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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Seftbmbbb 14, 1911. 



also a grand table of cannas. Wm. 

 Whitman, N. Sullivan, gardener, had 

 a large display of seasonable flowers. 

 Mrs. Frederick Ayer, Geo. Page, 

 gardener, had a good group of ferns and 

 crotons. Mrs. E. M. Gill had a nice 

 general display. J. N. Flint received a 

 certificate of merit for a seedling 

 decorative dahlia, Dorothy Flint, and 

 honorable mention for Hetta. Forbes 

 & Keith secured a certificate of merit 

 for a seedling cactus dahlia. Rosy Pink. 

 Walter Hunnewell, T. D. Hatfield, 

 gardener, received a first-class certifi- 

 cate for Laelio-Cattleya Goltoiana var. 

 Wellesleyensis (C. Warneri x L. tene- 

 brosa.) 



George B. Gill showed seedling cactus 

 dahlia, Mrs. E. M. Gill, awarded honor- 

 able mention. Mrs. F. Ayer received 

 the same award for a specimen of 

 Cibotium Schiedei. B. Hammond Tracy 

 had a superb collection of gladioli, 

 tastefully arranged. These well mer- 

 ited the silver medal awar;^d. Gladio- 

 lus primulinus, a charming yellow spe- 

 cies, received a certificate of merit. 



There was an excellent display of 

 fruit. The star feature of this depart- 

 ment and, in fact, of the exhibition, 

 was the magnificent display of hot- 

 house grapes from Thomas E. Procter, 

 .lames Marlborough, gardener, the finest 

 lot ever staged in Boston, which 

 received the highest award of the 

 society, a gold medal. The same exhibi- 

 tor had superb specimens of Sea Eagle, 

 Thomas Rivers and other peaches, and 

 fine trees in pots of plums, apples and 

 pears heavily fruited. 



Various Notes. 



William H. Elliott is cutting some 

 fine flowers of Christy Miller, a fine 

 new rich pink rose. Mrs. Aaron Ward 

 is now coming with splendid stems and 

 Killarneys are excellent for September. 



Henry R. Comley, among other good 

 things, is showing plants of Allamanda 

 Hendersonii, Campanula isophylla alba 

 and passifloras. He has a nice display 

 of choice aquatics and features the new 

 rose, Christy Miller. 



Don't forget the club meeting Sep- 

 tember 19, for which an excellent pro- 

 gram has been arranged. The Vege- 

 table Growers' Association of America 

 opens its convention the same even- 

 ing, also &\, Horticultural hall, and the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club, after 

 transacting necessary business, will 

 probably join with them. 



William R. Nicholson is cutting nice 

 flowers of Chrysanthemum Smith's 

 Advance and some extra good carna- 

 tions. 



Thomas Pegler will tell some of his 

 European experiences at the club meet- 

 ing September 19. 



The Vegetable Growers' Association 

 of America, the convention of which 

 opens September 19, in Horticultural 

 hall, is likely to bring a large attend- 

 ance. The exhibition which th% Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society will 

 hold, in conjunction with the Boston 

 Market Growers' Association, promises 

 to be a noteworthy one. 



Fenn, on Bromfield street, reports 

 good September business so far. 



The Horticultural Club of Boston was 

 organized at a recent meeting held 

 in the Parker House. These officers 

 were chosen: President, J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar; vice-president, F. E. Pierson; 

 secretary, E. H. Wilson; treasurer, E. 

 Allan Peirce. 



The Flower Growers' Sales Co. is the 



name of a new combination which in- 

 cludes sixteen of the large growers for 

 the Boston market. They control twenty- 

 one stalls in the front part of the 

 market of the Boston Flower Exchange. 

 It is hoped that a system of cooperative 

 selling will reduce expenses consider- 

 ably. These officers have been chosen: 

 President, E. A. Peirce; vice-president, 

 L. J. Reuter; treasurer, Frank Edgar; 

 directors, Wm. Sim, Thomas Roland, 

 Charles Holbrau, B. Hammond Tracy, 

 A. A. Pembroke, Wm. Jurgens, F. 

 Dolansky, Frank P. Putnam, W. E. 

 Lenk. Offices of the new organization 

 are at 6 Province court. 



Miss Gertrude Izette, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Roy, of Marion, and 

 William Edmund Hooke were married 

 September 6. 



Visitors the last few days have 

 included Wm. Duckham, Madison, N. J.; 

 F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y., and W. 

 A. Manda, South Orange, N. J. 



W. N. Craig. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Tlie Market. 



Trade has begun to look up a little 

 of late, but it does not yet keep us on 

 the jump as it will later. The great 

 bulk of the trade among the retailers 

 is in the line of funeral work; nothing 

 else of any note is going on at present. 

 For the funeral of the late democratic 

 politician, Edward Butler, an immense 

 lot of work was turned out, and all in 

 the trade had at least one or two de- 

 signs to put up. 



White flowers of all kinds were plen- 

 tiful, thanks to the large crop of asters. 

 Cochet roses, light colored gladioli and 

 tuberose stalks cleaned up nicely all of 

 last week. Roses and carnations have 

 been coming in heavily of late and of 

 fairly good quality. Lilies and valley 

 met with a good demand all the week. 



The weather was quite warm during 

 the week and this, of course, had a bad 

 effect on the transient trade. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Ford, representing A. Herr- 

 mann, New York city, called on the 

 trade here last week. 



Dave Geddes spent the last few days 

 of his vacation in company with 

 "Billy" Ossick, of Smith's, on a fish- 

 ing trip, with pretty good luck— so they 

 say. 



Charles Schoenle and George Anger- 

 mueller left September 11 on their post- 

 poned fishing trip, to last all the week. 



Frank Windier, who was in Chicago 

 last week attending the wedding of 

 his brother, Robert, and Miss Zender, 

 has returned home and is again at his 

 post at Smith's wholesale house. 



The members of the Ladies' Home 

 Circle departed September 12 for Chau- 

 tauqua, 111., to hold their meeting in 

 honor of Miss Matilda Meinhardt, their 

 secretary, who has returned from a 

 summer trip abroad. Hereafter the 

 circle will hold regular monthly meet- 

 ings, as usual. 



Henry Young, formerly of the firm 

 of C. Young & Sons Co., has opened 

 a retail store at 4651 Maryland avenue. 

 This will be the fifth opening of this 

 store as a flower establishment, but the 

 new firm, to be known as Henry Young 

 & Son, will no doubt make it a success. 



E. R. Methudy, of 5943 Easton ave- 

 nue, reports that he will at once start 

 preparations for the building of a green- 



house plant of 20,000 feet of glass in 

 St. Louis county. He expects to visit 

 Chicago greenhouse builders soon. 



The following growers spent a day 

 in this city last week: E. W. (juy 

 and H. Emunds, of Belleville; J. F. Am- 

 mann, Edwardsville; C. E. De Wever, 

 Clayton; John Connon, Webster Groves; 

 G. G. Edwards, W. J. Filcher, Hugo 

 Gross and A. G. Ahner, of Kirkwood. 



The Shackelford Nursery Co. .reports 

 a large amount of orders for fall de- 

 livery in all kinds of nursery stock. 



Alex. Johnson, out in Wellston, has 

 just completed two new houses for car- 

 nations. 



Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Windier, who 

 were married last week in Chicago, send 

 greeting to their St. Louis friends from 

 their honeymoon trip and say they will 

 be at home to their friends after No- 

 vember 1, at 3444 Magnolia avenue, 

 where Mr. Windier has furnished a 

 handsome residence. 



Andrew Frick, head of the growing 

 department of the C. Young & Sons Co., 

 shot and killed his wife and then killed 

 himself last week. It is said that the 

 recent hot weather deranged his mind. 

 They had been married twenty-two 

 yeirs and leave five children to mourn 

 their loss. 



Park Commissioner Davis has as yet 

 made few changes at any of the parks. 

 John_ Stocke has been made keeper of 

 Fairground park. It is said that Ernest 

 Strehle will be retained as superintend- 

 ent, and John Morris, for many years 

 head of the greenhouses at Forest park, 

 is also sure of his job. It would be 

 difficult to find better men for these 

 two positions. 



A. J. Bentzen, of the Bentzen Floral 

 Co., and Oscar Huettemann, manager 

 of the Tower Floral Co., say they have 

 had an exceedingly busy week with 

 large funeral designs. 



There is some talk going the rounds 

 that two bowling teams will be organ- 

 ized, made up of employees of the four 

 wholesale houses, and there is surely 

 some good timber among them. The 

 following names are mentioned in the 

 make-up of the teams: George Schriefer, 

 Art Meyer, Otto Bruning, Fred Alves, 

 Paddy Patton, Frank Windier, Albert 

 Gums, Will Ossick, William Mitthoefer, 

 Oscar Kuehn and Harry Schlechter. 

 Should the boys organize, the four 

 bosses would hang up suitable prizes 

 to be bowled for. J. J. B. 



STAMFOSD, CONN. 



The regular meeting of the Westches- 

 ter and Fairfield Horticultural Society 

 was held in the Royal Arcanum hall 

 September 8, President Stuart in the 

 chair. The exhibition committee re- 

 ported on the final schedule for the fall- 

 show and has provided many classes -for 

 both the large and small growers, with 

 substantial prizes for both. Three hon- 

 orary and two active members were 

 elected and eight propositions received. 



The judges' report on exhibits award- 

 ed certificates of merit to P. N. Popp 

 and A. Whitlaw for collections of dah- 

 lias. Carrillo & Baldwin received a 

 vote of thanks for exhibiting a Iselio- 

 cattleya seedling. A display of apples 

 by Alex. Geddes was highly commended. 

 Mr. Popp gave an interesting talk on 

 his experience in the culture of dahlias. 



JohnM. Brown gave an account of 

 his recent three months' trip through 

 Great Britain. 



M. C. Ebel, of Madison, N. J., was 



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