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The Horists' Review 



Septembeb 21, 1916. 



lionaire, a monstrous lavender-shaded 

 bloftsofia lithe inches in diameter, was 

 given the other. Ja th« professional or 

 commercial class oa dahlias, the exhib- 

 its were niiade by W. D. Hathaway, Wil- 

 liam Steele, George L. Stillman aiid 

 Miss Nellie Jillson, who divided the 

 honors. A feature of the show was an 

 exhibition of gladioli from Roger Wil- 

 liams park, Frederick C. Green, super- 

 intendent. 



The committee in charge of the ex- 

 hibition included Eugene A. Appleton, 

 chairman; Joshua Vose, Arthur Sellew, 

 Cornelius Hartstra, H. W. Wheaton, 

 H. H. York and Ernest K. Thomas. 



Various Notes. 



Eugene Appleton, representing the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, is 

 one of the officials of the new Crescent 

 Park Agricultural Association, which 

 will hold its first fair in October. 



Louis J. Renter, of Westerly, was a 

 member of the Westerly Rod and Gun 

 Club team in the trap-shooting contest 

 at the annual outing of the Rhode 

 Island Fish and Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation at Crescent park, 



Fred Dietz, of French street, left 

 September 16 on a two weeks' pleasure 

 trip to New York, Philadelphia, Wash- 

 ingtoti, Baltimore and Richmond. 



Mrs. Charles Smith, wife of the 

 Washington street florist, and her 

 daughter. Miss Fannie Smith, are both 

 in a private hospital at Cambridge, 

 Mass., where they were operated upon 

 last week. Both are reported as pro- 

 gressing comfortably. 



The first meeting of the Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island 

 after the summer recess will be held 

 on Thursday evening, September 21. 



Alexander Macrae is on a vacation 

 trip to New York for a couple of weeks. 



Timothy O'Connor was a business 

 visitor to New York last week. 



Th© first monthly meeting of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society was 

 held September 20. W. H. M. 



MTLWAUKEE. 



The Market. 



Market conditions remain about the 

 same, although the weather has turned 

 quite cold. Overcoats and fires were 

 in order September 15 and 16 and, while 

 there was no heavy frost, some damage 

 was done to outdoor stock. Business in 

 general is picking up and conditions 

 are becoming better every day. 



There still is a large supply, of roses 

 of all varieties, in all grades, and these 

 are moving nicely. Carnations are com- 

 ing in slowly as yet and the stock is 

 necessarily short-stemmed and the qual- 

 ity only fair. 



On account of favorable weather con- 

 ditions, the late asters are in fine shape, 

 as well as in large supply, and they are 

 cleaning up well each day. Gladioli 

 also are in good supply and are selling 

 well. Valley still is scarce and it is im- 

 possible to take care of the demand 

 with any degree of satisfaction. Lilies 

 are plentiful and are moving nicely in 

 funeral pieces. 



Flower Show at State Fair. 



The horticultural exhibit at the state 

 fair this year was one of the best in 

 years. The only trouble is that the 

 retailers do not take the necessary in- 

 terest to make it the success it should 

 be. The advertising from an exhibition 



of this sort should be worth the effort 

 to the retailer, while it has little 'pr no 

 value to the grower or wholesaler. It 

 is to be hoped that next year will see 

 a healthy increase in" the number of 

 exhibitors. 



Following is a list of the prize-win- 

 ners in the different classes: 



Collection of greenhouse plantB, not less than 

 twenty-flve kinds, to cover not less than fifty 

 square feet — Holton & Hunkel Co., first; August 

 F. Kellner Co., second; C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 third; A. Klockner, fourth. 



Display of palms covering not less than fifty 

 square feet— C. C. Pollwortb Co., first; Holton & 

 Hunkel Co., second; August F. Kellner Co., 

 third; A. Klockner, fourth. 



Display of ferns covering not less than fifty 

 square feet — Holton & Hunkel Co., first; August 

 F. Kellner Co., second; C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 third. 



Display of foliage plants covering not less 

 than fifty square feet — Holton & Hunkel Co., 

 first; C. C. PoUworth Co., second; A. Klockner, 

 third. 



Specimen nephrolepis — Holton & Hunkel Co., 

 first; B. Eberhardt, second; C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 third. 



Specimen palm — C. C. PoUworth Co., first; 

 Holton & Hunkel Co., second; A. Klockner, 

 third. 



Wreath, not less than 21-inoh frame — J. C. 

 Arnold, first; Edlefsen-Leldiger Co., second; 

 E. Eberhardt, third; R. Preuss, fourth. 



Basket of cut flowers — Edlefsen-Leldiger Co., 

 first; E. Eberhardt, second; A. Klockner, third; 

 J. C. Arnold, fourth. 



Asters — B. Eberhardt, second; no first award. 



Two hundred gladioli — E. C. lowe, first; E. 

 Eberhardt, second: A. Klockner, third. 



One hundred fifty dahlias — B. Eberhardt, first; 

 J. P. Fltchett, second. 



Twenty-five red carnations — C. C. PoUworth 

 Co., first. 



Twenty;-five light pink carnations — C. C. Poll- 

 worth Co., first. 



Twenty-flve pink roses— C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 first; Holton & Hunkel Co., second. 



Twenty-flve white roses — C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 first; Helton & Hunkel Co., second. 



Twenty- ftre red roses — Holton & Hunkel Co., 

 first; C. OjjPoUworth Co., second. hk 



TwentT-fJre any other color roses-ffHolton & 

 Hunkel Co., first; C. C. PoUworth Co., second. 



Twenty-flve Easter lilles^<3. C. PoUworth Co., 

 first; Holton Sc Hunkel Co., second. 



Twelve chrysanthemums — C. C. PoUworth Co., 

 first. 



Hardy phloxes, not less than five named va- 

 rieties — E. C. Lowe, first; E. Eberhardt, second; 

 A. Klockner, third. 



Helianthus, named varieties — A. Klockner, 

 first; E. C. Lowe, second. 



Delphiniums, named varieties — E. C. Lowe, 

 first; A. Kloeknar, second. 



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GalUardias— Fred Vogel, Jr. ^,, first; JL, BBier- 



Hardy perennials, correctly named — Fred 

 Yogel, Jr., first; B. C. Lowe, s^oond; A. Klock 

 ner, third. - "^ 1 



yarious Notes. 



The annual state fair brought man^ 

 out-of-town visitors, who visited the 

 various greenhouse establishments as 

 well as taking in the fair. Among those 

 in town were W. Meyer, with the Janes- 

 ville Floral Co., Janesville, Wis.; Mr. 

 and Mrs. H. W. Liefer, Adell, Wis.; 

 C. W. Coppins,^ Whitewater, Wis.; 

 Henry Benz and Miss Rehl, with the 

 Flower Shop, Racine, "Wis.; Mrs. J. K. 

 Richter, with J. J. Le Borious, Duluth, 

 Minn.; J. E. Matthewson, Sheboygan, 

 Wis.; Louis Turner, of Kenosha, Wis.; 

 Clarke Adams, Racine, Wis.; W. A. 

 Moore, Jefferson, Wis.; J. V. Shimek, 

 Racine, Wis.; William 'Longland, Lake 

 Geneva, Wis.; J. Foley and George As- 

 mus, Chicago. H. J. S. 



MANCHESTEB, MASS. 



The North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Inc., will soon have a fine, new 

 horticultural hall. Land was purchased 

 over a year ago on Summer street near 

 the railroad depot. Plans have been 

 prepared by the well known Boston firm 

 of K-ilham & Hopkins. While the build- 

 ing is intended primarily as a home for 

 the North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 it will be used for many other purposes. 

 The builSing will have a frontage of 

 sixty-eight feet and will run back nine- 

 ty feet. The two principal halls will 

 each measure 38x60. 



One of the summer cottagers has sub- 

 scribed $2,000 to the building fund, an- 

 otl^er $1,000, and several have donated 

 $500 each. Work on the new building 

 will start this fall, and it will be com- 

 pleted in time to house the summer ex- 

 hibitions in 1917. W. N. Craig. 



Worcester, Mass. — Fred B, Madaus 

 has removed to a new location at 370 

 Main street. The new quarters are 

 twice as large as the old ones. 



Worcester, Mass. — William L. Luby, 

 for several years with H. F. A. Lange, 

 and W. N. Easterbrook, owner of green- 

 houses at North Worcester, have ac- 

 quired the Fisher store at 537 Main 

 street, which they will conduct on a* - 

 partnership basis. 



Andover, Mass. — The annual flower, 

 vegetable and fruit show of the 

 Andover Florists' and Gardeners' Club » 

 was held in the town hall September 8 

 and 9. The exhibition surpassed all 

 former displays, both as to quality and 

 ■quantity of stock shown. 



Plttsfield, Mass.— F. I. Drake & Co., 

 the firm consisting of Foster I. Drake 

 and Max R, Engelmann, are planning 

 numerous improvements in their store in 

 the American House block, including a 

 new floor. The greenhouses on Apple- 

 ton avenue have been put in shape for 

 winter. Business has been better than 

 usual here this summer. 



Westerly, E. I. — The new store of 

 Louis P. Rankin, which was made by 

 converting the old entrance of the 

 Hotel Rhode Island into a salesroom, 

 had its formal opening last month. It 

 is doubtful if there is a duplicate of 

 this unique store in the country. The 

 massive granite steps that formerly 

 served as an entrance to the hotel are 

 used as shelves for the display of Mr. 

 Rankin's plants and flowers and the 

 arch over the steps lends itself to 

 splendid decorations. 



Southington, Conn. — That the em- 

 ployees of the Southington plant of 

 the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. can do 

 more than make the good pruning shears 

 used by florists was demonstrated at 

 the third annual outing of the com- 

 pany, which was recently held at Lake 

 Compounce. They showed that they 

 could play baseball, put the shot, do 

 the broad jump, dance and eat pie with 

 remarkable facility. There were 650 

 employees at the outing. Special cars 

 took them from Southington to Lake 

 Compounce and, after a short parade, 

 the program of sports was started. 



