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The Florists' Review 



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Mabch 11, 19Ui. 



CABNATION GBOWEBS' BAMBLES. 



March 2 was the day set apart by 

 the visiting committee of the Lancas- 

 ter County Florists' Association for a 

 trip to Philadelphia. Although an ac- 

 count of the journey appeared last week 

 in the Philadelphia newsletter, perhaps 

 some further notes will be welcome. 



It was 6 a. m. that a party of 

 eighteen left for Strafford, where au- 

 tomobiles were waiting to convey us 

 to Edward A. Stroud's establishment. 

 In the carnation houses, Gloriosa was 

 in the finest order; when it can be 

 grown as these were, it certainly is 

 one of the best carnations in existence. 

 Philadelphia, Matchless and Mrs. Ward 

 are also extensively planted. The 

 White Wonder and White Perfection 

 were a mass of buds and bloom and 

 were as fine as we have ever seen them. 

 A .bench of Pocahontas showed fine 

 blooms and we doubt if it is surpassed 

 by any other crimson. Yellow Prince, 

 with its fine habit and clear color, 

 ioofked good. A small planting of 

 porner's Dainty, a variety the color of 

 which reminded us of old Major Pin- 

 gree, was much admired. Lilium mul- 

 tiflorum and L. giganteum, in pots, 

 filled a large house and for uniformity 

 and health left nothing to be desired. 

 We were indebted to W. E. Johnson, 

 in charge, for his courtesy in showing 

 us over the place. 



Our next stop was at the Florex 

 Gardens, at North Wales, Pa., where 

 we were met at the station by H. C. 

 Geiger, in charge. The largest house 

 here is 700 feet long, 172 feet wide 

 and thirty-six feet high; 79,000 rose 

 plants are in this house and 56,000 feet 

 of pipe are used in heating it. Another 

 house, 154x500, is also planted in roses. 

 A new pink seed irg rose. No. 25, fra- 

 grant and prolific, is well thought of. 

 Beds of their own selection of White 

 Killarney are interesting in comparison 

 with other White Killarney. Sunburst 

 was extremely fine. Roses in general 

 were clean and healthy and full of 

 young breaking wood. The carnation 

 houses, where Harry Girvin and Ross 

 Zander are in charge, both formerly 

 Lancaster county growers, were of 

 much interest. Their new seedling, 

 Ruth, darker than Philadelphia, looked 

 fine, as did a light pink seedling on 

 the order of Gloriosa, which showed 

 many of the good points of White En- 

 chantress, many measuring four inches 

 in diameter. Beacon, Philadelphia and 

 Enchantress Supreme all showed high 

 culture. 



Before leaving North Wales twenty- 

 seven sat down to dinner. The party 

 then proceeded to Hatboro, where a 

 call was made on H. M. Weiss & Sons, 

 who have 30,000 plants of Gorgeous 

 carnations and who say an equal num- 

 ber of them will be grown again next 

 season, A house of Alma Ward looked 

 as though it might not be the least 

 profitable variety grown here. For 

 next season 5,500 Alice will be planted. 



Our next stop was at the establish- 

 ment of .T. Stephenson, Oak Lane, to 

 inspect the Lord & Burnham iron- 

 frame house, 71x800. The house is 

 planted entirely to roses and they are 

 in the pink of condition. 



In the evening we had the pleasure 

 of inspecting the new varieties of car- 

 nations on exhibition at the meeting of 

 the Philadelphia Florists' Club. We re- 

 gretted that it was inipo^ible to re- 

 main to hear Edmund A. Harvey's 



paper on carnations, as we were com- 

 pelled to leave for Lancaster at 8:50 

 p. m. 



Those in the party were: Maurice J. 

 Brinton, Elmer J. Weaver, J. Butter 

 Hess, Albert M. Herr, E. P. Hostetter, 

 W. K. Denlinger, John R. Shreiner, 

 C. S. Loeffler, Ira H. Landis, H. K, 

 Rohrer, Charles B. Herr, Charles M. 

 Weaver, B. F. Barr, J. Ralph Hess, 

 Harry B. Weaver, Frank L. Kohr, of 

 Lancaster; James Brown, of Coates- 

 ville; Edward Marshall and /William 

 Swayne, Kennett Square; !p^J.»jPass- 

 more, Isaac Passmore, A. H. Imnser, 

 L. H. Duelman, Eugene Bernheimer, 

 William Muth, S. S. Pennock and D. T. 

 Connor. The thanks of the party are 

 due to Elmer J. Weaver and S. S. Pen- 

 nock for personally conducting our lit- 

 tle tour. H. K. R. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



Last week saw a relapse into winter, 

 though we have had none of the severe 

 weather that we read of in the papers. 

 Yet we have had snow, and the rush of 

 spring work has been checked for a 

 time. The cold seems to hang on, too, 

 for this time of year. Ten days ago 

 everything promised that we would be 

 shipping outdoor-grown daffodils to the 

 north, but we have yet to see our first 

 outdoor bloom. Two days of season- 

 able weather will bring them on, how- 

 ever, in plenty. 



Business, for the last ten days, has 

 been off, except for funeral work. There 

 is a good supply of the staple flowers, 

 and the quality is all that could be 

 asked for. There are a few novelties in 

 the windows in the way of pot plants, 

 but, on the other hand, more cyclamens 

 are used for cut flowers than I have 

 ever seen before. This seems to indi- 

 cate that there is less demand for them 

 in pots than formerly. 



I have also seen hyacinths and other 

 bulbous flowers used in design work a 

 great deal during the last ten days, 

 showing that they are not selling well 

 in pots. Golden Spur narcissi are in 

 good supply and seem to be selling well, 

 both in pots and as cut flowers. Ro- 

 mans are quite scarce. Sweet peas are 

 the most plentiful I have ever seen good 

 ones here, and in one florist's window 

 I saw bunches with a placard reading 

 "Five cents a bunch." They were fair- 

 sized bunches of excellent Spencers. 



Various Notes. 



Things point to a heavy demand for 

 canna roots here this season, as a large 

 percentage of them were frozen last 

 winter. It is the prevailing custom to 

 leave them in the ground over winter. 

 This year they froze. As florists here 

 always dig theirs, they should reap a 

 reward. 



Haury & Sons are not devoting so 

 large a percentage of their space to 

 geraniums and other pot plants as they 

 were, finding more profit in cut flowers. 



At Mclntyre Bros.' old place, on 

 Hillsboro road, last week, I saw some 

 houses that were as gorgeous as though 

 they had been prepared for exhibition. 

 They were full of pot plants, mostly 

 cyclamens, cinerarias and their new ge- 

 ranium, Nashville. They say they are 

 having good sales on these items and 

 unusually good sales of specimen box 

 and arbor-vitse. 



The opening of the new Cleveland 



street viaduct a few days lage saves 

 several miles to Joe Browne, of 

 Lischey's Gardens, in making his deliv- 

 eries in East Nashville. The new road 

 is one of the best in the city and prom- 

 ises to be a favorite with automobilists. 



Frank Cornell's new place gives him 

 more than double the bench room that 

 he had. He has a nice lot of pot plants 

 coming on for the spring sales. 



I saw two of the best cyclamen plants 

 at the store of the Joy Floral Co. last 

 week that I have ever noted. One of 

 them carried almost 100 blooms, blood 

 red at that, and the other was almost 

 as good. The company 's windows for 

 the last month have shown that some 

 one has been studying window decora- 

 tion. F. B. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



There was little change in market 

 conditions last week. Good quality 

 roses are scarce, but there is plenty 

 of short-stemmed stock. Carnations, 

 sweet peas, snapdragon and valley are 

 in good supply. Bulbous stock, for the 

 first time this season, has almost 

 reached a glut. The quality is "as 

 you like it." Some fancy La Reine, 

 Couronne d'Or and Cardinal tulips are 

 seen. There is the usual run of daffo- 

 ; dils. 



Easter stock looks good, but nothing 

 new has been seen as yet. There are 

 the usual lilies, azaleas, lilacs, spiraeas, 

 and pans of tulips, hyacinths and daffo- 

 dils. Lilies, on the average, look good. 



The Fall Show. 



The entertaining in Cleveland of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America is 

 expected to develop into one of the larg- 

 est trade flower shows ever held in the 

 middle west. Both the American Car- 

 nation Society and the American Rose 

 Society have been asked to cooperate 

 with the committee in making the show 

 a grand success as a general trade ex- 

 hibition. 



Special prizes have been offered by 

 the Rose Society, in addition to the 

 regular premium list. The preliminary 

 list is now in the printers' hands and 

 will be mailed as soon as ready. Any- 

 one wishing a copy may address the 

 secretary, Frank A. Friedley, 95 Shaw 

 avenue. East Cleveland, Ohio. In ad- 

 dition to over $3,500 in cash prizes, 

 numerous cups and medals are offered. 

 The Wigmore coliseum, containing over 

 60,000 square feet of floor space, has 

 been secured, war or no war. 



Committees have been appointed. For 

 the Ohio Horticultural Society: Execu-- 

 tive committee, S. Prentis Baldwin, 

 chairman, and John Boddy, treasurer. 

 For the Cleveland Florists' Club: 

 Frank A. Friedley, secretary; Herman 

 P. Knoble, general manager; Mrs. John 

 E. Newell, president of the Garden 

 Club; Mrs. L. Dean Holden and Mrs. 

 L. A. Ingalls. The active show com- 

 mittee is: H. P. Knoble, chairman; 

 George Bate, publicity; Herbert Bate, 

 premium list; H. P. Merrick, trades' 

 display; Charles E. Russell, retailers' 

 display; Fred C. W. Brown, decorating; 

 T. Smith, admissions; George W. Smith, 

 entertainment, and Frank A. Friedley, 

 superintendent of exhibition. 



Various Notes. 



The windows of Knoble Bros, con- 

 tinue to attract large crowds. Frank 



