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The Florists^ Review 



JCLX 4, 1912. 



OBITUAEY. 



Daniel Springer. 



Daniel Springer, employed as a florist 

 at Columbus, O., died on the evening of 

 June 24, at the age of 54 years. Seized 

 with sudden weakness and heart trouble 

 while seated at the supper table at his 

 home, 29 Chittenden avenue, Columbus, 

 he was helped by members of his family 

 into an adjoining room, where he died 

 a few moments later. He had been in 

 ill health for a year from organic heart 

 trouble and unable to attend to his 

 work. Two daughters. Misses Florence 

 and Eoxie Springer, survive. A brother, 

 David Springer, lives at 35 Dana avenue, 

 Columbus. 



BOWUNG PRIZES. 



The prize list for the coming sport- 

 ing events to be held in connection 

 with the convention at Chicago in Au- 

 gust is now being made up. "Will anyone 

 willing to donate a prize kindly let us 

 know? We would like to make this 

 thei biggest and best bowling, shooting 

 and outing ever held in connection with 

 the! annual meeting of the S. A. F. 

 C. J. Graham, Chairman, 

 12349 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. 



MINNEAPOLIS. 



The Market. 



Summer dullness has arrived, and it 

 was, of course, to be expected. Last 

 week finished up most of the weddings 

 of any importance. All the summer 

 flowers have made their appearance, 

 and one can keep busy answering the 

 phone and politely turning down the 

 amateur gardeners, for everyone with a 

 few flowers seems to think he may be 

 able to make a small fortune selling his 

 surplus cut blooms. The gaillardia and 

 coreopsis are good, and the Shasta 

 daisies and sweet peas are exception- 

 ally fine. 



Various Notes. 



A wonderful little rose garden, main- 

 tained by the Minneapolis park board, 

 has been the center of attraction for 

 the last week, hundreds of persons vis- 

 iting it daily. It is beautifully lo- 

 cated at Lake Harriet, on the boule- 

 vard. Theodore Wirth, superintendent 

 of parks, and the gardener, Thomas 

 Lundheim, deserve and receive much 

 credit for the showing. This rose gar- 

 den covers little more than a quarter 

 of an acre, but in this limited area 

 there grow more than 4,000 rose plants, 

 with 250 varieties represented. The 

 park board maintains the garden to de- 

 termine just which varieties are best 

 suited to the rigorous climate of Min- 

 nesota. Originally there were 500 va- 

 rieties represented, but the total has 

 been reduced by half through the cull- 

 ing out of sorts found to be unsuitable 

 to Minnesota climate. The garden is 

 four years old. Mr. Wirth invited all 

 the florists out June 28. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Olson, of Holm & Olson, St, Paul, and 

 Harry Balsley, of Detroit, were out-of- 

 town guests. 



James Souden, for many years a resi- 

 dent of Minneapolis, has gone to Du- 

 luth to take a position with J. J. Le 

 Borious. 



Miss Whitted says her busy days are 

 over for a time, business, as usual, 

 dropping suddenly as the week of the 

 Fourth approached, though last week 



kept her busy with weddings and fu- 

 neral orders. 



Thos. Lynes, of the east side, reports 

 a drop in his business and will enjoy 

 the quietness for the summer. 



The committee decided on Thursday, 

 July 18, for the florists' picnic, to be 

 held at Spring park. Lake Minnetonka. 

 Every effort will be made to make it 

 an enjoyable affair. All sorts of con- 

 tests, with suitable prizes, will be fea- 

 tured. , The committee asks that every- 

 body come and join in making this a 

 successful picnic. W. F. H. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in the 

 condition of business during the last 

 few weeks; the same quantity of stock 

 is coming in, with no increased de- 

 mand. Locally-grown stock seems to be 

 improving somewhat, but not sufficient- 

 ly to overcome the present popularity 

 of the eastern flowers. Large quanti- 

 ties of outdoor flowers are to be had 

 and this results in the falling off to a 

 marked degree of the sale of indoor 

 stock, especially in the markets, where 

 business has been unusually slack this 

 week. Inasmuch as this is usual dur- 

 ing the same period of each year, the 

 local retailers have little or no cause 

 for complaint, even though increased 

 business would more than be acceptable. 



Various Notes. 



The Washington Florists Co. now is 

 located in its new home at 1408-10 H 

 street, N. W., and has as fine 41 store 

 as can be found in this section of the 

 country. With a width of over thirty 

 feet, it runs back 150 feet, and is di- 

 vided into three sections. The front is 

 given over to the sale and display of 

 flowers; the center portion, reached by 

 a short flight of stairs from the front, 

 is used as a palm room, an ideal place, 

 with a large skylight overhead, and 

 the rear is utilized as the stock room. 



Several good woodland scenes are 

 being shown in the display windows of 

 the local stores. One of the best of 

 these is at the store of William Marche 

 & Co., at Fourteenth and H streets, N. 

 W. Here has been set a large tank 

 stocked with water lilies and goldfish, 

 at the side of which is a mill with 

 revolving wheel and from the back of 

 which rises a rocky hill with a water- 

 fall and cave illuminated with colored 

 lights. At the top of the hill is perched 

 a miniature castle from which the 

 beams of varicolored lights stream. 



Z. D. Blackistone, whose store is 

 just across the street, also has a sim- 

 ilar display. Here is shown a camping 

 scene, with a large kettle on a tripod 

 ready for the cooking of a day's meal. 

 A stretch of woods made of oak sprays 

 and growing ferns form the back- 

 ground. 



Z. D. Blackistone, with his family, 

 is spending his vacation at Blacki- 

 stone 's Island, Md. It is reported that 

 fishing is good there, but that Mr, 

 Blackistone is fast depopulating the 

 waters of the finny denizens. 



William E. Smith, of the Botanical 

 Gardens, who has been at death's door 

 for several weeks, had another close 

 call Sunday morning, when he suffered 

 a fainting spell. Medical assistance, 

 however, brought him through. The 

 end of this grand old man is rapidly 

 approaching and it is doubtful if he 

 will survive the week. C. L. L. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The extreme heat June- 29, when the 

 thermometer touched 95 degrees, took 

 the heart completely out of the cut 

 flower business and destroyed even the 

 ordinary week-end rally and clean-up. 

 The school closings seemed to have a 

 slight influence during the week, white 

 carnations only, however, maintaining 

 a semblance of strength, and even these 

 at the end of the week sharing in the 

 general depression. Few .flowers are 

 seen on the streets because of police 

 interference. The demand at the big 

 department stores is also decreasing. 

 There seems little hope of anything but 

 dullness during July and August, fu- 

 neral work alone preventing complete 

 stagnation. Every wholesale house 

 could close at one o'clock during the 

 summer with safety and with profit. 

 Business is over at noon every day. The 

 exodus of both employers and employees 

 has begun. Many of the wholesalers 

 have country homes at Kockaway, As- 

 bury Park, or in the mountains, and 

 those too far away for daily trips are 

 spending Saturdays and Sundays with 

 their families out of town, in the hills 

 or by the sounding sea. Generous con- 

 cessions to the faithful assistants are 

 universal and everybody of the whole- 

 sale and retail staffs who have borne 

 the burden of the winter and spring 

 campaign will now reap in rest and 

 recreation a well-earned reward. 



The month of roses, just ended, fur- 

 nished the usual quantity of outdoor 

 ramblers and hybrids. These met with 

 scant appreciation. A few rose wed- 

 dings used the bulk of them. The flood 

 of outdoor stock of all kinds has been 

 constant. All varieties of tea roses 

 show the effect of the extreme heat 

 and few arrive in salable condition. 

 The best American Beauties are always 

 in demand, and these alone sell readily. 



Carnations have lessened in volume 

 and deteriorated in quality. Orchids 

 are not so abundant and cattleyas have 

 advanced slightly in consequence. 

 Lilies are abundant and prices unsat- 

 isfactory. Valley and gardenias hold 

 firm. Sweet peas are of grand quality, 

 presaging a great display at Boston. 

 The market is well supplied with gla- 

 dioli, coreopsis, phlox, iris and delphini- 

 ums. 



Various Notes. 



The summer show of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York was held 

 June 29 and 30 in the Museum building 

 at Bronx park, and in exhibits and at- 

 tendance was a fine success. The only 

 trade exhibitor was Scott Bros., of 

 Elmsford, who were first on Japanese 

 irises. The other exhibitors and prize 

 winners included: Andrew Whitelaw, 

 gardener for A. P, Stokes, Noroton, 

 Conn,; P. W. Popp, gardener to H. Dar- 

 lington, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; E. Hughes, 

 gardener to J. A. Macdonald, Flushing; 

 A. Paterson, gardener to Miss M. T. 

 Cockroft, Saugatuck, Conn.; Howard 

 Nichols, gardener to Mrs. J, B. Trevor, 

 Yonkers, N, Y.; James Stewart, gar- 

 dener to Mrs, F, A, Constable, Mama- 

 roneck, N. Y,; A, Lahodny, gardener 

 to T. H. Havemeyer, Glen Head, N. Y, 

 The stereopticon lecture was by Dr. 

 Merrill. The next meeting and ex- 

 hibition will take place the last Sat- 

 urday in August, when gladioli will be 

 featured. The judges will be Eichard 



