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JDLI 20, 1906. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review^ 



459 



PHILADELPHIA. 



. TIieMwket 



Good flowers are by no means easy 

 to obtain. Considerable hustling is 

 often necessary to secure satisfactory 

 stock for the orders. Carnations are 

 very scarce. Sweet peas are succumb- 

 ing to the heat. Asters are increasing 

 in numbers, but until Semple's appear 

 the buyers do not enthuse much over 

 them. Eoses are the chief standby, 

 with valley, lilies and a very few 

 orchids as aides. 



A Piece of Enterprise. 



The Floral Exchange is to be con- 

 gratulated on its success in presenting 

 the Crown Prince and Princess of Ger- 

 many with a bouquet of their fine 

 Queen of Edgely roses on their wed- 

 ding day, June 6. The flowers were 

 shipped on Decoration day, on the S. 

 S. Kronprinz, and on their arrival at 

 Bremen were taken at once to Berlin, 

 where our ambassador, the Hon. Charle- 

 magne Tower, presented them to the 

 royal couple, from whom a note of 

 thanks has been received. The gift 

 was a graceful tribute from the presi- 

 dent of the Floral Exchange, D. Fuerst- 

 enberg, to his one-time sovereign. Ow- 

 ing to the duties placed on plants and 

 flowers by Germany this present was 

 only made possible through the efforts 

 of the German ambassador to this coun- 

 try. Baron Speck von Sternberg. 



A Bit of History. 



Four passengers were traveling from 

 Baltimore to Washington one day in 

 the spring of 1888. 



"What shall we do to make the con- 

 vention interesting?" one of them ask- 

 ed his companions. 



The speaker was Eobert Craig. With 

 him were .Tohn N. May, Eobert J. Hal- 

 liday and J. G. Whilldin. 



"Adopt a standard flower pot," Mr. 

 Whilldin promptly replied. 



They all agreed that this was the 

 very thing. All had felt the annoyance 

 of one man's 6-inch being another 

 man's 7-inch and were eager to do 

 away with the evil. The convention at 

 New York that summer recommended a 

 uniform standard of sizes to all manu- 

 facturers of flower pots. These sizes 

 were first planned as outside measure- 

 ments, but were afterward changed to 

 inside measurements. Two years later, 

 at "dear old Boston" in 1890, the 

 Whilldin Pottery Company won the so- 

 ciety's certificate of merit for its ex- 

 hibit of one dozen pots of fourteen dif- 

 ferent sizes, all that were then made 

 that would most closely conform to the 

 standard in every respect. The com- 

 petition for this prize was very keen. 



There is no question that this action 

 of the S. A. F. in adopting a standard 

 flower pot has been of incalculable 

 benefit to the entire florists' business. 



Various Notes. 



The Whilldin Pottery Company has 

 added the next door building to their 

 large plant at 715 Wharton street. This 

 will increase their capacity twenty-five 

 per cent. Business with them is ex- 

 cellent. 



Lawrence Thompson, of Kennett, has 

 'low a thoroughly equipped, modern 

 plant for carnations and mushrooms. 

 He has just received two large Lord 

 & Burnham, or should I say Burnham- 

 Hitchings-Pierson, boilers? 



Charles E. Meehan and family are in 

 their cottage at Ocean City. 



Philip J. Hauswirth, of Chicago, was 

 in this city last Friday. 



H. Bayersdorfer aind family are ex- 

 pected back from Europe on Monday. 



D. T. Connor is now envoy extraor- 

 dinary and minister plenipotentiary for 

 the triple alliance here. 



Eugene Bernheimer is receiving some 

 nice tea roses. He reports a good de- 

 mand for galax leaves and a fine catch 

 of fish on his brief fishing trip at Beach' 

 Haven. 



Edward Eeid is going to the conven- 

 tion. 



D. Fuerstenberg is traveling in Cali- 

 fornia. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 held the July meeting last Tuesday. 

 The perennials were a feature. 



John Weston is away on his vaca- 

 tion. 



J. A. Smith had some good fishing at 

 Anglesea. 



Alfred Burton had a delightful 

 house party last week to celebrate the 



NOTE 



The Editor !■ pleasad 

 whan a Beadar 

 prasantB hia ideas 

 on any ■n>Jeot treated 

 in the SEVIEW. As 

 experience ie the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 exchang'e of experiences. 

 Many valnable points 

 are bron^ht ont 

 by dlsonssion. 



Good pentnanBhip, BjTellingr and gram- 

 mar, tnougrb desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WB 5HAIX BE QLAD 

 TO HEAR PROM YOU. 



completion of the new range of green- 

 houses. All employees and a few out- 

 siders enjoyed Mr. Burton's hospitality. 



Walter P. Stokes entertained the em- 

 ployees of his firm, Johnson & Stokes, 

 last Saturday. The party went by boat 

 to Eiverton, driving from there to 

 Floracroft, the Stokes place, where 

 they dined and had a splendid time. 



M. Eice & Co. have a most effective 

 display room for their screens in their 

 first floor gallery. Mr. Eice has just 

 completed his new "katalog. " 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Com- 

 pany is busily engaged in altering and 

 house cleaning in anticipation of wel- 

 coming their friends in August. 



Phil. 



Mankato, Minn. — N. Neilsen will re- 

 build his greenhouses at a cost of $1,000. 



Seymour, Conn. — Charles Doll is leav- 

 ing town and has sold his greenhouses 

 to Mrs. W. L. Smith, who will carry 

 on the business. 



CocHRANviLLE, Pa. — A. B. Campbell 

 has bought the three large greenhouses 

 of Carter Bros., at Chatham, Pa., anil 

 will remove them to his place here, where 

 they will give room needed for increasing 

 business. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions during the past week were 

 worse than for Several years. With 

 maximum temperatures of 90 to 96 -de- 

 grees in the shade during the whole 

 week, this condition of things is not at 

 all surprising. To quote prices is al- 

 most impossible. Sellers were pleased 

 to accept what any one would offer and 

 felt lucky if they cleared out at any 

 price. Large quantities of stock in the 

 market were either unsold or given' away 

 and many growers wisely decided not to 

 trouble taking in any flowers during the 

 hot wave. Eoses and carnations were 

 each sold as low as 10 cents per hundred 

 and really good sweet peas were beg- 

 ging for a purchaser at 50 cents per 

 thousand. 



' Conditions this week show a slight im- 

 provement; less stock is arriving and 

 very little of it is of good quality. 

 Eoses of the better grades are hard to 

 find, while carnations have dwindled in 

 size woefully. Enchantress and Pros- 

 perity now come almost white but Fair 

 Maid holds its color well. Prices vary 

 all the way from 15 cents to $1 per 

 hundred, very good stock bringing about 

 40 cents. Sweet peas, owing to the heat 

 and drought are coming much shorter- 

 stemmed; 10 cents per hundred seems to 

 be the top price. Lily of the valley re- 

 mains fairly firm. A few asters are ap- 

 pearing. For these and other flowers 

 demand is very light. 



Various Notes. 



The markets, wholesale houses and re- 

 tail stores have a holiday appearance 

 these days. Quite a number of employ- 

 ers and employees are away on vaca- 

 tions and business all around is at about 

 its lowest ebb. 



Bernard McGinty, salesman at the 

 Park street market for Montrose Green- 

 houses, has been engaged by N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy & Co. to take charge of their 

 wholesale cut flower department. Mr. 

 McGinty had been planning to go into 

 the commission business on his own ac- 

 count in September. 



Wm. Nicholson is busy housing his 

 carnations. Stock outdoors looks well. 

 A large batch for summer blooming 

 was staked up and already coming into 

 flower. He finds Fair Maid gives him 

 better returns than Enchantress. 



S. J. Goddard's new seedling carna- 

 tion, Helen Goddard, looks fine in the 

 field. This variety will be introduced 

 next season and Mr. Goddard already 

 has many orders for it. The Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society awarded it a 

 first-class certificate last winter and it 

 was shown at Chicago and scored welL 



The principal horticultural attraction 

 just now is the coming picnic of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club at Ran- 

 dolph grove on July 25. Electric cars 

 from Boston to Mattapan or Milton go- 

 ing to Brockton pass the grove. As many 

 as possible will arrive at 10 a. m. and 

 sports will start at 10:30. There are 

 twenty-four events in all, the baby show, 

 perhaps wisely, coming last. A cordial 

 invitation is extended to outside friends 

 to join in the picnic, for which there is 

 no charge whatever, and a first-class 

 time is assured. 



An exhibition occurs at Horticultural 

 hall on July 22. During August weekly 

 shows will be held. 



E. O. Orpet has some nice little seed- 



