September 12, lUH 



HORTICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports 



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week, but the supply has fallf ii off con- 

 siderably. American Beauty and Mrs. 

 Chas. Russell are the leaders, the lat- 

 ter with good flowers but as yet only 

 medium stems. The new ones, like 

 Ophelia and Hadley, are in evidence, 

 but are very short stemmed. Asters 

 are at their best, splendid stocks of 

 the Crego and Semple strains being 

 available. New crop carnations have 

 Just commenced; the flowers are very 

 fair but not much as to stem. The 

 flush of the gladiolus crop is past, al- 

 though these will be a feature for 

 some time yet. They are selling a 

 little better, as the cheap st\iff from 

 the nurserymen is not now in the way, 

 A few of the very early varieties of 

 chrysanthemums are to be seen — Gol- 

 den Glow and others of that character. 

 Dahlias are plentiful, but the demand 

 as yet is very limited. 



The cut flower market 

 ST. LOUIS is in the same over- 

 crowded condition as 

 for the past month. The rose stock 

 shows some improvement in quality and 

 length of stem, but the demand is so 

 slow that a lot of good roses go to 

 waste. Prices are exceedingly low in 

 all grades. Carnations are looking 

 much better and the demand for the 

 best is good. Other flowers that are 

 in plenty are asters, gladioli, tuberose 

 stalks and lilies. 



Business thus far 

 WASHINGTON this month has 

 been very slack. 

 Florists are an.xiously awaiting the 

 coming of cooler weather for it is ex- 

 pected that good business will prevail 

 this fall. At the present time flowers 

 of all varieties are practically with- 

 out price. Large quantities are being 

 received but the demand is not enough 

 by far to take care of more than a 

 small proportion. The new crop car- 

 nations are improving in quality. Both 

 the quantity and the quality of gladioli 

 seems to be decreasing. Some very 

 fine asters, some of them as large as 

 4% inches in diameter of bloom, are 

 to be had at low prices. Lilies go a- 

 begging. 



FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Washington, D. C— P. W. Firth. 

 East Boston, Mass. 



Knoxville, Tenn. — Mr. McCabe, of A. 

 L. Randall Co., Chicago. 



Chicago — Mrs. Latshaw, Liberty- 

 ville. 111.; Otto A. Schroeder of Carl 

 Meier & Co.. Green Bay, Wis.; L. J. 

 Larson of H. Larson & Son, Meno- 

 minee, Mich. 



Cincinnati— Mr. and Mrs. G. A. 

 Beckman. Middletown, Ohio; Mr. and 

 Mrs. Rasmussen, New Albany. Ind.; 

 Martin Reukauf of H. Hayersdorfer & 

 Co., Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia — Harvey Scheaf. man- 

 ager for Mrs. E. A. Williams, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa.; E. W. Mayer. Green & 

 Mayer, Crestmont, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. 

 Phil Breitmeyer. Detroit, Mich. 



Los Angeles, Cal.— George W. Smith, 

 formerly of Howard & Smith, and Ja- 

 cob Dieterich, have formed a partner- 

 ship in the nursery business. 



$0.75 per 1000 

 .75 per 1000 



New Crop Fancy Ferns 



Dagger Ferns 



Discount on larRc orden 



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For your decorations, made fresh daily from Uic woods. 4c, 5c and 6c per yard 



Ilrunze unil Grfen (iaiax, $1.00 per 1000", 



■rT ..'O per case of 10,000. 

 Splmcnum Mosh, large sack, only 40c. 

 IMno by tlio pound, 8c,, or by tlie yard. 

 BrHnch I.nurel, 35c. for a large bundle. 

 Southern smilax, "jO-lb. cases, $5.00. 

 Green anil Bronie Leucothoe Sprays, $3.50 



per 1000. 

 line Boxwood, $7.50 per 50-lb. case. 

 Order in advance. 

 Write, wire or telephone \?, R4. 



Tel. Ofllce, New Salem, Mass. 

 I.. D. I'bone Connection. 



CROWL FERN CO., Millington, Mass. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



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Cattleyas'** 



Lilies. Lonffiflorum 



Rubrum 



LUy of the VaUey 



Asters ■ 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Chrysanthemums 



Dahlias 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per lOo) 



" '* & Spren (loo bunches) 



Last Half of Week 



ending Sep, 5 



1914 



20<oo to 35<oo 



i.oo to 3.00 



1.00 to 3.00 



3.00 to 4.00 



.50 to 1.00 



,25 to .50 



to 



10.00 to 12.00 

 .50 to 1.00 



to 



3.00 to 1 2.00 



-so to .75 



8.00 to 10.00 



25.00 to 35-00 



15.00 to 20.00 



First Halt ot Wut 



beglnnint Sep. 7 



1914 



30.00 to 35.00 



I.oo to 3.00 



1.00 to 3.00 



3,00 to 4.00 



,50 to I.oo 



.»S to .50 



to 



XO,0O to |3,CO 



,50 to x,co 

 to 



3.00 to 12.00 



.50 to .75 



B.oo to 10.00 



25.00 to 35.00 



15.00 to 30.00 



PERSONAL. 



A. E. Brown, Mrs. Burpee and her 

 two sons, W. Atlee, Jr,, and David, ar- 

 rived home on the S, S, Minnetonka 

 Sept, 7, 



W. H. Elliott, Brighton, Mass., and 

 Madbury, N. H., is home from his long 

 vacation in the Maine woods. looking 

 very fit for the fall and winter cam- 

 paign. 



Miss Ellen Cooke Stewart, young- 

 est daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. 

 Stewart and Ralph Carlton Crouse of 

 Copper Cliff, Ont., were married at 

 Winchester, Mass.. on Wednesday 

 evening, September 9. 



Clarence Watson is the new man- 

 ager of the Pennock-Meehan store in 

 Washington, vice Frank Gaul resigned. 

 Mr. Gaul goes to manage the new 

 store of Frank M. Ross, 52nd, below 

 Market street, Philadelphia. 



D. Iliffe announces that in order to 

 secure larger storage room to take 

 care of his increasing business in the 

 construction and heating of green- 

 houses, he has moved his plant and 

 office to South Weymouth. Mass. 



Willis E. Light of Lowell, Mass,, a 

 well known landscape gardener, has 

 been missing for the past five weeks. 

 His relatives and friends believe that 

 he has suffered foul play or else a 

 lapse of memory. Light left his home 

 five weeks ago last Sunday to visit 

 friends camping at Hobb's Pond, and 

 told his wife that he would return 

 that evening before 8 o'clock. It has 

 been learned that he did not visit the 

 camp, and nothing of his whereabouts 

 has been gleaned from a most exhaus- 

 tive inquiry. 



WASHINGTON NOTES, 



Leapley & Meyer, are renovating 

 their store at 905 G street, Northwest, 

 in preparation for a strenuous fall 

 business and have installed a large 

 seed case. This firm is planning to in- 

 crease its outdoor production next 

 year to quite an extent. 



The Florists' Club of Washington is 

 planning to take advantage of the kind 

 invitation of Richard Vincent, .Ir„ ot 

 White Marsh, Md., to attend his an- 

 nual caniia and dahlia show and the 

 start will be made at 11 A, M., Thurs- 

 day. Oct. 1, via the B. & O. R. R., which 

 will furnish a special train for the lo- 

 cal florists. 



William F, and Adolphus Gude last 

 week made a trip to Frederick. Md., to 

 assist Frank C. Hargett in making a 

 success of his proposed educational 

 flower show at that place on Septem- 

 ber 17. Many of the leading growers 

 as well as the government depart- 

 ments, have contributed flowers and 

 plants for this purpose and his visitors 

 expressed themselves as well pleased 

 with the good work Mr. Hargett is do- 

 ing to further a love for tiowers. On 

 their return trip they visited the plant 

 of .Jesse P. King, at Mt. Airy. Md.. 

 where they found considerable con- 

 struction work and improvements go- 

 ing on, including the erection of two 

 large iron and cement houses, about 

 50x160 feet and the installation of a 

 new 100 h. p. boiler. 



Royersford, Pa.— The greenhouses 

 and retail flower business ot R, E. 

 Nace. near Fernwood, has been sold 

 to Albert Bergentz and Mr, Tryball, 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



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