MAfiCH 23, 1916. 



The Rprists' Review 



21 



MINNEAPOLIS. 



Various Notes. 



Northrup, King & Co. have altered 

 their retail department, and now cer- 

 tainly have one of the finest seed stores 

 in the country. A splendidly equipped 

 counter runs the entire length of the 

 store. It is tastefully set out, and 

 all kinds of garden seeds are nicely dis- 

 played. One great feature of this con- 

 cern is its sale of return collections of 

 boxed seeds. The cases are a decora- 

 tion to any store, and the seeds are reli- 

 able in quality and germination. 



O. C. Swanson last week had a good 

 display of spring flowers in his store 

 on Nicollet avenue. Attractive baskets 

 are always a feature, and it is really 

 surprising what can be done without 

 repeating the decoration. 



The Chicago Avenue Greenhouses 

 have a fine lot of stock coming on for 

 the Easter trade. Business has been 

 up to the standard this winter. 



Hans Eosacker now has 60,000 square 

 feet of glass. He is handling a fine 

 cut of roses and carnations. The new 

 block of houses was constructed with 

 an eye to economy. Consider this for 

 a motto: "Economize and you will 

 rise." Where can this be more true 

 than in the florists' business? Be- 

 fore building decide what you are go- 

 ing to grow, and have your houses built 

 accordingly. This and more Mr. Ro- 

 sacker has done. 



The Eldridge Floral Co. is making 

 improvements in its store and carries a 

 good stock of high-grade flowers. 



The Lakewood Cemetery Greenhouses 

 have a fine lot of schizanthus hybrids, 

 mostly in 7-inch pots, for cutting. The 

 color is something marvelous. I count- 

 ed more than thirty shades of color in 

 a hundred plants. Some of the plants 

 were three feet high, and the foliage 

 was fine. 



The Lenten season has commenced, 

 and the sale of cut flowers naturally 

 has fallen oflP. All the growers are do- 

 ing all they can to get their Easter 

 stock in fine shape. Easter is a long 

 way ahead, and the stock must be 

 handled with great care. 



St. Patrick's day was boosted for 

 all it was worth. White carnations 

 were dyed green. If a beautiful car- 

 nation could see itself dyed, I fully be- 

 lieve that it would really want to die. 

 But then, why should the owl to the 

 moon complaint The dyed carnation 

 has its commercial value, and fills a 

 good purpose, so here's to the gay and 

 gallant Irish! May they live happily 

 and die of old age. 



The Mazey Floral Co. had a nice dis- 

 play of bulbous stock and an appropri- 

 ate show for St. Patrick 's day. 



The Lake Street Florist Shop, Mr. 

 Mitchell, proprietor, is certainly forg- 

 ing ahead. New interior decorations 

 and two electric signs, backed by a 

 nice selection of stock, have brought 

 good business. Mr. Mitchell says if 

 you want your wheelbarrow to go, push 

 it yourself. 



H. B. Whitted's window was decked 

 out for St. Patrick's day. The decora- 

 tion consisted of a typical "Pat" with 

 a wheelbarrow full of "praties." 

 Bedad, the whiskers of him were fine. 

 Some said that he was from Mayo. One 

 man said he \^s sure from Connemara. 

 Another said ne was from Tipperary, 

 and grew his whiskers in the trenches. 

 Just then a newsboy said: "Gee, Jim- 



my, his head's just a cocoanut! " It is 

 surprising how one nut will draw an- 

 other. This • window was the essence 

 of advertising. Attractive ads of at- 

 tractive goods attract the attention of 

 attentive people. The result is all- 

 round satisfaction; advertise to em- 

 phasize. 



The members of the Minneapolis park 

 board were practically unanimous in 

 favoring an increase in salary to $6,000 

 for Superintendent Wirth, Mr. Wirth, 

 it is understood, has a $7,500 offer from 

 Boston, The board members approved 

 an increase of $300 for Mr. Bossen, 

 assistant to Mr. Wirth, making his 

 salary $2,700. The board engineer still 

 is scheduled for an increase from $2,700 

 to $3,000. When the committee reached 

 the proposed $300 increase for the head 

 forester it encouraged objections from 

 other members of the board; also on the 

 proposal to increase the salary of the 

 head gardener from $1,600 to $1,800. 

 The increases were not allowed. 



E. E. B. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



About the only feature of last week 's 

 business was the heavy demand for 

 white carnations. A sermon by Billy 

 Sunday, on "Mothers," at which he 

 requested his audience to wear white 

 flowers, coupled with the demand for 

 white for coloring for St. Patrick's 

 day, made white carnations rather hard 

 to secure and many orders were neces- 

 sarily turned down. The Lenten season 

 does not seem to have much effect on 

 retail business. The stores are buying 

 as largely as usual, but there has been 

 a considerable decrease in funeral work. 

 Stock generally has increased in supply; 

 consequently prices have dropped some- 

 what, but no surplus of any size is 

 noted. 



Boses are in good supply and moving 

 fairly well, but, strange to say, white 

 is not in the demand it was up to a 

 short time ago. Carnations have not 

 as yet caught up with the demand, al- 

 though dark-colored ones- are lower in 

 price. In bulbous stock tulips have 

 shortened in supply, but there are 

 enough of them for all demands. Daf- 

 fodils are plentiful, but not moving 

 briskly. In valley both the supply 

 and the demand are light. Violets 

 have been moving slowly and smilax 

 still remains scarce. Asparagus is in 

 good crop and selling well. 



Various Notes. 



Frank J. Le Clair, until recently 

 salesman for the Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Rutherford, N. J., will engage in busi- 

 ness for himself and open a city office 

 at 409 North Howard street, about 

 March 25, where a full line of sample 

 nursery stock will be shown. 



Philip B. Welsh has placed his order 

 for material for a pipe-frame house, 

 37x100, to be added to his range at 

 Glen Morris during the summer. 



The first southern daffodils were seen 

 on the streets last week. They are 

 small and short of stem and are not 

 being handled by the wholesale florists' 

 houses, but by the street fakers, who 

 have an agency through which they se- 

 cure them from the southern growers. 



The Griffith & Turner Co., in addition 

 to its line of seeds and implements, has 

 taken the agency for a well known 

 make of automobile tires. 



A. A. Niessen, of Philadelphia, was 

 a caller last week. 



The street merchants who have sold 

 flowers along Lexington street for 

 many years were notified March 18 that 

 that would be their last day. This is a 

 subject which has created considerable 

 discussion among the trade at different 

 times. The street venders have been 

 removed often, only to be back at their 

 old stands shortly afterwards. This,^ 

 however, seems to be the final disposi-'^ 

 tion of them, as the city officials have * 

 taken the matter up in earnest. This 

 will not interfere with those occupying 

 licensed stands on Eutaw street and 

 Lexington street, about twenty-five feet 

 east of Eutaw, but any stall or stand 

 outside the market limits is prohibited. 



The committee in charge of arrange- 

 ments for the party attending the Na- 

 tional Flower Show at Philadelphia has 

 decided on going Wednesday, March 29, 

 on the train leaving Union station at 

 9 a. m. This is a through train and 

 makes the trip in two hours. Many 

 members of the local club have signi- 

 fied their intention of going and it is 

 hoped that as mapy as possible will 

 go on this date, so as to make the best 

 possible showing for the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Baltimore. 



William F. Gude and a committee 

 from Washington were on a visit to 

 this city last week to secure entries for 

 the Atlantic Coast Bowling Tourna- 

 ment, which will be held at Washington 

 in April. 



The next club meeting will be held « 

 March 27. W. F. E. 



LANCASTER, PA. 



The Olub's Monthly Trip. 



Tuesday morning, March 14, at 11:30, 

 the Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 left on its monthly visiting trip, to 

 call on Maurice J. Brinton, at Chris- 

 tiana. As is well known, Mr. Brinton 

 is one of the foremost lily growers in 

 the country, having quantities of 

 blooms every day of the'year. He had 

 an immense planting of Paper Whites 

 this winter, and realized good prices 

 for them. Four large houses of carna- 

 tions were in fine condition. The old 

 variety, Victory, as grown here, leaves 

 nothing to be desired in color. Mr. 

 Brinton will erect a new greenhouse 

 this spring, 40x140 feet. Quality is 

 the keynote of the product of this es- 

 tablishment, and a visit to it is always, 

 a privilege. 



A ciall was then made on J. Rutter 

 Hess & Son, at Gap, Pa. They grow 

 carnations extensively and the stock 

 looked well. White Enchantress does 

 especially well here *nd is preferred to 

 Matchless. They grow large quantities 

 of vegetable plants in the spring, which 

 are sold locally. The place throughout 

 is a model of neatness. 



Paradise, Pa., was the next stop-over, 

 and here Ira H. Landis was called upon. 

 Considerable space is devoted to car- 

 nations. His stock is in fine order and 

 an examination of the plants revealed 

 a heavy cut during midwihter. Mr. 

 Landis is a firm believer in growing 

 the various shades of carnations, other 

 than white, pink and red. His beds of 

 Princess Dagmar, Benora and Yellow 

 Prince were especially fine. Mrs. Ake- 

 hurst has given such a good account 

 of itself here that the planting of it 

 will be largely increased next season. 

 Mr. Landis also grows quantities of 

 freesias, calendulas, lupines, Spanish 



