June 27, 1914 



HOETICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports 



{CfifUinued from page Qli) 



outdoor stock, but the long-continued 

 dry weather has played havoc with 

 stock. Prices that were low advanced 

 some owing to the scarcity and de- 

 mand — the retailers had a lot of work 

 for school commencements and late 

 weddings, also a good lot of funeral 

 work found them short of stock. 

 Roses are poor, so are carnations. 

 Lilies and lily of the valley are fine, 

 also gladioli, Roses are sliort stem- 

 med and flowers poor. 



Stock has been com- 

 WASHINGTON paratively scarce due 



to the rapid changes 

 in the weather. There has been quite 

 a drop in the temperature. Roses 

 and carnations are very small and 

 poor in quality with little demand and 

 prices higher than the previous week. 

 The price on gladioli has dropped 

 quite a little. The graduation deco- 

 rations and wedding bouquets have 

 called for a considerable amount of 

 lily of the valley and this flower sold 

 readily. The heavy rains which at- 

 tended the coming of the cooler 

 weather hit the outdoor flowers hard 

 and a much smaller quantity of sweet- 

 peas was brought in from the outlying 

 farms. This condition is desirable 

 from the storeman's view and espec- 

 ially as there was a sufficient quantity 

 of fine Spencer-type to be had. North- 

 ern lilies which have been on the 

 market for some little time now are 

 very good. No one seems to want 

 snapdragon no matter at what price 

 It may be offered. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



Philip J. Foley, president of the Fo- 

 ley Greenhouse Manufacturing Co., 

 has just returned from a business trip 

 covering the territory between Chi- 

 cago and Pittsburgh. Mr. Foley says 

 he found business fairly good with the 

 florists and landed some good green- 

 house orders. 



D. Scott Geddis, formerly of Chicago 

 and now manager of the floral depart- 

 ment of the Scruggs-Vandervoort-Bar- 

 aey Co., of St. Louis, Mo., while in 

 this city last week, stated that his 

 firm were contemplating building a 

 range of greenhouses, to supply their 

 increasing trade in cut flowers. 



Bedding season is now about over 

 and the length of the season has been 

 limited. On account of the late East- 

 er, bedding plants had to be held back 

 and just at the time that sales were 

 the heaviest, the wave of mid-summer 

 heat, practically closed the trade. De- 

 partment stores are still offering some 

 plant stock, but florists in general are 

 closing up their books for the season. 



California redwood is now being used 

 extensively by Chicago dealers in 

 greenhouse materials. P. J. Foley is 

 filling a large r.er cent of his orders 

 now with this wood, where formerly 

 only cypress was used. He states that 

 It Is clearer, of better quality, and 

 costs less. The redwood in Fritz 

 Bahr's new 42 ft. wide houses, at High- 

 land Park, 111. was furnished by Foley. 



Poehlmann Bros', plant department 

 bears evidence of the growth of the 

 plant business in Chicago. Their 

 plant range has now an addition of 

 25,000 sq. ft., and every available inch 

 filled. The lath house built a year 

 .ago is more than the name indicates. 



Glen Island, July 1, 1914 



OIM ThHE 



i4th ANNUAL OUTING AND GAMES OF THE 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB 



$400.00 Donated for Prizes 



Get your tickets early from A. N. Henshaw, 51 West 28th St., 

 R. J. Irwin, 71 West 2.5rd St., and W. E. Marshall (chairman) 

 166 West 23rd St., N. Y, Prices of tickets including- everything, 

 Gents $3.50, Ladies $2.50. luveniles between ages of 12 and 

 16 years $2.00, Children under 12, $1.00. 



COME AND HAVE A GRAND TIME 

 THE HANDSOME STEAMER " URSULA " LEAVES EAST 24th ST.. 9. 45 A. M. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyu 



Lilies. LonBiflonim 



Lily of the VaUey 



Snapdragon* ' 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Mignonette 



DaiBes, white and yellow 



Sweet Pea« (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smtlax 



Asparagus Plumosus. strings (per loo) 



" *' & Spren (loo bunches). 



It is 27 by 150 tt. and is of 1 by 2 inch 

 strips, witli sides and ends enclosed 

 as well as overhead. The house is 

 built with heavy posts and has ad- 

 ditional support of iron pipes set in 

 concrete. All that remains of 3,000 

 large hanging baskets of Bostons are 

 housed there and the benches are filled 

 with Boston ferns in 5, 6 and 7 inch 

 pots, now so greatly in demand. 

 Personal. 



\Vm. Kalina, of Norwood Park had 

 his greenhouse badly damaged in the 

 storm Sunday night. 



Among the Chicago visitors this 

 week was Aug. Mirring of East St. 

 Louis, who has sold his land to the 

 school board and is planning a new 

 range on another site. 



Mrs. Williams, proprietor of The Al- 

 pha, corner of Randolph St., and Wa- 

 bash Ave., and A. Arends were mar- 

 ried June 13, at the La Salle Hotel, 

 and left for a trip through the West. 



George Gobel and Miss Ella Schae- 

 fer were married .June 23, at the home 

 of the bride, and left at once for a 

 honeymoon in Michigan. Upon their 

 return they will live at 2219 Washing- 

 ton Ave, 



Pauline Anderson, of the Poehlmann 

 Eros'. Morton Grove, office, is attend- 

 ing commencement exercises at Ke- 

 nosha, Wis. Her brother, who is in the 

 city oftice will spend the summer in 

 Colorado. 



George Econoniopolus, proprietor of 

 The Alpha, corner of Adams St., and 

 Wabash Ave., stole a march on his 

 friends and slipped away to West Ba- 

 den. Ind., where he was married on 

 June 16, to Miss Snyder. The wed- 



ding may be considered as the after 

 effect of his recent attack of appen- 

 decitis, for cupid was busy at the hos- 

 pital where Miss Snyder was nurse in 

 charge. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



John Donaldson and family removed 

 on Tuesday last from Elmhurst, L. I., 

 to their new home at Patchogue, L. I. 

 Alex Donaldson, who has been associ- 

 ated with his father at Elmhurst has 

 taken charge of the greenhouses and 

 will operate them for another year. 



Secretary John Young, of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists, has been 

 in Boston the past week, attending a 

 conference of the local committees at 

 which Chas. E. Critchell. the S. A. F. 

 chairman of sports was present. Mr. 

 Young is delighted with the progress 

 made with the convention, which now 

 is so well advanced, and intending ex- 

 hibitors should not delay in communi- 

 cating with Mr. Jas. B. Shea at once 

 if they intend to take space in this 

 garden. 



Chairman Frank H. Traendly of the 

 Transportation Committee is prepared 

 to made reservations for those who in- 

 tend to go with the New York delega- 

 tion and as a very large party is as- 

 sured, applications for staterooms, etc., 

 on the boat should be made at once. 

 The club's annual outing which takes 

 place July 1, will from all accounts 

 bo a record breaker as far as attend- 

 ance is concerned. Chairman Wm. 

 E. Marshall and his committee have 

 carefully arranged all the details to 

 prevent any delay or slip-up on the day 

 the affair comes ofl'. 



