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August 10, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



23 



OBITUABY. 



August Sunderbruch. 

 August Sunderbruch, for many years 

 a flomt in Cincinnati, 0., died August 

 1 at -his home, 107 West Charlton street, 

 at the age of 82 years. He yas for- 

 merly professor of botany in the old 

 Wesleyan Female College. He was in 

 ^o!^^^"^*^' business in Cincinnati from 

 1860 to 1900. He is survived by two 

 sons, William and Albert Sunderbruch, 

 and a daughter, Mrs. Louis Helwig, of 

 Chicago. *' 



Edward McNally. 



The funeral of Edward McNally, 64 

 years old, a resident of Anchorage Ky., 

 and a native of Dublin, Ireland,' who 

 died at his home following an illness 

 of several months, was held from St. 

 John's Roman Catholic church in Louis- 

 ville, Ky., August 3. Mr. McNally came 

 to this country forty-five years ago and 

 started in business at Anchorage as a 

 florist. He was one of the best-known 

 residents of Jefferson county. Besides 

 his wife, he is survived bv four chil- 

 dren, S. W. and Edward McNally, Mrs. 

 F. W. Taylor and Mrs. J. W. Coleman. 



C. L. Sieber. 



Charles Louis Sieber, a former resi- 

 dent of New Orleans, died at Poncha- 

 toula, La., August 1, and was buried in 

 New Orleans the following day. Al- 

 though the funeral was private, the New 

 Orleans Horticultural Society, of which 

 body he was an active member, was 

 notified and a delegation was present. 

 Several members sent pretty funeral 

 offerings. 



Mr. Sieber came to this country from 

 Germany many years ago and was 

 known as a man of great intelligence. 

 At one time he was head clerk for the 

 late Richard Frotcher. He spent a few 

 years in Florida and on his return to 

 New Orleans held several responsible po- 

 sitions with leading florists. On account 

 of ill health he moved to Ponchatoula, 

 La., still following the florists' trade. 

 Mr. Sieber had hosts of friends and his 

 somewhat sudden death was on all sides 

 deeply deplored. 



Rudolph Forst. 



Rudolph Forst, of the firm of Woller- 

 man & Forst, wholesale growers at Gib- 

 sonia, Pa., died of typhoid fever August 

 3, at his home in Millvale, Pa. Among 

 his many friends in the trade he was 

 noted for his genial disposition and his 

 upright business dealings. 



M. L. Bonham. 



M. L. Bonham, a well-known nursery- 

 man and florist at Clinton, Mo., died 

 recently from heart trouble. He was 

 highly esteemed by all who knew or 

 ever had business relations with him. 



James H. O'Malley. 



James H. O 'Malley, a florist and gar- 

 dener of Scranton, Pa., died suddenly 

 on Thursday afternoon, July 27, at the 

 age of 56 years. On the day of his 

 death he had attended to business as 

 usual. After visiting several flower gar- 

 dens, he returned to his home, ate a 

 hearty meal, took a book and lay down 

 to read. Half an hour later he was 

 found dead, with the book in his hands. 

 He was born in County Mayo, Ireland, 

 and came to Scranton at the age of 

 16. He is survived by his wife, his 



daughters, Catherine and Helen, and 

 bis sons, Arthur, James and Joseph. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



While no large business was trans- 

 acted, growers and retailers were well 

 satisfied with the volume of July trade 

 and, though little is expected of Au- 

 gust, there are encouraging reports of 

 "something doing all the time." Out- 

 door flowers now dominate the market 

 and will do so for another six weeks. 

 Asters are the leading flowers and are 

 seen in increasing abundance. While 

 some are short and poor in quality, oth- 

 ers have grand stems. In addition to 

 Queen of the Market, quite a few Comets 

 are also now seen. Prices on the best 

 flowers hold up well, but seconds are 

 getting druggy. Gladioli, next to as- 

 ters, are most in evidence. There is a 

 good assortment of these, America leadi 

 ing in popularity, followed by Mrs. F. 

 King, Shakespeare and Augusta. Sweet 

 peas are not as abundant as in former 

 years, nor is their quality up to the 

 mark. 



Carnations are now little seen and 

 such as arrive are far inferior to as- 

 ters in quality. Rose supplies are not 

 heavy. The bulk of the flowers are 

 small, with short stems. Carnot, Mary- 

 land, Prince de Bulgarie and Beauties 

 fill the bill. There is an ample supply 

 of longiflorum lilies and smaller lots of 

 speciosum album and Melpomene. 

 Tuberoses are seen, but no one wants 

 them. Signs of approaching fall are 

 seen in small lots of cosmos and dah- 

 lias. There is now a fair supply of 

 cattleyas and small lots of gardenias 

 are arriving regularly. Of miscellaneous 

 outdoor flowers quite a few are coming 

 in. Gypsophila is one of the best sell- 

 ers. Demand for adiantum and aspara- 

 gus is quiet. 



Various Notes. 



W. A. Hastings reports a steady 

 growth of interest in the S. A. F. con- 

 vention and each day he is enrolling at 

 least one new name. On account of 

 the Boston party journeying via Fall 

 River line, one or two New Englanders 

 will join the party in New York. One 

 or two will be unable to leave until 

 August 14. The Boston delegation will 

 be smaller than had been anticipated. 

 A number are abroad or on their vaca- 

 tions at the shores and mountains and 

 prefer this quietude to the bustle of a 

 convention. 



.Penn, on Bromfield street, had a beau- 

 tiful and varied assortment of orchids 

 in one of the show windows August 5. 

 It included several varieties of cat- 

 tleyas and numerous cypripediums, as 

 well as dendrobiums, miltonias, vandas, 

 phalaenopsis, etc. In another window 

 a small fountain was playing. Around 

 the edges of the tank were numerous 

 nymphaeas, while at the rear a back- 

 ground of ferns was broken here and 

 there by vases of gladioli. 



The Boston Cooperative Market is 

 making preparations for the annual auc- 

 tion sale of stalls, which will take place 

 September 2. 



The greenhouses, together with all 

 the contents, and the outdoor plants, 

 including 12,000 carnations, at the es- 

 tablishment of Lemoine Bros., at Fram- 

 ingham Junction, were sold at public 

 auction August 9. 



H. T. Meade, of Manchester, N. H., 



and C. H. Barrett, of Concord, N. H., ' 

 will attend the Baltimore convention 

 with the Boston party. 



H. W. Vose, of Hyde Park, has the 

 finest asters seen at the Boston Flower 

 Exchange. The stems are of remark- 

 able length for the season. 



Ernest Stickel, salesman for the 

 Montrose Greenhouses, has returned 

 from a three weeks' vacation. Eber 

 Holmes acted as salesman during his 

 absence. 



William Patterson, of WoUaston, is 

 strong on gladioli at present. His va- 

 rieties include the popular America, 

 May, Augusta and Mrs. King. 



Henry R. Comley had some fine 

 nymphaeas, gladioli, salpiglossis and 

 roses in his windows August 5. Passi- 

 flora shoots, carrying flowers, hung 

 from the upper part of the window. Mr. 

 Comley is still limping from the results 

 of the blood poisoning in one of his 

 feet. 



Paine Bros., of Randolph, are in the 

 market with a grand lot of gladioli in 

 all the leading varieties; also asters of 

 first-class quality. 



Noted in J. Newman & Sons' Win- 

 dows last week was a pretty effect pro- 

 duced by standing vases of fully 

 bloomed Killarney roses in a bed of 

 green moss, the vases being arranged 

 thinly. In one window vases of Cat- 

 tleya Harrisonise and lily of the valley 

 produced a pleasing effect. 



John K. Alexander, of East Bridge- 

 water, one of the leading dahlia spe- 

 cialists in Massachusetts, has his fields 

 in fine shape, with many plants already 

 flowering freely. The plants have im- 

 proved wonderfully since recent heavy 

 rains. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society visited 

 the estate of Oliver Ames, North Eas- 

 ton, August 3, to inspect the fine and 

 well cropped vegetable garden. Ed- 

 ward Parker, who has charge of this 

 estate, had everything in fine shape. 

 An auto ride was taken over some of 

 the other estates in town. 



Edward MacMulkin had the extensive 

 decorations at Symphony hall for the 

 banquet of the Associated Advertising 

 Clubs of America, August 4. H. R. 

 Comley decorated for the ladies' ban- 

 quet at the Hotel Thorndike, using 

 sweet peas exclusively, many being cut 

 with the haulm. 



Harland H. Rogers, of South Sud- 

 bury, a noted aster and carnation 

 grower, is again in the market with a 

 grand assortment of asters, which make 

 remarkable stems in the Sudbury soil. 



J. M. Cohen is spending his vacation 

 in a cottage at Winthrop. He has 

 been receiving fine consignments of 

 carnations for so late in the season 

 from »V. Fenvia, of South Sudbury. 

 Queen is their special variety. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bartsch, of 

 Waverley, are among those planning 

 to attend the Baltimore convention. 



Peter M. Miller, of the T. J. Grey 

 Co., and D. F. Roy, of Marion, winner 

 of the fat men 's race at the late picnic, 

 leave August 15 for a vacation at Bar 

 Harbor, Me. 



David Welch, of Welch Bros., is back 

 from his European trip, greatly im- 

 proved in health by the change. 



W. N. Craig. 



Franklin, Mass. — A greenhouse is 

 being erected for Harry T. Hayward, 

 on his grounds on Main street. 



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