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The Weekly Florists' Rtvie^. 



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October 5, 1911. 



mother of Mrs. Geo. Gould. Among 

 the designs were ten large orchid 

 wreaths and a pall in which were used 

 over 800 cattleyas. Nearly 2,000 orchids 

 were used in the work. 



Bonnot Bros, have begun their regu- 

 lar fall shipments of roses. 



The handsome celosia plants in M. C. 

 Ford's windows have departed; the 

 demand for them was immediate. This 

 house is handling superb Beauties. 



Bussin & Hanfling have rented the 

 large store over Kessler Bros, and com- 

 pletely filled it with their basket im- 

 portations and novelties. 



Mr. Brown, of Mann & Brown, Eich- 

 mond, Va., was one of the visitors at 

 Boddington's last week. Mr. Bodding- 

 ton says Darwin tulips are in wide de- 

 mand. 



A call on the Brooklyn wholesalers 

 found all cheerful and optimistic. Kueb- 

 ler's supply department is growing. Bon- 

 net & Blake are receiving excellent rose 

 and carnation stock from their Jersey 

 and Long Island growers. The Greater 

 New York Association held its regular 

 monthly meeting last week. Manager 

 Crawbuck says it was a good year, but 

 that he expects to double it this sea- 

 son. His son is one of the office force. 



D. Fuerstenberg, the big Philadelphia 

 grower, was a visitor last week. 



Bowling. 



The New York bowlers commence the 

 new season's work Friday evening, 

 October C. Monday afternoon, October 

 9, the members of the club will bowl 

 at Thum 's alleys and all are invited, as 

 well as any florists from out of town. 



Every Wednesday evening the Ruther- 

 ford Bowling Club meets at its alleys at 

 Carlton Hill, N. J. This club will 

 shortly bowl a match game with New 

 York. The scores September 27 were: 



Player 1st 2d 3d 



Ulchter 1**" 134 136 



KeUer 151 150 136 



Latham K'l 144 118 



Uoehre, E 1««- 172 172 



Haeselbuhn IM 150 134 



Vermeulen lOti 125 



Claik 127 108 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



Tbe Market. 



Outdoor flowers are rapidly passing. 

 More frosts and frequent rains have 

 ruined many of them^ and indoor flow- 

 ers are once more in the ascendant. 

 Roses are steadily improving in quality. 

 They are much more plentiful, but are 

 selling rather better than a week ago. 

 There are, however, many of the short 

 stems which go at $1 per hundred. 

 Beauties are now exceptionally good, 

 with fine stems. Killarney and White 

 Killarney are as good and popular as 

 ever and Mrs. Ward sells well. Prince 

 de Bulgarie and Lady Hillingdon both 

 catch the popular favor. Few of the 

 old Bride and Maid are seen. Richmond 

 still has the field among red roses. 



Carnations are much more abundant 

 and stems are quite good on the early 

 planted stock. Those who have White 

 Wonder and Qloriosa are well pleased 

 with them. Violets are coming from 

 quite a few growers. As yet they are 

 confined to singles. In addition to 

 Golden Glow, there are now October 

 Frost and Marquis de Montmort chrys- 

 anthemums. Lilies are not plentiful, 

 but demand is light. Valley is over- 

 abundant. Cattleya labiata is now com- 

 ing from several growers. There is 



also a good variety of other season- 

 able orchids. 



Dahlias are coming from some grow- 

 ers. They do not sell well here, how- 

 ever. Asters are short-stemmed and 

 nearing the end. Cosmos is abundant; 

 so is candytuft, but neither sells well. 

 There is a somewhat better call for 

 asparagus and adiantum. Some flower- 

 ing plants are already appearing, in- 

 cluding Lorraine begonias nicely 

 bloomed. All the stores are now featur- 

 ing crotons, palms, ferns and other pot 

 plants and business in this line is look- 

 ing up. 



Various Notes. 



Thos. Roland was first in the mar- 

 ket with pink chrysanthemums and is 

 making fine daily shipments of Mar- 

 quis de Montmort. 



The Boston Rose Co., Pember- 

 ton square, is receiving excellent ship- 

 ments of carnations from Peter Fisher; 

 also a fine line of roses, including Rich- 

 mond, Hillingdon, Killarney and Beau- 

 ties from the Montgomery Co., South 

 Hadley, Mass. 



H. L. Shedd, of South Lowell, has the 

 finest Golden Glow mums I have seen 

 this season. 



Miss Lillian Alderson, for three years 

 at the Swanley School of Horticulture 

 in England, is now instructress at the 

 Ladies' School of Horticulture, Groton, 

 Mass. This school is making good head- 

 way and has turned out some capable 

 lady gardeners. Robert Cameron is lec- 

 turer here on practical gardening, and 

 is the right man for the position. 



John Barr, of South Natick, grows 

 such fine carnations that he never has 

 any difficulty in disposing of his flow- 

 ers. His Pink Delight, White Perfec- 

 tion, Fenn and Beacon are superb. Scar- 

 let Glow also is well liked. 



L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, is strong 

 on White Wonder, Scarlet Glow and 

 Gloriosa carnations. 



The funeral of General Samuel C. 

 Lawrence, of Medford, brought out the 

 finest display of floral souvenirs seen 

 here for years. Julius Zinn, who resides 

 in Medford, had many fine designs. I saw 

 some excellent ones also at J. Newman 

 & Sons', on Tremont street. Galvin's, 

 MacMulkin's, Penn's and other stores 

 all had a share of the orders. 



Albert Roper, of Tewksbury, now has 

 large dally shipments of carnations. 

 These include a number of Mr. Roper's 

 own seedlings. 



Thomas Pegler is doing a rousing 

 business these days. He has added Blue 

 Label valley to his regular lines and 

 the quality makes it sell on sight. 



The Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co. is hav- 

 ing excellent dahlia displays at its store 

 from the Marblehead dahlia farms. 

 They have a complete cold storage plant 

 for lilies and lily of the valley, selling 

 large quantities of both. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. have com- 

 pleted the alterations to their ice chests 

 and now have everything in running 

 order for fall business. They keep eight 

 men busy the year around in their wire 

 frame department, making all they sell. 



Recent visitors have included H. A. 

 Barnard, representing Stuart Low & 

 Co., Enfield, England, looking as young 

 as ever; F. G. Sealy, Rutherford, N. J., 

 representing Julius Roehrs Co., and H. 

 Weezenar, with Bobbink & Atkins, 

 Rutherford, N. J., all reporting good 

 fall business. 



September gave us a rather lower 

 temperature than the average, with 

 more cloudy and showery days. The 



month did not keep up its reputation of 

 being the wettest in the year, the rain- 

 fall being less than three inches, not 

 half what we had in August. 



Wheeler & Co. of Waban, and Paul 

 de Nave, of Fall River, are each cutting 

 a nice crop of Cattleya labiata. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held November 9 to 12. Last 

 year no show was held, but everything 

 points to a fine exhibition this season. 



Between seeding orchid flowers, look- 

 ing over furniture and buying soli- 

 taires, Geo. W. Butterworth is a busy 

 man these days. 



The big Brockton fair, the leading 

 institution of its kind in New England 

 opened October 3 and drew the usual 

 immense attendances. In cut flowers 

 dahlias were, as usual, the leading fea- 

 ture, being largely shown by J. K. Alex- 

 ander, G, H. Walker, W. D. Hathaway, 

 W. P. Lothrop and many other special- 

 ists. 



Several growers are this week bring- 

 ing in Polly Rose and Pacific chrysan- 

 themums. These average a few days 

 later than a year ago, as, indeed, do 

 almost all varieties of mums, due to 

 the prolonged heat wave. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, is sending 

 Welch Bros, superb valley, which has 

 been having a wonderful sale of late. 



W. N. Craig. 



LIVING UP TO A NAME. 



The following is too good for me to 

 enjoy alone. The laugh was sure 

 enough on our little friend, Sammy 

 Seligman, Wertheimers' traveler, who 

 was seen making down Michigan ave- 

 nue, in Chicago, the other evening, 

 sans umbrella, though the rain was fall- 

 ing steadily. He sure enough was 

 " Sprinkleproof . " W. T. L. 



OBITUARY. 



Isaac Gillett. 



Isaac Gillett, of Watervliet, N. Y., 

 died September 22, in the Samaritan 

 hospital at Troy. He was 68 years old 

 and for many years had been in busi- 

 ness as a grower !\.t 1507 Eighth ave- 

 nue. When the Civil war began iie 

 was employed at the Watervliet ar- 

 senal, but later he enlisted in Com- 

 pany H, Seventh New Vork Heavy Ar- 

 tillery. He was a member of Post 

 Jones-Kane, G. A, R., and of the Third 

 Avenue Methodist church. The sur- 

 vivors are his wife and six sons, Isaac, 

 Walter, Abram, Samuel, William and 

 Daniel Gillett, and three daughters, 

 Mrs. Barbara Scott, Mrs. Lottie Cady 

 and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, all of 

 Watervliet. 



South Haven, Mich. — W. A. Hart- 

 man has withdrawn from the florists' 

 business here and has gone to Gold 

 Center, Nev., to engage in an irriga- 

 tion project. 



AnacoBtia, D. C. — Fred H. Kramer 

 has recently had constructed two new 

 houses on the Good Hope road. Others 

 have been built on the Bickings estate, 

 at Good Hope. James F. Pierce is 

 modernizing part of his equipment on 

 the Bowen road. Similar work is being 

 done for Alexander B. Garden, at his 

 Minnesota avenue place. Gude Bros. 

 Co. is adding a number of rose houses 

 on the Bladensburg road. 



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