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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 4, 1912. 



he decorated the Unitarian church, 

 Marlboro, for the wedding find recep- 

 tion of Miss Ellis and John D. Rico, 

 with his usual taste. 



M. L. Terrell, of Randolph, at the 

 Boston Cooperative Market, is strong 

 on callas, snapdragons and carnations. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. are ex- 

 tremely busy with Piaster business. 

 They report green goods as scarce, 

 hardy fern j)articular]y so. 



A. F. Coolidge, of Cambridge, lias a 

 capital lot of genistas, aspidistras and 

 nephrolepis for Easter. 



J. iStreiford & Son, of Weymouth, 

 and John MeFarland, of North Easton, 

 have each a fine lot of giganteum lilies 

 for Easter. 



A. Leuthy, of Roslindale, has several 

 thousands of giganteum lilies, an even, 

 well-grown lot for Easter, also excel- 

 lent gardenias, genistas, azaleas and 

 other plants. Trade with him is excel- 

 lent. 



J. Newman & Son have a tastefully 

 arranged store for Easter and are show- 

 ing tlieir usual excellent line of plants 

 and flowers. Business with them is 

 quite brisk. 



I am pleased to report Manager 

 Thomas Pegler, of the Flower Growers' 

 Sales Co., is much improved in health 

 by his rest at Wilton, N. H. 



A. L. Silloway, of Maynard, and Paul 

 E. Richwagen, of Needham, are each 

 marketing extra good pink snapdragon 

 now. About every grower now has a 

 special shade of pink snapdragon, but 

 the one Mr. Richwagen has is distinct 

 and of a rich color. 



J. R. Leach & Son, of North Easton, 

 have 10,000 of their gilt-edged valley 

 for Easter and a fine crop of the new 

 Pink Supreme carnation. 



W. H. Wyman, of the Bay State 

 Nurseries, has purchased a fine new 

 touring car. The spring rush is on in 

 earnest at the nurseries. 



S. J. Goddard, of Framingham, has a 

 grand Easter crop of high grade carna- 

 tions, also marguerites and snapdrag- 

 ons of splendid quality. 



Mrs. J. W. Rogers, on Summer street, 

 has an attractively ananged store for 

 Easter. At this season she does a con- 

 siderable business also in flower seeds. 



The Fottler, Fiske. Rawson Co. is hav- 

 ing a heavy rush of business. Theiv 

 show windows contain a fine assort- 

 ment of hyacinths, tulips and other 

 Easter plants. 



Albert E. Robinson, formerly man- 

 ager for the New England Nurseries, 

 has left that concern and .joined the A. 

 E. Robinson Co., of Lexington, Mass., 

 dealing in all kinds of nursery stock 

 and making landscape gardening a fea- 

 ture. Mr. Robinson was formerly man- 

 ager at the Bay State Nurseries "and is 

 well and favorably known in the trade. 



J. T. Butterworth easily leatls all 

 others when it comes to valley in j)ots 

 for Easter. He is cutting good Cat 

 tleya Schropdera> and still has fine den- 

 drobiums. W. N. Craig. 



AMEBICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



This is a cut of the new medal of 

 the American Gladiolus Society. It 

 shows the face side. The reverse side 

 is a simple wreath of gladiolus blooms, 

 with space in the center for engraving. 

 The design is unique and original. One 

 is made in sterling silver, colored sil- 

 ver gray, and the other is finished 

 bronze. Both are sand-blast finished. 

 These medals will be given to represen- 

 tative horticultural societies that will 



offer them in their schedules to be com- 

 l)eted for by amateur exhibitors of 

 gladiolus blooms at their summer shows. 

 The silver medal is for first prize, and 

 the bronze medal for second prize. The 

 following societies have been given a 

 set of these medals: Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society, Southampton Horti- 



cultural Society, St. Catharine's Horti- 

 cultural Society, Pasadena Horticultural 

 Society, Melrose Horticultural Society. 

 L. Merton Gage, Sec'y. 



WASHINGTON 



Tlie Market. 



Business last week was good, the best 

 this month, although low prices pre- 

 vailed generally. Inasmuch as the stock 

 moved well, there was but little left 

 over on Sunday and this balance was 

 in good shape. Prices are on the ad- 

 vance, as is usual at this season, and 

 white carnations, for which dealers were 

 glad to get $2 per hundred last week, 

 brought $3 per hundred on Sunday. It 

 will probably be impossible to purchase 

 the same grades at the end of the week 

 for less than $7. Prices on other goods 

 advance in about the same proportions. 

 The demand for pink and red carnations 

 will not be so good, as these colors 

 are not so desirable at Easter. Sweet 

 l)eas have been plentiful and have sold 

 well, although they did not bring any- 

 thing in the way of fancy prices. Val- 

 ley has been exceptionally ])lentifHi, 

 with no special demand except by street 

 fakers. Roses of all kinds sold well 

 at moderate figures. The market was 

 crowded with Richmonds and there were 

 more of these left over than any other 

 variety. 



Cut Easter lilies were offered at $1.50 

 in dozen lots, but by the thousand they 

 could be had at about $10. There were 

 enough greens to be had to fill the 

 demand. Violets have been quite plen- 

 tiful and the asking price has been 40 

 cents per hundred or $3 in thousand 

 lots. It is expected that the supply of 

 violets will decrease considerably and 

 by the end of the week it will be hard 

 to get them at less than $1.25 per hun- 

 dred. There are some mighty good tu- 

 lips coming in; especially good are the 

 Murillo doubles, which are bringing in 

 the neighborhood of $3 per hundred, 

 while singles are offered at $2, and in 

 large quantities at $1. The supply of 

 indoor jonquils is nearly exhausted and 

 the southern crop is coming in, Prin- 

 ceps being the most jdentiful. Large 

 quantities of potted Piaster lilies arc 

 being brought into the market, but 

 many of these are not of good quality. 

 Cattleyas are bringing $5 and $6 per 

 dozen, but good ones are not plentiful. 

 These will advance in price, however, 

 before the week is over. 



The week is bound to be a good one, 

 even though it is believed that there 

 has been an overproduction of potted 

 stock. The streets are filled with 

 street venders, who are selling goods at 

 low prices. This is not going to hurt 

 business as much as would be expected, 

 and will more likel}' stimulate the de- 

 mand and desire for flowers. The lo- 

 cal department stores are also after 

 their share of business and one firm 

 is offering potted lilies at 17 cents per 

 bloom, against 25 cents asked by flor- 

 ists. 



Various Notes. 



E. C. Sutton, of Greenville, S. C, 

 who has for some time been in the em- 

 ploy of Z. D. Blackistone, has left the 

 city to accept a position with Mills the 

 Florist, in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Nich- 

 ols, who was with Blackistone about 

 two years ago, is taking Mr. Sutton 's 

 place. 



One of the visitors in town during the 

 week was J. W. Grandy, of Norfolk, 

 Va., who came here to make his Easter 

 purchases. 



J. G. Schattmier was in Philadelphia 

 last week. 



Mrs. Super, who for some time has 

 been in the employ of George C. Shaffer, 

 has accepted a position with J. H. Small 

 & Sons, and is now located at the new 

 store at Fifteenth and H streets, N. W. 



Local florists are much interested in 

 the effort being made to have the law 

 providing a wheel tax on automobiles 

 rescinded. At present automobile own- 

 ers are subject to a wheel tax, personal 

 tax and license tax on each machine 

 they own and the whole amounts to 

 a goodly sum. 



Otto Bauer, manager of the Washing- 

 ton Florists' Co., was laid up last week 

 with an affection of the throat. 



C. L. L. 



OBITUARY. 



Emil O. Borrmann. 



Emil O. Borrmann, one of the pioneer 

 florists of Buffalo, N. Y., died at hia 

 home, 336 Jefferson street, March 22, 

 after an illness of three months. Death 

 was due to a complication of diseases. 

 He had been in business at 338 High 

 street for forty years. He was born 

 in Germany fifty-eight years ago and 

 came to this country at the age of 8, 

 settling in Buffalo, where he lived 

 nearly all his life. He attended the 

 public schools until 16 years old and 

 began the business of florist at the age 

 of 18, gradually increasing and widen- 

 ing his work until about three months 

 ago, when he was compelled to retire 

 on account of ill health. At the time 

 of his death he was a member of the 

 Men's Club of St. Jacobi Church; Court 

 East Buffalo, 1184, I. O. O. F.; the 

 Harugari I^ohsinn and the Happy Fif- 

 ty Social Club. He is survived by his 

 widow, Mrs. Regina Borrmann, and by 

 eight children, Mrs. Jacob Bauer, Chas. 

 A., Emma, Emil R., Theodore, William, 

 Agnes and Clara Borrmann; also by 

 five grandchildren. 



Michael Smith. 



Michael Smith, employed by the 

 Douglas Nursery Co., at Waukegan, 111., 

 for forty-eight years, died recently at 

 his home in Waukegan, at the age of 

 85 years. He removed from New York 

 to Waukegan in 1854 and started to 

 work for Robert Douglas, continuing in 

 his employ until October, 1911. 



