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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OOTOBBB 29, 191«. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market. 



Business last week was more satis- 

 factory than the week previous; the 

 receipts all around were greater, but 

 with the increased demand there wasn't 

 much left to speak of. It was the so- 

 called opening of the mum season, and 

 all that came in were readily disposed 

 of. The funeral last Saturday of one 

 of our oldest and most esteemed citi- 

 zens did its share to reduce stock to 

 the minimum on that dlty. 



A Visit to H. W. Koerner's. 



It was on October 9 that Mr. and 

 Mrs, J. G, Heitman and Mr. and Mrs. 

 Nic Zweifel, in the latter 's automobile, 

 together with the writer, paid a visit to 

 H. W. Koerner's place on the Burleigh 

 road, in Wauwatosa. We were just in 

 time to find a large crew busy cutting 

 and bunching some late gladioli and 

 dahlias. Mr. Koerner is a dahlia spe- 

 cialist, with over 45,000 plants, and it 



ther proven at the S. A. F. convention 

 at Eochester this summer, where he 

 was awarded first prize for the best 

 twelve varieties not yet in the market. 

 Mr. Koerner said that he had to pack 

 his blooms on a Sunday night, and they 

 remained in the boxes till Tuesday 

 morning, thus speaking well of the 

 keeping qualities of his stock. His new 

 seedling, American Giant, which is of a 

 wine color, certainly is a giant and is 

 well named. Another by the name of 

 Vanus will be disseminated in 1912. 



Owing to the continued dry spell dur- 

 ing the growing season, his dahlias be- 

 gan to bloom quite late this season, but 

 as we have had no killing frost he is 

 still cutting many fine blooms at this 

 time. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. C. B. Whitnall returned from 

 California last week after an absence 

 of three months, visiting her mother 

 and her son and his family, who reside 

 there. 



Wm. Edlefsen, of the Edlefsen-Leid- 



Peter Lambert. 



was indeed a treat to see all the differ- 

 ent shades in the giant, peony flower- 

 ing and cactus varieties, plus a goodly 

 lot of seedlings, among which he has a 

 number of promising ones which he 

 intends to disseminate as soon as he 

 has sufficient stock. 



Being well along in the season, there 

 were not many gladioli left, but those 

 that were seen were adequate evidence 

 to prove that he had some of the best 

 gladioli in the country. This was fur- 



iger Co., who spent ten days in Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., visiting his children, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Wm. Scott and family, returned 

 Wednesday, October 12, and reports 

 having had a fine time. 



The Holton & Hunkel force at the 

 Humboldt avenue place were busy the 

 fore part of last week potting up a 

 carload of azaleas. This company is 

 now cutting some fine blooms of Gloria, 

 Pacific Supreme, Halliday and Virginia 

 Poehlmann mums. 



Plocienniczak Bros., at Eighth and 

 Oklahoma avenues, who have their 

 place in apple-pie order, are adding an- 

 other modern house, 27x120 feet, to be 

 used for bedding stock and other odds 

 and ends till next season, at which 

 time they will plant it to carnations. 



Stock never looked better at the 

 Heitman & Baerman place, where they 

 make a specialty of carnations. They 

 are not cutting heavily now, but the 

 prospects for the coming season are 

 encouraging. 



The C. C. Pollworth Co. is receiving 

 large daily cuts of roses from the green- 

 houses these days. Mums, too, are com- 

 ing in more freely and no trouble is 

 experienced in disposing of the stock, 

 as it is of good quality. 



Adam Currie & Co. is the name of 

 the new firm which intends to open a 

 store at 130 Wisconsin street in the 

 near future. 



The executive committee of the Mil- 

 waukee flower show, in a meeting held 

 October 15 at the Auditorium, accepted 

 the plans of the decoration committee 

 and no doubt we now have a surprise 

 in store, which will help make Milwau- 

 kee famous. The entertainment, as 

 planned by the committee in charge, 

 will be a special feature of the show 

 and no one ought to miss it. E. O. 



OBITUABY. 



Peter Lambert. 



Peter Lambert, a pioneer florist of 

 Des Moines, la., died at his home in 

 that city Thursday, October 13, 1910, 

 after an illness of several months' 

 duration. 



Peter Lambert was born in Trier, 

 Germany, August 22, 1835, and came 

 from a family of horticulturists. His 

 brother is Nicholas Lambert, of Lam- 

 bert & Reiter, of Trier, who are con- 

 ducting the same establishment at 

 which Peter Lambert got his first 

 schooling in the occupation that he has 

 followed through life. 



Leaving Trier for Metz, France, he 

 took twQ and a half years of schooling 

 in his chosen work, as florist and land- 

 scape gardener, and in 1853 he emi- 

 grated to America. After joining an 

 expedition against the Indians, Mr. 

 Lambert located in Keokuk, la., and 

 on December 18, 1859, he was united in 

 marriage, at Summerville, la., with 

 Miss Lucy Compton, of Hancock 

 county, 111. \ 



Mr. Lambert seKyed in the army 

 during the Civil wal', and finally set- 

 tled in Des Moines, in 1868, where he 

 took up the horticultural work in 

 which he yras engaged up to the time 

 of his death. He was superintendent 

 of Woodland cemetery from 1882 to 

 1892, establishing the greenhouses at 

 1912 Woodland avenue, and in 1901 he 

 was appointed custodian of Greenwood 

 park, which position he held until his 

 death. He was a member of the G. A. 

 R., I. O. O. F., and the A. F. & A. M., 

 also one of the originators of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Superintendents of 

 Cemeteries, organized in 1886. 



^ widow, six sons and a daughter 

 survive him. 



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Akron, N. Y. — ^James J. Bates has 

 severed his connection with the New- 

 man greenhouse, and has erected a 

 greenhouse 21x50 in connection with his 

 store on John street. He is doing a 

 good business. 



