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The Florists' Review 



JCNB 4, 1914. 



Silver gilt, silver and bronze medala 



also are offered for general displays. 



The other open classes, in which the 



usual cash prizes are offered, are: 



3 — Largest display of blooms of any one Tarlety. 

 4 — Vase of 100 blooms arranged for effect. Usual 



accessories permitted. 

 C — Collection of 50 double, In 20 named varieties. 

 e — Collection of 25 named varieties, double, one 



bloom of each. 

 7 — Collection of single peonies, with one whorl 



of petals. 

 8 — Fifty blooms, white, double, one variety. 

 S — Fifty blooms, light pink, or pink and cream, 



double, one variety. 

 10 — Fifty blooms, dark pink, double, one variety. 

 11 — Fifty blooms, red or crimson, with stamens, 



double, one variety. 

 12 — Fifty blooms, red or crimson, without sta- 

 mens, double, one variety. 

 13 — Fifty blooms, one variety, any combination of 



two or more shades, double. 

 14_Collection of 12 distinct named varieties, 



double, one bloom of each. 

 15_Oollection of 12 named varieties, single, one 



bloom of each. 

 16— Twelve blooms, white, double, one variety. 

 17— Twelve blooms, light pink, or pink and cream, 



double, one variety. 

 18 — Twelve blooms, dark pink, double, one vari- 

 ety. 

 19 — Twelve blooms, red or crimson, with sta- 

 mens, double, one variety. 

 20 — Twelve blooms, red or crimson, without sta- 

 mens, double, one variety. 

 21 — Twelve blooms, one variety, any combination 

 of two or more shades, double. 



There also are classes open only to 



amateurs and private gardeners. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Business improved wonderfully in the 

 two weeks previous to Memorial day 

 and the trade for that particular day 

 was good, indeed. Besides the regular 

 cemetery work, there was a big trade in 

 cut flowers. Peonies in pink and white 

 wore plentiful and in splendid condi- 

 tion and there was a good demand for 

 them. Lilacs are over and, fortunately, 

 there was little call for them. Darwin 

 tulips, in all colors, made up the bulk 

 of the Memorial day flowers and they 

 brought a good price. There was not 

 so much call for the regular assortment 

 of cemetery bouquets this year as in 

 former seasons. 



Killarney and White Killarney roses 

 are good. Kaiserin is coming into the 

 market in sizable quantities now and 

 this favorite summer rose always finds 

 a welcome here. Mrs. Taft is rather 

 small at present, and too pale in color. 

 Mrs. Charles Kussell bids fair to be a 

 good summer rose, because of its last- 

 ing qualities, and it does not open 

 fully. Snapdragons are about at an end 

 and the few which are arriving are 

 rather poor. Outdoor valley is excel- 

 lent, and large quantities were used for 

 Memorial day. Unfortunately, its sea- 

 son is short here, or it might be of com- 

 mercial value to the trade. Despite the 

 warm weather, carnations are arriving 

 in splendid condition, although they 

 show the effects of the warmth in a 

 few hours. Magnolia and galax wreaths, 

 plain and decorated, sold well; so did 

 pots of geraniums, forget-me-nots and 

 assorted plants. 



Various Notes. 



"L. H. Neubeck did a big business in 

 cemetery vases and urns, notwithstand- 

 ing the fact that his charge for filling 

 them has gone up some this year. Near- 

 ly all the other florists have also raised 

 their price for filling urns. 



The display at Palmer's branch store 

 was most attractive. It consisted of 

 blue Canterbury bells in pots and hand- 

 some jars of white peonies. In the 

 foreground were vases of lavender and 

 white peas and cattleyas. 



Katherine Rolker has opened a store 

 at 60 Elmwood avenue. It will be known 



The alarm clock went off at 

 four o'clock in the morning. 



"I fooled you that toime," 

 said Mike with a grin, "for 

 I wasn't aslape at all." 



The florist fools himself who 

 thinks there is any way of 

 selling goods in the trade 

 more effective than adver- 

 tising in The Review. Also, 

 it's the moet inexpensive way 

 in proportion to results. 



"We are completely sold out and have 

 had to send money back. The Review 

 is, without doubt, the best advertising 

 mediiuu in the trade."— J. C. Renni- 

 SON Co., Sioux City. la. 



Review readers are not 

 asleep. Note this: 



"Please tell us confidentially wbat you 



think of . Why doesn't he 



advertise in The Review if he is O. 

 K.?"— Miller Floral Co., Farming- 

 ton, Utah. 



The alarm clock rings in The 

 Review office at 4 o'clock (p.m., 

 not a. m.) every Tuesday. It is 

 to let everybody know adver- 

 tising forms close for that 

 week's issue in just sixty 

 minutes. 



as the Rolker Flower Shop. She is 

 well known and popular and the trade 

 wishes her success in her new venture. 



Wm. F. Kasting is running a brand- 

 new auto. 



The Waite-Swarzenback wedding, at 

 Springville, N. Y., May 27, was an elab- 

 orate affair. Large quantities of Kil- 

 larney roses and pink and white snap- 

 dragons were used, besides quantities 

 of smilax, asparagus and Darwin tulips. 

 S. A. Anderson did the decorating. 



Cut flowers and plants have become a 

 prominent feature in the display win- 

 dows of general stores, banks and other 

 buildings. A few years ago these places 

 did not use flowers, but, fortunately for 

 the florist, nearly all business houses 

 have learned to appreciate flower dis- 

 plays in connection with the display of 

 their wares. E. C. A. 



Clarence M. Stark. 



Clarence M. Stark passed to his re- 

 ward on Saturday, May 30, at his home 

 in Louisiana, Mo. Born in 1855, Mr. 

 Stark spent practically his entire life 

 in orchard and nursery work, and for 

 many years prior to 1903, when he re- 

 tired from active business, he was the 

 president of Stark Bros. Nurseries & 

 Orchards Co., of Louisiana, Mo., which 

 business owes the greater part of its 

 success and enlargement to his saga- 

 cious management. It was he who 

 named and gave to the world the De- 

 licious apple, and the introduction of 

 many other valuable varieties is due to 

 his untiring efforts. In his demise hor- 

 ticulture has lost a willing worker, the 

 world an able pomologist, and the Stark 

 family a tender, loving father and 

 brother. 



When Mr. Stark retired in 1903 

 Edgar W. Stark succeeded him as presi- 

 dent of the company. There will be no 

 change in the management of the com- 

 pany. 



E. Alvin Miller. 



E. Alvin Miller, of Newark, N. Y., 

 who died in St. Mary's hospital at 

 Rochester, N. Y., Friday morning. May 

 22, was for several years a nurseryman 

 at Rochester, and for tWenty-eight years 

 with the Jackson & Perkins Co., of 

 Newark, N. Y., as a practical propa- 

 gator and officer of the company. 



Mr. Miller was born in Saxony, Ger- 

 many, November 26, 1856. There he re- 

 ceived his education and learned the 

 nursery business. He came to America 

 in June, 1876, locating in Rochester and 

 entering the employ of Ellwanger & 

 Barry. In 1884 Jackson & Perkins 

 engaged him as their superintendent. 

 Mr. Miller became a partner in the busi- 

 ness, and when the Jackson & Perkins 

 Co. was incorporated became vice-presi- 

 dent of the company, holding that office 

 until his retirement on account of ill 

 health, two years ago. 



Among his many horticultural 

 achievements, the greatest, perhaps, was 

 his origination of the Dorothy Perkins 

 climbing rose, named after the daugh- 

 ter of George C. Perkins, son of C. H. 

 Perkins, president of the company. 



After retiring from the nursery busi- 

 ness, Mr. Miller bought a farm west of 

 Newark. His health continued to de- 

 cline and some weeks ago he was taken 

 to Alden to try the baths. He grew 

 worse, and was brought to St. Mary's 

 hospital, where he died. The funeral 

 was held Monday, May 25, at 208 San- 

 ford street, Rochester, with interment 

 in Mt. Hope cemetery. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Odd Fellows and Foresters, 

 Newark Grange, the Western New York 

 Fruit Growers' Association and the 

 Western New York Horticultural Soci- 

 ety. He attended the Newark Presby- 

 terian church, of which his widow is a 

 member. 



Mr. Miller leaves a wife, one son, 

 Henry, and three sisters, Who live at 

 the old home in Saxony. 



Upper Sandusky, O. — Constien Bros, 

 have given the contract to the John C. 

 Moninger Co., Chicago, for the addition 

 of about 2,500 feet of glass this year. 

 They plan on larger additions to the 

 range next year. 



