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JULT 20, 1916. 



The Flotists' Review 



15 



NEW YOBE. 



The Market. 



Last week was holiday week in ear- 

 nest. Weddings and receptions at low 

 tide, a hot wave and big shipments of 

 all kinds of indoor and outdoor flowers 

 marked the dullest week of the year 

 to date. 



The extreme heat left few roses sal- 

 able a few hours after their arrival. 

 There was hardly any retail demand 

 for anything until the week end. Thou- 

 sands of roses remained unsold at even 

 the cut rates of the closing offers. 

 From $2.50 per thousand up to $1 per 

 hundred may be given as the low and 

 high averages of prices on roses of all 

 grades, not including a few of the spe- 

 cialties. 



Asters are here in ever-increasing 

 quantity, and soon will vie with gla- 

 dioli in overwhelming the market. The 

 latter already are too numerous. A 

 few peonies still are arriving from the 

 north. They are of splendid quality, 

 but the price for the best does not go 

 above 50 cents per dozen. Orchid ship- 

 ments are decreasing and there is but 

 a light demand. The best gigas do not 

 sell above 40 cents each. 



Carnations still are abundant, but 

 their quality is depreciating. Few of 

 them sell above 50 cents per hundred 

 and thousands are cleared under $2 per 

 thousand. Valley is weak and lilies 

 abundant. Prices remain as low as 

 those of a week ago. Sweet peas are 

 hardly salable. The market is still 

 called upon to dispose of the usual host 

 of seasonable summer flowers, including 

 daisies, coreopsis, gaillardias, calendu- 

 las, etc. 



Various Notes. 



Those who went to Bar Harbor by 

 boat left July 13 in a deluge, but they 

 sailed into a delightful temperature — 

 a luxury after the days of torrid heat 

 that preceded the trip. Everyone who 

 attended the sweet pea convention re- 

 ports it a splendid success, while the 

 day in Boston and the all-water trip 

 were more than up to expectations. 



Secretary Young already is at Hous- 

 ton and hopes that other eastern con- 

 ventionists will join the New Yorkers' 

 water trip from New York to Houston, 

 via New Orleans. He says the report 

 of 50 cents a shave and $2.50 per bath 

 at Houston is without foundation. A 

 goodly number from New York will at- 

 tend the convention and they hope to 

 land the next meeting for this city. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Allen left July 15 

 for a month's holiday at Asbury Park, 

 N. J. 



Friend Meyer, of Kiedel & Meyer, 

 Inc., is enjoying a western trip, with 

 headquarters at Mount Clemens, Mich., 

 near the bracing influence of the sul- 

 phur baths. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Kessler are 

 summering in the mountains. The new 

 store has been thoroughly renovated. 



A. Cova, of the New York Florists' 

 Supply Co., is a suburbanite and has 

 the prettiest garden at Bayside, L. I. 



Joseph Fenrich will be in charge of 

 the Bowling Club's outing at Barnegat 

 bay, which begins July 27. If the man- 

 eating sharks get wind of the club's 

 fishing grounds they will find some de- 

 sirable titbits in the healthy members. 



Jihn Miesem, John Donaldson and 

 C. W. Scott are a trio of expert fisher- 

 men and devote every Tuesday to the 



sport, as their weekly and generous 

 contributions to many larders indicate. 



Anton Schultheis and family are at 

 Asbury Park. Manager Van Reyper 

 and family will enjoy their holiday in 

 the mountains on the return of Mr. 

 Schultheis. 



Grand stock of the new regale lily 

 may be seen daily in' the windows of 

 John Young & Co. 



Walter R. Siebrecht, who has been ill 

 for several weeks, is reported to be 

 much improved. 



Samuel Woodrow left by boat July 15 

 for his summer store at Narragansett 

 Pier. 



H. E. Froment's receipts of roses 

 from Coddington continue daily to 

 average over fifty boxes, including a 

 dozen of the popular varieties. 



The George W. Crawbuck Co. is more 

 than satisfied with its first six weeks' 

 experience. What to do for room in 

 September is a serious problem. Eugene 

 Keenan, formerly with the Greater New 

 York Florists' Association, is the latest 

 addition to the sales force. 



All the florists who have seen the 

 Cards Japanese garden at the Ritz- 

 Carleton hotel are eager in their praise 

 of it. No one should fail to visit this 

 remarkable exhibition. 



J. H. Small & Sons have completed 

 the painting and improvements in their 

 new store. Visiting florists will find 

 an examination of the store inspiring. 



The retail associations of the New 

 York florists are unusually active. Ban- 

 quets follow the meetings and great 

 harmony prevails. 



At a meeting of the joint committee 

 on the 1917 spring show, held at the 

 Hotel Manhattan just before Secretary 

 John Young started for Texas and the 

 S. A. F. convention, all arrangements 

 were reported progressing nicely, with 

 the enthusiasm engendered by this 

 year's success promising a still greater 

 one next time. 



Miss Mahoney, bookkeeper for 

 Traendly & Schenck, is vacationing for 

 three weeks in the mountains. 



Early closing daily and earlier on 

 Saturday now seems to be the rule in 

 the wholesale cut flower section. 



The MacNiff Horticultural Co. is busy 

 with the retail section of its business 

 and with preparations for the opening 

 of its auction season early in Septem- 

 ber. J, Austin Shaw. 



Prior to his departure for Texas, 

 John Young, secretary of the New 

 York Florists' Club, announced that 

 President Henry Weston has appointed 

 Walter F. Sheridan, Emil Schloss, J. A. 

 Fiesser, W. H. Siebrecht, Joseph Fen- 

 rich, Roman J. Irwin and Peter Duff 

 as a nominating committee to select 

 candidates for ofiice for 1917. This 

 committee is to make its report at the 

 November meeting of the club. 



The transportation committee of the 

 New York Florists' Club has selected 

 the following route for those who in- 

 tend to attend the S. A. F. convention 

 in Houston: The S. S. Momus will leave 

 New York Wednesday, August 9, ar- 

 riving at New Orleans Monday, August 

 14, whence the journey to Houston by 

 train, the Sunset Limited, is only eleven 

 hours. The rate will be $80 to $83 for 

 the round trip from New York to Hou- 

 ston, which covers the trip by steamer 

 to New Orleans, train to Houston, then 

 all rail returning. Those who desire 

 may return by boat. This rate includes 

 berth and meals on steamer, but not on 

 trains. As this is evidently the route 

 favored by most of those who intend 

 to go, it is hoped that all members of 

 the New York Florists ' Club and friends 

 from the eastern section of the country 

 will travel in this party. The trans- 

 portation committee is composed of 

 Chas. H. Totty, chairman; John Young, 

 Wm. C. Rickards, Jr., and J. R. Lewis. 

 Reservations should be made at once. 



5 H RAP NTT 



Erfurt, Germany.— The old house of 

 J. C. Schmidt is maintaining its world- 

 wide connections during the war by 

 means of houses established in neutral 

 countries by former employees. 



Enfield, England.— Iris Richard II, 

 for which Amos Perry received an R. H. 

 S. award of merit, should be noted by 

 those in quest of distinct new varieties. 

 It is a seedling of Black Prince, with 

 white standard and rich, velvety purple 

 falls. 



Oudenbosch, Holland. — Such concerns 

 as the Union Nurseries, specializing in 

 deciduous trees for the American trade, 

 had a good 1916 season and look for- 

 ward to a still better one in the com- 

 ing year. Their principal diflaculties 

 concern labor and transportation. 



Orleans, France.— E. Turbat & Co., of 

 this place, raised Ghiselaine de Feli- 

 gonde, awarded the prize of the Baga- 

 telle Gardens, Paris, for the best nov- 

 elty among climbers. They describe it 

 as "a true perpetual climbing multi- 

 flora, with golden yellow flowers shaded 

 coppery tints." 



St. Albans, England. — P. E. Moon, 



grandson of F. Sander, recently was 

 killed on the firing line in France. 



London, Zng. — The orders in council 

 prohibiting the importation of bulbs 

 and plants except from France have 

 been modified to allow the entry of 

 bulbs produced in Guernsey. 



Broxboume, England. — At the recent 

 Chelsea show Thomas Rochford & Sons, 

 Ltd., received an award of merit for 

 Spiraea Princess Mary, pink, of which 

 the managers say: "We have no hesi- 

 tation in stating that it is the fines' 

 variety we have yet seen in colorea 

 spiraeas." 



Paris, France.— The Journal of the 

 Horticultural Syndicate, now issued 

 quarterly, continues to print long lists 

 of the members of the trade killed or 

 injured in the war. The editors are 

 particularly severe on members of the 

 trade convicted, as were several St. 

 Remy seed growers, of trading with 

 the enemy; they are characterized as 

 "men to whom money has no smell." 



