inr 26, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 



each donated $5 for prizes for the flo- 

 rists' picnic, Thursday, July 20. 



W. C. Young, vice-president of the 

 C. Young & Sons Co., will take a two 

 weeks' vacation trip to Atlantic City, 

 N. J. Miss Frances Kling, his head 

 clerk, starts this week for a two weeks' 

 vacation trip to Colorado Springs, 

 Colo. 



The florists on South Grand avenue 

 have agreed to close their stores every 

 other evening at 6 p. m. K. J. Windier, 

 C. Bergstermann and Charles Beyer 

 have been quite busy the last week 

 with a lot of funeral work. 



Alexander Geranios, of the Metro- 

 politan Floral Co., at Grand and Olive 

 streets, is making plans for enlarging 

 the present quarters. Mr. Geranios 

 says more room is badly needed. 



J. F. Ammann reports that his place 

 at Edwardsville, 111., is now in the 

 hands of the J. F. Ammann Co., and 

 that the company will be in great 

 shape the coming- season. His east 

 side store was sold to M. F. Widmer, 

 of Highland, 111., but for the present 

 Mr. Ammann will retain his Alton, 111., 

 store. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Halstead, of 

 Belleville, 111., and Mr. and Mrs. John 

 M. Connon, of Webster Groves, will 

 make the trip to Baltimore to attend 

 the S. A. F. convention next month. 



W. C. Smith, Will Ossick, F. Wind- 

 ier and B. Fatten, of the W. C. Smith 

 Wholesale Floral Co., paid a visit to 

 Hugo Gross at Kirkwood, Saturday, 

 July 15, for an afternoon's fishing. 

 The quartet sang a few of their songs 

 and that night it rained. They are now 

 known as "rain makers." 



Tower Florist is moving this week 

 from Florissant and Grand avenues to 

 2024 East Grand avenue. 



Bert Heley, representative of the 

 Routledge Seed Co., of Portland, Ore., 

 was a caller last week. 



Gus Eggeling, wife and daughter left 

 for a two weeks ' outing- among the 

 northern lakes. 



B. Eschner, of M. Eice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, is here this week, and as usual 

 each year, comes in time for a day's 

 outing at the florists' picnic. 



C. Young & Sons Co. held a stock- 

 holders' meeting last week at the office, 

 1406 Olive street. The election of offi- 

 cers resulted as follows: President, 

 James Young; vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager at greenhouses, W. C. 

 Young; secretary. Miss Edna Young, 

 daughter of the late John Young; treas- 

 urer and general manager of the cut 

 flower department, Charles Young. 



There are many alterations and much 

 building going on among the Kirkwood 

 florists. This and hauling water from 

 nearby ponds keeps them busy daily. 

 They are still badly in need of a good, 

 soaking rain. The plants in the field 

 are suffering greatly. 



Charles Schoenle, of the Schoenle 

 Floral Co., returned home from a few 

 days' trip to Kansas City. While there 

 he made the rounds of the trade and 

 all seem prosperous. 



The following visitors were here last 

 week: J. Johann, of CoUinsville, 111.; 

 J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, 111.; 

 A. S. Halstead, E. W. Guy, Gus. Gros- 

 sart, H. Emunds, W. E. Ogle, A. G. 

 Fehr, of Belleville, 111.; Edwin Den- 

 ker, of St. Charles, Mo., and M. F. 

 Widmer, of Highland, 111. The ma- 

 jority of them called Thursday and 

 spent the afternoon at the meeting of 

 the Florists' Club. J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is no great amount of business, 

 but, while orders are not numerous, 

 flowers are far from abundant. Many 

 growers are sending in nothing at all. 

 Most of the carnation specialists are 

 busy replanting. Some have already com- 

 pleted this work and flowers from the 

 new crop will appear sometime in Au- 

 gust. Many of the carnations seen are 

 hardly worth picking, and price fluc- 

 tuations are almost as wide as the poles. 

 For some, 25 cents per hundred would 

 be a high figure. Good flowers, how- 

 ever, make $1 to $1.50 and some fine 

 whites as much as $3. The call for 

 white flowers has been good for July, 

 owing to the high death rate conse- 

 quent on the hot wave. 



Eoses are holding up fairly well, con- 

 sidering the intense heat, and Killar- 

 ney, Carnot, Mrs. Aaron Ward and 

 Beauty are leaders. Some fair Eich- 

 mond and quite good Ehea Eeid are 

 also seen. Sweet peas are of poor 

 quality. The heat ruined the crops of 

 many growers. Asters have also suf- 

 fered from heat and are not yet plenti- 

 ful. The second planting will come in 

 this week and relieve the scarcity. 

 There is a good supply .of cornflowers, 

 gypsophila and candytuft. A few 

 snapdragons still come in. Valley has 

 been selling better. Longiflorum lilies 

 are selling quite well. Candidums are 

 done, but a few speciosum are arriving. 

 Callas are still good from one or two 

 growers. Cattleyas are in small supply. 

 C. Harrisoniffi is now a useful variety. 

 There is no great call for either adian- 

 tum or asparagus and some "rowers of 

 these are not cutting, unless ordered. 



Summer Exhibition. 



The long heat wave, added to exces- 

 sive drought, proved too much for sweet 

 peas .and what is usually an interesting 

 and representative show was, from force 

 of circumstances, of quite small propor- 

 tions July 15 and 16. Sweet peas were 

 neither of quality nor in the quantity 

 usually seen. W. J. Clemson, J. D. 

 Christensen, gardener, was the largest 

 and most successful exhibitor. Col. F. 

 Mason, E. L. Lewis, gardener, also 

 showed creditably. E. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co. had a splendid array of hardy flow- 

 ers. One table was entirely filled with 

 the beautiful new Chinese Lilium myri- 

 ophyllum, all of outdoor culture. Sev- 

 eral other new Wilson lilies were also 

 shown for the first time. In addition 

 they had a fine collection of hemerocal- 

 lis. Iris Kempferi, delphiniums and 

 other seasonable perennials. Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill was, as usual, on hand with an in- 

 teresting display. There were fine dis- 

 plays of fruits and vegetables. 



E. & J. Farquhar & Co. received a 

 silver medal for group of Lilium myrio- 

 phyllum, certificate of merit for Lathy- 

 rus latifolius White Pearl, and honor- 

 able mention for new unnamed Chi- 

 nese lilies and Japanese iris. Dr. H. 

 Kennedy received honorable mention 

 for Japanese iris. 



Various Notes. 



Arrangements are all completed and 

 programs issued for the annual picnic 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club in 

 Caledonian grove. West Eoxbury, July 

 26. The sporting events number nine- 

 teen and it is desired to start the Com- 

 mercial vs. Private baseball game as 

 I soon after 10 a. m. as possible. A fine 



array of prizes has been secured and 

 only fair weather is needed to make the 

 affair the best ever. To reach Cale- 

 donian grove take an elevated train to 

 Forest Hills; from there a Charles Eiver 

 car direct to the grove. The fare is 

 only 5 cents from any part of the Bos- 

 ton elevated system. 



Many of the leading salesmen and 

 growers have chartered a steamer for a 

 fishing excursion to Swampscott July 

 21. This annual outing always attracts 

 a large attendance and those attending 

 have one of the times of their lives. 



N. F. Comley, wife and family are 

 enjoying a vacation at their summer 

 cottage at Bastins Island, near Port- 

 land, Me. Eobert Montgomery will go 

 to his cottage on the same island early 

 in August. 



Gustave Olsen, of Woburn, who was 

 married two weeks ago, has returned 

 from his wedding trip spent at Caribou, 

 Me., and has reappeared at the Boston 

 Cooperative Market. 



H. W. Vose, of Hyde Park, is at 

 present once of the leading shippers of 

 asters, candytuft, gypsophila and bach- 

 elor's buttons, for all of which he finds 

 a ready sale. 



A. F. Scott, of the Willow Hill Green- 

 houses, West Eoxbury, has a fine sum- 

 mer crop of Bouvardia Humboldtii, in 

 addition to his other specialties. 



The King Construction Co. is finish- 

 ing work on an addition 60x150 for the 

 Montrose Greenhouses. Eber Holmes is 

 still busy constructing new concrete 

 benches and doing a lot of repair work. 

 Roses grown here still hold up well for 

 the season. 



William H. Carr, a leading salesman 

 at the Boston Mower Exchange, left 

 July 19 for a trip to Montreal. 



William H. Elliott, wife and family 

 are now at their summer home in Mad- 

 bury, N. H. Mr. Elliott hopes to be on 

 hand for the S. A. F. convention, how- 

 ever. 



H. W. Field, of Northampton, is at 

 present one of the leading shippers of 

 longiflorum lilies to the Boston Flower 

 Exchange. He is also sending in some 

 excellent roses. 



Aubrey A. Pembroke, of Beverly, con- 

 tinues to send in quantities of fine car- 

 nations. While ordinary flowers have 

 been hard to move at any price, he has 

 had no trouble in securing $3 per hun- 

 dred for his White Enchantress. 



William McAlpine is enjoying his va- 

 cation at his farm in Exeter, N. H., 

 having left for there July 15. 



The Lord & Burnham Co. has secured 

 the contract for one of Thomas Eo- 

 land's new houses at Eevere, the dimen- 

 sions of which will be 50x600. 



N. F. Comley picked sixty-two and 

 one-half bushels of tomatoes July 14, 

 his largest pick of the season. He has 

 800 boxes of glass bought for a new 

 house at Lexington. 



H. M. Eobinson & Co. are receiving 

 among other flowers a fine grade of 

 Beauties, cattleyas, gardenias and val- 

 ley. They report something doing all 

 the time and July business ahead of a 

 year ago. 



S. S. Greene, of Southworth & Greene, 

 West Stoughton, is spending his vaca- 

 tion at Scituate, Mass. His firm spe- 

 cializes in double violets and sweet 

 peas, which they grow splendidly. They 

 do not handle tomatoes' or cucumbers, 

 as some violet growers do. 



H. F. Calder, of Norwood, is one of 

 the few growers who is getting a fine 



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