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September 9, 1901). 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



13 



Joseph Heacock. 



(Nominated unanimously September 7 for President of the Florists' Club of Philadelphia.) 



$1.50 per dozen are the retail prices. 

 Sweet peas are still in bloom; they real- 

 ize any sort of price. Gladioli help out 

 well. Outdoor flowers are quite plentiful. 

 The housing of carnations is nearly 

 completed. The plants in this section 

 have done fairly well, considering the 

 long drought we have had and are sti'' 

 having. 



Variotu Notes. 



Peter Murray has some fine Boston 

 and Whitmani ferns. His place is in 

 excellent shape. 



A dahlia somewhat out of the ordinary 

 is one shown by W. F. Turner & Co., of 

 this city. It is ball-shaped, formed by 

 the intersection of three heads, and 

 weighs a quarter of a pound. This is 

 quite a freak. 



Wm. H. Bichardson, of this city, shows 

 four seedling dahlias, one of them a 

 cactus, one a decorative, and two show 

 dahlias. The cactus is a rich plum color, 

 without shading, with a good center and 

 stem. The decorative is blush white, 

 heavily shaded with pinkish lavender, and 

 is of true decorative form. One of the 

 show varieties is orange buflf, shaded 

 much deeper in the center, and of fine 

 petal and form, while the other is car- 

 dinal red, with a fine, high center. Mr. 

 Richardson has been making quite a 

 study of bringing out new varieties from 

 «eed, which are hybridized and grown in 

 his fields, and thus far he has been quite 

 successful. 



J. H. Cleary has a nice line of canary 

 birds, all good singers; also cages and 

 bird supplies. Trade is a little quiet 

 with him just now. He is receiving some 

 nice asters from Boston. 



The garden and seed committee of the 

 Mattapoisett Improvement Association, a 

 few miles from here, awarded the prizes 

 in the school garden contest on the 

 school grounds last week. The commit- 



tee was delighted with the efforts of the 

 boys and girls of the town and with the 

 improvement over last year. The speci- 

 mens from the children's gardens were 

 on exhibition, and proved to be an inter- 

 esting collection. 



Wm. Livesey has a nice batch of smi- 

 lax plants which he is shipping to the 

 trade. 



R. H. "Woodhouse 's carnations are look- 

 ing fine. 



The stores were closed all day Labor 

 day. W. L. 



WAYSIDE NOTES. 



F. K. Dienst, of Middletown, N. Y., 

 carried off all the honors in the trade 

 section at the county fair, occupying al- 

 most the entire tent. Mr. Dienst, Jr., 

 promises to follow in his father's foot- 

 steps as a floral artist, his wagon loaded 

 with plants being one of the features of 

 the exhibition. 



E. A. Lorentz, of Middletown. is al- 

 ways busy. Just now he is lengthening 

 two houses, using iron and cement wher- 

 ever possible. He is fortunate in having 

 help of a mechanical turn, which enables 

 him to do his own work. 



The Drummers' Retreat, at Middle- 

 town, described recently in the Review, 

 is almost finished and will be the Mecca 

 of many aknight of the grip who knows 

 the sociability of the genial proprietor, 

 who, by the way, is park commissioner 

 and gives much of his valuable time to 

 the beautifying of the several pretty 

 parks here. 



An auto party, consisting of H. Bry- 

 ant, of the Hews Pottery Co., and your 

 correspondent, piloted by R. Harry Cath- 

 cart, Jr., of the Yuess Gardens Co., paid 

 a visit to the well-known plant of Adam 

 Laub & Sons, Hughsonville, where we 

 were joined by Lewis Wood, of Wood 

 Bros., Fishkill, who came over in his 

 < adillac. A tour of the Laub place. 



where everything was found in apple-pie 

 order, and a chat with the Laubs, senior 

 and junior, made time fly and a quick 

 run was made to the College City, where 

 a round of the craft wag in order. The 

 veteran Saltford was found looking over 

 his cattleyas, noting the promising 

 growths shooting out here and there, 

 representing so many gold dollars later, 

 when Vassar's queens demand the best 

 of Flora's products. Mum was the word 

 as we looked over the vigorous stock in- 

 doors and planted outside, between the 

 houses, for early crops, following which 

 sweet peas are sown for spring flowering. 

 Golden Glow is first, Monrovia next and 

 then Bonnaffon, which is a favorite with 

 all. 



Murphy & Schaumburg, at Pough- 

 keepsie, were busy cleaning up after the 

 busiest season on record. 



Conrad C. Gindra, of Poughkeepsie, 

 has his modern plant in excellent shape. 

 Violets look promising. 



West Newburgh was next on the pro- 

 gram. Here the Newburgh Floral Co. 

 was found adding one house, for bulb 

 forcing, which is quite a factor with this 

 firm. 



The modern plant of the Yuess Gar- 

 dens Co, is close by. Percy Herbert, 

 the able grower, is justly proud of the 

 thrifty stocks of mums and carnations. 

 A fine storage shed and barn are being 

 built. Downtown the store is being deco- 

 rated, in keeping with a general plan 

 being carried out by all the progressive 

 merchants, in celebration of Hudson- 

 Fulton week, which is expected to just 

 pour the shekels into someone 's treasury. 

 M. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market 



The summer is over and we' look for 

 the return of the busy season, when we 

 can once more stock up with an assurance 

 of sales. Stock in variety is limited just 

 now, and no doubt will be for a few 

 weeks. Good asters are scarce, with hun- 

 dreds of shorts going to waste. Asters 

 are selling on the market at 10 cents per 

 dozen. Gladioli are good and in fair 

 supply. Mums continue to be on the 

 market and will be seen steadily now until 

 the last of the late varieties are gone 

 In viewing the stock in this vicinity it 

 appears everybody has gone into late 

 mums heavily. Beauties are selling well 

 especially in short stock. Other roses are 

 not good, with a scarcity of Kaiserin and 

 Larnot. Carnations are coming in small 

 quantities and short stems. 



Various Notes. 

 Several small alterations are being 

 "xu .u^ ^^^ greenhouse men about tow^ 

 All the stores are redecorating in some 

 way and everybody is trying to make a 

 good appearance. Two new stores are in 

 the field this season and all this makes 

 competition keener. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held September 7, at which Mr. 

 Legg was to read a paper on parks of 

 xSuiralo. 



Mr. Wise, grower for Wm. F. Kasting 

 at Lrie, visited Buffalo last week. 



R. A. S. 



Danville Ill.-H. A. Dubois, of the 

 Danville Floral Co., has recovered the 

 horse which he recently lost. It was re- 

 turned by a small boy who had seen Mr. 

 Dubois' ad and into whose yard the 

 horse had strayed. 



