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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MARCH 29, 1900. 



were in fine shape and so nearly equal 

 in quality that the judges found it 

 rather difficult in making their decis- 

 ion. The following were the principal 

 exhibitors in bulbous plants: .Joseph 

 Hosley, Joseph McGregor and Jolin Mc- 

 Cleary. The first and second prizes 

 were evenly distributed. 



The classes for cinerarias brought 

 out twelve exhibits. George Graham, 

 gardener to Charles Hartshorne. cap- 

 tured first prize; J. H. Jones, second. 

 Both exhibits consisted of very fine 

 plants. 



George W. Brown took first prize for 

 genistas; Joseph Hosley, second. 



John Hobson took first on six plants 

 of azaleas; John McCleary first for sin- 

 gle specimen. 



\Vm. Robinson came off with first 

 lionors for callas. 



Thomas Long, gardener to G. W. 

 Childs Drexel, carried off the honors 

 for specimen ferns. These were ex- 

 ceptionally fine. 



Joseph McGregor's exhibit of gera- 

 niums was the feature of the show, 

 carrying off first for six plants, first 

 for specimen, and also first for six new 

 varieties. 



G. W. Brown exhibit a fine specimen 

 plant of Bougainvillea glabra Sanderi- 

 ana, for which he was awarded a cer- 

 tificate for culture. 



Joseph Hosley staged a large group 

 of flowering plants consisting of cine- 

 rarias. Marguerites, begonias and abu- 

 tilons, and got a certificate for cult- 

 ure. 



The competition in cut roses was 

 very keen. The class for twenty-fivo 

 long-stemmed Beauties brought out 

 seven entries. Myers & Samtman, 

 first; Joseph Heacock, second. The 

 other competitors were John Burton, 

 L. Pennock, Adolph Parenwalt and 

 George Anderson. The contest was so 

 close that it took some time for the 

 judges to decide. Joseph Beavis was 

 first on Bridesmaid.s and Brides: John 

 Burton was first on Meteor; .Toseph 

 Heacock, second. Robert Scott & Son 

 secured a silver medal for Liberty and 

 the certificate of the society for their 

 new rose Robert Scott, which is a hy- 

 brid tea. 



The show was a little too early for 

 Lilium Harrisii. There were only two 

 exhibitors. Joseph McGregor was 

 awarded first prize for the best speci- 

 men; Joseph Hosley first for best six. 



R. 



BOSTON. 



Market Conditions. 



Trade in anything that could be uti- 

 lized in funeral work has been remark- 

 ably brisk, caused by the ravages of the 

 grip. 



Carnations are scarce, prices readily 

 advanced to 4 cents on good ordinary 

 kinds. Prices on other lines were nomi- 

 nal; perhaps lower on strictly red 

 goods. Small white flowers very scarce 

 at times during the week. Violets even 

 seemed to feel the spirit of the times 



and sold better by spells. The demand 

 for larger grades of roses was limited 

 the greater part of the time; for small- 

 er grades the demand was never 

 stronger for the same length of time. 



Notes. 



No special excitement can be chroni- 

 cled outside a Jewish interpretation 

 of Marquis of Queensbury rules, in the 

 Park street market, which had to bs 

 referred to the judge for settlement. 



Too recently for particulars comes 

 news of the burning of Mr. Rich- 

 wagen's greenhouses at Woburn. But 

 as they were badly situated in respect 

 to water to fight the flames, heavy 

 damages are feared. 



James Galvin is employed at J. W. 

 Newman & Sons'. 



The spring exhibition at Horticul- 

 tural Hall was one of the most inter- 

 esting ever given, Imt your correspon- 

 dent's limited time, knowledge of the 

 subject And proper vernacular for its 

 expression prevents justice to it for 

 your columns as far as commercial 

 value of new specimens might go. 



A number of well known commercial 

 growers came in upon the premium 

 list, those in mind just now being W. 

 H. Elliott, W. S. Ewell, J. W. Howard, 

 M. A. Patten, M. R. Gushing, E. N. 

 Peirce & Sons, and I probably deserve 

 forgiveness for forgetting one or two. 



P. Welch and wife, Alex, and Robert 

 Montgomery, E. M. Wood and daugh- 

 ter and F. R. Mathison and wife, are 

 attending the flower show in New 

 York. B. T. 



BALTIMORE. 



Personal and Trade Notes. 



Mr. J. H. Brummel, near Catons- 

 ville, has been ill for ten days with 

 erysipelas, but is out again and at 

 work. We often hear of "the scholar 

 in politics," and this gentleman's posi- 

 tion is one analogous — he is the schol- 

 ar in floriculture. Not only in the 

 science of botany and in the art of 

 horticulture, but as an all around man 

 of learning he is distinguished in the 

 trade as a walking encyclopedia. It is 

 no disparagement, indeed, to his fellow 

 craftsmen to assert that, since the 

 death of the lamented Wm. T). Urack- 

 enridge, he is about the only one in 

 the business here thoroughly informed 

 in systemic and structural botany. 

 For practical knowledge of the flora of 

 this region his experience is singular, 

 and the botany classes of the Johns 

 Hopkins University and the Tramping 

 Clubs of our city often avail of his 

 services as a guide to the localities of 

 the scarcer genera and varieties. He 

 can locate with his finger on the map 

 and lead to the spot where every rare 

 plant has its habitat. No steamer of 

 the regular lines, or tramp roamer of 

 the seas from Europe or the antipodes, 

 brings to our port in cargo or ballast a 

 plant, useful or noxious, but he is quick 

 to spot the stranger. Nor does he 

 know plants only by appearance and 



name; of every one possessing econo- 

 mic or medicinal qualities, he is fully 

 informed as to locality, uses and treat- 

 ment. A year or two ago, when the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association 

 met in this city, he collected, arranged 

 and labeled with great foresight, labor 

 and care an exhibit which wa.s almost 

 complete, as it was certainly unique, 

 of the plants of this section employed 

 in medicine and the arts. 



Mr. Brummel was long employed in 

 the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture at Wash'ng:on. and when Pres- 

 ident Grant sent the commission to ex- 

 amine and report upon the resources of 

 San Domingo, he was appointed botan- 

 ist on the staff and made a thorough 

 exploration of that island. 



But it must not be thought that it is 

 only on horticultural and botanical 

 subjects that he is posted, for he is well 

 read in tlie whole range of science, 

 possesses a fine library of reference, 

 and keeps steadily up to the day in the 

 great procession of discoveries in the 

 sciences and inventions in the arts, but 

 especially, as is natural, in those per- 

 taining to his chosen pursuit of gar- 

 dening. 



Mr. Brummel has been engaged for 

 many years in the florists' business, 

 with a local market at his green- 

 houses on the Frederick road and a 

 stand in one of our principal markets. 

 At his place may always be round some 

 curious and rare things not apt to he 

 seen at other establishments where 

 commercial aspects only are consid- 

 ered. In the market he is the universal 

 arbiter as to what is good or poor, 

 hardy or tender, and is appealed to to 

 settle every question which comes up 

 amongst the hundreds of frequenters 

 of the flower stalls as to treatment of 

 plants of every kind. 



Physically he is a fine specimen of 

 robust manhood, with an aptitude and 

 capacity still for all-day walks, over 

 hill and dale, and along the shores of 

 river and bay. With unflagging enthu- 

 siasm, a well-spring of information 

 that never goes dry, and an ever-pres- 

 ent spice of humor and good storlea 

 which is unfailing, in any assemblage 

 he is an agreeable and profitable com- 

 panion. 



Mr. James Pentland, the venerib'e 

 senior of our florists' trade, has been 

 lately seen in a new role; he has been 

 for some two weeks posing for his bust 

 before the pupils of the Rinehart 

 School of Sculpture. He is a promi- 

 nent member of the committee on 

 schools of an and design of the Mary- 

 land Institute, which manages this 

 school of sculpture, and was requested 

 by the director to give the students an 

 opportunity to model his life-size por- 

 trait in c'ay. his s-trong f-ic^ and 

 patriarchal appearau'e peculiarly fit- 

 ting him for this. Mr. P. bear.^ a re- 

 markable resemblance to the portraits 

 of General Andrew Jackson, and 

 amongst his intimates i-; frequently 

 saluted by that name. Some of the 

 work of the sculptors is s.ud to be ex- 

 ceedlingly lifelike and artistic, and it 



