Afbil 22, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



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BXTFFAIiO. 



The IiCarket. 



The weather last week was excellent 

 and business was fairly good. There 

 has been some funeral work, but noth- 

 ing of large proportions. There are 

 few weddings of any note. Transient 

 trade is only fair. The fine weather 

 has made a big demand for seeds and 

 shrubs, and outdoor work is being 



Eushed rapidly. Carnations, which 

 ave been somewhat off crop, are com- 

 ing into the market in large quanti- 

 ties and the prices have dropped 

 slightly. Tulips are a drug on the 

 market, but daffodils are scarce, with 

 prices firm. There are all kinds of 

 jgood roses. Beauties are jdentiful. 

 Sweet peas continue to improve and 

 the demand for these is increasing. 

 Valley is beginning to get smaller. Or- 

 chids are nearing the end of their sea- 

 son and are pale in color. There is no 

 strong demand for them. Harrisii and 

 calla lilies are always in demand. 



Various Notes. 



Mark Palmer, son of William Palmer, 

 was home from Cornell University at 

 Easter, assisting his father in the green- 

 houses at Lancaster. He found a dwarf 

 lily, which is being watched for devel- 

 opments, for he thinks he has discov- 

 ered something new in the line of Har- 

 risii lily sports. He is planning to 

 enter his father's business in the fall 

 and will learn both the greenhouse and 

 store ends of the trade. 



John G. Pickelman will move into 

 his new store, at 205 Genesee street, 

 in the near future. He is showing some 

 excellent deutzias. 



Business at the store of the Wm. 

 Bcott Go. has been good. Bird houses 

 made of birch bark, with roofs of cedar 

 bark, are being sold here as a specialty. 

 They are decidedly attractive. This 

 firm has received a big importation of 

 pyramid and standard boxwood trees, 

 which are being potted in large earthen 

 jars. These are heavier than the wood- 

 en tubs and the public likes them bet- 

 ter. Four good-sized houses are filled 

 with S. A. Nutt geraniums. Some 

 are already in bloom and make excel- 

 lent stock for cemetery urns and bed- 

 ding plants. One house is given en- 

 tirely to seedlings, such as salvias, 

 verbenas, snapdragons and German 

 stocks; another to cannas, coleus, dra- 

 csenas and Boston ferns for spring 

 planting. All are in fine condition, 



David Scott, of Corfu, N. Y., is 

 producing some excellent orchid peas 

 and pink and yellow snapdragons. 



Harry B. Filer, city forester, has 

 completed the pruning of trees and 

 shrubs in the streets and parks of the 

 city, and his men are now busy look- 

 ing after the lawns and the beds of 

 bulbous stock. 



Charles Sandiford finds business 

 good. He is busy with landscape gar- 

 dening and the planting of shrubs and 

 evergreens, of which he makes a spe- 

 cialty. His importation of boxwood 

 trees and evergreens is fine. The trees 

 find a ready sale. In his greenhouses 

 the stock is in good condition. The 

 German stocks in lavender are used for 

 cutting and are excellent in quality. 

 Pink, white and yellow snapdragons 

 are also being cut. He has all kinds 

 of seedlings ready for spring planting. 



D. Newlands & Co. are growing some 

 fine deutzias and some have been dis- 



posed of at wholesale. The firm has a 

 good cemetery trade. 



The Lenox Flower Shop had a timely 

 display last week for the opening of 

 the baseball season here. It was a 

 miniature baseball diamond done in 

 moss, with realistic looking players. 



E. 0. A. 



OBITUABY. 



Miss Isadore E. Larabee. 



Miss Isadore E. Larabee, 52 years 

 old, died April 15, at her home in 

 North Adams, Mass., after a long ill- 

 ness of a complication of diseases. 

 About fourteen years ago she engaged 

 in the florists' business at 88 East 

 Quincy street, and conducted the estab- 

 lishment until obliged by ill health to 

 give it up a few years ago. 



Miss Larabee was born in North 

 Adaqis, and taught school there for a 

 time before entering the florists' busi- 

 ness. She is survived by her parents, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Larabee, a 

 brother and two sisters. The funeral 

 was held April 17. 



Charles W. Yost. 



Charles W. Yost, one of the oldest 

 and best known gardeners in Bhode 



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Island, died recently at the home of 

 his daughter at Wakefield, aged 77 

 years. Mr. Yost was a native of Ger- 

 many, but came to this country when 

 a young man and for many years be 

 was employed as gardener on the Coates 

 estate at Narragansett Pier. In 1884 

 he became gardener for George V. Ores- 

 son and had charge of his Stone Lea 

 grounds. About three years ago he 

 took up his home with his daughter 

 and had not been very active since. 



W. H. M. 



Wlnfield S. Slsson. 



Winfield Scott Sisson, of Newport, 

 E. I., died suddenly April 9. Mr. Sis- 

 son was born in 1862 in Portsmouth, 

 E. I., and for several years, as a young 

 man, he was engaged in agricultural 

 pursuits, but later became connected 

 with the George A. We«r^ Co. and on 

 the organization by the employees ol 

 that establishment as the Broadway 

 Hardware Co., was made treasurer. He 

 devoted considerable time to the culti- 

 vation of dahlias and as a member of 

 the firm of Sisson & Thurston was a 

 successful and frequent exhibitor at 

 the fiower shows throughout New Eng- 

 land. His wife and one brother - sur- 

 vive him. W. H. M. 



Cromwell, Conn. — ^William Colton has 

 left A. N. JPierson, Inc., to take charge 

 of greenhouses at Grimsby, Ont. 



Portland, Me.— The Portland Florists' 

 Club held a banquet at Stroudwater 

 grange hall Monday, April 19, at 7 

 p. m., followed by a social evening. 

 The committee in charge consisted of 

 Mrs. Lizzie Dennett, Miss Marion E. 

 McGunigle, C. L. Conant and Alexander 

 Skillin. 



LoweU, Mass.— Trade exhibitors in 

 the horticultural show of the board of 

 trade April 13 were Harvey B. Greene, 

 Morse & Beals, Whittet & Co., J. L. 

 Kenney, Frank P. Putnam, John T. 

 Gale, E. P. Christofferson, the Shep- 

 ard's Garden Carnation Co. and James 

 J. McManmon, all of Lowell, and George 

 B. Wright, of Chebnsford. 



Milldale, Conn. — Work has been 

 started on greenhouses at Canal and 

 Burrit streets by Nicholas Grille, for- 

 merly of A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell. 

 Two greenhouses, each 36x100 feet, will 

 be built, and also a 2-story brick build- 

 ing, 30x50, to contain living rooms, 

 office and work rooms. Two brothers 

 will be associated in the business with 

 Nicholas Grille. 



Ansonia, Conn. — Joseph W. Willis, 

 proprietor of the Cottage Avenue 

 Greenhouses, has just secured a patent 

 on a device for picking fruit, known 

 as the Automatic Fruit-picker and Con- 

 veyor. It makes it unnecessary to 

 lower the picker after each operation 

 in order to secure the fruit. On being 

 severed from the branch the fruit falls 

 into a cup on an endless chain and is 

 carried to the bottom of the standard 

 by gravitation. 



Cromwell, Conn. — ^W. E. Pierson says 

 the spring business is coming fully up 

 to the best previous records, the en- 

 tire A. N. Pierson staff having as 

 much to do as can be done, and then 

 some. It is the regular experience at 

 this time of year. 



South Framlngham, Mass. — The Bos- 

 ton Globe for April 4 carried several 

 pictures and a sketch of John T. But- 

 terworth and his orchids. Mr. Butter- 

 worth came from England, and has 

 been in the business for twenty-five 

 years. He is a member of the town 

 park commission, director in two of the 

 local banks and member of the board 

 of trade. 



Hartford, Conn. — ^To enable contest- 

 ants to make plans in plenty of time, 

 the prize list for the dahlia show of 

 the Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 to be held during the third week in 

 September, has been published by 

 James M. Adams, chairman of the pub- 

 licity committee. About half the classes 

 are for professionals. 



Braintree, Mass.— Carl Waldecker, of 

 Waldecker Bros., 37 Sampson street, 

 who had not been heard from since last 

 July, is with the Fourteenth German 

 Army Corps, now at Arras, France. His 

 brother Herman has received a letter 

 from him, telling of his enlistment. 

 After visiting his mother at Baden, 

 Germany, he went to Switzerland. Be- 

 fore starting for this country, he again 

 visited his mother, and as the war was 

 then under way, he was conscripted. 

 For the last five months he has been 

 fighting in trenches nine feet deep. He 

 is not an American citizen, but expects 

 to return to Braintree when the war is 

 over. 



