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The Florists^ Review 



SKI-IBMBKU ."J, lUl I 



VIOLETS A SECOND YEAR. 



<';iii J'limcss of Walt'^ violets lie i;ii 

 rifil Dvor ii st'ioinl year with i^doij i-e 

 suits.' 1 lia\e a heil that was used for 

 '■uttiiijTs ill June aii'l is lookiuy tine 

 now. Tile plants Ikwc no I'Uiinets. (.'an 

 this lie<i lie fert iii/ed aiul ^rowii foi 

 blooms tliis winter with yood results' 

 1 can let the lieil t'ree/e it' thai will 

 hel]i. .'. W. If. 



The ^rlll^e^^ o| Wales \lolets will 



not ill) nearly so well a seroiiil year. 



The (lowers will rnii smaller, and tlie 

 '•olor, also, will lie |ialei-. ft' you have 

 no otluM- jilants. 1 would use them, hut 

 \ ou will find the yonuL; stork will jiro- 



luce inui h finer Idooms. It' your (di- 

 iriat(* is not too se\ei'e, keep the violets 

 iiutdoois all winter, protected with 

 leaves, meadow hay or sti.aw, laying; 

 some Iirush or li^ht hoaids on top to 

 keep the coxcrin^r in jdace. It the 

 irrouri'l is free trom stagnant watei', 

 the plants should winter all riijht and 

 i:i\i' a j,food sprin;^ ero|i to lollow the 

 ureenhoiiso sto(d<. ( '. W. 



PHCENIX FROM SEED. 



l'le;i-e inform us where we may oh- 

 fain I'hdiiix Canariensis seeds and also 

 tell us the rijjht wav to pl.ant them for 

 liest results. \>,. \ H. 



Seeds of Hha-iiix Canariensis are of- 

 fered hy seveial of the lar^'e seedsmen, 

 though it is jiossildc that there may lie 

 some shortages in palm seeds, owin;; 

 to the irregularity of transatlantic shij) 

 nients durin^^r the war in Kurope. 



Tliese seeds may he sown either in (i 

 incdi pots or in flats, in light soil, the 

 -('('lis lieing covered to a depth of lialf 

 an inch. ^Vater them in thoroughly 

 ,ind keep them midst, jdacing the pots 

 or fiats in a jiartly shaded greenhouse. 

 If th(^ seeds are fri^sh they will ger- 

 minate in a few weeks, and may re- 

 main in the seed pots until the second 

 leaf liegins to push up, when thev sliould 

 ho potted off. \V."ll. T. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y 



The Market. 



Trade conditions seem to he muidi 

 the same as at la-t writing; the weather 

 h:is impro\ed, hut business is prac- 

 tically dead. Outdoor flowers have re 

 ■ overed somewhat sinci^ the hea\y rains 

 of a week ago, hut the growers say the 

 asters are mm h later this year; that is, 

 of course, the later varieties. Quanti- 

 ties of hardy jdilox, verbenas, ^dadioli 

 and candytuft are shijiped in and are 

 sold quite readily. Ooftd cosmos is on 

 the market and the first chrysanthe- 

 mums linxc arrived, looses in all grades 



and \arieties are aiiiving in fine con 

 dition; some es|iecially good Kaiserin 

 aie seen. (Gladioli aie plentiful; the 

 best s(dlers are America and U'ochester 

 White. Carnations are not good or 

 plentiful. Asters, of which wo have re- 

 cei\'eil large shipments, are not what 

 they should be and have to be (deur»'d 

 at low iirices. Sweet jieas are still (juite 

 scarce. Good Boston, Whitmani and 

 I'iei'soni fei'us ari' seen in many of the 

 stores. 



Various Notes. 



K. H. Fry is kept fairly busy these 

 days at liis fruit farm. The florists' 

 business is not overbrisk. 



Miss B. Bossier, of the Bord & Burn 

 ham Co., commenced her vacation !Sej) 

 tember 1 and is visiting friends in 

 •Schenectady and New York. 



Salter Jiros. displayed a beautiful 

 vase of yellow chivsanthemums lust 

 wetdv at their Bast Main street stoi'e. 



Henry T*. Neun's wiiulow, which was 

 idiietly of palms and ferns prettily ar 



MILWAUKEE. 



J. Berg and Milton Alexander. 



ranged. w:e- hri;;liteneii by an artistic 

 basket of' /innias of many colors. 



At a flower carnival held at Spencer- 

 port, X. v., the judges were George 

 Ariudd, manager of the seed depart- 

 ment of' .lames \'ick 's Sons, at (!reece, 

 X. v., .and \ic(>-president of the lioches- 

 ter Florists' Association; .1. M. Dickiii 

 son, local nurseryman, and II. !•!. Ii'og 

 ers, local florist. 



.Ia!n(>s \'ick 's Sons htdd their annual 

 picnic Saturday. August 129, which was 

 i|uite successful. (iood weather ])re 

 vailed. .\hout lh(i vveie present ;ind 

 s|)ent th(> day in games, iifl(> shooting, 

 etc. Aftei' .a hearty dinner most of the 

 crowd went .around in autos and tru(d<s 

 \isiting and insj)ecting the trial 

 grounds, which are coming along in 

 good sha|ie. The firm expects a mu<di 

 l.argi'r average than in any ]irevious 

 yeai'. The stoi-e business is rather dull, 

 as is expected at this seasofi. Bulbs 

 are ariiving and catalogues are being 

 mailed. IT. .7. 11. 



The Market. 



Business" has not been quite su 

 during the last week. Jn the prcs 

 week there was a little spurt in i'u, 

 work, but when that ceased, the in 

 business became more apparent 

 ever. New carnations, though si 

 ou the market, were not of sulVh 

 <]uantity to make any change in 

 ket conditiorrs. Asters are still sc. 

 but their quality is improving and 

 m.akes it possible to clean up i 

 day's cut. Roses are still shorte; 

 up, on account of the recent 

 nights. The supply, while not m 

 so large as in the last month, is 

 large enough to take care of tin- 

 ma ml. Snapdragons are coming; 

 but the supj)ly is inadequate, (ila 

 have shortened up considerably 

 are moving satisfactorily. They ai 

 fiiu' quality for this time of yeai 



The demand for both Easter I 

 ;ind rubrums has increased to a mai 

 degree and, although the supply is 

 noticeably diminishing, the entin^ 

 is bidng cleaned up daily. Valle. 

 scarce. ()wing to the doubt as to i 

 year's supply, the trade seems ih 

 mined to use all it can while it ■ 

 f»htain a. sui)i)ly. As growers are h 

 ing ba(d\ to some extent, this h.i 

 tendency to clean up the cut as sou; 

 it a))pears on the market. 



Various Notes. 



The lleitman-Oestreicher Co. is i 

 cutting some (>xtra fine asters. T 

 are greenhouse gi-o\vn and are tin 

 favor with the trade wherever ^' 

 Batri(d< Cudahy, whose new gn 

 house plajit is just about finished, 

 alreaily cutting some fine rosea foi 

 market. 



•Gustave Totske, the north side tloi 

 is busy remodeling his greenhouse- 

 Miss Schneider, with the Holto' 

 llunktd Co., icturiied August L' 1 i 

 a two we(d\s' \acation. Albert II; 

 with the same firm, returned to 

 duties August 31, after being .r^ 

 for three; weeks. 



Milwaukee will ha\e the annual \ 

 consin state fair again this v 

 although there was some talk of lo 

 ing it in some other city. The t 

 that the buildings are already in 

 city helped to keep the fair with 

 The fair grounds were visited h 

 tornado about two months ago, and 

 result was that a number of buildi 

 fences, etc., were demolished, wit 

 loss of about .$inO,nOO. The gro; 

 were also devastated recently by a i 

 .\nuing the buildings destroyed was 

 .\gricultural building, in whi<h 

 horticultural exhibitions have i 

 held. It is hoped that the fair I 

 will be able to juovide a suitable \ 

 for a horticultural display. II. .1. 



TRAVELERS ARE SNAPSH01 



The accompanying illustration 

 reprotluced from a snapshot mad' 

 the Boston con\ention by Oscar i 

 :ind many of the trade will recog 

 two of the tiav(ders of Tiion & 

 Milton .Mexander and .1. Berg. 



Clinton, Conn. — .Xelson .\nderson is 

 electing se\eral new licmses at his 

 range on Jfdin street. 



Howell, Mich.— R. F. Clark has 

 chased the vegetable greenhouses u ' 

 have been under the managemen* 

 Walter Hublndl for the last year an 

 continuing the business. 



