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The Weekly Florists' Revie\Ar« 



JUNK 21, I'm. 



SUPPORTS. 



Tendrils for wire supports to roses and car- 

 nations. Hold plants firmly but with free- 

 dom. Write to H. Thaden & Co.. 23 So. Broad 

 St., Atlanta, Ga. 



Wire rose stakes. H. F. Littlefield, Worces- 

 ter, Mass; 



WIRE WORK. 



C. A. Kuehn, 1122 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo., 

 manufacturer of tlie Patent Wire Ciamp Flo- 

 ral Designs. A full line of supplies always on 

 hand. Write for catalogue. 



Reed & Keller, 122 W. 20th St., New Torb, 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Pliil.Hileliihia Flnrists' Wire Design Co.. SiiT 

 N. 4th St.. Phiiacleiphia. Pa. 



Emil Steffens. .'iS", E. 21st St.. New Torl<. 



E. H. Hunt. 7t;-7S Wahasli aw. Chicago. 



C. C. Poliworth Co.. Miiwaul<ti-. Wis. 



BALTIMORE. 



Trade and Personal Notes. 



The market shows iiiiniistakable 

 symptoms of flagging, but there is still 

 considerable business doing, and for 

 the week closing at this writing, June 

 17. the aggregate was up to. and prob- 

 ably above, the average of other years. 

 This in the face of a great influx of 

 flowers, which necessarily reduces 

 prices. 



Roses grow poorer and poorer in 

 quality, and really first-class stock is 

 in demand and will sell at any time. 

 Carnations are better than usual and 

 fair qualities go off well. Sweet peas 

 are not in excessive supply, whilst 

 hardy stuff, lilies, flowering shrubs, 

 etc.. go far beyond the market's capa- 

 city of absorption. 



We have had a magnificent rainfall 

 of thirty-six hours, coming down in 

 earnest but gentle showers that pene- 

 trated the thirsly earth, which had 

 been parching since April. For out- 

 side crops, carnations, asters, sweet 

 peas, etc.. it was salvation from an im- 

 pending and not remote destruction. 



In the well written, practical and 

 profitable contribution of your corre- 

 spondent, Ivera, in the June 7th Re- 

 view, reference to the fact that, in 

 New York. Broadway does not boast 

 the finest florists' stores, suggests the 

 statement that here, on Baltimore 

 street, which is our local Broadway, 

 there is for nearly two miles only one 

 florist's establishment. 



At about the corner of Baltimore 

 and Charles streets, which is at once 

 the real center of life and activity, as 

 it is the ofiicial hub of the city (for all 

 streets number from their intersec- 

 tion), one of our enterprising firms 

 has a store, but you may go west for a 

 mile before encountering another; 

 and, so far as your correspondent is 

 aware, you may go east till you strike 

 the Atlantic ocean without coming up 

 with the second florist's establishment. 

 Charles street seems to be the favorite 

 thoroughfare for the tiade. and nu- 

 merous stores are found l)oth on its 

 north and south divisions. 



It would seem to take some courage 



to open a store at this season, with 

 midsummer dullness impending, but 

 last week Mrs. Daugherty started a 

 new enterprise at 2018 Orleans sti'eet 

 This is in the far eastern section, not 

 remote from the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital, which is one of the great insti- 

 tutions of our city. She will have a 

 field comparatively free from competi- 

 tion. 



Mr. Benjamin Durfee. of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Company of Washington, 

 during a recent visit to this city said 

 he had no reason to change his views 

 of the merits of the Golden Gate rose. 

 It is growing in popular favor wher- 

 ever its proper management is under- 

 stood, and with any fair treatment it 

 makes a ver.v satisfactory and profit- 

 able summer rose. One thing must al- 

 ways be kept in mind: that it should 

 remain longer on the plant than any 

 other variety before cutting. The deli- 

 cate tints and great size of the flowers, 

 fine long, stiff stems, and its delicious 

 perfume, make this rose a favorite 

 wherever it is introduced. Of its white 

 sport. Ivory, which has not yet gone 

 into commerce, Mr. Durfee will this 

 year have three large houses, and the 

 further he tests it the more he feels 

 assured that he has a prize amongst 

 white roses. 



Mr. Theodore Eckhardt, who some 

 years ago built a large range of green- 

 houses at Ruxton, a few miles from 

 this city, and who latterly has been in 

 several European countries, was in 

 this city last week. 



Several of our curbstone flower deal- 

 ers went over today to Philadelphia to 

 lend their assistance to decorate the 

 thi'ongs assembled at the Republican 

 national convention. RIX. 



TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 



June Meeting of the Horticuhural Society. 



The Tarrylown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety held its first June show in the 

 Vauderbilt building on the evening of 

 June 14, and it was an up-to-date ex- 

 hibition. Pot plants, flowers, fruits 

 and vegetables were staged in very 

 artistic form. The quality of the ex- 

 hibits was excellent and the display of 

 strawberries was very fine. The awards 

 were as follows: 



Strawberries, distinct varieties, three 

 quarts, first to Wm. Turner, gardener 

 to Win. Rockefeller; second to A. 

 Taaffe. gardener to F. O. Mathieson. 

 Distinct varieties, two quarts, first to 

 Wm. Scott, gardener to Jos. Eastman. 

 Any variety, one quart, first to Wm. 

 Scott; second to A. Taaffe. 



Roses, best collection, first to Wm. 

 Scott. Six varieties, six of each, fii-st 

 to Howard Nichols, gardener to Mrs. 

 J. Trevor. Yonkei-s. Best vase ofroses. 

 first to Howard Nichols. 



Six varieties herbaceous flowers, fii-st 

 to Wm. Turner. 



Special exhibits that were awaided 

 certificates of merit were: 



Vase of seedling carnations by Wm. 

 Turner; six spikes of Dendrobium 



moschatum by Thomas Cockburn, gar- 

 dener to Louis Stern; two bunches of 

 Black Hamburg grapes by Robert An- 

 gus, gardener to Major R. E. Hopkins; 

 two Rollison's Telegraph cucumbers, 

 the same; collection of vegetables by 

 Louis A. Martin, gardener to C, C. 

 Worthington; bunch of Colossal as- 

 paragus, the same; four heads Thor- 

 burn's Maximum lettuce by T. Cock- 

 burn; two plants of Asparagus Spren- 

 geri. the same, and two plants of 

 Maranta zebrina by T. Cockburn and 

 twelve blooms of Phyllocactus lati- 

 frons, by R. Angus, were given honor- 

 able mention. 



Francis Gibson, gardener to Mi-s. 

 John Hall, showed a grand lot of 

 herbaceous flowers, and John Boshard 

 added materially to the exhibition 

 with a fine lot of vegetables. 



R. ANGUS. 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 



Mo. Valley Hort. Society. 



The Missouri Valley Horticultural 

 Society held its regular monthly meet- 

 ing June 16 at the residence of Mr. S. 

 J. Hare, superintendent of Forest Hill 

 cemetery. Luncheon was served un- 

 der the shade of the maples to about 

 fifty members and their friends, after 

 which an interesting paper was read 

 by Mrs. C. V. Holsinger on "Flowers," 

 and one by Mr. W. D. Cellar on 

 "Fruits." Considerable enthusiasm was 

 displayed in the discussion which fol- 

 lowed, and a few baskets of extraordi- 

 narily fine fruit were on exhibition to 

 help substantiate some declarations 

 made. Among the exhibits were some 

 Jackson county. Missouri, cherries and 

 black raspberries as big as English 

 walnuts, and some Texas peaches. The 

 site for Forest Hill cemetery, which 

 includes 300 acres, was selected ten 

 years ago. and work was at once com- 

 menced on the three artificial lakes, 

 now filled with aquatics, and the plant- 

 ing of trees and shrubbery, all of 

 which show excellent care, and the one 

 object this society had in holding its 

 meeting there was to afford its mem- 

 bers an opportunity of studying the 

 horticultural features of this beautiful 

 spot. 



Notes. 



One good heavy rain a week, with an 

 occasional top dressing, together with 

 other necessary atmospheric condi- 

 tions, is hastening vegetation at a 

 rapid rate. So far very little is heard 

 of the ravages of the insects, and this 

 is a season long to be remembered 

 among all lovers of horticulture, as 

 never before were the lawns as beauti- 

 ful as at the present time. The catal- 

 pa tree, witli its panicles of white 

 blooms, reminds one of a large snow- 

 bank at a distance. Yucca flllamen- 

 tosa is throwing up spikes five feet 

 high, and the profuse blooming of the 

 Crimson Rambler rose is creating 

 quite a sensation here. These climb- 

 ei-s are trained up trunks of old trees. 



