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The Florists' Reviev, 



Septembeb 16, 1915. 



auditorium. Plans for the coming sea- 

 son's work were discussed. E. B. M. 



SAGINAW, MICH. 



The Market. 



Business last week was not of the 

 rushing kind. Roses are more plenti- 

 ful and the welcome carnations have 

 made their appearance. The almost 

 continuous rains for the last two weeks 

 have ruined the most hardy outdoor 

 flowers, to say nothing of the asters, 

 which are done for. -Chrysanthemums 

 are not quite ready yet, although there 

 are some expected next week. Ru- 

 brum and album lilies are abundant. 



Various Notes. 



A call on John Zimmerman, at Mt. 

 Pleasant, Mich., was made by Carl L. 

 Roethke, Fred Goetz, Michael Zorn 

 and Henry Goetz, of Saginaw, and J. 

 A. Bittner, of Alma. They were met 

 at the station with a car and taken 

 to the greenhouses, where the stock is 

 in fine shape. Two houses are in car- 

 nations, one in roses, one in chrysan- 

 themums and two in smilax, asparagus 

 and pot plants. Mr. Zimmerman re- 

 ports business as good. The visit to 

 Mt. Pleasant was supposed to be for 

 the monthly meeting of the Saginaw- 

 Bay City Floricultural Society, but 

 neither President Rudolph G. Boeh- 

 ringer nor Vice-President F. H. Ste- 

 vens appeared on the scene, so no meet- 

 ing was held. 



The Wm. Roethke Floral Co. has all 

 its ironwork up on the new houses, 

 which are to be planted to carnations. 



Grohman recently was favored with 

 a large wedding decoration at Gray- 

 ling, which required a quantity of 

 palms and ferns to decorate both house 

 and church, also the flowers for house 

 and bridal party. 



Charles Frueh & Sons have all their 

 houses, which they moved from Hoyt 

 avenue to the Genesee avenue range, 

 planted to winter-blooming stock. 



J. B. Goetz Sons are cutting some 

 fine Mock roses, which are good sellers 

 with them. New carnations are being 

 cut in small quantities of good quality. 



Boehringer Bros., at Bay City, have 

 three Moninger steel-frame houses 22x 

 150 feet, of which two are planted to 

 carnations and one to cool plants and 

 forcing stock. 



D. Shepherd, Bay City, has retired 

 from the florists' business. 



The recent visitors were: L. Hol- 

 land, of M. Rice Co., Philadelphia; 

 S. D. Greene, of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia; A. W. Herre, represent- 

 ing the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago; 

 Harry Balsley, Detroit. Gee. 



NEW BEDFOBD, MASS. 



The Market. 



Though the weather has been excep- 

 tionally warm for September, the out- 

 door flowers have held up well. There 

 has been a glut of asters and gladioli. 

 However, with the help of Flower day, 

 September 12, asters were cleaned up 

 well; the pink ones even became scarce. 



Various Notes. 



The engagement is announced of 

 Fred Reynolds and Mrs. Mabelle T. 

 Edson, of Chester, Vt. The wedding 

 is to take place September 22. 



Post & Gray report an excellent trade 



at their downtown counter. Their new 

 Woods Mobilette delivery is attract- 

 ing a great deal of attention and is 

 of great assistance in making prompt 

 deliveries. Edward Enos, in the em- 

 ploy of this firm, is spending two 

 weeks' vacation in and about Provi- 

 dence. 



Some of the best asters to be had 

 in the city are grown by William 

 Brown, at Cedar street. 



S. E. Shaw has planted a large house 

 to carnations. He is cutting some fine 

 asters and gladioli. 



Joseph V. Pierce is cutting some 

 excellent roses from his new plants. 



W. M. P. 



WOBCESTEB, MASS. 



The Market. 



Retail sales are increasing in vol- 

 ume, after two dull business months, 

 July and August. The home flower 

 gardens are about exhausted, for the 

 public is coming to the florists again. 

 There have been many weddings of 

 late, which have given work to some 

 of the shops. Asters and dahlias have 

 been of good quality, and most of the 

 outdoor flowers are fine. Cold storage 

 lilies have been fair. 



Various Notes. 



H. F. A. Lange has four orders for 

 large wedding decorations this month. 

 At the New England fair he received 

 first prize for a "group of potted plants 

 and in the floral parade Mr. Lange 's 

 car won second prize. The car was 

 decorated with red poppies, lilies and 

 hydrangeas. Mr. Lange has received 

 two bulb shipments from France and 

 one from Japan. 



The windows of Henry Randall have 

 been made highly attractive by well 

 planned displays. Mr. Randall had a 

 car in the New England floral parade, 

 decorated with gladioli, for which he 

 was awarded a prize. H. L. 



PEOVIDENOE, R. I. 



The Market. 



The appearance of a few early chry- 

 santhemums indicates the approach of 

 the season of activity, but as yet there 

 is no stimulation of business. Reports 

 from all the trade indicate that they 

 will be ready for the rush whenever 

 it sets in. Gladioli are (practically 

 gone. Asters are on the wane, field- 

 grown blooms being extremely poor. 

 Prices still sag and it will be a fort- 

 night to four weeks before there will 

 be any material improvement. 



Various Notes. 



Nels G. Pierson, of Norwood,- with 

 his family, is taking a week 's vaca- 

 tion at Quonochontaug, on the south 

 coast of the state. 



Daniel A. Clarke, of the Red Oak 

 Nurseries, Fiskeville, entertained the 

 members of the Rhode Island Field 

 Naturalists' Club September 4, and es- 

 corted them over his 200 acres of stock. 



Dahlia growers in the vicinity of 

 the Elmwood district, of this city, have 

 organized the Elmwood Dahlia Society, 

 with rooms at 167 Huntington avenue. 



Floyd Howe, for a number of years 

 with Macnair, has resigned his posi- 

 tion, to enter another line of busi- 

 ness. 



James Hay has completed his new 



greenhouses and office on Eldredge ave- 

 nue. East Greenwich. 



One of the early weddings will be 

 that of Miss Tyree Banigan, step- 

 daughter of Timothy O'Connor, of this 

 city, and Philip F. L'Engle, of Atlanta, 

 Ga., October 6. 



Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sword, of Lons- 

 dale, are spending a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion in Montreal, Can. 



The Providence Horticultural Co., 

 E. M. Pope, proprietor, has opened a 

 suite of rooms at 107 Westminster 

 street. 



Henry J. Doll has commenced the 

 erection of a small greenhouse in the 

 rear of 609 Douglas avenue. 



Miss Florence Willard, of the Hope 

 Greenhouses, has been confined to the 

 house for the last three weeks by a 

 complication of troubles resulting from 

 an attack of the grip. 



Edward O 'Brien has returned to his 

 work after a month's vacation. 



F. Macrae & Sons are cutting some 

 fine lilies, of which they have a large 

 crop. They are shipping to George 

 Cartwright, at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. 



Joseph Koppelman broke ground last 

 week for another large house at his 

 range on Pawtucket avenue. East Provi- 

 dence. It will be 35x300, of Lord & 

 Burnham construction. He has several 

 thousand hardy looking carnation and 

 chrysanthemum plants, all benched, 

 from which early cuts are expected. 



Cornelius Hartstra and John Mar- 

 shall, of this city, were the judges at 

 the annual dahlia exhibition of the 

 Greystone Horticultural Society, Sep- 

 tember 4. 



The September exhibition of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society will 

 be held at the Narragansett hotel, Sep- 

 tember 16 and 17. W. H. M. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



Last week the weather was decidedly 

 hot, which caused a noticeable business 

 slump. The supply of stock on the mar- 

 ket is far in excess of actual needs. 

 This is particularly true of roses. As- 

 ters are in heavy supply and as yet have 

 shown few signs of a reduction in quan- 

 tity. Gladioli are in good supply. 

 Easter lilies are plentiful and rubrum 

 can be had in any quantity. Dahlias 

 and cosmos are arriving in large 

 batches. Carnations are better than 

 they have been. 



Club Meeting. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society held 

 its regular meeting at Hotel Gibson, 

 September 13. President Max Rudolph 

 was in the chair. J. A. Peterson gave 

 an interesting talk on the S. A. F. con- 

 vention at San Francisco and the 

 Panama-Pacific fair. He was enthusi- 

 astic over both, and regretted that 

 Cincinnati was not better represented 

 at the convention. John Van Leeuwen, 

 who was elected a member of the so- 

 ciety at this meeting, made an address 

 on cooperation of the florists in 

 buying. 



Various Notes. 



Charles E. Critchell was the first 

 florist on Third street to offer chrysan- 

 themums this season. 



J. T. Conger is on his second motor 

 trip to Anderson, Ind. 



J. A. Peterson has started on an ex- 

 tended business trip. 



