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The Florists' Review 



Jaxuaby 4. 1917. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The week after Christmas was as 

 dull as usual. Shipments were light and 

 this kept the market steady. "No 

 better than an ordinarily good Satur- 

 day," was the verdict as the old year 

 ended. Wholesale cut flower stores 

 were nearly all closed at midnight De- 

 cember 30, were reposeful December 31, 

 and the doors were closed at noon Jan- 

 uary 1. Little extra nowadays is ex- 

 pected of New Year's, and so few were 

 disappointed. 



The supply of Hadle}' is increasing. 

 There are several expert growers of 

 this splendid rose. Prices are yielding, 

 but still it holds values close to the 

 old standby and ever popular American 

 Beauty. Shipments of the latter are 

 light. 



Larger shipments of roses are antici- 

 pated this week. 



In orchids, Percivaliana is done and 

 Trianse is arriving. A few extra flowers 

 of gigas are worth 75 cents, and from 

 this down to 25 cents is the present 

 quotation. Those left too long on the 

 plants at Christmas met with a serious 

 rebuff, many of the flowers being un- 

 salable. It doesn't seem possible, 

 though, that anyone would pickle an 

 orchid! 



A few carnations sold at 8 cents De- 

 cember 30, but 6 cents was top with 

 nearly all the wholesalers. Anything 

 mediocre sold at 4 cents and under. 

 Lower prices are anticipated. Gar- 

 denias so far this season have been a 

 disappointment. Even for the Christ- 

 mas trade prices were low, and since 

 the holiday they have retrograded. 

 Longiflorums have been remarkably 

 steady at 12 cents. Many thousands 

 of short-stemmed rubrums are disposed 

 of daily at $4 to $5 per hundred. This 

 figure seems to be top for valley also. 

 Mums have vanished at last. New 

 Year's taking the goodly number that 

 remained. 



Violets are all right again. Decem- 

 ber 30 sweet flowers were selling easily 

 at $1.50 per hundred. Singles and 

 doubles both shared in the returns. 



Cut blooms from flowering shrubs 

 are seen, with a general assortment of 

 seasonable flowers. Some superb 

 mignonette, sweet peas, callas, stevia, 

 forget-me-not, lilac, iris, southern gladi- 

 oli, calendulas, bouvardia, pansies, 

 Roman hyacinths and narcissi in great 

 abundance are offered. 



Various Notes. 



January 8 the first meeting of the 

 Florists 'Club for 1917 takes place at 

 the rooms in the Grand Opera House 

 building, Eighth avenue and West 

 Twenty-third street. There will be the 

 usual holiday festivities. Because of 

 the flower show in March and the meet- 

 ing of the S. A. F. in August, this 

 promises to be the most important year 

 in the club's history. The membership 

 is close to 500, and soon will exceed it, 

 now that so many retail florists have 

 decided to apply for membership, fol- 

 lowing the election of G. E. M. Stumpp 

 to the presidency. 



Mr. Hanfling has recovered from his 

 illness of a week ago. 



Charles Lenker, of Freeport, is said 

 to be out of danger. 



The florists' supply houses are all in 

 a condition of recuperation after the 

 strenuous season just ended. Owing to 

 the lightness of importations, there is a 



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