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The Rotists' Review 



AUOVBT 6, 1915. 



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NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



Intense heat, . at times up to 100 de- 

 grees, marked the closing days of last 

 week, and this intensified the universal 

 depression in the cut flower market. 



Boses and carnations are just mark- 

 ing time. Of the former there continue 

 to be a few good American Beauties 

 and novelties. Carnations are practi- 

 cally done for, the few arriving having 

 "fallen asleep." The seaside and 

 mountain resorts absorb any worth- 

 while roses that arrive. The dearth, 

 however, will soon end, and the new 

 cutting begin long before the market 

 is ready for it. 



Orchids last week made a quick re- 

 covery from the long drawn out slump 

 in which they have suflPered for weeks. 

 Some fine Cattleya gigas sold as high 

 as 60 cents each, the same stock that 

 went a-begging not many days before 

 at -25 cents. The supply of orchids is 

 now short, and there developed an 

 unexpected demand. 



Valley is unsettled at $2 to $2.50 

 for the best, and longiflorum lilies hold 

 at similar quotations. Of the latter 

 there continues a great abundance. 

 Swee^t peas show the effect of recent 

 daily showers. Dahlias are here in, as 

 yet, limited quantities. 



As to the present aster and gladiolus 

 floods, these flowers absolutely domi- 

 nate the market, and the flow has just 

 begun. It is impossible to quote accu- 

 rate prices; they vary with the day 

 and hour. 



Various Notes. 



In another week the S. A. F. excur- 

 sionists will be on their way to San 

 Francisco. Some who gave up the 

 trip are reconsidering. After all, there 

 may be no complaints necessary as to 

 the limited attendance from the east. 



George Siebrecht is enjoying his 

 summer in Westchester county. 



Angelo Dentale, of Young & Nugent, 

 with his family, has left for a two 

 weeks' vacation at Wallkill, N. Y. 

 Miss Hanft, bookkeeper for this house, 

 has recovered from a severe illness. 



Max Schling has left with his family 

 for a week's stay in the Adirondacks. 

 He has many weeks of landscape work 

 contracted for in the Adirondacks, on 

 Long Island and at Tarrytown. 



Walter Siebrecht and family will 

 spend the month of August at Lake 

 George. 



Several New Yorkers, seedsmen and 

 others, attended the outing of the Tar- 

 rytown Horticultu^l Society at Rye 

 Beach, August 4. 



R. Vincent, Jr., offers 1,000 dahlia 

 blooms free of cost to a retail florist 

 Who will use them in a decoration at 

 the September show of the American 

 Dahlia Society. 



H. C. Riedel is doing jury duty. 



John Gunther suggests that for next 

 year's outing of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club, instead of the time-honored 

 boat ride, an automobile trip be taken 

 to some Westchester county resort on 

 the sound. A dozen or so sight-seeing 

 automobiles could be engaged, and the 

 ride would attract a larger attendance, 

 while the games and dinners would be 

 held as before. 



Miss Rose Grafman, bookkeeper for 



J. K. Allen, will leave August 14 for 

 her annual two weeks' vacation at the 

 seashore. Mr. Allen has erected a 

 large tent in his yard, at 118 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, and this, with 

 the big trees, makes an ideal resting 

 place in the heart of the big city. 



Paul Meconi has been enjoying his 

 vacation in Vermont. 



The New York Florists' Bowling 

 Club's outing at Barnegat, N. J., was 

 a most enjoyable affair. Those who 

 participated were Joseph Fenrich, R. J. 

 Irwin, Wm. H. Duckham, Chas. H. 

 Totty, A. J. Guttman, W. P. Ford, John 



Mie^em, C. W. Scott, P. Jacobsen and 

 H. Q. Riedel. 



Margaret Hamburger, bookkeeper for 

 Woodrow & Marketos, has returned 

 from a two weeks' vacation at Moun- 

 taindale, in the Catskills. 



W. J. Elliott is fishing and bathing 

 this week at Asbury Park. Carroll 

 Elliott is at Atlantic City, N. J. 



Robert MaeNiff will return Saturday, 

 August 7, from Bermuda. 



A magnificent display of gladioli, all 

 named, is in the windows of the 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., on Barclay 

 street. J. Austin Shaw. 



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Ravenna, O. — C. J. Mellen, for twenty 

 years proprietor of the Mellen Green- 

 house Co., on West Main street, has 

 retired, and the business has been 

 leased to S. P. Pike. 



Evanston, HI. — John G. Northcott, a 

 former Kew man who has been in 

 Canada and the United States for 

 eight years, now is established here as a 

 landscape contractor, with an office at 

 807 Greenwood avenue. 



Washington, Pa. — ^Albert Marland, 

 who has operated the Allison Avenue 

 Greenhouse for the last two years, was 

 a student in the American Farmer's 

 School for Gardening and Greenhouse 

 Maaiagement. 



St. Louis, Mich. — J. G. Lower has 

 been unable to operate his greenhouse 

 during the winter months because of 

 prolonged illness. Mr. Lower, however, 

 stocks up each spring in time for the 

 Easter business. 



Dallas, Tex. — W. E. Hess, for eight 

 years in the employ of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the tropics, has 

 purchased four acres of land about a 

 quarter of a mile from the Texas state 

 fair park. He intends to grow pot 

 plants and vegetables. 



Montpelier, Ind. — E. E. Stinson, pro- 

 prietor of the Montpelier Greenhouses, 

 vreports business above normal. The 

 unusual weather has pushed outside 

 stock so far forward that it cannot be 

 given away. Greenhouse stock is doing 

 well, however. _ 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — Frederick 

 Hoekstra, of the Wealthy Avenue Floral 

 Co., was overjoyed when he received 

 word from his niece, Miss Margaret 

 Hoekstra, that she was not a victim of 

 the Eastland disaster at Chicago. Miss 

 Hoekstra is an employee of the West- 

 ern Electric Co., which chartered the 

 Eastland for its employees' annual ex- 

 cursion. 



Houston, Tex. — R. C. Kerr, president 

 of the Texas State Florists' Associa- 

 tion, was on the program of the Texas 

 State Horticultural Society's annual 

 meeting, August 2 and 3, at College 

 Station, for an address on "The Texas 

 Florists' Need of an Experimental 

 Range of Glass for Commercial Cut 

 Flowers, and How It Will Benefit Hor- 

 ticulturists in General." 



Bloomington, Ind. — George Ede, of 

 North Walnut street, is quite ill. 



Ironwood, Mich. — Richard Lutey, pro- 

 prietor of the Ironwood Greenhouses, 

 has been visiting his sister at Laurium, 

 Mich. 



Macon, Oa. — Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. 

 Horgan, of the Idle Hour Nurseries, 

 will attend the S. A. F. convention at 

 San Francisco after an extensive tour 

 of the west. 



EvansviUe, Ind. — Karl Zeidler has 

 become a firm believer in cyclone in- 

 surance. June 16 he covered his range 

 with a policy. June 21 a big wind did 

 a lot of damage. July 10 he received 

 the company's check for the loss. 



Donna, Tex. — Eltweed Pomeroy was 

 on the program of the annual meeting 

 of the Texas State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, August 2 and 3, at College Sta- 

 tion, for an address on "Commercial 

 Flower Bulb Growing in the Rio Grande 

 Valley." 



Lancaster, Pa. — Harry A. Schroyer 

 has been notified by the board of man- 

 agers of the York Fair Association of 

 his selection as judge at the flower 

 show to be held in connection with the 

 fair October 5. Mr. Schroyer has offi- 

 ciated in this capacity for about fifteen 

 years. 



Media, Pa.— George W. Bosler, who 

 purchased a large greenhouse here in 

 April, has had a successful season, and 

 says that if business keeps up he will 

 be compelled to enlarge his facilities. 

 Mr. Bosler was formerly in the grocery 

 business, and about a year ago pur- 

 chased the nurseries of Miss P. A. 

 Baker ^ on Orange street. In April he 

 sold his grocery interests in order to 

 give all his time to the nurseries and 

 newly acquired greenhouse. 



Pawtucket, E. I. — Albert L. Warner 

 observed his eighty-first birthday July 

 28. Full of vigor, he goes about his 

 greenhouses and among his customers 

 with almost as much alacrity as he did 

 twenty years ago and certainly with 

 as much enthusiasm as many men of 

 40. After many years of seafaring life, 

 Mr. Warner settled down with his wife 

 and has devoted himself to the grow- 

 ing and handling of flowers for a long 

 time. For the last few years, how- 

 ever, he has specialized in asparagus. 



