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The Florists' Review 



17 



nerftl orders have come in heavilj of 

 late. 



The Budlong Bose Co., while its re- 

 ceipts have declined fifty ^er cent, still 

 get some fine roses. Particularly good 

 are Sunburst Sport, Ward, Stanley, 

 Maryland and Ophelia. The company 

 are trying several new roses this sea- 

 son, including Prima Donna, Mrs. W. R. 

 Hearst and Montrose. 



George Small, assistant manager at 

 the Boston Cooperative Flower Market, 

 is spending his vacation in company 

 with John (Lynch, assistant to J. M. 

 Oohen, on Cape Cod. 



Fred L. Sly, of South Stoughton, is 

 having a successful season with asters 

 and sweet peas, both of which now are 

 selling readily. 



The next regular meeting of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club will be held 

 September 19. E, H. Forbush, state 

 ornithologist of Massachusetts, will do- 

 liver a stereopticon lecture on "Birds 

 and Their Value to Gardeners and Flo- 

 rists." The evening also will be ob- 

 served as ladies' night. 



A. R, Smith, of West Newton, is 

 strong this season on bachelor's but- 

 tons, salpiglossis and Asparagus Spren- 

 geri. 



At the store of the Welch Bros. Co, 

 a good volume of shipping is being 

 done. Particularly fine" now are Beau- 

 ties, valley, gardenias, sweet peas, 

 gladioli and asters. 



Wax Bros, report that July has been 

 an excellent month with them, funeral 

 business being well ahead of that of 

 the same month of 1915. 



Robert Montgomery is not sending 

 in many roses at present, but, while 

 the supply and demand for these are at 

 a lower ebb, he is marketing a grand 

 lot of asters. 



W. J. Cain, of Newtonville, still is 

 cutting good larkspurs. He also has ex- 

 cellent asters and bachelor's buttons. 



J. S. Philbrick, of Woburn, is in the 

 market with a splendid lot of Kaiserin 

 roses, which are eagerly picked up now. 



Extra fine are the asters coming in 

 from H. Zan Brunnen, of Auburndale. 

 E. J. Ahearn, of Wellesley, the yellow 

 marguerite specialist, and P. E. Green, 

 of Quincy, also are shipping in good 

 asters. 



Among the shippers of fine outdoor 

 gladioli are William Sim, of Clifton- 

 dale, who has several acres of these 

 flowers; Tony Deluco, of the Brighton 

 Conservatories; Burgess & Cooney, of 

 Maplewood. 



July has not given us quite so much 

 rain as a year ago, but it was more 

 widely distributed, and dark or cloudy 

 days were easily in the majority. While 

 we have lacked the intense heat from 

 which the west has suffered, we have 

 had a surfeit of uncomfortable days 

 due to excessive humidity. The aver- 

 age temperature of the month has been 

 considerably below the normal. July 

 29 the minimum fell as low as 48 de- 

 grees. 



George W. Hamer, of the Flower Ex- 

 change, has been spending his vacation 

 along the Massachusetts shore. Mr. 

 Hamer was one of the most interested 

 spectators at the late club picnic, 



Henry R. Comley, of Park street, re- 

 ports that while July business cannot 

 be classed as strenuous, he had a good 

 share of orders, especially for funerals. 



About the only flowering plants to 

 be seen at any of the stores are hy- 

 drangeas. Retailers say they would 



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KASJm p. baum. 



ABILITY, energy, public spirit — these are among the essential qualities of the 

 officers of a trade society. If there is any doubt as to whether these qualities 

 are possessed by President Karl P. Baum, of the Tennessee State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation, let the facts of his career be noted. At the age of 21, after several years' 

 experience in his father's greenhouses, he became manager of the Baum store, the 

 Home of Flowers, in Knoxville, Tenn., and speedily developed it into one of the 

 biggest and best flower palaces in the south. Meanwhile he expended some of his 

 surplus vitality in his activities as a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knox- 

 ville Board of Commerce, the Knoxville Rotary Club, the Knoxville Florists' 

 Society, the Rotary Florists, the F. T. D. and the S. A. F. And, withal, he was 

 not born till January 23, 1885; figure his age — or his youth. 



like to get more variety if they were 

 purchasable. Tuberous begonias, achim- 

 enes, gloxinias, tracheliums, auratum 

 and speciosum lilies, browallias and al- 

 lamandas are a few which could be 

 used to advantage now. W. N. Craig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week there were few flowers that 

 cut much of a figure and there was no 

 business except the inevitable i-all for 

 funeral work. This item has been ab- 

 normal because of the high humidity, 

 the intense heat and the ravages of in 

 fantile paralysis. 



In the wholesale cut flower market 

 there has been no life and little supply, 

 with the exception of asters and 

 gladioli. These are arriving in suftioient 

 quantities to dominate the market. 

 Gladioli are down to summer prices, 

 only the novelties being in demand. 

 Few sold above $1 per hundred. He 

 fore another week the prevailinj; quo 



tatiou will be 50 cents per hundred. 

 America, Queen and the other novelties 

 are in a class by themselves. The se- 

 lected gladioli have been selling at $2 

 per hundred. The asters are improving 

 daily and there already are heavy ship- 

 ments arriving. Few of them as yet 

 are desirable, except tor the cheaper 

 funeral pieces. A great improvement 

 in quality is discernible. 



Dahlias are here, earlier thiin ex- 

 pected, and meet with no demand. These 

 will be more popuhvr as the choice va- 

 rieties arrive and will be the f.nvorite 

 tlowers of the market at the tiiv.e o:" the 

 dahlia show, in September. 



The few carnatiiuis that are perfect 

 have been selling quickly at $1.?0 to $- 

 per hundred. Most of the bloom*, how- 

 ever, are practically worthless. Few of 

 the large growers are shipping them, 

 but their scarcity is helpful to the 

 asters. Lilies made a fair advance dur- 

 ing the week, the selected touchini: $t" 

 per hundred, with $o as an averagx^ 

 quotation. Valle\ does not advance, al- 

 though the supply is Un-.itevi. $^^ per 



