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The Florists^ Review 



June 17, 1915. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



With a week of exceptionally warm 

 weather, the bottom seemed to drop out 

 of the market. There was a large sup- 

 ply of fairly good stock, but there was 

 practically no demand. Part of the ac- 

 cumulations of the week were sold 

 to the street fakers by the whole- 

 sale stores, but even these buyers would 

 take only small quantities of stock. 

 The death of a prominent local archi- 

 tect created a little extra demand for 

 funeral work among the larger stores, 



Roses and carnations show the effect 

 of the warm weather, both in size and 

 color. Some storage peonies are being 

 offered, but are not selling rapidly, 

 even at low figures. The retailers had 

 their innings this week, being able to 

 secure the pick of the available stock 

 at almost their own prices. 



The pot plant season is rapidlj draw- 

 ing to an end and nearly all growers 

 handling this line report a satisfactory 

 season. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the club was 

 held June 14. President Hamilton oc- 

 cupied the chair. The extremely wai'm 

 evening no doubt kept many members 

 away. Eichard Vincent, Jr., recently 

 elected president of the American 

 Dahlia Society, spoke of this organiza- 

 tion and gave an outline of the work 

 the society plans to do in the near fu- 

 ture. He requested the support of the 

 local club. F, C. Bauer gave an im- 

 promptu talk on fertilizers and spoke 

 especially of his experiences in using 

 bone meal. Secretary Flitton also made 

 some remarks on the value of different 

 kinds of fertilizers and humus. The 

 entertainment committee was instructed 

 to look into the matter of securing a 

 suitable place to hold the annual outing 

 of the club and will report at the next 

 meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Joseph Weiner has opened a retail 

 store under the Eochambeau apartment 

 house, Charles street, near Franklin. 



Charles Siegwart has a fine lot of 

 Cattleya Mossiae, many of them show- 

 ing from fifteen to eighteen buds and 

 blooms to the plant. This is the first 

 year Mr. Siegwart has had this variety. 



Evans & Le Brun have formed a co- 

 partnership and have taken over the 

 store and business formerly conducted 

 by Gus Lawson, Jr., at 3419 Eastern 

 avenue. 



C. E. Akehurst & Sons last week 

 shipped over 15,000 blooms of their 

 new carnation, Mrs. C. E. Akehurst, 

 to the Pennock-Meehan Co. A fine lot 

 of plants of this variety has been 

 grown for fall sales. 



Halliday Bros, sent in last week 

 about four dozen blooms of Chrysolora 

 chrysanthemum from their greenhouses 

 at Monkton, The flowers averaged 

 about four inches in diameter. 



The rose range of Stevenson Bros, is 

 looking fine and was in full crop last 

 week, their Killarney Brilliant being 

 worthy of special mention. 



J. L. Willheim's horse, standing at 

 Charles and Hamilton streets June 12, 

 took fright at a passing car and ran 

 away six squares before he was caught. 

 On his journey he collided with an 

 auto, which he damaged somewhat, but 

 no one was injured. 



Edward Kress is removing all his 



greenhouses at his North avenue store 

 and will erect dwellings in their stead, 

 with a display and palm house in the 

 rear and attached to his present store 

 front. 



F. J. Michell, Jr., and L. J. Seiger, 

 of Philadelphia, were callers last week. 



W. F. E. 



Charles E. Smith & Co. have leased 

 the building at 207 North Liberty 

 street and will remove to it from 121 

 North Liberty street. 



MAMABONECK, N. Y. 



An interesting feature of the month- 

 ly meeting of the Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society was the 

 grand display on the exhibition tables, 

 for which the exhibitors deserve great 

 credit. 



The judges made the following 

 awards: Dehn & Bertolf, honorable 

 mention for display of flowering shrubs 

 and perennials; James Stuart, cultural 

 certificate for specimen plant of Cal- 

 ceolaria Stewartii; Thomas Eyan, vote 

 of thanks for vase of assorted Spencer 

 sweet peas; Robert Grunnert, for col- 

 lection of Spencer sweet peas, twelve 

 vases, twelve varieties, very highly 

 commended; Calceolaria Bailorii, from 

 P. W. Popp, cultural certificate; vase 

 of White Killarney from William Whit- 



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tier, cultural certificate. James Linane 

 was highly commended for a specimen 

 gloxinia. James Foster received hon- 

 orable mention for a vase of peonies. 

 Joseph Tieman received votes of thanks 

 for peonies and a display of spinach. 



Joseph Manda, of South Orange, 

 N. J., and Mr. Watkins, of Burnett 

 Bros., New York, each addressed the 

 meeting and complimented the society 

 on the fine showing made by the mem- 

 bers. 



The summer show committee reported 

 everything in readiness for the exhibi- 

 tion, to be held in the town hall, Green- 

 wich, Conn., June 18 and 19. Fifty- 

 five classes are provided for and a fine 

 exhibition of seasonable flowers, fruits 

 and vegetables is expected. The fall 

 show committee also reported progress 

 and has ready for distribution copies 

 of the preliminary schedule, providing 

 for 111 classes. Handsome prizes of 

 cash, silver cups, medals, cut glass and 

 useful silverware articles will be of- 

 fered. 



The outing committee reported the 

 date of the annual outing and games of 

 the society to be August 11, and the 

 place will be Edwards' Rye Beach Inn, 

 Rye Beach, N. Y. The popularity of 

 these outings in the past assures a big 

 crowd this year. 



The next meeting will be held July 9. 

 P. W. Popp, Cor. Sec'y. 



Worcester, Mass. — William N. Esta- 

 brook will add another greenhouse, 28x 

 150 feet, which he will heat by hot 

 water. 



Ware, Mass. — Chas. H. Walker has 

 erected a greenhouse, and is doing busi- 

 ness under the name of the Elm Green- 

 house. 



Palmer, Mass. — James P. Smith, for- 

 merly with A. N. Pierson, Inc., Crom- 

 well, Conn., has joined the greenhouse 

 staff of L. A. & C. A. Royce. 



Brattleboro, Vt. — Alexander L. W. 

 Haeseler, for two years manager at 

 Carl S. Hopkins' greenhouses, has en- 

 tered the employ of Carroll Bond. 



East Bridgewater, Mass. — The dahlia 

 season is over, so far as the sale of 

 roots is concerned. J. K. Alexander 

 says it has been a quite good year after 

 all. He has planted all his stock and 

 has about thirty-five acres with not a 

 thing on them but dahlias. About Sep- 

 tember there will be one of the most 

 gorgeous shows of color to be found 

 anywhere in America. 



Holliston, Mass, — James Lockhart, 

 for the last fourteen years in the em- 

 ploy of J. E. Long, died June 3 at the 

 Union Avenue hospital, in Framing- 

 ham, where he was taken three weeks 

 ago suffering from an attack of grippe. 

 He was 81 years old, a native of Scot- 

 land, and had been in this country 

 since he was 20 years old. He had no 

 known relatives in this country, and 

 had been cared for by his employer 

 while he was in poor health the last 

 year. 



Haverhill, Mass, — M. F, Perkins has 

 opened a greenhouse business in the 

 rear of his residence, at 48 Haverhill 

 street, with a line of vegetable and bed- 

 ding plants. 



New Castle, N. H.— William Lefeber, 

 of the recently dissolved partnership of 

 Schilder & Lefeber, Swarthmore, Pa., 

 has leased the greenhouses of C. W. 

 Eaton. Mr. Lefeber took charge of 

 the property June 1. 



Adams, Mass. — A. J. Boothman had a 

 narrow escape June 7, when the Boston 

 & Albany passenger train smashed the 

 right forward wheel and crushed the 

 radiator of his truck, -yphich he had 

 stopped in the nick of time only a foot 

 from the train. Giving attention to, a 

 trolley car, he was unaware of the ap- 

 proach of the train until close to it. 

 The step of one of the railway cars 

 did the damage to the automobile. The 

 force of the blow was not enough to 

 tip the car over. Mr. Boothman es- 

 caped uninjured. 



Ansonia, Conn. — Thomas J. Mooney, 

 proprietor of the Ansonia Floral Co., 

 with stores here and in Derby, and of 

 greenhouses near Seymour, was se- 

 riously injured in a jitney collision on 

 the. New Haven road recently. The jit- 

 ney in which Mr. Mooney was riding 

 was running at a high rate of speed 

 and was unable to make the turn to 

 avoid a jitney coming from the op- 

 posite direction. Mr. Mooney and an- 

 other passenger were thrown out. Mr. 

 Mooney was so seriously injured that 

 h(^ wp« taVpn to St. Raphael's hospital. 

 New Haven. 



