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The Florists' Review 



Adgust 17, 1916. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week was exceedingly dull, hot 

 and enervating. There was little stock 

 and less business. However, toward the 

 closing days of the week there was a 

 slight improvement. The promise of the 

 opening season already is in the air; 

 one conservative wholesaler says he has 

 little hope of a boom before the holi- 

 days, while others think the fall season 

 will open about the time the straw 

 hats are called in, September 15. 



Nearly all the roses arriving are new 

 ones, short-stemmed and weak-stemmed, 

 50 cents per hundred being a fair aver- 

 age price for these. The few long- 

 stemmed ones — Hoosier Beauty, Ophelia, 

 Double Killarney, Eussell, Sunburst, 

 Mock, Stanley, etc. — are quickly taken. 

 A few new American Beauties are ar- 

 riving. The cooler weather has been 

 helpful, but the dog days are yet to 

 come. In another week or two there 

 sliould be a sufficiency of roses of all 

 kinds. The shipments of carnations 

 have practically ceased. It will be sev- 

 eral weeks before reliable quotations 

 may be expected. 



The average price of longiflorum lilies 

 is $4 per hundred; a few are held at 

 $5 — exceptionally good flowers. Valley 

 is down again to $4 and under, with 

 a light demand. There are not many 

 gardenias as yet. Orchids still are lim- 

 ited in quantity and high in price, a few 

 of the selected bringing $1 each. The 

 prices of the lower grades range from 

 $1 down to 25 cents. Dahlias are al- 

 ready bidding for a share of the pat- 

 ronage; some large, fine flowers were 

 selling August 12 at $5 per hundred. 

 There are few first-class asters. Nine- 

 tenths of the arrivals are barely salable, 

 and prices are unworthy of publication. 

 The best of the asters sell at $2 to $3 

 per hundred. 



There now is a great abundance of 

 Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora and 

 goldenrod. The other outdoor flowers 

 do not cut much of a figure. Last, but 

 not least, we have the gladioli — there 

 must be ipillions of them. They are 

 coming from all points of the compass 

 in an ever increasing flood. Hard it 

 is to dispose of them; thousands have 

 been sold at 25 cents per hundred. 



Various Notes. 



The next meeting of the Florists'. 

 Club, the opening session of the sea- 

 son, will be held at the club 's rooms 

 in the Grand Opera House building, 

 Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue, 

 September 11. 



Traendly & Sohenck 's new green- 

 houses at Eowayton, jConn., have been 

 completed. There are two, each 62x500 

 feet, and an iron-frame boiler house, 

 40x.50 feet. Mr. Traendly and family 

 are at their summer home at Eowayton. 



M. Matheron, of Baldwin, L. I., by 

 the last of August will have his new 

 house completed, 60x250 feet. 



J. L. Barnett, of Alexander McCon- 

 nell's force of salesmen, has returned 

 from a month 's vacation in Canada and 

 Michigan. 



The Stumpp & Walter Co. has had a 

 wide demand for seed of its Australian 

 and Californian early-flowering Spencer 

 sweet peas. 



C. W. Scott, of the Yokohama Nur- 

 sery Co., left August 12 by rail for the 

 Houston convention. 



E. J. Irwin received his French bulbs 

 by steamer Harpagus from Marseilles. 



Miss Louise Weber is back from a two 

 weeks' vacation in the Catskills. 



G. V. Nash lectured August 12 at the 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 park, on "The Summer Flower Gar- 

 den." 



A. M. Anderson and F. M. John- 

 son, representatives of the A. L. Eandall 

 Co., of Chicago, were in New York last 

 week on a business trip. They visited 

 relatives in the city. 



Louis Hanfling, Jr., representing 

 Eussin & Hanfling, is away on a busi- 

 ness trip in New York state. The firm 

 has a large line of novelties this sea- 

 son. 



Geo. Crawbuck this week is visiting 

 the trade in and near Providence, E. I. 



The stork last week called at Charles 

 Kessler's home and left an 8-pound 

 boy. 



Charles Miller, salesman for Wal- 

 ter Sheridan, is away on his vacation 

 with his family at the Thousand islands. 



The new offices of the New York 

 Florists' Supply Co. are completed. The 

 company announces that last year's 

 business was far ahead of that of all 

 other seasons. 



The Kervan Co. has enlarged its of- 

 fices. Business with this house has been 

 exceedingly good during the last year. 



Arthur Guttman, eldest son of A. J. 

 Guttman, is busy in his father's office. 



Joseph Levine, head salesman for 

 Guttman & Eaynor, has returned from a 

 month's holiday at Cornwall Bridge, 

 Conn. 



Mr. and Mrs. Louis Astrowsky are 

 spending two weeks at Eockaway and 

 Miss O'Brien is enjoying her vacation 

 at Livingston Manor, N. Y. 



Extra fine asters and splendid lilies 

 are seen daily at Goldstein & Futter- 

 man's. 



George, Jr., and Jack Polykranas are 

 enjoying their two weeks' vacation at 

 Good Ground, L. I. 



Miss Ida Miller is bookkeeper for J. 

 K. Allen. Mr. Allen returns weekly 

 from Ocean Grove, from Saturday until 

 Monday. Albert Denison leaves August 

 23 for a two weeks' vacation at Daniel- 

 son, Conn. Mr. Allen suggests that the 

 next outing of the New Yofk Florists' 

 Club be held at Pleasure bay. 



W. G. Loeser, bookkeeper for Badgley 

 & Bishop, is enjoying his vacation in 

 western New York. 



W. A. Sperling, secretary of the 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., was in Boston 

 last week attending the meeting of the 

 American Gladiolus Society, which he 

 says was a beautiful exhibition. 



Chas. H. Totty has returned from his 

 holiday in western New York. Mr. 

 Totty is sending delphiniums to J. S. 

 Fenrich that bring $2 per dozen spikes. 



John Miesem, Meyer Otile and Joseph 

 Fenrich and Mrs. Fenrich motored down 

 to Patchogue, L. I., this week for a 

 visit with .John Donaldson. 



Wm. E. F. White, who some weeks 

 ago was appointed manager of the 

 Greater New York Florists' Associa- 

 tion, 162 Livingston street, Brooklyn, 

 has purchased the business and will con- 

 tinue it in his name, at the same ad- 

 dress. 



A visit to the Eose Hill Nurseries at 

 New Eoehelle found H. A. Siebrecht 

 at the helm and busy as ever. Nearly 

 all the big range now is devoted to 

 roses and carnations, with Ophelia as 

 the leading specialty. Many acres are 



devoted to the nursery, which is full of 

 specimen evergreens. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



In the customhouse papers of the 

 French steamer Harpagus, which ar- 

 rived at New York August 5, from 

 Marseilles, the M. Eice Co., of Phila- 

 delphia, and A. Herrmann, of New 

 York, are listed as consignees of nine 

 and fifty-seven cases of immortelles, 

 respectively. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Market. 



The talk of the week was the large 

 quantity of gladioli coming into the 

 market and the low prices that pre- 

 vailed. The price of gladioli was left 

 to the buyer and it is said that some 

 of the offers were only a little more 

 than a cent in large quantities. 



The intense heat continues and flow- 

 ers of all kinds are burning and shriv- 

 eling to such an extent that it is ex- 

 tremely difficult in some lines to get 

 blooms worthy of sale. The blooms are 

 becoming smaller and the stems are 

 shorter. Prices are far below normal, 

 but should a customer care to pay a 

 good price, for good stock his oi;der 

 could hardly be filled. It now is im- 

 possible to get any quantity of good 

 roses or carnations. 



Eoses and carnations are being sup- 

 planted by good summer flowers, such 

 as dahlias, larkspurs, althaeas, buddleias 

 and others of this type. These are all 

 extra fine this season, because of the 

 wet weather, where grown on high 

 ground. On the other hand, this same 

 wet weather has played havoc with the 

 asters, for with the hot weather that 

 has prevailed for some weeks it now is 

 impossible to get really good asters at 

 any price. The correspondent last week 

 viewed a field of asters, an acre .in 

 extent, which were so badly diseased 

 that they were worthless. 



Various Notes. 



William F. Gude, of the Gude Bros. 

 Co., has purchased a 7-passenger auto- 

 mobile. His brother, Adolph Gude, has 

 also purchased a new car, his being a 

 7-passenger 6-cylinder make. 



Fred H. Kramer spent the week at 

 Atlantic City with Mrs. Kramer and 

 their daughter, Frieda. The two latter 

 have been at the seashore during the 

 summer. 



Charles Scarborough, of the Gude 

 Bros. Co., accompanied by Mrs. Scar- 

 borough, journeyed to Philadelphia in 

 an automobile he recently purchased. 

 They will spend their vacation at the 

 home of Mr. Scarborough's parents, but 

 will spend some time at Atlantic City 

 before returning here. - 



Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gottenkenny and 

 their two children are enjoying an ex- 

 tended vacation at Piney Point, Md. 

 Alan Murdock has purchased a som- 

 brero, a six-shooter and a fishing outfit 

 and has gone to Dubois, Md., for a 

 vacation in the wilds. 



Leapley & Meyer, of G street, north- 

 west, are bringing in some good ferns, 

 including Bostons, Whitmani and Scot- 

 tii. This firm had set out several thou- 

 sand asters, but, like others in this 

 locality, their crop is a failure and they 

 doubt if they can save 300. 



F. H. Eiegelmeier and family are here 

 from Pittsburgh, Pa., after having 



