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The Florists' Rcvkw 



OCTOBEB 24, 1912. 



known brides' shower bouquets, for 

 which the •demand now is good. Henry 

 Penn has returned from an auto trip to 

 New York and Philadelphia. 



William S. Grassie, of Waverley, is 

 cutting Pacific Supreme mums heavily, 

 and has a fine lot of Bonnaffon for a 

 late crop. 



A. E. E. Koch, of Nobscot, is having 

 great success with his pink snapdragon 

 this season, and the demand for cut- 

 tings is as great as ever. He is sending 

 Mrs. Sander and yellow marguerites to 

 the Boston Cooperative Market. 



H. L. Belcher, of Winthrop, is giving 

 up the growing of flowers for the 

 wholesale trade and will in future de- 

 vote all his greenhouses to stock for 

 the retail store at Winthrop, where 

 trade shows a steady increase. 



F. J. Dolansky has recently bought 

 over 1,000 more Cattleya labiata. He is 

 cutting some grand spikes of these now, 

 carrying five to six flowers each. He 

 already has some Trian^e in bloom, and 

 gardenias are starting to flower nicely. 



William H. Elliott is the largest and 

 most successful grower of pot mums 

 for the local market and already is 

 marketing a fine assortment. 



Eobert Heggie, of Chestnut Hill, re- 

 turned October 16 on S. S. Parisian 

 ^fter a four months' vacation spent in 

 Scotland and England. 



The Mishawum Flower Co., Woburn, 

 and J. W. Simpson, Woburn, are heavy 

 shippers of chrysanthemums to J. M. 

 ' Cohen, at the Boston Cooperative Mar- 

 ket. 



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

 has a new silver pink snapdragon which 

 looks like a winner. The plant is of 

 medium height and the color is simply 

 charming. 



The members of the Boston Coop- 

 erative Market will hold their annual 

 meeting, precedoKi by a dinner, at the 

 American House October 26. 



A. Leuthy, of Eoslindale, has received 

 a big shipment of azaleas, and has a 

 force of men busily engaged in potting 

 them. Business with him now is quite 

 brisk in decorative plants. 



William R. Nicholson, of Framing- 

 ham, has some of the finest mum blooms' 

 coming into the market at present. 

 These easily realize top prices. His 

 carnations are also of excellent quality- 

 October 10, the Welch brothers cele- 

 brated their thirty-fifth year in busi- 

 ness in Boston, having started October 

 10, 1877. They are much the oldest of 

 our wholesale houses. Since moving, 

 October 1, 1906, to their present com- 

 modious quarters at 226 Devonshire 

 street, business has continued to show 

 a steady yearly growth. 



Thomas Pegler has started in business 

 on his own account at Brunswick, Me. 

 He has hired a place temporarily and 

 will later build. As he is a good grower 

 and thoroughly understands the florists ' 

 business in all its details, he should do 

 well. He paid a visit to Boston Octo- 

 ber 14, to see old friends and buy 

 stock. 



H. E. Comley, among other flowers 

 this week, is showing Nerine Fother- 

 gilli major, Lilium speciosum, Bouvar- 

 dia Humbodtii and Strelitzia Reginae. 



W. N. C. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



Albert H. Woods, of Brookline, who 

 shot and killed Thomas Goldrop when 

 the latter was among the Woods violets 

 September 18, has been held for the 

 December term of the grand jury. 



Business has advanced much more 

 this year than at this time last year. 

 The trade and stock in general are show- 

 ing quite an improvement. There is 

 nir>re greenhouse building being done 

 than ever before. Stock in general is 

 plentiful, except carnations, which are 

 a little scarce and of poor quality. 

 Chrysanthemums are coming in rap- 

 idly. Yellow is mostly to be seen. Val- 

 ley is about equal to the demand, while, 

 as yet, orchids are rather scarce. Eoses 

 of all kinds are plentiful and of good 

 quality. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular semi-monthly meeting of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club was 

 held in the hall at St. Paul and Frank- 

 lin streets, Monday evening, October 

 14. The attendance was fine, with some 

 out-of-town visitors present. Three new 

 members were elected. Professor 

 Thomas B. Symons, of College Park, 

 Md., secretary of the Maryland State 

 Horticultural Society, spoke at length 

 as to the advisability of advertising 

 the Maryland State Horticultural show 

 on a much larger scale this year than 

 last. The show will be held at the 

 Fifth Eegiment Armory November 18 

 to 23. Professor Symons also spoke of 

 a pest that has caused more damage 

 this year than ever, and that is the 

 army worm, which has destroyed many 

 lawns, and the web worm, that has 

 been destroying fields of alfalfa here 

 and there. He said that arsenate of 

 lead is the best remedy for them. 



There were displays of chrysanthe- 

 mums and dahlias. The former were 

 of the Chrysolora variety and a most 

 excellent addition to the mum family. 

 The foliage and flower were perfect, 

 clean and in good condition. They 

 were grown by Gus. A. Lotz, of Glen- 

 burnie, Md. 



Various Notes. 



Jas. Hamilton, of Mt. Washington, 

 Md., has his new rose house, built this 

 summer, all stocked and in full opera- 

 tion for the winter. It is of Lord & 

 Burnham construction and has solid 

 beds with concrete sides. He has 2,000 

 roses, mostly Killarneys, and the rest 

 Sunburst and Lady Hillingdon. 



Jesse B. King, of Mt. Airy, Md., and 

 Philip N. Welsh, of Baltimore, have 

 been cutting fine lots of Chrysolora 

 mums. 



The firm of Talbot & Campbell has 

 been dissolved. The former member, 

 George Talbot, is running the business 

 himself, having bought out his part- 

 ner's share. 



The retail stores are making quite a 

 fine showing at this time of the year, 

 autumn foliage playing quite an impor- 

 tant part in the color schemes. 



L. A. H. Klein, of Towson, Md., has 

 installed and is operating his new boiler 

 of the Gem City make. L. S. W. 



Lowell, Mass. — James McManmon re- 

 cently completed his work on the new 

 lawn and hedge in front of the Armory. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — The personal in- 

 jury suit for $2,000 brought by Anna 

 Ennis against Peter Nohos and Nicholas 

 Manos has been dismissed. The plain- 

 tiff fell down a stairway at the flower 

 stand of the defendants, but the jury 

 decided that they were not responsible. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



The Market. 



The weather has been unusually 

 warm for October and trade has been 

 somewhat poor because of it. How- 

 ever, business now is picking up con- 

 siderably. Chrysanthemums are good 

 and are coming in too fast, because of 

 the warm weather. Carnations are poor 

 and short-stemmed and quickly become 

 sleepy. Eoses are getting better right 

 along. Killarneys and White Killar- 

 neys are fair. Tafts are good. Mrs. 

 Aaron Wards are excellent. Hilling- 

 don is only fair and does not seem to 

 keep well. American Beauties are 

 quite good for this time of the year; 

 the demand for them, however, is 

 meager. Orchids are not selling well 

 at present. Violets are beginning to 

 come into the market and both the 

 single and double are good, consider- 

 ing the early season. Valley is excel- 

 lent and sells well. 



There are few flowering plants to be 

 had at present, with the exception 

 of potted chrysanthemums. Partridge 

 berries in glass bowls are selling well. 



Various Notes. 



The Flower Shop, on Worthington 

 street, is doing a nice business, but it 

 will undoubtedly be better after the 

 election. 



A daughter, Priscilla Alden, was born 

 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Osterman 

 October 8. 



Meacham & Hassell, of State street, 

 report that business is good. They 

 have a number of orders for wed- 

 dings and openings booked for this 

 month. Carl Meacham has recently 

 gone into partnership with Mr. Has- 

 sell. 



Osterman & Steele are having a new 

 front put into their store, which will 

 add much to the attractiveness of the 

 place. The work of remodeling the 

 front does not interfere with their 

 business, however, and they say that 

 the fall trade has a good start. 



T. F. Sheehan reports that business 

 is picking up. 



Eichard Warner, formerly with Alex. 

 McConnell, New York, is now with 

 Mark Aitken. 



N. F. Higgins finds business fair. 

 His mums at the greenhouse are good 

 and his only complaint is that they 

 are coming too fast. 



Charles Issele, who has had a respon- 

 sible position with A. N. Pierson, Inc., 

 of Cromwell, Conn., has entered the 

 employ of Mark Aitken. 



William Schlatter & Sons are doing 

 a good business this fall. Their bulb 

 trade has not started in heavily as 

 yet because of too warm weather. 



Mark Aitken finds business fairly 

 good for this time of the year. Canary 

 birds and goldfish are selling well now. 



Hugh C. Chesney has gone to work 

 in Hartford, Conn., his former home. 



H. G. Eyres, of Albany, and his 

 head grower made a flying trip to this 

 eity recently. 



Eecent visitors: James Karins, rep- 

 resenting Henry A. Dreer, Philadel- 

 phia; Eobert Shoch, representing Eice 

 & Co., Philadelphia, who had a fine 

 display of baskets at the Kimball hotel. 



E. C. A. 



Blissfield, Mich. — B. E. Niles has just 

 •returned from a two months' stay at 

 Camaguey, Cuba. 



