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The Florists' Review 



Januabv 30, 1913. 



exhibition of flowers and interesting 

 exercises. This will be the finest whole- 

 sale market Boston has ever had, and 

 if the committee gives it the necessary 

 publicity, all available stall space 

 should soon be occupied. 



Albert Roper, of Tewksbury, is send- 

 ing some fine sweet peas to the Boston 

 Flower Exchange. He has some good 

 seedling carnations, a scarlet being 

 promising. 



Harry Quint, who recently opened a 

 flower store at 164 Tremont street, is 

 having good business. He carries a 

 fine line of stock. 



Wax Bros., on Tremont street, in 

 their attractive window displays have 

 some fine vases of yellow annual chrys- 

 anthemums. One window is devoted 

 to a display of hyacinths in pans. These 

 are extremely well grown. 



W. P. Eich, secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, is con- 

 valescing from an attack of the grip. 



Single violets with most of the grow- 

 ers are not in size or color equal to 

 those of former and cooler winters. 



Zinn's, on Park street, has this week 

 a capital orchid display. 



At Carbone's I noticed some beauti- 

 fully flowered plants of Erica codonodes 

 magnifica, also a fine assortment of 

 amaryllis and a host of attractive mis- 

 cellaneous flowers. 



Visitors the last week included F. G. 

 Sealey, representing Julius Roehrs Co.; 

 G. F. Struck, of Knight & Struck Co., 

 New York, and H. P. Hodgkins, of the 

 Moore Seed Co., Philadelphia. 



Willow Hill Greenhouses have this 

 week a novelty in well flowered myoso- 

 tis in pots, which sell well. 



The warm weather has given quite a 

 little fillip to business at the seed stores. 

 Some growers are already sowing peas 

 and sweet peas and figure on excellent 

 crops by sowing this early. 



W, N. Craig. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



The market prospects are much 

 brighter than a week ago. The general 

 supply has slackened somewhat, while 

 the demand is much better than it was. 

 All roses, with the exception of white, 

 are running short of the call, while the 

 whites, too, are selling clean. The me- 

 dium lengths enjoy the heaviest call and 

 are, fortunately, in the largest supply. 

 Richmond is pretty well off crop. The 

 same is true of Beauties. Sweet peas 

 are Cleaning up fast. Carnations are 

 moving much better than a fortnight 

 ago and at the opening and close of 

 each week all are easily taken up. The 

 white is, however, the slowest seller. 

 The average quality is high. The smaller 

 blooms, such as violets, orchids, valley 

 and gardenias, are finding a somewhat 

 better market than before, but the de- 

 mand is not yet good enough to take 

 them all. Callas and Easter lilies sell 

 well. All bulbous stock, too, vith the 

 exception of Paper Whites, finds a good 

 market. 



Various Notes. 



Frank & Sons, Portland, Ind., are 

 sending in a fine lot of roses. L. H. 

 Kyrk is their consignee. 



Max Rudolph is practically the only 

 retailer in town who was actively push- 

 ing carnatiens for McKinley day in ad- 

 vance of the day. For the last week 

 he has been decorating his windows to 

 remind the public of the day. With this 



advertising and with his own elegant 

 carnations, Mr. Rudolph deserves to 

 clean up handsomely as a reward for 

 his efforts. 



C. E, Critchell says he has been find- 

 ing a good market for orchids, valley 

 and gardenias. 



An unprecedented early call for wire 

 hanging baskets has kept the wire- 

 working force at E, G. Gillett 's busy for 

 the last fortnight. 



Miss Margaret Weiland, after a visit 

 to Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Olinger, has re- 

 turned to her home in Evanston, HI. 



Miss Mae Carroll has returned from 

 a trip on which she had good business 

 everywhere. 



Hereafter Joe Beran, of the J. M. 

 McCullough's Sons Co., will have to be 

 called ' ' Our Hero. " At a fire at Third' 

 and Vine streets January 27 he assisted 

 in juggling a hose to the top floor. 



G. Brunner & Sons had another large 

 wedding decoration January 29. 



Recent visitors: Mr. Peal, of Center- 

 ville, Ind.; W. H. Kirby, of Quincy, 

 Mich. C. H. H. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 



The Market. 



Business last week was good. Funeral 

 work was plentiful and, as the Lenten 

 season is drawing near, social activities 

 are at their height. All social functions 

 are being crowded in before Lent. These 

 conditions are always beneficial to the 

 florists. The social calendar last week 

 included several prominent weddings 

 and a number of receptions. All retail- 

 ers seem to have had their share of the 

 business. 



Roses and carnations were not plenti- 

 ful on this market last week; in fact, 

 on several days some of the retailers 

 were compelled to draw on Minneapolis 

 growers for stock. Bulbous stock is 

 plentiful and the demand equal to the 

 supply. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the Minne- 

 sota State Florists * Association was held 

 at the Holm & Olson store, Tuesday, 

 January 21. A good local representa- 

 tion was present and Minneapolis was 

 also well represented. 



S. A. Jamieson, the Twin City repre- 

 sentative of the Geo. M. Garland Co., 

 Des Plaines, HI., addressed the meeting 

 with an interesting talk on greenhouse 

 construction of the present day. N. C. 

 Hansen exhibited some fine blooms of 

 White Enchantress and White Wonder. 

 This stock was well grown and the 

 judges reported it as scoring eighty 

 points. 



A committee was appointed for a 

 dance to be held in St. Paul in the near 

 future. Messrs. Olson, Hansen, Vogt 

 and Eckhardt, of St. Paul, and Messrs. 

 Rice and Will, of Minneapolis, comprise 

 that committee. 



Elected to membership were: S. A. 

 Jamieson, Oscar Magnuson and H. Neil- 

 sen. 



The next meeting will be held at E. A. 

 Latham's establishment, February 18. 

 Various Notes. 



O. J. Olson, of Holm & Olson, has been 

 confined to his home for a few days. He 

 is not seriously ill, however. 



Holm & Olson recently lost two of 

 their best horses. These will no doubt 

 be replaced by a machine in the spring. 



The Riverside Greenhouses had the 

 misfortune last week to have their auto- 

 mobile collide with a Selby Lake street ' 



car. The machine, however, was only 

 slightly damaged and no one was in- 

 jured. 



The Warrendale Floral Co. is cutting 

 some fine antirrhinum. This is good 

 stock and brings top-notch prices. 



The wedding of a daughter of James 

 J. Hill next week is expected to bring 

 a fine order to someone. C. E. F. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



The third week in January has been 

 phenomenal hereabouts on account of 

 the bursting forth of buds on trees and 

 shrubs, and in some instancea leaves 

 have actually commenced to come forth. 

 Business has been especially good, owing 

 to the large number of social gather- 

 ings, many of which, though small, have 

 called for an unusual lot of flowers and 

 decorations. Bulbous stock is in good 

 supply, and the market has eased off 

 considerably in roses and carnations. 

 Funeral work continues brisk. 



Various Notes. 



Eichard M. Bowen, treasurer of the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, was 

 elected vice-president of the New Eng- 

 land Fruit Association at the annual 

 meeting at Boston last week. 



At the monthly meeting of the Flo- 

 rists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode 

 Island, January 20, plans for the coming 

 year were discussed and a committee 

 was appointed to endeavor to secure a 

 large representation from the society at 

 the International Flower Show in New 

 York. Notice was given of the illness 

 of the treasurer, James Hockey, at his 

 home in Pawtucket, and the secretary 

 was instructed to send a letter of sym- 

 pathy to Ws family. It was decided to 

 omit the annual banquet this year. 

 President Eugene Appleton announced 

 the following standing committees for 

 the year: Essays and discussions, James 

 Hockey, Cornelius Hartstra and Owen 

 McManus; entertainment, Henry C. 

 Neubrand and Alexander Macrae; in- 

 vestigation, J. Frank Schellinger, John 

 Marshall and Michael Sweeney. 



A gift of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy 

 O 'Connor in the shape of a memorial 

 window, for their family, has been 

 placed in the Holy Name church. It 

 represents ' ' Our Blessed Lord at the 

 Marriage Feast of Cana," and was 

 made in Munich, Germany. 



William Appleton & Sons had the dec- 

 orations for the big Commercial Club 

 dinner at the Eloise, January 25. 



Joseph N. Whelden, formerly super- 

 intendent of the North Burial Ground, 

 and his wife celebrated the forty-fifth 

 anniversary of their wedding at their 

 home, 122 Camp street, January 23. 



Alish & Kohn, gardeners and florists, 

 have reopened the Dexter Greenhouses, 

 at 187 Harrison street. 



Nathan D. Pierce, of the Home Nurs- 

 ery, Norwood, is reported as being in 

 a critical condition, from a complication 

 of diseases. 



William Tarbox, of West Greenwich, 

 is to address the students of Eastern 

 College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the near 

 future. He graduated from the insti- 

 tution in 1866. 



Timothy O'Connor was a recent vis- 

 itor in Philadelphia and New York. 



George H. Wetmore, representing 

 S. D. Woodruff & Sons, of Orange, 

 Conn., was a recent visitor here. 



W. H. M. 



