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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



CINCINNATI. 



neral work. Julius Baer had tour large 

 weddings "ii last Wednesdaj and they 

 required large quantities oi flowei -. be 

 sides green-, etc. 



Flowers of all kinds af< anj thing but 

 plentiful and manj more could be dis- 

 posed oi to good advantage. l'i ices are 

 avet aging high Eoi I bis seasi n of the 



i- full of vitality and throws better 

 blooms. Kaiserins are doing nicely, but 

 it is not much of a rose to ship, as it 



l'i carnations there are -not half 

 eni - to till all orders. Anything that 

 l,.,.k- like a • Mrnation sells. The qual- 

 ity of the stock received i- much bet- 

 ter than one would expect at this time 

 of year. Sunn- tine longitloruni lilies 

 are coming in. I. ilium candidum i- also 

 to be had in quantity. Coreopsis sells 

 very well. Su.rt peas are -till -ran,'. 

 but the outdoor ones are improving in 

 quality. Green goods of all kinds are 

 plentiful. 



Club Meeting. 



On Saturday evening the annual meet- 

 ing of the Cincinnati Florists' Society 



was held. Tl fection of a 1 rd of 



directors for the ensuing year resulted 



Ccuv.'C Murphy an, I Mi. Kun/leinan was 

 appointed \v.,ii full power to acl in the 

 matter of an outing. 



An invitation was extended by I>. Ku- 

 coni, the well known Cincinnati bulb 

 man, to the Cincinnati Florists' Club to 

 hold its first summer meeting at his 

 residence in Covington, Ky. Mr. Rusconi 

 told of the many Italian dishes that he 

 would serve to those who would come, to 

 say nothing of a cellar full of lately im- 

 ported Italian wine-. Tie' society ac 

 cepted the invitation with many liianks 

 and the time was set for Thursday, 

 July 9. 



B. G. Gilleti and Geo. Murphy were 

 appointed a committee to choose the of- 

 ficial S. A. F. convention route. They 

 will have full charge of the matter and 

 a letter addressed to either of them as 

 to rates, times of departure, sleep- 

 will be promptly attended to. All those 

 who go through this ,-ity on their way to 

 the convention are invited to join the 

 Cincinnati party. 



The two S. A. F. medals to be award- 

 ed by the Cincinnati Florists' Society 

 for meritorious plant or flown of Amer- 

 ican origin were awarded as follow-: 

 The silver medal to George &. Allan for 

 plant of adiantum: a decided improve- 

 ment over cuneatnm; a much more vig- 

 orous grower: throwing frond- J4 in. br- 

 and over in length. The bronze to Rich- 



ard Witterstaetter, tor carnation idoni 

 n hii ii needs no mi rodui I ion. These a 

 subject to the approval of the S. A. !'. 

 Chas Weltz. of Wilmington, O., was 

 visitor. C. J. Ohmek. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 

 The past week has been another stag- 

 gerer. Growers and -ale-men have been 

 fairly wallowing' in ro-cs and carnations 

 and seemingly what little trade there 

 u.i- has been for the little odd- and 

 ends that are inclined to be more scarce. 

 Si in, 'how or ,:i her all I liis stock has 

 been floated somewhere, with really none 



too much assistai I the hospital man. 



l'i ice-, of course, run low. and when 

 comi.aii-on- are made with one short 



remarkably well, but is now beginning 

 to timber up a little. However, h is an 



uiiiiiteu— ting proposition at best. 



Notes. 



Robinson, the "green good.-" man. is 

 developing quite a Ini-iue— in connec- 

 tion with his Columbus avenue laurel 

 swamps. His order for decoratives foi 

 Harvard, via Contractor Carbone, is 

 keeping him busy just now. Thc\ say, 

 too, lie has lately drawn $15,000 in a 

 German lottery. Perhaps he i- not so 

 green as he — I mean, as hi- business 

 looks. Pardon the "lapsus pengue." 



We all suffer alike from the drought, 

 but so t.u as 1 have heard McCarthy is 



tl nly florist who i- a loser by the 



forest lire-. About fifty acre- of his 

 Montrose property were scorched over. 

 The extent of the damage cannot yet be 



Among the crop of June weddings i- 

 that of Maurice Hindoo, of the firm of 

 Hainino 4 Gomperts, which came off 



The manufacturers of the Cefrey flor- 

 ists' letter, finding it hard to make the 

 business stand alone, have sold out to 

 X. F. McCarthy & Co. This purchase 

 on his part removes this competition in 

 the manufacture of his Boston letter. 

 The field i- now open for a fair trial 

 between the latter and Sutherland's Mo- 

 ral letter, for which there is a growing 

 demand. 



Lawrence Cutler has taken the super 

 inteiidencv of Thomas Dec's place. 



Prof. ( . s. Sargent, his son, A. R. 

 Sargent, and John Muii. of Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, have -ailed for Europe on a 

 search for botanical specimens. 



The rose show at Horticultural Hall 

 was held Tuesday and Wednesday, the 

 date having been moved forward one 

 week because of the forwardne-- of the 

 season. J. s Mas in:. 



CANANDAIGUA, N. Y. 



This has been an unu-iialK g I sea- 

 son for all the florists and trade i- still 

 holding up well. Bedding plant trade 

 was good. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club held 

 a banquet June 11 in honor of ( liarles 

 II. Toitv. of Madison, N. J. Mr. Totty 

 formerly resided here and we all en- 

 joyed seeing him once more. He gave a 

 very intere-ting talk on the big exhibi- 

 tion next fall. 



The long looked for rain- have come 

 and carnations in the fields are fine. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMtRICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Treas., S. F. 

 The twenty-first a 

 at Philadelphia an 



llaril. Welhei-atiekl. Con 



The Carney Seed Co. has been organ- 

 ized at Dayton. 0., to deal in farm seeds 

 and machinery. 



The insurance on the H. W. Buckbee 

 seed slock at Rockford, 111., destroyed 

 by lire June 4, is reported as $78,000. 



The Albert Dickinson Seed Company 



has -old a tract of :i". acre- on the Calu- 

 met river. South Chicago, for $217,250. 



Reports from Manitowoi -fate that 

 notwithstanding the light frost of last 

 week, pea- -how up in excellent condi- 

 tion. 



The Wisconsin Seed Co. has been or- 

 ganized at Milwaukee by Finest Reel, 

 formerly with S. Courteen, and Frank 

 Hase. 



THE name of the John R. Watt- Seed 

 Co., Louisville. Ky.. has been changed 

 i,, Nat ional Seed Co. There is no change 

 in the management. 



These are no developments in the 

 French bulb situation. The latest ad- 

 vices at hand in Chicago indicate prices 

 at Ollioule- as about 90 francs. 



W. Ati.ee Burpee, of Philadelphia, 

 ha- issued invitation- to members of lin- 

 seed trade and their friends for "a day 

 at Fordhook." Saturday. June 27. 



In the bean-growing districts of Mich- 

 igan heavy rains have greatly reduced 

 tin- prospects of a good bean crop, and 

 mile-- condition- speedily change the 

 outlook will U- worse than poor. 



John C. Leonard and Miss Helen M. 

 Gale "ire married June 16. at the 

 Church of the Redeemer, Chicago, in 

 the presence of a large gathering of 

 theii friends, and left, after the recep- 

 tion, foi a iwo month-' tour of south- 

 ern California. The groom is a son of 

 S. F. Leonard and treasurer of the Leon- 

 ard Seed Co. 



The condition of the growing seed 

 crops generally ha- been very materially 

 affected bj the weather. Frosts in some 



\\"j- -in' pea ".lowing -eel ion- have llUlt 



main- of the varieties, especially the ox 



mm the liean glowing 

 fork -late are not very 



di ought, having exter- 

 ,- crop and prevented 

 corn, the fanners are 

 accept seed bean con- 

 levoting their energies 



crop of bay and corn 

 in- the coming winter. 



true of the vine seeds 

 ngton county, of that 

 .- pea crop is also re- 



been badly injured bv 

 t over 60 per cent of 



l- not 

 Some 



