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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 6. 1916. 



if they had passed through deluge and 

 war. The accompanying illustration 

 gives an idea of the extent of the dam- 

 age. The west section of the connect- 

 ing houses was almost even with the 

 ground and the east wing was badly 

 twisted and wrecked. All the stock, 

 of course, was exposed and frozen. 

 David Rudicel, the proprietor of the 

 Maple Heights Greenhouses, is protected 

 to some extent by insurance. 



Along in B. C. a Greek philosopher 

 one day pronounced the following, or 

 words to the same effect: "The ele- 

 ments are man's best friend and his 

 worst enemy." The sage certainly hit 

 the nail squarely on the head. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A summer temperature last week 

 created almost a summer market. The 

 cut flower market did not wake up un- 

 til Saturday. Then came the "clean 

 up" and a general interest that was 

 encouraging, though it was at the sacri- 

 fice of values. The big buyers of both 

 New York and Brooklyn were again 

 much in evidence. 



Shipments of roses are heavy and the 

 short-stemmed grades of all varieties 

 were disposed of as low as $10.00 per 

 thousand. The high-grade Beauties 

 and Hadley were barely steady at the 

 quotations given. Present top prices 

 are only for the selected stock. 



Carnations are abundant. Most of 

 the arrivals are superb, but prices are 

 rapidly falling and few indeed sold at 

 or above $2 per hundred. Many thou- 

 sands were distributed Friday and Sat- 

 urday at $10 per thousand. Lilies still 

 are held at the low figures of the last 

 month and give no indication of the 

 speedy coming of Easter. Valley fell 

 from 4 cents to 2 cents, little of it go- 

 ing above that figure. There seems to 

 be a great surplus and the street mer- 

 chants are not slow to take advantage 

 of it. Sweet peas, too, are coming in a 

 daily flood and only the best are sal- 

 able in the retail stores. The medium 

 and lower grades sell only through the 

 sidewalk channels. The street men also 

 are depended on to relieve the conges- 

 tion of violets, the quality of which is 

 fast retrograding. The late Easter will 

 find few salable. Nothing but the best 

 selected stock touches 25 cents per 

 hundred. Gardenias also are in endless 

 supply and so become the street man's 

 specialty. 



A few of the best cattleyas touched 

 50 cents April 1, but 35 cents seems 

 to be the generally accepted top for 

 the selects. In bulbous stock, tulips 

 still command good prices for the choice 

 varieties. Narcissi are abundant and 

 now come the southern dafi:odils, sell- 

 ing at $5 per hundred bunches. Not 

 much freesia is seen. Calla lilies are 

 abundant, as are daisies, . pansies, 

 forget-me-not, lilac, mignonette and 

 other seasonable flowers. 



The windows of many of the whole- 

 salers are made interesting with flow- 

 ering plants for Easter. 



Various Notes. 



The International Flower Show is 

 on this week at the Grand Central 

 Palace and is the principal subject for 

 conversation in trade circles. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, April 10, will be at- 



tended by many out-of-town visitors 

 who are here attending the flower show. 

 The officers extend a cordial invitation 

 to all florists in the city on that date 

 to come and enjoy a social two hours. 



Among those who will lecture in the 

 Saturday afternoon series at Bronx 

 park are the following: Arthur Cowee, 

 April 22; Maurice Fuld, April 29; 

 Richard Rothe, May 6; Arthur Herring- 

 ton, May 13; J. Otto Thilow, June 3. 



The New York visitors to the Na- 

 tional Flower Show at Philadelphia all 

 enjoyed their trip exceedingly and 

 many remained for the banquet and the 

 closing days of the great exhibition. 



The plant auctions are drawing 

 larger audiences at every sale. 



R. Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., lectured April 5 before the Gar- 

 den Club of Short Hills, N. J. 



C. Brown, Jr., son of the Belnord flo- 

 rist, is back from the European war. 

 He was in the ambulance service and 

 his reminiscences are most interesting. 



Goldstein & Futterman seem much 

 encouraged with their success to date. 



The Cut Flower Exchange held its 

 monthly meeting April 1, at the office 

 of W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., the secretary, 

 in Long Island City. 



D. C. Arnold & Co. have added two 

 to their office force and the cut flower 

 factory at Hempstead is turning out 

 large shipments of carnations, with 

 Mrs. Arnold the favorite variety. 



J. J. Coan says his business has been 

 more than satisfactory from his 

 opening. 



Charles Millang's new plant store 

 at 50 West Twenty-sixth street, di- 

 rectly opposite his cut flower headquar- 

 ters, is open and stocked. 



Samuel Woodrow has several large 

 landscape contracts for this spring. 

 The retail store at 37 West Twenty- 

 eighth street is stocked for Easter and 

 the force of salesmen increased. 



Guttman & Raynor have added a new 

 auto to their facilities in good time 

 for the Easter trade. 



The florists' chauffeurs' ball April 1, 



at Bryant hall, was largely attended 

 and a great success. 



Tlie Bowlers' Scores. 



The results .of last week's contests 

 of the New York Florists' Bowling 

 Club, March 30, were as follows: 



Player Ist 2d 3d 



J.Donaldson 162 154 186 



C. W. Scott 16» 174 180 



J. Fonrlch 162 149 165 



P. Jncobsen 164 157 149 



H. J. Hoffmeier 150 139 16T 



J. Mlesem 165 178 178 



W. H. Siebrecht 148 156 147 



A. Kaknda 159 160 148 



T. Braun 180 180 176 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Charles A. Dards, who recently laid 

 down the cares of business after many 

 years of activity in the New York re- 

 tail fleld, is en route to Japan on a 

 pleasure trip. The business now is 

 under the management of H. Perry, who 

 has been right-hand man for Mr, Dards 

 for some years. 



FUNGUS ON SPBENGESI. 



We have had considerable trouble 

 from a fungus-like web that attacks 

 our Sprengeri sprays every time we 

 have a good crop. It usually starts in 

 several places and spreads rapidly. We 

 try as much as possible to avoid wet- 

 ting the sprays. Any suggestion will 

 be appreciated. G. F. 0. — Tenn. 



If this is a fungoid affection, give the 

 plants a spraying with Fungine, an ex- 

 cellent remedy for all fungoid trouble. 

 Use at the rate of a quart of Fungine 

 to ten gallons of water. 1 would apply 

 this as soon as any of the fungus is 

 seen. C. W. 



FOOD FOB OALIiAS. 



In feeding callas should fine bone or 

 bone meal be usedt H. G. — O. 



Fine bone will be the best for using 

 on the surfaces of the pots for your 

 callas. The roots will devour this 

 greedily. Use some bone meal in the 

 compost when potting. C. W. 



Bicbmond, Va. — The home of Charles 

 Thompson, Libby avenue and Cary 

 street, was destroyed by fire March 19, 

 entailing a loss "of $8,000. The fire 

 originated in the basement, from a 

 lealcy oil stove. 



QreenvUle, S. O. — J. Melvin Clark, 

 managing director of the Graceland 

 Greenhouses, owned by the Greenville 

 Cemetery Association, says that approx- 

 imately 25,000 lily bulbs will be re- 

 quired by that concern next season. 



Houston, Tex. — Valued at $1,800, but 

 not for sale at any price, a pure white 

 cattleya with a yellow center recently 

 was displayed in the Boyle & Pendarvis 

 store. Mr. Boyle is said to have dis- 

 covered this variety at an altitude of 

 7,000 feet, in South America. It is to 

 be known as Cattleya Boyleana. 



Shreveport, La. — At a recent meeting 

 of the Rotary Club, A. J. Manheim, of 

 the Manheim Floral Co., gave a lengthy 

 talk on the florists' business, varieties 

 of bulbous stock, lilies, roses, etc. The 

 newspapers printed a large part of the 

 speech the next day. 



New Orleans, La. — Among the exhib- 

 itors who have taken space at the forth- 

 coming spring flower show are Charles 

 Eble, C. W. Eichling, Henry Kraak, 

 Abele Bros., Steckler Seed Co., Max 

 Scheinuk, Metairie Ridge Nursery Co., 

 Claude Ory, A. Verlinde, A. Dameran, 

 H. Doescher, H. Mische, F. Dormay and 

 Frank Reyes. The show will be held 

 at the Athenaeum, under the auspices 

 of the New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety. The Louisiana Anti- Tuberculosis 

 League is the beneficiary of the 8how.r 



