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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Dbcbmbbb 1, 1910. 



pink; Jeanne Nonin, the finest of all 

 late whites, which some growers claim 

 they have considerable disease on, and 

 Gold Mine. Cypripedium insigne is 

 abundant and a moderate supply of eat- 

 tieyas is still coming in. 



Various Notes. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, are bring- 

 ing in bunches of Iris alata, a dwarf 

 variety frdm the western shores of the 

 Mediterranean, which is considerably 

 grown in Italy for export. The flowers 

 are bright' lilac purple, with a yellow 

 throat. This variety is not hardy in 

 New England. Other varieties, such as 

 I. Vartani, a native of Nazareth, and 

 I. Palaestina, a native of the mountains 

 of Palestine, pale yellow in color, flower 

 at this season in the open in England. 

 1 have sometimes wondered why com- 

 mercial growers did not grow I. his- 

 trioides, a form of I. reticulata, which 

 naturally blooms outdoors in March 

 here each year, and would be a pleasing 

 addition in the markets if brought along 

 in a cold house where it would flower in 

 midwinter. Such novelties as these are 

 welcome in the market and there are 

 always purchasers waiting for them. 



The S. A. F. national spring show 

 committee was in session at Horticul 

 tural hall November 26, and work on 

 the cut flower schedule, which has been 

 delayed too long, was pushed ahead. 

 F. E. Pierson, W. E. Pierson, Robert 

 Craig, A. Farenwald and others from a 

 distance were present. 



Herbert T. Capers, at 2 Park street, 

 handled 1,250 dozen flowers of white 

 and yellow Bonnaffon for the Halifax 

 Gardens Co. The same firm has two 

 houses, each 300 feet long, in sweet 

 peas, from which they are picking a 

 fine crop at present. 



William H. Elliott had a fine Thanks- 

 giving trade, both in roses and aspara- 

 gus. His stock of Rhea Reid is a reve- 

 lation to those who have been accus- 



gardenias and other choice flowers were 

 sold. 



Jarvis P. Cartwright, of Needham, 

 had 3,000 dozen yellow BonnafFons this 

 season, and disposed of the greater por- 

 tion during Thanksgiving week. 



Arnold & Petros opened their hand- 

 some new flower store on Boylston 

 street November 22, just in season to 

 catch the Thanksgiving trade. They 

 are doing a fine business and are 

 handling a big lot of both cut flowers 

 and plants, for a new firm. 



J. S. Manter, a leading salesman at 

 C Park street, is spending a few days 

 at his home in Farmington, Me. 



Charles Anderson, grower for F, F. 

 Putnam, of North Tewksbury, is send- 

 ing in the finest White Enchantress 

 carnations seen this season. They are 

 handled by George Cartwright, at C 

 Park street. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, had a tre- 

 mendous sale on Bonnaffon chrysanthe- 

 mums for Thanksgiving. They have a 

 capitally flowered lot . of the dwarf 

 azaleas, Hexe and Mme. Petrick, at 

 present. 



William Cleary, of Newton, has sold 

 at 2 Park street this season a lot of 

 well-grown pot chrysanthemums, that 

 fine anemone variety, Garza, still be- 

 ing of good quality. 



The good old pink chrysanthemum, 

 Maud Dean, has been coming in of good 

 quality lately from Edgar Bros, and 

 Peirce Bros. 



The rivalry for the four places on 

 the executive committee is going to 

 create a lively contest at the meeting 

 of the Gardeners* & Florists' Club, De- 

 cember 21. There are eleven candidates 

 in the field. 



J. H. Leach & Son's new light pink 

 carnation is making quite a name for 

 itself. J. M. Cohen, who handles it 

 at 2 Park street, says that it always 

 brings the top price and sells on sight. 

 Messrs. Leach have dropped several 



A Quartet of Astoria's Famous Bowlers. 



tomed to decry this roso. Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward is now fine also, as are Killarney, 

 White Killarney and Safrano. 



A. N. Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., 

 showed flowers of a new pink sport of 

 the Chadwick chrysanthemum before 

 the local C. S. A. committee Novem- 

 ber 26. 



Welch Bros, did a record-break! no; 

 Thanksgiving' business. They sold an 

 immense quantity of chrysanthemums, 

 roses and carnations. Their roses were 

 of especially fine quality. The call was 

 mainly for medium-priced flowers, al- 

 1 hough quite a number of cattleyas. 



other good carnations to make room for 

 more of their new seedling. 



White pompon chrysanthemums are 

 just now selling well in the market. 

 Willow Hill Greenhouses are sending 

 in a splendid lot of Diana to Thomas 

 Pppler. Prince of Wales and Queen 

 of Wl'itrs are two other fine whites now 

 in sea.son. 



William Nicholson is much pleased 

 with Chrysanthemum Fatty, one of F. 

 Dorner's introductions. It is proving 

 an excellent commercial variety. Mr. 

 Nicholson also has Lynnwood Hall of 

 fine quality. 



No finer Pink Delight carnations ar» 

 seen in the marlcet than those handled 

 by M. H. Hambro for S. J. Eeuter. 

 Chadwick chrysanthemums are also 

 good. R. D. Kimball, of Waban, also- 

 has excellent success with this variety. 



W. N. Craig. 



THE ASTORIA QUAETET. 



The men of Astoria are valiant bowl- 

 ers and there is a quartet of them whO' 

 are great cronies, leaders of the com- 

 plicated life in such a simple way as 

 to get the maximum of pleasure with a 

 minimum of effort; hard workers, they 

 play hard with ease, paradoxical as it 

 may sound. The quartet is Siebrecht, 

 Donaldson, Miesem and Einsman. The 

 illustration shows them in the Siebrecht 

 touring car, well known on Long Island. 



OBITUAEY. 



Charles H. Koeppen. 



Charles H. Koeppen, of 910 Walnut 

 street, Columbia, Mo., died at the 

 Parker hospital, in that city, November 

 16, after an illness of about three weeks. 

 He was first taken ill with appendi- 

 citis and was relieved by an operation; 

 then an abscess formed on his liver 

 and this was the direct cause of his 

 death. He was a native of Germany, 

 46 years old and had been in busi- 

 ness as a florist in Columbia since 1902. 

 He was of an affable temperament and 

 popular with all who knew him. 



Mrs. Emma I. Haskins. 



Mr.s. Emma I. Haskins, widow of 

 J. S. Haskins, pioneer florist of Chicago,, 

 died at Worcester, Mass., November 21, 

 while there on a visit. Since her hus- 

 band's death she had made her home 

 with her brother, Harvey Ingalls, at 

 Rockford, HI. She was born in Brook- 

 field, Vt., in 1834, came west with her 

 parents in 1855 and taught in the first 

 public school at Rockford. When the 

 Civil war broke out she went as a 

 nurse and was stationed for two years 

 at Memphis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., 

 and the last year of the war was at 

 Camp Douglas, Chicago, taking care of 

 the rebel prisoners there. In 1866 she 

 was married to Mr. Haskins and they 

 made their home in Chicago until his 

 death in February, 1909. The funeral 

 services were held in Rockford, Novem- 

 ber 25, and she was buried in the West 

 Side cemetery beside her husband. 



Mrs. Deake. 



Mrs. Josephine B. Deake. who became 

 known to many in the trade at the 

 time the S. A. F. held its convention 

 at Asheville, N. C, died November 19, 

 at Twin Falls, Idaho, where she had 

 lived with a brother since the family 

 disposed of its florists' business at 

 Asheville. Mrs. Deake was 71 years of 

 age. 



William Ventres. 



William Ventres, the only son of Mr. 

 and Mrs. W. R. Ventres, the well known 

 florists at Port Allegany, Pa., died in 

 the hospital at Buffalo November 22, 

 where he had been since November 3, 

 on which date he was accidentally shot 

 while with a camping party. He was 

 16 years of age. The funeral took place 

 at Port Allegany November 26. 



Waterford, Conn.— Stanley Jordan, 

 formerly of Madison, N. J., now has 

 charge of the E. S. Harkness place at. 

 Goshen Point. 



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