November 7, 1907. 



iThc Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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The Detroit Florists' Club at Mt« Clemens, Mich., November 1. 



heat from any of the houses. Rather 

 allow a little warmth to circulate in the 

 pipes and ventilate freely to preserve a 

 buoyant atmosphere. 



The present is a good time to plant 

 hardy roses, provided they are afforded 

 proper winter protection. 



Do not forget, to fumigate once a 

 week. It is better not to see any pests. 

 It is poor policy to wait until they are 

 swarming and smoke heavily, injuring 

 some of your more tender plants. 



AT AUBURN, N. Y. 



The illustrations on page 10 are 

 from photographs taken at the establish- 

 ment of Dobbs & Son, Auburn, N. Y. 

 One picture shows the range of green- 

 houses, photographed from the carna- 

 tion field in the rear. The other picture 

 is from a snapshot of the delivery outfit, 

 which is a standing advertisement for 

 the firm. 



Dobbs & Son say that business with 

 them has been exceptionally good, not 

 only this fall, but all summer. They 

 attribute this largely to persistent ad- 

 vertising, in which they are firm be- 

 lievers. They are using all possible 

 methods of reaching the buyers, includ- 

 ing newspapers, telephone and city direc- 

 tories, street car cards and circulars. 

 They believe newspaper advertising to 

 be most effective, but consider its value 

 added to by the constant showing their 

 name receives in 'other methods. They 

 are up-to-date in all their equipment, 

 not only in the greenhouses but in the 

 office as well, as they recently added a 

 card index of customers and a filing 

 system, which makes it possible to econo- 

 mize both time and space. 



E. H. Dobbs is the youngest florist in 

 business for himself in his section, being 

 only 28 years of age. He has been at 

 the business all his life, working for his 

 father until he was 20 years old, when 

 he was taken into partnership. He 

 bought his father's interest in the busi- 

 ness in May, 1906, but continues it un- 

 der the same firm name. 



DETROIT FLORISTS' CLUB. 



Syhacuse, N. Y.— p. R. Quinlan & 

 Co. are having a public chrysanthemum 

 show at the two city stores and at Onon- 

 daga "Valley greenhouses. 



Annual Outing to Mt. Clemens. 



On Friday, November 1, another out- 

 ing was added to the long list of annual 

 outings at the Bath City, by the Detroit 

 Florists' Club. On this occasion, as 

 on some previous ones, they had as guests 

 a large number of Toledo florists, among 

 them Messrs. Bayer, Mills, Barrow, Peck, 

 Peck, Jr., Kruger, Schiller, Wortz, Mil- 

 ler, Miller, Jr., Searles, Phillips, and 

 Gallier. Just thirteen, and on a Friday! 

 No wonder the rear of the car was stove 

 in by a runaway freight car. Luckily 

 no one was injured. 



The car was hardly under way when 

 cigars were passed around by Albert 

 Pochelon, on the strength of a baby 

 boy. 



The first stop was made at J. F. Sul- 

 livan's greenhouses. One of the features 

 of this place is a fine house of Kil- 

 lamey roses. The mums looked espec- 

 ially good, with the exception of a lot 

 of Enguehard, the foliage of which suf- 

 fered from overfeeding. The inner man 

 was here well provided for. 



Leopold Mallest grows Lawson, En- 

 chantress, White Perfection and Boston 

 Market. All these were in splendid con- 

 dition. A house of violets was coming 

 along nicely after having received a set- 

 back from poor soil. Mr. Mallest be- 

 came famous in this locality last year 

 on account of his violets. 



From this place it is but a short dis- 

 tance to Breitmeyer's large span of 

 glass, where the visitors found a table 

 literally covered with good things to 

 eat and drink. 



Breitmeyer's roses look fine. La De- 

 troit, Kiliamey, Richmond and Beauty, 

 especially so. Kiliamey is Fred's favor- 

 ite this year, and he intends to grow 

 many more in 1908. Chrysanthemums 

 are not being grown in as large num- 

 bers as before, the fancy ones being 

 grown at their Mack avenue place, but 

 what stock they are growing is good. 

 The carnations promise to bring in good 

 returns this season. White Perfection 

 is the favorite white variety. Beacon 

 is the favorite red. Winsor is liked 

 very much. Craig, Enchantress, Rose- 

 pink Enchantress, White Lawson, Vic- 



tory and several others are grown and 

 they have a number of good seedlings of 

 their own. Between the Beauty houses, 

 which were formerly separate, they have 

 built small houses which are devoted 

 to violets. From these they are already 

 cutting some good flowers and the out- 

 look is for a large crop. 



Just across the way from Breit- 

 meyer's is Robert Klagge's large span 

 of glass. In the new boiler-room, two 

 immense new boilers are waiting for 

 winter. Mr. Klagge's place has always 

 been known as a model one, and this 

 season it surely is well worthy of the 

 name. The stock in all the houses is in 

 fine condition, with the exception of 

 one house of La Detroit, which has been 

 suft'ering frota mildew all summer. One 

 house of Kaiserin attracted particular 

 attention; some of the stems must have 

 been five feet long. 



Just across the way are A. L. Stevens' 

 greenhouses. Mr. Stevens grows noth- 

 ing but carnations, but these are ex- 

 ceptionally well grown. Lady Bountiful, 

 Lawson, Flamingo and Morning Glory 

 are some of the varieties. Of course, 

 the hospitality of this place meant some 

 more refreshments and cigars for the 

 crowd. 



James Tayior was waiting at the door 

 with a glad hand for everyone. The 

 old shed which adorned the Taylor place 

 for many years has given place to a 

 long cross house which is to be devoted 

 to smilax and other green stock. From 

 the general appearance of things, it 

 was easily seen that he has been busy 

 during the summer. The mums are 

 as good as we saw in Mt. Clemens. Mrs. 

 Taylor provided some fine coffee, with 

 sandwiches, doughnuts and apples. 



Just another short distance and we 

 arrived at John Carey's. To hear him 

 tell it, one would think he grew the 

 poorest stuff in the city, but if our 

 eyes are not deceiving us, he was wrong. 

 The carnations were fine. He has a 

 variegated sport of Lawson that is a 

 winner. The color is a delicate pink 

 with dark pink stripes, making a veiy 

 pleasing combination. 



Carey's large shed is usually where 

 the boys rest for a short time, and dur- 

 ing the serving of refreshments the 



