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January 28, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



31 



RED BANK, N. J. 



Horticultural Society Meets. 



The Monmouth County Horticultural 

 Society held its fifth annual dinner at 

 the Sheridan hotel, in this city, and the 

 affair from start to finish was one of the 

 most successful things of its kind that 

 the writer has ever attended. 



The dinner committee, Messrs. N, But- 

 terbach, W. Turner, Harry A. Kettel, 

 George H. Hale and William Dowling, 

 got up an excellent menu. 



At the close of the dinner Dr. W. S. 

 Whitmore, who acted as toastmaster, 

 after a few eloquent remarks on the good 

 the society had done and was doing in 

 the community, called on the newly 

 elected president, Joseph Kennedy, to ad- 

 dress the members present, which he did 

 in a manner that augurs well for his ad- 

 ministration. He welcomed the represen- 

 tatives of other societies present, and 

 was followed by A. Herrington, who 

 spoke for the Morris county society; F. 

 Neubrand, who spoke for the Tarrytown 

 society, and A. Bauer, who represented 

 the Elberon society. 



All of these gentlemen congratulated 

 the society on its work and on the cordial 

 relations existing between it and its sis- 

 ter organizations. 



The Rickards brothers gave several fine 

 songs and A. L. Holden, a prominent 

 New York architect, made a strong plea 

 for a closer relationship between the 

 architect of a mansion and the landscape 

 gardener who lays out the grounds. His 

 suggestion that horticultural societies en- 

 dow a scholarship to permit worthy young 

 gardeners to specialize in this particular 

 line is worth careful consideration among 

 horticultural bodies. 



Charles H. Totty thanked the mem- 

 bers for their generous treatment of him, 

 and in return offered his $50 silver 

 trophy for 1909, to be competed for by 

 this society at its next fall show, condi- 

 tions to be left to the exhibition commit- 

 tee. 



William Duckham, known as the oflS- 

 cial jollier, made one of his best efforts 

 in that Une, and was followed by Father 

 Egan, of Seabright; Father Kelly, of 

 Ked Bank, and Dr. Field, who gave us 

 good advice and told us some excellent 

 stories. ■ 



Mr. Kemp, superintendent for Dr. Van 

 Vliet, gave an excellent talk on the work 

 which painstaking gardeners are doing 

 in improving plants and flowers, and in- 

 cidentally made a few digs at Luther 

 Burbank. 



Many others, too numerous to mention 

 in detail, made remarks, short but perti- 

 nent, among them William Turner, 

 George Hale, N. Butterbach, W. W. Ken- 

 nedy and A. Metzdorf. The fun was 

 concluded about 2 a. m. by Harry Kettel 

 singing "Rolling Home," with a full 

 chorus accompanying him. 



One hundred members and guests were 

 present and every one went away de- 

 lighted with the evening's entertain- 

 ment. VlDI. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Slow trade was the order of the week 

 and the weather was partly to blame, 

 starting the week with snow and winding 

 up with thunder, lightning and rain. 

 There was plenty of stock of all kinds 

 and prices, accordingly, were low. Vio- 

 lets seemed to fare worse than anything 

 else. Among the retailers there were 



Three Well-known Pittsburgers. 



some good funeral orders and they 

 needed them, as society is still in a coma- 

 tose state. 



Various Notes. 



Randolph & McClements, the Zieger 

 Co. and H. L. Blind & Bros., the east 

 end people, are closing their stores at 

 6 p. m., except Saturday night. 



A party consisting of Fred Burki, E. 

 C. Reineman, P. S. Randolph, Henry 

 Blind, W. A. Clarke, E. C. Ludwig and 

 De Forest Ludwig visited the J. B. Mur- 

 doch greenhouses at Vaneman, Pa., last 

 Tuesday, and spent a pleasant day. The 

 houses were not in the condition they 

 hoped to see them, owing to the shortage 

 of water. On account of the drought 

 last summer, the springs which supplied 

 them with water gave out entirely, mak- 

 ing them dependent on a deep well which 

 they have been pumping from, but this 

 developed some salt, which did not help 

 their roses, nor was it the best thing for 

 the carnations. By next season this will 

 be overcome by putting in a different 

 water system. 



The Geddis store, at Homestead, Pa., 

 was placed on sale last Tuesday and was 

 knocked down at $800 to W. D. Faulk, 

 the highest bidder. Mr. Faulk is known 

 as a hustler and has the good wishes of 

 his friends in the new venture. 



The Hartman brothers, who sold out 

 their houses here several years ago and 

 went to farming in Ohio, have again sold 

 out and were in the city last week bid- 

 ding good-bye to their old friends before 

 starting for the west, as they will settle 

 in Idaho or Oregon. 



Ben Elliott, who is associated with 

 John Bader, will leave the last of the 

 week with his brother, J. Wilkinson El- 

 liott, and several others, to make a tour 

 of Italy by automobile. J. Wilkinson 

 Elliott visited most of Germany last fall 

 and left his machine on the other side 

 for this trip, which he had in mind at 

 that time. 



The Southview Floral Co. has taken 

 the store room at 1734 Carson street, 

 formerly occupied by M. F. Stafford, 

 who recently failed. 



A thief recently entered the home of 

 E. W. Garland, of the Finleyville Floral 

 Co., taking his watch and chain, best suit 

 of clothes and about $100 in money. 



David Geddis, who left some time ago 

 for Texas, returned last Saturday. He 

 is interested in the real estate business 

 there, and is here in connection with a 

 large deal -they have on hand. He will 



return in about ten days; his headquar- 

 ters will be Harrisburg and Houston, 

 Tex. 



Visitors: H. D. Rohrer, Lancaster, 

 Pa.; William Edlefsen, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



OBITUARY. 



John W. Crane. 



John W. Crane, of Bethany, O., died 

 Wednesday evening, January 13, of gen- 

 eral debility. He was 72 years of age. 

 He was born .in Ohio and had lived in 

 Bethany for a number of years. He 

 spent the latter part of his life in the 

 growing of plants and flowers. He is 

 survived by his wife. 



NEV BEDFORD. MASS. 



The cut flower trade remains about the 

 saftie as usual. Carnations are doing 

 well. Carnations retail at 50 cents and 

 60 cents per dozen; roses, from $1.50 to 

 $2 per dozen. Violets bring $1.50 per 

 hundred blooms, retail; sweet peas, $1 

 per hundred, retail. A good supply of 

 tulips and Paper White narcissi is now 

 coming in; they retail at 50 cents per 

 dozen. Freesias have now made their ap- 

 pearance and they work in well for fu- 

 neral work. Funeral work is good, and 

 much short stuff is used up in this way. 



Most of the growers here are now mak- 

 ing ready for Decoration day, by sowing 

 Ten Weeks' Stocks and candytuft. We 

 are having very mild weather here at 

 present. 



R. H. Woodhouse has a nice batch of 

 young geraniums coming along for the 

 spring trade. 



E. Y. Peirce and family spent last 

 week at their cottage at Onset, Mass. 



William Livesey is cutting some nice 

 Lloyd carnations. 



Peter Murray's Winsors are doing 

 finely at his Fairhaven place. This va- 

 riety has a beautiful color and takes well 

 with the public. W. L. 



MiNOT, N. D. — A sudden blaze on Sun- 

 day morning, January 17, destroyed the 

 entire stock in Geo. E. Valker's green- 

 houses. The damage to the building is 

 but slight, though a good deal of the 

 glass was broken by the heat. The fire 

 started in the basement, where the heat- 

 ing plant is located. Mr. Valker had be- 

 gun business only about a month before. 

 The most necessary repairs were made at 

 once. 



