﻿Afbil 8, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



Mrs. Laura Anthony Hammond. 



Mrs. Laura Anthony Hammond, wife 

 of Benjamin Hammond, president of 

 the Hammond Paint & Slug Shot Works, 

 Reacon, N. Y., and former president of 

 the American Eose Society, died 

 Wednesday, March 31, at the family 

 !iome in Beacon as the result of pneu- 

 monia. 



Funeral services were held at Beacon 

 Friday evening. Interment was in the 

 Greenwood Union cemetery, at Eye, N. 

 Y., Saturday afternoon, April 3. Among' 

 the many floral tokens of sympathy 

 was a beautiful piece from the employ- 

 ees of the Hammond Paint & Slug Shot 

 Works. 



Mrs. Amo H. Nehrling. 



Mrs. Amo H. Nehrling, wife of Amo 

 H. Nehrling, of Crawfordsville, Ind., 

 died suddenly April 2. 



Mrs. Nehrling had been in good health 

 up to the time of her death, which was 

 caused by heart trouble. Short services 

 were held Easter Sunday at Crawfords- 

 ville and the interment was at Jasper, 

 Ind., her former home. 



James C. McLelsh. 



James C. McLeish, a charter member 

 of the Newport Horticultural Society 

 and for several years its president, died 

 .It his home in Newport, E. I., Satur- 

 day, March 27, after an illness of only 

 a few hours. He was 76 years of age. 



Mr. McLeish was a sufferer from 

 periodical attacks of neuralgia of the 

 heart, and when he was stricken his con- 

 dition was not thought serious until the 

 usual treatment would give him no re- 

 lief. 



Mr. McLeish was born January 27, 

 1844, in Eoseneath, Scotland. He came 

 to this country in 1867 and held posi- 

 tions as head gardener on various east- 

 ern estates until 1872, when he started 

 in business for himself in Newport. His 

 business has gradually drifted into 

 small fruit growing, specializing in 

 grapes. He had several thousand feet 

 under glass. 



He married Miss Marion Cameron a 

 year before he left Scotland and, be- 

 sides his wife, four girls and two boys 

 survive him. He was a member of St. 

 ^aul 8 lodge of Newport of the Masons. 

 He was also a member of St. Andrew's 

 Society. The pallbearers, with the ex- 

 oeption of one, were members of the 

 ^vewport Horticultural Society. 



W. H. M. 



EVANSVILLE, IND. 



Easter Business. 



Easter business was fully up to any 

 previous year, with plenty of stock of 

 •iy kinds to supply the demand. There 

 "«'ere an immense number of carnations, 

 '■OSes, sweet peas and bulbous stock and 

 ^bout enough Easter lilies. The lilies 

 sold at 50 cents per bud and bloom. 



A he weather was warm, with show- 

 ers early in the morning, but the sun 

 '■ame out later in the day and it was 

 loudy and sunny by turns, vnth strong 

 gusts of wind. 



Varioua Notes. 

 Theodore Kuebler did a big business 



at his store, it being his first Easter 

 business at this location. He had a big 

 supply of hyacinths, sweet peas and 

 carnations. 



Karl Zeidler had large quantities of 

 bulbous stock and carnations, but ran 

 short of roses. 



Julius Niednagel had a large cut of 

 roses, carnations and sweet peas and in 

 pot plants had Easter Greeting pelar- 

 goniums, genistas, cinerarias, pansies 

 and Easter lilies. Business was good. 



The Loekyear Floral Co. had good 

 cuts of roses and carnations and a big 

 supply of bulbous stock. 



The Blackman Floral Co. reports bet- 

 ter business than last year and it had 

 enough stock to fill all orders. 



Mrs. J. C. Elspermann enjoyed her 

 usual good Easter trade, with a fine 

 supply of plants. 



C. L. Niednagel had a big crop of 

 rosea, of which Columbia, Premier and 

 Eussell were the'best. E. L. F. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Market. 



Complete returns on the Easter busi- 

 ness are not yet available, but it is be- 

 lieved that the day's record will run 

 far ahead of last year. Advance orders 

 have been large, beginning in some of 

 the shops early last week and increas- 

 ing as the week advanced. Thursday 

 and Friday were heavy and Saturday 

 was expected to be a record-breaker, 

 but a snow storm came up in the morn- 

 ing and continued all day and the fore- 

 cast was that Easter would be more 

 like Christmas than a spring holiday. 

 The weather man said that there would 

 be five or six inches of snow on the 

 ground, by far the heaviest snow of the 

 winter. Coming so late in the week, the 

 storm did not have such a bad effect on 

 buying as it would have had if it had 

 been a few days earlier, but there would 

 have been a throng of late buyers, 

 judging from other years, had they been 

 able to get around without discomfort. 

 Telephone orders were heavy. Shipping 

 orders were not so heavy, proportion- 

 ately, as local, but this is believed to be 

 due to the abundance of stock every- 

 where and it is thought that, when 

 everything is checked up, out-of-town 

 orders will stand well. 



All kinds of flowers were plentiful 

 except roses, which were bought in Chi- 

 cago to fill in. There were plenty of 

 lilies and other bulbous stock, carna- 

 tions and sweet peas, and prices were 

 reasonable. Carnations sold at whole- 

 sale for $6 and $8 per hundred and in 

 some cases for less, according to qual- 

 ity. Easter lilies were from $28 to $30 

 per hundred and sweet peas from $2 

 to $5 per hundred. 



The retail stores were massed with 

 blooming plants. Never was there a 

 greater profusion of flowers than this 

 year. Stocks were brought in Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, March 31 and April 

 1, and it seemed as if there was no room 

 for more, but more was brought in Fri- 

 day and it was with difficulty that sales- 

 people got around. 



Various Notes. 



Samuel Murray had a display of choice 

 hydrangeas in pink and blue shades, also 

 a wealth of lilies, rose bushes and a 

 variety of other plants and cut flowers. 



The W. L. Eock Flower Co. was the 

 only company which had rhododendrons. 

 It had also bougainvilleas, both um- 



brella and ball-shaped, genistas and a 

 good variety of rose bushes. This com- 

 pany 's sales force was doubled for all 

 of last week. 



All of the retail stores were open 

 Easter Sunday to care for the belated 

 buyers. 



T. J. Noll & Co. had one of the best 

 weeks in their history. They had 

 plenty of stock to care for every order. 



The Muehlebach Flower Shop mailed 

 several hundred colored folders two 

 weeks before Easter. The folders con- 

 tained a list of seasonable cut flowers 

 and plants and a suggestion that plant 

 baskets would make suitable Easter 

 remembrances. 



Among the recent visitors were Carl 

 Hagemeyer, Paola, Kan.; W. Eetzer, of 

 the Washington Gardens Co., Houston, 

 Tex.; Tucker Smith and P. A. Manson, 

 Pleasant Hill, Mo., and Leonard Coen, 

 Lexington, Mo. 



The Pinehurst Floral Co. cleaned up 

 on lilies Thursday, April 1, and by Sat- 

 urday night had cleaned up on every- 

 thing. 



The Alpha Floral Co. had a decidedly 

 attractive window. A large Easter egg, 

 lighted by electricity, housed a number 

 of baby chicks and there were artificial 

 chickens and rabbits among the nu- 

 merous blooming plants and vases of cut 

 flowers. 



Henry Kvisik & Co. report a heavy 

 business, about all they could handle, 

 and plenty of stock. J. E. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Easter Market. 



It was a great Easter, in some re- 

 spects commonplace, in others quite un- 

 usual. 



First of all, for practically every 

 wholesale house it established a new 

 high record for Easter sales. To only 

 have equaled last year's high mark 

 would have been no small achievement, 

 especially for some of the largest houses, 

 but they did better than that, by any- 

 where from ten to sixty per cent. This 

 showing by the wholesalers deserves to 

 be stated first because it is an index to 

 the results obtained by the much larger 

 number of producers and retailers. The 

 Hiiddlemen could not have made so 

 splendid a sales record if the retailers 

 had not been doing a big business and, 

 the wholesale total being good, each 

 grower must have got his share of dol- 

 lars, whatever the average price of flow- 

 ers may have been. 



The second outstanding fact, how- 

 ever, is not a cause for satisfaction. 

 Huge as was the business done, the de- 

 mand did not suffice to consume the 

 enormous quantity of flowers offered. 

 That the supply exceeded expectations 

 is the general report, also that the de- 

 mand, while good, did not reach the an- 

 ticipated volume. At no time in Easter 

 week was the market cleaned up, but the 

 supply on hand Saturday night was 

 larger than the night before. As not 

 infrequently happens, stock went out 

 about as fast as it came in on the days 

 when shipping was heaviest. No doubt 

 the cleanup would have been much bet- 

 ter had Easter been a pleasant day. 

 Most of the wholesale houses were open 

 late Saturday night, to deliver on ad- 

 vance orders and to accommodate buy- 

 ers who found themselves short of stock, 

 but they did not do much business. Sun- 

 day morning many of them opened in 

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