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The Florists' Review 



NOVBMBEB 12, 11)14. 



- Bowling Club. . 



The bowling club is now well estab- 

 lished. The officers are: President, 

 John Miesem; captain, Jos. Fenrich; 

 secretary, H. C. Riedel, and treasurer, 

 P. Jacobson. The club bowls at Thumra's 

 alleys every Thursday evening. The 

 last scores reported were: 



Player— 1st 2d 3d 4th 



John Miesem 162 181 18T 186 



Jos. Fenrich 100 1V8 156 172 



H. C. Uietlel i:!fl 102 lOO 153 



P, Jacobson 152 146 143 109 



A. Kakuda 150 145 146 150 



C. W. Scott 142 151 154 171 



A. J. Guttman 141 108 



R. J. Irwin 139 153 



J. Donaldson 185 103 



W. P. Kord 170 149 



A. Scbanzer 130 137 



A. M. Henshaw.. 137 149 



The club also bowls on the afternoon 

 of the monthly meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club, the second Monday 

 of the month, at the same alleys. Every- 

 body is then welcome. J. A. Shaw. 



BAIiTIMOBE. 



The Market. 



The supply of outdoor mums has ma- 

 terially decreased and an improvement 

 in the demand was noticeable during 

 the week. Mums, of course, are the 

 center of attraction and are in plenti- 

 ful supply, with only fair prices pre- 

 vailing. The weather has been unsea- 

 sonably warm and clear and all of the 

 later varieties are coming to maturity 

 about two weeks earlier than their nor- 

 mal flowering time. Roses were in 

 much better demand than they have 

 been for some time and prices are go- 

 ing up to somewhere near normal 

 again. Carnations are plentiful, but 

 buyers are not, and the price is cor- 

 respondingly low. Valley is over- 

 plentiful, with little call. Violets are 

 improving, but still are of rather poor 

 quality, with little demand. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held November 9, President 

 Johnston in the chair. There was a good 

 attendance and an interesting meeting. 

 The coming show was the main topic 

 under discussion and good results were 

 promised. President Graham spoke on 

 the subject and gave a general outline 

 of the exhibition, and also gave out at- 

 tractive placards for the members to 

 distribute and display in their business 

 places. The request for mums to fill the 

 vase which will be the feature of the 

 exhibition met with a hearty response 

 from the growers present. A letter from 

 the secretary of the S. A. F. was read 

 in regard to the affiliation of local clubs 

 with the national body. As the club 

 has not the necessary number of mem- 

 bers that are members of the S. A. F., 

 it was decided to so inform the secre- 

 tary. E. Vincent, Jr., told of the com- 

 ing convention to be held at San Fran- 

 cisco and spoke of getting a party to- 

 gether to attend. 



Various Notes. 



William Lehr and Charles Siegwart 

 took a trip to Philadelphia last week, 

 « to look over the show, and visited a 

 number of rose growers in that vi- 

 cinity. 



James Hamilton has a fine lot of 

 pompon mums, both in pots and for 

 cut flowers. 



John Cook is occupying his old stand, 

 318 Ndrth Charles street, after being 

 temporarily located a few doors above 



while improvements were being made. 

 The floor space of the store has been 

 doubled, a new refrigerator has been 

 installed and a plate glass and white 

 marble front have been added, making 

 this one of the most modern and up- 

 to-the-minute stores in this city. 



Hoffman Bros., of 311 South Seventh 

 street, Philadelphia, will shortly open 

 a branch store in this city, at St. Paul 

 and Pleasant streets, for retail busineiM. 



Everything is ready for the opening 

 of the show November 17. The annual 

 meeting of the Maryland Horticultural 

 Society will be held in the rooms ad- 

 joining the exhibition hall at 2 p. m. 

 of this date, when the annual business 

 will be transacted. W. F. E. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



A slightly improved tone is noticeable 

 in market conditions; Flowers clean up 

 a little better, but prices show little im- 

 provement. Chrysanthemums continue 

 to completely dominate the market. 

 They are of good quality, but I never 

 have seen prices on these so low. Ex- 

 cept for a few fancies or crimson for 

 the football games, the best figure ob- 

 tainable seems to be about $12 per hun- 

 dred. Bonnaffon continues to sell better 

 than anything else. The singles and 

 pompons sell better than the larger 

 flowers and are much more popular for 

 table decorations. Boses show a trifling 

 advance on short grades. Those which 

 had hung fire at 50 cents per hundred 

 are now making $1. The call for fancy 

 stock is not at all robust. Special 

 Beauties make $3 per dozen, but quan- 

 tities are cleared as low as $15 p^r hun- 

 dred. 



Carnations move sluggishly and will 

 do so until the mum wave recedes. Of 

 the newer sorts, Champion and Match- 

 less are fine with a number of growers. 

 A few special violets make 75 cents, but 

 the general average is from 30 to 50 

 cents per hundred. Paper White nar- 

 cissus has appeared, but there is really 

 little need of it thus early. Easter lilies 

 and callas are plentiful and selling poor- 

 ly. Valley moves better; a good deal 

 seen is of inferior quality. Cosmos sells 

 poorly. Yellow marguerites and bach- 

 elor's buttons clean up as well as any- 

 thing. Cattleyas are too abundant and 

 clean up with difficulty at low prices. 

 Gardenias are in better supply. 



The leading flowering plants seen are 

 chrysanthemums, Lorraine and Cincin- 

 nati begonias and cyclamens. Each of 

 these sells fairly well. 



Market Banquet. 



The Boston Cooperative Flower Mar- 

 ket held its annual business meeting No- 

 vember 7 and elected the following 

 board of directors: John McFarland, W. 

 H. Elliott, John Barr, Thomas Capers, 

 Charles Leach, Donald Carmichael, L. E. 

 Small, J. W. Simpson and Robert Mont- 

 gomery. The new members on the 

 board are Messrs. Barr, Capers, Leach 

 and Simpson. Donald .Carmichael, the 

 treasurer, read his annual report, which 

 showed a substantial balance. 



In the evening a splendid banquet was 

 served at the Quincy House to the stall- 

 holders and stockholders of the corpora- 

 tion. Some invited guests, including 

 many ladies, also were present. Robert 

 Montgomery, the president, called upon 

 W. H. Elliott to officiate as toastmaster, 

 which he did in his usual efficient man- 



ner. He spoke on the necessity of se- 

 curing new channels of distribution for 

 cut flowers in these times of glut. 



Mayor Curley was prevented from at- 

 tending, but sent his secretary, Mr. Slat- 

 tery, who made an eloquent address and 

 assured his auditors that the mayor 

 would assist in every way in his power 

 to create some better outlet for cut flow- 

 ers, so thait the masses could procur©^ 

 them in times of plenty at a low cost. 

 W. N. Craig also spoke on the need of 

 additional outlets for flowers. J. J. Cas- 

 sidy spoke for the retailers ' side, and B. 

 A. Snyder for the wholesalers. Thomaa 

 H. Westwood spoke of the interesting 

 and attractive calling that growers were 

 engaged in. Further remarks were made 

 by Charles Leach and Edward Wood. J. 

 M. Cohen strongly favored having street 

 boys and believed they did no harm to- 

 the retailers. 



A nice vase of Mrs. Moorfield Storey 

 rose graced the head table. These were 

 the only flowers used, and this reminds 

 me that at the Boston Flower Exchange 

 dinner only a solitary vase was in evi- 

 dence. If florists will not use flowers 

 at their own banquets, is it not unrea- 

 sonable to criticise others who do not 

 use them? 



Various Notes. 



Paine Bros., of Randolph, are handling- 

 a fine lot of pompon mums this season. 

 Their favorites are Princess of Wales, 

 white; Savannah, yellow, and Fairy 

 Queen, pink. They are just finishing a' 

 fine lot of Miss Alice Byron. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have founda- 

 tions laid, for six new houses, to be used 

 mostly for propagating purposes, at their 

 Dedham establishment. 



C. S. Andem, of Putnam, Conn., is^ 

 having good success with Matchless and 

 Philadelphia carnations. White Won- 

 der, White Enchantress and Enchantress 

 Supreme are his other sorts. All are- 

 handled by Nathan Lerner. 



John Gilmartin, an employee of Peirce 

 Bros., Waltham, was poisoned November 

 5 by adding some Nicoticide to a drink 

 he was mixing up for a cold. He lived 

 only ten minutes after taking it and 

 died in great agony. The accident oc- 

 curred at midnight. The deceased had 

 worked on a number of commercial 

 places near Boston, was 33 years of age- 

 and leaves a widow and two children. 



Frank Edgar is handling a splendid 

 lot of pompon mums this season. He 

 finds the old Julia Lagravere the most 

 profitable kind. It comes in just right 

 for the Harvard-Yale football game. He 

 also has a splendid lot of Bonnaffons. 



The West Street Greenhouses, of 

 Reading, are shipping in bachelor's but- 

 tons and calendulas in quantity. Their 

 carnations are unusually good, especially 

 Pink Delight, Benora, White Wonder 

 and Fenn. They also are strong on 

 pompon mums. 



Among the mums coming in from J. 

 K. Chandler & Son, of Tewksbury, lola, 

 white, and Shrimpton, red, are the lead- 

 ers now. 



Paul F. Bridgham, of the Westbora 

 Greenhouses, has 35,000 carnations this 

 season. He grows chiefly Eureka, White 

 Enchantress, White Wonder, Matchless, 

 Philadelphia, Pink Supreme and Fenn. 



A. A, Pembroke, of North Beverly, is 

 one of our largest and most succe^ssful 

 carnation specialists. He likes Match- 

 less; its only fault is being short- 

 stemmed early in the season. Champion 

 also is doing splendidly here. He has 

 a large batch of Princess Dagmar and 

 it is blooming freely. White Wonder is 



