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The Florists^ Review 



Jcifi 17, 1916. 



FIRES 



Albany, N. 

 greenhouse of 

 West street, 

 June 7. The 

 an adjoining 

 amounted to 

 and was only 

 ance. 



Y. — Fire destroyed the 

 John Schaefer, at 45 

 shortly after midnight, 

 greenhouse caught from 

 frame barn. The loss 

 several hundred dollars 

 partly covered by insur- 



Brookville, Pa. — Fire destroyed the 

 Y. M. C. A. building June 3, and C. W. 

 Esby & Son, who occupied a store in 

 the structure, lost almost everything in 

 the place. Although most of the con- 

 tents were moved out after the fire 

 started, the total loss of the Y. M. C. 

 A., C. W. Esby & Son and the Glenn 

 meat market, the other occupant, is 

 probably in the neighborhood of $15,000. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



Business was good last week, with 

 commencements, weddings and general 

 trade. We have had all kinds of 

 weather, warm, cold and moderate, with 

 heavy showers, which added variety. 

 There have been no large weddings or 

 funerals the last fortnight. 



Peonies are plentiful, but the de- 

 mand for them is light. The quality 

 of the blooms this year is inferior, and 

 some varieties seem blighted in the 

 bud. Boses are a drug on the market. 

 Eussell, Shawyer, Hadley and Key are 

 coming in well for the summer crop. 

 Ward, Taft and Milady are holding up 

 well. Because of the continued cool 

 weather, carnations are fine in quality 

 for so late in the season. Even at 

 cheap prices, they seem to be the fa- 

 vorite with flower buyers at present. 

 Irises are coming into the market in 

 small quantities, and are only fair in 

 quality. It is too early for the delicate- 

 ly colored Spanish irises. Gladioli, 

 both the baby and giant varieties, are 

 again with us. America is good and 

 sells well. Pyrethrums, cornflowers, 

 marguerites, Sander daisies and cut 

 pansies are plentiful. There are a few 

 good hydrangeas, ramblers, spiraeas and 

 gloxinias to be had in the plant line. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Miller, of the firm of Miller & 

 Stroh, Alden, N. Y., was a visitor last 

 week. His firm is growing some good 

 carnations and sweet peas. Next year 

 they intend growing the orchid type of 

 sweet pea, since the common type is not 

 much in demand now. 



Kramer, the Florist, of Washington, 

 D. C, was here last week, attending the 

 convention of the Veiled Prophets of 

 the Enchanted Realm, held in this city 

 June 7 to 9. 



H. M. Petrie, of Stroh 's Quality 

 Shop, will leave soon to spend the sum- 

 mer in the Adirondacks. 



Joseph Sangster is showing some ex- 

 cellent Gladiolus America, which make 

 a good window display. He is having* 

 a top built for a new delivery truck, 

 which will soon be put into operation. 

 Business, he reports, is good. 



J. Benson Stafford is displaying as a 

 special feature a model bride's bouquet 

 during June. Artistic Japanese flower 

 holders, Italian vases and jardinieres 

 are also displayed. A window box 

 about five inches wide, made of wire 



screen, trimmed with green moss and 

 filled with soil, in which are planted 

 vinca vines and blue ageratums, is 

 most effective as a blue, green and 

 white edging around the store window. 



Stroh 's Quality Shop is offering ex- 

 cellent carnations, which are grown at 

 the greenhouses in Attica. Benora, En- 

 chantress Supreme and White Wonder 

 are some of the excellent keepers. Ed 

 Stroh will soon leave for Attica, where 

 he will take up the greenhouse work. 



W. J. Palmer & Son are growing fine 

 America gladioli. They have also 

 fancy grasses, which are grown under 

 glass. They are used in bunch and 

 corsage work and add a dainty touch 

 to basket effects or centerpieces. 



S. A. Anderson's attraction last week 

 was a Japanese garden window display. 

 Various sizes, shapes and specimens of 

 Japanese gardens, staged with Japa- 

 nese baskets, bowls and novelties made 

 vivid with blue and white Japanese 

 crepe of a pine tree pattern, were quite 

 attractive. Masses of blue hydrangeas 

 formed the background, and tall vases 

 of yellow snapdragons and low bowls 

 filled with yellow marguerites brought 

 out beautiful contrasts of color. 



Wm. A. Adams and Al Vick were 

 busy men last week entertaining out- 

 of-town visitors to the Veiled Prophets' 

 convention. E. C. A. 



PITTSBUEGH. 



The Market. 



Pittsburgh had a few warm days 

 last week and everything came into 

 bloom at once. There were such quan- 

 tities of flowers that every person on 

 the street seemed to be carrying an arm 

 load of peonies, irises or other outdoor 

 flowers. The wholesale houses were 

 loaded. Everything you can think of 



was plentiful and trade dropped oiit 

 of sight. It seemed impossible to move 

 all the stock at any price; it was the 

 worst glut in a year. The retail stores 

 looked beautiful, as the great quanti- 

 ties of cheap stock enabled them to 

 make great shows. Many of the re- 

 tailers report business excellent, wed- 

 dings being numerous. 



Various Notes.i 



The A. W. Smith Co. grows great 

 quantities of outdoor flowers at its 

 Canfield, O., place and made elaborate 

 displays of these last week. 



Randolph & McClements still are 

 busy with planting as well as the ordi- 

 nary run of store work. 



G. P. Weaklen & Co. seem well satis- 

 fied with business, notwithstanding 

 they are out where everyone has flow- 

 ers in his own garden. 



William Turner's store business has 

 grown until he is satisfied be can do 

 better by leasing his greenhouses and 

 giving his whole time to the store. 



Harry Hamm, who has been confined 

 to his home for six weeks with scarlet 

 fever, was able to get out last week and 

 found that in his absence his shop had 

 been redecorated inside and out and 

 everything done to give him a pleasant 

 surprise on his return to business. 



Karl Koenig, who has been the prin- 

 cipal bulb grower of this section for 

 years, is seriously ill with pneumonia. 



Ray T. Page, auditor of the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co., has been serious- 

 ly ill for several weeks and still is con- 

 fined to his home. 



The south side florists last week were 

 in evidence at the firemen 's convention, 

 which met in Carrick. In the automo- 

 bile parade J. J. Fuchs was awarded 

 second prize and F. J. Riegelmeier also 

 had an artistic car. Clarke. 



MaiiJy About l^ode 

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Yalaha, Fla.— Trusten P. Drake, pro- 

 prietor of the Drake Point Greenhouses, 

 has left for New Rochelle, N. Y., where 

 he will stay with Dr. B. F. Drake, of 75 

 Main street. 



Berlin, Ont. — Norman M. Critchison, 

 formerly at Walkerton, Ont., has moved 

 here to take the position of manager 

 of the Berlin Floral Co., succeeding 

 J. S. Orlowski. 



New Orleans, La. — Harry Papworth, 

 president of the Metairie Ridge Nur- 

 sery Co., has asked permission of the 

 police jury of Jefferson parish to make 

 certain improvements on parish prop- 

 erty between the Seventeenth street 

 canal and the company's nursery. The 

 plans include the planting of trees, 

 shrubbery, etc. 



York, Pa. — A bill in equity has been 

 filed in the County court by John E. 

 White against Abdiel Neller, in which 

 the former asserts that Mr. Neller and 

 he were partners in the greenhouse 

 business at West York, and that Mr. 

 Neller excluded him from its manage- 

 ment and refuses to account for the 

 profi^ The defendant is given thirty 

 days in which to make answer. 



Belleville, HL — If the city, upon the 

 petition of the West Side Improvement 

 Association, will set aside the necessary 

 ground at West End square, Henry 

 Emunds will set out plants and flowers 

 on it, as an aid to the organization in 

 its work of beautifying that part of 

 the city. 



Cleveland, O. — In the garden columns 

 of the Plain-Dealer for May 27 ap- 

 peared an interview and a portrait of 

 Frank A. Filler, head florist at Gordon 

 park. Before entering the employ of 

 the park department, Mr. Filler had a 

 long experience as a commercial flo- 

 rist. He served his apprenticeship with 

 E. L. Koethen, at Zanesville, his na- 

 tive town, and was for nine years with 

 J. E. Bonsall, at Salem. 



Streator, HI. — Fred Palmer, fireman 

 at the greenhouses of George Whit- 

 comb, was found dead in the boiler 

 room on the evening of May 25 by the 

 proprietor. When the body was found, 

 the hands were grasping an electric 

 light socket and cord, and it is not 

 known whether death was due to heart 

 failure entirely, or partly to electric 

 shock. He had had occasional fits of 

 illness while on duty. He was 57. 



