September 6, 1913 



H K T I C TJ L T U E E 



351 



E. G.HILL CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



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Please mention Horticulture wben writing. 



GEORGE B. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



Prepared IVIAGNOl-IA Leaves 



Red, Bronze and Green, Finest in the Country 



Try a Sample Order and be Convinced 



$1.25 F3ER c^jak.P9-r^r>t 



N. F. McCarthy & Cl.. 112 Arch street and 31 etis Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/^l-iolesal 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



loris-fcs 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



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iContinucd from page s^q) 



There is not mucli 

 'NEW YORK thus tar to indicate 

 the near approach of 

 the fall season with its appropriate ac- 

 tivity in flower buying. So long as 

 desirable weather conditions continue 

 the public have but little interest in 

 store flowers and so there is no likeli- 

 hood of any noticeable revival just 

 yet. In the meantime growers are 

 perfecting their stock and a steady im- 

 provement in quality of roses, carna- 

 tions and other standard material is in 

 evidence. Asters dominate the situa- 

 tion at present. They are everywhere 

 in enormous quantities and many of 

 them are very fine. Those that are 

 not are a difflcult proposition and the 

 prices realized are unquotable. Gladio- 

 li are now waning and sweet peas are 

 no longer a factor. Cattleyas. oncid- 

 iums, Odontoglossum grande and Den- 

 drobium formosum giganteum are the 

 principal components of the orchid 

 stock. Dahlias are beginning to come 

 in quite heavily. 



The market has been 

 ST. LOUIS in a bad way during 

 the past week, not 

 much doing and the weather very hot. 

 The growers are praying for rain as 

 the field stock is burning up. Most 

 of the retailers say the last week was 

 one of the dullest of the month. The 

 market is made up at present of roses, 

 asters, carnations, lily of the valley, 

 tuberoses and a lot of poor outdoor 



truck. 



A BALTIMORE DEAL. 

 Charles E. Meehan, vice-president of 

 the S. S. Penock-Meehan Co., who has 

 just returned from Baltimore, an- 

 nounces the purchase by his corpora- 

 tion of the Baltimore Floris's' E^'- 

 change, the co-operative flower mar- 

 ket of that city, a successful organiza- 

 tion, whose original five-dollar shares 

 have recently been sold at three hun- 

 dred. The consideration is not stated, 

 but it was in cash and must have been 

 high to have tempted over 90 per cent 

 of the shareholders to sell out of a 

 highly lucrative proposition. The con- 

 cern will be run as one of The Whole- 

 sale Florists of Philadelphia's chain of 

 establishments, supplementing those 

 already established in Philadelphia, 

 New York and Washington and put- 

 ting Baltimore in touch with the most 

 up-to-date metropolitan markets and 

 method of wholesaling cut flowers. 

 George C. Wats. in. 



Malcolm Lamond has been appointed 

 head gardener for the city of Oakland, 

 Cal. 



ROSES AND CARNATIONS 



last Half of Week 



ending Aug. 30 



1913 



American Beauty, Fancy and Special 



•• '* Extra 



No.i 



•« " LowcrGrades 



Klilarney , Extra 



" Ordinary 



Richmond, Hillingdon, Extra 



'• " Ordinary 



Maryland, Ward, Taft, Carnot, Extra 



•• " •* •* Ordinary.. 



Carnations, Fancy Grade 



" Ordinary 



lo.oo to 



6.00 to 



4.00 to 



,50 to 



2.00 to 



.25 to 



3.00 to 



.25 10 



4.00 to 



.50 to 



•75 to 



.50 to 



15.00 

 8.00 



5.00 



3. 00 

 3.00 

 1. 00 

 3.00 

 1. 00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

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First Half of We«li 



beginning Sept. 1 



1913 



10.00 



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PERSONAL. 



Fred E. Palmer of Brookline, Mass., 

 is the Progressive candidate lor sena- 

 tor in his district. 



Carl S. Knopf and Miss Florence 

 Nelson, both of Los Angeles, Cal.. 

 were married August 20th. 



Oscar Prager, horticultural expert 

 for the city of Oakland, Cal., has re- 

 turned from a three months' trip to 

 Europe. 



William J. Patterson of Wollaston. 

 and Miss Westwood. will be married 

 at the home of the bride, Jamaica 

 Plain. Mass., on Sept. 12th. 



Harry A. Barnard, representing 

 Stuart Low & Co., has arrived in New 

 York on his annual American tour. 

 His address is Hotel Albert. 



Paul A. Rigo, head salesman for 

 Henshaw & Fenrich, and Ethel C. Wil- 

 son, both of New York city, were mar- 

 ried on Wednesday, Sept. 3d. 



Boston visitors: John Young, Sec- 

 retary S. A. F., New York; Jos. Fuller, 

 Leominster, Mass.; A. E. Thatcher, 

 Bar Harbor, Me.; Edw. Kirk, Bar Har- 

 bor, Me. 



H. C. Irish, of the landscape firm of 

 Muskop & Irish, St. Louis, has gone 

 to Ames, Iowa, where he will stay for 

 the next six months to teach a class 

 in landscape gardening at the Iowa 

 Agricultural College. 



Theodore Wirth. of Minneapolis, 

 president-elect of the S. A. F., is in 

 the hospital with a broken leg and 

 other injuries caused by being struck 

 and run over by an automobile. Hok- 

 Ticui.TrRE extends deep sympathy and 

 wishes for a speedy recovery. 



Joseph Kelley. landscape gardener 

 foi Messrs. Wallace at Colchester, 

 England, who has been visiting in 

 this country for the past month, sailed 

 for home, September 2, on the Fran- 

 conia, from Boston. Mr. Kelley had 

 been ill for some days previous to 

 sailing and was unable to fully carry 

 out his plans. 



Jackson Dawson, of The Arnold 

 Arboretum, personally beloved and 



professionally recognized as an ex- 

 ponent of practical horticulture with- 

 out a peer, was elected president of the 

 Association of the Nineteenth Regi- 

 ment, Massachusetts Volunteer In- 

 fantry, Civil War Veterans, at Fall 

 River, Mass., on August 2S. No high 

 honor was ever more worthily be- 

 stowed. 



DURING RECESS. 



Chicago Florists' Club. 



The Chicago Florists' Club had an 

 ideal day for its annual picnic, which 

 was held on August 31 in Ehrhart's 

 Grove. A little lower temperature 

 would have been acceptable, but the 

 heat did not mar the pleasures of the 

 day and the program of events, as ar- 

 ranged by the sports committee, F. 

 Potacka. E. Ollinger and E. F. Win- 

 terson. Jr., was carried out and en- 

 joyed by all. The final event, around 

 which the greatest interest centered, 

 was the ball game played between the 

 Wholesalers and the Retailers, com- 

 manded by E. F. Winterson, Jr.. and 

 E. Ollinger respectively, and was a 

 victory for the Retailers. Amo:;g the 

 other contests Mrs. T. Waters won the 

 honors by distancing all others in the 

 married ladies' race, while Frank Po- 

 tocka proved that he could run a little 

 faster than the other fat men. A fine 

 photograph of the company was se- 

 cured but too late for use in this issue. 



IN BANKRUPTCY. 



William Hagemann &. Co., 30 

 Church street. New York City, made 

 an assignment on August 27 to Theo. 

 M. Crisp. Paul Kase. president of the 

 corporation committed suicide on Au- 

 gust 19, as recorded in a recent is- 

 sue of HoRTicuLTUHE. The company 

 was incorporated on April 30. 1909. 

 with capital stock of $50,000, and 

 a financial statement in December, 

 liill, showed assets of $119,000 and 

 liabilities of $47,318. 



