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The Florists^ Review 



FSBBDABY 3, 1916. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



A week of unseasonably warm weath- 

 er has upset predictions of a lively mid- 

 winter market. There is just a little 

 less business than a week ago, with a 

 great, great many more flowers in the 

 city, with the result of lower prices 

 and, what is more serious, much unsold 

 stock to be carried over to the next 

 day. This carried-over stock means 

 greater loss in value than the mere 

 lowering of prices, because when car- 

 ried over from day to day it depreciates 

 to almost nothing. Of course, the car- 

 ried-over stock is rarely the best stock, 

 but it makes quite a hole in the re- 

 turns, which is most unwelcome at this 

 season of the year. There are indica- 

 tions of better things next week, partly 

 because there will be more entertaining 

 and partly because the weather proph- 

 et's predictions of colder cannot al- 

 ways continue wrong. 



Carnations and daffodils are the main- 

 stays of the market. They are good, 

 plentiful and cheap. The other flowers 

 require little special comment except 

 that, barring Beauties and Easter lilies, 

 there are more of them. Acacia pubes- 

 cens has made its appearance and a few 

 German stocks have come. The general 

 quality of the flowers in the market 

 February 1 was good. 



The Club's Carnation Night. 



President George Burton called to 

 order a remarkable meeting on the occa- 

 sion of the club's carnation night, Feb- 

 ruary 1. The size, character and enthu- 

 siasm of the audience was unusual. W. 

 F. Therkildson asked all the members 

 to distribute National Flower Show 

 window cards and use show stamps, 

 both of which will be sent on applica- 

 tion to him, at 475 North Fifth street. 

 William Kleinheinz said that many out- 

 of-town exhibits have been promised 

 for the show next month and asked 



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all members to help fill the big hall by 

 bringing something good. In the ab- 

 sence of R. T. Brown, carnation expert 

 for the Cottage Gardens Co., Queens, 

 N. Y., who was scheduled to address 

 the club. Prof. Mulf ord, of Washington, 

 D. C, told of the willingness of the 

 Agricultural Department to help florists, 

 with information about insect pests and 

 other matters. He described the work 

 of the national rose garden. Robert 

 Simpson, of Clifton, N. J., followed 

 with humorous talk of the past and 

 serious talk of the present. Then came 

 A. J. Guttman, of New York, and L. J. 

 Renter, of Westerly, R. I., with encour- 

 aging words about the National Flower 



Show. Edward A. Stroud described the 

 success, or lack of it, of different vari- 

 eties of carnations at Strafford. 



The exhibition was large and of ex- 

 tremely high quality. The carnation 

 exhibits were as follows: George Henry, 

 a sport of Benora resembling Mrs. Pat- 

 ten; Benora, White Enchantress and 

 many fine seedlings, by E. F. Lieker, 

 of Lansdowne, Pa.; Belle Washburn, 

 by Bassett & Washburn, of Chicago; 

 Nebraska, by the C. H. Frey Co., Lin- 

 coln, Neb.; Nebraska, by the Chalfont 

 Cut Flower Co., Chalfont, Pa.; Miss 

 Theo, by Littlefield & Wyman, North 

 Abington, Mass.; Peace and Laura 

 Weber, by Guttman & Raynor, New 



