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The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



PROVIDENCE, B. I. 



Joseph O. Leikens. 



Joseph G. Leikens, retail florist at 

 Madison avenue and Fifty-fifth street, 

 died suddenly at his home, 29 Claremont 

 avenue, New York, on the night of June 



12, at the age of 44 years. He was born 

 in San Trancisco, of Belgian and 

 French parents, and graduated from St. 

 Ignatius' College, in that city, coming 

 to New York about 1897, where he en- 

 gaged with the old firm of Wadley & 

 Siebrecht. Ultimately he embarked in 

 business for himself at 9 East Thirty- 

 third street. A few years later he 

 opened the store on Madison avenue, 

 subsequently opening a store in New- 

 port, R. I., which he was preparing to 

 open for the season at the time of his 

 death. He always took a great interest 

 in military matters and was an active 

 member of the old 7th Regiment, with 

 which he went to the border during the 

 period of trouble in 1916 as a sergeant. 

 He was prominent in the Old Guard, an 

 organization of veterans of the 7th 

 Regiment, holding the rank of captain. 

 A high mass was held at St. Patrick's 

 cathedral at 11 a. m., Saturday, June 

 14, at which the Old Guard, in full regi- 

 mentals, with its band, was present. The 

 body was clothed in regimental uni- 

 form. The floral decorations were nu- 

 merous, many of the larger pieces being 

 of orchids. The deceased leaves a wid- 

 ow, Mrs. Sallie Tuttle Leikens. 



WUUam J. Quinlan. 



William J. Quinlan, of Syracuse, N. 

 Y., died June 6, at the Grouse-Irving 

 hospital in that city. He was 63 years 

 old. Taken suddenly ill the Sunday 

 preceding, Mr. Quinlan was brought to 

 the hospital and operated on for ap- 

 pendicitis. He failed to rally. 



Mr. Quinlan was born in Ireland, and 



was brought to this country when but 



1 year old. On the death of his brother, 

 P. R. Quinlan, with whom he was a 

 partner after the purchase of the Smith 

 & Powell interests, he took over the 

 entire management of the business. 

 He had sold out some time ago, bu^ was 

 still connected with the business. Mr. 

 Quinlan is survived by his wife and 

 two daughters. 



J. Edward Simpson. 



J. Edward Simpson, well known 

 among rose growers, died suddenly June 



13, at Lansdowne, Pa., as the result of 

 an abscess on a tooth penetrating his 

 brain. 



Mr. Simpson was about 40 years of 

 age and all his life was associated with 

 rose growing. He was a nephew of 

 Robert Simpson, of Clifton, and learned 

 the business among the New Jersey 

 growers. He married a daughter of 

 James Curran, another of the widely 

 known old-school rose growers and 

 writers on the rose, and with the Curran 

 family made his way westward, spend- 

 ing some years in various establishments 

 in the Mississippi valley and Lake 

 regions. He was superintendent for 

 George Reinberg, at Chicago, for several 

 seasons. Returning to the eastern dis- 

 trict, Mr. Simpson was, at the time of 

 his death, foreman for C. & G. L. Pen- 

 nock, at Lansdowne. 



Tlie Market. 



Although there has been no great rush 

 for the florists during the last week, 

 there has been a steady demand for 

 flowers, which has worked off the supply 

 generally. Many small weddings, with 

 about the average number of funerals, 

 have combined to make a good week. 

 Wild mountain laurel has been one of 

 the best sellers and has divided honors 

 with the peonies, which are increasing 

 in popularity every season. 



Various Notes. 



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

 was a business visitor in Boston last 

 week. 



Louis J. Reuter, of the L. J. Renter 

 Co., and E. Allan Peirce, Waltham, 

 Mass., were in the city last week in 

 the interests of the yearbook of the 

 S. A. F. 



Jencks Gardens, West Harrington, re- 

 port a large number of heavy orders for 

 dahlias. 



Frederick C. Green, superintendent of 

 parks, has been granted a five weeks' 

 leave of absence by the park commis- 

 sioners to take a trip to England, where 

 he will visit his father. He will leave 

 July 5 and return early in August. 

 While in Europe he will also visit Hol- 

 land. 



Walter J. Sword has been appointed 

 by the Cumberland town council as tree 

 warden for that town. W. H. M. 



Horticultural Society Show. 



The annual June exhibition of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society was 

 held in the ballroom of the Narragan- 

 sett hotel June 13 and 14 and proved 

 to be a decided success. Roses, peonies, 

 hydrangeas, herbaceous perennials, kal- 

 mias, sweet peas, strawberries and some 

 good trade displays made the exhibition 

 varied and attractive. A long central 

 table was filled with a superb display of 

 roses, mostly hybrid teas, from Roger 

 Williams park, of which F. C. Green is 

 superintendent. This drew crowds f 

 visitors. T. J. Johnston & Co. had a fine 

 display of palms, kalmias, delphiniums, 

 peonies, carnations, etc., as had the 

 Westminster Greenhouses and Riverside 

 cemetery. The latter had two handsome 

 tables of zonale geraniums. 



Cornelius Hartstra had a fine lot of 

 peonies, larkspurs, penstemone and roses. 



William Steel had excellent dahlias in 

 pots. 



Eugene Appleton had a landscape de- 

 sign showing the new state home 

 grounds, which drew many compliment- 

 ary remarks. 



Maplehurst Greenhouses showed car- 

 nations, sweet peas, calendulas, antir- 

 rhinums and other flowers, all of fine 

 quality. 



The prize-winning centerpiece of Mrs. 

 Sam Brown elicited much admiration. 



In the various rose classes competition 

 was good, especially among the hybrid 

 teas. Other seasonable flowers also made 

 a good display. W. N. Craig, Brookline, 

 Mass., acted as judge. There was a 

 large attendance of the public. 



The Bose Garden. 



At Roger Williams park the rose gar- 

 den is now in full beauty and attracting 

 thousands of visitors. All plants win- 

 tered well and are blooming with won- 



derful profusion. Long rows of various 

 hybrid teas in the nursery make a re- 

 markable display. Dozens of varieties 

 are to be seen here. Especially fine are 

 J. L. Mock, Ophelia, Willowmere, Cha- 

 teau de Clos- Vougeot, Duchess of Wel- 

 lington, George C. Waud, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward, Radiance, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, 

 Konigin Carola, Double White Killar- 

 ney, Edward Mawley, Richmond and 

 Duchess of Westminster. Large num- 

 bers of these roses were secured from a 

 large rose growing establishment near 

 by when forcing stock was being thrown 

 out. These, cut back hard, make splen- 

 did stock and bloom with remarkable 

 profusion. The stems are long and the 

 flowers much finer than those produced 

 under glass. Plants grown in this way 

 have proved just as satisfactory and 

 hardy as field-grafted plants. A large 

 bed of Heuehera sanguinea made a 

 great show. This is a fine plant for cut- 

 ting. The arches of rambler roses here 

 will be at their best from July 4 to 10 

 and always draw big crowds. 



W. N. C. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



For the first time ih many months the 

 price of cut flowers in the Chicago mar- 

 ket has been, in the last week or ten 

 days, lower than in the corresponding 

 period of 1918. And yet nearly every- 

 one in the trade is able to report a 

 larger money value of sales than a year 

 ago. Last June there was a compara- 

 tively small supply of stock, a fair busi- 

 ness and rather good prices. This year 

 there has been a tremendous glut, a 

 really remarkable business, but low 

 prices. Last week there was consider- 

 able waste of flowers and the present 

 condition of stock indicates that there 

 will be a loss in this direction as long 

 as the heat wave lasts. 



Absolutely the only thing of which 

 the market can complain is the unsea- 

 sonably warm, wet weather. Given or- 

 dinary June weather conditions and all 

 the other trouble would be removed. It 

 is the sudden hot spell following a cool 

 May which has so overcrowded the mar- 

 ket with stock, a considerable part of 

 which is too poor to find favor with any 

 class of buyers and only a small part of 

 which is good enough to meet the crit- 

 ical needs of the shipping trade. The 

 really first-class stock is bringing sat- 

 isfactory prices, the trouble being that 

 the waste and low prices at which the 

 lower grades are sold pulls down the 

 average to a point where growers, ac- 

 customed to takii^ big money, are be- 

 ginning to complain. 



It might be said that there are only 

 two short items, cattleyas and valley. 

 Easter lilies are again on the market in 

 ample quantity for the present needs. 

 The supply of roses is heavy and it is 

 impossible to clean up except at ex- 

 tremely cheap prices for the open fiow- 

 ers. Growers are holding back as much 

 as they can, but there is not the usual 

 amount of replanting being done this 

 season. 



There are large quantities of carna- 

 tions, most of them too soft to ship and 

 many too poor to sell at any price. 

 The peon}' season is on the wane. It 

 was at its height last week, although 

 some buds will be cut all through the 

 present week. All the stock that was 

 fit for storage has been going into the 



