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The Rorists' Review 



JWNS 1». lOlf. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



Commencement bouquets, decorations 

 and wedding orders combined have 

 kept the market from accumulating any 

 surplus stock, except a little of the 

 untler-grade varieties, and most of 

 these have been used for funeral work. 

 Consequently business has been good, 

 with ])rices up to the average for this 

 season of the year. A good quantity 

 of stock was sent to Annapolis from 

 this city last week, for use during 

 June week at the Naval Academy. 



Nearly all stock is deteriorating in 

 quality now. Both roses and carnations 

 are growing smaller and at times dur- 

 ing the week first-grade stock was 

 scarce. Peonies will be over in about 

 one more week; the many spring rains 

 brought them out better than for some 

 years. Valley and white roses have 

 been in good demand for wedding or- 

 ders. Colored carnations have been a 

 little druggy at times, but the whole- 

 sale nouses were cleaned out complete- 

 ly at the close of business on Saturday, 

 June 5. Greens aye in good demand, 

 with only a limited supply. 



Various Notes. 



James Hamilton is using a lot of 

 hardy cut flowers, such as iris, coreop- 

 sis, clematis, etc., in the window deco- 

 rations at his store on Charles street. 



The Maryland Agricultural College 

 will open a school in the city hall to 

 give free advice on gardening to the 

 city residents. The office will be open 

 every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 

 evening from 8 to 10:30 and will be 

 in charge of Professors B. W. Anspon, 

 C. E. Temple and S. B. Shaw. 



E. A. Seidewitz was toastmaster at 

 the annual banquet of the Rotary Club, 

 held at the Hotel Rennert June 3. He 

 was also elected chairman of the mem- 

 bership committee for the ensuing year. 



The Leo Niessen Co. is showing some 

 fine nympha?a blooms in pink and 

 white, which attract a good deal of 

 attention. 



Arthur Richmond says he is com- 

 pletely sold out of chrysanthemum cut- 

 tings by means of his ad in The Re- 

 view and his only regret is that he 

 did not have enough. 



R. Vincent, Jr., delivered a lecture 

 before the Cedarhurst Garden Club, 

 Long Island, June 3. This organiza- 

 tion is heartily supporting Mr. Vin- 

 cent's latest accomplishment, the Amer- 

 ican Dahlia Society. 



Pierce & Co are using a lot of white 

 clematis in their attractive window dis- 

 plays. Their well filled boxes on the 

 roof garden are a good advertisement 

 for their business, showing how attrac- 

 tive a bare cornice or wall can be 

 made by the use of a few vines and 

 plants, artistically arranged. 



The next club meeting will be held 

 on Monday, June 14. A talk on 

 "Humus" will be the feature of the 

 evening. 



At the bowling tournament held by 

 the Baltimore Bowling Association the 

 local florists were well represented. 

 Mack Richmond won first prize in the 

 tenpin singles and, with Henry Nicoll, 

 put up a good total in the 2-man event. 

 .T. J. Perry and Otto Guerth finished 

 well up in the 2-man duckpin class. 

 Mrs. F. C. Bauer won second in the 

 ladies' singles. Mrs. L. H. A. Klein 

 and Mrs. James Boone won the ladies' 



doubles in tenpins. The standing of 

 the 5-man teams in both tenpins and 

 duckpins has not yet been given out, 

 but in both classes the florists' team 

 put up a creditable total. W. F. E, 



erans of the Confederate army, held in 

 that city last week. 



C. L. L. 



BUFFALO. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Market. 



There has been a good demand for 

 wedding decorations, producing a heavy 

 sale of orchids and valley. The north- 

 ern-grown Cattleya gigas seem to be 

 nearing an end, while the local crop has 

 not yet materialized. 



Early last week business was so heavy 

 as to cause the cleaning up of stock 

 more closely than at any time during 

 the year, but midweek brought a lull 

 in social activities and consequently in 

 trade. A heavy shipping business was 

 done, large quantities of flowers, espe- 

 cially of the better grades, going to 

 Richmond for use in the decorations 

 incident to Confederate week festivities. 

 American Beauty roses, valley, roses 

 and peonies formed the bulk of the 

 southern business. 



Locally-grown peonies are fast going 

 off crop, but they are being replaced 

 by fine stock from northern points. 

 White peonies have been scarce. The 

 rainy weather of the last five weeks 

 has materially helped the roses, and 

 those received from local growers are 

 exceptionally good. From the north are 

 received fine Shawyer, Killarney Queen, 

 Killarney Brilliant, Sunburst and Ward 

 roses. The cold and rain have, however, 

 kept back all outdoor stock, and ram- 

 blers are fully two weeks late, and 

 only a few outdoor sweet peas are com- 

 ing in. Indoor sweet peas are to be 

 had in fair quantities and of good 

 quality. Gardenias are holding up their 

 quality unusually well and are meeting 

 with a good demand. 



Various Notes. 



J. E. W. Tracy, assistant superin- 

 tendent of test gardens of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, is about to leave 

 the city for the purpose of inspecting 

 the contract fields of vegetable and 

 flower seed for congressional distribu- 

 tion in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado 

 and California. 



Peter Bisset has just returned from 

 a long stay on the Pacific coast. Mr. 

 Bisset was one of the judges of the 

 floral exhibits at the San Francisco 

 exposition. 



F. L. Mulford, landscape gardener of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 Department of Agriculture, left last 

 week for Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, 

 Wis.; Missoula, Mont.; Spokane, Seattle, 

 Portland, and Sacramento and Berkeley, 

 Cal., for the purpose of making a study 

 of ornamental trees, shrubs and plants. 



Alfred E. Robinson, Sheldon A. 

 Robinson, C. H. Breck and Luther A. 

 Breck, all of Lexington, Mass., came 

 to Washington to attend the meeting 

 of the American Rose Society in an 

 automobile. They made the trip in two 

 days and declared it to have been an 

 enjoyable one. After a short stay in 

 the city, they returned in their ma- 

 chine, visiting points of interest en 

 route. 



Joseph W. Heacock, of Wyncote, Pa., 

 was a recent visitor at the local stores. 



Mann & Brown, the Hammond Co., 

 and Ratcliffe & Tanner, of Richmond, 

 Va., enjoyed exceptional business dur- 

 ing the annual encampment of the vet- 



The Market. 



The weather has become warmer and 

 more seasonable. Business is much 

 more brisk, and June weddings, com- 

 mencements and receptions have added 

 their quota to the volume of business, 

 with the result that florists are some- 

 what busy. There are no large wed- 

 dings, however. 



The conditions in the market have 

 changed to a marked degree. Peonies 

 have thronged the June market, in all 

 grades and colors. They seem to be 

 somewhat soft and do not keep as well 

 as in other years. Carnations still are 

 good, but are getting scarcer each week. 

 The demand for roses is increasing. The 

 price is firm, and roses of all varieties 

 are excellent. No special kinds of flow- 

 ers are being used for commencements 

 this year, but all kinds are sold for that 

 purpose. Harrisii lilies have become 

 great favorites for June decorations and 

 are grown in quantities. Sweet peas are 

 excellent and are much in demand. 



Various Notes. 



The recent frosts have done consider- 

 able damage in the Niagara grape belt. 

 Grapes and cherries have been injured 

 so as to cause a shortage in the fruit. 

 Throughout the city parks, tender shrubs 

 and plants show the effects of the frosts, 

 for the foliage and some flowers are 

 blighted. 



Extensive repairs are being made on 

 the C. B. Newman residence at East 

 Akron, N. Y., which was recently pur- 

 chased by Wm F. Kasting. As soon as 

 the repairs are finished, Mr. Kasting 

 and family will move to Akron for the 

 summer. 



S. A. Anderson's force was exceed- 

 ingly busy last week with a number of 

 weddings, a great deal of funeral work, 

 and the graduation bunches for the 

 Buffalo seminary June 3. 



Barney Meyers is growing great quan- 

 tities of Harrisii lilies at the Palmer 

 greenhouses, in Lancaster. They are of 

 fine quality and are useful for wedding 

 and commencement decorations. 



Miss Ruby Marks has moved to the 

 Carlton court apartments, where she is 

 most comfortably located. 



At Stroh 's Quality Shop a few special- 

 ties are being shown. These are blue 

 marguerites, calendulas and snap- 

 dragons of a peculiar shade. Some fine 

 sweet peas are also shipped in from the 

 Attica greenhouses. 



The opening of the mammoth piano 

 stores at Poppenberg's made consider- 

 able work for the downtown florists. 

 There were baskets, plants, large vases 

 of Beauties, etc. 



J. Benson Stafford had a most strik- 

 ing window display recently. It con- 

 sisted of a handsome wreath of red 

 amaranth elevated on a pedestal draped 

 with plush. The wreath was enclosed 

 in a good-sized frame of gilt and plush 

 and a high-powered tungsten light was 

 thrown upon it. It was most effective 

 at night. 



Felix Albert reports business as fair. 

 He had an attractive graduation win- 

 dow last week, with a model girl gradu- 

 ate as a central figure. 



Mr. and Mrs. David Scott, of Corfu, 

 N. Y., spent Sunday, June 6, in Buffalo. 



E. C. A. 



