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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septbmbbs 26, 1907. 



place. Such of the papers as are of 

 trade interest will appear from time to 

 time in the Beview. 



THE MILWAUKEE PICNIC. 



The accompanying illustration is pre- 

 pared from photographs made at the an- 

 nual picnic of the Milwaukee Florists' 

 Club, September 15. There were nearly 

 200 members and their families present. 

 The Florists' Club donated numerous 

 prizes for the program of races, etc., and 

 the afternoon was thoroughly enjoyed. 

 Tlie pictures show the start in the men's 

 race, the finish in the married ladies' 

 race and the tug-of-war. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



The weather the first part of last week 

 was cool and threatening and a rainy 

 spell set in and lasted up to Friday. On 

 Saturday a bright, hot July day was on 

 hand, the streets once more were crowd- 

 ed and the street florists disposed of 

 their stock nicely. Trade with the re- 

 tail stores was fair and funeral work 

 held out well. 



Boses are still coming in heavily and 

 carnations are enough to meet the de- 

 mands. Dahlias are almost a glut. 

 Gladioli are shortening up. Cosmos is 

 more plentiful. 



Gardeners' Club in Wreck. 



Eeturning last Tuesday evening from 

 the harvest home festival at the estab- 

 lishment of R. Vincent, Jr., '& Sons 



road crashed into the local just as it 

 was backing into a siding and threw the 

 engine down the embankment. Fortu- 

 nately the coupling broke and the cars 

 did not leave the track. Had the acci- 

 dent occurred a moment sooner, it would 

 probably have resulted in the cutting to 

 pieces of several carloads of the visitors. 

 It was considered marvelous by the rail- 

 road men who witnessed it that the pas- 

 senger cars were not bowled over into 

 the ditch. 



Vincent's Dahlia. Show. 



The fifth annual dahlia show of the 

 R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., combined 

 with a harvest home festival lasting four 

 days, started September 12, which was 

 gardeners' day. A number of florists 

 and members of the gardeners' clubs 

 from neighboring cities were present. 

 The Baltimore Club left Camden station 

 at 11:50 a. m. and on reaching Cowenton 

 station carriages were on hand to carry 

 the visitors a mile and a half to the 

 show. A genuine country chicken dinner 

 was served and was well enjoyed, after 

 which a general inspection was made of 

 the large packing and shipping depart- 

 ment, which was made a bower of love- 

 liness. Branches of oak trees depended 

 from the roof, while the walls were lined 

 with dahlias of all sorts, arranged with 

 such art as to display them to the best 

 advantage. Over 250 varieties were 

 shown. 



At present there are twenty large green- 

 houses and six more will be completed by 

 October 15. .Nearly five acres are now 

 under glass. Thousands of greenhouse 

 and vegetable plants are raised in these 



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Sports at the Picnic of the Milwaukee Florists' Club. 



Co., White Marsh, Md., the Gardeners' 

 Club and visitors from Philadelphia and 

 Washington were on board the Philadel- 

 phia local train bound for Baltimore 

 when the train was wrecked at Bay View 

 Junction. The New York and Washing- 

 ton express of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 



houses and in the fields. So far this 

 year the firm has shipped 2,269,123 cab- 

 bage plants, 111,000 eggplants and 

 2,363,831 tomato plants, with peppers, 

 lettuce and sweet potato plants and other 

 plants in proportion. 



Mr. Vincent plants his dahlias in rows, 



as he would corn. He has forty acres in 

 bloom, and the effect of those broad 

 fields with their brilliant-tinted flowers 

 is unique and beautiful. 



Various Notes. 



F. C. Bauer, of Govanstown, Md., is 

 building a new boiler-room of concrete 

 and will have all his boilers under one 

 roof. 



F. Seidelich, of Woodlawn, Md., 

 brought the first lot of cosmos to the 

 Lexington market. Mr. Seidelich has in- 

 stalled a new pumping outfit itnd has a 

 four horse-power gasoline engine. 



W. Keir, of Pikesville, has a fine lot 

 of roses coming on. 



Lohr & Fritze will install a steam 

 boiler to take the place of hot water. 



J. L. T. 



WATER HYAQNTHS. 



A thing of beauty Is a Joy forever; 

 Its loTeliness increases; It will never 

 Pass Into nothingness, but still will keep 

 A quiet bower for us and a sleep 

 Full of erweet dreams and health, and quiet 

 breathing. 



When the late Mr. Keata penned the 

 above lines he had plainly never made 

 acquaintance of the water hyacinth 

 nor attempted to log a saw mill via a 

 hyacinth covered bayou, says the Amer- 

 ican Lumberman. Men who have done 

 both are aggressively inclined to take 

 issue with the poetic gentleman and with 

 his pernicious doctrine. They admit 

 that the water hyacinth is a thing of 

 beauty, but are ready to take oath 

 that it is quite the opposite of being a 

 joy forever. They trust his prediction 

 that it will never "pass into nothing- 

 ness" will prove false; and while they 

 are forced to admit that it is putting 

 a number of saw mills to sleep they 

 emphatically deny that a sleeping saw 

 mill is conducive to sweet dreams, 

 either for the owners or the help. 



Speaking seriously, the hyacinth in 

 Louisiana has graduated from the in- 

 considerable proportions of a pest to 

 the full and solemn dignity of a prob- 

 lem. It is costing the business inter- 

 ests thousands of dollars and this sum- 

 mer has been perhaps worse in all re- 

 spects than ever. Bayou Barataria, 

 across the river from New Orleans, has 

 practically been closed to navigation 

 by this aquatic growth, despite heroic 

 efforts to keep the channel clear. Ac- 

 cording to the statements in local news- 

 papers, the Louisiana Cypress Lumber 

 Co., operating an extensive plant at 

 Harvey, La., has been forced to shut 

 down temporarily because of its in- 

 ability to get its log tows through. In 

 Bayou des Allemands similar condi- 

 tions prevail, and it is known that one 

 large cypress mill has been forced to 

 suspend operations for weeks because 

 of the clogged waterway. Throughout 

 the cypress country the hyacinth is 

 prospering as never before, despite the 

 fight that is being waged against it. 

 The situation is serious and its impor- 

 tance is hardly recognized by those not 

 in the immediate vicinity of the water- 

 ways where the damage is being done. 



CLEMATIS WITH BARE BASES. 



The tendency of practically all the 

 clematis family seems to be to rush up- 

 wards as quickly as possible, leaving a 

 base bare and unprotected, but eventu- 

 ally forming a head of tangled shoots. 

 Sometimes an effort is made to keep this 

 head of shoots disentangled and spread 

 out, but rarely do we see anjr attempt to 



