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The Florists' Review 



Members and Friends of the Danville Florists' Club on their First Annual Outing at Barlow Park, August 20. 



Roman numerals is a unique feature. 

 Tlie floors and windows are beautifully 

 tiled in white and green. The indirect 

 lighting is effective. The store is a 

 model of neatness and one of the most 

 modern and attractive stores in Buf- 

 falo. The owner, Joseph Sangster, is 

 progressive and has every assurance 

 for a bright future. 



Wm. Palmer returns this week from 

 Muskoka lakes, where he has been 

 spending the summer. 



Ed. Stroh is in the Adirondack moun- 

 tains. 



There is a little anxiety felt by the 

 loading florists here about baskets, 

 which are used so extensively for de- 

 butantes during the winter, as all the 

 finer ones are imported from Germany. 

 Several florists have said they would 

 use up their stock on hand and when 

 that is exhausted sell something else, 

 such as old-fashioned bouquets, 

 Beauties, etc. The war, therefore, has 

 no terrors for them, so far as baskets 

 are concerned. There will be a way 

 of doing without other articles, such as 

 bulbs, crepe paper, immortelles, etc., by 

 substituting something else for the 

 article required. E. C. A. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



The Market. 



^^ e are having abnormally cold 

 weather, with here and there a touch 

 of frost on low ground. Carnations are 

 "early all in and attention now is being 

 men all outside stock that either has 

 to come inside or from which a crop of 

 'uttings is to be made. 



Business is of a summer quietness, al- 



•''ough July and part of August were 



''>)\v with funeral work without inter- 



••I'^^ion. Speculation about the arrival 



Uiitch bulbs is being dissipated now 



Tiiat Paper Whites and Romans have ar- 



'?i "1"*^ assurances have been received 



■:*t the tulips and hyacinths will be 



".I'Ped soon. Some have expressed the 



] uu'^l ^hat if we did not get a Dutch 



,,'7,^\«n.v kind it would be a blessing 



tiie trade, as customers would take 



•M'otiung else if bulbous flowers were 



.'t to be had. Lucky indeed is the flo- 



1 ,..,1^1 * ^^^ ^ quantity of azaleas on 



/',',' 'eit.over from last winter. There 



•many in town. 



'<'re are few carnations to be had, 



but any number of roses and outside 

 flowers, zinnias, delphiniums, coreopsis, 

 gaillardias, marigolds and many other 

 similar flowers, to all of which the 

 flower buying public takes kindly, pre- 

 ferring them to roses, lilies or carna- ' 

 tions. 



The Fair Flower Show.| , 



Last week the annual West Michigan 

 Fair was held, closing September 7. 

 The exhibits and concessions were 

 fewer than ever before. The fruit and 

 flower hall was the best and fullest on 

 the grounds. Of flowers the exhibitors 

 were Henry Smith, Crabb & Hunter 

 Floral Co. and Eli Cross. As usual, the 

 supreme effort was made on the designs, 

 as all covet the honor of carrying off 

 the blue ribbon on the big piece. Crabb 

 & Hunter had a large wreath of mag- 

 nolia leaves trimmed with red roses and 

 Valley on a 6-foot standard. The base 

 was composed entirely of red roses. 

 Henry Smith had an American flag, 

 about 2i/^x3V^ feet. There was a 6-inch 

 border of white roses and maidenhair 

 ferns around it. The groundwork was 

 white carnations, and above this was 

 the outline of the flag in wavy lines, 

 white and red carnations alternating; 

 staff, red carnations; cords, blue corn- 

 flowers; groundwork for the stars, solid 

 blue cornflowers with a small white 

 flower for stars. Altogether it was 

 a most artistically made piece. Eli 

 Cross had a fine 3i^-foot broken wheel, 

 the rim made solid with pink rosebuds, 

 the spokes with white buds. The hub 

 was of pink buds with four Easter lilies. 

 Crabb & Hunter won first prize, Henry 

 Smith second and Eli Cross third. For 

 fancy basket, Henry Smith was first 

 with American Beauties, Crabb & Hun- 

 ter second with Sunburst, and Eli Cross 

 third with pink buds. In plants Henry 

 Smith captured the coveted blue ribbon 

 with the best collection ever put up at 

 our local show. Crabb & Hunter were 

 second and Eli Cross third. The rest 

 of the premiums were distributed as 

 follows: 



Talms, collection twenty-five — Henry Smith, 

 first: Kit Cross, second. 



Single specimen palm — Henry Smith, first; Ell 

 Cross, second. 



Single Arnncaria cxcelsa — Eli Cross, first; 

 Crnbh & Hunter, sect'nd. 



Collection of ferns — Cralib & Hunter, first; Eli 

 Cross, second. 



Specimen fern — Crabb & Hunter, first; Henry 

 Smith, second. 



Six Asparagus iilumosus — Crabb & Hunter, first; 

 Eli Cross, second. 



T.vo Asparagus Sprengeri — Henry Smith, first; 

 Eli Cross, second. 



Collection Rex begonias — Henry Smith, first; 

 Crabb & Hunter, second. 



Ten fuchsias— Henry Smith, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second. 



Collection flowering and foliage begonias^ 

 Henry Smith, first; Crabb & Hunter, second. 



Collection of tuberous begonias — Henry Smith, 

 first. 



Collection double geraniums — Ell Cross, first; 

 Crabb & Hunter, second. 



Collection single geraniums — Crabb & Hunter, 

 first. 



Collection fancy foliage geraniums — Crabb & 

 Hunter, first; Henry Smith, second. 



Collection fancy caladiums — Henry Smith, first. 



Collection abutllons — Crabb & Hunter, first; 

 Henry Smith, second. 



Collection coleus— Ell Cross, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second. 



Collection draceenas — Henry Smith, first; Crabb 

 & Hunter, second. 



Collection crotons — Henry Smith, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second. 



Display of cut roses — Henry Smith, first; Ell 

 Cross, second; Crabb & Hunter, third. 



Display of American Beauties — Henry Smith, 

 first; Ell Cross, second; Crabb & Hunter, third. 



Display of gladioli— Henry Smith, first; Ell 

 Cross, second; Crabb & Hunter, third. 



Display of asters — Henry Smith, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second; Ell Cross, third. 



Display of dahlias — Henry Smith, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second; Ell Cross, third. 



Display of cannas — Henry Smith, first; Crabb & 

 Hunter, second; Ell Cross, third. 



The florists staged exhibits far su- 

 perior to anything they ever put up be- 

 fore and we expect to see something 

 much better next> year. G. F. C. 



DANVILLE FLORISTS' OUTING. 



So successful was the first outing of 

 the Danville Florists' Club that mem- 

 bers are now looking forward to an- 

 nual events of the same kind. The 

 members and their families assembled 

 in the square at Danville on the morn- 

 ing of August 20 and went by auto- 

 mobile to Barlow park, where the day 

 was spent in games and sports of vari- 

 ous kinds. The florists' wives pro- 

 vided a most enjoyable picnic dinner. 

 The illustration on this page shows how 

 the enthusiastic picnickers looked to 

 the camera man. 



GRIFFIN, QA. 



The writer had the pleasure, recently, 

 of visiting Griffin, Ga., and was much 

 surprised at the changes that have 

 been made at Jesse T. Ellis' place in 

 the last year. Griffin is a city of some 

 8,000 or 10,000 and Mr. Ellis has the 

 local florists' trade all to himself. He 

 had always carried on the business with- 

 out greenhouses till last fall. On call- 

 ing at his place a year ago, I saw out- 

 door benches of carnations that were 



