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The Florists^ Review 



September 9, 1920 



landscape work have been received. A 

 fine showing of carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums in the houses was noted. 



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Thomas Jones, for many years with 

 the A. J. Brown Seed Co., will have 

 charge of the seed department of G. 

 Van Bochove & Bro., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

 The store has been remodeled and is 

 in fine shape for the fall business. It 

 is well supplied from the greenhouses, 

 which are in the charge of John Van 

 Bochove, who mentioned regret at his 

 inability to attend the Cleveland con- 

 vention, owing chiefly to the arrival of 

 a tractor, which he was anxious to test 

 before handing it over to an assistant. 



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The Holton & Hunkel Co., Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., is receiving a choice grade 

 of Columbia roses from the range at 

 Deer Park. H. V. Hunkel is taking a 

 vacation, which will include a tour of 

 Yellowstone park. G. H. Hunkel, having 

 both places under supervision, is a busy 

 man. 



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Currie Bros. Co., Milwaukee, Wis., was 

 too busy with funeral work to take an 

 active part in the annual state fair, in 

 which floriculture is usually well rep- 

 resented. 



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The C. C. Pollworth Co., Milwaukee, 

 reports business beginning well. C. C. 

 Pollworth brought back a good batch 

 of orders from the Cleveland convention. 

 He is now enjoying a brief vacation. 



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F. Eentschler, of Madison, Wis., re- 

 turned from the convention with some 

 new ideas, which he intends to inject 

 into the business this next season. 



W. M. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The coming of September, with cooler 

 nights and materially reduced receipts 

 of flowers, has ended the period of glut 

 and low, unprofitable prices which has 

 ruled for some days. Commencing 

 September 4, the market took on a de- 

 cided brace. Perhaps the cool, com- 

 fortable weather and the return of an 

 army of vacationists may have helped 

 to turn the tide, but whatever the cause, 

 it proved most welcome. Gladioli, 

 which have ruled the roost, so to speak, 

 for some time, are rapidly petering out; 

 spikes are now of small size, produced 

 on late plantings of second-sized bulbs. 

 Prices have advanced to $6 and $12 per 

 hundred. Asters are not so good in 

 quality as they wore and many show 

 weather stains. Select flowers bring as 



high as $6 to $8 per hundred. A few 

 carnations of the new crop are coming 

 in; they are small and short-stemmed, 

 but realize $2 to $4 per hundred. Most 

 of the hybrid tea roses coming in are 

 of the shorter or 6-inch to 9-incli lengths 

 and these are not at all abundant at $6 

 to $8 per hundred. 



Lilium longiflorum holds at $15 and 

 speciosum at $8 to $10. Valley is scarce 

 and dear. Cattleyas are practically nil 

 and any offered command $24 per 

 dozen. Some dahlias come in, but they 

 are not popular market flowers here. 

 Cosmos, (nerlastings in variety, bache- 

 lor 's butt;ins, scabiosas, buddleias and 

 late herbaceous perennials are seen in 

 small lots. A slightly improved call for 

 asparagus is noted. 



Various Notes. 



The annual show of children's garden 

 products was held at Horticultural hall 

 September 4 and 5 and filled the va- 

 rious halls. The quality of the exhibits 

 was excellent and competition was as 

 keen as ever. Cut , flowers, such as 

 gladioli, dahlias, asters and even sweet 

 peas, were shown more largely than in 

 former years. Crowds of teachers, chil- 

 dren and the general public visited the 

 show, attesting its strong popularity. 



A number of local florists and gar- 

 deners will exhibit at Waltham fair, to 

 be held September 9, 10 and 11. Excel- 

 lent prizes are offered for cut flowers 

 and plants, and the members of the com- 

 mittee in charge of this section, E. A. 

 Peirce, Frank Edgar and Henry Stew- 

 art, hope to make this department alone 

 worth the price of admission. The man- 

 agement hopes with fine weather to se- 

 cure an attendance of 150,000, which 

 will be doing fairly well for a first 

 effort. 



Henry Penn returned from his vaca- 

 tion September 2. His brother, Wil- 

 liam, celebrated his forty-second birth- 

 day September 7. I noted in one of the 

 large show windows some fine Golden 

 Glow chrysanthemums, well shown up 

 by a mass of the deep red Gladiolus 

 Mrs. Watt. Some fine gloxinias in 

 bloom were noted in another window. 



Fred E. Palmer returned September 

 8 from a sight-seeing and mountaineer- 

 ing trip to Bar Harbor, Me., which he 

 enjoyed immensely. 



Julius Heurlin, of the Blue Hill Nurs- 

 eries, had his touring car smashed by a 

 heavy truck in Brockton September 3, 

 but fortunately escaped himself with a 

 severe shaking up. 



Meetings of the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club will resume at Horticultural 

 hall September 21. 



John K. M. L. Farquhar sailed from 



Havre for America September 4, after 

 a pleasant business trip in Europe. 



John Eisemann, the Beacon Florist, 

 has had a most satisfactory summer 

 business and his number of satisfied cus- 

 tomers is a steadily growing one. 



Patrick Welch is expected back from 

 Old Orchard Beach, Me., this week. 

 Meantime Ed keeps things humming at 

 the store. 



Government inspectors visit the cut 

 flower markets and retail stores one or 

 more times daily. No shipments of cut 

 flowers or designs can be sent outside 

 a certain prescribed area without in- 

 spection if said shipments contain as- 

 ters, cosmos, chrysanthemums, zinnias, 

 gladioli, dahlias or hollyhocks. This 

 embargo inflicts considerable hardship 

 on dahlia and gladiolus specialists in 

 the corn borer belt, who annually make 

 large displays at the many country 

 fairs held. 



The Boston Floral Supply & Snyder 

 Co. reports an excellent fall demand 

 starting up for both cut flowers and 

 floral supplies and looks for an active 

 winter's business. 



The coal situation is much less en- 

 couraging. Arrivals are far below nor- 

 mal of both anthracite and bituminous, 

 and many growers so far have no fuel 

 at all in their cellars. Some have al- 

 ready received a full winter's supply, 

 but they are the exception. 



At Galvin's Park street store some 

 beautiful window displays of gladioli 

 have been featured of late. Practically 

 all the staff here have returned from 

 their vacations. The combined forces 

 from the two Boston stores enjoyed 

 grand weather for their fishing trip 

 September 5 and report some noble fish 

 landed and immense ones "just 

 missed." 



A few rather unusual plants noted in 

 Boston stores last week included dipla- 

 denias, gesnerias, allamandas and Lasi- 

 andra macrantha, formerly known as 

 Pleroma elegans. There is a decided 

 paucity of flowering plants in pots now, 

 and some lilies and Campanula pyramid- 

 alis would prove effective in the large 

 show windows. 



The quarantine being enforced in this 

 section against the corn borer inflicts 

 many annoyances and considerable loss 

 on local growers. Shipments of sweet 

 corn are entirely banned from infested 

 areas and no string beans, spinach, 

 celery, tomatoes, gladioli, dahlias, cos- 

 mos and other flowers can go by express 

 unless subjected to a rigid inspection 

 at express oflices. On the public high- 

 ways bold signs read thus: "No sweet 

 corn must pass this line," and pleasure 



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