April 28, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



43 



OBITUARY 



Frederick C. Green. 



Frederick Chase Green, superintend- 

 ent of parks of Providence, R. I., for 

 twelve years past, and a widely known 

 landscape gardener and floriculturist, 

 died at his home in that city, April 21. 



Mr. Green was born in Chaddington, 

 Buckinghamshire, England, November 

 10, 1864. At 15 years of age he be- 

 came- apprentice landscape gardener 

 under his father, who was well known 

 as gardener on the Rothschild estate 

 in England. When he had barely 

 reached 20, Mr. Green came to America, 

 where he applied himself assiduously 

 to acquire a comprehensive knowledge 

 'of horticulture. 



He was in his fifty-seventh year. 

 Before he went to Providence, he had 

 developed and beautified many estates 

 in New England, among them the prop- 

 erty of John Jay, Westchester, Mass., 

 and that of the late Nelson W. Aldrich. 

 During his period of service in Provi- 

 dence, Mr. Green developed Roger Wil- 

 liams park into one of the show places 

 of New England, besides being instru- 

 mental in l9.ying out many other park 

 areas. 



Mr. Green was married January 7, 

 1894, to Margaret Bell, Lancashire, Eng- 

 land, who survives him, together with 

 two children, Dorothy S. and Hervey 

 E. Green. He was a member of the 

 National Association of Gardeners, the 

 American Association of Park Superin- 

 tendents, the Rhode Jslapd Association 

 of Park Superintendents, the Rhode 

 Island Horticultural Society and the 

 Rhode Island Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion. He was a member of the Mount 

 Herman Lodge of Masons, Providence 

 Royal Arch Chapter, St. John's Com- 

 mandery of Knights Templar, Palestine 

 Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the 

 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 



W. H. M. 



John White Miller. 



John W. Miller died last week at his 

 home on Narragansett avenue, Narra- 

 gansett Pier, R. I., following an illness 

 of two months. He was 68 years old. 

 Death was due to heart trouble. 



Mr. Miller was born in Providence, 

 R. I., September 24, 1853, the son of 

 John and Margaret White Miller. 

 Forty years ago he went to Narragan 

 sett Pier, where he was engaged as a 

 druggist, and later as a gardener. Dur 

 ing tiiis time he was in charge of sev- 

 eral hirge estates. 



He is survived by his wife, six daugh- 

 ters and three sons. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



More than a week of dark, dreary, 

 drizzling, rainy weather has completely 

 upset what little market there was, and 

 given everybody an "everlasting 

 grouch." That is, everlasting until 

 pleasant weather drives all cares away. 

 The only ray of hope in the situation 

 was the shortening of supply and the 

 consequent driving of the venders from 

 the street corners. However, a few 

 were out with large baskets of sweet 

 peas at low prices. 



There is said to be an abundance of 



good potted stock for Memorial day, 

 and the downtown dealers are all stock- 

 ing up heavily with artificial designs, 

 for which there has been an increasing 

 demand the last few years. 



Various Notes. 



Swanson Bros, are getting ready to 

 enlarge their range, on Stenton avenue. 



Frederick Deitz was extremely busy 

 with funeral work last week. 



Noonan Bros, are marketing thou- 

 sands of baskets of pansies, twelve to 

 a basket, both at wholesale and retail. 



Henry J. Doll, of the Wanskuck 

 Greenhouses, has registered a new seed- 

 ling geranium, Mrs. Mattie A. Doll, 

 with the S. A. F. 



O. H. Williams & Sons, Hartford ave- 

 nue, have their greenhouses well filled 

 with early vegetable plants and are 

 picking a fine crop of tomatoes every 

 day. 



The Cumberland Hill Greenhouses, 

 which succeeded Vose the Florist, at 

 Cumberland, has been adding new tele- 

 phone facilities at the range. 



Chipman's Greenhouses, Woonsocket, 

 has several thousand special tomato 

 plants ready for delivery. 



Kinder Bros., of Bristol, had the wed- 

 ding flowers for the Tuplin-Benard nup- 

 tials, in that town last week. 



Aaron S. Esty, for twenty-six years 

 superintendent of the Grace Church 

 cemetery, celebrated, with his wife, the 

 sixtieth anniversary of their wedding, 

 April 18. 



Arbor day will be observed this year 

 May 13 by the public schools through- 

 out the state. 



The board of park commissioners of 

 Providence has appointed Jeremiah J. 

 Triggs as temporary superintendent to 

 fill the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Frederick C. Green. Mr. Triggs was in 

 charge of the work during Mr. Green 's 

 illness. W. H. M.' 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



The market conditions here were 

 about the same last week as the week 

 previous, but they promise to be better 

 soon, owing to the amount of wedding 

 and social events scheduled for this 

 week. Flowers in general moved well 

 and at fair prices, but business was a 

 little sluggish. 



Roses were to be had at prices con- 

 siderably loss than last year at the cor- 

 responding time. Carnations arrived in 

 large quantities and moved well, except 

 white, which seemed to be anything but 

 ;i favorite, the demand being for col- 

 ored. 



Sweet peas were at their height an(l 

 promised to be good as long as the 

 liriglit days stay with us. The most 

 popular varieties were Yarrawa, Rose 

 C^ueen and Margaret Atlee. 



Some exceptionally good outdoor dou- 

 )>le Narcissus poeticus arrived from the 

 south during the week and moved well. 



Some of tlie best Lilium Ilarrisii that 

 have been in this market for some time 

 were to be had last week. " The same 

 can be said for callas. Both moved 

 well. 



Cornflowers made tlieir appearance, 

 but only a limited number. Other mis- 

 cellaneous stock was to be had. 



Various Notes. 



C. J. Jones, of the Walnut Hill Floral 

 Bazaar, was confined io liis home last 



week with his old ailment, rheumatism. 

 The physician said it would be three to 

 four weeks before Mr. Jones could be 

 in the market again. 



The first gladioli arrived here during 

 the last few days and, as is usually the 

 case with the season's first, they went 

 well. 



Julius Baer deserves special mention 

 on a window display which made 

 Fourth street radiate with its beauty. 

 It was trimmed with hat baskets and 

 Spencer sweet peas. 



H. W. ^heppard had the best week 

 in basket arrangements that he has had 

 for some time. 



Edward A. Forter reports a good 

 week in wedding orders and also a num- 

 ber of funeral baskets. 



C. E. Critchell has been receiving 

 some excellent Darwin tulips from 

 Charles Pfeiffer, of Fort Thomas, Ky., 

 and some good snapdragons from Wil- 

 liam Schaefer, of Price Hill. 



The Cincinnati Cut Flower Exchange 

 has been receiving some choice callas 

 from Thomas Jackson, of Latonia, Ky. 



Among last week's visitors were 

 Joseph H. Hill, of Richmond; J. T. 

 Herdigen, of Aurora. Ind., and Joseph 

 R. Goldman, of Middletown, 0. 



Lawrence Lahmann, manager of the 

 "Richmond Greenhouse Co., underwent 

 an operation for kidney trouble at the 

 ('hrist hospital last week. He is im- 

 proving nicely. Mr. Lahmann has a 

 host of friends in Cincinnati and, there- 

 fore, will not have many dull hours 

 while convalescing. G. H. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There were no unusual features con- 

 nected with the market last week. The 

 abnormally heavy crops were off, but 

 there was no shortage of any kind of 

 flowers — far from it. Business had 

 I>icked up considerably and stock 

 moved fairly well, but there were so 

 many flowers that liigh prices were im- 

 })0ssible, as complete clearances were 

 not being made. Still, it is the general 

 belief that the flower business is excel- 

 ■lent, compared with other lines. In 

 many cases wholesalers report sales as 

 again running ahead of last year and 

 several are so optimistic as to believe 

 May will be an unusually good month, 

 possibly the best yet. < 



Peonies put in an appi^aranee last 

 week; ,we shall liave them with us, 

 probably, until August, which will give 

 them a season of over three months! 

 The first arrivals were from Halls, 

 Tenn,, and the quality was worthy of 

 special mention. T'suully the first 

 peonies are officinalis, locally known 

 as Old Red, but the Halls stock was 

 early pink and wliit'^ in several of the 

 better varieties. Being grown specially 

 for this market, the stock was cut and 

 bunched right and it has been selling 

 well from the start. The Halls crop 

 will amount to at least 20,000 dozens 

 and all will be cut by Mothers' day. It 

 will not be long now before other ship- 

 pers will begin cutting: and a flood of 

 peonies is looked for before Memorial 

 day, although there begin to be reports 

 of frost damage which was not appar- 

 ent at first. The local season is said to 

 be nearly two weeks early. 



Roses are of splendid quality. While 

 the supply is not so large by half, the 

 quality has suffered not at all through 



fContlnucd on pac<' -ts.] 



