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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBBH 4, 1917. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The tide turned in the cut flower 

 market last week and the sales Septem- 

 ber 29 proved that the season had be- 

 gun. Fortunately for the retailers, the 

 frosts have not yet seriously injured 

 outdoor flowers, and great quantities of 

 these were used to fill the gap caused by 

 limited receipts of roses and carnations. 

 The aster season practically is over. A 

 few fine flowers still arrive and are 

 quickly absorbed. Another week will 

 undoubtedly see the last of the asters. 

 The same may be said of gladioli, which 

 are about finished after a most success- 

 ful season. Dahlias, untouched by the 

 frosts, are arriving in quantities. 



The chrysanthemum season is on in 

 earnest. The finest Golden Glows the 

 market has seen in some time arrived 

 last week, and fancy prices were paid 

 for the best of them. There also were 

 limited arrivals of Smith's Advance, 

 October Frost and Chrysolora mums. 

 Carnations are short in arrivals and in 

 stems. A few have sold at $1.50 per 

 hundred, but $1 has been the general 

 quotation. Lilies are down to $5 per 

 hundred for the selects, and $2 and $3 

 per hundred for the rubrums and lower 

 grades of longiflorums. Valley holds 

 steady at $6 per hundred for the best 

 and there is little of it at that price. 



Orchid shipments have been increas- 

 ing and prices are correspondingly 

 'weaker. None brought more than 50 

 cents each in the market September 

 29. Violets are here, and singles are 

 in demand. Fifty cents per hundred 

 was the top price. There is an abun- 

 dance of hydrangeas, cosmos, tritomas, 

 tuberoses and zinnias. Eoses were in 

 good demand September 29. The best 

 American Beauties were quoted at $30 

 and $35 per hundred. Other varieties 

 also were higher in price and there was 

 no oversupply. 



Various Notes 



The dahlias displayed at the shows 

 of the American Dahlia Society and the 

 American Institute last week, adorned 

 the show windows of several of the 

 stores this week. George L. Stillman's 

 exhibit of more than lUO distinct vari- 

 eties was shown at Alex. McConnell's. 



The New York Florists' Club will 

 meet at its rooms in the Grand Opera 

 House building Monday evening, Oc- 

 tober 8. There will be a display of 

 early chysanthcmums, while publicity 

 will be the principal topic of discussion. 



Several New York retailors and sup- 

 ply men attended the Y. T. I), meeting 

 in Detroit, October 2 and 3. 



Dr. W. C. Deming gave an interesting 

 lecture on ** Growing Nut Trees" at 

 Bronx park September 29. Dr. Stout 

 will lecture at the same place on "Au- 

 tumn Coloration" October 6. 



The arrival of Dutch bulbs caused 

 R. J. Irwin to postpone liis liunting trip 

 to Canada for a week so that he could 

 give his personal attention to shipping 

 the orders. 



There was a special mooting of the 

 New York Wholesale Florists' Associa- 

 tion September 26. In the absence of 

 President Dailledouze and Secretary 

 Bigby, Vice-president Badgley presid- 

 ed and made a strong address in favor 

 of a continuance of the Sunday closing 

 rule. Only one of the fifty members 

 of the organization so far has opposed 

 the idea. It was determined to con- 



tinue the experiment until November 

 at least. 



Walter Siebrecht left September 30 

 for California. A large shipment of or- 

 chid plants preceded him to Pasadena, 

 where a greenhouse has already been 

 secured. Mr, Siebrecht will be asso- 

 ciated with his brother, Henry Sie- 

 brecht, Jr., in the orchid growing en- 

 terprise. 



Joseph Fenrich has leased the first 

 floor next his store and says he is to 

 have shipments from Frank M. Mahon, 

 Charles H. Totty and the Duckham- 

 Pierson Co. 



The next meeting of the American 

 Dahlia Society will be held at the Grand 

 hotel. New York, November 8. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., president of 

 the American Dahlia Society, gave two 

 stereopticon lectures last week, one at 

 Flushing, L. I., and the other at Law- 

 rence, L. J. His patriotic appeal to the 

 ladies present aroused great enthusiasm. 



Miss Florence Cohen, bookkeeper for 

 Lecakes, has returned from a vacation 

 in Sullivan county, N. Y. 



Percy Rigby and family have return- 

 ed from a two weeks' vacation in the 

 Adirondack mountains. 



James Hart, of Madison, N. J., who 

 had just recovered from a fall in which 

 he sustained a broken rib, was struck 

 by an automobile last week. One rib 

 was broken and Mr. Hart is believed to 

 have suffered internal injuries. He was 

 taken to his home at Madison. Mr. 

 Hart is one of the oldest retailers in 

 New York and, because of his age, the 

 injuries are serious. 



William P. Ford is again in a hospi- 

 tal, it having been found necessary to 

 perform a second operation on his knee. 

 He expects to be back at his desk in 

 ten days. 



The Cadieux Co. had a beautiful 

 dahlia table decoration at a dinner giv- 

 en for a number of hotel men last week. 

 This company expects to open a branch 

 store on Madison avenue early in No- 

 vember. 



W. H. Greene, a grower of Talla- 

 hassee, Fla., was a visitor last week. 



Jack Trepel, of Brooklyn, had the 



misfortune to have his automobile stol- 

 en September 29. 



C. C. Trepel *8 new conservatory on 

 the roof of Bloomingdale 's has been 

 completed. The store also has been en- 

 larged and now has double its former 

 capacity. Mr, Trepel has added an- 

 other automobile to his delivery equip- 

 ment. 



William Kessler entertained his of- 

 fice force and a number of growers on 

 an outing last week. 



William 01m, now with the Cadieux 

 Co., is a son of Matthias 01m, who was 

 in the florists' business at Astoria, L. 

 I., for twenty-five years and at Newark, 

 N. J., for nearly as long a time, Mr. 

 Olm, Jr., formerly was with the Bogart 

 Co., and later with Woodrow & Mar- 

 ketos. 



A. H. Pike, recently with Wadley & 

 Smythe, and before that with the Bryn 

 Mawr Flower Shop, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 enlisted with the Canadian troops and 

 has gone to Europe. He has the rank 

 of sergeant. Mrs. Pike has taken a po- 

 sition at the Wadley & Smythe store 

 on Fifth avenue. 



W. A. Manda has extended an in- 

 vitation to the members of the New 

 York Florists' Club to visit his con- 

 servatories at South Orange, N. J., with 

 the club committee, which will make 

 an inspection of the seedling dahlias 

 there. 



The Florists' Employees' Association 

 will meet the first of each month during 

 the fall and winter seasons. 



Several Long Island growers spent 

 September 23 on the sound, motor boat- 

 ing and fishing. A considerable catch 

 was reported. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. re- 

 ceived a shipment from Danbury, 

 Conn., September 20 that had left that 

 place September 5. This is an extraor- 

 dinary instance of the delay in express 

 shipments, which has caused the florists 

 much trouble recently. 



Jack Trepel will open his second 

 store in Brooklyn this month. It will 

 be located on Fifty-third street. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS 



Rice Bros., of Minneapolis, are look- 

 ing for larger quarters to accommodate 

 their expanding supply department. A. 

 C. Rice has purchased a summer home 

 within motoring distance and welcomes 

 trade visitors on week-end visits. 



The old convention garden, planted 

 and maintained under the supervision 

 of Theodore Wirth, park superintendent 

 of Minneapolis, is one of the beauty 

 spots of the citv. 



The Kirkwood Floral Co., of Des 

 Moines, is making an attractive show- 

 ing of early chrysanthemums, Golden 

 Glow, October Frost and Smith 's Ad- 

 vance. The season is opening fully up 

 to expectations. 



Autumnal window displays are well 

 made by the Crozier Flower Shop, J. E. 

 Lapos and I. N. Kramer & Son, of Cedar 

 Rapids, la. As the three are located in 

 one block, there is a friendly rivalry, 

 each trying to excel, and the public ap- 

 preciates their efforts. 



Humboldt park, at Buffalo, has its 

 usual stock of high-grade chrysanthe- 

 mums, grown by C. H. Keitsch, in addi- 

 tion to many novelties introduced since 

 his advent. William Fitzwilliam ex- 

 pects to excel the exhibition of last 

 year, provided the necessary permit is 

 granted by the ' ' powers that be. " " The 

 public is expectant and must not be dis- 

 appointed," observed our friend, who 

 recalls with gusto his early experiences 

 in the botanic gardens of Dublin and 

 Harvard. 



Andrew Bather, of Clinton, la., 

 speaks highly of business. It has been 

 good right along, with funeral work at 

 times finding the supply of flowers rath- 

 er limited. 



The John R. Bather Co., of Clinton, 

 is cutting fine Golden Glow chrysanthe- 

 mums. Carnations have rather short 

 stems, but the demand is larger than 

 the supply. W. M. 



