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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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The Kellogg: Fern. 



iiient centers and the grantlest city in 

 tlie world. 



William Starke has been displaying 

 his handiwork in the construction of 

 some Eoman gardens at Murray 's, on 

 Fortv-second street, near the Liberty 

 Tlieater. 



The big plate glass window of Lccakes 

 & Co. was accidentally broken last week, 

 by an expressman. 



Tlic store ot the Geller Florists' Sup- 

 ply Co. was flooded by the careless neg- 

 lect of a water pipe in tiie store above 

 them July 31, and a good deal of dam- 

 age was done the stock of baskets, im- 

 mortelles, etc. 



W. H. Traendly, the retail florist of 

 Sixth avenue and S^enteenth street, died 

 August 2, after an operation at the 

 New York hos|)ital. The immediate 

 cause of his death was rheumatism of 

 the heart. The funeral, August 4, was 

 largely attended. Mr. Traendly has been 

 in the florists' business for twenty-five 

 years, in New York, and for over fifteen 

 years at his last location. Frank H. 

 Traendly, of Traendly & Schenck. is a 

 brother of the deceased. 



The outing of the Greek American 

 Retail Florists' and Growers' Associa- 

 tion was a great success August 2. Over 

 25(1 attended. Several of the New York 

 wholesalers accompanied the happy 

 crowd, liie association has a member- 

 ship of nearly 100. George D. Nicholas 

 is the president. There are many splen- 

 <lid men in the organization and any 

 one found unworthy is at once dropped 

 from the roll. Soine of the Greek flo- 

 rists are wealthy, one of them counting 

 his ducats at half a millon. Many fine 

 stores in New York attest their' gen- 

 eral prosjierity. The two dinners pro- 

 \ided the excursionists were excellent, the 

 games hotly contested and the enthusiasm 

 universal. The dances by the ladies 

 were especially graceful. Financially 

 the society made a nice profit on the 

 J. Ai^STix Shaw. 



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In an ojiinion given the horticulture 

 .•(imniissioner of the state of Washing- 

 t<Mi. the attorney general holds that 

 where a company has nurseries in Idaho 

 and Washington one bond is sufficient, 

 hut the company must take out licenses 

 for each agent operating in Washington. 



AT MAPLE WOOD. 



One of the accompanying illustrations 

 is from a photograph of the Kellogg fern, 

 as it is called because it originated with 

 George M. Kellogg, at Maplewood, Pleas- 

 ant Hill, Mo. Mr. Kellogg says of it: 



' ' During the three years since its 

 origination I have been getting a supply 

 of plants in stock. I have some fine 

 plants now on hand, but have as yet 

 put it on the market but very little. I 

 iiave j)laced a few plants for sale in 

 my store in Kansas City. They cer- 

 tainly have attracted a great deal of 

 attention from our customers, as well 

 as those passing by. What few plants 

 I have placed on sale have found a 

 ready market and brought a good price. 

 One by close examination of the fronds 

 in the picture can form an idea of the 

 width of the full-grown frond. They are 

 •louble and fluffy on both the front and 

 back of the central stem, making a very 

 heavy frond, but still the stem holds its 

 weight up well. The Kellogg shows very 

 few marks of the Boston, from which 

 it originated. It was a runner from a 

 4-inch Boston. All who have seen this 

 new fern, Kellogg, have fallen in love 

 with it. It is easily cared for and re- 

 quires about the same attention given 

 the Boston fern." 



The other illustration sliows Mr. Kel- 

 logg in the center of the group of em- 

 ployees and is reproduced from a photo- 



graph taken just after one of the quar- 

 terly dinners he gives them. After sup- 

 per is served each one who has been in 

 his employ six months receives as a gift 

 one half of a week's wages. Mr. Kel- 

 logg thinks this will be a great help in 

 getting his men to feel that he appre- 

 ciates what they are doing. This gift 

 is given after each quarterly supper and 

 means two full weeks' wages as a gift 

 each year. 



There are several new greenhouses in 

 course of erection at present and pros- 

 pects for stock next season are good. 



NEW POET'S NARCISSI. 



Some of the newer hybrids of Nar- 

 cissus poeticus have now multiplied suffi- 

 ciently to be available for market plant- 

 ing, and it will be interesting to observe 

 whether or not they will prove a profit- 

 able crop. I have every confidence in them, 

 says a writer in the Gardeners' Chron- 

 icle, London, When in conversation with 

 a large market grower, several years ago, 

 he informed me that when he sent new 

 and choice varieties of trumpet daffodils 

 to market he found that they did not 

 realize higher prices than did such stand- 

 ard and well-known kinds as Emperor, 

 Golden Spur, etc., but that when he 

 sent new and improved varieties of N. 

 poeticus he found a marked improve- 

 ment in their price over those of the 

 old ornatus and others of the type. Re- 

 cently I had occasion to write to a large 

 grower for some bulbs of a new j)oet 's 

 daffodil, as 1 knew he held the main 

 stock of the variety, but the reply 1 

 received was that he did not care to 

 part with more than a few bulbs, as he 

 intended growing this plant for his cut 

 flower trade. Within the past two or 

 three seasons stocks of inifiroved varie- 

 ties of N. poeticus liave been sold for 

 higli prices, in some cases the purchaser 

 l)eing a market grower. There is cer- 

 tainly a scarcity of some varieties, 

 which can only be explained by the fact 

 tliat there is an extra demand, and in 

 several cases prices have actually risen. 

 All these things, to my mind,* go to 

 show that there is a good future for 

 this beautiful and useful section of the 

 genus narcissus, and growers who are 

 the first to cultivate the best of the 

 pheasant-eye narcissi for market will 

 find the investment a remunerative one. 



Wk are comparatively new in the busi- 

 ness and some of our best work has been 

 done by following the advice given in 

 the Review.— F. D. Hart.shorn, Augus- 

 ta, Me. 



Georg;e M. KeUogz a^°d b<s Etnployees, Pleasant Hill, Mo. 



