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The Florists' Review 



ACODST 19, 191S. 



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WILD SMILAZ, 50-lb. cases par case, $5.00 



Imported green and bronze Magnolia Baskets, $1.60: 6 baskets, each 1.25 



Oalax Leaves, green and bronze, per lUtiu, $1.'25; case of lU.OOO 7.60 



Ore^n Leuc -tboe Sprays, extra fine, per 100, Sl.-O: per ,0(0 7.->0 



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Sphagnum Moss, per bale 1.60 



BOXWOOD, per lb., 20o; per case, 50 lbs 7.50 



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Newport is at its height, and at all the 

 fashionable summer resorts there are 

 receptions and dinners galore. Every- 

 thing first-class of any kind of rose is 

 quickly taken. It, is the great percent- 

 age of short-stemmed stock that makes 

 the average so low. The new cutting 

 has begun. 



There are few , carnations yet, and 

 few of these desirable; so prices con- 

 tinue low. Orchids, too, are off crop 

 and anything of value holds. But the 

 demand is light and no further ad- 

 vance is anti ipated. 



There has been no change in lilies or 

 valley worthy of notice, and certainly 

 no shortage. Goldenrod and Hydrangea 

 paniculata grandiflora help to fill the 

 retail windows. Sweet peas are im- 

 proving and a few tritomas are arriv- 

 ing. 



Want the Convention. 



A special meeting of the Florists' 

 Club .was held August 16 at which it 

 was, decided to telegraph an invitation 

 to' Sail Francisco for th* S. A. F. to 

 hold its convention in 1916 in New 

 York. 



Various Notes. 



L. B. Nason and Frank K. Lamer- 

 eaux, of Port Jervis, motored to Dela- 

 ware Water Gap and through the Dela- 

 ware valley last week, a distance of 

 over 240 miles. 



It is a remarkable fact that no resi- 

 dent of this big city attended the S. 

 A. F. convention except the secretary. 

 Those who made the trip live in New 

 Jersey or Connecticut, and the number 

 is e.asily counted. 



The plans of Roman J. Irwin's new 

 home, at Chatsworth Heights, Larch- 

 mont, are most attractive and elabo- 

 rate. 



Robert MacNiff, of the MacNiff Hor- 

 ticultural Co., celebrated his birthday 

 August 12. 



The veteran wholesaler, J. K. Allen, 

 will celebrate his sixtieth birthday 

 August 20. Mr. Allen has given his 

 entire time and talents to the florists' 

 business during the last thirty-nine 

 years, and has been in its wholesale cut 

 flower department since 1882. 



H. C. Riedel left Saturday, August 

 14, for a month 's vacation. He will 

 visit friends in Canada and his firm 's 

 violet growers at Rhinebeck, while 

 away. 



C. C. Trepel and family are in the 



Catskills. Mr. Trepel 's conservatory 

 on the top of his store at Broadway 

 and Eighty-ninth street is rapidly ap- 

 proaching completion. 



H. E. Froment will return next week 

 from the Adirondacks. 



M. C. Ebel, of Madison, N. J., was 

 unable to take the gardeners' and park 

 superintendents' trip to San Francisco, 

 because of a long continued fight with 

 Job's comforters. 



Roy Bailey, of Dakota, son-in-law of 

 J. B. Nugent, is visiting his relatives 

 in this city. Miss Hanit, bookkeeper 

 for Young & Nugent, is at Flemington, 

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Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, 

 August 22, the New York Horticultural 

 Society will have an exhibition at the 

 Museum building, Bronx park. The ex- 

 hibits will be gladioli, annuals and 

 montbretias. Dr. M. T. Cook will lec- 

 ture on "Fungous Diseases in the 

 Flower Garden." J. Austin Shaw. 



Wertheimer Bros. qajC^hat in spite of 

 the war they are showLng more foreign 

 novelties this y6ia.r than in many sea- 

 sons. The assortment of domestic nov- 

 elties also has been increased and they 

 report a rousing business, and look for- 

 ward to a banner season. 



BEPOBT ON SCHOOL OABDENS. 



[Oontioned from page 27.] 



In California this year, the superin- 

 tendent of schools, Thomas L. Heaton, 

 of San Francisco, has been busy in his 

 efforts for a school garden exhibit at 

 th^ exposition. San Diego and Los 

 Angela stand as a testimonial to the 

 efforts *f school authorities to encour- 

 age gardening at home. A letter re- 

 cently feettved from Morris M. Rath- 

 bun, of Los Angeles, tells of cash 

 prizes distributed, ranging from $5, 

 for the individual home student gar- 

 dener, to a $500 prize for the school 

 making the best showing in 1915. This 

 work cleaned up many neglected lots, 

 and turned waste places into beauty 

 spots. Los Angeles, to do this work 

 well, employed an expert teacher-flo- 

 rist, and good results of the work are 

 seen in many of the cities and towns 

 of the Pacific coast. At Portland, Ore., 

 work of this kind is being carried on 

 under the direction of a landscape ar- 

 tist from Chicago, who is specially em- 

 ployed to give instruction in this line. 



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la erery stateHSbiis Jfood work is be- 

 ing •carrted on. School gardening has 

 its Ifreatest application -jn our great 

 cities. School gardening 'aims to take 

 hold and interest the city boys. At a 

 flower show held in New York, in the 

 Museum of Natural History, the school 

 children came in classes to view the 

 exhibits. They were children born in 

 congested sectiojos of N6w York, .isome 

 of them never having been iu the 

 country, and the wonder at seeing so 

 many flowers was expressed without 

 reserve. 



In Philadelphia the school garden 

 work is well organized, and the back 

 yard3 oJf'th,^usands of little houses re- 

 veal a tast^ and industry of great im- 

 portance to anyone. Probably no 

 other city is doing more by organized 

 effort in home and public gardening 

 instruction than Toronto, Ont. It has 

 a climate opposite to that of southern 

 California, yet the same appreciation 

 of the beautiful and the value of eco- 

 nomic thrift is evidenced in both sec- 

 tions. Down the Ohio river, in city 

 after city, school gardening and home 

 gardening are being carried on. <A.t 

 Evansville, Ind., J. D. Carmody has 

 encouraged this sort of work, and 

 lately has given valuable land for gar- 

 den and park use. This illustration 

 serves simply to show the interest in 

 this great work. It is one that grows, 

 and no craft can do more to encourage 

 it and profit by it than the florists of 

 America. In so doing the homes of 

 the people of America are made the 

 more beautiful. 



Evansville, Ind. — Charles 8. Wiggin- 

 ton is preparing several acres of ground 

 for the culture of peonies next season. 



