September 5, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



371 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from /tagt jbc) 



hoarded and made to go as far as pos- 

 sible. After January will come the 

 pinch unless all signs fail. Of orchids 

 there are not many but still enough 

 to go around. A few very inferior 

 gardenias are seen. 



There is little of 

 PHILADELPHIA interest to report 



ou the flower 

 market conditions here this week. 

 Trade is very quiet indeed all along 

 the line. Roses are very plentiful — 

 more coming in this year than ever 

 before. Last week-end it was impos- 

 sible to clean up the surplus at any 

 price. This does not apply to any 

 one variety. The late flowering asters 

 are now arriving and these are of 

 much superior quality. It is a pity 

 conditions are so unfavorable for 

 them. Gladioli are not so plentiful — 

 the flush of the crop being over. Lily 

 of the valley is selling a little better 

 Orchids normal. Lilies are plentiful, 

 but not so redundant as they were. 



The market has not 

 ST. LOUIS improved and the gen- 

 eral opinion is that it 

 will be the latter part of this month 

 before any signs of returning life 

 may be looked for. Last week we 

 had the much-needed rain and cool 

 weather which did a lot of good to 

 outdoor flowers and an abundance of 

 this is expected this week to help 

 crowd up the market. Roses are sell- 

 ing cheap in the top grades and in 

 the ordinary ones can't be given 

 away. Same may be said of asters, 

 tuberose stalks and gladioli. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Tim Waters' loss of his purse and 

 return railway ticket from Boston was 

 surely a matter of regret, but his 

 friends can sympathize with him. for 

 most of them found their pockets quite 

 as empty before they reached home. 

 Notwithstanding, all pronounce the 

 convention a great success. 



A letter from A. Henderson says 

 that he expects to sail from Liverpool, 

 Eng.. on the Calgarian, Aug. 28th. and 

 that he will be glad to be back again. 

 He sailed from New York just as the 

 war broke and has had his troubles, 

 but accomplished the main object of 

 his trip, a visit to his old father in 

 Scotland. Leaving Rotterdam wliere 

 he landed, he went with one of the 

 Holland salesmen who visit Chicago, 

 for a trip to Boskoop and they were 

 both arrested as spies. Mr. Hender- 

 son was allowed to go free but his 

 companion was pressed into service. 

 Mr. Henderson has never taken full 

 citizenship so he is fortunate in not 

 having met more serious trouble. Four 

 carloads of French bulbs have arrived 

 at the Henderson store. 



A very meagre report of the safety 

 of E. F. Kurowski, president of the 

 John C. Moninger Co.. and Mrs. Ku- 

 rowski, at Hotel Frederick. Berlin, has 

 been received by their son, R. K. Ku- 

 rowski. but he feels confident that his 

 parents will arrive home in a few- 

 weeks. R. E. Kurowski says that his 

 father is an American citizen and also 

 exempt by age from war service, but 

 some concern is felt for a sister liv- 

 ing at Coblenz. 



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N. J. Rupp expressed himself as 

 verj' much pleased with the Boston 

 convention and its business opportuni- 

 ties. The various representatives of 

 the J. C. Moninger Co. all think the 

 cut'ook for greenhouse building will be 

 bri.ahter rather than otherwise, on ac- 

 count of the war. They reason, that 

 mere flowers will be grown, if less sub- 

 stitutes are imported. 



The Lake County Fair and Horticul- 

 tural Show opened Sept. 1st at Liber- 

 tyville. 111. As a trade enterprise the 

 floral exhibitions are of little value, 

 the flowers and jjlants being from the 

 home gardens; but as a promotor of 

 the love of flowers and the desire to 

 grow them successfully, it is well 

 worth while. Mrs. Ida Latshaw. for- 

 merly with the now disrupted Mere- 

 dith Vegetable and Floral Co.. of Lib- 

 ertyville, was one of the judges. 



The opening of the Marshall Field 

 floral department is an event which 

 will make a change more or less 

 marked in the Chicago retail market. 

 Various conjectures have been rife for 

 the past two years and whether all the 

 forebodings of the retailers are to be 

 realized or not. the truth remains that 

 some must sell less flowers than here- 

 tofore. John F. Mangel, already one 

 of the big downtown retailers, will be 

 their buyer as well as operate the 

 flower booth at the entrance to the 

 store. The new department is on the 

 third floor near the parlors, where 

 thousands of their patrons rest and 

 visit daily, and will be equipped to 

 handle an immense amount of busi- 

 ness.. 



Pliil. Klingsporn made his first visil 

 to his home city, Philadelphia, since he 

 came to Chicago to become manager ot 

 the Chicago Flower Growers Associa- 

 tion, a year ago. Following the con- 

 vention he spent a week in meeting old 

 friends but admits that he is now 



thoroughly in love with the West, 

 meaning Chicago. 



Several florists here have brothers 

 or other relatives participating in the 

 European war. 



PERSONAL. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Washburn re- 

 turned to Chicago from California on 



August 28. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent of the Arnold 

 Arboretum arrived home from Europe 

 on Sunday, Aug. 30, and looks at least 

 ten years younger than he did when 

 going away. 



Alfred E. T. Rogers, who has been 

 employed on the estate of the late Ex- 

 Governor Draper at Hopedale, Mass., 

 under A. J. Newell, has accepted the 

 position of superintendent of Judge 

 Moores place at Pride's Crossing, 

 Mass. 



Among the Americans still stranded 

 in Europe are L. T. Carrillo and Mrs. 

 Carrillo. of Mamaroneck, New York. 

 Also our Canadian friend S. S. Bain 

 and his wife, of Montreal. The latter 

 are in London now, having lost all 

 their belongings in their escape from 

 the continent. 



The annual sale of stalls at Boston 

 Co-operative Flower Market takes 

 place on Saturday, Sept. 5, at 9.30 A. 

 M. 



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