JULY 18, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



Henry J. Puvogel, on Grand avenue, 

 is remodeling his place. He is busy 

 with four new houses, using concrete 

 extensively. Mr. Puvogel's location 

 is among the best class of trade and 

 he disposes of all his stock at retail. 



Merriam Park Floral Co. has a fine 

 lot of auratums and rubrums. 



The committee on the flower show 

 met at Holm & Olson's July 10. The 

 St. Paul florists were well represented. 

 Plans for the show were discussed and, 

 as St. Paul has a fine and large audi- 

 torium, the show should be well staged. 

 The committee prides itself on secur- 

 ing such able judges as J. S. Wilson, 

 of Des Moines; Wm. L. Rock, of Kan- 

 sas City, and W. N. Rudd, of Chicago. 



0. J. Olson, of Holm & Olson, ac- 

 companied by Albert Clausen^ of Albert 

 T^a, and Carl Clarine, of Faribault, 

 went down the river to "Winona on a 

 fishing trip. There they were met by 

 John Fuhlbruegge. 



William Jaap, of Duluth, was in St. 

 Paul last week, with his invalid daugh- 

 ter, consulting a specialist. 



J. S. Wilson, of Des Moines, passed 

 through St. Paul last week en route 

 to Seattle. 



E. P. Holm, of Holm & Olson, is 

 on a business trip to Chicago and 

 Milwaukee. C. R. T. 



HERMANN C. DOESCHER. 



Hermann C. Doescher, the newly 

 elected president of the New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society^ was born twenty- 

 seven years ago, in New Orleans, 

 where he learned the florists' business 

 after leaving school. Five years ago 

 he entered the trade on his own account 

 and, with thrift and foresight, gradu- 

 ally made his place one of the model es- 

 tablishments in the south, catering to 

 both the wholesale and retail trade. He 

 makes a specialty of the different va- 

 rieties of nephrolepis, of which he sends 

 out large shipments. His newly ac- 

 quired place of eighteen lots on Gen- 

 tilly avenue consists of three green- 

 houses each 15x100, with three more 

 12x100 in course of construction, all of 

 which will be set off by a lean-to about 

 12x100. Mr. Doescher is a painstaking 

 young man, and the society will expect 

 a successful year during his term of 

 office. E. E. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Tlie Market. 



The dull business of the last few 

 weeks, and a winning home team, have 

 developed some first-rate baseball fans 

 among the local florists and their em- 

 ployees; there has been so little to be 

 done during the afternoons that the 

 services of many of the boys could well 

 be spared. Funeral work has been 

 good, but aside from this there has 

 been little or nothing doing. A large 

 quantity of stock is being shipped into 

 the local market from the north and 

 south, but most of it finds its way to 



Tif ^^?*® P^^®' ^^ P°o^ ^8 i* ^° quality. 

 Inhere is, however, enough good stock 

 to be had to fill all requirements. My 

 Maryland leads in point of sales, after 

 which come Kaiserin and Beauties. 

 With the thermometer showing a tem- 

 perature of 92 degrees, and higher, in 

 the shade, sweet peas, which have all 

 along sold well on the streets, look 

 sleepy and do not stand up well. There 

 18 no such thing as a set price or an 

 asking price, the growers and commis- 



Hertnann C. Doescher. 



sion houses being glad of an oppor- 

 tunity of moving their goods, with the 

 result that the buyer gets his cut flow- 

 ers at whatever he wishes to pay. 



Various Notes. 



From errand boy to superintendent is 

 a record of which any man may be 

 proud and this sums up the career of 

 C. Leslie Reynolds, who has been ap- 

 pointed to the position of superintend- 

 ent of the Botanical Gardens, made 

 vacant by the death of William R. 

 Smith. Starting in as a messenger at 

 the Gardens March 5, 1873, Mr, 

 Reynolds soon became an apprentice 

 gardener under Mr. Smith, being ad- 

 vanced from time to time until he 

 became the right-hand man of Mr. 

 Smith and during the illness of the 

 latter held full charge of the work. 

 His record there is a splendid one and 

 he fully deserves his promotion. Mr. 

 Reynolds states that he will make no 

 great changes in the gardens at the 

 present time, but will carry on the 

 plans as mapped out by Mr. Smith. 

 He may, however, move in from the 

 house at present occupied by him on 

 Conduit road and take up his residence 

 in the gardens. 



The death of Mrs. Anna V. Portner 

 called for the supply of a large number 

 of designs, all of which were sent to 

 the Portner country home at Anna- 

 burg, Manassas, Va. Many telegraphic 

 orders were received by the local flo- 

 rists, and Gude Bros. Co. alone supplied 

 about thirty pieces, sending two men 

 from their store to Manassas to look 

 after them. The handsomest of the 

 designs furnished by this firm, aside 



from a large casket cover, was a cross 

 of orchids, valley and ivy leaves. 



F. P. Dilger, of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 was a visitor here last week. 



The marriage is announced of Miss 

 Madison Small, daughter of John Henry 

 Small, Jr., and Harry B. Leary, Jr. 

 The wedding took place at Long- 

 meadow, Mr. Small's country home at 

 North Chevy Chase, after which the 

 couple left for an extended honeymoon. 

 Upon their return to Washington they 

 will spend a few weeks at Longmeadow 

 while Mr. and Mrs. Small are in the 

 west. 



Walter Hawley, of Gude Bros. Co., 

 leaves this week for a four weeks' 

 visit to the home of his parents in 

 New York city and of relatives in 

 Boston, Mass. 



The Alexandria Retail Merchants' 

 Association is completing plans for the 

 entertainment of several hundred peo- 

 ple who will attend the annual conven- 

 tion of the Retail Merchants' Associa- 

 tions of Virginia. D. G. Grillbortzer, 

 president of the Florists' Club of 

 Washington, is a prominent member of 

 the Alexandria body and is on several 

 important committees. 



A bill has been introduced in the 

 House of Representatives, which, if 

 passed, will close flower stores and 

 other business houses on Sunday. It is 

 not expected that it will pass. 



C. L. L. 



Bloomington, 111.— John R. Gee is 

 partly rebuilding his greenhouses and 

 making important changes in the heat- 

 in 5 system. 



