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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Max 9, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



e. L. QSAMT, EOITOK AND Mamaqbb. 



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 J. Austin Shaw, Hamaqkb. 



BntMcrtptlon price, tl.00 a year. To Canada. $2.00 

 To Karope, t2JS0. 



AdyertUlng ratea qnoted upon reqneat. Only 

 ■trlctly trade adyertUlng accepted. 



AdrertlaementB moat reach na by 5 p. m.ToeMay. 

 to Insnre Inaertton In the lasae of that week. 



Bnlered as second class matter December 8. 1897. 

 at the poet-offlce at Ohlcaffo. IIU under the act of 

 March 8. 18T». 



This paper la a member of the Ohlcaro Tiad* 

 Preaa Aaaoclatlon 



CONTENTS. 



Sprays for ( riticisiu 13 



— Here's Another Martyr (tllus.) 13 



I'\)r a Senator's Kuneral (lUus. ) 15 



Tell Us About It 15 



A Wedding Anniversary iTHng.) 15 



Wlenhoeber's Auto (lllus.) 15 



Concrete Construction 16 



— Its Use In Greenhouses (lllus.) 16 



Mr. Ebel Offers SuKRestlons 18 



Koses — The Every-Day Work 19 



Lily of the Valley 19 



— Getting Heady for June 19 



— Cold Storage Valley 19 



Godetla for Memorial Day 20 



Carnations 2<> 



— Carnations In New England (illus. ) 20 



— Insects on Carnations 20 



Polnsettla Cuttings 20 



Gardenia Culture 20 



Primulas at Dundee ( illus. ) 21 



Greenhouse Construction 22 



— Progress of Fifty Years 22 



— Montague C. Wright (portrait) 22 



Cattleyas at Dale's ( lllus. ) 23 



Latest Facts on Fumigation 24 



— Kesults of Recent Research 24 



E. R. Fry (portrait) 25 



Violets— Planting in the Field 26 



Seasonable Suggestions — Polnsettlas 26 



— Primulas 26 



— Gardenias 26 



— Berried Solanums 26 



— Cyclamens 26 



— LiUum S|)eciosum 26 



Obituary— Mrs. Wm. F. Kastlng 27 



— H. Potet 27 



Boston 27 



Washington. D. C 27 



Business Embarrassments 28 



Jasmine Crop Late 28 



Chicago 28 



Asters for Late August 36 



Philadelphia 3S 



New York 42 



Society of Amerifan Florists 48 



— Trade Exhibition 48 



— National Flower Show 48 



Rochester 50 



St. Louis 52 



•Steamer Sailings 56 



Pacific Coast Departmojit 58 



— Seattle, Wash , 58 



— lyos Angeles. Cal 58 



— San Francisco 59 



— A Florists' Fair Exhibit (lllus.) 60 



Seed Trade News 64 



— A Voice from Montana 64 



— Sweet Corn for Seed 64 



— Catalogues Received 69 



Nursery News 74 



— Inspection In Colorado 74 



Milwaukee 78 



New Orleans SO 



Canal Dover. 80 



Exhibition at Bruges 84 



Mr. Fuld's Appioeliition 86 



Washington, D. C SS 



Pittsburgh, Pn 92 



Greenhouse Heating lf>8 



— Boiler ajid Stack 108 



— Y'oking Boilers 108 



— The Fuel Market Ifl8 



Providence . 110 



Detroit 112 



Cleveland 112 



Vegetable Fcrring 114 



— The runinilMT Wilt 114 



Brampton. Ont 116 



Indianapolis 118 



Urbann. Ill 118 



Cincinnati 12o 



Chicago, 111. — The second installment 

 of press bulletins sent out by J. II. 

 Burdett, for the National Council of 

 Horticulture, consists of articles on as- 

 ters, nasturtiums and fertilizers. 



For fall information, scbedulee, 

 space for Trade Exhibits, etc. , write 

 to 



JOHN YOUNQ 



Secretary and Manager for Trade Exhibits 

 54 W. 28th St.. New York City 



Mention The Kerlew when .vou write. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FL0KIST8. 

 Incorporated by Act of Congress, Mar^h 4, 1901. 



Ofllcers for 1912: President. R. Vincent. Jr., 

 White Marsh, Md. ; vice-president. August Poehl- 

 mann, Morton Grove, 111. ; secretary, John Young, 

 54 W. 28th St., New York City; treasurer, W. F. 

 Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention. Coliseum, Chicago, 111., 

 August 20 to 23, 1912. 



Index to Advertisers 



Pase 122 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Review brings results. 



Work has been begun on a revised 

 edition of Bailey's Cyclopedia of Amer- 

 ican Horticulture. 



Four double-page spreads again in this 

 issue. The business card stage of adver- 

 tising has been passed by The Review. 



Next week's issue of The Review will 

 be the one that will be of greatest value 

 to advertisers who want business for 

 Memorial day. 



The good old rubber plant appears to 

 have gone the same way as its erstwhile 

 companion, Latania Borbonica — hardly 

 anyone growing them now. 



It costs more to sell goods nowadays 

 than it used to cost — but florists still are 

 getting business cheaply compared to 

 what sales cost in other lines. 



In spite of repeated statements that no 

 attention is paid to inquiries that do not 

 bear the writer's full name and address, 

 they continue to come to hand, even on 

 unsigned postal cards. 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

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

 stead of the dollar-bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



Speaking of quick results : Last week 's 

 issue of The Review, carrying a double- 

 })age spread advertising an automobile 

 tire filler much used by florists, was 

 mailed to subscribers Thursday afternoon. 

 Saturday morning 's mail brought the ad- 

 vertiser eighteen clipped coupons, from as 

 far away as Pittsburgh. 



The lady florists are anxious for a 

 Fathers' day, and several of them write 

 The Review about it at least once each 

 season, about the date of Mothers ' day. 

 But, unfortunately, father does not seem 

 to awaken the same sympathetic response 

 that came Avith the suggestion for the 

 observance of the second Sunday in May. 

 In fact, the suggestion pf a Fathers' day 

 causes nothing but a smile. Forget it. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMBNT8. 



Worcester, Mass. — A voluntary peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy was filed April 29 

 by Charles D. Mackie. His liabilities 

 are $11,453, of which $7,820 is unse- 

 cured. His assets are estimated at 

 .$8,300. 



OBDEBS OOME TOO FAST. 



For each of the last two issues The 



Review has carried thirteen solid pages 



of classified plant advertisements — 



every line charged for — in spite of the 



fact that advertisers sell out so fast 



that frequently it is necessary to cut 



out before the number of insertions 



ordered have been given: 



We shall have to ask you to omit our advertise- 

 ment in the Classified list until further notice, as 

 the orders are coming faster than we can handle 

 them.— R. R. Davis Co., Morrison, 111., April 30, 

 1912. 



Those who have surplus stock and 

 who have not yet tried The Review's 

 classified plant advertisements are 

 missing something to their advantage. 



JASMINE CROP LATE. 



In regard to your inquiry about the 

 jasmii^ crop here at Alvin this year, 

 we wish to say it is hard to predict at 

 present just what the crop will be 

 for Decoration day. We think there 

 will be a few blooms by then, but the 

 main part of the crop will be a week 

 or two late. The cool weather held 

 them back, and they have just begun to 

 form a bud and put on new foliage 

 within the last two weeks. We will 

 know more fully about May 20. 



Woodward Floral Co. 



CHICAOO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Business for the first week in May 

 has been about up to the usual stand- 

 ard, a few houses being able to report 

 some increase over last season. The 

 shipping demand is the main reliance, 

 there being nothing special doing in 

 the city. Weddings are not numerous 

 this month, and the call for the flowers 

 used in wedding work is less active than 

 it was in April, following Easter. 



The several days of unseasonably 

 warm weather have resulted in a large 

 increase in the supply of flowers, but 

 the effect on roses has been much more 

 apparent than on any other stock. 

 Roses have come in so much heavier 

 than during the last week in April that 

 prices are considerably weakened. An 

 extremely large percentage of the re- 

 ceipts grades in the short-stemmed class 

 and these are the roses that are moved 

 with greatest difiiculty. The buyers 

 make the prices. Medium and long- 

 stemmed roses are so few in proportion 

 to the total cut that prices on these 

 are much better maintained. The heat 

 has impaired the quality of practically 

 all roses and the wholesalers are com- 

 pelled to do much more sorting than a1 

 any time previously this season to get 

 out the shipping stock. Killarney and 

 White Killarney, of course, predomi- 

 nate, but there are good cuts of Rich 

 mond. Mrs. Ward is more abundant 

 than it has been, and both Ward, Mel- 

 ody and Bulgarie sell quickly. The list 

 has been reinforced by the first ship- 

 ments of Sunburst. 



Beauty crops have multiplied several 

 fold. Prices have taken a drop. In- 

 deed, so rapidly did receipts increase 



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