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The Florists' Review 



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Mrs. Mary Kellogg. 



Mrs. Mary Kellogg, 84 years of age, 

 (lied at her home in Pleasant Hill, Mo., 

 September 1. She had been in feeble 

 health for the last twenty-five years, 

 hut had been severely ill only two days, 

 and her death was unexpected. 



Mrs. Kellogg was the widow of the 

 late George M. Kellogg, founder of the 

 Kellogg Flower & Plant Co., in its day 

 one of the greatest in the trade. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Kellogg moved to Pleasant 

 Hill more than fifty years ago, when 

 Mr. Kellogg engaged in gardening. 

 Later he built a small greenhouse and 

 from this grew the business that a few 

 years ago was purchased by the Pine- 

 iiurst Floral Co. 



Mrs. Kellogg is survived by seven 

 (laughters. They are Mrs. M. F. Parker, 

 Mrs. Grace Eowe, Mrs. Clara Beeler, 

 Mrs. Sadie Pardee and Mrs. Georgia 

 Cook, of Pleasant Hill; Mrs. Elle Bush, 

 Omaha, Neb., and Mrs. Harvey Lamb, 

 of California. In coming to the fu- 

 neral, Mrs. Lamb was delayed thirty- 

 seven hours by a wreck. In order to 

 await her arrival, the burial of her 

 mother did not take place until Monday, 

 September 5, although the funeral 

 services were held the day before. 



Herman H. Kiilin. 



Herman H. Kuhn, a retired florist of 

 New York city, died September 11 at 

 his home, 2 West Ninety-fourth street, 

 New York, after a lingering illness. He 

 was 64 years old. 



Mr. Kuhn was born in Germany, and 

 came to this country forty years ago. 

 He opened a shop at 896 Sixth avenue 

 and was in business there until last 

 year. Services were held September 14 

 at the Campbell funeral church, Broad- 

 way and Sixty-sixth street. Mr. Kuhn 

 is survived by his wife and two sons. 



INDIANA'S FLORAL DISPLAY. 



Popular Interest Keen. 



The floral display at the Indiana 

 state fair was unusually attractive this 

 year. The exhibits in almost every case 

 were complete and competition was un- 

 usually keen. The floral display has 

 always attracted the majority and 

 throngs daily flowed through the art 

 building where the flowers were staged. 



The Roepke Floral Co. staged some 

 unusually beautiful plants in its large 

 collection. Crotons, palms, dracaenas 

 and \'arious other decorative plants 

 were used to form a solid embankment, 

 toward the front of which were fea- 

 tured blooming plants, such as lilies, 

 tuberoses, asters, begonias, etc. 



The prizes for specimen greenhouse- 

 grown plants and collections in almost 

 every case were won by Tciiiperlej' 's, 

 which had a display of splendidly grown 

 and shapely ferns, begonias, variegated- 

 leaved plants, pandanus an<l blooming 

 plants. 



Baur & Steinkamp took blue ribbons 

 on all the carnations they exhibited, 

 which were especially good for this 

 time of year. 



Roses from Richmond. - 

 The Joseph H. Hill Co. was an easy 

 first with its excellent roses. A vase 



of Fred Lemon's white new rose, An- 

 gelus, was of unusual merit and re- 

 ceived a blue ribbon. 



The great popularity and superiority 

 of Columbia were proven by the fact 

 that every exhibitor displayed this va- 

 riety for competition in the pink rose 

 class. Amelia Gude, a new yellow rose, 

 took first for yellow. The latter is of a 

 pleasing shade of yellow and is un- 

 equaled in this class. This display was 

 staged by Eobert L. Catron, of Eich- 

 mond, Ind. 



John Eieman's design work was of 

 great merit, especially his large plaque 

 featuring the American Legion button, 

 which was given first in the floral ar- 

 rangement class. 



Other displays that were attractive 

 but did not compete for prizes are well 

 worthy of mention. Mr. Barnes, of 

 Spencer, had an exhibition of his numer- 

 ous and excellent varieties of dahlias. 

 The Jacob Schulz Co., of Louisville, also 

 had an exhibit of dahlias. 



A. E. Kunderd, of Goshen, Ind., who 

 is a gladiolus specialist, featured some 

 of his finest blooms. One variety of the 

 latter is his own new seedling, a lovely 

 ruffled flower of a pleasing shade of yel- 

 low, which bids fair to lead all other 

 varieties in popularity. 



Bertermann Bros. Co. staged an at- 

 tractive exhibit in the Horticultural 

 building. A pond, in which were fea- 

 tured plants and goldfish, was the chief 

 feature. A small telegraph delivery boy 

 was prominent on a small clump sym- 

 bolizing an island in the ocean. The 

 background was an embankment of 

 palms, ferns and other decorative 

 plants. 



The Winners. 



Following is a list of the premiums 

 and the winners: 



Display of potte(J greenlioiise plants to cover 

 100 siiiiare feet of space — Koepke Florul Co.. 

 first: Temperley's, second; Walter Lewis, tliird. 



Collection of ferns, ten plants, not to exceed 

 8-lncli pots — Temperley's, first; Temperley's, sec- 

 ond; Roepke Floral Co.. third. 



Collection of coleus, ten plants,, not to exceed 

 8 inch pots — Baur & Steinkamp, first; Temper- 

 ley's, second. 



Collection of variegated-leaved plants, ten 

 plants, not to exceed 8-inch pots — Temperley's. 

 first; Temi)erley's, second; Roepke Floral Co., 

 third. 



Collection of Gloire de Chatelaine begonias, 

 not over 7-incli pots, not less than ten plants — 

 Temperley's, first; Baur & Steinkamp, second; 

 Koepke Floral Co., third. 



Liliiim longiflorum, ten plants — Roepke Floral 

 Co.. first. 



Milium speciosnm and nibrnm, ten plants — 

 Walter L<ewis, first; Temperley's, second; Roepke 

 Floral Co.. third. 



Specimen kentias — Roepke Floral Co., first; 

 Walter Ijewis. second. 



Specimen araucaria— Roepke Floral Co.. first; 

 Temperley's, second; Walter Lewis, third. 



Specimen Boston fern, not over 14-inch pot^ 

 Temperley's. first; Temperley's, sectmd; Roepke 

 Floral Co., third. 



Specimen crested nephroiepis, not over 14- 

 inch pot — Temperley's. first, second and tiilrd. 



.'Specimen Adiaiititm cnne.itiim. not over 14- 

 incli p<it — BiHir & .Steinkamp. first; Temperley's, 

 second; Banr & Steinkamp. third. 



Specimen .\diantum Farieyense -Temperley's, 

 first: RiH'pke Floral Co., second. 



Specimen Pandanus Veitchii Temperley's. 

 first: Roepke Floral Co., second. 



Specimen new or rare plant- -Temperley's. first 

 and second: Roepke Floral Co.. tliird. 



Specimen blooming plant — Temperle.v's. first: 

 Itaiir & Steinkamp. second: V.alter Lewis, third. 



Floral arrangement — .Tohn Rieman, first: Tem- 

 perley's. secon(1; Roepke Floral Co.. third. 



Bride's bonqiiet — .Tohn Rieman, first: Roepke 

 Floral Co.. second: Temperle.v's, third. 



Vase of flowers — Temperley's. first: Roepke 

 Floral Co., second: .Tohn Rieman, third. 



Basket of flowers — Temperle.v's. first: .Tciliii 

 Rieman, second: Roepke F'lonil Co.. third. 



Wreath on easel — Temperley's. first: John Rie- 

 iiKMi. second: Roepke Floral Co.. third. 



Display of gladioli, not less than fifteen va 

 rii't'cs. not more than fifteen spikes of one va- 

 riety — Roepke Floral Co.. first; Banr & Stein- 

 kaini). second; Temperley's, third. 



Displiiy of zinnias — Roepke Floral Co.. first: 

 Hii'"- & Steinkami), second: Temperley's. third. 



Disiilny of d.ahlias-- Temperley's, first: Iioc|ike 

 Floral Co.. second. 



Display of twerfty-flve red roses — Temperley's, 

 lirsl; Koepke Floral Co., second. 



Display of twenty five i)ink roses .Toseph H. 

 Hill Co., first; Temperley's, second; Roepke Flo- 

 ral Co,, third. 



Display of twenty five wliite roses — .Toseph H. 

 Hill Co., first; Koepke Floral Co., second; Tem- 

 perley's, third. 



Display of twenty-five yellow roses — .Toseph 

 II. Hill Co., first; Temperley's, second; Roepke 

 Floral Co., third. 



Display of twenty five jossorted roses — .Toseph 

 II. Hill Co., first; TempWley's, second; Roepke 

 Floral Co., third. , 



Display of fifty white carnations — Temperley's, 

 first. 



Display of fifty flesh pink carnations — Baur & 

 Steinkamp, first; Itoepke Floral Co., second; 

 Tem|)erley's, third. 



Display of fifty dark pink carnations — Baur & 

 Steinkamp, first; Roepke Florul Co., second; 

 Temperley's, tliird. 



Display of fifty red carnations —Baur & Stein- 

 kamp, first; Temperley's, second. 



Display of fifty assorted carnations — Baur & 

 Steinkamp, first; Temperley's, second; Roepke 

 Floral Co.. third. 



E. E. T. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There has been some improvement in 

 the market, but the big change still is 

 to come. The trade needs cool weather 

 of the continuous type. The weather 

 forecaster has been predicting a cold 

 wave, and there have been one or two 

 cool days, but the first decade of Sep- 

 tember was as hot as July and it was 

 impossible for flower buying to be other- 

 wise than what ' ' Billy ' ' Lynch used to 

 call lackadaisical. The market has 

 been full of what the rose growers de- 

 scribe as "junk" regardless of its 

 quality, and it will so continue until 

 cold weather comes and stays a while. 



Nowadays it is seldom that there is 

 unanimity in market reports, but the 

 larger wholesale houses say they have 

 been running up total sales about like 

 those of last season to date, only mov- 

 ing much larger quantities of stock to 

 do it. This, of course, means lower 

 average prices, most unwelcome to the 

 growers. But it also means that the 

 public is buying flowers and there is 

 general confidence that prices will pick 

 up after we have had a few davs of 

 steady cool weather. This has been a 

 most unusual summer in the matter of 

 weather and the summer has extended 

 farther than usual into September. 



The market, bare of asters in the 

 early part of their season, has been 

 glutted with them thus far in Septem- 

 ber. The weather of July ruined the 

 early crop and that of August made 

 the late crop large and, much of it, 

 fine; It has been impossible to sell all 

 the asters recently received, except at 

 prices which seemed too small to be ac- 

 ceptable. 



Gladioli have been on the down grade 

 for a fortnight, but the demand has de- 

 clined also and reduced supplies have 

 been sufficient. There probably will be 

 plenty until frost. Only the best are 

 selling at prices comtnensurate with the 

 cost of the bulbs. 



Each day sees some increase in the 

 supply of carnations and of chrysanthe- 

 mums. The former are improving in 

 quality and would sell well if there 

 were not so many good asters. Smith "s 

 Advance has come to join Golden Glow, 

 always the earliest of the local mums. 

 These, too, need frost to create a lively 

 demand. 



Some of the growers who cut roses 

 lieavily during August are not now in 

 full crop, but others are just coming on. 

 so that the character of the report de- 

 pends soniowhat on who is talking. 



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