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The Florists^ Review 



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JULT 6, 1916. 



HOUSTON, TEX. 



H. H. Kuhlmann reports business as 

 being good. His houses on Jackson 

 street are devoted principally to deco- 

 rative stock. He has some good speci- 

 mens of Ficus elastica. Bedding and 

 field plants are grown at Spring, Tex., 

 which is twenty-three miles from Hous- 

 ton. 



The Brazos Greenhouses, owned by 

 Miss Finnigan, who also owns the 

 Brazos hotel, one of Houston's large 

 and up-to-date hostelries, has the only 

 steel and concrete greenhouses in Hous- 

 ton. Mr. Hewitt, her manager, says 

 that business is good. He has some 

 good mums, particularly Golden Glow, 

 which gives good flowers through the 

 hot weather. 



R. C. Kerr, vice--president of the S. 

 A. F., is having a good business and is 

 cleaning up in everything. He is cut- 

 ting a good supply of field roses, gla- 

 dioli and Shasta daisies, and a good 

 supply of short-stemmed flowers. 



We had showers nearly every after- 

 noon last week, and hot mornings, 

 which have helped to develop stock, 

 even weeds, of which we always have 

 plenty. While other business has 

 dropped on account of summer, funeral 

 work has held up the average all along 

 the line. G. R. L. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



The Market. 



Business is beginning to recede to 

 summer's dullness, but now and then 

 funeral work is heavy. Eoses have 

 been coming in finely, both in quantity 

 and quality; it is seldom that we have 

 seen better roses at this time. Good 

 Beauties are to be seen, as well as 

 Kaiserin, My Maryland, Ophelia, Sun- 

 burst, Richmond and Russell roses. 

 Carnations are becoming of inferior 

 quality, and there is an abundance of 

 them. Sweet peas still are holding 

 their own, and although some of them 

 have short stems, good stock is coming 

 from outdoors. Gladioli now are mak- 

 ing their appearance and will be a help 

 in filling orders for stock that will last. 



Hanging baskets and even bedding 

 plants continue to move and there still 

 are calls for ferns and plants for porch 

 boxes, etc. Growers have been busy 

 planting mums and roses. 



Various Notes. 



The Livingston Seed Co. has been on 

 the jump with wedding orders. 



Stephens & Son report that trade is 

 satisfactory in all branches. 



Underwood Bros, have been stepping 

 lively of late turning out funeral 

 pieces. 



The Franklin Park Floral Co. is wind- 

 ing up a season's good business. 



E. Metzmaier reports business as be- 

 ing good until a few days ago, when 

 it began to slacken. 



The Fifth Avenue Floral Co. has 

 planted all its mums and is now re- 

 planting roses. 



The Riverside Floral Co. reports a 

 good season's business and is well sat- 

 isfied with results. 



Some of the florists are planning to 

 go on a picnic July 26 at Buckeye lake. 

 No doubt they will go with the Hill- 

 top boosters, who number about 2,000. 



Sam Graff, of the Art Floral Co., has 

 settled down in his new quarters and 

 thinks he will make good at the new 

 location. J. M. 



KANSAS CITY. 



Tlie Market. 



Market conditions were good last 

 week, considering the time of year. 

 Good stock was not overplentiful. Re- 

 tail trade was not quite so good as that 

 of the previous week. The hot weath- 

 er has a tendency to open a large quan- 

 tity of flowers. Sweet peas are in the 

 market by the thousands. They are of 

 fine quality. Roses of all kinds are 

 plentiful and of especially fine quality. 

 Russell is far in the lead of all the rest. 

 Carnations still are plentiful, but will 

 not last much longer. Lilies are plen- 

 tiful and cheap. Outdoor stock is ar- 

 riving in wagon loads and dahlias have 

 made their appearance. Gladioli are 

 exceptionally good this year and are of 

 large size. 



Various Notes. 



T. J. Noll & Co. are looking forward 

 to a good summer trade. The new dis- 

 play room will be opened this week. 

 Mr. Noll left for Chicago on a business 

 trip July 5. 



A. Newell and wife will leave July 

 7 for an extensive trip through the 

 east, taking in Buffalo and Toronto and 

 then going up the St. Lawrence river. 



W. J. Barnes still is busy with wed- 

 ding and funeral work. He now is 

 getting his greenhouses in shape for the 



fall stock. He has a 0|e lot of chrysan- 

 themums and about oDO pot plants. 



Edward A. Humfeld has left for the 

 Ozark mountains, wh^e he has a home 

 at Hahatonka. He will return about 

 September 15. 



W. L. Rock now is cutting a fine lot 

 of roses. Carnations will be planted 

 out this week. Outdoor snapdragons 

 are good. 



Adolph Mohr is getting his new house 

 into shape. He has his mums planted 

 and will commence this week bringing 

 up the stock from the old place. 



Reinhardt & Sons are bringing in a 

 fine lot of sweet peas and gladioli. 

 W. J. B. 



NEXT SPBINO'S OAMPANUIAS. 



Please advise me when I should plant 

 seed of campanula to have blooms next 

 spring. E. W. P.— HI. 



I presume you refer to Campanula 

 Medium, commonly known as Canter- 

 bury bell. If you sow the seed in a 

 coldframe at once, you still can have 

 plants that will flower next spring, but 

 it would have been better had the seed 

 been sown a month ago. These cam- 

 panulas are only biennial. Of the true 

 perennial campanulas there is a large 

 variety. Seed can be sown of any of 

 these now, and practically all should 

 bloom next season. C. W. 



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David J. Scott, of Corfu, N. Y., finds 

 an increasing demand for his special 

 strain of mignonette. During the entire 

 season it has brought good prices. An- 

 other house, perhaps, will be devoted to 

 it next season. Spanish irises, minia- 

 ture gladioli and sweet peas have sold 

 well. These will be succeeded by 

 chrysanthemums, which have been 

 planted temporarily in beds from 2%- 

 inch pots. Lifted with a trowel, the 

 original ball is undisturbed. Mr. Scott 

 maintains that the plant is thus un- 

 checked and avoids a stunted growth. 

 Carnations will be planted out the lat- 

 est date on record. The plants are 

 thrifty and promising. 



Leroy Adams, of Corfu, specializes 

 in carnations and pins his faith to Car- 

 negie, Harlowarden, Enchantress, En- 

 chantress Supreme, Winsor and White 

 Wonder. 



William Ehmann, also of Corfu, is 

 strong on sweet peas. Some of the 

 finest seen in the Bison City are grown 

 here. 



L. C. Stroh & Sons, of Batavia, N. Y., 

 have found time between rushes to add 

 another house to their extensive plant; 

 also a fine garage, built with cement 

 blocks and stuccoed to conform with 

 the style of the recently built office 

 and salesroom. They have experienced 

 excellent business. I noted a pretty 

 group of columbines in bloom at the ap- 

 proach to the greenhouses. 



Robert H. McKerr, of Canandaigua, 

 N. Y., was called away during the rush 

 to attend the funeral of his mother, 

 who died in Canada at the age of 85. 

 His father still is hale luid hearty, of 

 about the same age. 



Edward Sick, a Canandaiguan, says 

 that, apart from a slight decrease of 



funeral work, his business shows a 

 healthy continuance. 



W. & T. Cass, of Geneva, N. Y., are 

 much pleased with the crop of Formosa 

 lilies they grew for Easter. Bulbs 

 7x9 produced from six to twenty-five 

 blooms each and were uniform of 

 growth — an exceptionally fine lot. Har- 

 risii and giganteum, while good, had to 

 take second place. The brothers do a 

 big nursery business and have an un- 

 usual demand for Spiraea Van Houttei. 

 Peonies were late for Memorial day, 

 but are now a grand sight. In passing 

 I would mention that William Cass has 

 served his ward as alderman for six- 

 teen years — quite a record. 



Alfred Patrick, of Auburn, N. Y., 

 says he has tried every remedy recom- 

 mended to destroy the moth miller, but 

 that the millers laugh at his attempts. 

 Many nights were spent in catching the 

 pests. A njanufactured article now is 

 being tried with apparent success. 

 Archie Patrick, son and assistant, has 

 purchased the John WBite property at 

 Skaneateles, N. Y., and expected to 

 take possession July 1. The late Mr. 

 White built up a good business, but 

 his widow felt it too much for her. 



T. F. Eastwood, of Auburn, called my 

 attention to a splendid strain of Stocks 

 Beauty of Nice and snapdragons. He 

 finds Marguerite Mrs. Sander invaria- 

 bly comes double if the plants are kept 

 potbound. Among the varieties of 

 ferns once popular but now almost lost 

 sight of, yet highly useful, is Pteris 

 tremula, a strong grower. The fronds 

 make a fine background in design work. 

 It is easily grown trtm spores. An- 

 other is Adiantum Capillus- Veneris 

 fimbriatum, a hardy and compact va- 

 riety. W. M. 



