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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OcirOBBB 11, 1906. 



retailers was held at the store of May- 

 berry & Hoover, at which preliminary 

 arrangements were made to open a com- 

 mission house. It was decided that a 

 corporation composed of growers and re- 

 tailers with a capital stock of $25,000, 

 the holdings limited to not more than 

 $3,000 each, could handle the business 

 satisfactorily. One-half the stock was 

 immediately subscribed and there seems 

 no doubt that the project will be suc- 

 cessful. Among the most interested are 

 Mayberry & Hoover, Z. D. Blackistone, 

 W. W. Kimmel, Grillbortzer Bros., C. E. 

 Brooks, Henry Pfister and J. A. Phil- 

 ipps. In the section of Virginia and 

 Maryland adjacent to Washington great 

 developments have recently been made 

 in commercial growing. It is hoped and 

 believed that a commission house will 

 be a boon to such growers as well as 

 a time saver to those in the business in 

 the District of Columbia. 



/ 'aubAfiairs. ■ ^'' 



The annual dahlia exhibit of the Wash- 

 ington Florists' Club was given October 

 2, as briefly. reported last week, in Scot- 

 tish Kite hall, on ' G street northwest. 

 The new varieties attracted much atten- 



and Kriemhilde belongs to the same 

 classific^ion, only it is done in a beau- 

 tiful blush rose pink. 



Everybody was pleased with the show. 

 The club has been in existence since 

 1886, but only began to get its growth 

 about three years ago, and this is de- 

 clared the best exhibit to date. 



As an incentive to competition, prizes 

 and certificates were awarded by a com- 

 mittee, including George Cooke, George 

 Field, Charles McCauley, George Shaffer 

 and J. E. Anderson. 



First-class certificates were awarded 

 Richard Vincent, Jr., & Son, of White 

 Marsh, Md., and W. R Gray, of Oakton, 

 Va. Honorable mention was given W. 

 W. Evans, of Hamilton, Va. 



It is proposed to give an exhibit of 

 roses in December, for local dealers, un- 

 der the direction of the officers. Peter 

 Bisset, president ;■ Z. D. Blackistone, vice- 

 president; Charles McCauley, secretary, 

 and William H. Ernst, treasurer. 



The great feature of the local club's 

 existence, however, is to ^e the conven- 

 tion 'of the American Bose Society, in 

 Washington, in March, 1007. The finest 

 roses grown in this country will be dis- 

 played, and some of the ^prominent grow- 



Paul R. B. Pierion. 



tion. Among them were conspicuous the 

 Twentieth Century and Pink Century, 

 The Grand Duke Alexis and democratic 

 Mrs. Jones were in harmonious juxta- 

 position. The Countess Lonsdale showed 

 long, red petals, which radiate in flam- 

 ing points like badly painted sunfets. 



ers will attend. Mr. Bisset is solely re- 

 sponsible for the convention, as he pre- 

 sented the argument that Washington 

 would be the best city for the conven- 

 tion, since it is according to his state- 

 ment, "one of the worst supplied cities 

 for flowers in the land." 



PAUL R. B. PERSON. 



The demise of Paul R. B. Pierson, at 

 Tarrytown, N .Y., September 28, has been 

 chronicled. He was known to all the 

 visitors to the establishment of his son^ 

 F. R. Pierson, and was held in much 

 esteem. In speaking of his father's life 

 the son said: 



"In his early life he was a wood en- 

 graver when wood engraving was an 

 art, and before the days of mechanical 

 processes. He was one of the best wood 

 engravers in the country, until his eye- 

 sight failed, when he retired, which is 

 now quite a njimber of years ago. Since 

 that time he has made the greenhouses 

 his headquarters, in which he was much 

 interested, as you know, as he loved 

 everything that grew; in fact, I rather 

 attribute my taking up the florists' busi- 

 ness to his interest in such matters when 

 I was a boy. When he was a young man 

 he had charge of the engraving depart- 

 ment in the Bureau of Engraving and 

 Printing in Washington, from 1857 to 

 1859. In later years he was associated 

 with Benson J. Lossing, the historian, in 

 business, and afterwards succeeded him. 

 He was afterwards on the Century staff. 



"His death was sudden, and although 

 he had had pleurisy for some little time, 

 he was gaining constantly, and we ex- 

 pected he would recover until the day he 

 died, when heart failure set in, and he 

 sank rapidly, until his death on Tuesday 

 night. Only a short time ago he' was 

 walking to Scarborough for exercise— a 

 five miles' walk — which for a man of 78 

 years of age showed his bodily vigor, 

 and his mental vigor was as strong as 

 that of a man of 40. His death to us, 

 although we knew he was ill, was very 

 sudden, because he seemed to have years 

 of a strong, interesting life ahead of 

 him." 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market 



Business was good the entire week. 

 The weather, however, was disagreeable 

 last week and colder, and nearly every 

 one cleaned up with fair prices. Jack 

 frost is looked for any day now. When 

 it comes the outdoor plants will close 

 their eyes and the market will be bet- 

 ter for the indoor stock. Carnations 

 seem to be plentiful for this time of the 

 year and enough to meet the demand. 

 Chrysanthemums are coming in slowly, 

 while roses are still plentiful. Greens 

 of all kinds are now more steady. Callas 

 are making their appearance. 



To Revive Flower Show. 



By a unanimous vote the Park Board, 

 Tuesday night, decided to revive the 

 custom of holding flower shows in the 

 park greenhouses during the spring and 

 fall of each year. The first show will 

 be held in the fall of 1907. Owing to 

 the fact that the greenhouses are at pres- 

 ent filled with flowers and plants for 

 the parks and squares it will be impos- 

 sible to hold a show during the coming 

 spring. 



The custom of holding flower shows 

 was abandoned several years ago. It is 

 thought that by the use of proper safe- 

 guards the shows "can be held at a rea- 

 sonable cost. To obviate the abuse of 

 giving away the flowers grown for the 

 exhibition it is proposed to adopt strin- 

 gent rules. Mayor Timanns is strongly 

 in favor of holding the flower shows. 

 He attended the meeting of the Park 



