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JUNB 29, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



19 



PKOVIDENOE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Commencement and graduation exer- 

 cises afforded the florists one of the 

 busiest weeks in a long time. The 

 backwardness of the season, with the 

 long period of chilly, rainy weather, re- 

 tarded the blooming of outdoor roses so 

 that greenhouse productions sold well. 

 Prices were slightly above normal and 

 stock of all kinds was in heavy demand 

 and moved well. 



Notwithstanding the unfavorable 

 weather conditions, the growers have 

 kept steadily at their work of planting 

 out and many of them are well ad- 

 vanced. The majority are having their 

 houses renovated preparatory to re- 

 benching. 



Horticultural Society Show. 



After a two weeks' postponement, 

 the annual rose and strawberry show of 

 the Rhode Island Horticultural Society 

 was held in the dance room of the Nar- 

 ragansett hotel, June 22 and 23. The 

 display, which was satisfactory, in- 

 cluded about 550 entries, ranging from 

 single blooms to large collections. 



The gardens of Roger Williams park, 

 Fred Green, superintendent, were repre- 

 sented by two long tables of blooms, 

 while the Rhode Island hospital green- 

 house, Cornelius Hartstra, superintend- 

 ent, covered as much space in another 

 section of the halL The judges were 

 Robert Johnston, Joshua Vose and Cor- 

 nelius Hartstra. 



The exhibition was staged under the 



direction of the society's exhibition 

 committee, consisting of Eugene A. Ap- 

 pleton, Joshua Vose, Arthur Sellew, Cor- 

 nelius Hartstra, Dr. W. H. Heaton, 

 President York and Ernest K. Thomas. 



Various Notes. 



James B. Canning and family have 

 opened their summer cottage at High- 

 land beach, overlooking Narragansett 

 bay, for the season. , 



Edwin M. Bergason, of Norwich, 

 Conn., was married to Miss Ruth A. 

 Nichols in this city June 15. 



The Greystone Horticultural Society 

 has voted to abandon its annual sum- 

 mer flower show on account of the un- 

 favorable weather conditions. 



The Quidnick Greenhouses, Inc., of 

 Quidnick, recently added an auto truck 

 to the delivery service. 



A. Lippman has closed his branch 

 store at 222 Westminster street, but will 

 continue his store at the Blackstone 

 hotel. 



Mrs. Elizabeth O'Connor is erecting 

 a 3-story apartment building on Black- 

 stone boulevard, corner of President 

 avenue. 



Lindsay Bros., of Clyde, report an un- 

 usually busy season in potted plants and 

 cut flowers. 



Peter Byrnes, of Wickford, has 

 shipped several thousand azalea plants 

 from his place. 



Richard L. Hogan will erect two 

 greenhouses at 280 Eaton street. 



Edward M. Appleton, son of the late 

 William Appleton, last week was mar- 

 ried at Lowell, Mass., to Miss Mary C. 

 Mooney. W. H. M. 



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London, England.— There is to be 

 another conference of the horticultural 

 trades. Opinion seems' to be clearly 

 defined that the trade urge the govern- 

 ment to make absolute its prohibition 

 of bulb and plant imports, including 

 cut flowers; also the opinion seems 

 general that the seed trade is having 

 profitable business but that greenhouse 

 and nursery growers can not carry on 

 under the prices that have prevailed. 



London, England. — A discussion that 

 gets nowhere has been running in one 

 of the British trade papers, on the 

 relative merits of British and Amer- 

 ican carnations, but T. A. Weston 

 points out one specially interesting 

 fact: "The real British commercial 

 growers are busy raising seedlings of 

 their own, and, moreover, prefer to 

 keep them to themselves. This is where 

 the dissimilarity of the British and 

 American commercial growers is most 

 apparent. All the American growers 

 are cut flower merchants, and they 

 breed for productiveness, or try to, and 

 having, as they think, made a hit, they 

 do their best to induce every other 

 grower to plant it. The British com- 

 mercial grower, if he raises a good 

 thing, does not proclaim it from the 

 housetops. He grows it, not for propa- 

 gation, but for cut flowers, and no one 

 but the salesman knows something dif- 

 ferent is on the board." 



Haarlem, Holland. — The war has 

 made no difference with the monthly 

 meetings of theuGener^ Bulb Growers' 

 Society, which, through its floi-al com- 

 mittee, has been appraising novelties at 

 the usual rate. Colored freesias from 

 seeds and early Darwin tulips for forc- 

 ing have been the principal offerings of 

 February, March and April. 



Belfast, Ireland.— This is a statement 

 by Hugh Dickson, Ltd.: "Although 

 the conditions at present existing in the 

 rose trade, as a direct result of the 

 war, are not such as to encourage the 

 distribution of valuable novelties, we 

 have decided to issue in their ordinary 

 course the varieties which we had ar- 

 ranged to distribute this year. Grow- 

 ing the immense number of seedlings 

 which we do (over 100,000), the testing 

 and selecting of the best for distribu- 

 tion is a matter of some time; and 

 when selected, arrangements have to 

 be made at least three years ahead, so 

 that sufficient stock of the varieties 

 may be available to supply all wants 

 of the trade for the succeeding two 

 years. Consequently the holding back 

 of a year's introductions would be a 

 serious dislocation of the elaborate 

 preparations made by us.'» The set of 

 five novelties to be disseminated in- 

 cludes the variety Cleveland, named by 

 popular vote at the Cleveland flower 

 show, U. 8. A., November, 1915. 



Charles E. Shackley. 



Charles E. Shackley, for more than 

 forty years a resident of iLewiston and 

 Auburn, Me., died at his Auburn home 

 on the night of June 12. Mr. Shackley 

 wds a great sufferer during the last 

 three months and the end was not un- 

 expected. Some time ago he suffered a 

 paralytic shock and never fully- re- 

 covered from the effects of it. 



The deceased, who was in his sixty- 

 eighth year, conducted a flourishing 

 florists' business at Auburn and was 

 well known to New England tradesmen. 

 He is survived by his wife and two 

 brothers. 



R. E. Simons. 



R. E. Simons, superintendent of the 

 Metairie Ridge Nursery Co. and pro- 

 prietor of a flower store at 2026 Maga- 

 zine street. New Orleans, died June 18, 

 after an illness of two years. The 

 deceased was born at Cologne, Germany, 

 August 11, 1858. .Shortly afterward his 

 parents came to America, and settled 

 in New Orleans in 1868. Mr. Simons 

 was superintendent of the Metairie 

 Ridge Nursery Co. for eight years, while* 

 Mrs. Simons operated the flower store 

 on Magazine street, founded by the 

 couple many years ago. The surviving 

 relatives are Mrs. Simons, four daugh- 

 ters and two sisters. 



Horace S. Wiley. 



Horace S. Wiley, one of the most prom- 

 inent nurserymen of central New York, 

 died suddenly June 19 at his home in 

 Cayuga, N. Y., at the age of 65 years. 

 The deceased, who was the head of the 

 firm of H. S. Wiley & Son, Cayuga, 

 took a conspicuous part in the affairs of 

 the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society. He frequently served as judge 

 of fruit exhibits at the state fairs and 

 at one time was a member of the State 

 Nursery Commission. He is survived by 

 his wife and five children, two of 

 whom, Fred T. and Scott F., reside at 

 Cayuga. 



George Shoemaker. 



George Shoemaker, for the last ten 

 years an employee of S. C. Briggs, of 

 Glenmount, Md., died last week in the 

 George Washington University hospital, 

 following an attack of stomach trouble. 

 Mr. Shoemaker was 29 years of age. 

 He is survived by a wife and two cMl- 

 dren. C. Li. L. 



USINOEE'S UTTERANCES. 



A pretty display of hydrangeas and 

 carnations was noticed in the windows 

 of T. N. Malbranc, at Johnstown, Pa. 

 Mr. Malbrane, in commenting on busi- 

 ness conditions during the last ten 

 years, said that the business of 1916 

 so far has surpassed that of any pre- 

 vious year. 



An "acre of peonies" was on display 

 at Meyer Bros, two stores at Altoona, 

 Pa. It surely was top-notch stock, 



A, A. Whitbred, of Altoona, has re- 

 ceived a shipment of palms from across 

 the water, which has been in transit 

 for a month. "It just costs 100 per 

 cent to get them over," was his reply 

 to a question on the high cost of doing 

 business. W. T. U. 



