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The Florists^ Review 



SSKIBMBiCB 10, 1914. 



looking well and beginning to bloom 

 and Mr. Ellis told me that he was 

 thinking of enclosing these, but I was 

 surprised to see the two good houses, 

 each something like 200 feet long, that 

 he has at present. One of them is 

 more of a sash house, but it is well 

 filled with chrysanthemums and pot 

 plants. The other is filled with roses 

 and they were a mass of blooms, too. 

 The carnations are in outdoor benches 

 again, and it looks as though there 

 might be another house soon. 



Mr. Ellis says, however, that he is 

 hesitating about building, as the war 

 has made the cotton situation uncer- 

 tain. His business depends, of course, 

 on the financial prosperity of the com- 

 munity, and as the cotton growers are 

 not able to market their product at all, 

 he is just awaiting developments. 



He has about a quarter of an acre 

 of roses in the open ground that are 

 blooming wonderfully well. He has no 

 need of houses in the summer as long 

 as he can get such results outdoors. His 

 dahlias, of which he generally grows 

 considerable quantities, are all but a 

 failure this season, as there has been 

 little rain all summer and he was not 

 prepared to irrigate them. The last 

 two summers have proved that dahlias 

 are uncertain in the south if there is 

 no possibility of giving them water. 

 Where that can be done in dry seasons, 

 they do as well here as anywhere I 

 have V)een. t\ B. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Vnited Befrigerator & lea Machine Co., Keim 

 sha. Wis. — "Make Flowers Pay the United Way." 

 M finely Illustrated cataloRue of florists' refrlgti 

 ators, refrigerator display cases and aramonlii 

 compressors, or machines for artificial refrlKera- 

 tion. Among the iUiistrHtlons are reproductions 

 of photographs of the interior of florists' stores, 

 containing refrigerators and other furnishings 

 Installed by the United Co. Other illustrations 

 show completely equipiH'd <-ooling rooms as con 

 Rtructed by the ITnited Co. for prominent florists. 

 .Some of the pictures are colored, so as to Indi- 

 cate more clearly certain styles of finish. 



Otto Katxenstoin & Co., Atlanta. Ga. — Seeds 

 oi' trees and shrubs, including conifers and forest 

 grown trees-; also herbaceons seeds and roots. 



H, Cannell & Sons, Rynsford, Kent, England. - 

 List of hnlbs, miscellaneous hulltous roots and 

 plants, roses, garden requlslteR, Insecticides, fer 

 tillzers, etc.; sixteen pages. Illustrated. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York, N. Y. — 

 "Henderson's Autumn Catalogue," a well Illus- 

 trated- list of sei'ds, bulbs, plants, roots, hardy 

 shrubs and perennials, small fruits. Implements. 

 sash»s. frames. Jardinieres, fertilisers, etc.: 

 eighty pages .ind colored cover. 



Lord & Bumham Co., New York, N. Y'. — ".V 

 Memory .logger," an illustrated folder of unique 

 desljtn, showing ventilating machinery, boilers, 

 pipe hangers, automatic headers and other green 

 house fittings. 



Fottler, Fiske, Bawson Co., Boston, Mass. - 

 Siwclal autumn wholesale list of seeds, bulbs, 

 fertilisers, glasing appliances, insecticides and 

 plant stakes; sixteen pages, in convenient shape 

 for the pocket. 



Good ft Beese Co., Springfield. O.— Fall whole 

 sale catalogue, containing lists of roses, peonies, 

 phloxes, ferns, hydrangeas, geraniums, miscella- 

 neous plants and bulbs; forty pages, half of 

 which are devoted to roses, with an alphahi'tical 

 index of all the roses offered. 



SYEACUSE, N. Y. 



There were a number of j»rofessional 

 exhibits at the New York state fair thi.s 

 week, and so large a display by ama- 

 teurs that it overtaxed the space. There 

 is a general demand that a new building 

 be provided for the flowers, fruits and 

 \yegetables. Julian T. Duquette was 

 superintendent of the flower show, with 

 J. J. Dooley as assistant. Walter Still - 

 man, the Rhode Island dahlia grower, 

 mactp a fine exhibit, and Henry Youell, 

 of this city, had a handsome exhibit of 

 gladioli. James Vick's Sons, of Roches- 

 ter, showed a large collection of asters, 

 including a novelty named Imperial 



Salmon. Local retailers competed for 

 the prizes for designs and the local 

 growers set up good displays of cut 

 flowers. 



Wm. F. Kasting, of Buffalo, called a 

 meeting of the State Federation of Flo- 

 ral Clubs, of which he is president, for 

 September 2, on the fair grounds, at 

 which action was taken in behalf of a 

 new building for horticultural exhibits 

 and to obtain the long delayed legisla- 

 tive appropriation for floricultural 



OBITUARY 



Mrs. Smith's Trophy. 



equipment at the state experiment sta- 

 tion at Ithaca. 



MBS. SMITH'S SUCCESS. 



Possibly Mrs. George W. Smith, wife 

 of the well-known Cleveland wholesale 

 florist, proprietor of the Cleveland Flo- 

 rists' Exchange, was the proudest win- 

 ner in the convention sports at Fort 

 Warren, for she proved the fleetest of 

 the married women and became the 

 owner of the handsome lamp shown in 

 the accompanying illustration. The tro- 

 phy was presented to the outing com- 

 mittee by H. Bayersdorfer, of Phila- 

 delphia,, who selected it for its beauty, 

 its value being not so considerable as 

 to make it inappropriate among the 

 large number of other prizes offered. 



Olaf Peterson. 



Olaf Peterson died at his home at 

 Round Lake, N. Y., August 29, after a 

 lingering illness. He had been a rosi. 

 dent of Round Lake for fifteen yen is 

 and his sterling qualities of character 

 and strict attention to business male 

 him many friends. He was a native of 

 Denmark and his only surviving rela- 

 tives in this country are his wife and 

 one nephew. He was a member of sov- 

 eral fraternities in Ballston, 



Thomas Pepperdine. 



Within a few months after he had 

 sold the Chatsworth Greenhouses, 

 which he had conducted for a number 

 of years, to William Edwards, of Free- 

 port, 111., Thomas Pepperdine, of Chats- 

 worth, 111., died Monday evening, Au- 

 gust 17. He had been quite ill for some 

 time with bronchial trouble, but seemed 

 to be on the road to recovery, when a 

 sudden attack, affecting an already 

 weak heart, caused his death. ilr. 

 Pepperdine was born in England, April 

 4, 1849, and came to the United States 

 when 19 years of age. Interment was 

 in Forrest cemetery. 



Hiram T. Jones. 



Hiram T. Jones, of Elizabeth, N. J., 

 whose physical breakdown and business 

 difliculties recently tvere reported in The 

 Review, died quite unexpectedly at his 

 home August 26. He was a native of 

 Illinois, born in 1855. In his early years 

 he was in the nursery business in Ge- 

 neva and Rochester, starting at Eliza- 

 beth in 1890 and doing a prosperous 

 business until his health failed. The 

 business will be closed out by the widow. 



P. B. Quinlan. 



The death is recorded of P. R. Quin- 

 lan, of Syracuse, N. Y., which took place 

 August 27. Mr. Quinlan was born in 

 county Tipperary, Ireland, April 6, 1846, 

 and came to this country in 1857. His 

 parents settled in Syracuse, and the 

 young man completed his education in 

 the public schools. He spent one year 

 in the employ of Cowles & Warren, pro 

 prietors of the Highland Nurseries, and 

 in 1862 entered the employ of W. B. 

 Smith, for whom he became foreman. 

 In 1886 Mr. Quinlan purchased of Smith 

 & Powell a half interest in their busi- 

 ness, conducting it under the name P. K. 

 Quinlan & Co. Later extensive green- 

 houses were built at Onondaga Valley to 

 supply the store in Syracuse. 



Mr. Quinlan was prominent in iioli- 

 tics and was a member of many sei ret 

 societies. He was associated ^vith 

 Charles M, Warner in the asphalt busi- 

 ness, the company being the Warner- 

 Quinlan Asphalt Co., of Central Amer- 

 ican fame. Mr. Quinlan had traveled 

 extensively. He leaves a widow m^ 

 two daughters. 



South Bethlehem, Pa. — Conrad I'«*n' 

 der has nearly completed an extension 

 to and the general renovation of his 

 greenhouses. 



Schenevus, N. Y.— S. M. Flint, ^■•h<' 

 has conducted a florists' business here 

 for several years, has sold his gri i'"- 

 houses and equipment to Frank Snyl*^'' 

 who will move them to his lot on Church 

 street. 



