Februabv 1, 1917. 



The Florists' Review 



35 



F. J. Lake. 



r. J. Lake, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., 

 one of the oldest florists in the vicinity 

 of Boston, died January 27. He was in 

 his eighty-fourth year. Mr. Lake was 

 one of the pioneer stallholders at the old 

 Park Street flower market. His spe- 

 cialties were carnations, asparagus and 

 asters. His son, A. G. Lake, has for 

 some years been managing the business. 

 Mr. Lake for a number of years was 

 one of the board of assessors of Welles- 

 ley Hills, where he resided for twenty- 

 . eight years. W. N. C. 



Henry Seger. 



Henry Seger, 1517 West One-hundred- 

 twelfth place, AVashington Heights, 

 Chicago, died January 26, at the ^gc of 

 51 years. Mr. Seger came to this coun- 

 try from Germany seventeen years ago. 

 Shortly after his arrival he accepted a 

 position at the South Park conserva- 

 tory, Chicago. About fifteen years ago 

 he went into business for himself and 

 had ever since been engaged in the 

 retail flower trade. Previous to his 

 death he had been ailing for many 

 years. His wife and two sons survive 

 him. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Business last week was good, orders 

 for funerals, weddings and other social 

 functions being numerous. A scarcity 

 of flowers has kept prices a trifle above 

 normal, and with the high price of coal 

 and the temperatures below the freezing 

 point most of the time, it is doubtful 

 if there is a chance for any reduction 

 at present. 



Prices on roses are steep and there is 

 a decided shortage of good stock. Car- 

 nations are good but few. The appear- 

 ance of daffodils and tulips, with in- 

 creasing quantities of sweet peas, is af- 

 fording some relief. 



Various Notes. 



The Butcher greenhouses have made 

 a specialty of Ophelia roses. 



W. P. Carpenter, the Union Station 

 florist, last week was confined to his 

 home by a severe cold. 



F. Jordan is eliminating flowers from 

 his greenhouses and will devote the 

 space to tomatoes. 



Bert West, manager for William Hay, 

 was on the sick list last week. 



Joseph Solomon, who conducts the 

 flower department at S. S. Kresge's, 

 has taken over the store of the Empire 

 Floral Co. 



Marcus Morton Burdick, vice-presi- 

 dent of the Rhode Island Horticultural 

 Society, died at his home in this city 

 last week. He was in his seventy-fourth 

 year. He previously was president of 

 the society for two years. 



Harry Oakley, formerly in business 

 as the Empire Floral Co., has taken a 

 position with William Bowers, on Wash- 

 ington street. 



E. Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & Co., 

 reports a good business since the com- 

 pany removed to the location at 107 

 Washington street. 



James B. Canning, of Smith street, is 

 back in the harness after a long period 

 of illness. 



Joseph E. Koppelman is cutting good 

 gardenias from his houses at Riverside. 

 He is shipping them to Boston and New 

 York, as the local market has compara- 

 tively little use for these flowers. 



Howard Macrae, son of Alex. Macrae, 

 of F. Macrae & Sons, has returned to 

 his studies at Cornell University, after 

 a year's practical experience at the A. 

 N. Pierson establishment at Cromwell, 

 Conn. W. H. M. 



MISSOXTRI FLORISTS. 



The appointments of the vice-presi- 

 dents of the Missouri State Florists' 

 Association were made last week, and 

 i-omprise the following: H. Archias, 

 Sedalia, Mo., two years; Frank A, 

 Windier, St. Louis, Mo., two years; Wil- 

 liam L. Rock, Kansas City, Mo., one 

 year; Earl Reed, Louisiana, Mo., one 

 year. These comprise a representative 

 of the wholesalers, retailers, growers, 

 and the nurserymen of Missouri and 

 President Knapp is to be congratulated 

 on the selection of such able and pro- 

 gressive material to constitute part of 

 the executive board of the Missouri 

 State Florists' Association. 



W. S. Wells, Sec'y. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The executive committee of the 

 American Rose Society held a well at- 

 tended meeting in the Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford hotel at Philadelphia January 25. 

 It was decided to make the whole show 

 resemble a great rose garden; that is, 

 that the rose garden to be put up by 

 the American Rose Society should not 

 only be the central feature of the exhi- 

 bition, but that the decoration should 

 harmonize with it and also the other 

 exhibits insofar as that is possible. 

 Henry A. Dreer, Inc., courteously al- 

 tered its rose garden plan, so as to help 

 to carry out this idea. Walter Vanden 

 Hengle, of J. J. Habermehl's Sons, has 

 drawn a plan for the rose garden that 

 he has colored, showing the details, and 



the plan for the hall decoration. This 

 will probably be passed upon at the 

 meeting February 1. Secretary Benj. » 

 Hammond reported that practically all 

 of the fifty per cent of the guarantee 

 fund called in for February 1 is now in 

 the treasury. John B. Geraghty, right- 

 hand man to W. F. Therkildson, sub- 

 mitted photographs to be used in the 

 Sunday and daily papers in the pub- 

 licity campaign which is to be opened 

 next week.^ Phil. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Secretary Mrs. Charles H. Maynard 

 announces a change in her address to 

 Point Chautasqua, N. Y., and requests 

 that communications be addressed to 

 her there, instead of Pittsburgh, Pa., as 

 formerly. ^^ 



AMHERST, MASS. 



The annual Boston trip of the classes 

 in floriculture at the Massachusetts Ag- 

 ricultural College will take place Feb- 

 ruary 15 to 17. 



Prof. A. H. Nehrling recently re- 

 turned from a trip to Indianapolis. 



Prof. F. A. Waugh lectured on "Gar- 

 dens," at Ames, la., January 31. 



E, J. Canning spoke on ' ' The Nursery 

 Business and Its Relation to Floricul- 

 ture" at a recent meeting of the M. A. 

 C. Florists' and Gardeners' Club. Aub- 

 rey Butler will address the club this 

 week on "Retail Store Management." 



WESTERLY, R. I. 



Conrad Schulz has returned from a 

 business trip to New York city and vi- 

 cinity. 



George L. Stillman is sending out an 

 unusually large edition of his dahlia 

 catalogue. 



Welcome Carmichael, who has been 

 employed elsewhere, hereafter will de- 

 vote his entire time to the affairs of the 

 Carmichael Orchards at Shannock, 

 where peonies and gladioli are the spe- 

 cialties. W. H. M, 



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A. H. Woeppel, of Corning, N. Y., 

 was putting the finishing touches on 

 some handsome funeral pieces and re- 

 marked how pleasant the task was when 

 one had suitable stock for the purpose. 

 Some choice carnations were noted, es- 

 pecially the Enchantress family and 

 White Wonder. Formosa is the favor- 

 ite lily for Easter. "We had Formosa 

 lily plants last season that carried four- 

 teen to fifteen blooms from bulbs 9x11, 

 and we look for as good returns this 

 Easter, judging from present appear- 

 ances," observed Mr. Woeppel. "You," 

 added Mr. Woeppel, "will be sorry to 

 know that my brother, Jerome, who 

 has been my assistant since we began 

 business, has been obliged to give up 

 owing to an incurable disease." 



W. A. Wettlin, of Hornell, N. Y., re- 

 marked that through continuous adver- 

 tising he has built up a wholesale plant 

 business that takes more stock than he 

 can grow. He seriously thinks of build- 

 ing greenhouses on the farm he pur- 

 chased two years ago, and mentioned 

 in passing that the fruit and vegetables 

 grown on the farm during the last sum- 



mer and sold at the store in town paid 

 the running expenses. 



E. V. B. Felthousen, of Schenectady, 

 one of the largest growers of bedding 

 plants in the Mohawk valley, says there 

 will be a scarcity of bedding stock on 

 account of the lateness and mildness of 

 the fall season. Heat was withheld 

 and plants are backward in consequence. 

 Undoubtedly the grower of this class 

 of stock will find a ready market for 

 his plants. 



L. J. Rowe, of Titusville, Pa., was 

 hustling in a shipment of coal and said: 

 * ' This is a friend in need at this time, 

 when natural gas is undependable. " 



W. M. Deyoe & Co., of Oil City, Pa., 

 report excellent business, including much 

 funeral work. A decoration for a con- 

 cert, consisting of Golden Spur and 

 Paper White narcissi, of their own 

 growing, was most artistic. 



C. E. Gunton, of the Red Rock Rosery, 

 Bradford, Pa., was bothered with an 

 iftseet that bored into the buds of roses, 

 especially Beauties, and caused much 

 damage. He has found a remedy for 

 the intruder. W. M. 



