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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 20, 1911. 



grade of sweet peas at present. Mr. 

 Calder is one of our leading double 

 violet growers. 



Peter Fisher says that the intense 

 heat delayed the planting of his carna- 

 tions somewhat, but he is now pushing 

 the work to completion as rapidly as 

 possible. Stock benched early is look- 

 ing well. 



Daniel Hay, formerly of North Eas- 

 ton and Waverly, Pa., is now head 

 gardener to Mrs. Elsie French Vander- 

 bilt. Harbor View, Newport, E. I. 



Robert Hutchins, of Stoughton, is 

 one of the few fortunates who are get- 

 ting a splendid picking of sweet peas 

 just now. 



John McKenzie, of North Cambridge, 

 one of our leading bedding plant spe- 

 cialists, left July 8 for a trip to Scot- 

 land. 



W. B. Goodenow, of Stoughton, has a 

 heavy pick of tomatoes of the Comet 

 type. Leonard Cousins, of Concord 

 Junction, is also picking from six large 

 houses. 



Peirce Bros, have nearly all their old 

 carnations thrown out and are rushing 

 the planting of new stock as rapidly as 

 possible. W. N. Craig. 



PITTSBUEO. 



The Market. 



About one hour in the morning cleans 

 up everything that comes in, and dur- 

 ing the rest of the day the wholesale 

 salesmen put in their time answering 

 the 'phones, saying, "Not a thing in 

 the house. ' ' There is not much more 

 doing among the retailers, but they 

 always need a little something and 

 they are having their own trouble in 

 getting that. 



Carnations and sweet peas almost 

 dropped out of sight last week. Asters 

 are not here, and the reports from the 

 aster growers are not encouraging. 

 There are some good lilies. Beauties and 

 valley, with a few good gladioli and 

 roses, but they are only a drop in the 

 bucket — not nearly enough to take care 

 of the trade. 



Various Notes. 



The Zieger Co. baseball club defeated 

 the A. W. Smith Co. club, with a score 

 of 19 to 3. The A. W. Smith Co. club 

 defeated the Randolph & McClements 

 club, 10 to 2. The Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements club played the Zieger Co. 

 club on Tuesday evening, July 18. They 

 say Billy Hall is a fine coacher, but 

 does not have much success as a batter. 



A committee consisting of E. C. 

 Reineman, T. P, Langhans and W. Q. 

 Potter has been appointed to arrange 

 for the annual club picnic. While the 

 date has not been set, the members of 

 the committee say they will arrange 

 for a grand day, with everything that 

 goes with it. 



No decided arrangement has been 

 made for attending the convention. The 

 extremely hot weather had the boys 

 "bluffed," but, now that it is getting 

 cooler, the usual crowd will undoubtedly 

 be falling ' into line. If those going 

 will call up the Pittsburg Cut Flower 

 Co. they can get information regarding 

 the fare, etc. It is also important to 

 know how many are going, so that a 

 car may be secured for the party. 



There is a rumor that W. S. Kidd, 

 of Beaver, Pa., lost all his glass by 

 hail during the storm a week ago. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



PEOVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



This city and vicinity has just passed 

 through one of the hottest spells of 

 weather, lasting for more than a fort- 

 night, that has ever been experienced 

 here, the thermometer day and night 

 during the entire period averaging 

 higher than 90 degrees and going 

 above 100 day after day. This, with 

 the fact that there has not been any 

 rainfall of any consequence in two 

 months, has brought about a condition 

 that bodes ill for the florist. 



So severe has the weather been that 

 in almost every instance where outdoor 

 work was in progress it was necessary 

 to call the men off. This has been 

 detrimental in cases where greenhouse 

 construction was going on and the 

 growers have been set back several 

 weeks in actual work as well as in con- 

 ditions for fall work. 



Seldom has there been such a large 

 demand at this season of the year for 

 flowers for funeral work, but flowers 

 have been unusually scarce, there be- 

 ing comparatively no carnations, sweet 

 peas and asters, while roses have not 

 been up to standing either in quality 

 or quantity. Prices, however, have 

 shown no advance. 



Various Notes. 



John Burke, of the Burke Rose Co., 

 was a visitor in Worcester and North- 

 bridge, Mass., last week. 



Robert Shoch, representing M. Rice 

 & Co., of Philadelphia, was a caller on 

 the trade in this city the last of the 

 week. He was in Westerly on the oc- 

 casion of the fatal freight wreck and 

 was also at Bridgeport when the Fed- 

 eral Express was wrecked, with more 

 than a dozen killed. 



C. H. Greaton, 1333 North Main 

 street, is furnishing the privet plants 

 for the hedge around the new State 

 Armory. Nearly 10,000 plants are be- 

 ing used. 



John J. Dunn, secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, is receiving con- 

 gratulations on the birth of his first 

 son last week at his home in Westerly. 



James J. Karins has been calling on 

 the trade in this vicinity in the inter- 

 ests of H. A. Dreer, of Philadelphia. 



Several of the downtown florists 

 have commenced to close their stores 

 on Friday afternoons at 1 o'clock. 



T. J. Johnston & Co. had two wed- 

 ding decorations last week. 



W. AppletQU & Sons are driven to 

 their capacity with landscape work. 

 They have nearly fifty large estates 

 to take care of during the season. 



William Chappell has returned from 

 a ten days' southern trip. It is amus- 

 ing to hear him tell his experiences. 



The annual field day of the Rhode 

 Island State Grange will be held at 

 Seaconnet Point August 10. 



Lawrence Hay, Sr., father of Will- 

 iam and Lawrence, has entered the em- 

 ploy of the Burke Rose Co. to take 

 charge of the roses. 



J. A. Budlong & Sons Co., of Au- 

 burn, are preparing for nearly double 

 the business they did last year. They 

 are completely rearranging the interior 

 of their large range of houses. 



A. Brandt, of 22 Van Zandt avenue, 

 Newport, has been having a big de- 

 mand for hydrangeas in tubs, which he 

 sells or rents for the season. 



The Edgewood Greenhouses, 1860 



Broad street, are looking for an ex- 

 perienced man for lawn and grading 

 work. 



Joseph Kopelman is contemplating 

 the erection of several more new houses 

 at Oaklawn. He has three new ones 

 under construction at present. 



It was so hot last week that men 

 working on the new greenhouses of Al- 

 bert Holscher, in Johnston, and J. Ko- 

 pelman, at Oaklawn, as well as upon 

 the construction work for Timothy 

 O'Connor, on Blackstone boulevard^ 

 and Lawrence Hay, in East Providence, 

 had to quit work. 



William H. Luther, of South Provi- 

 dence, has returned from a three 

 months' recreation trip in Europe. 



The Burke Rose Co. is making exten- 

 sive repairs in its range of houses and 

 is already cutting some fine Maryland 

 and Killarney roses from the new 

 benchings. 



A.lex Macrae, of F. Macrae's Sons, 

 has been on a fishing trip. He is tell- 

 ing some interesting stories of how 

 the largest one got away. W. H. M. 



PHILPOTT AND PYFEE EN EOUTE. 



H. A. Philpott and A. T. Py- 

 fer, president and secretary of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club, visited Cincin- 

 nati and neighboring cities last week. 

 When asked for some account of the 

 trip Mr. Pyfer said: 



"Arriving at Cincinnati, we were 

 met by the president of the Florists' 

 Society, C. E. Critchell, Vice-president 

 William Murphy, Treasurer Forter, J. 

 A. Peterson and R. Witterstaetter, who 

 gave us a cordial welcome and kept us 

 in hand until after the club meeting, 

 which was full of interest. As it was 

 election night, there was a good at- 

 tendance. On account of so many of 

 the florists planning their vacations at 

 the same time as the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion, there will not be a large attend- 

 ance from Cincinnati. 



"July 11 we accepted a cordial in- 

 vitation from J. A, Peterson, the well 

 known begonia grower, to have dinner 

 with him. He was the first one in that 

 vicinity to have fresh tomatoes and 

 corn from his own garden, and you can 

 rely on our judgment that they were 

 fine, as was the spring chicken. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Peterson left for Europe 

 July 14. After taking us for a drive 

 through the park and various points of 

 the city, we called on the new club 

 president, Gus. Adrian, whom we 

 found to be an exceedingly busy man. 

 Trade in general is quiet, with little 

 stock in the market. 



"At Louisville we were met by 

 George Schulz, son of Jacob Schulz, 

 the leadiag florist of that city, and 

 from the time we landed there until 

 our departure we were given a demon- 

 stration of real Kentucky hospitality. 

 There was nothing left undone. After 

 spending the afternoon seeing the city 

 parks and other points of interest by 

 automobile, we were joined by his fam- 

 ily and others and enjoyed a supper 

 in Shawnee park. Mr. Schulz has 

 something in the way of a novelty in 

 a huge electric sign just across the 

 street from his store, which can not 

 but attract everyone's attention. One 

 feature of the electric sign is a rose. 

 First the stem and leaves of the rose 

 appear in green, then the pink bud, 

 which afterwards bursts into an 

 American Beauty in full bloom. Louis- 

 ville is strong for the S. A. F. con- 



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