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The Florists* Review 



July 20, 1916. 



BOCHESTEB, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Business activity varied last week, 

 Monday and Tuesday opened quite live- 

 ly, with a generous lot of funeral work, 

 but during the middle of the week 

 things appeared quite dead. There was 

 a revival, however, Saturday. While 

 business is not brisk, it is considered 

 by all to be satisfactory for the season. 

 The weather is summery in earnest and 

 stock has suffered thereby. Eoses are 

 hard to handle these days. They open 

 almost on arrival and are practically 

 unsalable. The stock is not at its best 

 and the pink and yellow varieties lack 

 color. Good, tight buds sell well. A 

 number of good Hadley and My Mary- 

 land roses are in the market. Carna- 

 tions are becoming quite inferior at 

 this period. They are soft and small 

 and are disposed of at low figures. 



The demand for sweet peas is much 

 larger than the consignments. They 

 are shortening in stem. A few early 

 ■dahlias are in the market. Gladioli ar- 

 rive daily and sell well, the favorite 

 being America. Valley is not overplen- 

 tiful but the demand is not at all large. 

 An abundance of rambler roses in pink 

 and red have sold nicely. Shasta 

 daisies move slowly. There is little de- 

 mand for coreopsis and gaillardias, but 

 belianthus and gypsophilas are being 

 used a great deal. Candytuft is plenti- 

 ful, as well as achillea. Out-of-town 

 asparagus is not at all good. 

 Various Notes. 



S. Menke, of the Decorative Plant 

 Co., of New York, was in town last 

 week calling on the trade. 



Mrs. M. McNeil, of Wilson's, motored 

 into Canada via Niagara falls last 



The fund handed over to the Koch- 

 ester Free Dispensary and Children s 

 Hospital aggregated $3,396, being $900 

 in advance of last year's fund, which 

 was a record. Flower day in this city 

 evidently is becoming more popular. 



Mr and Mrs. Mark Aitken and Mr. 

 and Mrs. Bowles, of Springfield, Mass., 

 called on several friends in the city 

 last week on their return from Buffalo, 

 where they attended the Shriners' con- 

 vention. The party motored from 

 Springfield to Buffalo, making stops at 

 Eochester and at Syracuse on their re- 

 turn. , 



It is with sincere regret that one 

 hears of the serious illness of William 

 Logan, for many years connected with 

 the Crosman seed store, on East Mam 

 street. He has been ailing for a long 

 time and his condition is quite bad. 

 Fred Vick also is reported unwell. 



A communication has been received 

 from Mrs. E. M. Fuller, of Washington, 

 D. C, asking that the Eochester Flo- 

 rists' Association at its next meeting 

 take action and vote on a national 

 flower. She asks if it should be the 

 mountain laurel. 



James Bates, of Oakfield, N. T., was 

 in town last week buying stock from 



several stores. ^ « , -i. j-„„ 



J. M. Keller was in Buffalo attending 



the Shriners* convention during the 



The Lady Florists' Auxiliary held 

 its annual picnic at Eastman Durand 

 park, Wednesday, July 12. A happy 

 and enjoyable time was spent by all. 

 There was a good attendance. 



Frank McLuis, who has been renting 



a store between Water and St. Paul 

 streets, has removed to his former stand, 

 renting part of the store and one win- 

 dow of the Unique Candy Store. Ex- 

 penses were high at the other place and 

 the amount of business did not demand 

 a big undertaking. 



Charles E. Sharpe is spending his va- 

 cation at Sea Breeze, N. Y. 



Miss Hattie B. Ellis is away on a 

 two weeks' vacation at the Dew Drop 

 Inn, Webster, N. Y. 



H. E. Wilson had a dainty window 

 display for the week end. It consisted 

 of Dorothy Perkins ramblers nicely ar- 

 ranged in fern boxes, cut glass vases 

 and baskets. Pink mats were used on 

 the bottom of the window and gave a 

 fine effect. H. J. H. 



PROVIDENCE, B. I. 



The Market. 



There is a dullness in the local mar- 

 ket usual at this period of the year 

 and many of the storekeepers and their 

 clerks are enjoying vacations. The 

 growers and greenhousemen, on the 

 other hand, are particularly busy over- 

 hauling houses and preparing for re- 

 benching. Some of the growers have 

 already begun benching. Funeral work 

 continues the feature of the local busi- 

 ness. 



Various Notes. 



The Empire Floral Co. has closed the 

 store until fall. 



Mrs. P. F. Conley, of 48 Updike 

 street, has a house of fine Boston ferns. 



Woodrow & Marketos, of New York, 



have opened their summer branch store 

 at Narragansett Pier. 



William E. Little, gardener for Henry 

 F. Lippitt, has been elected a member 

 of the Cumberland school committee. 



The Budlong Eose Co., of Auburn, is 

 making heavy shipments to the New 

 York market, principally of Stanley and 

 Francis Scott Key roses. 



Mrs. Charles Smith has gone to 

 Boston and vicinity for a few weeks' 

 stay with relatives. 



The corner window of Macnair's, at 

 Broad and Chestnut streets, is attract- 

 ing much attention. The display rep- 

 resents a deeply wooded dell, with a 

 waterfall having a drop of/ seven feet 

 into a deep pool, which is surrounded 

 by ferns, foliage plants and moss. 



Neil Ward has been reelected tree 

 warden of the town of Cumberland for 

 another year. 



Olney Williams & Sons, of Hartford 

 avenue, are cutting thousands of fine 

 sweet peas for sale in this city and 

 Newport. 



H. Liebson^ representing the New 

 England Florists* Supply Co.^ was in 

 the city recently. fc 



K. Max, of San Francisco, aorother- 

 in-law of Joseph Koppelman and 

 Charles Smith, arrived here last week 

 for an indefinite stay. 



Johnston Bros, report an exceptional- 

 ly good year to date, funeral and deco- 

 rative work having been especially 

 heavy. 



William E. Chappell is making an 

 extensive overhauling and improvement 

 of his range of houses on Branch 

 avenue. W. H. M. 



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Covington, O. — The season has been 

 an excellent one at the J. M. Petersime 

 establishment and several of the houses 

 will be rebuilt this season and the heat- 

 ing system overhauled to put it in up- 

 to-date condition. 



Dayton, O. — P. D. Berry, on Brandt 

 pike, reached by rural route 3, has had 

 a successful peony season and plans to 

 enlarge his planting for next season. 

 Mr. Berry is a market gardener who be- 

 came interested in peonies because of 

 the demand for the blooms occasionally 

 shown in the market stall from which 

 he sold vegetables. The peony planta- 

 tion increased until now he has an 

 acre and sells 30,000 to 40,000 blooms 

 per year, mostly to Dayton florists, but 

 some are sold through wholesalers and 

 a few are retailed. 



Cleveland, O. — E. A. Beeves believes 

 strongly that the city should not bite 

 the hand that feeds it. Wherefore his 

 threat recently of a court injunction 

 to prevent a welfare director from sell- 

 ing 1,200 dozen peonies grown at the 

 Warrensville infirmary. Four years 

 ago Mr. Beeves donated 2,000 roots for 

 planting at the inflrmary. The verbal 

 agreement was that no peonies should 

 be sold; they were to be used only for 

 beautifying the grounds. "Now they 

 plan to sell them, to compete with me, ' ' 

 Mr. Eeeves said. "Fine idea — after my 

 setting the city up in business." The 

 welfare director promised to listen to 

 reasen. 



Salem, O.— Elmer E. Stanley, for a 

 number of years representative of the 

 Ford Seed Co., of Eavenna, O., is erect- 

 ing a greenhouse here and will engage 

 in the florists' business. 



Youngstown, O.— Although roses, 

 house plants and calcimining do not 

 mix well, that is no reason why W. D. 

 O'Connor, a painter and decorator, 

 should not make good in the florists' 

 business. At any rate, Mr. O'Connor 

 has erected a greenhouse as a starter, 

 and says he will add to his facilities as 

 rapidly as the business warrants it. 



London, O. — Surely the spring season 

 of 1916 will be recorded in the books of 

 W. D. Thomas as the best ever. The 

 flower houses are practically devoid of 

 stock, which cleaned up rather too 

 closely, and tomatoes and cukes have 

 outdone themselves in size and luscious- 

 ness. There are eight groceries in 

 London and Mr. Thomas has furnished 

 six of them with his prize tomatoes, 

 some of which wholesaled at 25 cents 

 each! Says Mr. Thomas: "I grow 

 Bonny Best, Globe, June Bug and the 

 old-time, late, canning variety, Stone, 

 which is conceded to be the best out- 

 door canning tomato. I may seem a bit 

 conceited, but I feel that I have suffi- 

 cient reasons for being highly elated 

 over the hit I have made with my cus- 

 tomers. Some of the tomato clusters 

 had six ripe pieces at the same time 

 and three to five green ones." 



