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The Florists' Review 



29 



recent trip to Portland, Ore., as the lo- 

 cal representative to the convention of 

 the Kiwanis Club. He spoke most en- 

 thusiastically of the wonderful roses in 

 Portland in the month of June and his 

 description of the Canadian Bockies 

 and Yellowstone park was much en- 

 joyed. T. J. Nolan read a quite in- 

 structive paper on "Boilers and New 

 Ideas in Heating." 



B. P. Barr, who represented the club 

 at Washington, D. C, with regard to 

 the recently proposed quarantine of 

 Pennsylvania's nursery stock, etc., gave 

 an interesting account of the business 

 transacted and a thorough review of 

 the Japanese beetle and its habits. 



September 29 the club will visit the 

 dahlia show of the E. Vincent, Jr., & 

 Sons Co., at White Marsh, Md., and the 

 indications are that a large number will 

 attend. Any neighboring florists who 

 wish to join the party should communi- 

 cate with the club's secretary, Albert 

 M. Herr. H. K. E. 



GLADIOLUS WILHELMINA GUDE. 



The many florists who attended the 

 S. A. P. convention at Cleveland last 

 month had opportunity to see, among 

 the splendid displays of gladioli there, 

 a new variety that was highly compli- 

 mented on that occasion and received 

 particular mention from the judges of 

 the trade exhibits. This was the seed- 

 ling Wilhelmina Gude from Baum's 

 Home of Flowers, Knoxville, Tenn. A 

 particularly fine vase of this flower ap- 

 pears in the illustration on this page. 

 The raiser's description of it is as fol- 

 lows: "A beautiful, dark, flaming sal- 

 mon-pink; lower petals nicely feathered 

 red, shaded to light salmon; good-sized 

 bloom with edges fluted; from four to 

 eight flowers open at one time, correctly 

 placed on a stout, upright and straight 

 stem. The variety is a strong, healthy 

 grower, with dark green foliage. This 

 gladiolus has all the indications of a 

 good commercial variety." 



BOCHESTEB, N. Y. 



The Market.' 



Flowers of all kinds continue to be 

 quite plentiful, and the market is fairly 

 steady. Business during the last week 

 has been good, probably due to the 

 cooler weather. Weddings and funerals 

 have made a heavier demand for stock. 

 The supply was composed chiefly of out- 

 door flowers. Asters are arriving in 

 large quantities and they continue to 

 be of good quality. Gladioli, too, are 

 plentiful and sell at low figures in or- 

 der to move rapidly. Although some- 

 what late in the season, they are of ex- 

 cellent quality, with quite a large va- 

 riety reaching us daily. Calendulas, 

 candytuft, cosmos, zinnias, gaillardia, 

 bachelor's buttons and speciosum lilies 

 are all plentiful. 



The new crop of carnations is improv- 

 ing both in size and length of stem and 

 sells moderately well. Golden Glow 

 and Smith's Advance are reaching us 

 daily, but until we get a killing frost 

 these will not be in heavy demand. 

 The supply of roses is large enough to 

 meet all present demands. There has 

 been a fair demand for Brunners. 



Various Notes. 



George T. Boucher showed some ex- 

 cellent bulbs in his East Main street 



window last week. Huge vases of gla- 

 dioli were also to be seen. Mr. Boucher 

 is already advertising the annual chrys- 

 anthemum show which he holds in his 

 store and which will take place early 

 in November. From a business stand- 

 point he finds this one of the best 

 means of advertising he has yet tried. 

 Visitors to the trade last week in- 

 cluded A. N. Anderson, of the A. L. 

 Eandall Co., Chicago; Stephen D. 



quite slow, but florists here look for- 

 ward to a fine fall trade. 



Various Notes. 



Henry A. Strobell, 931 Broad street, 

 reports that the summer season has 

 been good for him, compared with 

 other years. Transient trade has been 

 slow, but there has been considerable 

 funeral work and more wedding work 

 than usual at this time of the year. 



Baum's New Gladiolus, Wilhelmina Gude. 



Green, of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, and J. Wiese, of Buffalo, N. Y. 



Frank Kimball, of G. B. Hart, Inc., 

 was a visitor at the New York state 

 fair held in Syracuse, N. Y., last week. 



The outlook for chrysanthemums for 

 the season is exceptionally good, with 

 good, firm plants. They are well budded, 

 and it is only a matter of a short time 

 before they will be plentiful. Begonias 

 and cyclamens have the appearance of 

 being quite plentiful. 



Alberts, Florist, had a prettj' window 

 display last week-end, in which vases 

 and baskets of orange-colored African 

 marigolds were featured. H. J. H. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



Mums are coming into the market in 

 larger quantities than at any time since 

 they first made their appearance sev- 

 eral weeks ago. At first only the earli- 

 est yellow mums arrived. Other early 

 varieties are now beginning to be re- 

 ceived in small quantities. Asters still 

 have a prominent place in the displays 

 of the local florists, with gladioli ar- 

 riving in considerable quantities. 

 Prices are moderate. Business is still 



Buel the Florist, 3 West Grand street, 

 Elizabeth, had an appropriate summer 

 window display. The entire floor of 

 the window was covered with sand. A 

 few rocks were scattered here and 

 there. In the center of the window an 

 open umbrella rested upon the sand, 

 the outside toward the street. This 

 had been covered with asters of dif- 

 ferent colors arranged in rows so as to 

 make a pretty color design. 



Philips Bros., 938 Broad street, re- 

 port that July trade was the best in the 

 history of that firm for that summer 

 month. August business, however, was 

 unusually poor. Trade is now begin- 

 ning to increase in volume. Frank 

 Philips, who returned from his vacation 

 just after Labor day, a few days later 

 had to have his left tonsil cut out. 



A safe in the office of Edward W. 

 Fengar, 149 Linden avenue, Irvington, 

 was broken open with a sledge hammer 

 at night and $150 in cash was taken. 

 The combination lock was broken off 

 with the hammer. E. B. M. 



Mankato, Kan.— Mrs. Kittle Kramer 

 and her grandson, Frank Kramer, re- 

 cently drove to Superior, Neb., to visit 

 the Superior Greenhouses. Frank Kra- 

 mer recently took charge of the Kramer 

 Greenhouses. 



