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Sbptembbb 5, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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Nicholson, two at $135; W. W. Edgar 

 Co., two at $165; F. J. Dolansky, two at 

 $155; Maun Bros., two at $150, one at 

 $125; Sutermeister Estate, two at $135; 

 N. E. Boyle, $150; Eber Holmes, $165; 

 W. C. Ward, $140; W. C. Stickel, $145; 

 A. Christensen, two at $145; W. H. Tom- 

 linson, two at $125; W. A. McAlpine, 

 two at $145, one at $165; Paine Bros., 

 two at $120. Some others who secured 

 choice stands were S. J. Goddard, H. L. 

 Cameron, Edward Winkler, H. W. Vose, 

 H. r. Calder, W. H. Ward, A, W. Kid- 

 der, M. J. Aylward, C. E. Ball, H. K. 

 Southw«rth, Willow Hill Greenhouses, 

 Leonard Cousins and W. F. Eaton. The 

 gross premiums equaled last year's rec- 

 ord total. 



Various Notes. 



Wm. R. Nicholson has built a boiler 

 shed 60x80 feet and is installing a 140 

 horse-power steam boiler. He intends 

 to substitute steam for hot water, which 

 Mr. Nicholson has used for twenty-two 

 years. 



A. A. Eeed, of Whitman, left Septem- 

 ber 2 for California to attend the G. A. 

 E. encampment at San Francisco. He 

 expects to be away about a month, and 

 will visit a number of horticultural es- 

 tablishments while away. 



George E. Buxton, of Nashua, N. H., 

 one of our leading carnation specialists, 

 reports all his carnations as looking re- 

 markably well. Among last season's 

 novelties he is growing Bosette, Benora 

 and St. Nicholas. 



F. E. Houghton, on Park street, re- 

 ports a call for the old-fashioned bou- 

 quets, indicative of the opening of the 

 fall season. In his window August 31 

 a basket of Sulphur King gladioli, one 

 of tritomas, scarlet gladioli and oak 

 sprays, and a large one of lilac, gladioli 

 and longiflorum lilies were effective. 



A meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange will be held 

 at the American House at 7 p. m., Sep- 

 tember 7, to vote on a proposition to 

 lease a new salesroom at the corner of 

 Otis street and Winthrop square, con- 

 taining treble the area of the present 

 market. A two-thirds majority vote is 

 necessary to ratify. 



S. J. Goddard has a fine lot of Smith 's 

 Advance, Golden Glow, Harvard and 

 Chrysolora mums, some of which he will 

 soon cut. His carnations are looking 

 extra well. 



Adolph E. E. Koch, of Nobscot, re- 

 ports a steady demand for rooted cut- 

 tings of his clear pink snapdragons, 

 orders coming from all parts of the 

 country. 



E. J. Eojean is aster king at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange, and han- 

 dles an immense cut daily, for H. W. 

 Vose and Paul E. Eichwagen. He has 

 fine gladioli from Wm. Patterson, of 

 WoUaston. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ward, of Mont- 

 vale, leave September 7 for a trip to 

 Niagara. They are growing Eosette 

 and Benora among the new carnations 

 and are already picking some good flow- 

 ers from the new crop. 



George H. Noyes will in future offici- 

 ate as salesman for S. J. Goddard. He 

 will also sell for C. E. Ball and W. D. 

 Howard. 



Wm. T. Walke, of Salem, has a grand 

 lot of cyclamens and poinsettias for the 

 holiday trade. In lilies he will grow 

 Formosas and giganteums. 



L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, has his 

 carnations all in fine shape. He has 

 large plantings of Benora, White Won- 



der, Pink Delight, Gloriosa, Beacon and 

 White Enchantress. He will again de- 

 vote one house to cornflowers, which do 

 particularly well in his soil. 



H. H. Barrows & Son, of Whitman, 

 are busy erecting several new houses 

 for ferns, to meet the increasing call 

 they have for them. Their new compact 

 form of Whitmani is in strong demand. 



At the meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club September 17, John 

 K. M. L. Farquhar will deliver a lec- 

 ture with lantern slides on the interna- 

 tional show recently held in London. 



Noted in H. E. Comley's window 

 August 31 were vases of yellow and 

 white statice, Tamarix Indica, Physoste- 

 gia Virginica, anthericums and nicely 

 flowered Lorraine begonias. 



George Cruickshanks, one of the 

 trusted employees of E. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., has the sincere sympathy of a 

 large circle of friends in the death of 

 his wife, which occurred August 27. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Cruickshanks had only been 

 married a little over a year. A baby 

 girl survives. Funeral services were 

 held from the home at 61 Clifton street, 

 Eoslindale, August 30. 



Zinn, on Park street, August 31 had 

 among other flowers in his window dis- 

 play, Tritoma grandiflora. Chrysanthe- 

 mum Golden Glow and splendid Gladi- 

 olus Baron Hulot. 



Boston the coming season will be 

 without the supplies of splendidly 

 grown Bouvardia Humboldtii which J. 

 W. Foote and Willow Hill Greenhouses 

 grew. Both these firms have dropped 

 its culture as not proving sufficiently 

 profitable. 



Among visitors last week was Eobert 

 Greenlaw, representing the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., on his way back from 

 a large decorating contract at Bar Har- 

 bor, Me. 



E, J. Shayler, of Wellesley Farms, 

 will lecture on peonies before the New 

 Bedford Horticultural Society Septem- 

 ber 6. In addition to a talk on grow- 

 ing, he will speak on the errors in 

 nomenclature found in his twelve years' 

 of study. 



August proved to be a much cooler 

 month than the average: Maximum 

 temperature in Boston, 90 degrees; the 

 minimum several times went below 50, 

 and on the last two days of the month 

 34 and 36 degrees were recorded north 

 of the city, frost occurring in places. 

 Eainfall was 3.20 inches. We had rather 

 more cloudy weather than usual. 



James Wheeler has three times as 

 many snapdragons planted as a year 

 ago and they are looking splendidly. He 

 reports a great demand for rooted cut- 

 tings through his Eeview ads. 



Mme. Charles Eussell rose, from the 

 Waban Conservatories, is now to be 

 seen in excellent shape at some of the 

 retail stores. F. H. Houghton speaks in 

 terms of the highest praise of this grand 

 new rose, and I look to see it take a 

 foremost place in the rose market. 



W. N. Craig. 



OBITUAEY. 



Stephen Delbar. 



Stephen IVelbar, of 40 Olive street, 

 Hartford, Conn., died of heart trouble 

 late in the evening of August 24. While 

 "being helped to his home by two com- 

 panions, he died suddenly on the side- 

 walk before medical aid could be ob- 

 tained. He had complained of feeling 

 ill while on his way home and became 



so weak that he could not walk. Mr. 

 Delbar had been employed by many of 

 the prominent families of Hartford as 

 a gardener. At one time he was in the 

 employ of the late Charles Jewel. Of 

 late years he had been in business for 

 himself at 40 Olive street. 



Jacob Dllly. 



Jacob Dilly, a retired florist of New- 

 ark, N. J., died at his home, 92 Wick- 

 liffe street, Newark, August 25, after a 

 lingering illness. A native of Wolf- 

 stein, Eheinpfalz, Germany, where he 

 was born in 1828, he came to this coun- 

 try in 1844, settling in Newark. Taking 

 up the profession of florist, he estab- 

 lished a business on Somerset street in 

 1859, which he continued for over 

 thirty years, then retiring from active 

 business. He was a charter member of 

 the Wein, Obst and Gartenbau Verein. 



Westfield, Mass.— L. E. Bennett has 

 sold his greenhouses to P. Martino. 



Huntington, Pa.— Hake & 'Peterman 

 have sold out their business here to 

 Fred M. Isenberg and will confine their 

 attention to their place at Altoona. 



Middletown, Conn.— N. O. Selby, suc- 

 cessor to H. Behrens, Sr., has installed 

 a new boiler and is making other im- 

 provements. Business is increasing 

 steadily. 



Bristol, Conn.— Wm. H. MacKenzie, 

 of the Sessions Greenhouses, fffLS award- 

 ed a certificate of merit for two bas- 

 kets of asters exhibited before the 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society at 

 Hartford. 



Chester, W. Va.— John E. Colton has 

 disposed of his interests in the Colton 

 Greenhouse Co., at Newell, and is now 

 operating individually from his own 

 greenhouse on Fifth street, Chester, 

 formerly occupied by Eobert McElravy. 



Springfield, Mo.— O. Martin, formerly 

 with the Chalfant Floral Co., but more 

 recently employed by the Pioneer Floral 

 Co., filed a petition in bankruptcy 

 August 24, scheduling liabilities of 

 $2,528.85, of which $1,800 is due W. 

 A. Chalfant on a note on which judg- 

 ment has been taken. 



Hartford, Conn. — The Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society will give its an- 

 nual dahlia show at Unity hall Septem- 

 ber 19 and 20. Premiums are offered in 

 thirty classes for professionals and in 

 twelve classes open only to amateurs. 

 The New York and Boston seed houses 

 have donated many special prizes. 



Peoria, HI.— When Charles A. Lover- 

 idge, president of the Illinois State Flo- 

 rists' Association, returned from the 

 S. A. F. convention at Chicago, he was 

 able to announce that the next annua] 

 convention of the state organization 

 had been secured for this city. It will 

 be held here March 4 and 5, 1913. 



Grand Kaplds, Mich.— One of the old- 

 est and best established concerns in 

 this city is the flower business of Paul 

 Goebel & Co., which has been conducted 

 on Hall street, just above the square, 

 for the last twenty-six years. The busi- 

 ness is now managed by the widow of 

 the founder and by a son, Charles. 



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