been simply 

 impossible to move the rose receipts 

 through the regular channels. After 

 the needs of the regular buyers have 

 been supplied the greater part of the 

 day's receipts have remained, to be 

 forced out by any device the whole- 

 salers' ingenuity could suggest. There 

 has been considerable waste. The qual- 

 ity of roses is fine. This week pink 

 shows a tendency to shorten, but there 

 is plenty of white. 



Carnations have been in oversupply 

 equal to roses, but there is apparent a 

 tendency toward reduced production 

 and white especially is demanding a 

 little better prices. The wholesalers 

 are receiving many inquiries and or- 

 ders for Mothers' day. The principal 

 call is for white carnations, but in 

 most cases the wholesalers do not care 



