SSFTBMBEB 28, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 



DETBOIT. 



The Market. 



Market conditions remain unchanged 

 since last week's report. Business is 

 picking up with the advent of the 

 cooler weather. Some fine Golden Glow 

 mums are now available and selling 

 nicely. 



Two store openings here last week 

 made inroads on the dahlia supply and 

 cleaned these up well. Considerable 

 quantities of long-stemmed asters, 

 Beauties and carnations also were used 

 in various ways. 



Various Notes. 



A number of local newspaper men 

 were entertained in Breitmeyer's new 

 store Monday evening, September 25, 

 when a seven-course dinner was served 

 in the beautiful conservatory and en- 

 joyed to the fullest extent by the press. 

 Friday e-vening, September 29, the 

 members of the Detroit Florists' Club 

 and thoir ladies will be Mr. Breit- 

 meyer's guests in the new store, when 

 light refreshments will be served and 

 music will add to their pleasure. Sat- 

 urday, September 30, the store will be 

 opened to the public. This new store 

 is immediately adjoining the former 

 store, has a frontage of about forty 

 feet and is 110 feet deep. The interior 

 is finished in ivory and green. Window- 

 boxes planted with boxwood will rest 

 on stone projections on the front of 

 the building, while along the front 

 close to the windows will be a hedge of 

 boxwood. H. S. 



HABTFOBD, CONN. 



The annual dahlia exhibition of the 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society was 

 held at Unity hall, September 19 and 

 20. The recent unseasonable frost had 

 its effect on the quantity, but not on 

 the quality, of the flowers shown. The 

 attendance was large. The stage in the 

 hall was concealed behind a splendid 

 collection of potted ferns, placed there 

 by President John F. Huss of the Hart- 

 ford Horticultural Society. 



The following were the principal prize 

 winners connected with the trade: John 

 H. Slocombe, New Haven; N. Nelson 

 and John F. Huss, both of this city; 

 Forbes & Keith, New Bedford, Mass.; 

 Warren S. Mason, Farmington; Wm. F. 

 Jost, East Haven; D. W. Babcock, Ber- 

 lin, Md. 



J. A. Webei\ gardener for W. L. 

 Goodwin, won first prize for the finest 

 collection of vegetables, and John F. 

 Huss was second. 



GLEN COVE, N. Y. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 was held in Pembroke hall on Wednes- 

 day evening, September 13. President 

 Trepess occupied the chair and a good 

 number were present. 



The judges appointed for the exhibits 

 were Messrs. Cliffe, Johnson and Mar- 

 shall, and their decisions were as fol- 

 lows: Six ears of corn, first, F. Pe- 

 troccia; twelve potatoes, first, H. 

 Boettcher; one melon, first, S. J. Tre- 

 pess; dish of peaches, honorable men- 

 tion, E. Brown; Brussels sprouts, thanks 

 of society, F. Petroccia. 



There were two applications for mem- 

 bership. 



Henry Gaut, in behalf of Mrs. H. L. 

 Pratt, offered a silver cup as a special 



prize at the fall show. A. Walker, in 

 behalf of B. C. Smith, offered $15 as a 

 special prize for a vase of chrysanthe- 

 mums, eight blooms, one variety, at 

 the fall show. Mrs. Pratt and Mr. 

 Smith were accorded a unanimous vote 

 of thanks. 



G. N. Hoff, of the Alphano Humus 

 Co., gave an interesting talk on humus 

 and the benefits to be derived from its 

 use on all soils. He was accorded a 

 hearty vote of thanks for his address 

 and for his courtesy in answering the 

 questions asked. 



The exhibits for competition in 

 October will be for three heads of 

 celery, a vase of pink cosmos and three 

 heads of cabbage. E. W. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



A general improvement in business 

 was reported from all quarters this 

 week, a few early weddings and social 

 functions, with decorations for milli- 

 nery and dress goods openings, being 

 the accelerating influences. Funeral 

 work has also kept well to the fore. 

 Th^e has been a larger variety of 

 stock and all of a greatly improved 

 quality, which also had its influence. 

 Prices range normal and the supply and 

 demand about balance. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are beginning to show themselves 

 and bring from $2.50 to $4 per dozen 

 at retail. The first violets of the sea- 

 son came to hand last week and were 

 at once spoken for, though a trifle soft 

 as yet. The first cuttings of carnations 

 are also at hand. 



The Wholesale Market. 



The large store at 43 Washington 

 street, which has been leased for the 

 Providence Wholesale Flower Market, 

 has been fitted up with the necessary 

 stalls, telephones, lighting facilities and 

 other furnishings, and now awaits the 

 date for the formal opening. Some of 

 those interested in the establishment of 

 the market held a meeting September 

 22, at which the committee appointed 

 some weeks ago on ways and means was 

 instructed to go ahead and have the as- 

 sociation chartered under the laws of 

 the state of Rhode Island, and this will 

 be done at once. There are twelve 

 stockholders in the scheme, but it is 

 understood that several growers have 

 announced their intention of applying 

 for room. The stalls are to be disposed 

 of at auction on Saturday afternoon, 

 September 30, at 2 o 'clock, at the store. 



Various Notes. 



James A. Budlong, of the J. A. Bud- 

 long & Son Co., of Auburn, has de- 

 clined to allow the use of his name as 

 a candidate on the republican ticket 

 for the nomination for mayor of Cran- 

 ston. 



W. A. Fiske, president of the W. E. 

 Barrett Co., has returned to this city 

 with his family, after spending the 

 summer at his seashore home at Pru- 

 dence Island, in Narragansett Bay. Mr. 

 and Mrs. George Williams, of this firm, 

 have also returned from a sojourn at 

 the same place. 



Joseph Kopelman received the con- 

 tract for all the plant decorations at 

 Infantry for "The Orient in Provi- 

 dence," which continues from Septem- 

 ber 21 to October 7. 



William J. Stewart and P. Welch, of 

 Boston, were recent visitors in this city. 



One new member was voted in at the 

 regular monthly meeting of the Flo- 

 rists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode 

 Island. A special meeting is to be held 

 in a few days, for the purpose of con- 

 sidering an offer made by the Rhode 

 Island Horticultural Society to devote 

 $150 for premiums at the coming chry- 

 santhemum show in November, as the 

 Florists' Club might arrange. 



Johnston Bros., on Dorrance street, 

 had a conspicuous floral slipper at one 

 of the department store openings last 

 week. It was entirely of lily of the 

 valley and orchids. 



Timothy O'Connor has a handsome 

 new covered delivery wagon. 



M. Macnair had the decorations for 

 the dedication ceremonies of the new 

 Jewish synagogue on Broad street last 

 week. 



Frederick Deitz, of French street, has 

 returned from a vacation trip to Boston 

 and Albany, and thence down the Hud- 

 son to New York city. 



John Macrae, of Smith street, has 

 completed the benching of his stock 

 and is now making necessary repairs 

 about his range, preparatory to win- 

 ter. His carnations are looking fine 

 and he has begun cutting. 



J. A. Budlong & Son Co. is cutting 

 a few of the new yellow rose, Mrs. 

 Alma Ward, at the houses in Auburn. 



Ernest Smith, bookkeeper for W. S. 

 Pino, has returned from a week's vaca- 

 tion. 



At the annual exhibition of the Amer- 

 ican Institute, in the Berkeley Lyceum 

 building at New York recently, one of 

 the oddities was a collarette dahlia, 

 raised by George L. Stillman, of West- 

 erly. It is a new variety and has 

 lavender colored petals, with lavender 

 and white collar and an orange center. 



Mr. Smith, representing T. W. Emer- 

 son Co., of Boston; C. H. Hudson, repre- 

 senting Hammond's Paint & Slug Shot 

 Works of Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., 

 and Mr. Crosby, of Danielson, Conn., 

 were among the visitors in this city last 

 week. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport; H. C. Neu- 

 brand, of this city, and Louis J. Ren- 

 ter, of Westerly, were among the re- 

 cent visitors in Boston. 



Earl Barlow, with Z. D. Blackistone, 

 of Washington, D. C, has returned to 

 that city after a six weeks' stay in 

 Newport. 



James B. Canning has just brought 

 out an attractive covered delivery 

 wagon. 



A. Leuthy, of Roslindale, Mass., was 

 a recent visitor among the trade in this 

 city. 



One hundred and sixty-nine cases of 

 Holland bulbs arrived at Newport one 

 day last week for Carl Jurgens. 



George L. Stillman, of Westerly, has 

 been exceptionally fortunate with his 

 exhibitions of dahlias this season. He 

 has captured nearly all of the first 

 awards of the American Institute in 

 New York and the New England Dahlia 

 Society in Boston. W. H. M. 



Albany, N. T.— H. G. Eyres is build- 

 ing two more greenhouses, each 20x100, 

 at Morris and Knox streets. 



Bridgeport, Conn.— John Reck & Son, 

 at 985 Main street, recently had an 

 especially tasteful and unique window 

 display. It consisted of a thatched cot- 

 tage against a woodland background, 

 with mosses and ferns in the fore- 

 ground outlining a pond on which 

 floated tiny swans. 





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