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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



AuQDST 0, 1908. 



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its heavy rose cut. After the conven- 

 tion F. F. Benthey will spend a few days 

 with his brother at New Castle. 



J. A. Budlong is beginning to cut 

 quite heavily from young Beauties", 

 Brides and Maids. The latter are 

 largely grafted stock this year and the 

 firm's success with them will be a matter 

 of interest to all growers. 



George Eeinberg expects to have his 

 entire place replanted this week. The 

 carnations are being housed rapidly. All 

 stock looks good. 



The Kennicott Bros. Co. reports July 

 as excellent in point of total sales. 

 Prices have been low, but the aggregate 

 is well up to last year, when July was 

 an exceptionally good month. 



Vaughan & Sperry are busy taking 

 stock. They are well satisfied with the 

 year which ended August 1, but look 

 forward to much better things for the 

 coming season. 



Percy Jones is making preparations 

 to extend his business this season. 

 Visits to his growers, he says, show 

 young stock in excellent shape. 



John Sinner is preserving his fishing 

 complexion by spending a part of each 

 afternoon at work in the greenhouses. 

 Just now they are busy repainting. 



Weiland & Bisch are cutting lightly at 

 present, but Killarney is coming in 

 nicely. They have a handsome ttiew 

 cover design for their periodical price- 

 list this fall. 



E. C. Amling reports July business 

 ahead of even last July, which he says 

 is cause for much satisfaction. Prob- 

 aoly the Beauty crop did it, but he is 

 handling great quantities of summer 

 flowers. 



W. J. Smyth is at his summer home 

 at Antioch, coming in one or two days 

 a week to see how they are progressing 

 with the work of remodeling and re- 

 decorating at the store. 



The Koropps, Leopold and Henry, in 

 Lake View, report trade quiet but feel 

 satisfied with the last year. 



Charles Balluff, of the Eaton store 

 on Jackson boulevard, has had a fort- 

 night's vacation. C. H. Grant, formerly 

 with J. H. Small & Son at New York, 

 is now a member of the Eaton staff. 



July was right on the weather oflSce's 

 average for the last thirty-six years, 

 in point of temperature, but in rainfall 

 it was 1.15 inches ahead of the average. 



Nevertheless we are 4.64 inches short 

 of the normal rainfall to date this year. 



Notice of the death of James Harts- 

 home appears elsewhere in this issue. 



Club meeting tonight. 



Visitors. 



Among the week's visitors were D. 

 C. Noble, Columbia City, Ind.; Wm. 

 Graff, Columbus, O.; C. S. Ford, Phila- 

 delphia; Ed. Calvert, Lake Forest, HI.; 

 J, C. Steinhauser, Pittsburg, Kan.; 

 Fred Lemon, Richmond, Ind.; G. Klop- 

 fer, of the Cation Greenhouse Co., 

 Peoria, 111.; W. L. Rock, Kansas City; 



Our subscription must be about 

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yfft have nothing else so helpful 

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Very truly, 



ENOE & BARNEY. 



Pierre, S. D., 

 July 24, 1906. 



Miss Mary Hayden, with Sam Murray, 

 Kansas City, enroute to Wisconsin. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Old St. Swithin has been busy of late 

 in demonstrating the old superstition as 

 to rain and has made a remarkable 

 record. 



Every day for three weeks the skies 

 have leaked and several of the watery 

 downfalls have been floods. We have 

 been soaked with them, and with un- 



bearable humidity, until business begins 

 to feel the paralysis and complaint is 

 general. Outside vegetation thrives, 

 however, in our porous soil, and the 

 market gardeners especially have crops 

 that will bulge their bank accounts this 

 fall. 



Following the excessive rains, the heat 

 on Sunday reached nearly 100 degrees. 

 New York isn't such an attractive spot 

 in the dog-days after all. But every- 

 body in the florists' business has been, 

 is, or will be away for a time, to the 

 adjacent mountains, and we can reach 

 them in three directions, the Catskills, 

 the Orange and the Ramapo hills, within 

 an hour. 



The shipments of cut flowers increase 

 daily, and for summer the quality is 

 superb. Roses especially are improving, 

 Beauties and Kaiserins particularly, 

 and carnations begin to show a return 

 to form, as the horsemen among the 

 wholesalers express it. It is remark- 

 able what an interest in the noble ani- 

 mal has developed during the last 

 month, and in some cases quite a little 

 principal as well. Now that we are to 

 have no real flower show this fall, and 

 the cut flower business is asleep, some- 

 thing has to be done to prevent complete 

 dissolution. 



The cactus dahlias are here, beauties 

 and lots of them. Asters simply over- 

 whelm the market with their abundance, 

 and gladioli, well — 1 saw a quarter of a 

 million of them one day last week, and 

 so it seems to be every day, with every- 

 body handling them and prices some- 

 times unmentionable, though here good 

 stock of anything never goes unappre- 

 ciated. 



Various Notes. 



Poughkeepsie violet plants do not 

 seem to have suffered from the an- 

 nounced disease that was reported from 

 further north, a letter from Philip 

 Devoy this week announcing the stock 

 never so promising as now. 



Benjamin Hammond, of Fishkill, 

 maintains his reputation for oratory and 

 authorship, an interesting letter in the 

 New York Press last week bringing him 

 again into the favorable limelight. Mr. 

 Hammond will be at Dayton with sev- 

 eral other horticultural lights from up 

 the Hudson. We expect our special con- 

 vention cars to be filled and to pick 

 up a lot of enthusiasts from Boston, 

 Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo 



