July 25, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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awarded a cultural certificate. E. L. 

 Lewis had good hollyhocks; C. W. Park- 

 er roses and liliums; Mrs. E. M. Gill 

 aod Mrs. J. B. Lawrence general displays. 

 Bay State Nurseries had an impressive 

 collection of hardy perennials. B. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co. had an extensive display 

 of sweet peas, liliums, such as Krameri, 

 Brownii and excelsum, and hardy peren- 

 nials in great variety. W. W. Bawson 

 & Co. were awarded a cultural certificate 

 for finely grown spikes of Delphinium 

 Zalil, pale yellow. F. J. Eea had a large 

 table of seasonable perennials. There 

 were good displays of fruits and vege- 

 tables. 



fiobert Cameron, from the Harvard Bo- 

 tanic Gardens, had a fine tank of 

 nymphseas and other aquatics. 



At the next exhibition, August 3, 

 perennial phloxes and annuals will be the 

 special features. 



Various Notes. 



Fine weather only is needed to make 

 the annual picnic of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club, July 25, a rousing suc- 

 cess. The list of prizes to be contested 

 for is a long and imposing one. The 

 following are the donors of the same: 

 A. H. Hews & Co., A. F. Scott Co., A. T. 

 Stearns Lumber Co., B. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., J. F. Flood & Co., New England 

 Nursery Co., "William Downs, T. H. West- 

 wood, Lord & Burnham Co., William Sim, 

 Duncan Finlayson, Houghton & Clark, W. 

 E. Doyle, Penn Bros., Joseph Breck & 

 Sons, Welch Bros., H. M. Bobinson & Co., 

 Bobert Cameron, W. Miller & Sons, Ed- 

 ward Hatch, Thomas Boland, F. E. Pal- 

 mer, B. T. McGorum, T. J. Grey & Co., 

 Daniel Iliffe, W. J. Stewart, Schlegel & 

 Fottler Co., W. H. Elliott, W. W. xtawson 

 & Co., Framingham Nursery Co., H. E. 

 Fiske Co., Pierson U-Bar Co. A report 

 of the various sporting events, some thir- 

 ty in number, will appear in next week's 

 Beview. 



A special electric car will leave Scollay 

 Square station at 11 a. m., July 27, to 

 carry florists and gardeners to Marble- 

 head for an inspection of the sweet pea 

 fields of W. W. Bawson & Co. A cordial 

 invitation is given to all flower lovers to 

 be present. 



Some of the finest of the early arrivals 

 of asters are from the Fisher estate, 

 Montvale. 



Professor Goodale, curator of the Har- 

 vard Botanic Gardens, sailed for Europe 

 July 12. 



Thomas W. Lawson has a great show 

 of Crimson Eambler roses on the fences 

 of his fine estate, Dreamwold, in Scitu- 

 ate. Some 6,500 are flowering and more 

 are being planted each year. Some four- 

 teen miles of fencing will eventually be 

 covered with them. 



Boston is this week putting on gala at- 

 tire for old home week, which starts July 

 27. Triumphant arches and other decora- 

 tions are appearing on all hands and 

 many thousands of visitors are expected. 



W. N. Craig. 



CHARLES EBLE. 



Charles Eble, president-elect of the 

 New Orleans Horticultural Society, is one 

 of the veteran florists of Louisiana. Be- 

 sides being a member of the society since 

 its organization twenty-three years ago, 

 he is an able worker for the trade in gen- 

 eral and deserves much of the credit for 

 the many advances made by the florists 

 as a body in his vicinity. 



Mr. Eble is 53 years of age and has 

 been in business on his own account for 



Charles Eble. 



the last twenty years. His first experience 

 as a florist was in the employment of B. 

 Maitre, now deceased. After remaining 

 in Mr. Maitre 's service for fourteen 

 years, he was eight years with E. Baker. 

 Thus he had ample opportunity to learn 

 all departments of the trade. He has a 

 natural gift for the arrangement of 

 flowers, and has always been prominent 

 as an exhibitor and prize-winner at the 

 society's shows. 



His store on Baronne street, near Canal 

 street, where he has been located for 

 eighteen years, was the first florist's es- 

 tablishment in that neighborhood. When 

 he began business there, it was little ex- 

 pected that at the present time five promi- 

 nent florists could exist there, with the 

 enormous rentals now being paid. 



Mr. Eble does not grow cut flowers to 

 any great extent. He says, ' ' Let the 

 other fellow do the growing." However, 

 he recently secured several lots in the 

 best residence district of the city, and in- 

 tends to devote the added space to the 

 keeping and growing of the decorative 

 stock for his store trade. 



He has two stanch sons, 25 and 19 

 years old, respectively, and a bright 

 daughter of 13 years. He is a liberal- 

 spirited and good, all-round citizen. 



^M. M. L. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



A week of intense heat, the thermome- 

 ter flirting with the 90-degree mark con- 

 stantly, and sometimes nearly reaching 

 par, has not added anything in the way 

 of good nature and optimism to the 

 wholesale cut flower market. Deaths and 

 prostrations have been many in the big 

 cit}'. The storm of Saturday and the 

 change to ideal summer weather on Sun- 

 day relieved the intense strain upon hu- 

 manity and made existence possible to 

 those in the trade, whom duty and neces- 

 sity keep from the mountains. 



There are few, however, who are not 

 already resting from their labors in the 

 nearby hills or at cool resorts close to 

 the sounding sea. Adjoining no city in 



the world are there so many sources of 

 recuperative enjoyment. To all who jour- 

 ney to the great convention three weeks 

 hence at Philadelphia, New York extends 

 a hearty welcome. The last week in 

 August will be none too early for visit- 

 ing florists to select their stock for the 

 fall and winter trade. There are a dozen 

 of the greatest palm growers of the con- 

 tinent within a half -hour ride of Brook- 

 lyn bridge. The supply houses will all 

 have their latest inventions and importa- 

 tions on exhibition. The nurserymen at 

 New Bochelle and Eutherford, at Queens, 

 Floral Park and Elizabeth, will surprise 

 you with the wonderful advances made 

 since you last were here and the seeds- 

 men and wholesale florists will keep open 

 house and there will be ' * nothing too 

 good for you ' ' while you remain. 



There has been no change in the prices 

 of cut flowers during the last week. 

 Beauties are scarce and firm, the best 

 stock commanding at all times values en- 

 couraging to the growers. All other 

 roses show the effects of the prolonged 

 heat and quality has to be looked for, 

 while prices have no basis and the buyer 

 has his way, when there are any buyers. 

 The retail demand is hardly perceptible. 

 Apart from steamer and funeral work 

 there is no business. 



The peony has gone its way and the 

 aster has fallen into line. Everything 

 indicates a tremendous flood of them be- 

 fore the week is over. The first arrivals 

 were small and unsalable. 



Water lilies are abundant. Gladioli 

 are arriving in thousands from the local 

 growers. Saltford had a fine supply 

 from Floral Park on Saturday and prices 

 are still firm, good stock easily bringing 

 $15 a thousand. 



At the seaside resorts the sidewalk 

 merchants, who have about deserted New 

 York City, are disposing of the overflow 

 of roses, valley and carnations, with a 

 good field for operations in the enormous 

 daily crowds of visitors from the coun- 

 try. 



Various Notes. 

 At the Elks' convention at Philadel- 



