November 30, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* " 



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porary storage space in a building near 

 its store, pending the erection of the 

 company's new building in H street. 



A new idea for Washington is being 

 ishown by Z. D. Blackistone in the form 

 of beautiful combination baskets of 

 flowers and fruit for Thanksgiving. 



Visitors connected with the trade in 

 Washington recently include Cutler 

 Eyerson, Newark, N. J.; Israel Bos- 

 nosky, representing H. F. Michell Co., 

 Philadelphia, and Julius Dilloflf, of 

 Schloss Bros., New York. H. C. H. 



PITTSBUBOH. 



The Market 



Pittsburgh cut flower people have 

 been having one of those old-fashioned 

 busy weeks and the trade was pretty 

 evenly divided, every one having his 

 busy days. Most of the business con- 

 sisted of wedding and funeral work, 

 the counter trade not showing any im- 

 provement, but it was good enough for 

 one week and indications for Thanks- 

 giving are fine. 



The kind of weather we have been 

 having will certainly shorten the cut 

 of roses and carnations, but there"~are 

 enough chrysanthemums in sight to 

 take care of all comers, so the short- 

 age along other lines will probaby not 

 be greatly felt. Boses and carnations 

 have i)een good and plentiful. Now 

 Paper Whites, Bomans and baby prim- 

 roses are coming and will be needed, as 

 chrysanthemums will be pretty nearly 

 cleaned up with Thanksgiving. 



Various Notes. 



The chrysanthemum show in the 

 park has disappeared and the places 

 of the mums have been taken by Lor- 

 raine begonias.. Superintendent Geo. 

 Burke and Foreman John Jones have a 

 couple of houses of Lorraine and Glory 

 of Cincinnati arranged with fine palms, 

 ^tevias and other plants, which seem 

 to gain as much applause from the 

 many visitors as the mums, and they 

 deserve it. 



To Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCal- 

 lum, on Tuesday, November 21, two 

 sons, Edward and Eobert. The mother 

 and sons are getting along nicely. 



John Koenig, after delivering a 

 load of chrysanthemums to the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co., November 20, 

 met with an accident that might have 

 been serious. He was thrown from 

 his wagon seat to the ground, alight- 

 ing on his head, and the wheels passed 

 over his shoulders. The accident was 

 caused by the wheels bouncing over 

 a rail while crossing the railroad track. 

 Mr. Koenig is still suffering from his 

 bruises, but there will be no serious 

 results. 



Karl Klinke, the Arcade florist, sold 

 his business last week to Bay Dasbach, 

 who is well known here, having 

 worked for a number of the leading 

 florists. He expects to equip his store 

 with everything necessary to enable 

 him to go after some of the big work 

 with which he has been identified. 



The opera "Pink Lady" is in our 

 city and the A. W. Smith Co. is show- 

 ing a beautiful Enchantress-colored 

 •chrysanthemum which they call Pink 

 Lady. It has many forms, resembling 

 a pink Bonnaffon and also a pink 

 Eaton, but all are equally fine. The 

 A. W. Smith Co., on being asked about 

 where the stock can be purchased, says 



not to be inquisitive, and if you like 

 it just admire it and say nothing. 



Visitors last week were: Will Craig, 

 of Philadelphia; W. L. Tunpore, of J. 

 H. Small & Sons, New York. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



MILWAtTEEE. 



The Market. 



Market conditions last week were 

 highly satisfactory. The demand was 

 good; in fact, the volume was greater 

 than a year ago, but the financial end 

 shows a shortage. The scarcest articles 

 last week were Beauties. More vio- 

 lets could have been handled to ad- 

 vantage. The supply of carnations 

 and roses was equal to the demand. 



Good and fancy mums sell readily, 

 while the poorer grades, of which there 

 seems to be an overproduction, are a 

 mere nuisance, to say the least. Ste- 

 vias and Paper Whites have made their 

 debut and help to make a variety; 

 they sell at sight. From present in- 

 dications, there will be stock in abun- 

 dance for the Thanksgiving trade. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. Baumgarten, of the Baumgarten 

 Floral Co., has been nursing a bad 

 hand for the last fortnight. While it 

 does not keep her away from work, it 

 is quite annoying. 



It is a pleasure to report that Mrs. 

 Art Leidiger, who has been troubled 

 with rheumatism since last spring, is 

 much improved at this time. 



TCoy Currie, of the Currie Bros. Co., 

 was in Chicago on Saturday, November 

 24. They were rushed with funeral 

 work on Sunday and, with Boy out of 

 town, tbe struggle was doubly hard 

 for the remaining store force. This 

 firm has had a strong call for Beauties 

 and has sometimes been compelled to 

 substitute mums. 



Gust. Eusch & Co. say that things 

 are moving along finely considering 

 that they are only beginners. 



The Helton & Hunkel Co. reports 

 shipping trade brisk and on the in- 

 crease. They state that the supply of 

 double violets did not keep up with 

 the demand last week. 



The C. C. Pollworth Co. states that 

 their supply of mums will hold out for 

 the Thanksgiving trade. Business with 

 them continues brisk. 



"We never saw the like of it, the 

 way business keeps up since we moved 

 into our new store," was the answer 

 given at the store of J. M. Fox & Son, 

 Sunday p. m., after another morning's 

 rush. 



The sudden end of the mild weather, 

 a fortnight ago, caused those engaged 

 in landscape gardening no little worry, 

 for the ground has been frozen ever 

 since, thus calling a halt in outdoor 

 shrub and bulb planting. 



H. W. Koerner, the Wauwatosa 

 dahlia and gladiolus specialist, report- 

 ed ha zing had about 5,000 dahlias 

 and about a million gladioli still in 

 the field when Jack Frost put down 

 his foot in earnest. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Florists' Club will be held December 

 7, at the new quarters, in the St. 

 Charles hotel. The election of officers 

 for the year 1912 will take place and 

 a large attendance is necessary to help 

 a good thing along. 



Visitors: .James Matthewson, She- 

 boygan, Wis.; N. Lassen, Bacine, Wis. 



E. O. 



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NEWS NOTES..! 



Chatham, N. Y.— B. E. Shuphelt is 

 spending the winter at Fruitland 

 Park, Fla. 



Williamsville, N. Y.— C. F. Christen- 

 son is shipping to Buffalo some grand 

 chrysanthemums. His son, Charles, now 

 is associated with him and proving a 

 successful grower. 



nion, N. Y. — Fire destroyed one 

 greenhouse, 25x65 feet, and the office 

 at the Ward G. Gordon place Novem- 

 ber 20. The loss was about $2,000, 

 with $1,500 insurance. 



Binghamton, N. Y. — ^F. Shearer & 

 Son are large exhibitors at the Winter 

 Exposition now being held at the Ar- 

 mory. Chrysanthemums were never 

 ■ finer and are in good demand, 



Utica, N. Y. — Frank Baker was the 

 fortunate candidate for mayor at the 

 recent elec|.ion, but says he will find 

 time to oversee his extensive florists' 

 business and keep in touch with the 

 boys, as usual. 



Altamonte Springs, Fla. — The Eoyal 

 Fern Nurseries have five acres here 

 covered with lath houses, planted to 

 Asparagus plumosus nanus. They also 

 have a fine irrigating plant, obtain- 

 ing their water supply from a nearby 

 lake. 



Jacksouville, Fla. — The Tomlinson- 

 Key Floral Co., a newly organized 

 firm, has opened a flower store at 40 

 East Forsyth street. The store is de- 

 scribed as one of the best equipped 

 and most attractive places of the kind 

 in the state. Both members of the 

 company are well known in this city, 

 having been associated for some time 

 with Mills the Florist. 



Akron, O. — H. Heepe's Sons recently 

 executed the most elaborate decoration 

 in the history of the trade in this 

 city. It was for the Baymond-Yule 

 wedding and included both church 

 and home. For space decorated and 

 quantity of stock required, nothing so 

 large ever had been called for here, 

 and the skill with which Heepe's Sons 

 handled the work added materially to 

 their reputation as decorators. 



Fort Collins, Colo. — The friends of 

 E. D. (Bud) Mauff, of the First Na- 

 tional Bank, regret to learn that he 

 will shortly leave Fort Collins for Den- 

 ver, where he will enter the florists' 

 business. Mr. Mauff is the oldest of 

 the present staff at the bank and has 

 served in every capacity in the insti- 

 tution. Together with his brother, A. E. 

 Mauff, state horticulturist, he will con- 

 duct the Mauff Floral Co., one of the 

 leading establishments in Denver, lo- 

 cated at 1225 Liogan avenue. 



Lake City, Minn. — The new green- 

 houses of the Jewell Nursery Co. have 

 been in operation for some weeks and 

 the offices, also, are almost completed. 

 The range comprises seven houses, four 

 of which are each 27x150, two 24x150 

 and one 20x150. Charles Nordine has 

 charge of the houses and is growing a 

 fine grade of carnations, chrysanthe- 

 mums, roses and other flowers. R^ D, 

 Underwood, of the firm, assisted by 

 Mrs. Underwood, recently entertained 

 the employees at a social gathering in 

 Brotherhood hall. 



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