Alul ST 18, 1U21 



The Florists' Review 



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Robert Meaxns. 



July 27 Kobert Moarns, u liighly es- 

 i( cmcd florist and resident of Parkdale, 

 Toronto, died at his residence after a 

 >liort illness. Mr. Mearns was 78 years 

 (II age. He was born in Scotland and, 

 11^ a young man, took several degrees 

 ■pi horticulture and floriculture. Fifty 

 \ rars ago he went to Ca,nada, settled in 

 larkdale and, in a few years, had a 

 Imsinoss of his OAvn. Mr. Mearns took 

 many prizes and special awards at va- 

 riiius flower shows, particularly for his 

 I iirvsantheniums. He is survived by his 

 uit'e, two sons and four daughters. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



I5iisiness has been encouraging of late. 

 August, so far, has given moderate tem- 

 [icratures and this has been conducive 

 to better sales. Retailers have had a 

 -satisfactory week, a number of heavy 

 tiineral orders helping to keep them 

 liusj'. Usually the week of the S. A. F. 

 rouvention sees sales at a low ebb, but 

 this week an optimistic report can be 

 recorded. It is a gladiolus market and 

 ^'leat numbers of these popular summer 

 ilowers are arriving of superfine quality. 

 Prices rule a little lower. Fancy varie- 

 ties make $6 per hundred, while common 

 sorts go as low as $1 per hundred. Asters 

 arc coming in more plentifully and the 

 (|iiality leaves nothing to be desired. 

 Some fancy varieties reach $3 to $4 per 

 liiiudred, more ordinary grades being 

 troni $1 up. 



Delphinium is more plentiful and al- 

 ways sells well at $1 to $1.50 per bunch, 

 i.ongiflorum lilies sell slowly at $20 per 

 liuiKhHHl, but speciosums and auratums 

 move much better at $8 to $10, being in 

 ili'iuand for funeral work. 



Small supplies of white bouvardia 

 I'ome in and prove welcome for August 

 work. Buddleia, Gypsophila elegans, 

 -lahiosa, sweet sultan, bachelor's but- 

 tons and other hardy flowers sell spas- 

 modically. 



There is a fine demand for roses, with 

 |iricos the same as a week ago. Colum- 

 liia and Ward are great favorites. The 

 tiist named i)roves to be a remarkably 

 ijood summer rose, while Crusader and 

 ^I'ott Key ])rove jiopular reds. Carna- 

 tions are, with sweet peas, jiractically 

 out of the market. There are few cat- 

 tleyas and small supplies of valley, but, 

 itt present, there is a limited call for 

 '"ither. In the way of flowering plants, 

 tlicre is now a marked scarcity. One or 

 'wo celosias, hydrangeas, achimenes 

 ■iiid begonias of the tuberous type are 

 tilt' only varieties offered. 

 Various Notes. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 I'ostnn will hold a field day iSepteniber 

 •'. with the Framingham Nurseries and 

 l-ittle Tree Farms, the latter being the 

 xtensive nurseries of the American 

 I'orestry Co., where millions of ever- 

 i,'ieens are produced yearly 



H. E. Meader, of Dover. X. 11., was 

 '•ne of the visitors at the big gladiolus 

 ■'liow, August 13. Mr. Meader is past- 

 I'lesidcnt of the American Gladiolus 

 Society and a large grower, but he made 

 '10 display this season, as he is too busy 



building greenhouses. He opened a fine 

 store in Dover last season and it has 

 ])roved successful. He has a fine range 

 of greenhouses almost ('omjileted, two 

 houses 30x155, and two 25x100. These 

 will be largely devoted to carnations. 

 Nelson Seavey, lately with Kidder 

 Bros., Lincoln, Mass., is foreman. An 

 80-horsepower boiler provides heat and 

 there is a vacuum return system. Dutch 

 bulbs are being pushed at Mr. Meader 's 

 store and over 20,000 bulbs are alrcadv 

 sold. 



P. S. Dupont, of Wilmington, Del., was 

 a caller last week. He visited the orchid 

 collection of Albert C. liurrage and both 

 lie and Mrs. Dupont became life members 

 of the new American Orchid Society. 



Recent vistors included B. II. Farr, 

 Wyomissihg, Pa.; Madison ('. Cooper, 

 Calcium, N. Y. ; J. Kemp, Little Silver, 

 N'. J.; F. M. Sanford, Madison, N. J., 

 and F. G. Sealey, New York. 



Frederick Cave, a well-known and 

 niuch-esteomed private gardener at Can- 

 ton, Mass., underwent a critical opera- 

 tion at the Massachrfsetts Gencrtil hos- 

 pital August 12. It was necessary for 

 the surgeons to remove one of his eyes 

 and to extract a piece of decayed bone, 

 which was pressing on his brain. The 

 operation proved successful and Mr. 

 (Java is convalescing satisfactorily. 



Thomas Roland, E. Allan I'eircc, Louis 

 J. Reuter, B. Hammond Tracy and other 

 local visitors to the S. A. F. convention 

 left here, some August 14, others on the 

 morning of August 15. A fair delega- 

 tion will represent this section, but 

 many who would have liked to attend 

 were prevented by various causes. 



William H. Judd, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum and president of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, is enjoying a fort- 

 night's vacation at lieverly Farms, Mass. 



K. T. Denham, of Carbone's Flower 

 Store, who siiould have left for a vaca- 

 tion with his wife and fan.ily August 

 13, had to postpone his trip for a da\' 

 (luring a rush of heavy funeral work, 

 including a choice casket cover for the 

 Spaulding funeral, at Dcdhani. 



The exhibition of children's ganU'n 

 products at Horf icultunil iiall comes 

 August 27 and L'8. It ]iromises to be .-is 

 large and varietl as e\ cr. A great dahlia 

 and fruit show comes Se]iteniber 10 anil 

 n. while two weeks later the great exhi- 

 bition of tro])ic;il ferns, iircliiils. c;ii-1i 

 and stove and greenhouse plants will 

 take place. 



While gladioli jirove at ])resent the 

 principal flowers for window effects in 

 the retail stores, water lilies are used 

 effectively in a number, also sjieciosum 

 ;nid auratuin lilies, L. tigrinuin, i[\ilrao- 

 gea paniculata grjniiiiliora. anil lark 

 spurs and miscellaneous hards' a laK. 



If. E. Meader, of Dover, X. H., <;a\e 

 lectures on the gladiolus and its culture 

 August 13 and 14 at Horticultural hall 

 before large anil appreciative audiences. 

 He was asked numerous questions, show- 

 ing the keen interest taken in gladiidi. 



W. X. ('. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



The Market. 



The market last week w.is unusually 

 quiet. There is not niucli deiuanil in 

 any particular line. Roses are about 

 the only item that sells fairly well, but 

 the supply is equal to all <leiu;inils. W<' 

 have had some rain recently, which h;is 

 helped considerably on outdoor stock. 

 Gladioli have been a glut on the market. 



Asteis ai-e fairly plentiful, but the qual- 

 ity is iiion; or less inferior. There is 

 much gypsophila, which seems to be 

 moving fairly well. Most other varie- 

 ties of summer ilowers are of shorter 

 stem and inferior quality. Roses are 

 coming in heavily and the quality is fine 

 for this season. Also lilies are about 

 e((ual to the demand. There is plenty of 

 green goods in all \arieties. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' ('{\\\t had its second 

 meeting this summer at Hugo Locker's 

 residence, Thursday, August 11. It was 

 a well attended meeting, about thirty 

 members being present, it was an ideal 

 I'vening for an outiloor meeting and 

 ther(^ was plenty of music. A quartette 

 had been engaged, which furnished a 

 line enter1<ainnient. Japanese lanterns 

 were strung all around the grounds, 

 which made a pretty effect. Refresh 

 mcnts were served. 



The Wisconsin state fair opens Au- 

 gust 29 and will run for a week. There 

 is aji attractive i)remium list this year 

 for the florists and many entries are 

 already coming in. No doubt there will 

 be a big display of flowers and plants at 

 the fair this season. The committee on 

 exhibits is making an effort to have a 

 large display. The state fair attracts a 

 great many visitors from all over tlie 

 state and a big display is good publicity 

 for the trade in general. 



C. C. Pollworth and Mr. and Mrs. W. 

 A. Kennedy and Henry Welke arc about 

 the only (hdegates from here to the S. 

 A. F. convention at Washington. 1'. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Tlif fathers, who founded the S. A. F., 

 picked the third week in August for 

 the aniMuil convention because they 

 looked oil it as tlie dullest season in the 

 iiorists" year. It is a characteristic 

 which lias not changed in all these years. 

 It is jicrfectly true that many of the 

 wlioles.-ile liouses in this market now do 

 as inucli in mid August as the best of 

 them in .\merica did at Christmas wlien 

 the S. A. F. was starteil, but mid-August 

 still is the quiet time. Just by way of 

 comparison, it will not be far from the 

 lact if it is here re<-orded that sales in 

 this market now are running about one- 

 third the dtiily a\i'rage for the last year. 

 So you can see how dull it seems, even 

 in the wholesale houses that still have 

 sales lunniug aboxc +1,0(11) per day. 



It is the general report that the vol- 

 ume of business is about on a par with 

 la-t >far. Thert; is little decrease iin.\- 

 whei-e and some are able to report small 

 ^iains. Hut it generally is said jirices 

 are ;i\erai;ing below those of a year ago 

 and that larger quantities of stock are 

 lieiug handled to make the same toi;il 

 sales. 



There are signs th.'it the ]pii)ilic- is 

 iiecoming tired of the sameness ol' .stock. 

 There has been an unusually limited 

 variety this summer and the result is 

 beginning to be ajiparent in decreased 

 interest in the Ilowers whiidi have 

 formed the backbone ui the market 

 the last six weeks. Rose crops are in- 

 cretising and (piality is much improved, 

 but <lenuind has slackened. It seems as 

 though people have become fed up on 

 roses. Prices are lower, quality of stock 

 considered, and the roses now offered 

 constitute excellent value. Growers who 



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