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THc Florists* Review 



October 22, 1914. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



Samuel Murray, of Kansas City, Mo., 

 is of the opinion that we must not look 

 for quite so good a season as last year, 

 although he has prepared for the best. 

 One of the sights at his range is a house 

 of Begonia Lorraine and Cincinnati, 

 grown in 11-inch, green, light cedar 

 tubs, the swellest yet seen. He consid- 

 ers Norwood Beauty the gem of Craig's 

 crotons, of which there is a fine lot. 

 There is also a batch of highly colored 

 Ananassa sativa variegata. Among the 

 various berried and other plants for 

 Christmas trade is a block of peppers 

 grown from seed brought from Egypt by 

 a lady patron and presented to Col. 

 Sharp, who has had charge of the houses 

 for twenty-five years. The plant makes 

 a graceful, irregular, free growth and 

 is smothered with miniature scarlet 

 fruit. A fine, healthy lot of cattleyas 

 and the uncommon Lselia Gouldiana and 

 Oncidium splendidum were also noted. 

 A handsome specimen of Dicksonia ant- 

 arctica, with a trunk ten feet high and 

 a head of fronds spreading six feet, will 

 help ornament the handsome store. 



B. S. Brown & Son, of Kansas City, 

 Mo., made a good move when they built 

 the latest addition to their plant. The 

 veteran founder of this, one of the first 

 establishments in the west to engage in 

 the plant shipping business, is under the 

 weather, but will soon be on the job as 

 usual. 



Charles P. Mueller, of Wichita, Kan., 

 is a director, decorator and busy man 

 generally just now, during the annual 

 exposition, which is breaking all pre- 

 vious records in the size and quality of 

 exhibits. This is a year of banner crops 

 and, to the interested observer, betokens 

 a prosperous present and future. Corn 

 sixteen feet in stalk ; of alfalfa four and 

 five crops in one season; an enormous 

 yield of wheat — figures do not convey 

 the satisfactory conditions that exist. 

 The taste for the beautiful is increas- 

 ing. 



The Barteides Seed Co., of Lawrence, 

 Kan., is well pleased with feterita, a 

 species of kaffir corn, but an earlier 

 cropper and heavier yielder. While par- 

 ticularly adapted to dry culture, it has 

 yielded heavily on moist lowlands this 

 summer. Producing ears the size of the 

 kaffir, it is bound to be popular. 



C. E, Hubbard, of Topeka, Kan., says 

 the weather is too mild for brisk busi- 

 ness, although he has no kick coming. 

 He had a good seed season and a full 

 supply for the cut flower and plant 

 departments. W. M. 



is in a position to maintain its title, 

 "The Leading Florist." 



George G. McClunie reports business as 

 rushing at his Maple street store. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., has received the 

 usual quantity of azaleas. B. C. S. 



HABTFORD, CONN. 



The Market. 



Flowers of all kinds are now in de- 

 mand. The supply of roses is good and 

 all move well. The novelty in roses is 

 Francis Scott Key and the few that are 

 to be obtained are eagerly sought. The 

 supply of carnations is still light. Mums 

 continue scarce. They are from two to 

 four weeks late this year. The demand 

 for them is greater than the supply. 



Various Notes. 



Spear & McManus held their fall open- 

 ing October 7 and 8, at which they gave 

 away 10,000 roses as souvenirs. 



John Coombs' new store, on Asylum 

 street, is quite attractive. V. H. Olmstead 

 is in charge. With two first-class stores, 

 backed by a fine range of glass, this firm 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business has been rather spasmodic 

 of late, coming in fits and jerks. Usually 

 in the morning all hands are busy; then 

 there is a lull and late in the afternoon 

 some more work. A number of wed- 

 dings have kept some of the retailers 

 quite busy. Stock is plentiful and of 

 finest quality. Beauties and other roses 

 are first-class. Carnations are coming 

 along nicely, the cooler weather of the 

 last few days having helped consider- 

 ably. Dahlias are still with us and many 

 beautiful blooms are available. Mums 

 are on hand in large numbers, including 

 many pompons. The demand has been 

 heavy for valley, owing to the many 

 weddings. 



Various Notes. 



J. B. Nester and J. McAvoy, of Hitch - 

 ings & Co., are in Detroit supervising the 

 construction of a conservatory on the 

 David Gray place at Grosse Pointe, 

 These gentlemen were visitors at the 

 Stahelin place on Sunday, October 18, 

 and were much interested in Mr. Stahe- 

 lin 's movable houses. 



The members of the Detroit Florists' 

 Club who are classed as growers held a 

 meeting Monday evening, October 19. 

 This meeting was for growers only. Mon- 



day evening, November 2, will be retail- 

 ers' night; then, on the following meet- 

 ing night, November 16, there will be a 

 joint meeting. This joint meeting, ij(, 

 doubt, will prove an unusually interest- 

 ing one and well worth attending. 



The writer visited the immense ranjre 

 of Albert Stahelin on Sunday, October 

 18, and was much impressed with the 

 general appearance of the place and tLo 

 condition of the stock. The carnations 

 have already made wonderful growth; 

 they have long, strong stems and good 

 sized blooms, and loads of them. . The 

 new house, which is 72 x 400, is plante(l 

 with pompons, carnations, stevias and 

 snapdragons, all of which are in fine con- 

 dition. The heating system in this house 

 was entirely planned by Mr. Stahelin 

 and is well worth anyone's inspection. 

 The temperature can be regulated to the 

 minutest degree. 



The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Detroit 

 Florists' Club held a special meeting 

 Monday evening, October 19, at the 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, to com- 

 plete the plans for a dancing party which 

 is to be held at Strassburg 's hall on the 

 evening of November 12. The proceeds 

 are to be devoted to charitable purposes 

 and it is to be hoped that the men will 

 all fall in line and help the ladies in this 

 most noble undertaking. H. S. 



The store of the Atlas Floral Co., on 

 Campus Martius, a few doors west of 

 Detroit Opera House, was formally 

 opened to the public October 14. The 

 manager, Bernard Freidmann, is only 22 

 years of age, but has spent more than 

 half of his life in the trade. The new 

 store is handsomely decorated and its 

 furnishings are largely of marble. 



Somersworth, N. H G. S. Eamsburg 



is away in the woods on his annual fall 

 hunting trip. 



Cromwell, Conn. — Wallace R. Pierson 

 has returned from his yearly trip into 

 the Maine woods, all gingered up for 

 the winter campaign. 



New London, Conn. — Martin C. Ebel, 

 of Madison, N. J., will be the speaker 

 at the November meeting of the New 

 London Horticultural Society. 



Milford, Conn. — A greenhouse seven- 

 ty-five feet long is being erected at 

 the range of Mr. Tubbs, who is a mar- 

 ket gardener as well as a florist. 



Falrhaven, Mass. — James Garthley, 

 formerly in charge of the estate of H. H. 

 Rogers, the late standard oil magnate, 

 is operating the greenhouses on a com- 

 mercial basis. He will move the green- 

 houses later, as the estate is to be cut 

 up into streets and building lots. 



Orange, Mass. — After a slight frost 

 the weather has been fine, and asters, 

 gladioli, antirrhinums, etc., are in ex- 

 cellent condition. Aside from funeral 

 work, business is dead, according to 

 Mrs. M. J. Cochrane. The stores are 

 running on short time, while everything 

 in the greenhouses looks fine. 



Ansonia, Conn. — Thomas J. Mooney, 

 proprietor of the Ansonia Floral Co., 

 and his wife and two daughters had a 

 narrow escape October 9, when an auto- 

 mobile struck the carriage in which they 

 were riding, cutting it in two. All sus- 

 tained small injuries, but nothing seri- 

 ous resulted. 



Hartford, Conn. — John Coombs opened 

 a branch store in the Hotel Garde Octo- 

 ber 8. Vincent H. Olmstead is in charge. 

 The decorations in the new store are ex- 

 ceedingly handsome, the prevailing col- 

 ors being white and quaker gray. The 

 colonial style has been carried out 

 throughout the store. The window has 

 been provided with exceptional facilities 

 for the display of flowers. 



Northampton, Mass. — The Florists ' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Holyoke and 

 Northampton met in this city at the 

 greenhouses of Butler & Ullman, October 

 13. Arrangements were made for the 

 second annual flower show of the club, 

 which will be held in the city hall here 

 November 6 and 7. The committee in 

 charge consists of Prof. E. J. Canning, 

 chairman; William Tickey, Frank Wil- 

 liams, Aubrey Butler and Karl Ullman, 

 all of Northampton; James Whiting, of 

 Amherst; F. D. Keyes, of Florence, and 

 George Rackliffe, of Holyoke. 



