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The Florists^ Review 



Adgost 9, 1917. 



NEW YOBE. 



The Market. 



The extreme heat of the first five days 

 of last week paralyzed the cut flower 

 business. However, relief came August 

 3, in the shape of a violent thunder 

 storm accompanied by hail. There 

 practically was no demand for stock of 

 any variety until August 4, when the 

 wholesalers cleaned up fairly well at 

 good prices. 



The prices of orchids and longiflorum 

 lilies advanced during the week. Good 

 gigas sold for 75 cents and $1 each 

 Saturday. The supply is limited, and 

 so is the demand. Lilies ranged from 

 $3 to $6 per hundred, while some of the 

 selected stock sold at even higher 

 prices. 



The effects of the heat were shown 

 in the shipments of roses received dur- 

 ing the week. Almost every rose that 

 arrived was open. Thousands were sold 

 at 25 and 50 cents per hundred, and 

 other thousands found no buyers. The 

 few good roses that arrived sold readily 

 at satisfactory prices. American Beau- 

 ties were scarce. Good flowers sold as 

 high as $25 per hundred August 4. 

 Good white roses were in demand, but 

 the supply was short. 



There were few carnations in the 

 market. Those that did arrive did not 

 bring more than $1 per hundred. Val- 

 ley was scarce and selected stock sold 

 as high as $6 per hundred. The de- 

 mand was light. The market already 

 is flooded with asters, but the best 

 flowers sold at $4 per hundred. The 

 great mass of asters, however, brought 

 only $1 and $1.50 per hundred. Gla- 

 dioli, also, are in big supply, with a light 

 demand. They sold at $1 per hundred. 

 There' is a great abundance of summer 

 flowers. 



The demand at the nearby summer re- 

 sorts is light. In the city and Brooklyn 

 retailers are doing little besides funeral 

 work. 



Various Notes. 



The hail storm August 3 did consid- 

 erable damage to greenhouse ranges in 

 the neighborhood of New York. The 

 Eose Hill Nurseries at New Rochelle 

 lost 3,000 panes of glass. Outdoor stock 

 also suffered. 



The last regular meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club before the S. A. F. 

 convention will be held Monday eve- 

 ning, August 13, at the club's rooms in 

 the Grand Opera House building. There 

 will be exhibits of gladioli and final 

 arrangements for the convention will 

 be made. 



Philip F. Kessler is handling the cut 

 of 35,000 lilies at the Charles Smith's 

 Sons place. They are exceptionally 

 fine and bring high prices. The cut is 

 from 1,000 bulbs. After the S. A. F. 

 convention, Mr. Kessler will go to his 

 summer home in the Adirondack moun- 

 tains to stay until October. 



William Hackland, who has been with 

 the New York Cut Flower Co. for many 

 years, has been appointed secretary- 

 treasurer of the company, filling the 

 vacancy made by the death of George 

 W. Hiilman in July. Percy Richters, 

 who has fully recovered from an attack 

 of pneumonia, has been appointed assist- 

 ant bookkeeper. 



R, J. Irwin was in Boston last week 

 and is at Montreal this week attending 

 the convention of the Canadian Horti- 

 cultural Society. A. L. Rickards, of the 

 Irwin force, is making a southern trip. 



Robert D. MacNiff and family are 

 spending the summer at Callicoon, N. Y. 

 The Misses Mae and B. Ward, Florence 

 Gallagher and E. Romanik and Messrs. 

 Wells, Jacobs, Gallagher, Kratsch, Lar- 

 sen, and Charles and David MacNiff, of 

 the MacNiff force, also are on vacations. 



The building in which is Charles 

 Thorley's flower store, 562 Fifth ave- 

 nue, has been sold, but Mr. Thorley is 

 protected by a lease that has several 

 years to run. 



One of the victims of the heat July 

 31 was Albert E. Wilson, who for many 

 years had a flower stand at Thirty-third 

 street and Eighth avenue. Mr. Wilson 

 was 68 years of age and was well known 

 among the members of the trade. 



J» K. Allen, P. J. Smith and Walter 

 Sheridan were among the New York 

 wholesalers who attended the outing of 

 the Essex county, N. J., florists August 

 1. There were 200 present and all had 

 a good time, Mr. Allen says. 



Crystal White was seen at J. J. Coan 's 

 last week. The flowers were grown by 

 Baer Bros., at New Hyde Park. 



Patrick Donegan, with M. C. Ford, 

 is at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for three 

 weeks; Matthew Sampson, with Noe & 

 Co., is at Cape Vincent, N. Y., for two 

 weeks; N. Bernstein, manager for Gun- 

 ther Bros., is at Rockaway Beach, and B. 

 Rosens and Mrs. Rosens are on a week 's 

 motor trip in the Catskills, while their 

 sons Adolph, Herman and Leo Rosens 

 are at Mr. Rosens' new villa at Rock- 

 away, L. I. 



Paul A. Rigo, manager of the Hen- 

 shaw Floral Co., and his family have 

 returned from Cape Elizabeth, Me., 

 where they spent a two weeks' vacation. 



The eighth annual exhibition of the 

 American Gladiolus Society will be held 

 at the Museum building, Bronx park, 

 August 23 to 26. The exhibition will be 

 under the auspices of the New York 



Florists' Club, the New York Botanical 

 Garden and the Horticultural Society of 

 New York. There will be liberal prizes. 



The popular varieties of gladioli in 

 the New York market this season are 

 America, Afterglow, Peace, Prosperity, 

 Crystal White, Dawn, Peachblow, La 

 Luna and Chicago White. 



The Convention Garden, Bronx park, 

 is rapidly rounding into form and will 

 be one of the points of interest for the 

 visitors to the S. A. F. convention. 

 About twenty of the leading growers 

 will be represented there. The space 

 in the Grand Central Palace allotted to 

 the trade exhibitors is nearly all en- 

 gaged. Forty separate exhibits have 

 been booked, the leading firms of the 

 country are participating and all 

 branches of the trade will be repre- 

 sented. 



Frank Millang, Jr., again is at his 

 place in the Coogan building. The in- 

 jury to his foot, which kept him at his 

 farm at Somers, N. Y., is cured. 



Ex-President Richard Vincent, Jr., of 

 the S. A. F., White Marsh, Md., and 

 Albert Herr, Lancaster, Pa., with their 

 families, have engaged rooms at the 

 Woodstock hotel for convention week. 



Employees of William Elliott & Sons 

 are alternating their vacations. Miss 

 Lillian Kunath, the cashier, returned 

 July 29; P. Liggett is now away and 

 upon his return, August 12, Miss Stern- 

 berg will leave for two weeks. 



Charles Schaimel, of M. C. Ford's 

 force, and his family have returned 

 from a two weeks' vacation. 



L. B, Coddington, Murray HUl, N. J., 

 is daily sending thousands of roses to 

 H. E. Froment. 



James Hammond, with James Mc- 

 Manus, is spending his vacation with 

 his brother at Newport, R. I. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



iMews from 



Haarlem, Holland. — The General Bulb 

 Growers' Society has continued its 

 meetings with regularity this year and 

 during the blooming season made many 

 awards to a considerable number of nov- 

 elties. 



Haarlem, Holland. — It is the opinion 

 of the most conservative men in the 

 bulb trade that prices will be high for 

 some seasons after the war. There has 

 been some reduction in acreage this 

 season and if conditions go on as at 

 present indicated there will be a steady 

 curtailment of production as long as 

 the war lasts. This reduction, of course, 

 is of the cheaper varieties, as it takes 

 as much land and care to grow cheap 

 varieties as it does to grow those that 

 represent more money. When the war 

 ends it will take some time to restore 

 stocks and production to the level of 

 recent years and the demand is likely 

 to increase at least as fast as the supply, 

 especially in view of the fact that the 

 markets of England, France and Ger- 

 many now are closed and are pretty 

 sure to stay so as long as the war lasts. 



Sassenheim, Holland. — The market is 

 fairly stiff on the popular varieties of 

 tulip, partly perhaps because all other 

 commodities are high, but also partly 

 because of decreased supply. Word 

 comes from various points in the bulb 

 district of small growers who plowed up 

 their patches of the cheaper bulbs in 

 spring while there still was time to 

 plant cabbage or potatoes. * 



London, England. — The British 

 Wholesale Florists' Federation has 

 been urging its members to assist in the 

 production of food and the secretary 

 states that in many places under glass, 

 ferns, flowers, etc., have given place to 

 tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, early po- 

 tatoes, and many millions of vegetable 

 seedlings for the use of war-time gar- 

 deners. While retaining stocks of flow- 

 ering subjects for future development 

 and keeping up a modest supply for the 

 florists' shops (most of the flowers go 

 to military and civil hospitals), flower 

 growers are greatly increasing the sup- 

 ply of food, notwithstanding the short- 

 age of labor. 



