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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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July 13, 1911. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



Flowers of all kinds are scarce and 

 the wholesale houses are cleaning up 

 every day. Carnations are small, but 

 easily bring $2 per hundred. Roses 

 are scarce and poor, Beauties fair and 

 selling well. A fine lot of plumosus 

 is received. 



Society Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 Monday evening, July 10, the guests 

 of the evening being President Phil- 

 pott and Secretary Pyfer of the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club. It was election 

 night. The result was as follows: 



President — Gus Adrian. 



Vice-President — "William Murphy. 



Treasurer — Edward Forter. 



Secretary — Alex. Ostendarp. 



Director — H. Greensmith. 



After the business of the evening 

 had been disposed of, both Messrs. 

 Philpott and Pyfer gave entertaining 

 talks. 



The outing committee has every- 

 thing ready for a grand time. Tickets 

 are on sale by the wholesalers and 

 many others. Everybody is expected 

 to come. 



Various Notes. 



George Tromey is doing an extensive 

 decoration at Atlantic City, and is 

 using a lot of asparagus from E. G. 

 Gillett, it being grown by C. J. Oh- 

 mer, at Palm Beach, Fla. 



Mrs. Irene Ehlen and friends visited 

 the Queen City bathing beach July 9 

 and had a happy time. 



Miss Stella Gockel, daughter of 

 Henry Gockel, Ft. Thomas, Ky., died 

 Saturday, July 8, after a lingering 

 illness. 



Haddock Warren Hardesty, father 

 of Thomas Hardesty, one of our lead- 

 ing retail florists, died at the home of 

 his daughter, at the age of 78 years. 



Ed. H. Fries and wife are leaving 

 for a trip through the west, taking 

 in Denver, Colorado Springs, Omaha, 

 Salt Lake City, Yellowstone park 

 and part of California. G. M. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The protracted and terrible heat 

 wave which ended July 7 was too 

 much for the cut flower business and 

 rarely, if ever, was trade so complete- 

 ly demoralized. Many flowers were 

 valueless when received and even such 

 as arrived fresh were gone soon after 

 unpacking, unless some customer car- 

 ried them away. All flowers suffered, 

 but roses and sweet peas the most. 

 The latter were almost ruined and 

 even now, with a little cooler weather, 

 their quality is away below par. The 

 heat has caused an abnormal death 

 rate. Florists had difficulty in secur- 

 ing good flowers for design work and 

 in delivering them in presentable con- 

 dition. With weather only slightly 

 cooler than a week ago, there is lit- 

 tle doing and trade is at about its 

 lowest ebb. 



Roses are getting much poorer and 

 the Killarneys, Richmond, Ward and 

 Bridesmaid are almost down and out. 

 Some nice Beauties, Prince de Bul- 

 garie, Carnot and Kaiserin are still 

 seen and there is a fair call for these. 



Gustave Adrian. 



(New President of the Cincinnati Florists* Society.) 



Many carnation men have stopped 

 shipping. At 20 cents to 50 cents per 

 hundred it did not pay to send them 

 in. Few good flowers are now seen. 

 There are nice lots of candytuft, gyp- 

 sophila, sweet sultan, aster, zinnia and 

 other outdoor flowers, but the demand 

 for these is uncertain. There are plen- 

 ty of the large gladioli, which sell 

 slowly. Some speciosum lilies are a 

 welcome addition to the short variety 

 of flowers arriving at present. Valley 

 has had a hard time of late and grow- 

 ers must have been heavily out of 

 pocket on it. There is but a poor call 

 for all kinds of green stock, adiantum 

 selling slowly. 



Various Notes. 



William Nicholson, the noted Fram- 

 ingham florist, has retired from busi- 

 ness, turning his business over to Will- 

 iam R. Nicholson, his son, who has been 

 manager for several years. Mr. Nichol- 

 son has been in business at his present 

 stand since 1890 and has always been a 

 hard worker. He surely has earned a 

 rest for his later years. W. R., Jr., is a 

 good grower, and the quality of stock 

 produced at Pleasant Hill Conserva- 

 tories will remain as high class as ever. 

 Carnation planting is now in active 

 progress here. 



The new yellow forcing rose. Lady 

 Hillingdon, as growii by the Waban 

 Rose Conservatories, is fine. In spite 

 of the intense heat which has prevailed 

 of late, the quality of the Kaiserin 

 and other summer roses here, as well 

 as Killarney and Beauties, is un- 

 usually good. 



July 11 the committee on gardens 



of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety visited the extensive and finely 

 kept estate of Thomas E. Proctor, in 

 Topsfield. Here hardy trees and 

 shrubs are to be seen in immense num- 

 bers and in variety second only to the 

 Arnold Arboretum. Splendid rock- 

 eries, tastefully planted, and large 

 ranges of glass containing plants and 

 fruits showing the highest possible cul- 

 ture, showed that the superintendent, 

 James Marlborough, is a grower of the 

 first rank. The committee was well 

 entertained and greatly enjoyed the 

 visit. 



William J. Collins sailed for Liver- 

 pool on the Franconia's last trip and 

 will visit seed and bulb growers and 

 nursery firms in England, Ireland, 

 Scotland, Holland, Germany and 

 France on behalf of his firm, Joseph 

 Breck & Sons. Mr. Collins is one of 

 the best known of the club athletes 

 and will be much missed at the com- 

 ing picnic. 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Grey left 

 on the steamship Parisian July 7 for 

 a three months' tour in Europe. We 

 hope both will be rejuvenated by the 

 change. Harry Wild, wife and two 

 children, formerly of Boston and now 

 of Greenwich, Conn., were passengers 

 on the same boat. 



The executive committee has com- 

 pleted arrangements for the sports to 

 be held in connection with the com- 

 ing club picnic at Caledonian Grove, 

 West Roxbury, and programs will be 

 ready to mail within a day or two. 

 There are, as usual, some excellent spe- 

 cial prizes. 



Miss Grey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 T. J. Grey, was married at her home 



