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BALTIMOBE. 



The Market. 



Typical midsummer business condi- 

 tions are prevailing at present. Other 

 than funeral work, little business is be- 

 ing done, although the week 's end found 

 a little brisker tone to the market and 

 a better grade of stock in demand. 

 Gladioli are dominating the market and 

 are to be seen wherever flowers are sold. 

 The receipts of southern-grown stock 

 have been greatly added to by a heavy 

 supply of locally grown blooms; there 

 are far too many for the demand. Eoses 

 are in rather shorter supply and a few 

 more good whites could have been used 

 during the latter part of the week. Car- 

 nations are conspicuous by their ab- 

 sence, which is not felt. Asters still 

 are rather small and of poor quality. 

 The few good blooms coming in find 

 a ready sale, but the small ones are in 

 little demand. Lilies have been in good 

 demand and many are being used for 

 funeral work. 



There still is an oversupply of greens, 

 bnt these have been moving better than 

 those of last week. The general busi- 

 ness has been fair for the season, with 

 a little extra spurt July 22, 



Various Notes. 



George Boring, who has been with 

 the Baltimore Wholesale Florists & 

 Supply Co. since its formation, has re- 

 turned to the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



The Hamilton Flower Shop reports a 

 busy week of funeral work. One day 

 the entire force was busy with this one 

 line. 



J. W. Penn's Sons are sending in 

 some fine astermums to the Leo Niessen 

 Co. 



The excessively wet season is begin- 

 ning to show its effect on outdoor crops, 

 dahlias and carnations being especially 

 injured. R. Vincent,- Jr., reports that 

 his company has suffered much damage, 

 not only by washouts of plants but also 

 from many rotting away because of ex- 

 cessive moisture at the roots. 



Callers last week included C. S. Ford, 

 of New York; E. F. Hoehl, representing 

 S. 8. Skidelsky & Co.; Sidney Bayers- 

 dorfer and D. T. Connor, all of Philadel- 

 phia. W. F. E. 



BAB HABBOB, ME. 



The sympathy of a host of friends 

 goes out to William Miller, lately man- 

 ager at the Mount Desert Nurseries, 

 and to Mrs. Miller, in the death of their 

 daughter, Margaret, 13 years of age, 

 July 10, following an operation for ap- 

 pendicitis. 



John H. Stalford, of the Malvern 

 Greenhouses, does a large and increas- 

 ing business. Royal Jubilee melon 

 filled several houses and was grandly 

 fruited. One . house contained a fine 

 crop of Black Hambro and Muscat of 

 Alexandria grapes. Campanula pyra- 

 midalis, gloxinias, tuberous begonias 

 and hydrangeas are all grown in quan- 

 tity. Outdoors there were splendid 

 blocks of sweet peas, salpiglossis, an- 

 tirrhinums, pentstemons, phloxes and 

 other plants for cutting. Mr. Stalford 

 now operates the store formerly oper- 

 ated by F, H. Moses and has a grand 

 display of flowers there. 



At the Mount Desert Nurseries, where 

 A. E. Thatcher is manager, the herba- 

 ceous collection is extensive and makes 

 a notable display. I was pleased to see 

 80 many fine varieties of saxifrages. 



What's the Use of Getting All 

 "Het Up" on Heating? 



THE fellows who get all "het up" 

 on their heating are the kind that 

 the minute they stop firing in the 

 spring never do a tap to their heating 

 until it's near firing time in the fall. 



They are a good bit like this old gink 

 on the stove. 



Nothing starts them short of start- 

 ing a. fire. 



And then in a jiflfy they are all 

 "het up," and want everything done in 

 a minute. 



They write us. 



They phone us. 



They wire us. 



They come to see us. 



They expect us to do the impossible — 

 and we come pretty close to doing it. 



Getting "het up" that way, however, 

 costs money — too miich money. The 

 man who saves money is the man who 

 doesn't cool ofiF on his heating until it's 

 all in apple-pie order, ready to heat up 

 when heating time comes. 



You know we go -anywhere to do 

 heating, or talk heating. 



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BEREUL imCES AN! FACTORT. EUUIETI, N. J. 



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 41 Frttral St. 



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Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



eremuri and aconitums. A new rock 

 garden recently was constructed here. 

 In the greenhouses tomatoes, melons 

 and other summer crops were being 

 grown. W. N. Craig. 



HOUSTON, TEX. 



We have had an ideal week for all 

 plants growing outside and everything 

 is looking fine. The convention garden 

 is coming along nicely. There is one 

 bed of crotons that is a rainbow of 

 colors. The water lilies are beginning 

 to bloom and the cannas are in fine 

 growing condition. 



The- Gulf Florist, Walter Retzer, pro- 

 prietor, states that business has begun 

 to drop off for the summer, but that it 

 still is good for the season. 



John Young, of New York city, sec- 

 retary of the S. A. F., arrived in Hous- 

 ton July 17 and is lining up things for 

 the convention. Mr. Young and R. C. 



Kerr left July 22 for San Antonio, 

 where they are to meet the florists at 

 the convention in August. 



Mr, Carlisle, of Carlisle & Son, of 

 Alvin, is in th» city and says that 

 everything is coming along and that 

 they have a 2-acre tract of tuberoses 

 that is snow white. 



Mr. Boyles, of Boyles & Pendarvis, 

 states they are having an excellent busi- 

 ness and that it has dropped off less 

 than usual on account of the summer 

 weather. They are getting a good deal 

 of their summer cut flowers on a tract 

 they own at Bellaire, where they are 

 intending to put up greenhouses this 

 fall for their winter cut flowers and 

 pot plants and growing department. 

 G, R. L. 



Beading, Pa. — Harry A. Byler has 

 opened a flower store at 46 North Ninth 

 street as the city office of the Shilling- 

 ton greenhouses. 



