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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 24, 1912. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Clear and cooler weather showed its 

 influence on the general condition of 

 the flower trade in this vicinity last 

 week. This, with the advent of the 

 queen of autumn, kept the dealers well 

 on the hustle. A number of small 

 social affairs assisted in the general 

 aggregate, while several funerals 

 worked up much of the white flowers. 

 Reports indicate that there will be a 

 plentiful supply of mums for the next 

 month or six weeks, several of the 

 growers having unusually fine crops. 



Various Notes. 



Johnston Bros., on Dorrance street, 

 are handling some fine single and double 

 pink bouvardias from Albert Holscher. 

 The latter is also cutting some fine 

 chrysanthemums. 



Elmer E. King, of Attleboro, Mass., 

 was a visitor in this city last Saturday. 

 He reports all his stock looking well. 

 He has just completed the benching of 

 nearly 40,000 geranium cuttings for 

 spring bedding. 



William E. Chappell has been exceed- 

 ingly busy with funeral work recently. 



S. S. Skidelsky, of Philadelphia, was 

 in this city last week as the guest of 

 Charles Smith. 



Richard Eeuter, of New Orleans, 

 where he is called the vegetable king, 

 has been the guest for a few days of 

 Henry C. Anthony, of Portsmouth. 



The M. B. Saunders Co., 25 Burnett 

 street, had a large wedding decoration 

 last week, including cut flowers, palms, 

 smilaz, bouquets and table decorations. 



Joseph Kopelman is receiving con- 

 gratulations on the arrival of an 8- 

 pound boy at his home. 



O. H. Williams has been nominated 

 by the Republicans of Johnston for 

 reelection as a member of the town 

 council. 



S. J. Renter & Son, Inc., of Westerly, 

 are making a fine showing of chrysan- 

 themums at their new store, 38 Main 

 street. 



George Johnson, of the Elmwood 

 Nursery, was awarded a verdict for 

 $338 against Edward F. Healey, a for- 

 mer employee, in the Sixth District 

 court, civil division, by Judge Rueckert 

 a few days ago. 



Lawrence Hay, of East Providence, 

 had a number of large designs for the 

 funeral of George Wilhelm, head brewer 

 for the Narragansett Brewing Co. 



H. L. De Blois, 80 Broadway, New- 

 port, has just received several large 

 importations of bulbs. 



Friends in this city are receiving 

 postal cards from John Lindloon, for- 

 merly manager at the Hope Green- 

 houses, Massachusetts avenue, who is 

 now employed at Portland, Ore. 



The W. E. Barrett Co., which for 

 many years has occupied the building 

 at 75 Canal street, will move into the 

 adjoining building in a short time, as 

 the present building is to be torn down. 



Morris Miller, formerly with William 

 B. Hazard and later in business for 

 himself on Westminster street, is now 

 in the employ of Fred Hoffman, at Paw- 

 tucket. 



Thomas Curley gave a clambake to a 

 party of friends on Sunday, October 13. 



Charles W. Morey has been nomi- 

 nated by the Republicans of Slaters- 

 ville as member of the town council. 



Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Reuter, of 



Westerly, are members of a party which 

 left Wednesday for Maine on a two 

 weeks' hunting trip. 



William Hay is cutting 2,500 to 3,500 

 roses from his houses at Oaklawn daily. 



Mrs. William Butcher has just re- 

 turned from a few weeks' visit at Cape 

 Cod. Her manager, E. Bonevier, is 

 cutting some choice chrysanthemums 

 and fine orchids and has just taken care 

 of an importation of 25,000 bulbs. 



William Cohen, who has been with 

 F. Hoffman at Pawtucket for two years, 

 is now with J. Kopelman, in this city. 



J. J. Karins, representing 'Henry A. 

 Dreer, Inc., of Philadelphia, was a 

 recent visitor in this city. 



Miss Florence Willard, of the Hope 

 Greenhouses, is cutting some fine callas 

 and gardenias. W. H. M. 



F. Macrae & Sons are closing con- 

 tracts for the supply of 30,000 Lilium 

 giganteum to go into cold storage, for 

 use in the summer of 1913. They had 

 splendid results in the past and find 

 the demand increases steadily. The 

 firm is cutting some fine roses, carpa- 

 tions, mums and lilies, and in a few 

 days expects to cut some choice single 

 mums in sprays, as they have one of 

 the finest collections of this type in this 

 section. The firm also is making exten- 

 sive repairs on its plant. 



HAETFOED, CONN. 



The Market. 



The weather has been good here all 

 this month. We have had two or three 

 frosts, which have put an end to all out- 

 door flowers. The growers are looking 

 forward to a good season, as the de- 

 mand is exceedingly good for this time 

 of the year. Roses are of good quality 

 and bring good prices. Long-stemmed 

 American Beauties bring from $3 to $4 

 a dozen. Carnations are still short of 

 stem and rather soft. Chrysanthe- 

 mums never were better and the de- 

 mand is good; Chrysolora sells as high 

 as 30 cents, wholesale, and Unaka at 

 20 cents. Violets sell at 50 cents a 

 hundred. Oncidiums bring fair prices; 

 so, also, do cattleyas. Greens, espe- 

 cially adiantums, are selling on sight. 

 Dahlias are over for the season. 



Various Notes. 



Louis Barton's roses are looking fine 

 and his houses give promise of a good 

 crop for Thanksgiving. The Killar- 

 neys and Mrs. Taft are the varieties 

 mostly grown. He also has a house of 

 asparagus. 



A. E. Blinn, the well known aster 

 grower, has gone out of business and 

 has torn -down one of his greenhouses. 



The Middletown fiorists suffered 

 heavily from the recent hail storm, the 

 hail being as large as walnuts. J. B. 

 Fountain lost nearly all his glass and 

 his palms were badly cut up. 



Building operations are still in full 

 swing at the plant of A. N. Pierson, 

 Inc., Cromwell. One large house, 80 x 

 800, has just been finished. It is planted 

 mostly in Killarney Queen and Double 

 White Killarney and, though planted 

 late, is looking fine. J. C. Clark, re- 

 cently of Pittsburgh, Pa., has charge 

 of this house. Two more houses have 

 also been started. 



F. W. Richardson's place, at East 

 Hartford, is in fine shape for the win- 

 ter, after a thorough overhauling. 



Frank Weber has gone to Hacken- 



sack, N. J., to start in business. Here's 

 luck to you, Frank. , ' 



W. R. Pierson has been on a hunting 

 trip for two weeks in Maine and New 

 Brunswick. A. N. Pierson has b^eu 

 on a business trip to Ne'vlr York a,nd 

 Boston. X 



William Tricker, of Arlington, N. 'J., 

 and Mark Aitken, of Springfield, Mabs.. 

 were recent visitors. 0. S. W. 



E. W. Newton, formerly in business 

 on Wethersfield avenue, has purchased 

 the greenhouses at 810 Park street and 

 already has them well stocked, prin 

 cipally with carnations, chrysanthe 

 mums and ferns. 



PITTSBUEGH. 



The Market. 



Pittsburgh has been having the most 

 delightful fall weather that could pos- 

 sibly be imagined. We thought we had 

 a killing frost about a week ago, but 

 it failed to do its work, as the outside 

 flowers are still coming. Dahlias and 

 cosmos are so plentiful that they have 

 no value and there are more gladioli 

 than anyone wants. All of these have 

 their effect on the prices of inside stock, 

 which is getting more plentiful every 

 day. Roses are fine and plentiful. Car- 

 nations are much better than usual at 

 this season of the year. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are here in quantities, principally 

 such varieties as Polly Rose, Pacific 

 Supreme, Early Snow, Yellow Halliday, 

 Virginia Poehlmann, Lady Harnett, 

 Mary Mann, Appleton, Ivory and the 

 pompon varieties. 



There is plenty of everything; just 

 mention what you want in a wholesale 

 house and it is yours, and after the 

 buyers are all gone there is plenty left. 

 Beauties and lilies have been the great- 

 est sufferers, as chrysanthemums have 

 largely taken their place. Violets are 

 here in quantity, but the weather is not 

 just right for them. 



There has been some business for 

 the retailers, including a number of dec- 

 orations, but not more than enough to 

 keep the forces in healthy exercise and 

 not nearly enough to use up the stock. 



Various Notes. 



C. Goodwin & Sons, of Bridgeville, 

 have been sending the Pittsburgh Cut 

 Flower Co. some fine chrysanthemums, 

 which have found ready sale. 



The fine weather on Sunday, October 

 20, brought out large crowds to see the 

 chrysanthemums at Schenley park. 

 While many of the mums are not quite 

 ready, there were enough to satisfy all 

 who saw them. One of the new mums 

 sent out by C. H. Totty and called Mrs. 

 Geo. Burke, after the wife of the su- 

 perintendent of Schenley park, is the 

 one being talked about today. It has 

 been grown to perfection at the park, 

 and the visitors and newspapers are 

 commenting on it as being the best in 

 the show to date. The show at the 

 North Side park is also attracting its 

 share of attention and by next Sunday 

 several private places will throw their 

 houses open to the public, all of which 

 should stimulate business. 



The John Bader Co. reports an im- 

 provement in business. The demand for 

 palms and ferns is especially good. 



Harvey Sheaff, manager for Mrs. E. 



A. Williams, has been doing Panama 



and he arrived home on Wednesday, 



October 16, just in time to help take 



' care of a wedding and several other 



