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The Florists' Review 



Septkmbeb 21, 1916. 



, The George M. Kellogg Flower & 

 Plant Co. is redecorating its store. 

 New linoleum was laid. Some extra 

 fine roses now are being cut. Mr. 

 Thomas was off several days last week 

 on account of throat trouble. 



Business across the state line has 

 been good. 



The Eosery has a nice batch of chrys- 

 anthemums in the benches and about 

 500 in pots. A good section of begonias 

 and poinsettias was noticed. Mr. Ells- 

 worth has moved back to the city from 

 his cottage on the lake. He reports 

 good fishing during the entire summer. 



Mrs. T. A. Moseley is busy getting 

 her car in shape for the floral parade 

 to be held next week across the state 

 line. 



W. (L. Bock is spending a vacation in 

 the Ozarks of Missouri. Some nice 

 roses are being cut at the greenhouses. 



The managers of the amateur flower 

 show have decided to ask the florists 

 and nurserymen to send in non-com- 

 petitive exhibits. The show will be 

 held September 23 at the Muehlebach 

 hotel. 



T. J. Noll & Co. are receiving some 

 extra good roses and mums in fair quan- 

 tities. 



Sam Seligman, of the American Bulb 

 Co., Chicago, was a visitor here last 

 week. W. J. B. 



FORT WAYNE, IND. 



The Market. 



Market conditions have shown con- 

 siderable improvement during the last 

 two weeks, or since the advent of cool 

 weather. Greenhouse stock is much 

 more plentiful than it has been for 

 months and the quality of flowers in 

 general is considerably better. Prices 

 are good for this time of the year and 

 the shipping trade has received a new 

 stimulus. Chrysanthemum Golden Glow 

 has made its season's debut in the 

 market and retailers are getting $3 per 

 dozen for them. Roses are much more 

 plentiful than heretofore, although the 

 longer-stemmed flowers still are some- 

 what scarce. The cool weather of the 

 last two weeks has greatly improved 

 the quality of all varieties. Mrs. 

 Charles Russell heads the list for qual- 

 ity, while Shawyer, Ophelia, Sunburst, 

 Milady and Ward are of good propor- 

 tions. 



Carnations still are scarce and prices 

 range from $2 to $6 per hundred. Roses 

 are bringing $3 to $8 per hundred. 

 Dahlias are in, but are extremely 

 scarce. Zinnias are more plentiful. 

 Asters are scarce, but those seen in the 

 market are of excellent quality; they 

 bring $2 and $3 per hundred. Cecile 

 Brunner and George Elger roses are 

 meeting with a good demand. Gladioli 

 are past their zenith and are scarce, 

 especially the more choice varieties. 

 Easter lilies are not so plentiful as 

 heretofore, but cosmos are abundant 

 enough. Valley is more abundant and 

 is meeting a good call on account of 

 the fall weddings, which were numer- 

 ous last week. Business has been ac- 

 tive and funeral work exceedingly 

 heavy. Green goods are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. Cecil Max, of Mobile, Ala., who 

 has been visiting her father. Judge 

 W. J. Vesey, for several weeks, has 

 left for Muncie, Ind., in which city she 

 will make her future home. 



Miss Markey, of Markey Bros., -has 

 returned from a ten days ' trip to Whit- 

 more Lake, near Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 ^ Miss S. L. Nelson is spending a two 

 weeks* vacation at Auburn, Ind. Miss 

 Nelson is secretary for W. J. & M. S. 

 Vesey. This firm is cutting some fine 

 Hoosier Beauty and Shawyer roses. 



A. J. Lanternier & Co. are showing 

 some excellent Golden Glow chrysanthe- 

 mums, the first of the season. They 

 have been busy with weddings during 

 the last week and have had consider- 

 able funeral work. 



The nick Floral Co. is cutting some 

 fine Cecile Brunner roses. Mrs. Alice 

 Shive gave a dinner at the English 

 tea room last week for the other 

 women florists of the city. They were 

 Miss Rhoda Doswell, Mrs. Clement 

 Lanternier, Mrs. Richard Blossom, Miss 

 Markey and Misses Mildred and Mar- 

 guerite Flick. 



A florists' club has been organized in 

 Fort Wayne. Meetings will be held 

 once a month. The first meeting will 

 be held at the Doswell Floral Co. store, 

 301 West Main street, October 2. Elec- 

 tion of officers will take placd at this 

 meeting. R. F. 



SPENCER, IND. 



We have to report a severe frost here 

 last night and our fields of dahlias today 

 look as if a black shroud were spread 

 over them. This is the earliest severe 

 frost by over, three weeks that we have 

 had in fifteen years. Last season frost 

 was early also, coming October 7. This 

 year's early frost cost literally thou- 

 sands of dollars, as we- had already 

 scheduled more than forty shows, which 

 will have to be canceled. 



Aside from the frost, dahlias this sea- 

 son-have bloomed sparsely, but our pros- 

 pect for a good crop of bulbs is fine. 

 We attribute the failure of dahlias to 

 bloom well this season to a cold, wet 



spring ^nd early summer followed by 

 intense heat and drying winds, almost 

 cooking the tender, watery growth. This 

 time last season we were able to cut 

 more than 100,000 blooms daily. 



In our St. Louis show last season we 

 used 16,000 dahlia blooms and with Ber- 

 termann Bros. Co., of Indianapolis, we 

 used about 15,000 blooms. This season 

 we have not been able to ship at any 

 time to exceed 6,000 blooms, although 

 we have ten acres more dahlias than 

 last season. 



The frost has not damaged the gla- 

 dioli to any great extent. 



National Show Gardens. 



WESTERLY, R. I. 



September 12 Lewis T. Rankin went 

 to New York with the intention of re- 

 turning that night. He has not been 

 heard from since 3:30 that afternoon, 

 when he was talking to P. B. Rigby, 

 of the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 117 

 West Twenty-eighth street. New York. 

 As he was leaving this place he said he 

 was going to buy some fur goods. His 

 family believe that he has met with 

 foul play. 



Mr. Rankin's family waited two or 

 three days before making an investiga- 

 tion. Then S. S. Pennock, head of the 

 New York concern with which Mr. 

 Rankin dealt, who summered at Weeka- 

 paug, near Westerly, was told of the 

 nonappearance of Mr. Rankin. Mr. 

 Pennock went to New York and made 

 a thorough search, but could find no 

 clue. He reported the matter to the 

 New York police, who now are working 

 on the case. 



Mr. Rankin has been in the florists' 

 business at Westerly for many years. 

 Recently he opened a new store in the 

 Rhode Island hotel, aside from his 

 greenhouse business. He has a wife 

 and one child, and is 43 years of age. 



W. H. M. 



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William Pfeifer, of Utica, promises 

 to be to the fore as usual with carna- 

 tions. 



Henry Youell, as secretary of the 

 Syracuse Florists' Club, reports that 

 the club members agreed to combine 

 in an exhibit at the New York state 

 fair, which opened September 11. By 

 adopting this plan a good prize was 

 secured, which otherwise would have 

 been impossible. As secretary of the 

 American Gladiolus Society Mr. Youell 

 tells me that the society intends tak- 

 ing strong measures to weed out the 

 culls in the large list of varieties 

 listed, and so encourage the propaga- 

 tion of the numerous fine varieties. I 

 also am informed that, owing to the 

 difficulty of obtaining good foreign 

 stock, home-grown bulbs will bring bet- 

 ter prices this year. 



Robert Bard, of Syracuse, was judge 

 of exhibits of the flower section of the 

 exposition ^t Rochester, N. Y. Com- 

 menting on his decisions and the feel- 

 ing of the recipients, the Scottish Bard 

 said: "The best laid schemes o' mice 

 and men gang aft agley." 



I noted the absence at the Rochester 

 exposition of two of our leading con- 

 freres, who formerly were at the front 



and shared in the success at Rochester. 



*Is it possible that they have lost in- 

 terest and believe it is unnecessary to 

 partake in what is generally conceded 

 to be one of the most profitable forms 

 of local advertising! Those who did 

 exhibit put forth their best efforts to 

 fill the vacancy and succeeded admir- 

 ably. An aquatic pool with waterfall 

 was built by George Cramer, of 



, Rochester, who also was responsible for 

 the large oval pond of nymphaeas at 

 the entrance. The F. R. Pierson Co., 

 of Tarrytown, N. Y., exhibited a col- 

 lection of choice nephrolepis, which 

 ■was much admired. James Vick's Sons 

 showed fine gladioli and asters. 



On visiting George B. Hart, at 

 Rochester, I found him superintending 

 the transformation of part of his build- 

 ing into a whole, by making two stores 

 into one store, which was necessitated 

 by the increase of the commission busi- 

 ness. A part of the store is intended 

 for supplies. Two cold storage rooms, 

 each 21x27, are one of the features. 

 "Our business in Rochester for July 

 and August is ahead of that of the same 

 months of any previous year," ob- 

 served Mr. Hart. W. M. 



