June 10, 1918. 



The Florists' Review 



19 



and A. H. Fewkes. June 16 the com- 

 mittee inspected the rose and peony 

 gardens of "Wilton Lockwood, South 

 Orleans, Mass. The collection of pe- 

 onies, embracing 300 varieties, was in 

 fine condition. Some of the rambler 

 roses, sucli as Carmine Pillar and Jer- 

 sey Beauty, were fine, while hybrid per- 

 petuals and hybrid teas were just com- 

 ing into flower. 



James Philbrick, of Woburn, is a suc- 

 cessful grower of Kaiserin roses and is 

 sending fine daily shipments to the 

 Boston Cooperative Market. 



William Sim has invited the garden 

 committee of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society to visit his Clifton- 

 dale establishment June 20. Sweet peas 

 under glass and outdoors and tomatoes 

 under glass will be special attractions. 

 Mr. Sim never had such superb Spen- 

 cer peas as at present. His collection 

 includes every novelty procurable. He 

 is picking tomatoes in quantity now 

 and has his usual field of early sweet 

 corn well advanced. 



The stalls of all the rose salesmen 

 at the Boston Flower Exchange are 

 being zinc-lined, with a trough to carry 

 off water. This is an improvement wel- 

 comed by all the rose men. The stand 

 of McAlpine Bros., just completed, is 

 now up to date. 



W. K. Morris sends as many as 10,000 

 roses daily to the Boston Cooperative 

 Market, chiefly Killarneys and Eich- 

 monds. These are all handled by B. 

 .T. McGinty. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club has been postponed 

 to Wednesday, June 25. This will be 

 kept as ladies' night and the execu- 

 tive committee has prepared a splen- 

 did entertainment for the occasion. 



Robert Montgomery, of Natick, has 

 had a successful season with roses. 

 His specialties are Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Ward and Richmond. Mr. 

 Montgomery will build one additional 

 house this season. 



W. R. Holden, Louis Small and Harry 

 L. Shedd have just returned from a 

 successful fishing trip in northern 

 Maine. All gained flesh, Mr. Holden 

 tipping the scales half a score pounds 

 heavier on his return. 



Geo. O. Bucknam, of Stoneham, is 

 having unusual success with Spencer 

 sweet peas under glass this season. 

 His carnations are also holding out 

 well. 



At the various seed stores business 

 continues quite good. Owing to the 

 cold weather, many seeds failed to 

 germinate and had to be resown. Trade 

 in insecticides, lawn sprinklers, spray- 

 ing outfits and bedding plants has been 

 active of late. 



A. G. Cartwright, of Clematis Brook, 

 Waltham, and J. Streiferd & Son, of 

 ^Veymouth, are now regular rose ship- 

 pers to the Boston Cooperative Mar- 

 l^et. Killarneys and Richmonds are 

 their specialties. 



Fred L. Sly, of South Stoughton, who 

 f'tarted in business last season, is now 

 ill the market with fine lots of Spen- 

 <-er peas and peonies. 



The date of the sweet pea exhibition 

 ('f the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 i^ociety and American Sweet Pea So- 

 ' iety, scheduled for July 5 and 6, has 

 '-een postponed to July 12 and 13. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 "as had an active trade in lily of the 

 "■alley for weddings this month. He is 



a large specialist in this. He is still 

 getting some fine gardenias. 



W. N. Craig. 



THE BOWLING TROPHY. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the silver cup presented to its bowling 

 squad by the Cook County Florists' 

 Association. The bowlers have just 

 completed their season, and the trophy 

 goes to Al. Fisher, a well-known Chi- 

 cago retail florist, who has the high 

 average for the series. There are a 

 large number of other prizes that are to 

 be presented at the meeting at The 

 Tavern, Chicago, June 19. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



The continued cool weather helped 

 the quality of roses, carnations and 

 daisies, all of which were looking bet- 

 ter, but we jumped into the middle of 

 summer last week and are likely to 

 see the effects within a few days. Just 

 at present, however, we are more inter- 

 ested in the much-needed rain. Most 

 of the growers got their carnations 



The Chicago Bowling Trophy. 



hoed and the weather was just right 

 to kill the weeds, but the growers can 

 not make rain and it is badly needed. 

 Much of the fruit was killed by frost; 

 the strawberry crop was almost noth- 

 ing, and unless we get rain at once 

 the raspberry crop will also be a dis- 

 appointment. 



The wholesalers have been doing 

 well. There are more really good flow- 

 ers than we ever had before in June. 

 Roses and carnations are fine. Beau- 

 ties and sweet peas are fair. Some 

 specially fine valley is coming in, as 

 well as some good Spanish iris, white 

 and yellow daisies and lilies, all of 

 which are being moved as well as 

 could be expected. Of course, quanti- 

 ties of useless stock are sure to be 

 sent in, as there are still people who 

 do not seem to realize that only lim- 

 ited quantities of outdoor stock can 

 be sold and that must be good. The 

 many out-of-town commencements keep 

 the wholesale men at their wits' end 

 trying to supply class flowers, and the 

 class that selected the violet is having 

 as much trouble as the one that selected 



the arbutus. The retail people are 

 still helping out those young people 

 who think June is the time to mate 

 and some of the stores have really been 

 quite busy. Taking the retailers as a 

 whole, they are having a fair June 

 trade. 



I have been told that the planting 

 of bedding stock seemed to cease 

 rather suddenly and that there are 

 more bedding plants unsQld than us- 

 ual, but a little quizzing brought the 

 information that almost every plants- 

 man increased his supply about 25 to 

 60 per cent. So, if there is a surplus 

 it is not such a bad state .of affairs. 



Various Notes. 



The E. C. Ludwig Floral Co. has 

 been planting a great variety of lilies 

 and hardy herbaceous flowers on the 

 farm for the last two years and is now 

 cutting quantities of fine hardy flow- 

 ers. The beauty of it is, they have a 

 class of customers whom they have 

 educated to buy seasonable flowers 

 and a handsome, large bunch of these 

 can be sold for a reasonable price. 



Mrs. E. A. William^ had a yellow 

 window last week, containing yellow 

 Spanish iris with stems two feet long. 

 And, don't forget, there is a way to 

 make iris attractive and this window 

 proved it. 



Among other good things last week, 

 the McCallum Co. was receiving quan- 

 tities of handsdhie English delphin- 

 iums. 



Randolph & McClements had a hand- 

 some wedding decoration last week, 

 in which the light blue delphiniums 

 played a prominent part. 



George Marshall moved his family 

 out to his farm last week. He will 

 visit them on Sundays. As his family 

 consists of his father and mother, his 

 friends think he may use some of his 

 lonesome evenings in looking up an 

 addition to his family. 



Allen Langhans is now a commo- 

 dore of the Oircanoe Club, the first 

 canoe club to be established on the 

 upper Ohio river. The club house is 

 at Emsworth station, about seven 

 miles below the city. 



Fred Burki is now driving a Buick 

 roadster, as he finds it more convenient 

 than his big car for business purposes. 



George Crissman and his two sons, 

 of Punxsutawney, Pa., have been in 

 the city enjoying the ball game. 



You could not bluff V. A. Cowgill, 

 of Salem, O., because it was Friday, 

 June 13. He selected that date to see 

 the Giants and Pirates play and 

 brought a party of his neighbors. They 

 occupied section 13 at Forbes Field and 

 Mr. Cowgill took seat 13. He also 

 rode in seat 13 on the chair car. 



Jas. B. and Wm. B. Murdoch, of the 

 firm of J. B. Murdoch & Co., whole- 

 sale florists at 122 Ninth street, wish to 

 announce their retirement from the 

 firm, and in the future they will de- 

 vote their time to the growing of cut 

 flowers at their greenhouses at Van 

 Emaus station. W. H. Carney, the 

 other member of the firm, will continue 

 in the wholesale business at the same 

 address as formerly. Clarke. 



Morton Grove, HI. — George Meyer, 

 son of Jacob Meyer, the wholesale flo- 

 rist, and Miss Margaret Witty, of 

 Evanston, were married June 10 in St. 

 Paul's Roman Catholic church, at Park 

 Ridge. The couple went south to spend 

 their honeymoon. The young man is 

 employed by C. Taube, at Park Ridge. 



