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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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American Institute's seventy-seventh an- 

 nual exhibition and dahlia show will be 

 beld, and in addition to fruits and vege- 

 tables, prizes are offered for displays of 

 orchids, gladioli, annuals, palms, ferns 

 and the latest floral novelties. 



McKenzie Westwood, of Mengham & 

 Westwood, 422 Columbus avenue, has re- 

 turned from a ten weeks' outing at his 

 old home in Canada. 



Ambrose Cleary, of the Cleary Horti- 

 cultural Co., returned September 4, on 

 the Cedric, from Europe. Many impor- 

 tations of nursery stock will follow, and 

 the auctions will begin without delay. 



August Kratt is now foreman for the 

 Hinode Elorist Co. Miss Mills, who is 

 the owner of this establishment, says 

 that stock of all kinds, including the 

 Japanese novelties, never looked finer. 

 Four houses are devoted to mums. 



M. Jordan, of the J. M, Keller Co., 

 returned last week from his trip to Hol- 

 land and Belgium. He is importing many 

 plant novelties. J. Austin Shaw. 



HENRY C. OSTERTAG. 



Henry C. Ostertag is head of the well 

 known firm of Ostertag Bros., in the 

 florists' business for many years in St. 

 Louis, and classed with the largest firms 

 in that city. Mr. Ostertag has a happy 

 faculty of making friends wherever he 

 goes. His hustling qualities caused his 

 election as a three-year trustee of the 

 3t. Louis Florists' Club, and he says he 

 will use all his spare time to promote 

 the interests of the club and keep it right 

 at the top, where it has been for the 

 last twenty-one years. J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



A trifling improvement is noticeable 

 in cut flower conditions. There is still 

 an abundance of stock arriving, but it is 

 moving a little better. Carnations are 

 more plentiful, but sell quite well. Boses 

 are improving in quality with the cooler 

 weather and their numbers are appre- 

 ciably reduced. Sweet peas continue to 

 come in, but are now of poor quality. 

 Dahlias are seen on several stands, but 

 are not in much demand. They might be 

 much more used in design work with ad- 

 vantage. Asters are still abundant, with 

 little variation in price. Gladioli con- 

 tinue poor sellers; even fine white spikes 

 bring low prices. Lilium speciosum album 

 and roseum from outdoors are now plenti- 

 ful, but the flowers are inferior to those 

 produced under glass. Of longiflorum 

 there is a fair supply. For lily of the 

 valley demand is a little better, due to a 

 crop of September weddings. While 

 there have been light frosts in some 

 places, these have not seriously affected 

 the outdoor flowers. Among these latter 

 some cosmos is seen, a reminder of fall, 

 and tuberoses, always a rather slow sell- 

 ing flower. Plant growers report a little 

 better inquiry for palms and other foliage 

 subjects. 



Qub Fieli Day. 



Magnificent weather favored the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club members for 

 their field day to the New England Nurs- 

 «ries, Bedford, September 5. About 

 seventy-five journeyed by special car 

 from Arlington Heights, arriving in Bed- 

 ford about 2:30. Some others made the 

 trip by steam cars, nearly 100 being pres- 

 ent in all. On arrival of the special car 

 the herbaceous perennial section was first 

 inspected. Over ten acres are closely 

 planted with these flowers in about 1,000 



Henry C Ostertag. 



species and varieties. The perennial 

 phloxes were somewhat on the wane, 

 owing to the forward season, but at- 

 tracted niuph favorable attention. Many 

 of the visitors took note of the seedlings, 

 one named Annie Cook, of a beautiful 

 pink shade with a perfect truss, being 

 admired by all. Other late flowering 

 hardy plants, such as liatris, rudbeckias 

 boltonias, heleniums, chrysanthemums, 

 helianthus, physotegia and others, made 

 a good showing. 



The big blocks of evergreens next 

 claimed attention. These are a leading 

 specialty \vith the New England Nurs- 

 eries. Abies concolor six to ten feet high, 

 of perfect form and color, were specially 

 good, also Abies pungens Kosteriana, 

 Abies balsamea, Picea alba, Pinus Stro- 

 bus and many others. The large acreage 

 of deciduous trees and shrubs looked well 

 and had stood the early summer drought 

 well, thanks to persistent cultivation. The 

 new storage warehouse, constructed of 

 stone, and the largest of its kind in New 

 England, was much admired, also the 

 new greenhouses erected for propagating 

 purposes. TJi^ nursery has exceptional 

 shipping fa/^lities. due to the fact that 

 the Bostop & Maine railroad passes 

 through tne nurseries, all freight being 

 loaded dirjectly on the cars without any 

 hauling, yleanliness was noticeable in 

 every parti of the 200 acres of stock, 

 weeds being\allowed no quarter. 



After the tour of inspection lunch was 

 served on the lawn, speeches made and 

 the return journey made to Boston, which 

 was reached about 6:30, all voting the 

 outing a most pleasurable and instructive 

 one. 



A. E. Robinson, for fourteen years with 



the W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., 

 with which the New England Nurseries 

 are connected, who is manager at Bed- 

 ford, and John Kirkegaaru, sales man- 

 ager, showed the visitors every courtesy. 

 Although it is only eighteen months that 

 liave elapsed since the new company, of 

 which "W. T. Smith is president and A. E. 

 Robinson treasurer, took control, the 

 nurseries have been transformed and 

 promise to be in the near future among 

 the lea<lers in the United States. 



Various Notes. 



(;. E. Baldwin, of Carrillo & Baldwin, 

 was a visitor last week. He reported ex- 

 cellent business at the Niagara conven- 

 tion and in Canada. In the latter coun- 

 try he found a growing interest in or- 

 chids. 



George W. Butterworth is home from 

 his European trip and saw many fine 

 sights in Great Britain and Holland, some 

 of which he hopes to tell the club about 

 at a future meeting. 



The many friends of Emil Johansson, 

 lor a number of years in charge of J. E. 

 Rothwell's noted orchid collection, and 

 formerly at Lincoln park, Chicago, were 

 saddened to hear that he was removed to 

 Danvers Insane Asylum last week and 

 hope that his confinement there will b« 

 but temporary. 



A. Leuthy arrived home September 1 

 per S. S. La Gascoyne from Havre after 

 a rough passage. He reports large siz< 

 kentias as scarce in Europe. At his Ros 

 lindale establishment the stock of palms 

 araucarias, ficus, asparagus, etc., is look 

 ing well and there is an improving de 

 mapd for plants. 



J. E. Rothwell, of Brookline, has dig 



