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Algust 30, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



sale Floral Co., took the physical exam- 

 ination for the army August 25. His 

 number was among the first drawn. 



Members of the trade have returned 

 from the S. A. F. convention in New 

 York city last week, and report a great 

 convention. The local trade is proud 

 of the selection of Jules Bourdet as 

 vice-president of the society and are 

 with him to a man to make the Na- 

 tional Flower Show and the convention 

 here next April successes. 



The H. J. Weber & Sons Nursery 

 Co. reports that the outlook for a big 

 fall season is good, many orders already 

 having been booked. 



The A. Brix Floral Co.'s bowling 

 team was organized last week by Frank 

 Plots, one of the stars at the game 

 last season. The team will bowl at the 

 North End alleys. 



The Young Bros. Floral Co. says busi- 

 ness has been good at the new store 

 recently opened at Berlin and De Giver- 

 ville avenues, 



Andre Bourdet and Eay Young left 

 August 23 with the Fifth regiment for 

 Nevada, Mo., where the regiment will 

 train. They are members of a machine 

 gun company. 



P. Schneider has completed the altera- 

 tions to Ills place at Webster Groves, 

 Mo. The houses all have been planted 

 and the young stock is looking fine. 



A. S. Cerny's establishment at Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., is in splendid shape for n 

 big crop of roses and carnations this 

 season. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Business was quiet among the whole- 

 sale houses last week, and at the clean- 

 up August 25 buyers could procure stock 

 at their own price. Asters and gladioli 

 were so abundant that much of the 

 poorer stock could not be moved. Eoses 

 are improving and some good flowers 

 now are arriving, among them being 

 Iladley and Eussell. American Beau- 

 ties are firm at $25 per hundred, a few 

 of the selected flowers being as high 

 as $30. Anything perfect in hybrid 

 teas was quickly absorbed. Most of 

 the rose shipments, however, are low- 

 grade stock, which sells at from 25 

 cents to $2 per hundred. 



There were few orchids of any vari- 

 ety in the market. Perfect gigas were 

 so scarce that from $1.50 to $2 each 

 was offered for them. A few gardenias 

 « ame from Newport, E. I. There are 

 practically no carnations coming at 

 present. Lilies are abundant; conse- 

 quently the prices did not go over $3 

 ])er hundred, with the majority selling 

 at $2. Eubrums sold as low as $1 per 

 hundred. 



The market was flooded with gladioli 

 and only perfect flowers of the new 

 varieties could be moved. The waste 

 was enormous. The same is true of 

 asters. A few select flowers of both 

 varieties sold as high as $2 per hun- 

 dred. Valley continues scarce, perfect 

 flowers bringing $6 and $8 per hundred. 

 The supply of hydrangeas is increasing. 

 Tritomas and tuberoses are abundant. 

 There were also large shipments of out- 

 side stock. 



Various Notes. 



The regular meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held September 

 K» at the clul)'s rooms in the Grand 

 (Jpei-a House building. It will be dah- 



lia night. Exhibits of both dahlias 

 and gladioli may be sent to H. C. Eiedel, 

 49 West Twenty-eighth street. 



Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mott and daugh- 

 ter, of Schenectady, N. Y., are spending 

 a few days in New York city. 



Walter Berry, who now has charge of 

 a private estate at Petersburg, Va., 

 was in New York for the S. A. F. con- 

 vention and visited among his old 

 friends here. 



W. Earle Eiedel, only son of H. C. 

 Eiedel, who recently celebrated his 

 eighteenth birthday, has applied for ad- 

 mission to the navy. 



George W. Crawbuck, Jr., who is a 

 member of the United States navy, was 

 home for a few days last week after a 

 trip to European waters. 



W. P. Ford is in St. Vincent's hos- 

 pital, recovering from an operation on 

 cne of his knees. He expects to be able 

 to return to his store next week. 



The A. L. Young Co. expects to have 

 the alterations to its store completed 

 by September 1. The show window has 

 been enlarged. 



Bassi Bros., of New Eochelle, N. Y., 

 both were seriously injured August 19 

 when the automobile in which they 

 were riding was wrecked. Both are in 

 a iiospital. 



J. K. Allen has returned from the 

 mountains of New Jersey, where he 

 spent a two weeks' vacation. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Eiedel were born 

 on the same day of the year, August. 23, 

 and celebrated the dual anniversary 

 last week. 



Edward Ancker, head salesman for 

 Traendly & Schenck, and his family 

 have returned from the Catskill moun- 

 tains, where they spent a two weeks' 

 vacation. 



Convention visitors were greatly in- 

 terested in the collection of pictures at 

 the Traendly & Schenck store, 436 Sixth 

 avenue, which have been accumulated 

 during the last twenty-five years. 



The exhibits of Bobbink & Atkins, 

 H. A. Dreer, Inc., and A. N. Pierson, 

 Inc., were bought by M. Gottlieb, 611 

 Madison avenue. 



Albert Schmutz, a son of Louis 

 Schniutz, of Flatbush, is now a member 

 of the force of the MacNiff Horticul- 

 tural Co., and will have charge of the 

 auction department. 



C. E. Gloeckiver, of the H. F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, is managing the ship- 

 ping department of the company's New 

 York store. 



Peter Gerlaird's daughter was mar- 

 ried August 18. Mr. Gerlaird's nephew 

 was drowned at Coney Island August 

 20. 



William Polykranas, son of George J. 

 Polykranas, has been promoted to first 

 gunner of Battery B, of the Twenty- 

 first field artillery. This was his fourth 

 promotion since enlisting. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Mrs. Jasper E. Lewis, who was oper- 

 ated on August 20, is convalescing and 

 her complete and speedy recovery is 

 expected, although the operation was a 

 serious one. 



When Charles Meehan recently sev- 

 ered his connection with what then was 

 the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., of Phila- 

 delphia, his friends predicted that he 

 would not be long out of the trade. 

 They were correct. Now it is an- 

 nounced that Mr. Meehan will open a 

 wholesale place at 14 South Mole 

 street, Philadelphia, early in Septem- 

 ber. 



Alexander Montgomery, whose thirty- 

 seven years of rose growing in the 

 interests of the Waban Eose Conserva- 

 tories, at Natick, Mass., has made that 

 establishment the Mecca of rose grow- 

 ers, has resigned his position as super- 

 intendent of the conservatories in order 

 to retire to Hadley, Mass., where his 

 sons operate a large rose range under 

 the name of Montgomery Eose Co. Eus- 

 sell and Hadley were originated by the 

 Hadley company. 



The prick of a rose thorn or a piece 

 of wire in the second finger of his right 

 hand developed into blood poisoning 

 and Thomas Eeynolds, 757 Manhattan 

 avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., was forced to 

 go to a hospital and have the finger 

 amputated, together with several bones 

 and tendons in the back of the hand. 

 The injury was so slight whep. , 8,i^- 

 tained that Mr. Eeynolds paid no at- 

 tention to it. It will , be some time 

 before he is able to return to the active 

 management of his store. 



At least three florists are going to be 

 ]>repared for the influx of cash sched- 

 uled to come with the opening of the 

 fail season, for the June sales report of 

 the National Cash Eegister Co. shows 

 that in that month registers were sold 

 to G. E. Valker, of Minot, N. D.; Walter 

 C. Champreux, of Stockton, Cal., and E. 

 A. Fetters, of Detroit. The lowest sell- 

 ing price was $475 and the highest 

 $785. There must be money in the busi- 

 ness. 



Autoists in the trade, especially those 

 who delight in putting their foot on the 

 accelerator, should tender a vote of 

 confidence to Charles E. Greening, 

 liresident of the Greening Nursery Co., 

 Monroe, Mich. Mr. Greening is the lead- 

 ing sjjirit in a movement to establish 

 a road between Monroe and Toledo, O., 

 l>arallel with the present road and sepa- 

 rated from it by a narrow parking. 

 The speed limit on the new road is to 

 1)0 forty miles per hour. 



Florists in all parts of the country 

 have been liberal in their cash and 

 stock contributions to aid A. D. King, 

 of Mattoon, 111., to reestablish liimself 

 in business. The King greenhouse range 

 and home were completely destroyed by 

 the tornado of May 26, and through the 

 efforts of J. F. Ammann, secretary of 

 the Illinois State Florists' Association, 

 the cash receipts to date have mounted 

 to $259, in addition to quantities of 

 stock. 



