Jdnb 26, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



lightf ul visit to ' ' the old folks at 

 home" in England, where he assisted 

 in celebrating the golden wedding of his 

 parents. Mr, Bunyard is now at New- 

 port, K. I. 



The prize schedule of the New York 

 flower show of 1915, carrying $12,000 in 

 prizes, is ready for distribution. 



Wm. Kessler has been busy with win- 

 dow-box and decoration work, but says 

 the call for palms by the retailers, for 

 wedding displays, is lighter than that of 

 a year ago. 



Max Schling has moved to his new 

 home near Yonkers and celebrated there, 

 a short time ago, the tenth anniversary 

 of his wedding. 



George Vocke and Miss Louise Mites- 

 ser, of Brooklyn, will be married June 

 30 and spend their honeymoon in New 

 England. J. Austin Shaw. 



The Lord & Burnham Co. is reported 

 to be well pleased with the results that 

 have followed its plan of opening 

 branch offices in various important cen- 

 ters. These branch sales offices now 

 number six, counting the one at Chi- 

 cago, where the company also has its 

 western factory. The latest branch 

 office was opened a few weeks ago at 

 Cleveland, in charge of H. P. Merrick, 

 an old employee of the main office in 

 New York. Other offices will be opened 

 from time to time, it is said. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Tlie Market. 



soda water department last week. Mr. 

 Eble was made a happy grandpa on the 

 arrival of a bouncing boy at the home 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard E. Eble, 

 May 22. 



Frank J. Eeyes & Co. are doing a 

 steadily increasing business, mainly due 

 to their hustling and wide-awake meth- 

 ods. 



Frank Bieth reported an unusually 

 large amount of work for the month of 

 June, especially for weddings. E. E. 



DETROIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



With the closing of the schools the 

 dog days will have begun, with nothing 

 more to do than plan our vacations. 

 The ensuing week will see numerous 

 weddings, which will use up large quan- 

 tities of stock, and then, unless it is 

 funeral work, little will be doing. 



Last week we experienced some ex- 

 ceedingly cold weather for this time of 

 the year and this prolonged the peony 

 supply, which otherwise would be gone. 

 Eoses and carnations are in good sup- 

 ply, when quality and size are not con- 

 sidered. The latter are no bigger than 

 a quarter, while the roses are also tiny, 



fishing fever, and summer cottages are 

 in favor. Some time ago Eobert Eaha- 

 ley purchased a pretty cottage on the 

 Canadian border, a few miles east of 

 Walkerville. Last week E. A. Fetters 

 purchased a cottage, also on the Cana- 

 dian border, and if this keeps up, ere 

 long there will be a colony of Detroit 

 florists summering in Canada. 



Albert Pochelon, of F. T. I>. fame, 

 recently built a bungalow on a pretty 

 spot on Grand Eiver avenue, where his 

 family will spend the summer hereafter. 

 Mr. Pochelon, being an enthusiastic au- 

 tomobilist, enjoys the daily trip back 

 and forth from the eaomtry. 



Fred Meyer, gardea^ for S. S. Kresge, 

 on Boston boulevard, is not only a thor- 

 ough "Tiorticulturist but a literary ge- 

 nius as well. His evenings are spent in 

 writing plays, some of which have been 

 pronounced by critics to be far above 

 the 'average, and which are sought after 

 by publishers. H. S. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Commencement week at Brown Uni- 

 versity, with its numerous social func- 

 tions of every description, kept florists 



The end of the busy season is fast 

 approaching and those catering to wed- 

 dings and other social functions have 

 had a busy time for the last two weeks. 

 All in all, it must be said that this 

 year's work for the month of JitrnB~-fe^ 

 been in every respect equar to lasK^ 

 year's. Out-of-town orders are on the 

 increase. Our yearly tourists are begin- 

 ning to leave the city and soon the fol- 

 lowers of the craft will get a chance 

 to join them or stay in town and enjoy 

 the cool breezes from the gulf. The 

 long dry spell we had was broken by a 

 few good rains last week, which was a 

 welcomed relief and benefit to every- 

 thing and everybody. 



Club Meeting. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its regular monthly meeting 

 June 18 at the Association of Commerce 

 building. President P. A. Chopin and 

 Secretary C. E. Panter were in their 

 respective places, with only a fair-sized 

 gathering of members present. Chair- 

 man J. Steckler, of the outing commit- 

 tee, submitted his report. He stated 

 that the power boat, E. & J., owned by 

 John Ludwig, of Grand Island, of which 

 F. Adams, of the same place, is captain, 

 has beefi chartered for the sole use of 

 this society and its guests. The chair- 

 man assured the members that every- 

 thing will be in perfect readiness by 

 the morning of July 4 and hopes that as 

 many will participate as possible. 



Feitel Scheinuck and Paul Valdeja 

 were elected members of the society. 

 J. A. Newsham exhibited a fine speci- 

 men of Vanda Batemanii in bloom and 

 was awarded 100 points. 



Various Notes. 



Chas. EWe is kept busy with the 

 usual Jun^ ' weddings and commence- 

 ments. He was given the contract for 

 4,000 carnations by the United Cigar 

 Stores Co. for the opening of its new 



Employees of the St. Louis Seed &>., on their Outing at Waterloo, 111., June 14. 



owing to the hot weather of the last 

 few weeks. Sweet peas are fairly good 

 and many thousands are used in wed- 

 ding work. Valley appears more popu- 

 lar than ever before, and owing to a 

 scarcity of white roses, the demand for 

 valley has been unusually good. 



Wild huckleberry is in big demand 

 for decorative purposes and the quality 

 of the material obtained locally has 

 been excellent. 



Various Notes. 



S. S. Skidelsky, of Philadelphia, spent 

 the first part of last week in Detroit. 



A picnic and ball game which were 

 to be held at Belle Isle park Mon- 

 day, June 22, by the Detroit florists and 

 their ladies had to be called off on ac- 

 count of rain. 



Sidney Beard, a nephew of Ed. Beard, 

 and the former's brother-in-law, Wil- 

 liam Shenk, have purchased the green- 

 house establishment of Ed. Beard and 

 will hereafter conduct the business. The 

 name of Beard Bros, will, however, be 

 retained as the name of the concern. 



With the advent of summer many 

 members of the trade are getting the 



on the jump last week. The advent of 

 outdoor roses, however, has cut a deep 

 swath in the call for cut flowers and 

 prices are dropping slightly. June wed- 

 dings have made heavy demands upon 

 the florists. 



Horticultural Society Show. 



The annual June exhibition of the 

 Ehode Island Horticultural Society was 

 held June 17 in the Mathewson Street 

 Methodist church. There was an elab' 

 orate showing of roses, sweet peas, 

 peonies and herbaceous plants, and the 

 table decorations were excellent. 



In the commercial classes, Burke & 

 Burns; E. .T. Beavins, of East Green- 

 wich; H. Howard Pepper, of the Mel- 

 rose Eose Gardens; Edward E. Howard, 

 of Eden Park; Cornelius J. Hartstra, 

 gardener at the Ehode Island hospital; 

 Eugene Appleton; William B. Hazard; 

 and Thomas Brook, of Greystone, were 

 the principal exhibitors. A. N. Pierson, 

 Inc., of Cromwell, Conn., received an 

 award of merit for a large collection of 

 roses, and James Crawshaw, of Barring- 

 ton, for a display of Asparagus plumo- 

 aus Crawshawii. 



