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The Florists^ Review 



July 16, 1914. 



door Lilium eandidum. This is easily 

 the finest of all white lilies when well 

 grown, as these spikes were. The aqua- 

 tic display here continues attractive. 



The plants in the convention garden 

 have made excellent headway since we 

 got copious rains. The unusually low 

 temperatures which have prevailed so 

 far in July are, however, not to the 

 liking of the more tropical subjects. 



Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Welch are at 

 their Old Orchard Beach cottage in 

 Maine for the summer. Mr. Welch 

 makes frequent trips to Boston on con- 

 vention and other matters. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society visited 

 the iris garden of Dr. Kennedy, at 

 KeadviUe, July 8. The display of I. 

 Ksempferi was unusually fine. 



H. Huebner, the well known Groton 

 florist, sailed for Europe July 7 on the 

 S. S. Cincinnati. 



William Sim is picking Comet toma- 

 toes heavily in his greenhouses. His 

 crop was never better. Gladioli in the 

 field are fine. 



A pleasant baseball game between 

 nines representing the Boston Flower 

 Exchange and Thomas Roland was 

 played at Nahant July 11. Both sides 

 furnished some thrills. 



Wax Bros, say business so far has 

 been good. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wax 

 are away on a vacation among the 

 woods and lakes of Maine. 



Everything seems to be progressing 

 favorably for the S. A. F. convention. 

 The finance committee has the neces- 

 sary funds in sight. The Salem fire 

 will make late collections more diffi- 

 cult, as already $500,000 has been con- 

 tributed locally for the relief fund, with 

 the end not at all near. 



W. N. Craig. 



W. C. Ward, of East Milton, Mass., 

 is in the harness again, after a year's 

 vacation. Six months were enjoyed on 

 the gulf coast of Florida, where the 

 big fish are, and four months in the 

 pine woods of Maine, where he has 

 built a summer camp and garage for 

 the machine. On the return trip he 

 stopped at the historic town of Bruns- 

 wick and visited our old-time jolly com- 

 panion, Thomas Pegler, whom he found 

 in improved health and with an encour- 

 aging business. 



PITTSBUBGH. 



The Market. 



After a week of the most trying, 

 scorching weather, Pittsburgh is start- 

 ing this week with some nice showers 

 and pleasant, cool days. Some good 

 flowers are still to be had, including 

 Beauties and good roses, lilies, orchids, 

 sweet peas and gladioli. Carnations 

 are reallv good, although they must be 

 thrown out soon. Asters are here, but 

 are not extra fine. Trade is about the 

 average for July and everyone seems 

 satisfied, as during the hot days last 

 week no one seemed to be particularly 

 anxious to work. 



A Visit to the Altimo Culture Co. 

 A trip to the Canfield, O., green- 

 houses of the A. W. Smith Co., known 

 there as the Altimo Culture Co., one 

 day last week, was pleasant despite the 

 hot weather. A half hour's ride by 

 auto from Youngstown, O., brought us 

 to Canfield, where we were met by Jar - 

 vis W. Smith, who acted as host. After 



a quick trip through his orchid house 

 and two 500-foot houses of roses, which 

 were in exceptionally fine condition, we 

 adjourned to the small lake and looked 

 over the many varieties of water lilies 

 and watched the fish while we cooled 

 oflf and got up an appetite for a din- 

 ner which, I am sure, made the cook 

 proud of her share of the entertain- 

 ment. The afternoon was spent in look- 

 ing about xjiutdoors, where we found 

 great pttt'ches of asters in fine shape, 

 some of- them soon to be in bloom; also 

 long rows of sweet peas, cosmos and 

 all of the regular summer stock. Every- 

 thing was in fine order and up-to-date. 

 A sprinkler system is installed over 

 almost all the planting grounds, which 

 include several acres. Mr. Smith, Sr., 

 as well as his sons, is somewhat of an 

 inventive turn of mind, which is dem- 

 onstrated by many coptrivances, such 

 as a special arrangement of benches 

 for orchids, special gas burners for the 

 different heating systems, and probably 

 one of the most practical concrete 

 benches so far made. 



After looking over the working end, 

 we had time to consider the home and 

 its surroundings. It was formerly the 

 home of an old judge of that county, 

 and the trees he planted many years 

 ago are now one of the attractive fea- 

 tures of Canfield, O., which, had it not 

 been named so long ago, would now be 

 Smithtown, as Jarvis Smith dominates 

 nearly everything of consequence in 

 the town. After a big supper, when 

 we had an opportunity to pay our com- 

 pliments to the cook, we congratulated 

 Mr. Smith on the fine condition of his 

 establishment and returned to our auto- 

 mobile. 



Various Notes. 



The news of the day on Saturday, 

 July 11, was the marriage of E. J. Mc- 

 Callum, president of the McCallum Co., 

 to Miss Mathilda Kyle, of Columbo 

 street, east end. The couple left the 

 same evening for the Thousand Islands, 

 to spend their honeymoon. The wed- 

 ding was quite a surprise to Mr. Mc- 

 Callum 's many friends, all of whom 

 wish him a happy voyage on the sea 

 of matrimony. 



Some of our suburban civic societies 

 are having competitions for prizes for 

 well kept lawns and flower gardens, 

 .lohn Jones, of Schenley park, and T. 

 P. Langhans were judges for the Car- 

 rick Civic Society and spent Saturday, 

 July 11, looking over the lawns and 

 gardens of that suburb. They report 

 some exceptionally fine lawns. A good 

 deal of the planting consists of herba- 

 ceous stock and shrubbery, with a 

 noticeable scarcity of bedding stock. 

 Though the places are well kept, they 

 show a great need of advice from a 

 landscape gardener and a lack of much 

 of the artistic effect which could be 

 had without spending any more money. 



The work of the city tree commission 

 is showing to good advantage, as 

 among the hundreds of trees planted 

 a dead tree is hard to find. This de- 

 partment has been turned over to the 

 department of parks, of which George 

 W. Burke is superintendent, and there 

 is good reason to expect, from the way 

 he has handled the parks, that the tree 

 planting will not suffer. Clarke. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — Albert Lash has 

 nearly completed his large greenhouse 

 at the range in South Warwood. The 

 framework is finished and the glass is 

 now being put in. 



BAIiTIMOBE. 



The Market. 



Considering the time of year. busi. 

 ness is holding up well. Wh ie hq 

 enormous amount of stock is i ominff 

 in, it is being taken up prett} •well 

 Boses are getting rather poor, Ivillar! 

 ney especially. Maryland and Radi- 

 ance are the best at present, with Rj. 

 diance at the top. Gladioli are to be 

 had in any quantity now, but gooj 

 prices are being realized. America Ij 

 seen in largest quantity. Carnations 

 are poor, with few coming in. Phlox ig 

 just about in its prime, some fine heads 

 being seen. Asters are arriving in 

 small quantities and are of good size 

 but there is not enough to go around 

 the few coming in being snapped up at 

 good prices. Greens of all kinds are 

 overplentiful, with a poor demand. 

 The weather has been quite favorable 

 for outdoor stock; with plenty of rain 

 and a low temperature, it continues to 

 move along well. Funeral work is in 

 good demand and is using up the 

 greater part of the stock sold. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club was held Mon- 

 day, July 13. Vice-president Hamilton 

 presided in the absence of President 

 Johnston. The outing committee re- 

 ported through F. C. Bauer, chairman, 

 that everything is in shape for the out- 

 ing to be held July 20, Monday. Rich- 

 ard Vincent, Jr., spoke of the recent 

 trip to Washington and urged all flo- 

 rists to contribute generously to the 

 Wm. E. Smith memorial fund. 



There was a good attendance, despite 

 the warm weather. No business of im- 

 portance was before the meeting and 

 after the question box was diacussed 

 the club took an early adjournment. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Johnston, of 

 223 West Madison street, are touring 

 the northern states in their automo- 

 bile. 



I. Eosnosky, of the H. F. Michell Co., 

 Philadelphia, was a visitor last week. 



There are still a few berths left on 

 the boat by which the local florists are 

 going to attend the S. A. F. convention 

 in Boston. It is going to be a livel.'^ 

 crowd, and those who contemplate 

 going by this route had better make 

 their reservations as soon as possible, 

 to insure passage. 



Don't fail to attend the annual out- 

 ing of the Florists' Club, to be held »' 

 Beull's park, Middleriver, Monday, 

 July 20. A good time will be on tap 

 and generously served to all. Take 

 cars marked Middleriver at Baltimo^* 

 and Holliday streets, and ride to tnf 

 end of the line. The park entrance 'j 

 on the right. Cars leave every hai^ 

 hour until 2 p. m.; from then o" ^vfr. 

 twenty minutes. The park 'ill " 

 open all day; so come down .ea'ly ^^ 

 enjoy the many simusements. 



J. D. Harmon is rapidly conpleti^ 

 his two houses on Winters ^^^^^' .fX^ 

 Frederick road, Catonsville, and wiU 

 ready to plant them in about ten d*. ' 

 A number of the local florists jo«j' 

 neyed to Washington Tuesday, '^^^^J 

 to attend the lecture by R. ^'j""^ j 

 Jr., and the reception given by ^^'"' j^ 

 Gude at his residence afterward. \ 

 most enjoyable evening was spent 



