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The Florists^ Review 



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the week. The new firm is now in 

 shape to supply any and all demands. 



Meurer Bros, and John Held, who 

 have fine places in the southern part 

 of the city, have their houses filled with 

 winter-blooming plants for the local 

 trade. 



Edward Westmann has given up the 

 flower store which he recently opened 

 at 3166 South Grand avenue. He has 

 not made known his future plans. 



The Tower Floral Co. and the Bent- 

 zen Floral Co., en North Grand avenue, 

 have had a good run of large designs 

 in funeral work during the last week. 

 They are looking forward to a splendid 

 fall and winter business. 



At the new St. Louis fair, which 

 opened its doors September 23, to last 

 a week, there were no floral displays, 

 but the management has promised the 

 florists to build a floral hall for dis- 

 play for next year and they will offer 

 suitable prizes. 



The Engelmann Botanical Club will 

 resume its regular monthly meetings this 

 month. Secretary Pring will send out 

 advance notices to all the members for 

 the first meeting. 



Henry Berning has been getting fine 

 shipments of the early white mum. 

 Smith's Advance, from the E. G. Hill 

 Co., and also good blooms of yellow. 

 They cleaned up nicely all the week. 



The St. Louis Florists* Club will hold 

 its regular monthly meeting on Thurs- 

 day afternoon, October 10, at 2 o'clock, 

 in Odd Fellows' hall. President Weber 

 is looking for a large attendance, as 

 this will be the first meeting at which 

 he will act as president. The trustees 

 have arranged for a good time. 



J. J. B. 



DAYTON, O. 



The Market. 



Judging from the general demand for 

 wedding flowers, one would imagine it 

 was the month of June, as the florists 

 all report an unusual amount of wed- 

 ding work, as well as numerous calls 

 for church decorations. Fortunately, 

 though, the weather is not like June, 

 but is rather chilly. This, however, is 

 bringing on some fine roses for wed- 

 ding bouquets. Soses are showing up 

 most satisfactorily, with a good, brisk 

 demand, fine quality and good supply. 

 Carnations are holding their own, being 

 of excellent quality and in good sup- 

 ply. Lilies seem to have gone back 

 in the last week and were scarce and 

 the orders for them came in from all 

 directions. The people are now com- 

 mencing to turn their attention to 

 chrysanthemums, for which there is 

 a good demand but little stock. Chrys- 

 anthemums seem to be about two 

 weeks late this year, for while Golden 

 Glow and a few other early varieties 

 are in, the supply is scant. 



Palms and Bostons have been paying 

 for their keeping during the last two 

 weeks and it has been rather difficult 

 to scratch up enough to go around. 



Outdoor stock will no longer cut in 

 on the greenhouse man's trade, as our 

 first killing frost came September 

 29. Consequently, all hands are busy 

 with their geranium cuttings. The 

 cooler weather conditions are helpful 

 to the indoor stock, which seems to be 

 taking on new life. The season is 

 again at hand when much of the flo- 

 rists' profits go up in smoke; and all 

 the empty corners are being filled with 



their annual winter boarders, the dec- 

 orative palms, bays, etc., from ceme- 

 teries and lawns. 



During the first two weeks of Sep- 

 tember business was not exactly rush- 

 ing, but it picked up and during the 

 last two weeks the retailers have no- 

 ticed a decided change and at the pres- 

 ent trade is brisk. 



Various Notes. ^ 



Another occasion which greatly in- 

 creased the sale of flowers last week 

 was the automobile parade given under 

 the auspices of the Edgemont Improve- 

 ment Association, in which every lady 

 had to carry a large bouquet of flowers. 

 At the conclusion of the parade the 

 flowers were collected and sent to the 

 hospitals. 



M. Anderson is still in Cleveland, 

 looking after the interests of his store 

 at that place. 



The Miami Floral Co. is cutting some 

 fine roses and carnations. This con- 

 cern tells us that trade along all lines 

 is entirely satisfactory. 



Miss Minnie Graham, of the Bike- 

 Kumler floral department, says that 

 trade is picking up wonderfully. 



A letter from Jos. Bittner, who left 

 recently for Los Angeles, Cal., tells us 

 that he is much taken with the place. 



Herbert Bartholomew spent Septem- 

 ber 29 in Franklin, O., where he played 

 football with the Wolverines. Boy 

 Ewing accompanied him as a rooter. 



Allen K. Howard, who has been a 

 guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. F. Young for the last few weeks, has 

 gone to Akron, O., where he has ac- 

 cepted a position. 



Henry Ehrhardt and his son, of Sid- 

 ney, O., motored to Dayton September 

 29. 



A. Miller, of A. Henderson & Co., 

 Chicago, was in Dayton last week, call- 

 ing on the trade. He spent September 

 29 as a guest of George Bartholomew. 



Mrs. M. D. Schmidt has returned 

 from a visit to Louisville, Ky. 



The Heiss Co. says it had some fine 

 decorating jobs last week that helped 

 out wonderfully in making last week 

 the best one in some time. 



The Advance Floral Co. also reports a 

 fine week on decorating. 



Jos. Furst Says that he has decided 

 to quit the florists' business. 



The Dayton Floral Co. had a fine 

 week on funeral flowers and this week 

 has several big decorations booked. It 

 has a big job at the Y. M. C. A., to 

 decorate for the Butchers ' and Grocers ' 

 convention. 



R E. Schaefer and H. H. Bitter were 

 appointed as judges to look over the 

 lawns and yards of South Park. Each 

 year President John H. Patterson, of 

 the National Cash Begister Co., offers 

 a cash prize for the best yard in South 

 Park. Consequently this is one of the 

 prettiest and neatest parts of Dayton. 

 Everybody competes for the prize. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Engle have had 

 as their guest during the last two weeks 

 Mr. and Mrs. Moyer, of Austin, O. 



Miss Virginia Schaefer, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Jos. I. Schaefer, met 

 with quite a serious accident last week 

 when she fell from a hickory tree. She 

 was picked up in an unconscious con- 

 dition.. Fortunately, no bones were 

 broken, although she was badly bruised. 



Mrs. B. Haschke is cutting some fine 

 October Frost chrysanthemums at her 

 greenhouses. R. A. L. 



BOSTON. 



Tbe Market 



Business has been quite good of late 

 Outside flowers are on their last legs 

 and roses are now the leading flowers 

 in the markets. With cool and clear 

 weather the quality of roses steadily 

 improves. Beauties are selling well 

 and are higher in price, as are Kaiser- 

 ins, Wards, Hillingdons and other 

 standard sorts; even the short-stemmed 

 stock is in fairly good demand, for 

 tbe supply has decreased and the pass 

 ing of asters has increased the demand. 

 Carnations increase in quantity, but 

 there is no surplus yet. Whites sell 

 the best. Crimsons and scarlets are 

 hard to move. Violets are not large 

 yet, but their numbers are growing and 

 they are selling quite well. No doubles 

 have yet appeared, but some are due 

 this week. 



In chrysanthemums, Smith's Advance 

 and Golden Glow are still most in evi- 

 dence, but Monrovia, Pacific, Polly 

 Rose, October Frost and Unaka were 

 all seen this week. These are selling 

 well. Valley is good and selling well. 

 Of lilies there is a fair supply. Speci- 

 osums and auratums are about over 

 and longiflorum has the field to itself. 

 Cattleyas are now in good supply. Gar- 

 denias are increasing in numbers, but 

 are not long in stem as yet. Asters are 

 decreasing steadily in number. Good, 

 clean flowers sell at quadruple the 

 prices of a month ago. Gladioli, sweet 

 peas and other outdoor flowers all cut 

 less of a figure. Dahlias still are of 

 fine quality. Asparagus Sprengeri is 

 good and adiantum only moderate in 

 quality. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Budlong & Son Co., at the Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange, has Double White 

 Killarney, Sunburst, Killarney Queen 

 and Cardinal roses of high quality. The 

 first named seems to be a winner as 

 grown by this firm. 



The W. W. Edgar Co. has a fine new 

 delivery wagon. Trade is reported as 

 good. Tubbing hydrangeas has just 

 been finished. A bench of poinsettias 

 looks fine, also a batch of several thou- 

 sands of Lorraine and Cincinnati be- 

 gonias. Smith's Advance and Golden 

 Glow mums are being cut in quantity. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, are busy 

 boxing several hundred thousand Dutch 

 bulbs. Of these they are the largest 

 growers near Boston. They have had 

 quite a call of late for white statices 

 in addition to the blue varieties, of 

 which they grow a large batch. 



William Sim has this season grown 

 a large quantity of asters under glass. 

 They have clean flowers now, when out- 

 side ones are getting badly spotte<i. 

 They are starting to house their single 

 violets, some 75,000 in number. 



Neil Boyle, of Maiden, has 15,000 

 roses planted. The varieties are Fink 

 Killarney, White Killarney, Hillingdon 

 and Richmond. He is cutting a nice 

 crop from these now. He grows some 

 thousands of lilies for Easter, in addi- 

 tion to his roses, preferring giganteums. 



F. H. Houghton reports business as 

 starting up well. He has secured sev- 

 eral good wedding orders, a large one 

 October 12 at which he has decorations 

 at church, house, several tents, and in 

 addition will make flower and shrub- 

 bery beds to create suitable fall effects. 



William S. Grassie, of Waverley, has 



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