August 24. 1918 



HOETICULTUEE 



207 



If it's in the market we have it! 



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Tde Chicago Flower Growers' Ass'n 



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182 N. Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from page 205) 



Market condi- 

 ROCHESTER, N. Y. tions are about 

 as usual com- 

 pared with previous records. Trade 

 is quiet. The excessive heat wave is 

 brolien and shipments are arriving in 

 better condition. Outdoor stock is 

 plentiful with a deluge of gladioli and 

 asters. These consequently are sold 

 at very low figures. The supply of 

 roses meets all present demands. 

 The quality is i;oor. Lilies are not in 

 demand. Sweet peas are plentiful 

 and move well. All other stock moves 

 at very low figures. 



At time of writing the 

 ST. LOUIS weather has cooled off 



and the prospect is 

 good tor the ending of the heated 

 term. Flowers are plentiful and de- 

 mand is slow. Theaters are now 

 opening up and shortly the schools. 

 Carnations are small. Roses are im- 

 proving. Tube roses are gating plenti- 

 ful. 



LANCASTER COUNTY FLORISTS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



For the August meeting the yard of 

 President Elmer Weaver was filled 

 with automobiles and the house and 

 porch with florists and their wives. A 

 short trip of inspection was made be- 

 fore the meeting. We found the last 

 of an immense crop of tomptoei ripen- 

 ing in the houses. These houses, are 

 now being cleaned out for sweet peas 

 and carnations. The sweet yeas are 

 now in paper pots. 



Charles M. Weaver, brother of El- 

 mer, Is primarily a sweet pea grower, 

 but right now has his immens.5 sweet 

 pea houses filled with asters, and one 

 house is filled with pompon cl-.rytau- 

 themums. Chas. M. has about three 

 acres of gladioli as an experiment nud 

 this acreage will no doubt be increased 

 another season. 



The meeting proper was held on the 

 porch and without a set programme.. 

 The first matter up for discussion was 

 an appliance to feed air into the fire 



J. K 



IM 



"A LEADER I.t TBE WBOLESALE COMMISSION TRADE COR OVER THIRTY TEARS" 

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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattieya* 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Lilies, SpecioBum 



Lily of the VaUey 



Snapdragoo 



Gladioli 



Asters 



Dahlias 



Calendula 



Sweet Peas 



Grdenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ' 



Asparagus Plamosos. & Spren (loo bunches) ■ 



box of return tubular boilers and get 

 greater efficiency out of tha coal. A 

 number of appliances were named. 

 Arthur Neissen who was with us gave 

 a very interesting talk. He said that 

 he considered the fuel rulinv; a bless- 

 ing in disguise as with curtailed help 

 we were better off with some houses 

 closed down. He also said that we 

 should be very grateful to the help 

 that sticks when higher salaries could 

 be secured elsewhere, and wound up 

 with a very^ optimistic picture of our 

 future. M. J. Brinton, who is on one 

 of the draft boards, give some veiy 

 t:.ood pointers as to where both we and 

 our employes will stand wiih the 

 change of age limit for draftees. 



The recently formed Ladies Aux- 

 illiary held a meeting same time and 

 place with a good big attendance and 

 formulated plans for the winter work. 



After the meeting a social hour was 

 spent and the line-up of machines for 

 Lancaster looked like an automobile 

 parade going in the Lincoln highway 

 about 10.30 p. m. 



The next meeting will be held at 

 the home of Willis B. Girvin in Leola. 

 Albert M. Here. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting of this society 

 was held in Glen Cove on Aug. 14. 

 Judges' awards were as follows: 

 Gladioli, 1st, Wm. Xoonan. Lima 

 beans, 1st, Frank Petroccia. Corn, 

 1st, Frank Petroccia. Artichokes, 

 Wm. Noonan, honorable mention. The 

 preliminary schedule for the Dahlia 

 Show to be held on Oct. 2nd was read 

 and adopted. A general discussion 

 was held on the potato blight. Quite 

 a number of members present related 

 their observations and opinions re- 

 garding this disease. The majority 

 seemed to favor the theory that po- 

 tatoes planted early on well manured 

 ground were practically immune and' 

 potatoes planted late on ground where 

 only fertilizer had been used were the 

 first to be attacked. Andrew Wilson, 

 Springfield, N. J., was present and 

 generously offered a $5 gold piece for 

 the best 12 potatoes, to be competed' 

 for at the September meeting. The 

 society's prizes will be: Celery, dah- 

 lias and musk melon. 



Harky Goods VXD. Cor. Secy.. 



