OCTOBMB 9, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



GLADIOLUS QBOWEBS MERGE. 



The Wayside Gardens Co., of Mentor, 

 0., and the Grullemans Co., of Avon 

 Lake, O., large growers of gladioli, an- 

 nounced last week that the two pom- 

 panies would merge their interests and 

 continue operations as Wayside Gardens. 

 J, J. Grullemans has become secretary 

 and treasurer, devoting his entire time 

 to the sales and business management of 

 the company. E. H. Schultz continues 

 president of the company and in charge 

 of the growing. C. B. Gates, formerly 

 secretary and treasurer, remains as vice- 

 president, since other interests require 

 his relinquishment of active duties. 



As a result of this combination, the 

 Wayside Gardens have 100 acres of 

 plants and bulbs. The stock is in fine 

 condition. 



LAMBERT'S LOCALS. 



J. H. McGorrisk and LaVere Braucht, 

 as the Art Floral Co., recently opened 

 an elaborate store at 515 Grand avenue, 

 Des Moines, la. The store is equipped 

 with white and gray fixtures, made by 

 a local firm, the Percville Eefrigerator 

 Co. Mr. McGorrisk is a firm believer 

 in publicity and dropped advertisements 

 from an aeroplane over the city, giving 

 away fifteen numbers for free bouquets. 



A new and well appointed store was 

 opened September 20 at Ottumwa, la., 

 by Eoy Kemble, the elder son of the 

 proprietor of the Kemble Greenhouses, 

 at Oskaloosa and other Iowa towns. 

 Eoy Kemble has gone to Ottumwa to 

 live and is building three greenhouses, 

 35x185 feet, in front of the most 

 prominent cemetery. The houses are 

 being constructed by the American 

 Greenhouse Manufacturing Co. The 

 store is fitted with the most modern 

 fixtures, in walnut finish, by the Buch- 

 bindcr Co. J. A. L. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



With the rapid passing of outdoor 

 flowers, there is a decided and welcome 

 improvement in cut flower trade. Sup- 

 plies are not large and if there were 

 much demand, a sharp advance in prices 

 would be recorded. October 4, with 

 many salesmen and retailers absent, 

 owing to the keeping of Yom Kippur, 

 business was good and there was a good 

 call October 6. Although the weather 

 has been quite mild, clear skies have 

 been the exception and flowers have 

 opened slowly. 



Eoses are moving much better and 

 have advanced in price, particularly 

 short-stemmed stock. The Killarneys, 

 except Double White Killarney, are de- 

 clining steadily in favor. The ruling 

 favorites are Eussell, Ophelia, Premier, 

 Columbia, Hadley, Miller, Maryland 

 and Stanley. There is a fair supply of 

 American Beauties and they are selling 

 better. Chrysanthemums are not yet 

 abundant and clean up satisfactorily. 

 The bulk are Golden Glow, Smith's Ad- 

 vance and Unaka. Small lots of in- 

 ferior single violets are seen. Carna- 

 tions are a little higher-priced and are 

 all sold out without effort. 



Such asters as still arrive sell at 75 

 cents to $2 per hundred. Gladioli are in 

 greatly reduced supply and have ad- 

 vanced to between $5 and $8 per hun- 

 dred. Calendulas and bachelor's but- 

 tons are abundant, but sell slowly. 

 Small lots of both yellow and white 



J. J. Grullemans. 



marguerites, bouvardias in several col- 

 ors, dahlias, cosmos and helichrysums 

 are coming in. 



Cattleyas are arriving a little more 

 freely and sell at $15 to $18 per dozen. 

 There is no Lilium longiflorum, but 

 speciosum rubrum is in good supply. 

 Lily of the valley continues scarce and 

 gardenias arc now ])ractically nil. Cyc- 

 lamens and Erica melanthera are the 

 most recent additions to flowering 

 plants and there is a good call for them. 



Various Notes. 



Owing to tht< fact that the original 

 date for the next meeting of the Boston 

 Florists' Association fell on the same 

 evening as that of another organization 

 in which many of the members are in- 

 terested, it was decided to postpone the 

 meeting of the association from October 

 6 to October 10, at the Parker House. 



At the Brockton fair, held Septem- 

 ber 30 to October 3, there was a paid 

 attendance of 215,000, although the ad- 

 mittance fee was advanced to 75 cents. 

 The leading winners in the commercial 

 dahlia classes were John K. Alexander 

 and William D. Hathaway. Mrs. David 

 Gray, the Brockton retailer, had charge 

 of the cut flower department. She had 

 a finely arranged booth of- palms, ferns 

 and other material. W. N. Craig judged 

 cut flowers and Duncan Finlayaon the 

 vegetables. October 2, known as Bos- 

 ton day, the wholesale cut flower mar- 

 kets were largely denuded of salesmen, 

 the bulk of them having gone to enjoy 

 New England 's leading fair. 



A. E. Hutson, salesman for W. H. 

 Elliott, has returned from a monrh's va- 

 cation at Marion, Mass. He is han- 

 dling some good pot mums for Mr. 



Elliott and an excellent lot of Premier, 

 Columbia, Ophelia, Hadley and Kaiserin 

 roses. 



A. E. E. Koch, of Nobscot, is already 

 in the market with a fine lot of yellow 

 and white marguerites. He has cut out 

 carnations and snapdragons and will 

 specialize in stevias, of which he has a 

 grand lot, and also in marguerites and 

 calendulas. 



B. A. Snyder & Co. are receiving some 

 extra fine cattleyas, roses and chrysan- 

 themums. They report business as 

 steadily improving. 



Mrs. Francis King, of Alma, Mich., 

 president of the Woman's National 

 Farm and Garden Association, was the 

 leading speaker at a largely attended 

 meeting of the association in Horticul- 

 tural hall October 7. Mrs. Mary Elliot 

 Hobbs, of the P^nglish Board of Agri- 

 culture, was another speaker who made 

 a fine impression. 



Some rare and valuable azaleas in- 

 troduced by Wilson from western China 

 were stolen from the Arnold Arboretum 

 last week. From the care taken in se- 

 lecting specially choice varieties, it is 

 evident that the thieves well knew the 

 value of what they were stealing. A 

 large money reward has been offered by 

 the arboretum authorities for informa- 

 tion which will lead to the detection of 

 the thieves, and every lover of horti- 

 culture here hopes the culprits will be 

 caught and summarily dealt with. 



W. S. Phelps, who has been operating 

 the Edward Woods range at Lexington 

 under lease for several years, has pur- 

 chased the Walter L. Stone establish- 

 ment at Grafton Center, near Worcester. 

 He will s})ecialize in delphiniums under 

 glass, carnations, freesias, callas and 



