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The Florists' Review 



NOTEMBEB 5, 1014. 



PITTSBURGH, 



The Market. 



One would not feel proud to write 

 the true story of the flower business 

 of last week. We got our frost, which 

 cleaned up all outdoor flowers, but the 

 weather is bright and the avalanche 

 of stock continues to come, roses, car- 

 nations and chrysanthemums, but the 

 demand does not come with it. How- 

 ever, the general opinion is that the 

 worst is over and that from now on 

 prices will be better. They could not 

 have been much lower, especially on 

 roses and carnations. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club accepted the invi- 

 tation of P. S. Randolph & Sons and 

 on Thursday, October 29, which was 

 about as miserable a day as we have 

 had this fall, about sixty of the mem- 

 bers visited their new greenhouses at 

 Sandy Creek, where they spent a most 

 delightful afternoon. There were a 

 few ladies in the party. Mrs. Randolph 

 took charge of the visitors on their 

 arrival and saw that they were served 

 with refreshments, after which they 

 scattered out over the place in squads, 

 complimenting and criticising every- 

 thing. The new Lord & Burnham 

 houses, built this year with the arch 

 span and no poles down through the 

 houses, were admired and approved, the 

 only objection offered being that they 

 were too good. The houses Avere filled 

 with commercial ferns. Begonia Cin- 

 cinriafi, cyclamens, palms, primulas, 

 crotons and pandanus, all in splendid 

 shape; also, a lot of poinsettias for 

 pans were considered just right. One 

 large house was planted with sweet 

 peas, and there were a couple of houses 

 of chrysanthemums, yellow daisies and 

 Asparagus plumosus. That this is an 

 up-to-the-minute greenhouse plant, pre- 

 sided over by a master of the profes- 

 sion, is the opinion of the visitors, who 

 stayed until dusk and went out into 

 the rain feeling glad they came. 



The Schenley park conservatory mum 

 show was the chief attraction on Sun- 

 day, November 1. The fine weather 

 brought the visitors by thousands and 

 all were well repaid, as the show this 

 year was up to the usual standard, 

 which means a great deal. The north 

 side park also had its show in good 

 shape for the visitors from that part 

 of the city. 



H. J. Heinz, the pickle king, followed 

 his usual custom and threw open his 

 private conservatory to the public on 

 Sunday, November 1. 



Mr. Hamm, the father of Harry 

 Hamm, does not pretend to be a 

 grower, but he is somewhat of a genius 

 in the way of providing handy me- 

 chanical contrivances for their green- 

 houses. He now has what might be 

 called automatic greenhouses, as every- 

 thing — water, light, air, heat, etc. — is 

 controlled by some kind of automatic 

 device. One of their troubles was how 

 to feed their decorative plants, for just 

 as soon as they had given them fer- 

 tilizer they would need them for a 

 decoration and the odor was not what 

 one would desire in a close room. Mr. 

 Hamm now feeds his plants with liquid 

 feed and it is so arranged that the liquid 

 is mixed with the water and is applied 

 when the plants are watered and as 

 often as desired, his theory being that 

 applying often and lightly is giving 



the best results. The mechanical part 

 is a small pump that is run by water 

 power. The exhaust or water which 

 runs the pump is carried into a small 

 tank with the liquid manure, pumped 

 from the manure tank and from there 

 to the hose. He is undoubtedly getting 

 results and he is now figuring on apply- 

 ing his invention in a large way to 

 one of the big commercial plants which 

 uses quantities of liquid manure. He 

 expects to show this to be the most 

 economical method of applying it, re- 

 ducing the labor at least one-half. Any 

 person desiring to see the working of 

 his machine can do so by calling at 

 the greenhouses, 7035 Hamilton avenue. 



Clarke. 



BALTIMOBE. 



The Market. 



The retailers are unable to move the 

 large quantity of stock which the un- 

 seasonably warm days have literally 

 pushed open and, as a result, the whole- 

 sale stores are overstocked and low 

 prices prevail. The greatest glut is of 

 yellow mums, with roses and carnations 

 following. There is a plentiful supply 

 of all kinds of stock and the accumula- 

 tions of the week were disposed of to 

 the street boys at sacrifice prices. Jack 

 Frost paid us his annual visit en the 

 night of October 27, when the ther- 

 mometer registered 28 degrees, killing 

 most outdoor stock, although chrysan- 

 themums were not aifected and large 

 quantities of outdoor pompon mums 

 still are seen. Business is fairly good 

 and was exceptionally so towards thQ 

 end of the week. White and pink 

 mums were in the best demand, as they 

 were not so plentiful as yellow. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Conroy, who formerly had a 

 store on Franklin street near Greene, 

 will shortly open a store on West Balti- 

 more near Poppleton street. 



M. Hilpert is sending some fine 

 Amorita and Alice Byron mums to the 

 Leo Niessen Co. 



Mrs. M. Stauflf, of Washington, was 

 a visitor last week. 



Charles E. Meehan, of Philadelphia, 

 and Otto Bauer, Washington manager 

 for the Pennock-Meehan Co., last week 

 made a tour of Mt. Airy, Frederick and 

 vicinity, accompanied by J. J. Perry, 

 manager of the local branch of this 

 firm, in his car. 



William Terry, of Owings Mills, is 

 contemplating opening a store on 

 Howard street, near the theater dis- 

 trict. 



J. T. Williams, of Ruxton, is cutting 

 some good Enguehard mums. 



.T. T. Harmon has opened a store in 

 connection with his greenhouses at 

 Catonsville. Some good White Perfec- 

 tion carnations are being cut. 



October 29 a meeting of the show 

 committee of the Maryland Horticul- 

 tural Society was held at the office of 

 William Feast and arrangements made 

 for the coming fall show. It was de- 

 cided to make the feature of the show 

 the largest vase of mums ever shown 

 anywhere. A large Japanese vase will 

 be erected in the center of the hall, 

 standing ten and one-half feet from 

 floor to rim and to be filled with white 

 and yellow mums. This vase will be 

 known as the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club's chrysanthemum vase and the 

 mums required to fill it will be con- 

 tributed bv members of the club. The 



show will open November 17 at 8 p. ui. 

 and all exhibits must be in place iiot 

 later than 2 p. m. of this day. Entiies 

 should be made to William Feast as 

 soon as possible. Mums and plants v iU 

 be exhibited the opening day, roses v ill 

 be shown on second day, and carna- 

 tions on the third day, insuring ju_-, 

 fresh supply of cut flowers during^Iie 

 entire show. This show promises to 

 exceed anything ever held by the so 

 ciety, as the committee is working hird 

 and deserves success. 



The next regular meeting of the club 

 will be held November 9, and among 

 other business President Graham, of 

 the Maryland Horticultural Society, 

 has a message to bring the members, 

 especially the mum growers, whose 

 presence he personally requests. 



W. F. E 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



Cold weather has at last arrived and 

 with it a decided iiftprovement in trade. 

 However, a few rainy days last week 

 made transient trade somewhat dull, 

 but funeral and wedding work went 

 on apace, as did debutante reception 

 work. There were several weddings of 

 note, as well as a number of recep- 

 tions. There are still a few dahlias 

 coming into the market, and they are 

 much improved in quality because of 

 the cool weather. The demand is still 

 strong. Gladioli are still present and 

 some are quite good. Since gladioli, 

 dahlias and chrysanthemums are so 

 plentiful, there is not nauch of a de- 

 mand for carnations, which are good 

 now. Enchantress, White Wonder, Per- 

 fection and Beacon have longer stems 

 and somewhat larger blooms. Chrys- 

 anthemums are much improved this 

 week. The supply is greatly increased. 

 There is a variety of pompons. Roses 

 of all kinds are plentiful and the qual- 

 it}- A-1. Hallowe'en trade was large 

 this year. Corsages of orchids and 

 valley are selling well at present. 

 Pumpkins filled with flowers, such as 

 roses, pompons, cornflowers, snapdrag- 

 ons, etc.. sold well for centerpieces for 

 Hallowe'en. 



Various Notes. 



A most seasonable window was the 

 football window at Palmer's branch 

 store, in honor of the Carlisle-Syracuse 

 game, held October 31. It consisted 

 of a miniature football field with both 

 teams in action. Footballs tied with 

 the colors of each college formed a 

 special feature. 



The harvest dance held by the Buf- 

 falo Florists' Club was a great success. 

 The hall was made attractive with w Id 

 smilax. pumpkins, cornstalks, etc. A 

 large number were present and all h.id 

 a most enjoyable time. Refreshments 

 were served. 



W. J. Palmer & Son had a large 

 decoration for the debutante reception 

 of Miss Rogers, October 26. About 

 500 Beauties were used. The Ramsdell 

 reception was also a big decoration, as 

 was the Jackson wedding, both done by 

 Palmer & Son. 



Al. Vick was a visitor last weolt. 

 He attended the Florists' Club ball. 



S. A. Anderson's Hallowe'en display 

 was clever, combining the grotesque 

 with the picturesque. Comic faces I 

 carved out of pumpkins, bedecked with 

 hair, mustaches and beards, as well ** 



