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The Florists' Review 



April 29, 1915. 



gave an interesting talk on "Eose 

 Growing for Outdoor Bedding Pur- 

 poses," for Which he received the 

 thanks of the club. F. C. Bauer and 

 Bichard Vincent, Jr., also discussec^ the 

 subject. 



The sympathy of the club was ex- 

 pressed for Treasurer F. G. Burger 

 in the loss of his son, W. W. Burger, 

 who died April 24. A committee, con- 

 sisting of Robert L. Graham, J. J. Per- 

 ry and W. J. Johnston, was appointed 

 to draw up resolutions of regret and 

 present them to his parents. James 

 Shortt, of Waverly, also died since the 

 last meeting, and as the benefit fund is 

 below the prescribed amount it is nec- 

 essary to call an assessment to replen- 

 ish it. 



F. C. Bauer had on the table white, 

 pink and red seedling verbenas. The 

 Mothers' day committee gave an out- 

 line of what its intentions were for ad- 

 vertising this occasion and the club 

 appropriated a good sum toward the 

 fund. Also, a large number of indi- 

 vidual subscriptions were received. 

 This subscription list will be open for 

 some time and anyone wishing to con- 

 tribute may add his name to the list at 

 any of the wholesale stores. Mr. 

 Thacher, of Boston, was a guest of the 

 evening and made a few remarks. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seidewitz 

 celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of their marriage April 18 and received 

 congratulation's and many valuable re- 

 membrances from their friends. 



Conrad Hess is again attending the 

 markets, with his usual good line of 

 ferns and potted plants. 



L. H. A. Klein, of Twoson, is sending 

 some fine geranium plants to market. 

 His other bedding plants also look 

 well. 



Lohr & Fritze are cutting heavily in 

 their rose houses just now. Their Dou- 

 ble "White Killarneys show up espe- 

 cially well. 



C. Fred Fauth, of Woodlawn, is again 

 occupying his stall in Lexington mar- 

 ket, with bedding plants. 



Edward Kress has received his new 

 auto truck and is well pleased with it. 

 He is bringing a fine lot of rose plants 

 to market. 



Samuel Feast & Sons have been ap- 

 pointed local agents and distributors 

 for the Luther Burbank Seed Co. 



James Hamilton is exceedingly busy 

 with outdoor planting and at times 

 finds it necessary to take his entire 

 force of men to care for the orders re- 

 ceived. W. F. E. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



Another week of pleasant weather, 

 with several days of summer heat, has 

 caused rapid development of many 

 flowers and plants. The weather has 

 been ideal for preparing flower beds 

 and gardens, and there has consequent- 

 ly been a heavy sale of potted plants 

 suitable for transplanting in the open 

 at this time. Florists who carry seeds 

 have had a large sale, and the regular 

 seed houses have been busy. A num- 

 ber of florists have put in a large stock 

 of rose bushes. Flowering shrubs have 

 had a ready sale. Pansy plants for 

 replanting are plentiful at medium 

 prices, and are sold in large quantities. 

 There have been a number of weddings 



during the last week, which called for 

 a considerable supply of flowers. Roses 

 are cheap. Outdoor tulips are arriving 

 in large quantities and the quality is 

 good, the outdoor stock keeping better 

 than greenhouse varieties. Violets are 

 poorer in quality and are nearly gone. 

 Hyacinths , and azaleas are deteriorat- 

 ing and will soon be out of the mar- 

 ket. Sweet peas continue to be popu- 

 lar. - 

 Various Notes. ' : 



J. H. Harvey, 453 North Broad 

 street, is full of optimism as to the 

 future. He reports that business is 

 slowly improving, and that from his 

 own observation and from talks with 

 many business men engaged in differ- 

 ent lines of work, he feels sure that by 

 fall business conditions will be good. 



J. F. Noll & Co., seedsmen, at 115 

 Mulberry street, are having their rush 

 season at the present time. In addi- 

 tion to their seeds, bulbs, etc., they are 

 carrying a large stock of rose bushes 

 of all the leading varieties. 



J. E. & A. G. Hutchinson, 227 Broad 



MainlyAb 



street, Elizabeth, report that last win- 

 ter was much better from a business 

 point of view than was expected at th« 

 beginning of the season because of the 

 dullness of business generally. 



The Violet Floral Shop, E. Fied, 

 proprietor, 704 Elizabeth avenue, Eliz- 

 abeth, has an attractive store front, 

 and in the windows last week was a 

 pretty floral display. 



A good sale of cut flowers is re- 

 ported at the Union Square Floral 

 Shop^ Elizabeth. 



A fine lot of geraniums was displayed 

 in the window of Luthy, at 363 Spring- 

 field avenue, last week. 



M. Gahr, 311 Springfield avenue, re- 

 ports that with the advent of spring 

 there is some improvement in business. 



Henry Leahy, of Elizabeth, has pur- 

 chased a delivery automobile. It is 

 prettily decorated. On the sides are 

 painted bunches of roses. 



Henry Brenningan has opened a 

 store at 519 Springfield avenue for 

 the sale of flowers, seeds and shrubs. 

 He is carrying a large number of rose 

 bushes of all varieties. R. B. M. 



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Hiawatha, Elan. — Miss Susan Mar- 

 grave, proprietor of the Hiawatha 

 Greenhouses, gives it as her opinion 

 that the outlook for business never 

 was better at this date. 



Grand Bapids, Mich. — In the April 7 

 issue of the Michigan Tradesman ap- 

 peared a page article by Alfred J. 

 Brown, head of the A. J. Brown Seed 

 Co., on "The Seed Trade." This 

 year is Mr. Brown's thirtieth in the 

 business. 



Wheat Bidge, Colo. — Herbert D. 

 Belcher, a member of the local trade, 

 was married to Miss Catherine Lyon 

 April 8 at the home of the bride's 

 father, in this town. After the cere- 

 mony, the couple left for a honeymoon 

 trip to Chicago. ' 



Cadiz, O. — John T. Timmons is 

 known locally as "the blind natural- 

 ist." He is a great friend of the birds 

 and has written extensively on the sub- 

 ject. His florists' business is conducted 

 under the name of Birdlawn Conserva- 

 tory and a feature of the grounds is a 

 bird castle of 102 apartments occupied 

 by purple martins. 



Moberly, Mo. — A. Thieman and his 

 son, Robert Thieman, have a good crop 

 of lettuce at the Sunnyside Green- 

 houses. Radishes, onions and beets are 

 also being grown, and tomato and cu- 

 cumber plants are coming along to take 

 the place of the present crops. During 

 the summer Mr. Thieman cultivates ten 

 acres of outdoor crops. 



Danville, HI. — A warrant was re- 

 cently issued for Harry Dubuis on the 

 charge of stealing a neighbor's chick- 

 ens. He admitted having the chickens, 

 but not the charge of stealing them. 

 When they ruined his flower beds and 

 invaded his greenhouses, he rounded 

 them up in a pen and then notified the 

 justice of the peace of his action. 



Minot, S. D.— Will O. Doolittle, for- 

 merly of Painesville, O., and recently 

 engaged in forestry in Michigan, has 

 taken the position of superintendent of 

 parks here. 



Tipton, Ind. — Mrs. Henry Bornhoeft, 

 who was formerly in the florists' busi- 

 ness here, has been visiting the ex- 

 position and the members of the trade 

 at San Francisco. She resides in Chi- 

 cago. 



Charles City, la. — Ed, W. Schuster, 

 who has been in the employ of M. H. 

 Weatherbee for the last seven years 

 and was with the Sherman Nursery Co. 

 for several years previous, leaves May 

 1 for Crookston, Minn., to enter into 

 the greenhouse business for himself. 



Council Grove, Kan. — George W. 

 Cleek, senior member of the Cleek 

 Floral Co., was elected commissioner of 

 finance at the election April 6. The 

 fiower business, he says, is extra good 

 for the size of the town; much trade is 

 had from the surrounding villages. 

 Mothers' day is being pushed hard. 



Hartford, Conn. — Mr. and Mrs. Fer- 

 nando C. Welch, 188 Westland street, 

 celebrated the fifty-third anniversary 

 of their marriage April 15. Mr. Welch 

 has a greenhouse, 20x100 feet, and 

 grows mushrooms, in addition to carry- 

 ing on a business in the city as dealer 

 in antique furniture. 



Omaiha, Neb. — An attempt is being 

 made to oust Paul B. Floth from the 

 lot at the corner of Thirty-first and 

 Burt streets. Mr. Floth claims owner- 

 ship of the property for twenty years, 

 and says it was a mudhole and swamp 

 when he began to improve it. Mrs. 

 Mattie M. Mackey, of Excelsior, Minn., 

 maintains that the lot was a govern- 

 ment grant to John I. Paynter in 1860 

 and came into her father's hands in 

 1890. 



