DiCEMBBB 28, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



FINAL NOTICE! 



James S. Chase. 



James S. Chase, for many years a 

 gardener in the Bliss road district at 

 Newport, R. I., died at his home Decem- 

 ber 15, after an illness of two weeks' 

 duration. He had not been in the best 

 of health during the last two years, but 

 only recently did his illness, heart 

 trouble, develop seriously. He was in 

 his sixty-seventh year. He leaves, be- 

 sides his wife, one daughter and two 

 sons. The, deceased was a member of 

 the I. O. 0. F. and the Aquidneck En- 

 campment. W. H. M. 



A. C. L. Brown. 



A. C. L. Brown, of Kearney, N. J., 

 died December 19, of heart failure. He 

 was 68 years old and leaves a wife and 

 son, who will carry on the business. Mr. 

 Brown was an expert plant grower and 

 had been in the business over thirty-five 

 years, largely disposing of his stock in 

 the Canal street market in New York. 

 He was highly respected. J. A. S. 



Samuel Snyder. 



Samuel Snyder, of Second avenue and 

 Fifty-eighth street. New York, died sud- 

 denly at the Flower hospital December 

 17, of erysipelas, following an operation. 

 He was 40 years old and leaves a widow, 

 who will continue the business. Mr. 

 Snyder was highly esteemed in the 

 trade. J. A. S. 



Obarles Bleeckert. 



Charles J. Bleeckert, of St. Louis, 

 once among the better known of florists 

 there, has succumbed to heart disease. 

 He was 72 years of age and had been in 

 the business almost from the time he 

 came from Sweden, in '1851. He did re- 

 tailing from his greenhouses, the busi- 

 ness recently having been in charge of 

 his son, C. B. Bleeckert, who will con- 

 tinue it. 



BRAMPTON, ONT. 



Christmas is over again, thank good- 

 ness, for it proved a most exacting and 

 exasperating period this year, with more 

 orders than ever and less labor to han- 

 dle the stock. Fortunately, however, 

 the quality of everything was good and 

 the prices occasioned no disagreeable 

 comment, retailers everywhere being 

 favored with the best trade they have 

 ever experienced. Valley at $5, orchids 

 at $60 and Beauties at $75 per hundred 

 were eagerly sought after, but there was 

 not enough stock in any of the grades 

 to supply the demand. W. G. P. 



SEEDS OF SPRING STOCK. 



When do you advise me to sow pansy, 

 verbena, petunia and salvia seeds to 

 have good stock for the spring trade! 



W. D. T.— 0. 



August-sown pansies are the best for 

 the spring trade, but seeds sown early in 

 January will give nice plants for suc- 

 cessional blooms. They are not equal in 

 pulling power, however,'to the early fall- 

 sown stock. Petunia and verbena seeds 

 can be sown from February 1 to 15 and 

 will be in ample time. Salvias can be 

 sown as late as March 1, as they are 

 rapid growers, but if they are wanted in 

 flower, sow them in February. C. W. 



I Sunday is the Last Day | 



EVERY florist knows through his own purchases what has happened 

 in the paper market the last few months — prices have doubled all 

 along the line. 



And it takes more than four tons of paper each week to print 

 The Review! 



Many readers have been so kind as to write that The Review is 

 worth considerably more to them than its subscription price. Well, the 

 tremendous rise in the price of paper makes it no longer expedient to 

 sell The Review at $1.00 a year. 



The subscription price, therefore, will be advanced January 1, 

 1917, to $1.50 a year. 



Until December 31, 1916, any member of the Trade may subscribe for one 

 or more years at the old rate of $1.00 a year. 



Readers whose present subscriptions do not expire until after January 1, 

 1917, may renew for as many years as they like at $1.00 per year, providing that 

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Charles A. Moss, of Spartanburg, 

 S. C, inaugurated the season with a 

 steady advance in prices — carnations at 

 $1.25 to $1.50 per dozen, other stock in 

 proportion. Chrysanthemums sold free- 

 ly. Roses were in excellent crop for 

 Christmas. We were discussing the 

 wisdom, or otherwise, of selling to the 

 5 and 10-cent stores, and Mr. Moss 

 mentioned the fact that a grower who 

 sold 1,000 scrub mums in paper pots, for 

 $80, has a contract to grow 100,000 

 bulbs for a chain of stores in the 

 south, which has guaranteed to take 

 the blooms, in every case a cash trans- 

 action. 



The Scholtz Floral Co., of Charlotte, 

 N. C, took advantage of the spacious- 

 ness of its new store to make the finest 

 chrysanthemum display ever seen here. 

 In mantel and table decorations, Sam- 

 uel R. Aiken, recently engaged from 

 Philadelphia, spread himself. Secretary 

 McCullum says the show certainly 

 boosted business. Robert Lockerbie, in 

 charge of the greenhouses, is sending 

 in fine cuts of red and pink bouvardias, 

 calendulas, myosotis and snapdragons. 

 He probably will grow bouvardias in 

 pots, believing that the taste can be 

 cultivated; he recalls the time when 

 bouvardias sold freely as pot plants. 

 "It is agreeably surprising to us how 

 our business has broadened in these few 



years. Really nothing goes to waste," 

 commented W. "W. Scholtz. 



Adolphus Gude, of the Gude Bros Co., 

 at Anacostia, D. C, is justly proud of 

 the stock being gotten into shape for 

 the Washington store. New houses, built 

 by their own men during a shortage of 

 help, caused some anxiety. The season 

 has been ideal for carnations and roses, 

 which looked tip-top and were well timed 

 for holiday cropping. Chrysanthemums 

 have been good, some grand blooms of 

 William Turner being cut November 22. 

 As space is made, single violets are 

 planted. One of the new houses planted 

 to sweet peas has violets between the 

 rows. Azaleas have come through in 

 fair shape, a lot of Mme. Petrick hav- 

 ing been ready for Christmas. Poin- 

 settias, cyclamens and begonias were 

 right in line, with a batch of pelar- 

 goniums prepared as an emergency crop. 

 "We are late in getting at our lilies 

 for Easter, ' ' observed Mr. Gude, ' ' but 

 feel sure that they will come in on time. 

 The bulbs are plump, potted into 4-inch 

 pots and then placed on the bench where 

 they will remain, covered with cheese- 

 cloth or similar covering. We seldom 

 have failed to hit the mark and look 

 for another strike." 



The Ghent Floral Co. is located in 

 the residence section of Norfolk and is 

 able to make a more elaborate display, 

 with the returns in proportion. W, M. 



