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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 14, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS* REVIEW 



O. Ifc GRANT, Editok and Manaokb. 



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 To Europe, |2JS0. 



Advertlain? rates quoted upon request. Only 

 ■trictly trade advertlBlngr accepted. 



Advertisementa muBt reach ub by 6 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure Insertion in the issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December S. 1897. 

 kt the post-of&ce at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 Uarch 3, 1879. 



Tliis paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVEBTISBBS, PAGE 122. 



CONTENTS. 



Chicago's First Spring Show (illus.) 15 



— Chas. Bond's Cattleyas (lllus. ) 17 



The State Colleges 18 



Oechslin's Group at Chicago Show (iUus.)... 19 



Boiling Cypress in Oil 10 



Examination for Head Florist 10 



Sweet Peas 10 



— Seasonable Suggestions 10 



Plerson's Pearls 21 



Notes on Gladioli 22 



— Hybridization of Gladioli 22 



— More About Gladioli 22 



Motor Truck and Store of the Pittsburgh Cut 



Flower Co. (illus.) 22 



Rbele's Auto (illus.) 23 



Geraniums — Seasonable Suggestions 28 



Glory of Cincinnati 24 



Roses 24 



— Preparing Young Stock 24 



American Rose Society 24 



Seasonable Suggestions 2'> 



— Azaleas 2.i 



— Lilacs 2.5 



— Cannas 2.") 



— Pansles 2."i 



— Lilium Speciosum 2.') 



— Hydrangeas 2.') 



— Ten Weeks' Stocks 2" 



Greenhouse Walls of Tile 2."> 



Governor Herrick 2.1 



Carnations 26 



— Stem-rot Studies 2R 



— Dauts' Carnation House (illus.) 27 



Washington Club Meeting 27 



Another Ludwig (portrnlt) 2S 



\ Flatbush Range (illus. ) 28 



New York 2S 



Obituary — Palthasar Stahl (portrait) W 



— Joseph Helnl 80 



— Nels p. Colberg (portrait) 31 



— Francis Pentland .SI 



— Fred Miesel 31 



Toronto 31 



Society of American Florists 32 



Chicago 32 



Detroit 40 



St. Louis 40 



Evansville, Ind 42 



Greenwich, Conn 43 



Cincinnati 44 



Philadelphia 46 



Dayton, 50 



Baltimore 51 



Pacific Coast Department 68 



— Portland. Ore 68 



— San Francisco 58 



— Seattle, Wash 58 



— Loa Angeles, Cal 60 



Boston 64 



Milwaukee 68 



Steamer Sailings 70 



Seed Trade News 72 



— The Rains 78 



— Interest in Montana 74 



— Conditions in California 76 



— Catalogues Received 78 



Vegetable Forcing 70 



— Wants a Good Head Lettuce 79 



Nurserv News 84 



A Standard Package Bill 84 



Pittsburgh 85 



Indianapolis 88 



Worcester, Mass 90 



Buffalo 92 



Cleveland 94 



Allentown, Pa 96 



Rochester 98 



Bowling : 100 



— At Buffalo 100 



— At Chicago 100 



— At Milwaukee 100 



— At New York 100 



Greenhouse Heating 114 



■ • More About Oil Burners 114 



— ■ Two Cucumber Houses 116 



— • A Narrow House for Roaes 116 



V'ashington, D. C 118 



Denver 120 



BOOIETT or AXEBIOAV FLOHIBTI. 



Incorporated bj Act of CongreM, Marcb 4, 1901. 



Officers for 1012: President, E. Vincent, Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md.; vice-president, Aagost Poebl- 

 msim, Morton Orove, III.; secretarr, John Tonne, 

 Bedford Hills, N. T.; treasnrer. W. W. Kastlng, 

 Batfalo. N. X. 



Annnal convention, Obicago, lU., Angnst 10 t6 

 23, 1912. 



The W. L Kirchhoff Company, 



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 tisosMbsr ■• wsrs oerrsspot>Jln( slth forolgD publishers rscsidifv 

 wlesrtlslng rotcsi taut, bsfore ws h*d pls<e4 »ur orlsr >lth thsa, 

 inruirlos SMBS pourlie In froa hosM »nd sbro«d, thsrsfors «• 

 tliou(M bsst to slthdraw oar ad froa ths Bsvitw for a 1st up. 

 On Jan. 1st ws aaksd you to dlsaentlnut our ad until furtbsr 

 ootlas, but ttosrs sas ns Istup until all tbs stoak «as sold. Thsy 

 did not rrca Isave us any for our rstail tr.kds and yst s« havs to 

 do soASthlng wUoh a aan hatss to do, rstarolnc soas nlcs loeklos 

 obsoks, 



TDs DsTlsw rsaobsa tbs' buy sr no a4tter sbsrs bs Is it0^ 



Yoiu-s for SuASSf 



W.r. Klrobhorr Co. 



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Besults bring advertising. 

 The Beview brings results. 



With sphagnum so scarce at this date, 

 the design makers are apt to be put to 

 their wite' ends for "stuffing" material 

 before the next season's supply arrives. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 The Keview $2, $3, or sometimes $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



In 1886 and 1887 the movement to or- 

 ganize florists into local clubs had its 

 biggest boom, and quarter-century anni- 

 versary celebrations therefore are in or- 

 der. In recent months the Chicago, Bos- 

 ton and St. Louis clubs have celebrated 

 their twenty-fifth anniversaries, March 11 

 the Baltimore club did the same and 

 March 23 the New York organization 

 will observe its silver jubilee. 



The United States CivU Service Com- 

 mission has been unable to secure a suffi- 

 cient number of eligibles qualified in 

 plant pathology for the Department of 

 Agriculture. At the present time there 

 are three vacancies to fill at salaries rang- 

 ing from $1,200 to $1,600 per annum. 

 An examination is to be held April 10 

 and 11 and those interested should apply 

 to the United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission, Washington, D. C. 



The investigation of express com- 

 panies that has been conducted by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission has 

 brought out clearly that the railroads 

 control the express service and operate 

 it in the interest of the railroads rather 

 than in the interest of the public. What 

 we need is a law to divorce the express 

 companies and the railroads; then there 

 will be no such thing as the Wells Fargo 

 turning over about sixty per cent of its 

 gross receipts on that line to the St. 

 Paul railroad. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLOBISTS. 



Department of Beglstratioii. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 H. W. Koerner, Station B, R. F. D. No. 



6, Milwaukee, Wis., offers for regis- 

 tration the following gladioli. Any 

 person objecting to the registration, 

 or to the use of the proposed 

 name, is requested to communicate with 

 the secretary at once. Failing to re- 

 ceive objection to the registration, the 

 same will be made three weeks from 

 this date. 



Baiser's description: The gladiolus 

 named below has the exact shape, habit 

 and size of America, except in color, 

 which is lavender; it has two little 

 dashes of a little darker shade at the 

 throat of lower petals; the flowers have 

 good substance and good lasting qual- 

 ity; their growth is three feet high, 

 with a strong, straight spike, with 

 healthy green foliage; vigorous grower, 

 free bloomer, with five, to seven perfect 

 open flowers at one time; Childsii z 

 Gandavensis. Name: American Wonder. 



Baiser's description: The gladiolus 

 na.med below is a giant flowering type; 

 it will bear, with high culture, flowers 

 seven inches across; with ordinary cul- 

 ture, five inches, with five to seven 

 perfect, well opened flowers at one time; 

 very heavy and good substance, with 

 good lasting quality; it has a deep wine 

 color, with a few small dashes of 

 brown at the throat of lower petals; 

 grows three to flve feet high, with an 

 extra heavy, straight stem; dark green, 

 heavy foliage and free bloomer; 

 Childsii x one of Groff's. Name: 

 American Giant. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



March 9, 1912. 



COBBECTION. 



W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, asks 

 that it be stated that the prices on 

 caladium bulbs in its advertisement last 

 week, due to a stenographic error (the 

 proofreader was blameless this time), 

 appeared as per 100 and per 1,000 in- 

 stead of per dozen and per 100. 



CmCACK). 



The Great Central Market. 



There has been some improvement in 

 market conditions since last report, but 

 it has been only in the direction of a 

 little larger legitimate demand. A 

 somewhat larger proportion of the 

 daily receipts now are taken into the 

 regular channels of trade, leaving less 

 in the oversupply to be jobbed off or go 

 into the waste. Business is not yet 

 what could be called active, and there 

 is an abundant supply of practically 

 everything now in season. In some lines 

 the supply is the heaviest known at 

 this date, and the quality of most of 

 the stock is excellent. Prices continue 

 to rule extremely low, considering that 

 winter still is with us, the present week 

 opening with an all day's fall of snow. 



The least plentiful item is good 

 American Beauty roses. There are 

 considerable quantities now being cut, 

 but most of them are short in stem and 

 poor in flower. A few really first-class 

 long Beauties are being cut, but there 

 is no oversupply of these. The demand, 

 however, is not heavy. Killarneys are 

 excellent; the spring crop is on and bet- 

 ter stock could not be asked for. There 

 is an abundant supply of all lengths. 

 Boses are decidedly cheaper than they 

 were a few weeks ago, but they are 

 holding their prices better than most 

 other lines of stock. Outside of th^ 

 Killarneys and Bichmond no large 



