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The Weekly FIorists*feiew. 



July 21, 1904. 



the Market lease gives it first call on its 

 present quarters iu that event. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth are at 

 Cincinnati this week attending the 

 gathering of Mks. 



George Weinhoeber is in Colorado for 

 a three weeks' vacation. 



A special meeting of the Florists' Club 

 was called for last evening to act on 

 the new by-laws and other pressing 

 matters. 



The growers at Beinbergs' have a 

 first-class base ball team. Last Sunday 

 they were defeated, 9 to 10, by the Only 

 Ways, one of the best of the local 

 amateur teams. 



Visitors this week were: E. G. Hill, 

 Richmond, Ind.; S. 3. Skidelsky, Phila- 

 delphia. 



H. N. Bruns and family are at Pewau- 

 kee, Wis., for an outing. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



T&e Market. 



While business is very dull, it is not 

 any duller than in midsummer a year 

 ago. There is a little doing every day. 

 The bright particular day from a busi- 

 iiess .standpoint was Thursday of last 

 week, when J. J. Haberm?hl'3 Sons deco- 

 rated the Eoyal Palace at Atlantic City 

 for the Shriners. Th?y used gladioli. 

 Liberties, carnations and peonies. How 

 did they manage that? Among other 

 flowers, asters are more plentinil and 

 higher in price. Carnations are in de- 

 mand, especially Hill and ('rocker. Sweet 

 peas are held a little more firmly. Greens 

 are very slow sellers. 



Various Notes. 



Letters received here this week from 

 Paris and from London state that H. 

 Payersdorfer is having a very success- 

 ful trip. He. will sail for home the 

 end of July. 



A meeting of the creditors of Robert 

 Craig & Son has been called for Tuesday 

 next, 3 p. m., at Forty-.iinth and Market 

 streets, by the assignee, John Burton. 



M. Rice & Co. have put throe new sales- 

 men on the road, two for distant cities 

 and one for this city. They promise that 

 the finest exhibit of florists ' supplies ever 

 made will be seen under their banner at 

 St. Louis. 



H. M. Collins, of Bo3\in, was a visitor 

 this week. 



Sanuiel S. Pennock ap.vaks iu glowing 

 terms of the stock of field grown car- 

 nation.s that he is ofl'eriiig. They come 

 from i^ distance and iro better, even, 

 than last year, when two experts sai<l 

 thev were the best they had ever seen. 



The Conard & Jones Co. appears to 

 have a good thing in the Philadelphia 

 Bambler. 



Visitors say tliat Joseph H^acock has 

 some of the finest palms in the market. 



J. LilWon Pennock is happily recover- 

 ing from a serious attack of tonsilitis, 

 which threatened diphtheria. 



Jacob Be<'ker is tenting down the 

 ends of two houses in .\Iarket street and 

 will then build a show ];ouse parallel to 

 the street. 



William J. Baker wns ])l?a.'?ed with the 

 business done last week. 



Geo. Waterfield is growing a house of 

 Beauties as a trial and has begun to cut 

 from the new plants. 



The Flower Market has been getting a 

 fine lot of carnations, especially white, 

 for which there is a good demaiid. 



Charles Griffin, a nephew of H. W. 

 Weiland, of Newtown, with whom he 

 lived, was drnwrod last Wednesday. Witli 



some other boys ho wa^ swimming. He 

 dived and struck his head on a stone 

 and was unable to reach shore. 



Mrs. S. I. Smith, of Secane, whose 

 asters last year were the b68t coming to 

 ihis city, has this year been unfortunate 

 in losing most of her plants through 

 stem-rot. Her carnations look very 

 promising in the field. 



Bowling. 



The contest for places on the team to 

 represent the Florists' Club of this city 

 at the great bowling tournament to be 

 held during the S. A F. convention at 

 St. Louis next month, which was com- 

 menced on June 1, was completed 

 Wednesday, July 13. There were seven 

 evenings of play, three games being 

 rolled each evening, and different alleys 

 each time. The scoring was by points, 

 as last year, the six highest scores in 

 each game receiving one point. Ten 

 men entered and eight were present the 

 last night. The following is a summary 

 of the contest: 



IMa.vcr. No. Ghuios. HiKh. Total. Av. Pts. 



KoboitNon 21 210 3591 171 1« 



Yiitos IS 22 » .•{072 171 15 



Coinior 21 187 ."{."{O ) 160 15 



Klft 21 224 ;!.J90 161 14 



Wiitsoii 18 193 2869 1!)9 \:\ 



-VdrllH"!}.'.'!- 21 214 ;{426 163 12 



Aiidpisoii 21 2(1fl ;i.3.53 160 12 



VVcstoott 21 192 3220 154 12 



Phil. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There has been practically no mar- 

 ket during the past week. Flowers were 

 abundant and demand light. Roses 

 and carnations were each hard to move; 

 few of the latter brought over 50 cents 

 per 100. One first-class grower stated 

 that he was offered $1 per 300 for his 

 best blooms and donated a large num- 

 ber to charity rather than sell at such 

 prices. Many have been cleaned out 

 at lower rates than these. 



Sweet peas have been the one flower 

 which seemed to be in quite good de- 

 mand. Prices have varied from 10 

 cents to 40 cents per 100, according to 

 the call. As a rule, 2^ cents is as high 

 as good stock will reach. The pretty 

 orange variety. Miss Wilmott, seems to 

 be a first-class seller. No other flowers 

 seem to be in request and the market 

 is excessively dull. 



Exhibition. 



At Horticultural Hall on July 16, 

 sweet peas were the i)rincipal feature 

 and were largely shown. In the class 

 for thirty-five distinct varieties there 

 were five competitors, prizes going to 

 W. J. Clemson, E. A. Clark, William 

 Riggs, gardener, and W. Whitman, M. 

 Sullivan, gardener. For twelve varie- 

 ties, E. A. Clark, W, J. Clemson and 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill won in the order named. 

 W. N. Craig received honorable men- 

 tion for the new varieties. King Edward 

 VIL, Dorothy Eckford and White 

 Wonder. The finest varieties shown to 

 suit the florists' trade were: Sadie 

 Burpee, White Wonder and Dorothy 

 Eckford, white; Salopian and King Ed- 

 ward VII., scarlet; Lady Grisel Hamil- 

 ton, lavender; Hon. Mrs. E. Kenyon, 

 primrose; Lovely, light pink; Prima 

 Donna, deep pink; Miss Wilmott, 

 orange; Prince of Wales and Lord Rose- 

 borrv, rose; Blanche Ferry, pink and 

 white. 



William Rigps showed a fine lot of 

 pent^temons. which aro becoming!' in- 

 creasingly jiopular. .Tames Garthley, 



gardener to H. H. Rogers, received 

 honorable mention for the double tuoer- 

 ous begonia, Gold of Ophir, also for a 

 collection of the new Begonia erecta 

 cristata. L. H. Atkins had a beautiful 

 table of Shirley poppies and there were 

 general displays by E. P. Shaw, Mrs. 

 H M. Gill and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence. 

 The class for forty varieties and species 

 of native plants, as usual, drew a strong 

 entry, prizes going to Mrs. Arthur 

 Clark, the Misses Doran, Mrs. A. S. 

 Colbourn and Miss S. K. Buitta. The 

 Boston Mycological Club had its first 

 display of fungi. There was a good 

 display of seasonable fruits and vege- 

 tables. 



Various Notes. 



Edward Butler, whose death recently 

 occurred at Wellesley, was for many 

 vears gardener to Mrs. Durant, at Wel- 

 lesley College. Mr. Butler, who was 

 an Englishman by birth, was well up 

 in his profession and used to be a fre- 

 quent exhibitor at Horticultural Hall,, 

 of orchids, azaleas, acacias and other 

 plants. He was especially successful in 

 the . cultivation of Dendrobium nobile, 

 and used to exhibit plants of this fa- 

 vorite orchid carrying over 1,000 

 blooms. A large circle of florists and 

 gardeners were grieved to learn, of his 

 death. 



A strong northeast breeze on the 

 evening of July 12 blew millions of 

 broWn tail moths from the infested dis- 

 tricts into the city of Boston. The ptreet 

 lamps were almost white with them, and 

 they resembled a snow storm in places. 

 The Public Gardens and other resorts 

 are now teeming with this pest, which^ 

 in addition to destroying the foliage on 

 the trees, causes a very irritating and 

 poisonous rash. The fine hairs dropping 

 from the moths and touching the skin 

 have created an ailment known as moth 

 rash, for which remedies are being ad- 

 vertised in all our dailies. Rauical 

 measures are necessary to free Boston 

 from this pest, which is now being 

 quite widely distributed. Drs. Mon- 

 tague and Woodbur}', who have been 

 making a special study of the brown 

 tail and gypsv moth, say the much 

 maligned English sparrows are devour- 

 ing both pests by the tens of thousands. 

 The sparrows catch them as they fly 

 and, devouring the bodies, drop the 

 wings to the ground, where in some 

 places they cover the walks. 



A. Sibthorpe, formerly with J. Tailby 

 & Son, Wellesley, who started in busi- 

 ness for himself in that town a year 

 ago, is building a considerable addi- 

 tion to his plant. Mr. Sibthorpe grows 

 a general stock, as his retail trade is 

 considerable. 



A recent visit to Frainingham found 

 the various florists in that thriving 

 town busy planting and preparing 

 houses for carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums. At William Nicholson's we 

 noted Fair Maid carnations of fine 

 size and color. As a summer bloomer, 

 this outclasses Enchantress, which 

 comes almost white, as does Prosper- 

 ity. Eldorado is still considered the 

 best seller here and was being planted 

 in benches from pots. Some fine plants 

 of this sort w^ere noted outdoors for 

 summer blootning, along with the old 

 Mrs. Fisher, The Oueen and other popu- 

 I'lr sorts. Carnations are the principal 

 feature here, but chrv«nnthemums are 

 ni'ite largelv grown. The last of these 

 wore being benched. A nice lot of use- 



