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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 16, 1909. 



Finest Stock of the Season 



Note what last week's Review said of our display at the big Annual 

 North End Flower Show, attended by all the growers of that great green- 

 house district. Here it i^t 



"The most notable feature possibly was the vase of Mrs. Jardine 

 rose in the exhibit of Wietor Bros. The judges awarded Wietor Bros, 

 five firsts on roses, Beauties, Richmond, Bride, White Killarney and 

 Mrs. Jardine, and second on Kaiserin. On carnations they won first on 

 Victory, Winsor, White Perfection, Enchantress and White Lawson." 



-IP YOU WANT- 



THE BEST BEAUTIES, ROSES 

 CARNATIONS AND MUMS 



the market a£fords this season, send your orders to us. Place standing orders with us for regular 

 shipment and you will have a more regular, more satisfactory and cheaper supt)ly than if you assumed 

 the burden of care necessary in running your own greenhouses. 



BUY or THE GROWERS 



WIETOR BROTHERS 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review vyhen you write. 



PROVIDENCE, R. L 



The Market 



Asters were a veritable glut upon the 

 market last week, but the majority were 

 not of the first quality. In this respect 

 a noticeable feature was that amateur 

 growers appeared to make more of a suc- 

 cess than the professionals. Some of the 

 finest blooms brought into the local mar- 

 ket were from persons cultivating a small 

 home garden, who offered their surplus 

 for sale. 



Funeral work keeps up, but it is ad- 

 mitted that until a good destructive 

 frost cuts off the outdoor blooms, busi- 

 ness will experience but little accelera- 

 tion. 



Coming Shows. 



The Rhode Island Horticultural Society 

 will hold its September exhibition of 

 dahlias, asters and other flowers in Co- 

 lumbia hall, 248 Weybosset street, Sep- 

 tember 29 and 30. Efforts are being made 

 to secure a larger exhibit than has been 

 the case during the last few years. The 

 monthly meeting of the society will be 

 held September 15, in the lecture room of 

 the Public Library, and will be called an 

 experience meeting, at which the experi- 

 ence of each member in the garden and 

 field, and in the outings since the last 

 meeting, will be narrated. 



The annual fall exhibition of the New- 

 port Horticultural Society will be held 

 in Masonic hall, September 18 to 20, and 

 already the list of entries insures a suc- 

 cessful exhibition. The liberality in 

 prizes and the eflSciency of management 

 are plainly manifest in this connection. 



W. H. Tarbox, the ' ' dahlia king, ' ' of 



East Greenwich, is exhibiting several 

 thousand asters and dahlias at the Dan- 

 bury, Conn., fair, and will have a similar 

 showing at the thirty-fifth annual fair of 

 the Washington County Fair Association, 

 at West Kingston. 



Various Notes. 



Among the foreign importations re- 

 ceived through the Providence custom 

 house last week were nineteen packages 

 of bulbs from Eotterdam, Holland. 



John F. Wood has had an attractive 

 white tile flooring put in the show virin- 

 dow of his store on Westminster street. 

 Vi had the table decorations at Narragan- 

 sett hotel for the banquet to the officers 

 of the Italian cruiser Etruria, Septem- 

 ber 6. He also made a large floral crown 

 and shield in the national colors for the 

 same event. » 



Annie F. Peckham reports having had 

 the best season's business this summer of 

 any since she opened her store. 



O. P. Chapman, Jr., is making a fine 

 display of dahlias at the Hillcrest Dahlia 

 Gardens, 65 Granite street. Watch Hill. 



Johnston Bros, furnished the floral 

 casket spread for the Armington funeral 

 September 5. It was of asparagus and 

 lily of the valley. This is one of the 

 first of the casket robes used here. 



N. D. Pierce, of Norwood, reports a 

 big business in fancy shrubs, having 

 taken some large orders for fine bay 

 trees for delivery to estates in the south 

 county. 



Ed Brooks, of T. J. Johnston & Co., 

 reports the best summer business in his 

 whole experience, and not confined to 

 funeral work, either. 



S. J. Renter & Son, Westerly, are send- 



ing up some exceptionally fine Golden 

 Glow mums, which are finding ready sale 

 at $3 per dozen, retail. 



Robert Johnston, with Johnston Bros., 

 has taken the local agency for the sale of 

 dahlia bulbs for the Mayfield Gardens, 

 J. Vose, proprietor, at Pontiac. 



Ruth I. French has entered suit in the 

 Superior Court agaiost John F. Wood 

 for breach of promise to marry. 



E. E. Balcomb, formerly director of 

 agriculture and industrial education in 

 Oklahoma and Nebraska, has been ap- 

 pointed to the department of school gar- 

 dening, chemistry and geography at the 

 Rhode Island State- Normal School, in 

 place of L. R. Allen, who has accepted a 

 position as principal of the Johnson Nor- 

 mal School, in Vermont. Mr. Balcomb 

 is a graduate of the Kansas Normal 

 School and the Leland Stanford Univer- 

 sity. He has had a wide experience and 

 is expected to prove of great value in the 

 work here, especially in the development 

 of school gardening and agricultural edu- 

 cation. W. H. M. 



ST. PAUL. 



The Market. 



Cooler weather and the return of the 

 elite to their city homes have resulted in 

 an increased business for the florists. Dry 

 weather and light frosts have cut short 

 the supply of outdoor flowers, so that the 

 florists' stock is now in better demand. 

 Weddings and funerals are both plenti- 

 ful, and the demand is principal^ for 

 those occasions. Roses are improving in 

 quality and carnations in quantity. 

 Golden Glow mums are becoming, quite 



