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SBPTBMBBB 14, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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heard the whole exhibit had been sold, 

 asked whether there was anything left. 

 Phil. 



TOLEDO, 0. 



Florists' Outing. 



The Toledo Florists ' Club had a pleas- 

 ant outing on Sunday, September 10, at 

 the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wonsetler, 

 of Bryan, O. The party consisted of 

 Mr. and Mrs. George Bayer, Miss Win- 

 ters, Harry Heinl and family, Mr. and 

 Mrs. G. N. Kellar, S. N. Peck and 

 family, John Barrow and daughter, 

 Josephine, Miss H. Patten, Henry Mil- 

 ler, C. Kaminski and E. A. Kuhnke, all 

 of Tbledo; E. Hall, of Clyde, O.; Mr. 

 and Mrs. Charles Jordan, of Wauseon, 

 and Christ Winterich and family, of 

 Defiance. Mr. Winterich and his peo- 

 ple came over in an automobile and 

 caught the rest just as they were enjoy- 

 ing a bountiful dinner at the Christ- 

 man hotel, as the guests of the Won- 

 «etler family. 



After sight-seeing and posing for the 

 camera fiend, everybody, including Mr. 

 and Mrs. Wonsetler, boarded the elec- 

 tric for the home of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Jordan, at Wauseon. Here, again, the 

 party was entertained to the limit and 

 the general opinion of all the visitors 

 was that they would come again. 



The Wonsetler greenhouses are in the 

 best shape possible. At Mr. Jordan's 

 the asters were so fine as to arouse the 

 good-natured rivalry of all the growers 

 present and everybody wanted the 

 recipe for the growing of them. The 

 soil seems not to have much to do with 

 the growing, because the plants were 

 in all kinds of soil, from heavy, dark 

 ground to lightj yellow sand, and the 

 quality was good, everywhere. 



In the entire tri^^ere was nothing 

 to mar the eiijoyment pf'Ultyi^dy. 



nes. 



^ting 



Krueger Bros, finished a big new 

 boiler house on their farm. 



E. A. Kuhnke has repaired and moved 

 the boilers and is at work putting up 

 a brick smokestack. E. A. K. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



We have had a week of dull and, for 

 the most part, showery weather. Such 

 conditions would have been most 

 acceptable in June and July, but now 

 growers and salesmen would like to see 

 clearer skies. Business of late has been 

 poor, on the whole. Saturdays are usual- 

 ly busy days, but September 9 saw 

 trade at a low ebb. The autumn boom 



is certainly not under way as yet, but 

 with a large part of the vacationists 

 home from the shore and mountain the 

 demand should soon show some improve- 

 ment. 



Asters are in overwhelming supply 

 and dominate everything. Prices have 

 had wide fluctuations. In one case a 

 wagonload sold for $2, and $1 per 

 thousand was no unusual price. The 

 street venders did a roaring business, 

 selling bunches of twenty-five long- 

 stemmed flowers for a nickel. Gladioli 

 are still plentiful, but the demand is 

 not what it ought to be. Koses are 

 selling fairly well; in fact, they are 

 doing better than any other flowers, 

 but are not in heavy crop as yet. Car- 

 nations are short-stemmed and not 

 especially plentiful. Some nice Pink 

 Delight are seen. Lilies are in good 

 supply, as is lily of the ♦valley, but 

 for neither is the demand robust. 

 Orchid flowers continue rather scarce. 

 In the way of outdoor flowers, cosmos, 

 tuberoses, dahlias, snapdragons, gypso- 

 phila, helianthus and kniphofias (tri- 

 tomas) are seen. Business continues 

 quiet in the green goods market. 



Dahlia Exhibition. 



The present season, with its long 

 spell of hot, dry weather, has not been 

 of the most favorable description for 

 dahlias. Nevertheless, there was an 

 excellent show of these popular fall 

 flowers at the annual exhibition in 

 Horticultural hall September 8, 9 and 

 10, and while the flowers were rather 

 fewer in number than a year ago, the 

 quality was uniformly high. W. D. 

 Hathaway took first prize for twenty- 

 four show varieties, twenty-four fancy, 

 and twenty -four decorative. John K. 

 Alexander had firsts for twenty-four 

 ca.ctus, twenty-four vases of pompons 

 and twelve vases of singles. W. P. 

 Lothrop led for twelve show and twelye 

 cactus, Forbes & Keith for twelve 

 peony-flowered and Mrs. F. A. Towle for 

 twelve vases of pompons and the largest 

 and best collection of named varieties. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. had a fine 

 display of Chinese and other liliuras; 



two new 



Harry Heinl 

 boilers. 



The Scottwood greenhouses are en- 

 tirely changed — new hoi^ses, new heat- 

 ing apparatus, new office. 



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