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JOLT 27, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



15 



View of the Bar Harbor Sweet Pea Show> Reported Last Week, Looking Toward the Stage. 



Owing to the frequent drenching 

 rains we have had right through the 



E resent summer, many growers report 

 eavy losses in the fields of asters and 

 carnations. One grower reports the loss 

 of 20,000 asters and others who used 

 low land are also suffering heavily. 



Various Notes. 



The principal event of local horti- 

 cultural importance this week is the 

 annual picnic of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists* Club, to be held at Cunning- 

 ham park, East Milton, July 27. There 

 are no less than twenty-eight athletic 

 events on the list of sports, including 

 three baseball games and one soccer 

 football game. An excellent list of 

 prizes has been secured and only fine 

 weather is needed to make the affair 

 a pronounced success. W. J. Kennedy 

 will act as ringmaster, P. M. Miller as 

 starter and W. N. Craig as clerk. Um- 

 pires for baseball and football games 

 are Frank Edgar, A. K. Rogers and J. 

 P. A. Guerineau. The judges are Eber 

 Holmes, F. E. I^^lpieiy Charles Holbi^ov, 

 Robert Cameroh, X G. Ihiguid, W. j. 

 Patterson, H. H. Bartsch, W. C. Rust, 

 W. H. Judd, A. K. Rogers, George W. 

 Hamer, Frank Edgar %nd Kenneth Fin- 

 layson. 



George Dunn, of Galvin's Park street 

 store, is spending his vacation in Maine. 

 Patrick Moran is at Cape Cod; Thomas 

 "Welch in New Hampshire and William 

 Henderson at Nantucket. Mr. Galvin 

 is at his cottage at Nantucket. Half 

 the employees now leave at 5 p. m. and 

 the balance at 6 p. m. Closing hour 

 Saturdays now is 7 p. m. Galvin's had 

 all the elaborate decorations for the 

 national convention of the A. O. H., 

 which had -headquarters at the Copley 

 Plaza hotel. 



At the store of Patrick Welch I noted 

 fine bunches of the newer astilbes, such 

 as Cerei, Philadelphia, Pink Beauty, 

 etc. Gladidli^ow are coming 'in heav- 

 ily. Many outdoor ones are comin] 

 fr(^^. Hammond Tracy's farm, 

 teijpfcith, of Welch's force, left tlfff 

 weik for a vacation at Seal Harbor, 

 Me. Mr. Welch is on a visit to Mon- 

 treal. 



N. F. Comley, of Burlington, has re- 

 ceived 40,000 roses this week, which 

 he will use in filling up some of his 

 houses. The Boston Cooperative Marr 

 ket the coming season will be strong on 

 roses, with such prominent growers as 

 Thomas Roland, William Sim, N. F. 

 Comley, W. H. Elliott, the Budlong Rose 

 Co., Robert Montgomery and W. R. 

 Morris shipping their entire cuts here. 



Carbone reports an excellent summer 





Fiery Cross Sweet^Pea. 



business at both the Boston and Hyan- 

 nis stores. Seymour Grose, cut flower 

 buyer, left July 22 for a vacation lit 

 Southport, Me. F. W. Pettitt, of the 



»j« force, ^ariiiUplttii Plattsburg, N. 



rfsr* m^B^-serttimai^^-training. 



yhr» EEAli^fiur Garden Co. is busy re- 

 planting carnations and has discon- 

 tinued shipping all flowers but roses. 



Of these they still have nice flowers of 

 Hadley, Ophelia and Killarney Bril- 

 liant. 



White Bros., of Wilmington, and 

 Robert Montgomery, of Natick, are 

 among the earliest shippers of asters to 

 the local wholesale markets.' 



George A. Hamer, the courteous and 

 popular assistant manager at the Flow- 

 er Exchange/ started on his annual va- 

 cation this week, which will be spent 

 mainly along the Massachusetts north 

 short. 



Miss Beatrice Wishinski, bookkeeper 

 for H. M. Robinson & Co., left July 22 

 for her vacation, part of which will be 

 spent at Manchester, N. H., and the 

 remainder at Bar Harbor, Me. 



W. A. McAlpine, of McAlpine & Mc- 

 Donald, is feeling quite elated. It is 

 a bouncing boy, born July 22. 



Stephen S. Green, a prominent sales- 

 man at the Flower Exchange, started 

 on his vacation July 24, to be spent at 

 Chebeague island, Casco bay. Me. 



The New York Florists' Club has in- 

 vited members of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston to join them 

 on their trip to the Houston convention, 

 leaving New York August 9 on a 

 steamer of the Southern Pacific line. 

 Round-trip tickets, including all steamer 

 and railroad charges, but not meals on 

 trains, cost $80. At present it looks 

 like a small representation from here 

 to Houston. 



Joseph T. White, late of Doyle's staff 

 in Boston, now is managing John H. 

 Stalford's fine store for the summer at 

 Bar Harbor, Me., where a splendid busi- 

 ness is being done. The annuals and 

 perennials shown here are wonderfully 

 fine. 



At Welch's, 280 Devonshire street, 

 gladioli now are a great feature. Busi- 

 ness has settled down to a midsummer 

 basis. >- 



Penn's duck pond continues to at- 

 tract crowds of visitors. July 22, one 

 of the hottest day8[ o| the summer^ they 

 were standing se^^ diftep, almdit- block- 

 ing entrance to the store. H*enry Penn 

 reports a good volume of summer busi- 

 ness. 



