

NOVBUBER 14, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



35 



View of the Sweet Peas at Floradale Farm, Lompoc, Cal., June 29, 1912. 



increasing a great deal. At present he 

 has a fine lot of J. Jones mums. 



N. Jarrett is back from his hunting 

 trip, and says that business is more 

 successful than the trip. 



B. S. Brown & Son are selling their 

 mums as fast as they come into bloom. 

 They have not lost a single bloom 

 as yet out of their enormous quantity. 



E. D. Ellsworth had quite a run on 

 American Beauties last week, using a 

 great many in decorating. 



The Flower Shop says business has 

 been good and is increasing. 



J. Tobler has returned from a hunt- 

 ing trip, which was quite successful. 

 ^W. J. B. 



SWEET PEAS AT HOME. 



The accompanying illustration will be 

 of special interest to those of The Re- 

 view readers who never have seen sweet 

 peas growing for seeds in California. 

 It is a view of some of the sweet peas 

 on the Burpee ranch at Lompoc, where 

 Edwin Lonsdale is in charge. The 

 photograph was taken last June. 



FITTSBUBGH. 



The Market. 



Fine weather, good business and 

 plenty of stock to do it with. That 

 tells the story. Election week did not 

 aflfect trade, unless it made it better. 

 Presidential elections have always 

 knocked business heretofore, but we 

 hardly knew it was happening thia time. 

 Wholesalers and retailers all seem to 

 feel that this will be a good winter. 

 The retailers are booking some good 

 orders ahead and the growers say they 

 have fine crops of roses and carnations 

 in view, so everybody is happy. 



Chrysanthemums, of course, Lave the 

 call, and they are coming in just right 

 and cleaning up every night. Fine 

 stock is offered, especially in the me- 

 dium sizes. It looks as if the growers 

 are growing more of the medium stock 

 and less of the specially large flowers, 

 which is wise. Single and pompon va- 

 rieties are much in demand. They seem 

 to grow in favor every year. 



dub Meeting. 



The Florists' Club met November 5 

 and, although it was election day, there 

 was a good attendance, it being chrys- 



anthemum night. Phipps Conservatory, 

 Schenley park, showed Mrs. Gilbert 

 Drabble, a fine new white, and eighteen 

 other varieties in good form. Andrew 

 Forsyth, gardener for A. R. Peacock, 

 staged a dozen varieties, each showing 

 splendid finish. C. Becker, of Dixniont 

 hospital, showed four well-done sorts. 

 W. L. Mellon 's gardener brought excel- 

 lent pot plants. Elmer D. Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Mich., showed a number of 

 seedlings and varieties of their intro- 

 duction. Charles H. Totty, Madison, 

 N. J., sent a bunch of his new pink 

 rose, Mrs. George Shawyer, which at- 

 tracted more attention than the chrys- 

 anthemums, probably on account of its 

 wonderful growth as much as anything 

 else. Mr. Totty also sent a collection 

 of good commercial cut flower varie- 

 ties of single chrysanthemums. The 

 Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. showed four 

 varieties of mums. 



A publicity committee was appointed 

 as follows: De Forest Ludwig, E. C. 

 Reineman and T. P. Langhans. 



Various Notes. 



The shop windows are fine these days. 

 Mrs. E. A. Williams had a fine show of 

 baskets filled with single and pompon 

 chrysanthemums. Most of the windows 

 have vases, but generally run on one 

 color at a time, so that there is a change 

 from day to day. 



Fred Burki went to Philadelphia No- 

 vember 5 and will visit his sister in 

 Virginia before he returns. 



E. C. Ludwig and family are in the 

 east and will visit Edward Ludwig, who 

 is a student at Cornell. 



Faulk Bros, are busy with their arti- 

 ficial door crepes, as well as their retail 

 flower business, but the hunting fever 

 caught Frank Faulk and he had to take 

 a couple of days off last week. 



Randolph & McClements say this will 

 be a strenuous week for them: five 

 large weddings and several debutante 

 affairs. Hoo-Hoo. 



OBITTJABY. 



J. F. C. Ludemann. 



After having been an invalid for 

 several years, J. F. C. Ludemann, one 

 of the oldest and best known nursery- 

 men on the Pacific coast, died at his 

 home in San Francisco October 31, and 



was buried in Mount Olivet cemetery, 

 November 2. With the passing of this 

 pioneer from the scene of his labors^ 

 there are left in this neighborhood only 

 a few of the old school of plantsmen 

 and gardeners. Those who made the 

 history of the craft in San Francisco's 

 early days have almost entirely gone to 

 the great beyond and a younger gen- 

 eration has arisen to take their places. 

 Mr. Ludemann commenced business 

 early in the sixties and for a period of 

 almost half a century conducted the 

 Pacific Nurseries. With his propagat- 

 ing department and sales yard near the 

 Presidio and his wholesale nurseries at 

 Millbrse, he successfully managed his 

 ever increasing trade until, owing to 

 the infirmities of age, he was compelled 

 to relinquish active management. The 

 Millbrae grounds are controlled by his 

 son, and the site of the old nursery at 

 the Presidio is now part of the expo- 

 sition grounds. Mr. Ludemann was 

 president of the Franklin Mutual 

 Building and Loan Association and a 

 member of several fraternal organiza- 

 tions. He is survived by his son, A. F. 

 Ludemann, and a daughter, Mrs. Hugo 

 Kuster; also by a foster son, Frederick 

 C. Buss, of the California Seed Co. 

 The death of Mrs. Ludemann some time 4^ 

 ago was a severe blow to him, from 

 which he never quite recovered. The 

 funeral was held from the St. Markus 

 Lutheran church, of which Mr. Lude- 

 mann was a member, and was attended 

 by a large assemblage. The gardening 

 fraternity was well represented and 

 many beautiful floral emblems were 

 seen. Mr. Ludemann was a thorough 

 gentleman of the old school, and as a 

 plantsman he produced stock of the 

 most finished type. 



Henry Gresens. 



Henry Gresens, a well known florist 

 and nurseryman of Alameda, Cal., died 

 in that town November 2. He had re- 

 sided there for over twenty years and 

 had been in the retail businesa^.until 

 failing health compelled his retirement 

 over a year ago. He was 62 years of 

 age and is survived by a widow. He ' 

 was a native of Germany. He was 

 one of the charter members of the So- 

 ciety Hortensis and also a member of 

 the Deutsche Krieger Verein. The fu- 

 neral was held November 6 and the 

 interment was in Evergreen cemetery. 



