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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Januaby 5, 1911. 



and individuals in the guild. Inter- 

 ment w*s in the family plot in Green- 

 bush cemetery. 



< ■ ■ 

 John Gormley. 



John J. Gormley passed out with the 

 old year; he died at his home, 2636 

 Orchard street, Chicago, early in the 

 morning of December 31, from cancer 

 of the stomach. He had been unable 

 to attend to business, except for brief 

 intervals, since November 1. 



Mr. Gormley was 47 years of age, a 

 native of Ireland. Coming to this 

 country in his youth, he made his home 

 and married in Boston, where he was 

 employed in leading flower stores. He 

 gained a reputation as an artist in the 

 arrangement of flowers which led to his 

 engagement by Ernst Wienhoeber, more 

 than twenty years ago, to remove to 

 Chicago. Mr. Gormley remained with 

 Mr. Wienhoeber for a dozen years, his 

 work and his personality appealing to 

 the richest class of flower buyers in the 

 Gardeti City. "When the' Fleischman 

 Floral Co. opened its branch store on 

 the no?:th side of Chicago, Mr.' Gormley 

 was placed in charge, but thip proved 

 only a temporary arrangement, for 

 after a few months he and Lovelace R. 

 Bohannon exchanged ' connections. Mr. 

 Bobannon, now in business for himself 

 in the University Club building, Chi- 

 cago, had been in partnership with John 

 Ganger, as Bohannon & Ganger, 27 State 

 street. In 1905 Mr. Bohannon took 

 charge of the Fleischman branch and 

 Mr. Gormley joined Mr. Ganger, hav- 

 ing a working interest in the firm of 

 Ganger & Gormley. Save for a time 

 that Mr. Gormley spent with the L. S. 

 Donaldson Co., Minneapolis, this ar- 

 rangement continued to the day of his 

 death, the business prospering and now 

 being in a larger store at 29 State 

 street. 



Besides his widow, Margaret, Mr. 

 Gormley left two daughters, Helen and 

 Mary. The funeral wasi held New 

 Year's day, from St. Clement's church, 

 interment being at St. Boniface. There 

 was a large attendance, including many 

 in the trade; also there were many 

 flowers. 



John L. Turner. 



John L. Turner, of the firm of Griffith 

 & Turner Co., farm implement and seed 

 dealers, died at his home, 1434 Harlem 

 avenue, Baltimore, Friday, December 30, 

 at the age of 91 years. Mr. Turner 

 was secretary and treasurer of the firm. 

 His death was due to the infirmities of 

 old age, but was thought to have been 

 hastened by a fall he received on De- 

 cember 1 at the seed store on North 

 Gay street. Since that time, he had 

 been confined to his home. The funeral 

 was held January 2. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The week following Christmas proved 

 exceptionally quiet. The severe rain 

 storm December 24 caused the stores to 

 have a lot of flowers undisposed of, and 

 this adversely affected business. Prices 

 have dropped considerably on about all 

 staples, and a further decline during 

 the present week is looked for. A 

 severe cold wave December 31 again 

 shortened sales. As a rule, Saturday 

 proves the best business day in the 

 veek, but the last two have been 

 spoiled by climatic conditions. Roses 

 are abundant and inclined to sag in 



price. Killar'ney remains the greatest 

 favorite, but Mrs. Ward keeps up its 

 popularity'. Beauties are in quite good 

 "■supply. Carnations have taken a big 

 drop in price, and it needs to be gilt- 

 edged stock to realize $4 per hundred. 

 Violets, in spite of the fact that they 

 are' only averaging half a crop with 

 about all growers, have taken a con- 

 siderable drop. 



Sweet peas are increasing in numbers 

 all the time and indications are that a 

 tremendous quantity will be placed on 

 the market the coming, spring, as more 

 growers are taking them up each year. 

 The quality is slowly improving. Lilies 

 are overabunda'nt, " ' C^las are in quite 

 good supply. 'Valley is not selling well. 

 Considerably more Dutch and French 



John J. Gormley. 



bulbous stock is arriving; tulips of all 

 colors, campernelles, Trumpet Major 

 and Golden Spur narcissi are included. 



Quite a little freesia is coming in and 

 larger supplies of mignonette. A good 

 number of both yellow and white mar- 

 guerites are seen. 



Calendulas are more plentiful than in 

 former winters. Forget-me-not is com- 

 ing in small lots. Pansies are in good 

 supply, while gardenias continue scarce. 

 Cypripediums are plentiful and the cat- 

 tleya scarcity is gradually becoming re- 

 lieved by heavier arrivals of C. Trianse. 

 The trade in asparagus and adiantum 

 has been rather light since Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



Henry R. Comley, on Park street, 

 showed some fine hybrid amaryllis De- 

 cember 31. Among other flowers, he 

 had calanthes, Cattleya Trianae, Ijoth 

 cut and in plants, Lselia anceps alba 

 and other good things. 



E. E. Fletcher, at the Boston Coopera- 

 tive Market, is handling for Albert 

 Batley the best stevia seen this season. 

 Mr. Batley has several 100-foot benches 

 planted with it. 



L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, likes 

 Carnation Scarlet Glow well. Of Pink 

 Delight he has 3,500, and they are going 

 finely. He also grows Beacon, Fair 

 Maid and other varieties. He has one 

 house of sweet peas, from which he has 

 been picking since September. He has 

 no trouble in flowering Marguerite 

 Queen Alexandra in winter, and has 

 also a fine batch of the yellow annual 



chrysanthemums just coming into flower. 



Dobbins & Shannon, of Woburn, at 

 the Boston Cdoperative Market, are 

 this season producing an extra fine 

 grade of single violets. They had a 

 shipment of 13,000 December 31. 



Chester Paine, of the firm of Paine 

 Bros., Randolph, is spending a few days 

 in Maine. His firm is shipping quanti- 

 ties of yellow daffodils, pink, white, 

 yellow and scarlet tulips and other 

 bulbous stock at the Boston Flower 

 Exchange. 



H. W. Field, of Northampton, through 

 Thomas Pegler, is disposing of some fine 

 carnations at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. These include Alice Taft, a 

 white seedling. Prospector, scarlet seed- 

 ling, a dark crimson seedling, also 

 Melody, Winsor and other standard 

 varieties. 



N. F. Comley, at the Boston Coopera- 

 tive Market, has quantities of Cosmos 

 Lady Lenox, also big consignments of 

 sweet peas and carnations. 



Quint & Weiss, who recently opened a 

 flower store at 379 Boylston street, 

 closed it January 1. 



S. J. Goddard, of Framingham, is in 

 the market with an extra fine lot of 

 Purity freesia, in addition to his fine 

 line of carnjitions. 



Herbert T. Capers, for the Halifax 

 Garden Co., is now handling 10,000 

 sweet peas weekly. Among some of 

 the newer carnations they are sending 

 in are Sangamo, Dorothy Gordon, Vic- 

 toria and Apple Blossom. The last- 

 named variety does not prove a good 

 shipper and seller. 



William Spillsbury, of Woburn, one 

 of our best single violet specialists, re- 

 ports a Christmas pick of 9,000 violets, 

 against 18,000 a year ago. William 

 Sim's pick fell off 80,000, and prac- 

 tically every other grower's in like 

 ratio, some showing a much heavier de- 

 cline. The dry summer is blamed for 

 the sparser blooming of the plants. 



T. F. Galvin showed some bouquets 

 with the old paper holders at his Tre- 

 mont street store, December 31. One 

 of Rose Mrs. Aaron Ward, edged with 

 Erica melanthera, and another of Pink 

 Killarney, edged with valley, were quite 

 pleasing. In one window a mound of 

 cut orchids, including fine sprays of 

 white phalaenopsis, cattleyas and cypri- 

 pediums had a telling effect. 



James F. M. Farquhar and wife are 

 spending a few days in Montreal and 

 taking in the ice carnival there. 



Mann Bros, had the first scarlet tulips 

 and Golden Spur narcissi of the season 

 at their stand in the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change December 28. 



J. P. A. Guerineau is spending the 

 present week in Newport, R. I., in the 

 interests of the T. J. Grey Co. 



"E. J. Rogean, for H. F. Calder, of 

 Norwood, is handling the finest lot of 

 Campbell violets seen this season.* Mr. 

 Calder is one of the few specialists 

 who have excellent success with double 

 violets. 



Vernon T. Sherwood, recently at the 

 Mount Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, 

 Me., is now with S^ J. Goddard, Fram- 

 ingham. 



Henry W. Vose, of Hyde Park, 

 brought in a fine lot of Golden Spur 

 narcissi December 30. This is quite 

 early for these narcissi, it usually being 

 the middle of January before they 

 appear of decent quality. 



The annual inauguration meeting of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 occurs January 7. The address of the 



