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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBKIt 7, 1909. 



KENNICOn BROS. CO. 



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 48-50 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO 



LONG DXSTANCK PHONK, CBNTRAL 486. 



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did one of the large jobs last week and 

 used, in addition to plants, a number of 

 baskets of fresh flowers. In some of 

 these, dahlias were used to good advan- 

 tage by Mr. Fetters, who added to their 

 beauty with artistically arranged bows 

 of ribbon. H. S. 



PROVIDENCE. R. I. 



The Market. 



There lias been a shortage of flowers 

 in this market tiie last week, which 

 caused some of the storekeepers down- 

 town to hustle to secure all they needed 

 for funeral work. This was due largely 

 to the in-between season, when the out- 

 door stock is diminishing and the bench 

 stock is not quite ready. The situation 

 was more forcibly emphasized because of 

 the five (lays of chilly, drizzling rain 

 during the latter part of the previous 

 week, which blasted all asters and re- 

 tarded carnations benched in the houses 

 and almost ready to cut. 



With the shortage of flowers, the fu- 

 neral work has been entirely beyond the 

 average, wiiile the oi)ening of the social 

 and theatrical season added to the trou- 

 bles of the dealers. Violets are arriving 

 in small quantities, but unusually good, 

 while mums are bidding for attention. 

 There is an increasing demand for ferns 

 and palms, at better prices than last year. 



Horticultural Show. 



The annual September exhibition of 

 the Rhode island Horticultural Society 

 was more like what these exhibitions 

 should be than has been the case for 

 some time past. The display of dahlias, 

 which formed tiie principal feature of 

 the exhibition, far surjjassed any pre- 

 vious showing of dahlias ever seen in this 

 vicinity, and thousands of visitors were 

 attracted to ("olumbia hall, Weybosset 

 street, where the exhibition was staged 

 under the direction of William Appleton, 



In the dahlia exhibition the principal 

 entries were by \V. D. Hathaway, of T<ew 

 Bedford; Herr Prest, of this city; Mrs. 

 H. A. .lalni, of New Bedford; George H. 

 Walker, of North Dighton ; William F. 

 Turner & Co., of New Bedford; (). P. 

 Chapman, Jr.. of Westerly; ,1. Vose. of 

 the Mayfield Dahlia Farm. Pontiae, and 

 H. F. Burt, of Taunton. The last men- 

 tioned was not a competitor for pre- 

 miums, because of his acting as one of 

 the judges. An exhibition of outdoor roses 

 by H. H. Pepper, of the Melrose Gardens 

 Co., of this city, was one of the gems of 

 the entire show. Placed ir more than 

 fifty bottles and repre.s.-'.-ti ,g fifteen va 



rieties all grown in the open field, they 

 attracted much attention. Among the 

 most noticeable were : My Maryland, 

 Richmond, Killarney, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria and Mrs. Jardine, while Brides 

 and other tea roses added to the general 

 ensemble. 



One interesting feature of the show 

 was the fact that on the opening day the 

 secretary, Charles W. Smith, who has oc- 

 cu|)ied that office for the last twenty-one 

 years, celebrated his seventy-ninth birth- 

 day. In the evening he was presented 

 with a handsome silver-mounted silk um- 

 brella by President Burlingame of the 

 society on behalf of bis friends. 



Varioui Notes. 



Daniel A. Clarke, of the Red Oak 

 Nurseries, Fiskeville, is booking numer- 

 ous orders for spring delivery of orna- 

 mental stock. 



Johnston Bros, furnished an immense 

 baseball bat for the banquet of the Edge- 

 wood Baseball Club at the close of the 

 season September 29. 



< 'harles H. Hunt has been granted per- 

 mission to erect a one-story addition to 

 his office building at 127 Burnside street. 



Oscar Schultz, at 18 Broadway, New- 

 j)ort, having acquired the greenhouses of 

 the Hodgson estate, now has 70,000 

 square feet of available space for the 

 storage of palms, bay trees, etc. The 

 call so far looks as though he would not 

 have any too much space. 



The floral display at the funeral of 

 Mrs. .James K. Sullivan, one of the most 

 generous and charitable women of this 

 city, September 29, exceeded anything 

 ever seen here. Not only was the num- 

 ber of j)ieces unusually large, but the 

 flowers used were of the most expensive. 

 T. O'Connor alone had over seventy 

 jiieces, aggregating nearly $1,500, while 

 .Johnston Bros., T. .1. Johnston & Co., 

 and Kelly Bros, furnished large numbers 

 of pieces. It is estimated that there 

 were between $3,000 and $4,000 worth 

 of flowers. 



•John P. Hammond, for several years 

 gardener for Col. Delancey A. Kane, and 

 more recently assistant gardener at the 

 E. .T. Berwind estate at Newport, has 

 accepted a position as gardener for Mrs. 

 E. H. G. Slater, to fill the position from 

 whidi .Tames Sharkey resigned. 



•John .Johnston visited New York last 

 week and enjoyed the sights of the Hud- ' 

 son-Fulton celebration. 



William Appleton celebrated his fifty- 

 fourth birthday in a quiet way at his 

 home in this city September 28. 



A new grower of violets in this vicin- 



15,000 Carnations 



Goocl healthy plants. Wblte Perfection 

 and Rose-pink Enchantxess, $5.00 per 100: 

 S40.ro per 1000. Lawson, 94.00 per 100; 140.00 

 per 1000. 



The Parker Greenhouses, Norwalk,0. 



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ity is Frank M. Baker, who has a place 

 at Attleboro. He is showing singles and 

 doubles that are first-class in every re 

 spect. 



A. Leuthy, of Roslindale, Mass., was :t 

 visitor in this city September 27. 



A. Holscher is bringing in some excel 

 lent Princess of Wales violets, which 

 find ready demand. W. H. M. 



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Sweet Briar, Va. — David Harris n- 

 ports business excellent. 



MONTPELIER, Vt. — The Montpelier 

 Greenhouses have been sold to Emslie & 

 Co., of Barre. George Emslie will have 

 charge of the business at this place, as 

 well as supervising the business at Barre. 



Chillicothe, Mo. — The business en 

 terprises of R. L. Isherwood occupy a 

 conspicuous place in the handsome little 

 book which was recently issued as h 

 souvenir of this city. The book contains- 

 a full-page picture of his greenhouses 

 and also a picture showing part of thi' 

 interior of the foundry and machine 

 shops of the Frank Way Co., a long 

 established and prosperous organizatioi 

 of which Mr. Isherwood is vice-president 

 His greenhouses were not started till 

 1904, but already cover 16,500 squar^ 

 feet of surface, 



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