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The Florists* Review 



Jdlt 13, 1916. 



The Greek Florists of New York Constitute a Large Body of Energetic^ Intelligent Men. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The rose market is fairly steady. The 

 surplus finds buyers at 50 cents per 

 hundred. The best of the roses, selected, 

 sell at $5 per hundred and down, except 

 American Beauties, Hadley, Brunner 

 and Prima Donna. These now arrive 

 in light shipments and Hadley is 

 through for the season. It has made 

 an enviable record. Ophelia is the most 

 popular of the other varieties. The 

 weather has been warm for a week, 

 touching 90 degrees July 8, and the 

 roses especially show the effects of it. 

 The best carnations now arriving do 

 not sell above $1 per hundred. Thou- 

 sands reached the street merchants as 

 low as $2.50 per thousand. The supply 

 is decreasing rapidly and the carna- 

 tion's successor, the aster, is already 

 knocking at the door. Some fine peonies 

 from up state reached the market last 

 week and sold slowly at 25 to 35 cents 

 per dozen. The demand is not large 

 enough to encourage the growers to 

 make further shipments. 



The best gigas are down to 35 cents 

 again. I have never seen gigas of finer 

 quality than those now arriving. They 

 should bring 50 cents easily. Valley is 

 down to $2.50 per hundred for the best 

 and long^florums sell at $3 per hundred. 

 Sweet peas will be featured this week 

 because of the convention. A list of 

 the miscellaneous flowers simply would 

 be a repetition of last week's list. The 

 supply includes a score of the outdoor 

 kinds and continues a menace to the 

 regular market. 



The Greek-American Outing. 



The tenth annual outing of the Greek- 

 American Betail Florists' Association 

 was the most successful ever held by 

 the organization. More than 600 pic- 

 nickers embarked on the steamer Ajax 

 on the morning of July 6 for the 

 grounds at College Point, L. I. The 

 day was perfect; no accident marred 

 the day's pleasures. The menus were 

 excellent and the athletic games were 

 hotly contested. Dancing was indulged 

 in by the young folks on the return 

 trip. 



The officers of the organization are: 

 President, C. Sakelos; vice-president, P. 

 Theophine; treasurer, G. Eondires; sec- 

 retary, C. Tsoumis; assistant secretary, 

 M. Andriopoulos. The winners in the 

 athletic events were: 



Boys' race — Master Laskaris, first; Master 

 Theodoeatos, second. 



Girls' race — Miss Carlaftes, first; Miss 'WlUon, 

 second. 



Youngr women's race — Miss Blmle, first; Miss 

 Nicholas, second. 



Married women's race — Mrs. Cardlasnens, first; 

 Mrs. Orth, second. 



Young men's race — ^Mr. Carlaftes, first; Mr. 

 Theodorates, second. 



Fat men's race — Mr. Zlzos, first; Mr. Caraha- 

 llos, second. 



Broad jumj) — ^Mr. Towney, first; Mr. Sherlcos, 

 second. 



Baseball — Greek team, score 6 to 3. 



Members' race — C. N. Sakelos, first. 



Greek Marathon race — Mr. Manelklr, first; MJr. 

 Cretlc, second; Mr. Sakell, third. 



Bowling — N. Denis, first. 



Various Notes. 



July 14 a jolly company of sweet pea 

 growers leave by boat for Bar Harbor, 

 Me., to attend the convention of the 

 American Sweet Pea Society. Secre- 

 tary Bunyard spent last week in New- 

 port, R. I., in behalf of the exhibition 

 committee. 



The American and Greek-American 

 Betail Florists' Associations met at 

 Breslin hotel, July 11. After the 

 luncheon the regular monthly discussion 

 was enjoyed. President Bowe says that 

 the society is growing in numbers and 

 that several surprises are in store for 

 the trade. 



Secretary Young leaves July 13 for 

 Houston, Tex., via St. Louis. Prospects 

 are encouraging for the boat trip of 

 the S. A. F. conventionists from New 

 York to New Orleans, and it also is 

 hoped that those attending from Bal- 

 timore, Washington, Philadelphia and 

 Boston may decide to join the New 

 York contingent. 



William' A. Sullivan, manager for Ar- 

 nold & Co., accompanied by Mrs. Sulli- 

 van, has left for a six weeks' holiday 

 at Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Sara- 

 toga Springs. 



Nat Bernstein, with Gunther Bros., 

 announces his engagement to Miss Ada 

 Greenberg." 



Mr. and Mrs. Jack Trepel are auto- 

 ing to San Francisco. They will be 

 away until September. 



Phil Ditzenberger, of H. E. Froment's 

 force, leaves for the mountains for a 

 week's holiday July 17, and W. Samp- 

 son goes August 7. George Orth re- 

 turns this week, and Miss Conklin, the 

 bookkeeper, will be a guest of G. Ben- 

 nett, of Flatbush, at Sackett lake, until 

 September. 



Charles Futterman is spending the 

 next two weeks in the Catskills. 



Will Phillips and family, of Brook- 

 lyn, are enjoying the summer in the 

 Catskills. 



Charles Millang has rented the entire 



basement of the Coogan building, at 

 55 West Twenty-sixth street, some 6,000 

 square feet of space, for his new en- 

 terprise, which includes a wholesale 

 bulb and plant business and semiweekly 

 auctions. C. C. Johnson will be asso- 

 ciated with Mr. Millang in the venture. 



Badgley & Bishop are receiving some 

 of the finest gigas that have been seen 

 in the wholesale market this season. 



Edward M. Bogie, the plant grower 

 of Jersey City, N. J., died recently from 

 a complication of diseases. He was 

 in the business twenty-five years, 43 

 years of age and unmarried. 



William P. Ford is spending his week 

 ends at his farm in Pennsylvania, on 

 which his 200,000 peonies were grown. 



W. J. Elliott is on his annual fishing 

 trip, after a strenuous auction season. 



Robert MacNiff, accompanied by his 

 family, is enjoying a well earned rest, 

 after the busiest year in his experience. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



FOET WAYNE, IND. 



The Market. 



July was ushered in with intense sum- 

 mer heat, which affected the florists' 

 business to a considerable extent. So- 

 cial gatherings are fewer and there are 

 only a small number of weddings at 

 present. Funeral work constitutes the 

 chief demand for cut flowers. The busi- 

 ness for the month of June was most 

 satisfactory to all the florists of this 

 city and vicinity, many retailers report- 

 ing that the demand went far ahead of 

 that for June of any previous year. 

 Wedding work was heavy and a number 

 of prominent funerals during the month 

 contributed greatly to the big demand, 

 while decorations and counter trade 

 were no small items in the month's 

 business. Fortunately for the florist, 

 the hot weather held off until the last 

 of June. 



Stock is quite plentiful and many are 

 using quantities of outdoor flowers to 

 decorate their windows. Dorothy Per- 

 kins and Crimson Rambler roses now 

 are in their prime and used in made-up 

 work. Tausendschon roses also are ef- 

 fective. Outdoor gladioli still are 

 scarce, there having been no rainfall for 

 nearly three weeks. There are no peo- 

 nies at all on the local market. Shasta 

 daisies are of superb quality this year 

 and the list of the varieties of peren- 

 nials is increasing. 



Roses are plentiful and the quality 

 generally i« «?ood. American Beauties 



