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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



SUPTKMBER 21, 1911. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



The market has been flooded with all 

 kinds of stock and there has been 

 |ilenty of everything to supply the light 

 demand. Koses are being received in 

 large quantities, hut most of the stock 

 is of the short grade. The long stock 

 is all cleaned up daily, with not enough 

 to go around. Easter lilies are coming 

 in quantity antl are cleaning up well for 

 this season of the year. Asters are in 

 heavy-fliipply and some fine stock is to 

 be had, but, nice as they are, the deal- 

 ers report the demand slow. Funeral 

 work is light. There have been few 

 large funerals this summer and every 

 florist knows that it takes the big jobs 

 to keep the stock moving at this time 

 of the year. 



Carnations are again in the market, 

 but a good part of the stock is short- 

 stemmed and, while there are so many 

 asters, this grade of stock does not 

 move out rapidly. Chrysanthemums 

 are with us again and a fine lot of the 

 early varieties are to be had. Gladioli 

 have been with us all summer in large 

 quantities, but last week they have been 

 received in less abundance and they 

 have been moving out nicely. TJie 

 usual quantity of outdoor stock is still 

 coming in and moving slowlj'. 



That we are going to have everything 

 our own way soon is the opinion of 

 the trade, for this week started out 

 nicely. President Taft was with us 

 September 18 and his coming seemed to 

 put new life into the trade. 



Club Meeting. 



A lively meeting of the Florists' Club 

 was held September 18. Committees for 

 1911-12 were appointed as follows: 



Auditing — Albert Sylvester, chair- 

 man; Michael Bloy, Albert Pochelon. 



Essay — Hugo Schroeter, chairman; .1. 

 F. Sullivan, Albert Pochelon. 



Exhibits — F. Danzer, chairman; 

 Thomas Browne, Albert Pochelon, M. 

 liloy, Charles Plumb. y>. 



Entertainment — Robert fKaihaley, 

 chairman; Walter Taepke, Louis Char- 

 vat, A. Sylvester, Wm. Hiels^er. 



Various Notes. 



J. Breitmeyer's Sons expect to open 

 their beautiful new store about Sep- 

 tember 30. 



W. B. Brown suiiplied the palms and 

 decorations for the Taft banquet at 

 Wayne pavilion September 18. 



The palms and flowers for the fall 

 opening of the Crowley-Milner Co. were 

 supplied by B. Schroeter. 



G. Pedrick, of Walkerville, is one of 

 the most regular attendants at the club 

 meetings. 



Norman Sullivan spent several days 

 traveling through Michigan in an auto 

 last week, making Grand Rapids the 

 principal stopping point. 



The McHugh Floral Co. has built a 

 small show house in the rear of the 

 store, giving much additional display 

 room. 



Murray T. Patterson and his bride 

 of a few weeks have returned from 

 England, where the wedding took place. 



Richard Mach, who until recentlj' 

 was in the employ of Breitmeyer's, has 

 purchased from P. Hildebrand the 

 greenhouse and store at 66 Clippert ave- 

 nue. 



It is a pretty discouraging proposi- 

 tion to keep up the decoration in a flo- 

 rist 's window all through the dull sum- 



mer mouths; nevertheless, this is just 

 what Walter Taepke has done. The 

 large show window has been prettily 

 trimmed all summer. 



The Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 quarters have been given a new coat of 

 white paint and the whole establish- 

 ment looks spick and span, ready for 

 business. U. S. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Business showed a slight improvement 

 last week over the preceding one, but 

 hardly enough to make any material 

 difference in the general situation. 

 However, with the hurrying back of the 

 fashionable set from the seashore, 

 country and the mountains, and the ap- 

 proach of cooler weather with its ac- 

 companiment of dances, receptions, 

 dinners and other social functions, 

 there will be a steady increase in the 

 demand for flowers. Asters have passed 

 their height and the first of the state- 

 ly chrysanthemums are beginning to 

 grace the show windows. A few 

 early carnations are also in evidence, 

 while roses are showing better form. 

 Prices still maintain the summer sched- 

 ule, but will begin to stiffen in a few 

 days. 



Various Notes. 



A violent tornado, which left behind 

 it a path fifty feet wide, tore across 

 Barrington just after 1 o'clock Monday 

 afternoon, September 11, and did much 

 damage to trees and shrubbery. The 

 duration of the infant cyclone was 

 brief, but the funnel-shaped cloud 

 lifted the roofs of several greenhouses 

 owned by Walter S. Niehol at Hampden 

 Meadows. After the blast passed the 

 roofs settled back, but more than 500 

 panes of glass were shattered and the 

 coverings were all askew. 



Two heavy frosts visited various 

 I>arts of the state on the nights of 

 September 13 and 14 and did consider- 

 able damage to market gardeners and 

 many of the florists who had not taken 

 in all their field stock. Asters were 

 especially caught. 



Louis J. Renter, of Westerly, was a 

 visitor at New York last week. 



Bert Wesson, employed by William 

 Hay at his Clemence street store, had 

 a narrow escape from losing a part of 

 his hand a few da.vs ago. He got a 

 rose brier in one of his fingers, blood 

 poisoning developed and only by prompt 

 and heroic measures was the hand 

 saved. 



The Providence Seed Co. received a 

 large shipment of Dutch bulbs last 

 week. 



William Appleton received a large 

 consignment of palms and decorative 

 plants last week. 



William Jurgens. of Newport, was 

 a visitor in this city last Monday. He 

 announces that he will sail for Ham- 

 burg September 28 and will be absent 

 for two months. 



Albert Holscher is contemplating a 

 trip to the Argentine Republic to ar- 

 range for a shipment of orchids for his 

 new orchid house, which he is adding 

 to his range on Hartford avenue. 



The work of fitting up the new 

 wholesale flower market was commenced 

 Thursday of last week and the market 

 will be ready to open October 1. 



Robert Greenlaw, representing the 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., of Phila- 

 delphia, was a recent visitor in this 

 city. 



A large mirror fell in the store oi 

 Johnston Bros, a few days ago and was 

 completely destroyed. A large mai 

 ble counter slab was also broken by th ■ 

 fall. 



L. A. Jillson has been making a larg. 

 display of choice dahlias at 86 Rich 

 mond street. 



Edward Brooks, of T. J. Johnston iV 

 Co., is enjoying a vacation trip in th( 

 country. 



W. B. King, of Apponaug, is bringing 

 in the first carnations of the season 

 They are looking good. 



Two large consignments of Dutch 

 bulbs were received last week by W. S. 

 Pino. 



Otto Carlson, employed by the Ever 

 ett Forestry Co., fell from a tree whicli 

 he was trimming in the Swan Point 

 cemetery and fractured both wrists and 

 was severjly shaken. 



John Burke, of the Burke Rose Co., 

 was a visitor in Worcester, Springfield 

 and Sturbridge, Mass., last week. 



John W. Kelley, of Fall River, was 

 recently in Providence purchasing sup 

 plies, having recently started in the 

 retail business in that city. 



William Appleton had the decora- 

 tions for the opening of the millinery 

 department of the Boston Store, and 

 the table and hall decorations at the 

 Narragansett hotel for the banquet to 

 the Society of the Army of the Poto- 

 mac, in annual convention. 



Patrick C. Henry, Jr., of this city, 

 has brought suit against George John- 

 son & Son for $1,500, for injuries re- 

 ceived by falling from a tree which he 

 was trimming while in their employ. 



At the monthly meeting of the New- 

 port Horticultural Society an offer was 

 received from Mrs Burke-Roche of a $30 

 prize to the gardener who would propa- 

 gate and exhibit at the June show of 

 the society a yellow rose similar in 

 color to the Marechal Niel, but which 

 will have a straight and upright stem. 

 Mrs. Roche also offered a $15 prize for 

 a vellow carnation. 



W. H. M. 



WINTERING CANNAS. 



What is the best way to keep cannu 

 bulbs? We had poor luck keeping them 

 last winter. Where is the best place to 

 keep them? Do they need to be dug be- 

 fore the frost kills the foliage? 



S. & L. 



Allow the plants to be cut down by 

 frost before digging them. You need 

 not be in a great hurry, as the first 

 killing frost is generally followed by 

 some hot weather. Select a warm, 

 sunny day on which to dig them. Let 

 the soil dry out fairly well before tak- 

 ing them under cover. Cannas are of- 

 ten wintered under the greenhouse 

 benches. This is not, however, a good 

 plan. There is bound to be more or less 

 drip and, the atmosphere being moist, 

 the plants are liable to start premature- 

 ly. Any dry shed or cellar will winter 

 them, so long as the temperature keeps a 

 little above freezing. Shelves are best 

 to store the roots on. Do not shake the 

 soil away from the roots. In fact, it is 

 a good plan, if they are bare, to store 

 them in boxes with some moderately dry 

 soil. Any dry potato or root crop cellar 

 will winter cannas. If possible, keep 

 them as far away from the heater as 

 possible. In the event of their being 

 kept near a boiler it will be necessary 

 to give them a little water at intervals; 

 just suflScient to prevent the roots 

 shriveling. 0. W. 



