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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



November 17, 1904. 



SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



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ONCINNATL 



The Market 



Trade is very much the same a^ last 

 week. There is nothing very startling 

 going on and the demand is rather 

 weak. Prices are holding only fair. 

 Mums are averaging a little better but 

 roses and carnations are about the 

 same. Carnations are coming still more 

 heavily and the quality is good. No- 

 vember business has not been up to 

 standard this year and the complaint is 

 general. About the only flower for vrhich 

 there is an active demand is the violet, 

 and there are not enough of thcee to 

 go around by a long ways. They bring 

 from 50 cents to $1 per hundred, with 

 prospects of a still further advance this 

 week. 



Various Notes. 



The mum show at the fair took quite 

 a number of our boys away from home. 

 Among those who went were L. H. Kyrk, 

 J. A. Peterson, Wm. McFadden and 

 Peter Weiland. 



Chas. Dudley and wife, of Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va., and Chas Dieterich passed 

 through this city on their way to St. 

 Louis, as also did Dr. Howald, of the 

 Atlanta Floral Co., Atlanta, Ga, 



The Qub's Exhibition. 



The annual mum show of the Florists' 

 Society was held on Saturday and a very 

 creditable display it was. Among the 

 firms making exhibits were The E. G. 

 Hill Co., George & Allan, The Kose- 

 bank Co., E. Witterstaetter. J. W. Kodjr- 

 ers, J. Breitmeyer's Sons. Theo. Bock 

 and Nathan Smith & Son. 



The general display prize w:is won 

 by R. Witterstaetter with a fine display 

 of mums, also a large number of vases 

 of his famous seedling carnations. His 

 improved Enquirer was in great shape 

 and I have not seen anything this sea- 

 son that is equal to it. Theo. Bock had 

 several varieties staged for exhibition 

 purposes and they were right up to his 

 standard of good blooms. The Rosebank 

 Co. made a fine showing and though 

 they did not get in the money, tlu y 

 had some very good blooms. 



The E. G. Hill Co. staged some twen- 

 ty-eight varieties of mums, one flower of 

 each. 



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The Bonnaffon competition was not up 

 to standard, there being but two en- 

 tries. R. Witterstaetter captured first 

 and J. W. Rodgers second. 



The other awards are as follows. Best 

 vase white, J. Breitmeyer's Sons, first, 

 with Adelia ; George & Allan, second ; 

 E. G. Hill Co. third. 



Best vase yellow, E. G. Hill Co. first, 

 with Yellow Eaton, the best blooms of 

 this variety I ever saw; R. Witterstaet- 

 ter second, with Appleton; George ^: 

 Allan third, with Lincoln. Best vase 

 pink, E. G. Hill Co. first, with Engue- 

 hard; R. Witterstaetter second and 

 third. 



Nathan Smith & Son exhibited two 

 varieties for the mum society's com- 

 mittee. C. J. Ohmer. 



NEWPORT. rT 



The Market 



During the past ten days there have 

 been a good many wedding decorations, 

 as well as more than the usual amount of 

 funeral work, this together with quite 

 a little counter trade for cut flowers 

 has given quite a snap to business, and 

 worked off what would otherwise have 

 been a glut of chrysanthemums and other 

 stuff. Almost all of the florists have 

 very pretty window displays, chrysanthe- 

 mums being largely used. Roses and 

 carnations have sold very slowly lately 

 as everybody for the moment buys mums, 

 as a result prices have eased somewhat, 

 both wholesale and retail. 



Various Notes. 



Bruce Butterton has the sympathy of 

 all in the death of his son, John, aged 

 7 years. 



The regular meeting of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society took place Novem- 

 ber 2. Final plans and committees 

 were arranged for the seventh annual 

 ball, which takes place December 2. Miss 

 Alice Keteltas has offered a special prize 



of $50 (or a silver cup) for the beat 

 arrangement of shrubs or plants at the 

 entrance of any estate in Newport, no 

 evergreens to be used. 



The greatest interest was taken here 

 in the show at Boston. The following 

 florists and members of the Horticultural 

 Society attended. Alexander McLellan, 

 David Mcintosh, Andrew S. Meikle, 

 Alexander Anderson, James Boyd, John 

 B. Urquhart, Alexander McWUliams, 

 Colin Robertson, Stewart Ritchie, Arend 

 Brandt, Andrew J. Pow, Donald F. Shep- 

 herd, Paul Volquardson, Daniel J. 

 Coughlin and James Robertson. 



The Geo. A. Weaver Co. was closed 

 Thursday, November 3, during the fun- 

 eral of Mr. Weaver's sister, Mrs. W. 

 Howard Greene. The employes sent a 

 fine wreath of Ivory chrysamthemums, 

 Kaiserin roses and violets. 



On Wednesday of last week the funer- 

 al of Joseph S. Allen took place. There 

 were so many floral tributes that the 

 church was turned into a floral bower. 

 The Horticultural Society sent a pillow 

 and a large delegation of members at- 

 tended the services, 



J. M. Hodgson arranged the decora- 

 tions for the Erving-Rutherford wedding 

 on Thursday, in New York. It was a 

 home affair, but very elaborate. 



Wadley & Smythe are about closing 

 their Bellevue avenue store for this sea- 

 son. They report trade as having been 

 very good the past few weeks. 



Henry J. Hass has just celebrated the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his birth at his 

 home on Almy street, where, assisted by 

 his wife and daughter, a large company 

 of friends was entertained. 



At Philip Caswell's greenhouses Mr. 

 Allen has been cutting some fine chrysan- 

 themums, especially Ivory and Bonnaf- 

 fon. It is unfortunate that mums are 

 selling so low; $6 to ,$8 a hundred 

 is about all good flowers will bring 

 here. Zero. 



