﻿April 1, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



OBITUARY 



Ernest M. Erei^er. 



)i^e 



Ernest M. Kreiger, for^iierly superin- 

 tendent of Wheeling park and an old 

 member of the trade, died March 20, at 

 the Ohio Valley hospital, at "Wheeling, 

 W. Va., following an operation for ap- 

 pendicitis. He was 58 years of age. 



Mr. Kreiger was stricken a few days 

 before his death, the operation being 

 thought the only chance for his recov- 

 ery. Besides his wife, he is survived by 

 three children, two boys and a girl, also 

 lour brothers and two sisters. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Edwaxds. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, mother of 

 W. J. Edwards, Kirkwood, Mo., died 

 March 23 at her home, T'lOl Page 

 avenue, at the age of 87 years. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



With a market well supplied with 

 flowers and a demand which seems to 

 absorb the arrivals, there is little 

 change to be noted in general condi- 

 tions. The supply of bulbous flowiwfti 

 continues to be heavy, but little except 

 inferior stock is left over each day. 

 Among the tulips, large quantities of 

 the Murillo variety fail to find pur- 

 chasers, due to noticeable inferiority; 

 in fact, few good flowers of this once 

 popular tulip have been seen this year. 

 A few Darwins are seen, which help 

 to swell the range of colors. 



There are plenty of daffodils, mostly 

 of the trumpet varieties. The old 

 double daffodil does not appear to have 

 been grown in the usual quantity this 

 season. Just before Easter there ap- 

 pears to be a slight shortening in supply, 

 growers evidently being desirous of 

 holding for Easter all that they can. 

 Plantsmen, generally, are nearly all 

 sold out, so that there is not likely to 

 be much surplus stock and retailers are 

 looking for a better demand for cut 

 flowers than is usually experienced at 

 this festival time. 



Eoses are plentiful and, on the whole, 

 move well, with prices practically un- 

 changed. Hybrid tea roses are of good 

 quality, much long-stemmed stock being 

 of the exhibition grade. 



Carnations have been in larger supply 

 and improvement is noted in the quality. 

 Some of the best stock reached the 8- 

 cent mark last week. 



Cattleyas are not in good sup- 

 ply. The variety TriansB has about 

 finished its season and Mossiae is two or 

 three weeks late this season. Again, 

 without a doubt, the growers are con- 

 serving their cuts for Easter. Gar- 

 denias are still plentiful and any sur- 

 plus finds an outlet through the street 

 men, who are handling them in company 

 with violets and sweet peas. 



Lily of the valley is not quite so 

 plentiful, although the supply is more 

 than suflBcient. Prices for the best 

 stock advanced to $6 per hundred last 

 week. Longiflorum lilies are plentiful 

 at 15 to 25 cents per flower and bud. 



There is a great abundance of sweet 

 peas, with a large quantity of inferior 

 stock, showing signs of an ending of 



the winter crops. On the other hand, 

 some arrivals embrace the finest flowers 

 ever seen in this market, with large 

 florets and stems fully sixteen to 

 eighteen inches long, many evidently 

 new varieties. 



Supplies of lilac and acacia are some- 

 what limited and meet a good demand 

 in consequence. A few blue lupines also 

 command ready sale at $1.50 to $2 per 

 bunch. 



Miscellaneous flowers combine in 

 heavy supply. The trailing arbutus is 

 the latest arrival in this section and is 

 taken freely by the street men. Calen- 

 dulas, mignonette, snapdragons, tud* 

 dleias, daisies, pansies, wallflowers and 

 larkspurs are among the daily offer- 

 ings. 



Various Notes. 



-Arthur Herrington, of Madison, N. J., 

 was a visitor at the Boston show last 

 week. He says that the exhibit of new 

 Japanese azaleas, stajged by the Arnold 

 Arboretum, would alone have been well 

 worth the trip. He describes them as 

 embracing almost every shade of color 

 found among the sweet peas, a most 

 magnificent collection and presenting 

 a splendid commercial proposition. 



C. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., was a 

 guest at the banquet of the Canadian 

 Club March 18, on which occasion he 

 exhibited a handsome vase of the new 

 Canadian rose, Frank W, Dunlop. 



Everyone connected with the recent 

 flower show in New York is greatly 

 pleased with its success and it is under- 

 stood that when all matters in connec- 

 tion with it are settled, there will be 

 room for satisfaction over the financial 

 outcome. 



C. H. Peters & Sons, the well known 

 carnation growers, of Hempstead, L. I., 

 have set apart some of their glass for 

 the production of roses and have already 

 planted benches. 



L. J. Eeuter, of Boston, who had a 

 trade exhibit at the New York show, 

 was greatly concerned for a few days 

 over the loss of one of his order books, 

 but happily it was eventually found at 

 his hotel. Prof. E. A. White, however, 

 still mourns the loss of his overcoat. 

 No other casualties were reported in 

 connection with the event. 



The greenhouses of the Cottage Gar- 

 dens Co., Queens, L. I., are being dis- 

 mantled. 



Marius Matheron, of Baldwin, L. I., 

 is planning to erect a large work shed 

 in connection with his establishment. 

 He is cutting some of the finest sweet 

 peas coming to the New York market 

 and is in crop with some fine Aviator 

 carnations, which displace Beacon. He 

 also has some Nassau, a new light red 

 carnation, a most floriferous variety of 

 unusually sturdy growth. 



The American Dahlia Society is plan- 

 ning to rent space to commercial ex- 

 hibitors at its annual exhibition, which 

 is to be held this year on the conserva- 

 tory floor of the Hotel Pennsylvania, 

 September 27 to 29. J. H. P. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



Ideal weather last week brought the 

 people out in large numbers and, as a 

 result, the demand for flowers for the 

 home has been on the increase. The 

 wholesalers found business good last 

 week and roses have gone up in price 

 the last few days. In carnations Laddie 



is best now and holds up well. All other 

 varieties, with the exception of En- 

 chantress and Enchantress Supreme, ar- 

 rive in good condition. The latter at 

 this time of the year ought to be cut 

 before maturing. Prices on all items 

 except roses have remained about the 

 same, with the prospect that Easter 

 will bring about a fifty per cent in- 

 crease. 



Violets are at an end in this section, 

 the warm weather having put on the 

 finishing touches. Some fair quality 

 stock is being shipped in. Contrary to 

 expectations, those coming from the 

 coast are arriving in good condition. 



Greens are not quite equal to the de- 

 mand. Careful use has been necessary 

 by the retailers to make the stock last 

 until the next shipment from the south 

 arrives. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell has returned from the 

 east. Mr. Critchell says the Frank W. 

 Dilnlop rose is the rose of the future 

 and that those displayed at the New 

 York show were wonderful. 



Julius Baer is rushed with funeral 

 work these days. 



Eobert Kelly's windows are always 

 pleasing to behold. Last week displays 

 of spring flowers were arranged with 

 rare judgment. 



H. W. Sheppard has booked another 

 large wedding for April 10. Some large 

 floral pieces ordered by Cincinnati and 

 Cleveland newspapers were arranged 

 here last week. 



Visitors last week were C. P. Brun- 

 ner, Springfield, O.; Wm. Gerlach, 

 Piqua, O.; Mr. and Mrs. M. Bloy, De- 

 troit; W. H. Hanson, of the E. C. Am- 

 ling Co., Chicago; S. E. McKee, of the 

 American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Chi- 

 cago; Mr. Fletcher, of the Eolf Zetlitz 

 Co., Lima, O. 



H. E. K. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market has been experiencing 

 the proverbial lull before the storm, but 

 this must not be taken as saying that 

 business has been poor. Quite the con- 

 trary,' business has been excellent for 

 the season of the year. The resumption 

 of express service has proved all that 

 was needed to bring a large number of 

 out-of-town buyers back into the mar- 

 ket. Their purchases have not been so 

 heavy as earlier in the season, because 

 the penultimate week of Lent never is 

 a big flower time, but the number of 

 orders going out each day has been 

 greater than ever before at this time 

 of year and prices on most flowers have 

 been fairly good. There are reports 

 that carnations have averaged the 

 growers only a little more, and some- 

 times a little less, than last year, but 

 nearly all other flowers have been pro- 

 (kicing higher averages than a year 

 ago. 



It does not do much good to say any- 

 thing about the condition of the supply 

 in such a week as that ended March 27. 

 The market closed in a well cleaned up 

 condition, but it was in many cases due 

 to flowers being held at the greenhouses 

 in anticipation of the big extra demand 

 this week. There was no shortage of 

 anything in cut flowers last week; in- 

 deed, if a wholesaler ran short he could 

 get as much as he wanted by telephon- 



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