July 26, 1913 



HOETICULTUKE 



121 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page Itq) 



business was very bad. But on the 

 whole the situation was distinctly en- 

 couraging. Those who take advantage 

 regularly, year in and year out, of 

 Horticulture's publicity service, are 

 adding new customers all the time, 

 and so are able to make good reports 

 even in the doldrum period. Good 

 roses were in demand, and good roses 

 were more in evidence. Much of the 

 short, miserable, soft, mean, little buds 

 that loaded the counters ten days ago, 

 have disappeared. Maryla\ids are 

 especially good. Beauties plentiful — 

 the long ones particularly. The gladi- 

 olus situation remains the same as re- 

 ported last week — only more so. Never 

 have we had such quantity or quality. 

 And they all go and at good prices^ 

 so far. Princeps and Mrs. Francis 

 King, those magnificent big scarlets, 

 are marking new time in the gladiolus 

 world commercially. America com- 

 menced it, of course, but she has good 

 company now. Some Kunderdi Glory 

 around — splendid and unique in size, 

 fine color, and beautifully frilled flow- 

 ers. What we have seen, however, 

 seem easily bruised and require extra 

 careful packing to show up as they 

 should to the buyer. 



The market is not 

 ST. LOUIS In a very good con- 

 dition owing to the 

 scarcity of good quality of stock. The 

 demand last week for Beauties and 

 white flowers of any kind was large. 

 There is at present a large supply of 

 high grade gladiolus spikes in all 

 varieties, the best sellers being Maize, 

 America, Augusta and Mrs. Francis 

 King, and all bringing top prices. 

 There are also a lot of mixed varieties 

 of various colors for which there is 

 hardly any demand. Call during the 

 last week was good for Beauties, lilies 

 and lily of the valley. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



An additional special prize to be 

 awarded at Minneapolis, Minn., by 

 the American Gladiolus Society has 

 been donated by Jacob Thoman & 

 Sons, Rochester. N. Y., for "25 spikes 

 of the best white gladiolus." This will 

 be known as open class 19. 



The monthly meeting of the Cook 

 County Florists' Association was held 

 at The Tavern, Chicago, Thursday, 

 July 17. Picnic arrangements were re- 

 ported by Chairman John Zeck, picnic 

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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Lonelflorum 



Lily of the Valley 



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Daises 



Snapdragon 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches 



Gardenias 



Adlantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



*' *' & Spren (loo bunches) 



Ust Half of Wiek 



ending July 19 



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beginning July 21 



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Sept. meeting, on greenhouse insur- 

 ance. The next meeting will be on 

 Aug. 14th instead of 21st, on account 

 of the S. A. P. Convention. Steps 

 were taken to ascertain how many 

 members of the club are also members 

 of the S. A. P. 



The Yonkers (N. Y.) Horticultural 

 Society held their monthly meeting in 

 Hollywood Inn on Thursday night, 

 July 3rd. Howard Nichols read a very 

 interesting paper on "The Sweet Pea, 

 Its Origin and Culture." A lively dis- 

 cussion followed on the different ways 

 of getting the best results outside, 

 some favoring sowing in the fall with 

 winter protection, while others 

 thought as good results could be had 

 by sowing in pots and boxes under 

 glass in the spring. Harry 'Wells was 

 awarded the prize presented by Mr. 

 Xichols for collection of sweet peas, 

 also a cultural certificate for Tele- 

 graph cucumbers grown in frames. The 

 next regular meeting will be held on 

 the first Friday in August. 



A joint summer meeting of the Mary- 

 land and Delaware Horticultural Soci- 

 eties will be held at Berlin, Md., July 

 31, 1913. The Societies will be the 

 guests of J. G. Harrison & Sons. 



The object of the summer meeting 

 is to enable the members to observe 

 practical operations in horticulture. 

 The firm of J. G. Harrison & Sons con- 

 ducts one of the largest nurseries in 

 the East, having about 2500 acres un- 

 der cultivation. In addition they are 

 planting out large orchards in the 

 vicinity. They have 10,000 peach trees 

 bearing a full crop this season. The 

 crop was saved by careful and persis- 

 tent spraying with self-boiled lime- 

 sulfur against brown rot. 



A short meeting of the association 

 will be held during the afternoon with 

 an address by Congressman J. Harry 

 Covington. 



The Westchester and Fairfield Hor- 

 ticultural Society met in Dorans Hall, 

 Greenwich, Conn., on July 11th. Dis- 

 cussion took place on the preliminary 

 prize schedule, nothing of consequence 

 being altered, and the final schedule 

 will soon be out. Adrian Iselin, Jr., of 

 New Rochelle kindly donated a prize 

 of $50.00 for the fall show. A few 

 choice exhibits were made and were 

 judged as follows: 



Win. Morrow, cultural certificate for Eu- 

 cliaris Amazoniea. J. McAllister, bonor- 



able mention for Buddleia variabilis magnl- 

 fica. Mrs. Paul F. Dwinger, honorable 

 mention for pot-grown hydrangeas. P. W. 

 Papp. honorable mention for AUamanda 

 Shotti. Thos. Kyan, vote of thanks for 

 canna Mrs. F. Conard, 'Wm. Morrow, 

 vote of thanks for Gypsophila panicniata 

 flore pleno. P. W. Popp, vote of thanks 

 for mammoth zinnias. Dehn & Bertolf, 

 vote of thanks for Catananche coerulea, 

 Stokesia cyanea. Delphinium chinensls. 

 Owen A. Hunwick, 

 Cor. Sec'y. 



PERSONAL. 



Prof. Charles S. Sargent has gone 

 to the Pacific Coast, where he will 

 spend about one month. 



Charles R. Russell succeeds the late 

 Mr. A. Robie as superintendent of the 

 Helen Gould estate at Irvington N. Y. 



Charles Sch^nck of Traendly & 

 Schenck, New York City, is having a 

 vacation with his family in the Cats- 

 kills. 



E. W. Feugar, of Irvington, N. J., 

 has just returned from a sail to Nova 

 Scotia in time to start on an auto 

 trip. It is fine to be rich. 



Alexander McWilliams, head gar- 

 dener of the I. M. Davis estate, New- 

 port, R. I., has resigned and intends 

 visiting Scotland with Mrs. Mc'Wil- 

 liams. 



■We learn that R. H. James of St. 

 Georges, Bermuda, is seriously ill. The 

 nature of the trouble we do not know 

 but we hope we may soon hear of his 

 complete recovery. 



George F. Chadborn, president of 

 Schaefers, Inc., Newburgh, N. Y., is in 

 the hospital suffering from a broken 

 arm and general shock, having been 

 thrown by a runaway horse on July 6. 



W. J. Thurston, manager of the Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange, was married on 

 July 3rd to Miss Katherine M. Bulger 

 at her home in East Boston. After 

 their honeymoon they will reside at 

 821 Centre street, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. 



Boston visitors: ^ Walter Mott, rep- 

 resenting Benj. Hammond, Fishkill, 

 N. Y.; W. R. Cobb of Lord & Burnham 

 Co.. New York; A. E. Thatcher, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.; Roy I. Rapp of Green- 

 house Construction Co., Bloomfield, 

 N. J.; D. Lumsden, Durham. N. H.; 

 Fred C. Green, Providence, R. I. 



Cincinnati visitors: Jos. Hill, Rich- 

 mond, Ind.: John Lodder. Hamilton, 

 Ohio. 



