OCTOBBB 6, 1016. 



TTie Florists* Review 



25 



OBITUARY 



Albert Neal. 



Albert Neal, proprietor of the * * Floral 

 Display," at 11 Queen street, east, To- 

 ronto, Canada, was found dead in his 

 bathroom September 23, presumably 

 through an attack of heart failure. Mr. 

 Neal was born in Birmingham, England, 

 sixty-five years ago, and conducted a 

 successful flower business for nearly 

 thirty years. His funeral took place 

 September 28 and was largely attended 

 by members of the trade. W. G. P. 



David Phillips. 



David Phillips, of Toronto, Canada, 

 died last week while on a visit to his 

 sister, Mrs. Emily G. De Foe, of Eose- 

 land, near Newark, N. J. The deceased 

 came from Canada July 6 and suffered 

 from cancer of the throat. He was 

 born fifty-two years ago in Quebec, 

 where much of his life was spent. Be- 

 sides his sister in Boseland, he is sur- 

 vived by two brothers, William J. 

 Phillips, of Newark, and Charles F. 

 Phillips, of Montreal. E. B. M. 



DETBOIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



Last week business improved some- 

 what. The principal item was roses. Of 

 these the long-stemmed ones, such as 

 Eussell, Mott, Ophelia, Sunburst and 

 Killarney, clear each day. American 

 Beauties continue to be quite scarce 

 and of good quality. Valley is good 

 and clears readily, but orchids are few 

 and high in price. 



A few violets made their appearance 

 last week, and a few mums were to be 

 had. Asters and gladioli are offered, 

 but they are not of much account. 

 Lilies find a quick sale and arrive from 

 New York state in fine condition. 



Short cut roses, Ophelia, Ward and 

 Killarney, are inclined to drag. 



Variotis Notes. 



The Flower Growers' Corporation 

 has been receiving a fine cut of Ophelia 

 and Sunburst roses. 



Joseph Streit finds business improv- 

 ing and is erecting a store at his green- 

 houses. 



Edward Pape, of the Central Flower 

 Shop, is enlarging his floor space to 

 take care of the increase in business. 



The decorations at the J. L. Hudson 

 department store had the J. Breit- 

 meyer's Sons force working all night. 

 The decorations were the most elab- 

 orate of their kind in Detroit. 



A new flower store — Grand Eiver 

 Flower Shop — has made its appearance 

 on Grand Eiver avenue, east. 



Eaymond House, formerly with W. J. 

 Palmer & Son, of Buffalo, has joined 

 the force at Breitmeyer's park store. 



C. Walsh, of Montreal, has entered 

 the employ of J. Breitmeyer's Sons. 



H. T. 



From Another Correspondent. 



The weather has been seasonable and 

 business has been picking up nicely. 

 Stock is confined almost entirely to 

 roses, but these are of excellent quality 

 and the supply is adequate. There are 

 also some choice gladioli, bringing 6 

 cents. This is the season of fall open- 



ings in the stores and some firms have 

 had about all they could handle in this 

 line of work, using large quantities of 

 gladioli, tritomas. Beauties, etc. 



Samuel Seligman, of the American 

 Bulb Co., Chicago, is visiting this city. 

 He is well pleased with the orders so far 

 in his first trip in the interest of his new 

 firm. He has started something by dis- 

 posing of his line of sample baskets in 

 each large city and having a new line 

 waiting at the next stop. Unfortu- 

 nately, his Detroit line was delayed in 

 transit and his patience was stretched 

 to the limit. 



In the decorations for the fall open- 

 ing of the J. L. Hudson department 

 store last week, Breitmeyer's used 

 many hundred pampas plumes, in addi- 

 tion to flowers. Some of the plumes 

 were made up into pyramid-shaped 

 trees and placed in effective square 

 tubs in white and red. 



Fred Breitmeyer, of Mount Clemens, 

 is well pleased with the way in which 

 his stock of Eose-pink Ophelia, as he 

 calls his sport of Ophelia, is coming 

 along. If his present plans materialize, 

 this new rose will be on the market 

 one year hence. Some blooms will be 

 shown at the Cleveland show this fall. 

 H. S. 



POT MAKEES' CO-OPEEATION. 



The Pot Makers' Credit Association 

 recently held its second quarterly meet- 

 ing in Columbus, O., with ninety-five 

 per cent of the pottery trade on hand. 

 The credit system established at the 

 former meeting has in a few months 

 shown a considerable saving in losses, 

 proving the beneficial results of a 

 credit system and that the large losses 

 of the past will be no more. To illus- 



trate, a customer of one potter neglects 

 to pay him and, buying from a new 

 firm each year, he soon owes all and 

 is able to undersell his brother florist. 

 The vital question of long credit was 

 also brought up and after much discus- 

 sion was held over for the next meeting, 

 when more data would be obtained. 

 However, it was brought out that the 

 long-time credits were undesirable and 

 unfair to the customer as well as to the 

 business man. 



P. M. Eead, Sec'y. 



FOEMOSA LILIES. 



Please inform me how to handle For- 

 mosa lily bulbs, as I have never grown 

 this variety of lily. L. N. B.— O. 



Pot the bulbs as soon as they are re- 

 ceived. Usually 6-inch pots are the 

 best. Put the bulbs low down in the 

 pots, so as to allow a liberal margin for 

 covering after they have started to 

 grow. Eemember that all the best feed- 

 ing roots come from the base of the 

 flower stalks and not below the bulbs. 

 Place the pots in a frame or below the 

 bench in any greenhouse free from 

 drip. Keep them on the dry side until 

 growth has started well and the plants 

 have made good roots. Place them in a 

 temperature of 60 degrees at night as 

 soon as growths are three to four inches 

 long. L. Formosum is a much taller 

 grower than giganteum and is much su- 

 perior for cutting. Some plants may 

 carry only one or two flowers pfer bulb, 

 while others will produce a dozen or 

 more. It is an earlier bloomer than 

 giganteum, but as all the bulbs do not 

 flower at one time it can easily be held 

 back as late as Easter, if so desired. 



C. W. 



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Ascending in the elevator to the 

 vegetable growers' convention on the 

 nineteenth floor of Hotel La Salle, Chi- 

 cago, the remark was made that the 

 price of vegetables, like the car, was 

 soaring. The only live piece of machin- 

 ery was the Kroeschell ice machine. 

 One of the attractive features was the 

 uniformity of the signs attached to the 

 exhibits. Only one exhibitor broke the 

 rule with an enormous banner. On 

 leaving, it occurred to me that, in the 

 course of my perambulating career, I 

 had attended many conventions, with 

 their attendant entertainments, but 

 must place this in the foreground as 

 being perfect in detail, the whole work- 

 ing with rhythmical movement so well 

 illustrated by the aforementioned 

 Kroeschell engine. 



J. Breitmeyer's Sons, of Detroit, 

 Mich., will inaugurate the fall season 

 by the opening of a third up-to-the- 

 minute store on Jefferson avenue, with 

 the renowned Breitmeyer service. Sum- 

 mer business has been remarkably brisk 

 and with several large weddings and 

 orders for decorations for fall openings 

 on file, a continuation of this satis- 

 factory condition is looked for. "We 

 are affected with a plethora of 

 money," observed Philip Breitmeyer. 

 "I do not recollect a similar condition 

 in my long experience. If we have the 

 goods, we certainly can dispose of them. 



I foresaw such conditions," continued 

 Mr. Breitmeyer, "during the period of 

 my mayoralty, especially regarding the 

 expansion of the city's territory, and 

 advocated methods to be applied, gained 

 by my knowledge while living in ^he 

 shadow of the statue of William Penn; 

 but the advice was not heeded, as I had 

 hoped, and now our city fathers have a 

 problem to face which will tax their 

 best efforts, but which no doubt will 

 come out all right. We are paying close 

 attention to the landscape features and 

 intend to keep up our reputations as 

 floriculturists. ' ' 



I admired a block of cyclamens at the 

 Friedley Co. range, at Cleveland. The 

 plants now are spaced four across a 

 5-foot bench ftnd almost touch each 

 other. Frank Friedley remarked that 

 the cyclamens grown in America have 

 not the substance possessed by plants 

 grown in Europe. At this time and pe- 

 riod of growth they could be placed 

 topsy-turvy, the leaves bearing the 

 weight of the plant. It occurred to me 

 that a lighter fertilizer may be used, 

 and, possibly, paper pots. I noted a fine 

 batch of Eose Aaron Ward and under- 

 stand that the crop will be thrown out 

 at Christmas to make way for lilies. 

 Chrysanthemums are promising, but not 

 for exhibition, although Mr. Friedley 

 tells me the silver Corrigan cup will 

 stimulate much competition. W. M. 



