AcaosT 28, 1919. 



The Florists' Review 



25 



Le Roy, Brockport, Albion and other 

 places accounted for the unexpected 

 crowd. 

 The contests resulted as follows: 



Hnndred-Tard race for men — Charles Ward, 

 first: R. Havill, second. 



Hundred-yard race for women— Miss Helen 

 Wilson first; Mrs. Herman W. Miller, second. 



Hundred-yard race for boys — R. Likly, first; 

 William Teute, second. 



FlftT-yard race for small boys — George Blase, 

 first: William Teute, second. 



Fifty-yard race for small girls — Ruth O'Dell, 

 first: Eleanor Keller, second. 



Three-legged race for men — Robert and George 

 HavIII, first; Charles Ward and Charles Meyers, 

 •econd. 



Three-legged race for -women — Miss Wilson and 

 Miss Ruth Ingram, first; Miss Alice Teute and 

 Miss Ethel Decleyne, second. 



Ball throwing for women — Miss Honey O'Hara, 

 first: Miss Rodell, second. 



Clothespin race for women — Mrs. Babst, first; 

 Miss Rntli Ingram, second. 



Piece race for boys — Michael Verrarra, first; 

 Brace Verrarra, second. 



The picnic ended with a baseball 

 game between the employees of the F. J. 

 Keller store and the employees of the 

 J. M. Keller greenho.u8e. The green- 

 house men won by a score of 13 to 12. 

 George T. Boucher, M. Keller and James 

 Sproat were members of the arrange- 

 ment committee. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. Harold Butler, bookkeeper for 

 the Kochester Floral Co., has left its 

 employ, having recently moved to Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. Miss B. Thurston is taking 

 her position. Miss Hattie B. Ellis, of the 

 same firm, is spending two weeks with 

 friends at Sodus Point, N. Y. 



Several of the florists are away on 

 vacations, including Mrs. Bashford, who 

 is spending several days in New York 

 and Atlantic City, Herman H. Zahn at 

 Coldwater, N. Y., Mrs. E. Babst at the 

 Thousand islands and Charles Gow in 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Miss Kate Harvey, formerly of 

 Rochester and now located in Cleveland, 

 O., is visiting friends in this city. 



H. J. H. 



been set for September 11. It will be 

 held at Seidler's beach. R, B. M. 



NEWAEK, N. J. 



The Market. 



The bulk of the work of the Newark 

 retail florists at the present time is 

 funeral work. Prices are low compared 

 with what they have been. Besides 

 gladioli and asters there is not much in 

 the market. There are a few sweet 

 peas, but they are of poor quality. 

 Roses are good for this time of the year, 

 but open up quickly. Gladioli bring at 

 retail prices $1.50 to $2 per dozen, as- 

 ters 75 cents to $1.50 per dozen and 

 roses $1.50 up. Premier has proved a 

 good seller. Other good sellers are Rus- 

 sell, Ophelia and Hadley. The latter is 

 in great demand, but is scarce. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Philips, of Philips Bros., 938 

 Broad street, has returned from his va- 

 cation, and now his brother, Fred, is 

 away. He is spending his vacation at 

 Asbury Park and much of his time he 

 is devoting to casting for big sea fish. 

 Last week he caught an 8-pound striped 

 sea bass, which is several pounds larger 

 than the average. 



F. R. Wolfinger, 13 Broad street, is 

 automobiling during his vacation. He 

 motored to Atlantic City and then left 

 for a trip through New Jersey and near- 

 by states. 



The annual outing of the Essex Coun- 

 ty Florists' Club will be held much later 

 than usual this year, the date having 



BOSTON, MASS. 



The Market. 



Two flowers remain in undisputed 

 sway in the flower market, namely, the 

 aster and the gladiolus. These were never 

 apparently in greater abundance or of 

 finer quality than now. Clear, sunny 

 weather following severe rain storms 

 has wond?rfully improved all outdoor 

 crops. Gladioli are low in price and 

 clearances are made as low as $10 per 

 thousand. Some of the better varieties 

 realize several times this price. Asters 

 sell as low as 25 and 50 cents for rem- 

 nants of the early varieties, but fine 

 flowers of Crego, Royal, American 

 Branching and Comet make as much as 

 $3 to $4 per hundred. Roses are more 

 plentiful than a week ago, but sell out 

 well at $2 to $12 per hundred. There 

 are few American Beauties and little 

 call for them. Lilium auratum is being 

 used in funeral work and for window 

 decorations. L. speciosum, both white 

 and colored, comes from several grow- 

 ers, but there are exceedingly few longi- 

 florums. Sweet peas are also scarce. 

 Dahlias are of fine quality, but are not 

 good sellers. Among miscellaneous 

 flowers are buddleias, cosmos, larkspur, 

 salpiglossis, centaureas, snapdragons, 

 scabiosa, everlastings and bouvardia. 



A small number of Cattleya Har- 

 risonia; and Miss Williams are the only 

 ones procurable. Valley is practically 

 nil. There is not much call for adian- 

 tum and asparagus. 



Vaxlous Notes. 



Wollrath & Sons, of Clematis Brook, 

 have 3,500 fine cyclkmens. Many are 

 now in 8-inch pots, have splendid foliage 

 and are a pretty sight. A house of be- 

 gonias, mostly Melior, looked well and 

 there are splendid batches of poinset- 

 tias, Dracaena Massangeana, rubber 

 plants, Boston ferns, peppers, oranges 

 and other plants, all in splendid condi- 

 tion. Chrysanthemums fill one house 

 and carnations, such as Laddie and 

 other fancy kinds, occupy another. The 

 plants are remarkably well done here 

 and the whole place is a great credit to 

 the hard working men in charge. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Elliott and their 

 daughter, Margaret, are enjoying a va- 

 cation in the Maine woods. George 

 Elliott is in charge of the Madbury, N. 

 H., range and John runs the Brighton 

 establishment. The splendid Millor, 

 Ophelia, Kaiscrin, Hadley and other 

 roses coming in bhow that both are mak- 

 ing good. Years ago Mr. Elliott built 

 the first big house for Asparagus 

 plumosus and earned the sobriquet of 

 "Asparagus King." Long strings were 

 featured here for years. Now the roof 

 of this big house has been removed and 

 one of more modest height will take its 

 place. "While strings of asparagus will 

 still be one of Brighton's products, they 

 will not attain the extreme length of 

 former years. 



A. M. Beckwith has entered the com- 

 mercial field at South Sudbury, Mass., 

 and has housed about 15,000 carnations 

 of such varieties as Matchless, Good 

 Cheer, Ward, Benora and Pink Delight. 

 Sudbury is right in the carnation belt, 

 where the soil suits the flower to a nice- 

 ty, and Mr. Beckwith, I am sure, will 

 make good there. Flowers will be sold 

 at tlie Cooperative Market. 



H. S. Rogers, formerly in the employ 



of Penn and Hoffman, will open a large 

 and up-to-datfe flower store September 1 

 in the Little building, on Boylston 

 street. 



The Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co. has 

 fine window displays of dahlias and 

 gladioli at the store in Faneuil Hall 

 square. 



Robert Cameron left August 28 for 

 his new position as superintendent of 

 Castle Hill Farm, Ipswich, Mass. 



Penn's duck farm continues to attract 

 thousands of people daily. No other 

 store windows on Tremont street draw 

 such crowds. A window of Gladiolus 

 Mrs. Watt is effective. Funeral and 

 wedding orders are still in good volume. 



William H. Carr is back at his duties 

 as a salesman at the Flower Exchange. 

 Mr. Carr was taken dangerously ill May 

 1 and his life hung in the balance for 

 some time. He now looks more rugged 

 than ever. His brother, Arthur H. Carr, 

 is enjoying his vacation in the woods 

 of Maine. 



Norris F. Comley is shipping in a nice 

 lot of roses at present. Scott Key, 

 Ophelia and Double White Killarney 

 are especially good. 



M. Aronsen, who has been away from 

 the flower markets for six months, is 

 now back and active as salesman for 

 E. P. Matsen and others at the Coopera- 

 tive Market. 



Owing to the fact that he will be 

 away in Nova Scotia on a trip in the 

 interests of the Arnold Arboretum, Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Jack will be unable to lec- 

 ture at the meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, September 16. 



Martin Wax was expected back last 

 week from Grand Lake Stream, Me., 

 where he has had some excellent catches 

 of salmon. At the Tremont street store 

 a collection of dahlias in one window 

 will be a daily feature while frost holds 

 off. Business has been exceedingly good 

 this summer. 



The scarcity of greenhouse assistants 

 is so acute in this section that several 

 commercial establishments of moderate 

 size will be obliged to close unless they 

 can secure men soon. Italians have 

 been largely employed, but since the 

 close of the war large numbers have 

 gone home and many more are to fol- 

 low. 



Paine Bros., of Randolph, are cutting 

 remarkably handsome Royal asters. 

 The size of flower and length of stem 

 are rarely seen in our local markets. 



Eugene N. Fischer, of Jamaica Plain, 

 has a collection of the finest seedling 

 gladioli I have seen for years. All he 

 grows are his own seodlings and he has 

 some beautiful varieties of both ganda- 

 vensis and primulinus. He secured 

 awards for several varieties in Boston 

 and will exhibit other seedlings August 

 30. A. E. Fischer, in charge of the Mc- 

 Cormick estate at Lake Forest, 111., is a 

 brother of Eugene. 



O BITUARY . 



William Koemer. 



William Roemer, who for some time 

 had conducted a florists' establishment 

 opposite Woodlawn cemetery, New 

 York, w.as struck by an automobile 

 August 19 while crossing Webster ave- 

 nue at Two Hundred and Thirty-third 

 street. He died in the Fordham hospital 

 two hours later. Mr. Roemer was 60 

 years of age. The driver of the auto- 

 mobile was not arrested, as the polio* 

 considered the accident unavoidable. 



J. H. P. 



