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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOVEMBEU 10, 1911. 



in excellent condition and bring a good 

 price. Oucidiunis are quite abundant, 

 l)ut there is little market for them. 

 Cypripediums are selling again, after 

 having been thrust aside by the trade 

 for a season. Valley is fine and is in 

 great favor, especially for corsages. 

 Wtar bouvardias are alsk* used a great 

 deal for that purpdse. Violets are bet>*. 

 ter than ever and ate selling well. PHm- 

 roses, begonias and cyclamen are find- 

 ing abundant sale in the flowering plant 

 line. There are still a few' jwtted 

 chrysanthemum^ to b»-bad.. Camellia 

 Japonica has made, its Appearance and 

 is bringittg- a big piiice ftdm those who 

 can afford this beautiful plant. 



An extraordinary run of business oc-" 

 lurred last, Weekj as loads of floweifs 

 were sent 'k» gitjs^to the perforiners in 

 the play giVBjBh;Jfor >hc benefit of 'tjhe 

 General hospital." ^A'^reai. number of. 

 Beauties were.^4isfif>ae5 o^f, aij;d nearly' 

 all the dowiftOJ^n fldrtlrts were;. ^efMte- 

 sented inthC'flpjtal-ti'i'Kufesi'^nt;.* >,,: . 



The app?6ciatioii^y th* people of 

 Rochester of tthe La^nJbjpjrton conserva- 

 tories, recently' opeo^S^^o the public, 

 has been arnply -demonwEf^ted hy the 

 multitudes of delighted visitors who 

 have thronged the place. Sunday, No- 

 vember a, the stream of visitors waa, 

 almost continuous. On entering one 



the display was extremely creditable. 

 The arrangements for the convenience 

 of tfie visitors left nothing to be de- 

 sired, and abundant opportunity was 

 afforded to enjoy the floral specimens. 



Various Notes. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Rochester Florists' Association was 

 held Monday evening, November 13. 

 Chas. C. Zollar gave a talk on color pho- 

 tography and exhibited color plates of 

 various flowers and plants. 



Street venders were selling roses at 

 a sacrifice last Saturday, because of a 

 few warm,, sunny days, which brought 

 them in an overabundance. 



Edward Brockman, of Irondequoit, 

 N. Y., is planning to put up another 

 Lord & Burnham house in the near fu- 

 ture. He is greatly pleased with the 

 house the above firm erected for him 

 last summer. 



James Vick 's Sons report that they 

 had the best bulb trade this fall in 

 their history. 



Ellwanger & Barry had a large exhi- 

 bition of fruit trees, shade trees and 

 shrubs at the American Irrigation Ex- 

 position in New York city. 



Edward S. Osborne, secretary of the 

 Chariton- Nursery Co., was elected 

 comptroller by the Republican party 

 November 7. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., of Cromwell, 



Stephen Taplin. 



finds a rare chrysanthemum, with over 

 twenty varieties that elicit much ad- 

 miration. To the right of the mum 

 house is the cactus house, in which are 

 many varieties. The third house is 

 given up to begonias, primroses, ferns, 

 orange trees, etc. 



As a flower show, pure and simple. 



Conn., is shipping some excellent gar- 

 denias into this market. 



Arthur Zirkman, of M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia, called on the trade last 

 week. 



J. B. Keller Sons are growing some 

 fine Patty chrysanthemums. 



Winfred J. Smith did some artistic 



decorations in the benefit play given 

 here last week. 



Geo. Keller's boiler for the new 

 greenhouse is in place and will be built 

 in soon. E. C. A. 



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NEWS N01ES 



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Wilmette, lU.— H. P. Gerhardt, whose 

 retail store is known as the "Wilmette 

 Florist, is preparing to move into a 

 new and handsome building, on the 

 main street, where he will have an at- 

 tractive conservatory in connection. 



Valley City, N. D. — Charles E. Moore, 

 who began business here about six 

 years ago and built up a flourishing 

 trade, has now taken his brother, R. 

 W. Moore, into partnership and the two 

 are planning still greater develop- 

 ments. 



Alton, 111. — George Madsen, of the. 

 Alton Floral Co., has purchased a resi- 

 dence on East Second street and will 

 occupy it during the winter months 

 when the weather is too bad to allow 

 comfortable traveling to and from the. 

 gardens in Godfrey township. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The annual 

 chrysanthemum show at the city park 

 greenhouses was opened November 5, 

 to continue for two weeks. The show 

 was under the management of Louis 

 Boeglin, . head gardener for the park 

 board, and attracted large crowds. 

 After the close of the exhibition, the 

 flowers were cut and sent to the hos- 

 pitals. 



Brookline, Mass. — James J. McElroy, 

 for the last three years a resident of 

 Dover, N. H., is now in this city, where 

 he will resume his former business as 

 florist and gardener. In association with 

 his brother-in-law, he will have charge 

 of a number of large estates. Before 

 removing to Dover, Mr. McElroy was 

 gardener for Millionaire Tom Lavsson, 

 at Drcamwold. 



Freeport, HI. — A 260-barrel water 

 tank at the greenhouses of John 

 Bauscher, Jr., collapsed on the evening 

 of Monday, November H, on account of 

 the breaking of the hoops, and fell 

 from the top of the 60-foot tower, 

 crashing through four greenhouses, 

 ruining thousands of plants and caus- 

 ing a loss of about $2,500. A gang of 

 twenty men was put to work on the 

 following mornrng, closing up the ends 

 of some of the greenhouses so as to save 

 as much of the- stock as possible. Mr. 

 Bauscher, though he feels the loss se- 

 verely, says he considers it extremely 

 fortunate that no one was injured. 



New Springville, N. Y. — It is stated 

 that Emil Schrader, while engaged re- 

 cently in an attempt to capture a 

 chicken thief, fired a revolver shot, al- 

 most at random, and killed the thief 

 instantly. According to the report, the 

 thief had entered the poultry house and 

 had a bag of fancy Wyandottes in his 

 hands when detected. He threw the 

 bag of fowls at Mr. Schrader 's head, 

 and it was then that Mr. Schrader, 

 staggering back and almost blinded for 

 the moment, fired the fatal shot. He 

 was arrested on a charge of homicide, 

 and also on the additional charge of 

 unlicensed possession of firearms. 



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