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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 13, 1905. 



trade first-class, keeping six young sales- 

 women busy all the time. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers divided into two teams on 

 Monday night, July 3, with the follow- 

 ing results: 



Player. 1st 2d Sd 4th T'l. 



Kuenn .166 164 139 137 ana 



Melnhardt ....177 lel 157 1I4 M3 



^^^l 125 124 120 134 50.H 



H'bbert A20 _126 166 140 552 



Totals 588 575 "576 ~565 iTsoi 



Player. ist 2d 3d 4th T'l 



^^''^ke 144 127 143 179 593 



Be-V, 157 128 117 158 660 



««'••''<•»> 165 124 120 134 543 



A<Jel8 ^ J53 153 13I ^^'l 



Totals 598 532 "534 ~e03 r270 



Mr. Hibbert, of DeSoto, Mo., bowled 

 with the winning team. 



The bowling on Monday night resulted 

 as follows: 



Player. ist 2d 8d 4th Kth tm 



R. Melnhardt 141 175 210 144 m 8^ 



J. J. Beneke 166 155 174 143 156 704 



C- A Kuehn 161 133 182 1I4 iH? 777 



Ed. Gerlach 220 138 97 142 1^ rkk 



F^'^Mefnt'?.; It? ?! ''^ ^^7 l^ '^l 



F. Melnhardt 165 127 148 169 ... 609 



H. Lohrenz 117 152 144 170 ... 593 



J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions were worse the past week 

 than during any period this year. The 

 bottom has completely dropped out of 

 the market and flowers are hard to 

 move at any price. But for the fakirs 

 there would be very little trade some 

 days and buyers can secure goods at 

 practically their own prices. Eoses 

 have slumped heavily and a good many 

 have remained unsold. It is hard to 

 quote prices, which have varied from 

 25 cents to $4 per hundred on Bride, 

 Maid, Carnot and Kaiserin, a small 

 number making better prices. Outdoor 

 hybrids are practically over. Carna- 

 tions are a glut. Prices have run as 

 low as 15 cents per hundred and quite 

 good blooms have gone for 25 cents. 

 Very few reached $1. Valley holds up 

 fairly well, but sweet peas, owing to 

 heavy outdoor supplies, are down to 

 from 10 to 20 cents per hundred. There 

 is a limited sale of other flowers coming 

 in. As growers are busy throwing out 

 houses of roses and carnations, a less- 

 ened supply of these is likely from now 

 onward. 



Exhibition. 



There v/as a splendid exhibition at 

 Horticultural hall on July 8 and 9. 

 The season was a trifle early for sweet 

 peas, but some good displays were 

 made. William Whitman, M. Sullivan, 

 gardener, was first for thirty named 

 varieties. For twelve varieties T. C. 

 Sias, Joseph Thorpe and E. C. Lewis 

 won in order named. Some of the best 

 commercial sorts noted were Hon. Mrs. 

 E. Kenyon, Lord Roseberry, Dorothy 

 Eckford, Gladys Unwin, Miss Wilmott, 

 Lady Grisel Hamilton, Prima Donna, 

 King Edward VII nnd Duchess of 

 Sutherland. 



For fifty vases hardy roses there 

 was a ^ood competition, some fine 

 blooms being staged. M. H. Walsh 

 took first and third and W. A. Riggs, 

 gardener to E. A. Clark, second. Sev- 

 eral tables were filled with Iris Ksemp- 

 feri. For twenty-five vases Mrs. J. L. 

 Gardner, William Thatcher, gardener, 

 was first and T. C. Thurlow second. 

 There were magnificent delphiniums, the 



finest ever seen in Boston. For thirty 

 vases, three spikes to a vase, William 

 Whitman won with a superb lot, also 

 taking third prize, Mrs. J. L. Gardner 

 being second. W. Whitman also had 

 the best of several collections of Can- 

 terbury bells. There was keen compe- 

 tition for thirty varieties herbaceous 

 plants. Blue Hill Nurseries winning 

 with a splendid table, some of their 

 best vases being Hemerocallis Thun- 

 bergii and H. aurantiaca major, Al- 

 stroemeria aurantiaca, Delphinium Bar- 

 lowi, Ulmaria rubra and Lilium 

 superbum. Bay State Nurseries was 

 second and F. J. Rea third. 



There were a number of meritorious 

 honorary exhibits. M. H. Walsh had 

 a large display of cut sprays of Lady 

 Gay, Debutante, Wedding Bells and 

 other rambler roses. Jackson Dawson 

 showed two interesting seedling ram- 

 blers, one named Daybreak securing 

 honorable mention. T. H. Ri()iiardson 

 had a fine lot of delphiniums. R. & J. 

 Farquhar .also staged an extensive lot 

 of delphiniums, gaillardias and other 

 seasonable perennials. There was a fine 

 display of perennial phloxes and Japan- 

 ese irises from H. A. Stevens Co. and of 

 Dorothy Perkins rose from F. J. Rea. 



Robert Cameron showed about 200 

 vases of herbaceous plants in over 100 

 varieties, which made a grand display, 

 the largesu of the kind seen this sea- 

 son. Blue Hill Nurseries had a long 

 table in addition to their prize winning 

 one. Mrs. E. M. Gill and Mrs. J. B. 

 Lawrence also had displays. From 

 Mount Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, 

 Me., Wm. Millar, manager, came one 

 of the largest and most interesting col- 

 lections of herbaceous perennials seen 

 for a long time. It included large 

 vases of numerous double peonies, 

 liliums, including a fine vase of L. 

 Grayi; delphiniums and a host of other 

 good thintrs. Cheiranthus Marshalli, 

 orange yellow, was much admired. For 

 forty varieties native plants Miss I. 

 C. Shattuek was first and Mrs. Arthur 

 Clark second. 



There vas a good competition in the 

 classes for strawberries, cherries, cur- 

 rants and other fruits. Vegetables 

 were shown in quantity. For best col- 

 lection arranged for effect W. W. Raw- 

 son was first and W. J. Clemson, J. O. 

 Christensen, gardener, second. The 

 Mycological Society had its initial 

 show of fungi. E. McMulkin contrib- 

 uted numerous palms to use in deco- 

 rating the large exhibition hall, which 

 was completely filled. 



The next exhibition occurs on July 

 22. During August they will be held 

 weekly. 



Various Notes. 



E. Sutermeister and son, of Read- 

 ville, are spending a few weeks at 

 Westford, Me. Mr. Sutermeister still 

 feels some effects of his recent acci- 

 dent. 



Mr. and Mrs. S. Reminisky sailed for 

 Europe on .Tuly 5. 



Mrs. C. C. Lowe, of Pasadena, Cal., 

 was a visitor the past week. 



One or two little errors crept into 

 our notes last week. Schnyder & Co. 's 

 new place should have read Woburn 

 and not Waban, and Robert Cameron's 

 superintendency of Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens is fifteen years and not a quar- 

 ter of a century as given. The latter 

 period would make Mr. Cameron quite 

 a middle-aged man, but his picture 

 shows him to be quite youthful. 



Plans are almost perfected for the 

 picnic of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club at Randolph Grove on July 25. 

 Some of the numerous attractions will 

 be boat races on the lake, foot races 

 for all classes, tug of war, leaping, etc. 

 Baseball games betwen gardeners and 

 florists, cricket, tennis and croquet 

 will also be played. A baby show may 

 interest some. A first-class clam bake 

 dinner will be served. Everything 

 points to a large attendance. No pains 

 will be spared to make the day enjoy- 

 able for everyone. 



The American Society of Landscape 

 Architects held a convention in Boston 

 the past week. On July 7 the parkway 

 system was inspected and visits made 

 to the estates of Prof. C. S. Sargent, 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Larz Anderson and 

 Mrs. Edward Brandegee. 



W. N. Craig. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Jottings. 



Since the schools are closed and all 

 have graduated a marked stillness has 

 come over our business, except with sweet 

 peas. There is a smallness and unsea- 

 sonable look about our products, but 

 there is enough to go around. Perhaps 

 in some localities there is a good supply 

 of herbaceous plants, giving the store- 

 keepers their beautiful flowers. Here, 

 and it is safe to say in many cities, 

 there is not a quarter in variety or quan- 

 tity that there might be. 



This being Elks' week in our city, 

 nothing else is thought or talked of. The 

 whole city is decorated and the Main 

 street florists are in the swim. Miss R. 

 Rebstock, C. D. Zimmerman, Joseph H. 

 Rebstock, S. A. Anderson and W. J. 

 Palmer have purple and white in flowers 

 and flags. It is too early in the week to 

 say much about the fearful herd that 

 has invaded the city. Never in our ex- 

 perience have our streets seen such 

 throngs, and they have only just begun. 

 From the electrical displays we hope the 

 visitors will leave Buffalo believing that 

 ours is the electrical city in fact as well 

 as name. 



Frank F. Crump, of Colorado Springs, 

 Colo., called on us. He is an Elk, of 

 course, and from here leaves for Europe 

 in a few days and will be back in time 

 for the Washington convention. Harry 

 Balsley is also in town. Harry takes his 

 time in Buffalo and very thoroughly does 

 up the trade. If you don't know your 

 wants in his line he will inspect your 

 place and soon tell you just what you 

 need. 



A. N. Pierson gave us a call. Unfor- 

 tunately we missed him. 



Alexander Scott, of Baltimore, made a 

 rather runabout journey from the 

 southern city to Montreal to take ship 

 for the land of his nativity. Of course, 

 this was done to see his friends in Buf- 

 falo, but as he arrived at 8 p. m. and 

 left at 4 a. m. next T^Aming there was 

 not much time for festivities. 



Not in the city, but within a radius 

 of thirty miles, there has Avithin three 

 weeks been nothing but incessant rain. 

 In many parts the fields are under water. 

 Carnations are drowned. W. J. Palmer 

 has many thousands already benched and 

 is lifting as fast as he can. 



William Ehmann, of Corfu, has pur- 

 chased the houses and property in that 

 village known as the Webb place and 

 lately the property of George Troup. Mr. 



