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The Flotists'Ql^fev46w 



J«NE 24, 1916. 



and arrange exhibits sent by exhibitors 

 who are unable to attend the exhibition 

 personally. The only request he makes 

 is that such exhibitors communicate 

 with him at once. After July 15, all 

 •communications should be addressed to 

 him in care of Daniel MacBorie, vice- 

 president of the society, 430 Fhelan 

 building, San Francisco, Cal. Any com- 

 mission entrusted to him will be exe- 

 cuted to the best of his ability while in 

 the convention city. 



The S. A. F. Badge. 



The S. A. F. annual badge button has 

 been sent to all members who have re- 

 mitted for the 1915 assessment. There 

 are a few life members' buttons still 

 available for those entitled to them and 

 they will be sent upon receipt of 75 

 cents. It would be a convenience to the 

 secretary if the members who have not 

 already done so will send in their 1915 

 assessment at once. The receipts to 

 date for dues compare favorably with 

 those of other years. 



The printed 1915 annual report has 

 also been distributed, and a copy should 

 be in the hands of every member in 

 good standing. John Young, Sec 'y. 



53 West Twenty-eighth street, 

 New York. 



HABTFOED, CONN. 



The Market. 



The retailers have all been busy with 

 weddings and commencements. As 

 these are about over now, store reno- 

 vations and vacations will soon be in 

 order. 



There has been an abundance of 

 stock at reasonable prices. Indoor 

 sweet peas are about past. Boses are 

 showing the effect of the warmer 

 weather in the decreased size of the 

 buds, with the exception of summer va- 

 rieties such as Bussell, Key, Shawyer, 

 Maryland and Milady. Double White 

 Killarney is the only white rose grown 

 in quantity the year around. Carna- 

 tions are about past; the growers are 

 now busy replanting. 



Flower Show. 



The Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its first spring flower show 

 June 10 and 11 in lower Unity hall. 

 The exhibits were laid out to represent 

 flower beds. On each side of the en- 

 trance leading to the hall were box 

 trees shown by W. W. Hunt & Co. 

 They also had an oblong of perennials. 

 John F. Hubs, superintendent of the 

 Goodwin estate, was another exhibitor 

 of a wonderful variety of perennials. 

 He also showed some primroses never 

 exhibited before, discovered in north- 

 ern China by Professor Wilson, of 

 Boston. An effective round bed of 

 blue perennials was shown by Oscar F. 

 Qritzmacher, of New Britain. A round 

 bed of roses was shown by Niel Nel- 

 son, containing in the center Enchant- 

 ress and White Enchantress carnations 

 and sweet peas. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, ar- 

 ranged a long bed of roses of all kinds 

 and also displayed twenty-five blooms 

 of each variety of roses grown in the 

 Cromwell gardens. Four tables were 

 decorated by John Coombs, Edward 

 Welch and Louis Chauvy, assisted by 

 Miss Benson, to represent wedding 

 breakfast tables. 



The design of this exhibition was 

 the creation of Walter A. Cooke, of 



the Stumpp & Walter Co., New York. 

 Following are the awards: 



Perennials — James J. Goodwin, first; W. W. 

 Hunt & Co., second; A. N. Pierson, Inc., tbird. 



Palm and foliage plants — James J. Goodwin, 

 first; Mrs. A. A. Pope, second; A. N. Piersou, 

 Inc., tbird. 



Decorated liibles — Edward Welch, first; Jobn 

 Coombs, second; Louis Cbauvy and Miss Benson, 

 very blgbly commended. 



Cut roses — A. N. Pierson, Inc., first; Niel Nel- 

 son, second; Prof. M. W. Jacobus, tbird. 



Bedding plants — Walter h. Goodwin, first; 

 J. A. Brodrib, second. 



The following certificates were 



awarded: 



W. W. Hunt & Co., first-class certificate for 

 boxwood plants. 



Jobn 0. Willard, first-class certificate for 

 pansies and certificate of merit for columbine. 



Spear & McManus, first-class certiflcatey'for 

 group of palms. 



John Coombs, first-class certificate for groups 

 of palms and lilies. 



J. Albert Brodrib, first-class certificate for 

 group of bedding plants. 



Louis Chauvy, first-class certificate for bedding 

 plants. 



John F. Hubs, first-class certificate for Primula 

 Bulleyana. 



H. L. Ritson, certificate of merit for perennials 

 sod rosGB 



J. Vldhourne & Co., first-class certificate for 

 peonies. 



Alfred Cebellus, certificate of merit for roses, 

 and first class certificate for campanulas. 



MainWAb 



Park department, first-clasa certificate for dis- 

 play of bedding plants. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., first-class certificates for 

 group of palms, group of roses, and for cut roses. 



Warren S. Mason, first-class certificate for 

 perennials. 



Jobn F. Huss, special for best general exhibit, 

 $2.50 in gold, otrered by Walter A. Cooke, of 

 New York. 



Oscar F, Grltzmacher, first-class certificate for 

 group of perennials, 



Niel Nelson, first-class certificate for roses, 

 carnations and sweet peas. 



Various Notes. 



John Coombs' new house is well un- 

 der way. Planting wiU be started 

 shortly. 



Signboard advertising is now popu- 

 lar among the retailers. 



Charles Peterson, who has been man- 

 ager of the Whiting greenhouses for a 

 number of years, has purchased the 

 business and will take possession July 

 1. The business will be conducted un- 

 der the old name. 



Axel G. Bloomberg, who had charge 

 of the carnation department of A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., until recently, has joined 

 the staff of M. 'Field & Sons, of 

 Grimsby, Ontario. B. C. S. 



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Kalamazoo, Mich. — After having been 

 in bed all the latter part of the winter 

 with typhoid pneumonia, Brott, the 

 Florist, is around again. 



Minot, N. D.— Mrs. I. Hudspeth, for- 

 merly manager of the Flower Shop & 

 Nursery, Marysville, Cal., is now con- 

 nected with Valker's Greenhouses. 



Shippensburg, Pa. — U. G. Harglerode 

 has taken his two sons into partnership 

 and the business now is being conducted 

 under the name of Harglerode & Sons. 



Oary, Ind. — A. T. Bushong has re- 

 turned from a trip to Green Bay, Wis., 

 where he was at one time at the head 

 of the street railway department of the 

 Wisconsin Public Service Co. 



Eldora, la. — C. C. Wakeling, formerly 

 of Oskaloosa and later lessee of the 

 Harlem Greenhouses at Eiver Forest, 

 111., has come here to become manager 

 of Pierce's Greenhouses and Vegetable 

 Gardens, in which he has acquired an 

 interest. 



Bacine, Wis.— W. S. Jackson, of the 

 Lake View Greenhouses, has presented 

 a claim of $150 against the city for 

 the damage done his automobile in a 

 collision with Fire Chief Cape's car 

 a short time ago. The responsibility 

 for the disaster is disputed. 



Walla Walla, Wash.— Andrew H. 

 Freeborough, 54 South Palouse street, 

 who recently entered the florists' busi- 

 ness for himself, has left for the har- 

 vest fields for the summer. He states 

 that the town has gone automobile 

 crazy and people are not buying flowers. 



Salt Lake City, Utah.— At the death 

 of Eichard E. Evans the business con- 

 ducted under his name was incor- 

 porated as the Evans Floral Co. 

 George A. Peterson, who has been with 

 the firm sixteen years, continues in the 

 position of manager, which he has held 

 for the last nine years. 



Haverhill, Mass. — Frank Leith has 

 taken his son into partnership and the 

 firm trades as Frank Leith & Son. 

 Business has been excellent since spring 

 came. 



Cincinnati, O. — William Murphy, 

 after seven months of illness, during 

 which his case was given up as hope- 

 less by three physicians, is out on the 

 street again. 



Hastings, Neb. — The widow and elder 

 son of Charles W. Winkler have asked 

 the court for an order restraining the 

 filing of deeds which transfer the great- 

 er part of his $35,000 estate to Charles 

 W. Winkler, Jr., to the exclusion of the 

 widow and other son. Mr. Winkler's 

 incompetency is alleged. 



Paterson, N. J. — The judges at the 

 third annual exhibition of the Paterson 

 Floricultural Society, June 14, were 

 James McCollom, superintendent of 

 parks, Arthur Vescelius, the florist, and 

 Thomas Heminsley, a grower. The ex- 

 hibit of George H. Peterson, of Fair- 

 lawn, was the most interesting single 

 display. 



Denver, Colo. — Mrs. J. A. Valentine 

 is convalescing in a local hospital, fol- 

 lowing an operation performed early in 

 June, for appendicitis and related dis- 

 orders. She had been ill for some time 

 before going to the hospital and was 

 not strong enough to rally quickly after 

 the operation, but her ultimate restora- 

 tion to good health is confidently ex- 

 pected. 



Lancaster, Pa. — Frank M. Siebold, the 

 son of Julius P. and Mrs. Siebold, re- 

 cently forsook his trade of pattern- 

 maker and returned home to take up 

 the wholesale florists' business with his 

 parents, their trade having increased 

 to such proportions as to make this 

 necessary. "And," adds Mrs. Siebold, 

 "of course The Beview sells all the 

 stock." 



