NOVEMBER 12. 1908. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Greenhouse Plant of the C. C Pollworth Co., Milwaukee* 



The new fern, Nephrolepis Scholzeli, 

 which was exhibited by Henry Dreer and 

 won the Henry Shaw medal at the St. 

 Louis show last week, was greatly ad- 

 mired by all the florists and J. J. Karins, 

 the firm's representative who staged it, 

 took a great many orders from St. Louis 

 firms. 



C. C. Sanders, chairman of the flower 

 show executive committee, is much 

 pleased with the paid attendance. He 

 says: "I don't believe we made any 

 money, but we did not lose any," and 

 that is saying a whole lot where previ- 

 ous shows have proven failures finan- 

 cially. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting November 

 12, for the first night meeting in the 

 Knights of Columbus hall, Grand avenue 

 and Olive street. The December meet- 

 ing will be held, as usual, in the after- 

 noon. 



There is quite a delegation of St. Louis 

 florists in Chicago this week, attending 

 the national flower show. 



The Ellison Floral Co. reports deco- 

 rating for a large reception at Alton, 

 111., November 11. They have been busy 

 all week with dinners at the St. Louis 

 Club. After the Alton affair Mrs. Elli- 

 son will visit Chicago to take a look at 

 the big show. 



George Angermueller says business has 

 opened up good. Everything seems to 

 be in demand. Consignments of Beau- 

 ties and mums have been quite heavy all 

 week. He has just received a large ship- 

 ment of florists' supplies. 



At C. A. Kuehn's last week stock of 

 all kinds was abundant and of extra good 

 quality in Beauties, carnations and 

 chrysanthemums. Ed Gerlach, the man- 

 ager, says the supply and wire depart- 

 ments have been busy. 



The florists' bowlers bowled November 

 9 at the new De Soto Olive alleys, at 

 Olive and Vandeventer avenues. Presi- 

 dent Connon and Secretary Smith were 

 in Chicago, but the attendance was good 

 and some good scores were made by the 

 young bowlers. J. J. B. 



THE POLLWORTH PLANT. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the plant of the C. C. Pollworth Co., of 



Milwaukee. This establishment has made 

 considerable growth in the last few years 

 and now consists of a range of twenty- 

 five large, modern houses, devoted to 

 roses, carnations, chrysanthemums and 

 aU varieties of palms and ferns. The 

 cut flowers are handled through the 

 downtown store and in addition to their 

 own cut, they also handle the cut of 

 some of the principal growers in their 

 vicinity. They enjoy a heavy shipping 

 trade through the northwest. 



They also make a specialty of green- 

 house requisites and use their own es- 

 tablishment as a basis of experiment with 

 the goods they send out to their custom- 

 ers. Azaleas, as well as Christmas and 

 Easter flowering plants, cold storage val- 

 ley and lilies, are likewise grown in quan- 

 tity by them. 



BOSTON. 

 The Market. 



• With the single exception of roses, 

 which are selling better at advanced 

 prices, the cut flower trade is still far 

 from satisfactory. The quantity of ma- 

 terial arriving is simply more than the 

 market can gorge, and prices ruled low 

 on chrysanthemums and carnations laat 

 week. With the early passing of mums 

 an improvement may come. It is cer- 

 tainly much wanted. 



Roses show a decided hardening tend- 

 ency and the supply has fallen off. All 

 varieties have shared in a moderate ad- 

 vance, the greatest improvement being in 

 the standard sorts, such as Beauty, Rich- 

 mond and Killarney. A few White Kil- 

 larney are seen. Another year this prom- 

 ises to be the leading white. 



Carnations are far too abundant still. 

 Whites sell the slowest. Sales of these 

 at $5 per thousand last week attest the 

 condition of the market, some going even" 

 lower. 



Violets are not yet overabundant and 

 move fairly well. There is still an ava- 

 lanche of chrysanthemums, but another 

 week should see a falling off in receipts, 

 some growers being almost cut out. 



A few Roman hyacinths and Paper 

 White narcissi are seen, but are not in 

 much request yet. Liliums are good, as 

 Id lily of the valley. Candytuft is of 



s-ow sale. Some cosmos is still coming 

 in, chiefly Lady Lenox. This variety 

 flowers too late to suit growers as a rule. 

 Adiantum is good and Asparagus 

 Sprengeri and plumosus are of excellent 

 quality. 



Various Notes. 



At the next meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club, November 17, 

 Eber Holmes, of Montrose Greenhouses, 

 will read a paper on "How We Can Im- 

 prove Our Club." Nominations of offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year wiii be made, 

 reports of the national flower show will 

 be heard and much other business trans- 

 acted. 



By the will of George Francis Park- 

 man the sum of $5,000,000 is left for 

 the support of the Boston parks. The 

 interest, some $200,000, will make many 

 improvements possible. This is the larg- 

 est bequest Boston has ever had for park 

 purposes. 



Visitors to the chrysanthemum show 

 were numerous. Among those noted 

 from a distance were G. F. Struck, New 

 York; H. Hurrell, Summit, N. J.; T. W. 

 Head, Groton, Conn.; F. C. Green and 

 T. McCarthy, Providence, R. I.; F. 

 Heeremans, Lenox, Mass.; J. J. Karins, 

 with H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia. 



H. H. Barrows & Son have worked up 

 a fine stock of their new fern, Nephrol- 

 epis magnifica, to be introduced in 1909. 

 It promises to be even better than Whit- 

 mani. 



Mann Bros, are marketing good Ro- 

 man hyacinths and Paper Whites. They 

 have an unusually fine lot of lilies, of 

 which latter they are large growers. 



Five magnificent specimen chrysanthe- 

 mums destined for the late Boston show 

 and grown by Mr. Spiers, John E. Par- 

 sons ' skillful gardener in Lenox, aver- 

 aged eight feet in diameter and could 

 not be gotten into the baggage car at 

 Pittsfield, so they had to be left behind. 

 The plants, being trained on wire frames, 

 could not be tied together. 



The annual business session of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society will 

 occur November 14. Polls will be open 

 from 12 to 4, for the election of direct- 

 ors and other officers. 



W. N. Ceaio. 



