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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 16, 1908. 











Summer Beauties, Valley 



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control of her late husband's business at 

 8 City Hall avenue. 



Mr. and Mrs. Adin A. Hixon enter- 

 tained about 300 members of the Worces- 

 ter County Horticultural Society and a(?t 

 quaintances at their home, Maple Shades, 

 6 Gates lane, July 8. It was a reunion 

 that formerly took place at Magnolia, 

 the home of ex-President O. B. Hadwen. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Riiins Eastern Market 



Business conditions are but slightly 

 changed from those of a week ago. The 

 inoticeable changes are the increase in the 

 quantity of asters, which is quite m&rked, 

 and of gladioli. There are also some 

 superb sweet peas coming from a dis- 

 tance. The rose situation has been 

 changed by the addition of more locally- 

 grown summer Beauties, which, at times, 

 when they are not overbroiled, are excel- 

 lent. Killarney from local growers is 

 also better, being a fit companion for the 

 really good Kaiserins that we have at 

 nearly all times. Gaskelliana is the reign- 

 ing cattleya of the day, while valley can 

 at all times be depended on for fair qual- 

 ity. In the lilies, auratum is still ex- 

 cellent, and cold storage bulbs of longi- 

 liorum are producing finer flowers today 

 than one often sees in midsummer. Car- 

 nations are rarely seen in quantity — only 

 a few nice bunches here and there, chief- 

 ly white, with some Enchantress, Ethel 

 Crocker, and occasionally Harry Fenn. 

 Locally-grown sweet peas are mostly 

 poor. The outdoor flowers have suffered 

 from drought. There is some seashore 

 shipping business and some funeral work. 



The Reopening of ** 104." 



It was officially announced July 10 

 that Charles M. Keegan had purchased 

 the lease held by David Rust, receiver 

 for the William Graham Co., for the 

 store at 104 South Ihirteenth street. 

 This lease expires at New Year's, and it 

 was understood Mr. Keegan had secured 

 an option on a new lease on the same 

 premises, to t»egin when the old one ex- 

 pires. This new lease, it is said, is for 

 the ground floor only, the owner's pur- 

 pose being to change the stairway and 

 rent the second floor, which is not needed 

 for a florist's purposes, to someone else. 

 Inquiry at "104" added the information 

 that the business will be carried on under 

 the name of Charles M. Keegan, by 

 Charles M. Keegan, W. W. Faust and 

 Adolph Bueger. Mr. Keegan will have 

 iharge of tlie financial part of the busi- 



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Per 100 1000 



2 foot ....$0.45 $4.08 

 2»fl •' 55 5.11 



3 " .... .65 6.15 

 S^ " 78 7.18 



Per 100 1000 



4 foot... $0.88 $ 8.16 

 4»2 •■ .... 1.00 9.20 



5 '■ .... 1.12 10.23 



6 " .... 1.30 12.25 

 6H " .... 1.40 13.28 



No. 8 Steel Wire, Silvinized— For staking 

 American Beauty and other strong roses. 



Per 100 1000 



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2^2 ■ 70 6.60 



3 " «) 7.50 



3^2 " 95, 900 



4 " 1.10 10.00 



PerlOO 1000 

 4^2 foot.. $1.25 $11.50 



5 •• .. 1.40 13.00 



6 " .. 1.60 15.50 



7 " .. 2.00 18.00 



8 " .. 2.25 20.50 



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ness; Mr. Faust, who was with the Wil- 

 liam Graham Co., and has many friends 

 in this city, will have charge of the 

 store, and Mr. Rueger, who was decorator 

 for the William Graham Co., will attend 

 to that end of the business. Mr. Faust 

 stated that it is their purpose to open a 

 first-class store and conduct it in a style 

 worthy of the best patronage in this city. 



Mr. G)wee*s Visit. 



Arthur Cowee, of Meadowvale Farm, 

 Berlin, N. Y., spent a few hours in this 

 city on his way from Atlantic City to 

 New York on the evening of July 7. Mr. 

 Cowee came in response to an invitation 

 to speak on the gladiolus before the Flo- 

 rists' Club. Fortunately, the hour pre- 

 vious to his leaving Atlantic City had 

 been spent swimming in the cool Atlantic, 

 a fit preparation for the unprecedented 

 torrid wave which enveloped Philadelphia 

 on that day and for several days before. 



A small but select audience, embracing 

 many of the leading members of the club, 

 gathered to meet Mr. Cowee. His paper, 

 which appeared in the Review last week, 

 was listened to with marked attention 

 and eUcited a hearty round of applause at 

 its completion. Mr, Cowee 's manner was 

 direct and forceful; his handling of the 

 subject, that of a master. After the 

 paper he exhibited a series of gladiolus 

 slides, painted for him by Mrs. Cornelius 

 Van Brunt, of New York, who has done 

 such excellent work for the New York 

 Horticultural Society. These slides, some 

 forty or fifty in number, were most beau- 

 tiful, bringing out the exquisite colors 

 of the gladiolus with surprising fidelity. 

 It is doubtful whether any of the club 

 members present had ever seen lantern 

 slides of such rare quality. 



After the exhibition Mr. Cowee an- 

 swered a number of questions put to him 

 by the members regarding the Groff hy- 



brids and his Meadowvale Farm. Later, 

 in conversation, Mr. Cowee spoke enter- 

 tainingly of the labor problem which for- 

 merly confronted him at Berlin. Labor 

 is scarce at Meadowvale Farm, which is 

 some miles out of Berlin. In order to 

 meet the increasingly heavy demands of 

 harvesting the gladiolus bulbs in the fall, 

 Mr. Cowee conceived the idea of putting 

 hoboes who apply for work at this task. 

 The first fall five or six hoboes came and 

 were employed; they were paid $1.50 a 

 day and charged a nominal price for their 

 firewood and for a blanket, being housed 

 first in tents and later in portable houses. 

 Mr. Cowee gave them a good talking to 

 when engaging them and a chicken dinner 

 at the country hotel when dismissing 

 them, shaking hands with each as he paid 

 him off. This gave him the name of a 

 ' ' good fellow ' ' in hobo land, and a cou- 

 ple of years later — last fall — an enormous 

 number of hoboes appeared and were put 

 to work harvesting the gladiolus bulbs. 

 Mr. Cowee further explains this solution 

 of his difficulty by adding that the work 

 is not very hard and that it comes at a 

 time of the year when the hoboes must 

 have money to carry them through the 

 winter or go to a public institution, which 

 they particularly dislike. This is merely 

 an instance of the way in which Mr. 

 Cowee meets problems as they come up. 



The Latest Plant Wrinkles. 



Robert Craig kindly took a half hour 

 to give Phil some ideas of what is being 

 done in plant growing. I say kindly be- 

 cause it unfortunately happened that 

 Phil arrived a few minutes before Mr. 

 Craig's luncheon hour, and being very 

 busy indeed, he sternly refused to con- 

 sider that important home festival and 

 Mrs. Craig's feelings under the circum- 

 stances. Any man who will show you 

 plant- wrinkles under a broiling sun when 



