NOTXMBER 21, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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been persistent all the fall. Wreathing 

 of it has been immensely popular. 

 Narcissi and mignonette are arriving 

 freely. Where do all the orchids come 

 fromf Splendid orchids are now com- 

 ing in great quantity. With the excep- 

 tion of a few novelties, $2 per hundred 

 seems top for carnations. Prices for 

 American Beauties are steady. All 

 other roses are cheap. 



Various Notes. 



The seedsmen all declare this to have 

 been a record year. The wdnderfully 

 open fall has kept the trade humming. 



By January 1 the MacNiff Co. will be 

 settled in its new store at 56 Vesey 

 street, occupying the whole of the five- 

 story and basement building. 



Geo. F. Ditzenberger, whose severe 

 illness was reported in this column last 

 week, died in the Hackensack hospital. 

 A large number of his friends in the 

 trade attended the funeral, and the 

 floral tributes to his memory filled 

 many coaches. His most intimate 

 friend, J. J. Coan, was one of the pall- 

 bearers. 



Enchantress Supreme, the new car- 

 nation now being introduced by Daille- 

 douze Bros., of Flatbush, after a four 

 years' test, is a light salmon pink. 



Charles W. Eaton, of New Castle, N. 

 H., has purchased the greenhouses for- 

 merly owned by Clarence Eraser and 

 will grow carnations only. Charles H. 

 Craig, the foreman, formerly was with 

 W. Langdon, of Portsmouth, N. H. 



Colin Ogston, of the Kimball Con- 

 servatories, Kochester, N. Y., was in 

 the city last week, the guest of Henry 

 Siebrecht. 



A decoration last week in the large 

 ballroom of the Hotel Astor, for the 

 Canadian Club, was made by Louis M. 

 Groffman, formerly in business on 

 Staten Island. The flowers used were 

 American Beauty roses, Bonnaflfon 

 chrysanthemums and William Eccles 

 carnations. 



Many New Yorkers were at Newark 

 early this week to attend the conven- 

 tion of the National Association of 

 Gardeners. 



J. B. Nugent, Sr., now in his ninety- 

 second year, has been seriously ill, but 

 at last accounts was convalescing. 



W. G. Badgley, of Badgley, Kiedel & 

 Meyer, was in the city November 16. 

 He is not allowing his municipal obli- 

 gations to interfere with business. 



James Coyle has added a new office 

 to his other conveniences. 



E. G. Wilson and Hugo Jahn, over in 

 Brooklyn, say the wedding bookings 

 are many and the City of Churches will 

 have an old-time season. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 



The Italian garden room of the Tyler 

 hotel was the scene, November 14, of a 

 banquet given by the Kentucky Society 

 of Ilorists in honor of Eiehard Vincent, 

 Jr., of White Marsh, Md., president of 

 the Society of American Florists. Plates 

 were laid for fifty, including members 

 of the society and their guests. The 

 table was artistically decorated with 

 American Beauties, marguerites, chrysan- 

 themums and white roses. Anders Eas- 

 mussen presided as toastmaster and in- 

 troduced the following speakers: H, 

 Kleinstarink, who spoke on "Society 

 of American Florists;" George Schulz, 

 whose subject was "Kentucky Society 



of Florists ; ' ' Mrs. Quarels, who dis- 

 cussed "The Ladies' Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists;" William Mann, whose 

 topic was "Those Present;" Herbert 

 Walker, who spoke on "Our Guests," 

 and August Baumer, whose subject was 

 "The Ladies." 



Previous to the banquet Mr. Vincent 

 gave a lecture on the international 

 flower show at London, England, which 

 was illustrated with colored stereopticon 

 views. In the neighborhood of 300 per- 

 sons attended the lecture. 



ROCHESTEB. 



The Market. 



The wholesale market is pretty dead. 

 There seems to be a surplus of about 

 everything except roses, and they are 

 shy. The late and early mums are 

 coming in together and flooding the 

 market. For this market condition the 

 weather is largely blamed, and a change 

 of weather is anxiously looked for, in 

 the hope that it will open up the mar- 

 ket. 



Various Notes. 



Highland park, under the direction 

 of Assistant Superintendent Dunbar, 

 has been giving a show of chrysanthe- 

 mums in the park conservatory. 

 Though the show is not large, it is 

 well worth seeing. There are about 130 

 varieties of mums, arranged artistical- 

 ly, according to color and size. Be- 

 sides the well grown collection of show 

 flowers, the exhibition was especially 

 strong in pompons and anemones, in- 

 cluding quite a number of seedlings in 

 these classes. An adjoining house con- 

 tains over 300 species and varieties of 

 succulents. This is a notable collec- 

 tion. Among the many things to which 

 special attention could well be called 

 are a fine specimen of Euphorbia splen- 

 dens, and a half dozen specimens of 

 spineless cacti gathered in the Med- 

 iterranean district and sent here from 

 the Department of Plant Industry at 

 Washington. The other show house 

 contains a general collection of orchids, 

 nepenthes, stove plants, etc. The prop- 

 agating houses at the conservatory are 

 largely filled at present with begonias, 

 acacias and heaths. The clean, thrifty 

 stock showed skillful work on the part 

 ot Mr. Dukelow, the greenhouse fore- 

 man. 



At a meeting of the Kochester Flo- 

 rists' Association, held November 11, 

 the finance committee showed that the 

 flower show was a success in every way. 

 Owing to the bad weather, however, 

 they did not clear as much as was 

 expected. Of the total expenses about 

 twenty per cent was for advertising, 

 over fifty per cent for decoration and 

 over twenty per cent for music. The 

 ladies' auxiliary cleared a substantial 

 sum from the tea room. 



George Boucher is about to make a 

 notable increase in his store space. The 

 store he occupies has a frontage on 

 two streets, but a circulating library 

 has been using one end of it. He is 

 now going to extend his display the 

 entire length of the store, about 150 

 feet. This will give him large show 

 windows on each of two prominent 

 streets. To fill this additional space, 

 he has been acquiring a fine lot of dis- 

 play plants while prices were low. 

 These he has been keeping at his green- 

 houses. His well arranged, white store 

 is always attractively decorated in a 



style that is characteristic of his work. 

 His window and store never have a 

 crowded appearance, but are alwayS' 

 neat and artistic. Mr. Boucher has, by 

 his personality and hard work, built 

 up a nice retail trade. Business has 

 increased to a point where he has had 

 to buy an additional auto delivery car. 

 He has also bought a new pleasure car 

 for himself. 



H. P. Neun had his window filled 

 with a large, odd shaped bank of Maud 

 Dean mums. He had many more com- 

 ing in. 



The greenhouses of Jacob Thomann 

 & Sons are again in good shape, after 

 some repair work has been done on 

 them. He has one house of carnations 

 that promise to be extra fine. In his 

 display house he has, among other 

 things, two benches of Boston ferns 

 and one bench of dracsenas. Outside he 

 has a large bed of pansies in full bloom. 

 Arthur Cowee has taken over the sale 

 of his entire lot of Eochester White 

 gladioli. 



W. Logan, of Crosman Bros. Co., who 

 has for many years devoted a great 

 deal of attention to lawn grasses, has 

 been remarkably successful in produc- 

 ing lawns under unusual conditions. 

 ^ S. A. 



PEOVIDENCE 



The Market. 



Warm weather last week had its ef- 

 fect upon trade conditions, somewhat 

 deterring business. Chrysanthemums 

 are in great profusion, but rather soft. 

 A few cold nights will bring them back 

 to their own, however, and a big de 

 mand is expected for Thanksgiving. 

 Prices were a little off this week and 

 stock moved slowly. 



Various Notes. 



Stewart Ritchie is erecting a new 

 greenhouse at 68 Bliss road, Middle - 

 town. 



L. Engel, manager of the flower de 

 partment for the Shepard Co., intro- 

 duced a novelty last week by having a 

 young girl, in Venetian costume, selling 

 violets tied with a violet cord and 

 tassel, at 50 cents a bunch. 



James A. Budlong, II., of Cranston,, 

 has registered a Pope-Hartford automo- 

 bile with the State Board of P*nblie 

 Eoads. 



Samuel Kinder, of Bristol, was in 

 Boston on business last week. 



The firemen were called to the green- 

 houses of Arthur P. Kupfer, 231 Potter 

 avenue, November 13, where a brisk 

 blaze had started from an overheated 

 stove. Considerable damage was done 

 to glass and plants. 



Max Villars, formerly with Johnston 

 Bros., is now with Henry Pfister at 

 Washington, D. C. 



Henry A. C. Taylor is having six new 

 houses erected on Annandale road, 

 Newport. 



William Hay, of Oaklawn, attended 

 the New York flower show last week. 



Edward Brookes, of T. J. Johnston 

 & Co., has just purchased a fine house 

 on Hope street, east side. 



At the meeting of the Newport Hor- 

 ticultural Society last week, a new 

 variety of Solanum Capsicastrum was 

 exhibited by George Melvin, of South 

 Framingham, Mass., who grew it an* 

 named it Melvini. The plant is notable 

 for its crinkled leaves, which allow the 

 berries to show to better advantage 

 I than on the older variety. The berries 



