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The Florists' Review 



JUNE 27, 1912. 



his family at Sea CliflF, L. I. The firm's 

 new plant at Bedford Hills is almost 

 ready, for planting. The new roses will 

 all have a chance here. 



The New York and New Jersey plant 

 growers will have their annual outing 

 sometime in July. An auto trij) is 

 contemplated, with a banquet at the 

 other end. J. Austin Shaw. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



The Market. 



J'or the last two weeks the florists, 

 especially the retailers, have been kept 

 busy with all kinds of flower work and 

 decorations. June weddings -and hun- 

 dreds of bouquets for the sweet grad- 

 uates demanded extra orders from the 

 northern shippers, especially Chicago- 

 ans. The local supply of cut flowers is 

 limited at present, and only suitable 

 for certain kinds of work; the different 

 varieties of Shasta daisies, asters, mat- 

 ricarias, valley, etc., constitute the 

 staple flowers with most of the growers. 



The landscape gardeners have the 

 places of their customers in fine shape, 

 but they are complaining of the small 

 amount of money now spent for main- 

 taining and planting the beds in com- 

 parison with former years. Naturally 

 the exceptionally high gauge of the 

 Mississippi and the continuous heavy 

 rains during the principal planting sea- 

 son this year, may somewhat account 

 for the smaller amount of business done. 



The truck farmers experienced the 

 worst season ever. A little over a 

 month ago they all looked forward to 

 the harvest of big crops, especially 

 beans, but the heavy rams, wind storms, 

 and crevasse waters inundated some of 

 the best farms and made the situation 

 close to desperate. All home-grown 

 products are scarce now and the prices 

 quoted are high, Imt strictly in line 

 with the market. 



Club Meeting. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its regular monthly meeting 

 June 20, at Kolb's German Tavern. 

 Claude Ory presided. Secretary C. R. 

 Panter was at his desk and it was one 

 of the largest gatherings of members 

 ever seen here. The outing committee 

 brought in a report to the effect that 

 everything is in readiness for the out- 

 ing, July 20, by the steamer Hazel to 

 the picturesque Grand Isle, in the Gulf 

 of Mexico. Several years have passed 

 since the society went to this place and 

 it is an assured fact that everyone who 

 can free himself for three days from 

 business will partake in the highly in- 

 teresting and enjoyable trip. 



Routine work made up the balance of 

 the session. On account of the outing, 

 the annual meeting and election of offi- 

 cers will be held one week in advance, 

 July 11, and every member is expected 



to be present. -. tt t 



Richard Eichling, foreman for U. J. 

 Virgin, showed a collection of Japanese 

 asters grown by him from imported 

 seed. The flowers, being half double, 

 were closely inspected and a shell-pink 

 variety was especially commented upon. 



Various Notes. 



P. A. Chopin had a busy month with 

 wedding, funeral and graduation work, 

 and looks eagerly forward to the com- 

 pletion of his new, modern store. 



Mrs. Carrie Rehm's avenue place al- 

 ways looks interesting and the showing 



of various bedding plants all along the 

 front of it adds to the attractiveness. 

 The business is on a steady increase. 



Abele Bros, disposed of an immense 

 stock of small plants grown for the 

 J. Stockier Seed Co., in addition to do- 

 ing a big home business in all kinds of 

 plants, decorations and cut flowers. 



R. E. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



Trade conditions are the same as for- 

 merly reported. Carnations are fine for 

 the season. Roses, especially Killarney, 

 got caught in the cold snap some time 

 ago and are showing too much mildew 

 for beauty. Lilies are a drug on the 

 market. There are some good sweet 

 peas and a few gladioli. Beauties are 

 holding their own well. The weather 

 during the last week has been quite 

 cool. We have had a good deal of 

 much needed rain, but now need more 

 sunshine. 



Various Notes. 



As a correspondent I feel I am not 

 a great success. I know no better way 

 than to ask for news, especially from 

 the fellows who wonder why their 

 names so seldom appear in the Pitts- 

 burgh notes, but I always get the same 

 answer: "Nothing doing; cannx)t 

 think of anything that would interest 

 anyone. ' ' As this method does not 

 seem to work, I made a little trip the 

 other day. At Allegheny cemetery I 

 saw the great transformation that has 

 occurred in that old cemetery under the 

 masterful hand of William Falconer. 

 Everybody knows him and everyone 

 who is interested in landscape work 

 should try to look him up when in this 

 city. 



Fred Burki, of the Pittsburgh Cut 

 Flower Co., takes great pleasure in 

 auto riding, but as that does not take 

 all his time, he had to build something, 

 and as he could not well use more glass 

 this year, he is building an immense 

 iron-frame soil shed. As he is ordering 

 carloads of cement, he will probably 

 keep out of mischief for the summer. 



Samuel McClements says looking 

 after planting and decorations is all 

 right for pastime, but a man needs a 

 change and this can be found almost 

 any time out among the bricklayers on 

 his new store building. Funny how 

 some fellows work off their energy! 



A. W. Smith, Jr., was astonished the 

 other day to have his wife cari on him 

 at the of&ce and extend a corral in- 

 vitation to come home that evening^an^ 

 be introduced to some of the most in-^ 

 timate friends of the family. He had 

 become so absorbed in business affairs 

 he forgot home and friends, and still 

 we wonder why some people succeed in 

 business! 



Ernest Ludwig cannot see why every- 

 one does not make it his business to 

 talk flowers to everyone he meets. He 

 says we want to make flowers popular 

 and we can always find some fellow 

 who has not yet waked up. 



J. J. Fuchs, of the south side, is one 

 of the quiet men of the business; he 

 doesn't say much, but he is one of the 

 fellows who always have funeral jobs 

 on hand, and you don't want to talk 

 too much at a funeral. 



Were you ever out at Schenley park 

 to see Superintendent George Burke? 

 There is the wise boy; no talk out of 

 him. You hardly ever see his name in 



the papers, but he can tell you a few 

 things if you ask him, and what he has 

 done out there will tell you a lot more. 

 I would not forget his foreman, John 

 Jones. He is the fellow who helps 

 Superintendent Burke carry out his 

 ideas in the conservatory and they 

 carry out a few. 



If I had the time to see P. S. Ran- 

 dolph, the oldest florist in our city, I 

 could tell you something about ferns, 

 gardenias, crotons and a lot of other 

 things that he grows better than most 

 people. You ought to call on him some 

 afternoon; it is better than a week at 

 school. 



Everybody knows Ben Elliott. He 

 was born in a greenhouse, or near one; 

 never knew anything else, only work 

 and fun. He has the John Bader place 

 and is making it "go some. ' ' Close 

 attention to business does not entirely 

 kill his proclivity for fun; he still finds 

 time for pleasure and says a fellow who 

 cannot do so doesn't deserve to suc- 

 ceed, anyhow. 



E. C. Reineman was a florist once, 

 and ever since the bug bit him he has 

 had it in his system. While his real 

 estate occupies his time generally, he 

 finds it convenient to meet his friends 

 in the florists' trade so often that they 

 forget he is out of it. 



A. C. Gibson, manager of the Zieger 

 Co., came from Punxsutawney, where 

 they make the weather, but he has dem- 

 onstrated that he can make a flower 

 business go successfully. Hoo-Hoo. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



There was a fairly good business 

 last week, although not what the deal- 

 ers had anticipated. It was the season 

 of graduations in the public schools 

 throughout the city and, with the large 

 number of children receiving honors, it 

 had been expected that there would be, 

 in keeping with former years, a large 

 number of baskets, bouquets, etc., but 

 about a week or ten days ago word 

 was passed around that several of the 

 schools had decided not to allow the 

 presentation of flowers and as a result 

 several hundred dollars was lost to the 

 business. 



There have been an unusual number 

 of weddings this month, which, al- 

 though generally recognized as the 

 month of brides, far exceeded any pre- 

 vious year. This called for large sup- 

 plies of flowers, which partially, at 

 least, made up for the loss on the grad- 

 uations. Sweet peas and roses have 

 held the lead, although peonies found 

 more favor than has usually been the 

 Ctise. 



Society Exhibition. 



The parlors of the Mathewson Street 

 Methodist church, in this city, were 

 filled with flowers June 19, both after- 

 noon and evening, at the annual -lune- 

 exhibition of the Rhode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society. Eight long tables and 

 several smaller ones were required for 

 the arrangement of the display. The- 

 number of Visitors ran into the hun- 

 dreds, the attendance being the largest 

 in several years. 



Roses and strawberries were th& 

 chief attractions; roses were there in 

 abundance, with an almost endless va- 

 riety, but strawberries were not shown 

 in large quantities, although the exhibit 

 made up in quality what it lacked other- 



