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NOVSMBKB 23, 1911. 



The Weekly Fbrists^ Review* 



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are certainly fine, but the retailers com- 

 plain that there are not enough of them 

 to take care of orders. 



Bos^s are fine and in good supply. 

 White Killarney and Killarney, Eich- 

 mond, Rhea Beid, Melody, Aaron Ward 

 and Bon Silene are all to be had and 

 as the crops are just coming in we have 

 a ^ood outlook for Christmas. Beau- 

 ties are a little off crop, but the grow- 

 ers report the buds are all set for 

 Christmas and we should have a good 

 supply of these also. 



Taking everything into consideration, 

 the trade in general here is in good 

 shape and we all hope that conditions 

 will remain the same all through the 

 season. 



Various Notes. 



There was a well attended meeting 

 •of the Florists' Club this week. The 

 show committee reported and, on the 

 whole, it was considered by all that 

 the show was a great success when the 

 late start is counted. Everybody re- 

 «eived a vote of thanks, with special 

 thanks for Frank Danzer and A. Syl- 

 vester. Preparations are well under 

 way for the rose and carnation show 

 in January. 



In last week's report concerning the 

 flower show, the writer failed to men- 

 tion the table decoration executed by 

 Harry Backham. Coral colored pompons 

 were used in a way to attract much 

 attention. 



E. A. Fetters purchased a Cole 40, 

 seven-passenger touring car last week. 

 Mr. Fetters' family consists only of 

 three, but he is kind to his friends; 

 hence the seven-passenger car. 



Carey-Fells, the latest retail store to 

 open here, report business beyond all 

 •expectations. 



Visitors during show week were 

 George Heinl, of Toledo; J. A. Bissin- 

 ger, of Bay City; Mys. Freeman, of 

 Toledo; Martin Eeukauf, of Bayers- 

 dorf er 's. 



Since the founding of the Michigan 

 Cut Flower Exchange this firm has been 

 compelled by the increase of business 

 to put on more help at regular inter- 

 vals. The latest but by no means least 

 important member of the company is 

 Bobert M. Bahaley, Jr., born Saturday, 

 November 4. 



Philip Breitmeyer was laid up for 

 several days with neuralgia. H. S. 



DENNIS CONNOR. 



D. T. Connor, or Dennis, as he is 

 known to the greater part of the flo- 

 rists all up and down the eastern edge 

 of the United States, was born in a 

 little town near West Grove, Pa., in 

 1861, and it was the most natural thing 

 in the world that, having reached the 

 dignity of his first pair of long pants, 

 he should hunt up a job in the florists' 

 business — all West Grove is floricul- 

 turally inclined. Dennis found his first 

 job at the establishment of Dingee & 

 Conard Co., beginning when he was 

 only 14 years old. His first term there 

 was for seven years, and later he came 

 back for a postgraduate course of two 

 years. Starting as a boy, he ended as 

 assistant propagator, and anyone who 

 knows the precision with which propa- 

 gation is carried on at West Grove 

 knows that Mr. Connor must have be- 

 come master of his profession or he 

 would have had no part in this work. 



Leaving West Grove, "the hero of 

 this tale," as the "Who's Who" writ- 

 ers say, had his try at the west, but 



D. T. G>nnor. 



he got no farther than Ohio, which 

 really isn't west at all, so it is not to 

 be wondered at that he soon was back 

 at Lansdowne, where for a couple of 

 years he was in charge of the Samuel 

 J. Bunting place. By this time Mr. 

 Connor thought he had a pretty thor- 

 ough horticultural training, and he 

 had; it only needed a trial of business 

 on his own account to be complete. 

 But Mr. Connor found the boss has his 

 cares as well as the foreman, and he 

 was willing to consider some of the 

 good offers that came his way. In 

 1901 the Lord & Burnham Co., New 

 York, concluded to open a Philadelphia 

 office and picked Mr. Connor as the 

 man to put in charge. He held the 

 job ten years, covering eastern Penn- 

 sylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the 

 District of Columbia. At first it was 

 slow work, but the business of build- 

 ing greenhouses was just beginning to 

 develop and so thoroughly did Mr. Con- 

 nor master the details of the subject 

 that it got so that no one in that ter- 

 ritory would undertake an important 

 greenhouse project without discussing 

 it with him. As a result of these 

 friendly conferences, the sales of Mr. 

 Connor's office in 1910 footed such a 

 prodigious number of thousands that 

 he don't mention the subject for fear 

 of being thought a boaster — which he 

 is not. 



And now Mr. Connor has gone west 

 again, this time to Chicago, but he is 

 going back to Philadelphia in a few 

 days to establish an eastern office for 

 the Foley Mfg. Co., a matter which has 

 been under consideration by the west- 

 ern builders for a long time. 



There are thousands of florists who 



know Mr. Connor and know him well, 

 but, while he knows all about the flo- 

 rist's affairs, few know of his. He 

 travels so much that many think he 

 must be a bachelor, but the fact is 

 that at 5024 Pine street, in Philadel- 

 phia, there is a wife and six children 

 with whom he spends every moment 

 not devoted to business. Also at Boise, 

 Idaho, there is a brother who also is 

 well known in the trade, although it 

 is only in the west, for he has not been 

 east in years. This is Hugh Connor, 

 who is one of the owners of the Boise 

 Floral Co. 



ROCHESTER, N. T. 



The Market. 



Cold weather has set in, with ice and 

 snow, and winter seems here to stay. 

 Stock is much scarcer than it has been, 

 so there are no accumulations. How- 

 ever, there is still an abundant supply 

 of everything except Beauties, which 

 are not only scarce but poor in quality. 

 Bichmonds are fairly good and are 

 sometimes used in place of Beauties. 

 Other roses are all in good condition 

 and fair supply, except My Maryland, 

 which is a minus quantity. Carnations 

 are much improved and are quite plenti- 

 ful at this writing. There is a great 

 demand for this particular flower this 

 time of the year. 



Chrysanthemums are not arriving in 

 great quantities of late, but the pompon 

 varieties are flooding the market in 

 yellow, bronze, orange, red and white, 

 and are finding a ready sale; in fact, the 

 demand is so great that they sell in ad- 

 vance of their arrival. 



The price of violets has advanced 



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