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The Florists' Review 



8i:i>rKMBKU 11, 1013. 



Iloliu & OUon, eueoud; it. A. Latham, U'^i'd: 

 Ulverstde Ureeuhouses, fourth. 



Basket of cut flowerB— Holm & Olsou, first; 

 Miuiienpollg riorul Co., seconrt; Riverside Oreen- 

 lioiisos, third. 



The horticultural building was deco- 

 rated by Holm & Olson, thirty-five cases 

 of smilax and a large number of bay 

 trees being used. 



Various Notes. . , ^ 



N. C. Hansen, on Dale street, has fin 

 ished the remodeling and planting of 

 his carnation houses. 



W. Schwarz, for the last nineteen 

 years in the plant growing department 

 of A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn., has 

 taken charge of Holm & Olson's green- 

 houses. This firm is putting up a new 

 «;onnectiug shed, in which is located of- 

 fice, salesrooms, potting, shipping and 

 packing departments, and a battery of 

 boilers. Concrete is being used. 



H. Nielsen intends, in the near fu- 

 ture, to take an extended trip along the 

 Pacific coast, with the view to locating 

 there. 



, C. F. Haupt, on the west side, is re- 

 modeling his entire place. His new 

 front is a great improvement. 



Holm & Olson last week furnished 

 the decorations for a debutante party 

 held at the Spaulding hotel in Duluth. 

 This is the largest job of the season 

 to date to be executed out of the city. 

 A large number of palms were shipped 

 jind used there, as were also many cut 

 flowers and twenty-five cases of smilax. 



C. R. F. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



The general supply of stock last week 

 was rather more than necessary. Some 

 lines cleaned up well, while others 

 moved rather slowly and a substantial 

 part of them found their way to the 

 ash barrel. The prices naturally fol- 

 lowed closely the old economic law of 

 supply and demand. Shipping business 

 is good. 



There has been an abundance of 

 roses, caused by the rather slow demand 

 as much as by an increased supply, for 

 the supply was about the same as dur- 

 ing the weeks immediately preceding. 

 Beauties are enjoying a fairly active 

 4all. The aster market is tolerably well 

 supplied. Fancy stock, however, is run- 

 ning short of requirements. One whole- 

 saler sizes up the aster situation as fol- 

 lows: "The buyers don't tell us how 

 many large asters they want; they just 

 ask how many they can have." 

 Shorter ones have been selling fairly 

 well, but at low prices. Lilies are on 

 the short side. Valley is offered in 

 limited quantities and sells well. 

 Dahlias come in stronger than they did. 

 Thev are of uniformly high quality. 

 Other offerings include gladioli, carna- 

 tions, rubrum lilies, cosmos, clematis, 

 snapdragon, feverfew and tuberose.s. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell and wife have re- 

 turned from their trip to Minneapolis. 



Clarence J. Ohmer, of West Palm 

 Heach, Fla., has been shipping elegant 

 ])lumosus to this market. 



Ed. Schumann has been cutting some 

 • xcellont asters, which have been meet- 

 ing with a good demand at the Cincin- 

 nati Cut Flower Exchange, 



Thomas Windram has returned from 

 his trip through California and Canada, 

 :ind his stay at Cheneaux Islands. 



Bob McDonald, of William Murphy's 



place, is back after au extended trip 

 through Ohio and Indiana. 



Alfred Murphy has gone to the 

 Cheneaux Islands for a fortnight. 



Milton Alexander, representing Lion 

 & Co., New York, was recently in town. 

 Other visitors were S. M. Harbison, 

 Danville, Kj'.; li. G. Barber, Dunkirk, 

 Ind., and L, A. Thomas, Troy, O, 



C. H. H. 



COLD STORAGE LILIES. 



What care do cold storage lilies rr- 

 quire in order to produce good flowers 

 in winter? T. J. G. 



Various cold storage lilies, such as 

 longiflorum, speciosum and auratum, are 

 obtainable. They can be started at any 

 time when procurable, being generally 

 used for flowering from June until De- 

 cember,' or until fresh-crop bulbs of the 

 sfiTup sorts are in season. Cold storage 



William Henry Maule. 



bulbs start into growth more quickly 

 than newly importeil ones. They pos- 

 sess less vigor, however, and will not 

 throw so many jlowers iier stalk. Longi- 

 florums can be ]>otte(l in .Tuly and Au- 

 gust for flowering from October to 

 Christmas. September ones will come 

 along in January, after which it is 

 usually better to depend on tlie new- 

 crop bulbs for flowers. Speciosums and 

 auratums started about .Inly 15 will 

 flower from Thanksgiving to Christmas, 

 these requiring a Itmgcr season than the 

 longiflorums. 



Longiflorunis are generally grown in 

 5-inch pots. The spociosunis and aura- 

 tums, on the other hand, succeed better 

 when planted several bulhs together in 

 a 7-inch or S-incli ]»ot, or in }»oxes six 

 inches deep when wanted for cutting. 

 Give a good watering when first potted; 

 then allow them to get moderately dry. 

 Avoid watering too freely until the pots 

 are well filled with roots. Speciosums 

 and auratums do not like so much heat 

 as longiflorums; a temperature of 65 

 degrees at night suits the latter, while 

 55 to 60 degrees is l)etter for the for- 

 mer. C. W. 



Clinteu, la. — The Savann.i Green 

 house Co. is building two additional 

 houses, 15x80 and 20x80, which are 

 needed to meet the demands of the 

 company's growing business. 



OBITUARY 



William Henry Maule. 



William Henry Maule, 56 years old, 

 wealthy Philadelphia seed dealer, died 

 at the New York Club, 20 West Fortietli 

 street, New York city, at 6:45 p. ra. 

 Wednesday, September 3, following a 

 stroke of apoplexy. 



Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Maule 

 arrived in New York at 4 p. m., in his 

 auto, having been motoring for several 

 days through the Berkshires. They 

 went to the Waldorf-Astoria, intend- 

 ing to return to their home at Villa 

 nova, a suburb of Philadelphia, the next 

 morning. Mr. Maule apparently was in 

 good health, and left the hotel to visit 

 the club, of which he was a member. 

 He was there a few minutes chatting 

 with a number of acquaintances, when 

 he gasped and fell back in his chair. A 

 physician of the club was summoned 

 and a message sent to Mrs. Maule, The 

 house physician, with others who were 

 called in, worked over Mr. Maule for 

 more than an hour before he died. Mrs. 

 Maule, who was present at the time of 

 death, became hysterical and was re- 

 moved to the hotel. 



Born in Philadelphia, Mr, Maule in 

 1877 formed the wholesale seed firm of 

 Benson, Maule & Co. He bought the 

 interests of his partners in 1880 and 

 liad continued the business since alone, . 

 doing a large mail order trade. He had 

 large farming interests in New Jersey. 

 For the last twenty years he had been 

 the owner of the Practical Farmer, an 

 agricultural weekly published in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Mr. Maule was the son of the late 

 Charles P. Maule, a widely known lum- 

 ber dealer. He received his education 

 in schools of Philadelphia and towns 

 along the Main Line. His wife 's maiden 

 name was Miss Mary M. Heiskell. Both 

 being of old Philadelphia families and 

 possessed of considerable means, they 

 soon became prominent in the social life 

 of Philadelphia. His club connections 

 in that city were: The Art Club, of 

 which he was a charter and life mem- 

 ber; the Union League, Racquet Club 

 and the Merion Cricket Club. He was 

 a regular attendant at the services of - 

 the Bryn Mawr Episcopal church, where 

 he took an active interest in church 

 work. He is survived by his widow and 

 two daughters, Mrs. C. M. P. Herring 

 and Miss H. Ethel Maule, both of Villa - 

 nova. 



Mr. Maule became a member of the 

 American Seed Trade Association in 

 1904, but he was not personally active 

 ill association work. 



John Chambers, Sr. 



.Fohn Chambers, Sr., former commis- 

 sioner of parks in Toronto, Can., died 

 August 31. aged 63 years. He was born 

 in Canterbury, Kent, England, in 1850, 

 and came to Canada in 1871. He en- 

 tered the service of the city in 1878 as 

 superintendent of the exhibition 

 grounds, and a few years later was ap- 

 liointed commissioner of parks, which 

 post he occupied until 1908. Under his 

 direction the foundation of the park 

 system of Toronto was laid, his most 

 notable work in this respect being the 

 creation of Island park and Exhibition 

 park, and the laying out of Queen 's and 

 other parks. He was widely known in 

 the horticultural world and was promi- 



