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The Florists' 



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Bedding by Hany Quint, at Brookline, Matt. 



Blixen, John Connon, H. Emunds, Ed. 

 Denker, Geo. Madsen and W. E. Rowe 

 spent Thursday, December 12, in the 

 city and attended the club meeting in 

 the afternoon. J. J. B. 



BEDDINQ AT BBOOKLINE. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produced from a photograph of a bed 

 of King Humbert cannas which reached 

 a height of about ten feet, bordered by 

 Florence Vaughan, then bordered with 

 red and yellow coleus, such standard 

 varieties as Firefly and Golden Bedder, 

 and finally outside these a border of 

 dwarf ageratum. The bed was thirty 

 feet in diameter and was probably the 

 most beautiful flower bed of its kind in 

 the vicinity. 



The work was only one-tenth of what 

 Harry Quint did last June at Eeservoir 

 Court, Brookline, Mass. 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



Benjamin CuU, formerly gardener on 

 the Zabriskie estate, has gone to Gal- 

 veston, Tex., where he will go into busi- 

 ness for himself. 



H. L. De Blois reports unusually 

 heavy calls for Christmas greens of all 

 kinds. 



Considerable new building is to be 

 done this spring on the estate of Mrs. 

 French Vanderbilt. This will include 

 a greenhouse on Harrison avenue, to 

 cost $3,500. 



Good progress is being made on the 

 construction of the greenhouses on Par- 

 Iter avenue for H. A. C. Taylor. One 

 house will be used exclusively for gar- 

 denias and roses; the second as a 

 Rrapery and the third for propagation. 

 There will also be a boiler house and 

 ))otting house. 



The last year for the Newport Horti- 

 'ultural Society was a good one, ac- 

 <;ording to the reports submitted by the 

 'Officers and committees at the annual 

 meeting, held December 10. The mem- 

 l*ership now numbers 145. During the 

 meeting Andrew J. Dorward, James 

 Robertson and C. M. Bugholt were 

 fiwarded cups for scoring the most 



points upon exhibits at the society's 

 meetings during the year. The election 

 of officers resulted as follows: Presi- 

 dent, Andrew S. Meikle; first vice-presi- 

 dent, William Mackay; second vice- 

 president, John B. Urquhart; secretary, 

 Daniel J. Coughlin; financial secretary, 

 William Gray; treasurer, Andrew Mc- 

 Mahon; sergeant-at-arms, William F. 

 Smith. These officers, with Bichard 

 Gardiner, Alex MacCleUan, John T. Al- 

 lan, C. M. Bugholt, Bruce Butterton, 

 James Bond, James Boyd and James 

 Bobertson, constitute the executive com- 

 mittee. 



Several new greenhouses are in con- 

 templation for the Stewart Bitchie 

 place. W. H. M. 



PITTSBUBOH. 



The Market. 



Pittsburgh has been having some real 

 winter weather. The mercury has been 

 down to 12 degrees, with a few snow 

 flurries and a strong wind. This has 

 caused a diminishing of the coal pile 

 and will probably take up any surplus 

 profits that may be made at Christmas. 



Trade from the wholesale standpoint 

 has been good, taking everything avail- 

 able at fair prices and giving a clean-up 

 every day. The retailers also are quite 

 busy. Trade until within the last few 

 days has been so heavy that there was 

 no opportunity to get Christmas stock 

 ready, but all hands are now busy mak- 

 ing up the many novelties that bring 

 the dollars later. After watching the 

 Christmas business for years, I believe 

 one can sell almost any old thing at 

 Christmas if it only has some green and 

 red in it and the price asked is not too 

 high. 



The supply men have done better 

 this year than ever before, and by 

 Christmas they wUl most likely be en- 

 tirely cleaned up on everything that 

 can be classed as Christmas goods. 



The growers seem to have some cause 

 for complaint, at least as far as carna- 

 tions are concerned, and it is said that 

 the trouble seems general. The houses 



of carnations are in fine shape, with 

 wonderful crops of buds that look as if 

 they were ready to open, but still from 

 day to day the cut seems to get less 

 instead of greater. No sufficient rea- 

 son seems to be given. The plants are 

 fine, but there is some ' ' cussedness ' ' in 

 the general conditions which seems to 

 hold them back, and the outlook is for 

 a shortage of carnations at Christmas. 

 Everything else is reported satisfac- 

 tory, and if there are not enough carna- 

 tions they will have to sell something 

 else. Plantsmen are doing a nice busi- 

 ness. The usual display of Christmas 

 trees, holly and other Christmas greens 

 is on the market at all kinds of prices 

 and in all kinds of quality. The gen- 

 eral business is good and everyone ex- 

 pects the holiday trade to be a record- 

 breaker. 



Varions Notes. 



The new carnation, Northport, from 

 James D. Cockcroft, Northport, L. I., 

 sent to the meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, came one day late and is still on 

 exhibition at the store of the Pitts- 

 burgh Cut Flower Co. It is almost two 

 weeks since it was shipped and it is 

 really in fair condition still. It is a 

 large flower of good form, and has a 

 good calyx, stem and color. With its 

 fine keeping quality, it should be a 

 good addition to our carnation stock. 



There has been an epidemic of some 

 sort going the rounds of the flower 

 shops, for almost every firm has had a 

 couple of invalids on their hands, but 

 all are getting back except Earl Tip- 

 ton, who has some boils that are caus- 

 ing him much inconvenience. 



The Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. has a 

 house of orchids that are a fine show 

 now and will give a big Christmas cut. 



E. C. Ludwig turned his home over 

 to the people who escaped the fire in 

 the big apartment house that was 

 burned December 13. Many of them had 

 little more than their night robes to 

 protect them, and his was the nearest 

 house they could get into. Many of the 

 women were carried down the ladders 

 by the firemen. 



Paul Bandolph is cutting sweet peas 



