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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 18, 1912. 



OBITUART. 



Peter Buhler. 



Peter Buhler, 232 Seventh street, 

 S. E., Washington, D. C, died April 

 11. Mr. Buhler, who was well known 

 in his vicinity, removed to Washing- 

 ton some twenty-five years ago from 

 New Orleans, where he had engaged 

 in the government contracting business. 

 He entered the employ of Nicholas 

 Studer, in Anacostia, D. C, under 

 whom he learned his trade. He was 

 later given the stand in the Navy 

 Yard market, which stands directly op- 

 posite his old home. He stayed with 

 Studer about three years before going 

 into the retail business on his own 

 account. It was only late last week 

 that Mr. Buhler was around the Center 

 Market talking over trade conditions 

 with the boys there. Although 87 years 

 of age, he was active, attending to 

 his store with the agility of a much 

 younger man. He was devoted to his 

 wife, who survives him, and his pass- 

 ing is a matter of deep regret. 



C. L. L. 

 Frank Nuss. 



Frank Nuss, who has been for near- 

 ly thirty years a gardener at the Euth- 

 erfurd and White estate at Newport, 

 E. I., died suddenly April 8. Mr. Nuss 

 was born in Germany and after learn- 

 ing the gardeners' business in that 

 country and in Holland he came to 

 this country when still a young man 

 and took up his residence at Newport, 

 where he remained all his life. He 

 was one of the oldest and best known 

 gardeners in that city of famous pri- 

 vate estates. The deceased is sur- 

 vived by two daughters. Miss Eliza- 

 beth G. Nuss, a teacher in the Carey 

 school of that city, where she has 

 taken a leading part in the establish- 

 ing of school gardens, and Miss Mary 

 •Nuss, who has also taken a great in- 

 terest in the development of garden 

 work in the schools. There are also 

 two sons, Thomas F. Nuss, of New- 

 port, and Joseph S. Nuss, of Boston. 



W. H. M. 



Alexander McCullough. 



Alexander McCullough, of Brookline, 

 Mass., died April 10 at his home, 17 

 Aspinwall avenue, at the age of 65. 

 He had been in ill health a long time. 

 He is survived by his wife and five 

 children. 



Myron Llewellyn. 



Myron Llewellyn, of Olean, N. Y., 

 died of heart failure April 6. Since 

 1872 he had conducted a flower store in 

 that city. Until the first of the year 

 he had complete charge of the green- 

 houses and store, but at that time his 

 son, Frank, began to help about the 

 business. 



Nels Peter liaison. 



Nels Peter Larson, one of the oldest 

 residents of Evanston, 111., and formerly 

 a florist at 1624 Sherman avenue, in 

 that city, died March 28, at the Swedish 

 Old People's home in North Evanston, 

 at the age of 81 years. He was born 

 in Sweden and came to America and to 

 Evanston in 1866. He leaves one son, 

 Charles, recently of California, but now 

 of Evanston. 



Victor Johansen. 



Victor Johansen, president and man- 

 ager of the Victor Johansen Seed Co., 

 growers of flower seeds, Arroyo Grande, 



Cal., died suddenly of heart disease, on 

 the evening of April 8, at his home in 

 Arroyo Grande. It is announced that 

 the business will be continued under 

 the management of his widow, Mrs. 

 Mary Johansen, assisted by her son, 

 Oscar W. Johansen, who has been con- 

 nected with the business for the last 

 four years. 



John F. Larson.. - 



John F. Larson, for the last nine- 

 teen years a florist at Eock Island, 111., 

 was found dead by his wife in the 

 kitchen of his home, 439 Forty-fourth 

 street, early in the morning of April 

 9. Suicide by asphyxiation has been 

 given as the cause of his death, al- 

 though reason for his committing the 

 act is unknown. When found, his 

 body was lying across the gas stove 

 with his mouth over a jet, which had 

 been turned on. He was born in 

 Sweden, December 12, 1856, and came 

 to Eock Island in 1890. For eighteen 

 years he was employed on the gov- 

 ernment island, working as a horti- 

 culturist. Of late, however, he had 

 been in business for himself. 



F. P. Dilger'f Freak Tulip. 



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A FBEAK TULIP. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produced from a photograph by F. P. 

 Dilger, Milwaukee, who writes: "I am 

 sending a photograph of a freak tulip 

 that appeared among my stock during 

 the Easter week. It was a bright scar- 

 let and the plant created much com- 

 ment. I have never seen one like it, 

 and none of the visitors to my store 

 had seen anything of the kind. I 

 should be glad to hear if others have 

 encountered similar freaks." 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business last week was fairly good, 

 on the whole. The supply of flowers 

 was not large and clearances were 

 fully as good as could be expected. 

 The present week sees trade rather 



quiet, but supplies, owing to the con- 

 tinued cold weather, are by no means 

 unwieldy, and there is not yet any 

 considerable surplus. Of course a spell 

 of warm weather may speedily cjbange 

 all this. 



Eoses continue the softest spot in 

 the market. These are in heavy supply 

 and of good quality. Prices are on 

 the down grade. The demand is best 

 for Killarneys, Tafts, Eichmonds and 

 the various yellow varieties. 



Carnations are down to half the 

 Easter prices, $1 to $3 being prevail- 

 ing rates. Single violets are over, but 

 doubles will arrive for some time yet. 

 These are making 50 cents to 75 cents 

 per hundred. Sweet peas are less abun- 

 dant than a month ago. The Spencer 

 varieties are coming from several 

 growers in fine shape. Bulb stock had 

 an excellent Easter and continues to 

 meet a fair sale. Some fine .Spanish 

 iris is seen. Yellow marguerites were 

 surely never more abundant than now. 

 Valley is plentiful, and' so are snap- 

 dragons, of which pink continues the 

 favorite color. English primroses are 

 plentiful, and there is a good assort- 

 men of other spring flowers. Lilies and 

 callas are a slow trade. Green stock 

 is quiet after the Easter rush. In 

 last week's Eeview carnations were 

 quoted as selling here as high as $10 

 for Easter. This should have been $6. 

 Large numbers went at $5 April 6. 



Club Meeting. 



Vice-President W. J. Kennedy pre- 

 sided over the regular monthly club 

 meeting April 16, President Pegler be- 

 ing still indisposed. The attendance was 

 125, three new members being elected. 

 There was no regular lecture, but nu- 

 merous queries were taken up and an- 

 swered and proved both interesting and 

 varied in their character. It was an- 

 nounced that the banquet usually held 

 in February or March, and originally 

 inte^ided for April, will be postponed 

 until autumn, so that something ambi- 

 tious can be provided in honor of the 

 club's silver jubilee. An invitation to 

 visit the estate of Bayard Thayer, 

 South Lancaster, Mass., where Wm. An- 

 derson is superintendent, to inspect the 

 bulb gardens, lilacs, etc., in May, was 

 received and referred to the executive 

 committee. 



Alexander McKay talked interesting- 

 ly on mushrooms and made an exhibit 

 of mushrooms grown from pure culture 

 spawn. The discussion which followed 

 his remarks was participated in by 

 John Farquhar, William Downs, W. N. 

 Craig, D. Findlayson and Messrs. El- 

 liott, Palmer, Sander and Coles. Among 

 the subjects taken up were amaryllis, 

 dahlias, rhododendrons, kalmias and the 

 question of the respective merits of 

 carnations grown in pots or flats. 



Among the exhibits were a new white 

 rambler rose from Thomas Coles, fine 

 Spanish iris from H. Waldecker and 

 Oncidium luridum from J. Q. Smith. 



A message of good cheer was ordered 

 sent to President Pegler. 



Various Notes. 



William W. Tailby, of Wellesley, met 

 with a serious and painful accident on 

 the evening of April 6, falling the full 

 length of a flight of stairs, with his 

 little girl in his arms, through a mis- 

 take in opening a door. Mr. Tailby 

 broke his left hip, left wrist and shoul- 

 der, fractured his jaw and had a wound 

 in his head needing eight stitches to 



