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The Florists^ Review 



April 10, 1919. 



L. H. Kyrk furnished carnations for 

 the Rotary Club, of which he is a mem- 

 ber, used to shower the members of the 

 136th Artillery, which was welcomed 

 here April 4. E. G. Gillett and the Wil- 

 liam Murphy C!o. assisted Mr. Kyrk. 



R. Witterstaetter has an excellent lot 

 of potted roses, as well as hydrangeas, 

 for Easter business. 



C. E. Critchell has been having a 

 strong demand for hanging baskets and 

 green sheet moss during the last fort- 

 night. 



The Eck brothers, who have returned 

 from service in the army, are opening a 

 retail flower store on Vine street, above 

 Twelfth street. 



Among recent visitors were W. G. 

 Matthews, of Dayton, O.; Charles P. 

 Brunner, of Springfield, O.; Fred Rupp, 

 of Lawrenceburg, Ind., and Joseph H. 

 Hill, of Richmond, Ind. C. H. H. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



A week of rather cool weather, with 

 little sunshine, reduced the supplies of 

 cut flowers quite materially and, as a 

 consequence, prices advanced, especially 

 on roses and carnations. Roses stiffened 

 after April came in and have held their 

 advance. Milder weather, with clear 

 skies, naturally will cause a reaction. 

 On short-stemmed stock, prices doubled 

 and all grades made good advances. 

 Where a week ago prices on short- 

 stemmed flowers were from $1 to $2 per 

 hundred, with slow trade at these prices, 

 the same grades now readily sell at $3 

 to $4, with one or two varieties bringing 

 $5. The quality of roses is now fine and 

 all flowers are of an extra fine color. 

 Columbia, Ophelia, Russell, Hadley, 

 Shawyer and Miller are great favorites. 

 The Killarneys sell lower than other 

 varieties. Carnations have braced up 

 and $4 was bottom price April 5 and 7, 

 with fancies like Good Cheer and Laddie 

 selling for $8 and $10 per hundred. 



Violets are getting fewer and are of 

 poorer quality, but sweet peas are fine 

 and are selling well. 



Lilies are scarce and dear; callas are 

 abundant and moderate in price. Dutch 

 bulbous flowers realize high prices. 

 Snapdragon cleans up better, while both 

 marguerites and pansies have had good 

 calls. Some nice Gypsophila elegans is 

 arriving and sells well. Cattleyas are 

 scarce and there is a reduced supply of 

 other orchids. There is a fair supply 

 of valley, with but little call for it. Pot 

 plants are of fine quality and are meet- 

 ing with an excellent demand. Prac- 

 tically every Easter variety is now ob- 

 tainable. 



New riorists' Organization. 



About 100 members of the florists' 

 trade, including wholesalers, retailers, 

 growers and salesmen, met at the Bos- 

 ton City Club April 1 to discuss prob- 

 lems pertaining to the trade and, after 

 partaking of an excellent dinner and 

 listening to a number of persuasive 

 speeches, voted to form an organization 

 for the betterment of all branches of 

 the trade. The name of the new organi- 

 zation will be the Boston Florists' As- 

 sociation. Membership will be confined 

 to the trade. Officers were elected as 

 follows: President, Henry Penn; vice- 

 president, W. H. Elliott; treasurer, W. 

 C. Stickel; financial secretary, J. Frank 

 Edgar; recording secretary, E. F. Gor- 



ney. Another meeting will be held soon 

 and will, it is hoped, put the association 

 on a permanent basis. 



There has been need of such an as- 

 sociation in Boston for many years. It 

 is one which is expected to iron out 

 differences and harmonize all elements 

 in the trade. The mere election of offi- 

 cers will mean little, however, if these 

 men are not supported by the rank and 

 file. The Boston Retail Florists' Club 

 started off with considerable eclat, but 

 has been in a comatose condition for a 

 long time. If all elements in the trade 

 will come out and support the new as- 

 sociation, it should prove of consider- 

 able value to all its members. 



Spring Show in 1920. 



The committee of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society on prizes and ex- 

 hibitions has practically completed the 

 schedule for the spring flower show of 

 1920. The dates will be March 24 to 28. 

 Orchids will be a great feature and 

 $4,000 in prizes will be offered for them 

 alone. For a commercial group covering 

 250 square feet, premiums of $500, $300 

 and $200 are offered. There are several 

 other group classes and numerous classes 

 for twelve, six and single specimens, 

 which take in practically every impor- 

 tant orchid genus. 



Other important features of this show 

 will be rock gardens and rose gardens, 

 in addition to the usual wide assortment 

 of spring flowering plants. Schedules 

 will be ready during the present month. 



Various Notes. 



William B. Morris, of Wellesley, has 

 had remarkable success with carnations 

 this season and no finer flowers come 

 into the Boston market than those sent 

 by him. Mr. Morris was formerly a 

 rose specialist and planted his carna- 

 tions in the old rose soil. In this they 

 have made surprising growth. He has 

 over 50,000 plants. Of Ward 10,000 are 

 grown and they do so well that 15,000 

 will be planted next season. Beacon, 

 Benora, Matchless, Pink Delight and 

 Fenn are other sorts grown. Doris will 

 be planted next season and one or two 

 others, if Mr. Morris can secure stock. 



At the next meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club, April 15, George 

 N. Smith, of the Wellesley Nurseries, 

 will give an illustrated lecture on 

 "Community Betterment," which will 

 prove of great value to every gardener 

 and florist who has any planting to do. 

 There will be much business of impor- 

 tance to be given attention at this 

 meeting. 



T. F. Galvin, Inc., at the Park street 

 store, has a notable display of choice 

 flowering plants. One window is de- 

 voted to roses; others to French hy- 

 drangeas, including big specimens in 

 tubs; acacias, ericas, rhododendrons, 

 genistas and deciduous flowering shrubs. 



William Hannan & Son, of Dorches- 

 ter, has some 10,000 cold storage lilies 

 in good shape for Easter. They have 

 a large stock of bulbous plants in pans. 



The Welch Bros. Co. is making a 

 handsome display of well-grown Easter 

 plants and their growers promise them 

 a big cut of roses, carnations and other 

 flowers for the great flower carnival. 



All the seed houses are busily em- 

 ployed now and obliged to work over- 

 time to keep abreast of orders. Far 

 more flower seeds are being sold than a 

 year ago and there is a big call for 

 nursery stock of all kinds. War gar- 



den orders are somewhat decreased, but 

 many thousands of small growers are 

 planting gardens again. 



A. A. Pembroke, of North Beverly, 

 finds Good Cheer the best paying carna- 

 tion on his establishment. George Gor- 

 don, who handles Mr. Pembroke's 

 flowers, says Good Cheer has averaged 

 at least $8 per hundred for the entire 

 season to date and he never has as many 

 flowers as customers want. 



Neil E. Boyle is cutting heavy crops 

 of Stanley, Ophelia and the Killarneys. 

 His new sport from Stanley looks fine 

 and is sending up a great crop of strong, 

 succulent shoots from the base. 



The windows of Wax Bros., at 143 

 Tremont street, have a most charming 

 appearance these days. Huge bunches 

 of pansies are a feature, while anem- 

 ones, irises, tritonias, calendulas, ra- 

 nunculi and others suggestive of spring 

 are attractively arranged. 



F. E. Palmer, of Brookline, has a 

 handsome lot of flowering plants for 

 Easter in his Newton street greenhouses. 

 Included are rambler roses, French hy- 

 drangeas, Dutch bulbs, azaleas, genistas 

 and herbaceous calceolarias. The latter 

 are fine, stocky plants. A batch of 

 3,000 cyclamens for next season looks 

 fine. Mr. Palmer has an attractive nurs- 

 ery here and with George B. Palmer, 

 his eldest son, as landscape chief, his 

 business in this line shows a steady ex- 

 pansion. 



Lively & Bond, of Holbrook, are hav- 

 ing a successful season with callas, 

 Dutch bulbs and carnations. Of the 

 latter. Pink Delight, Matchless, Belle 

 Washburn, Beacon and Ward are grown. 

 Mr. Lively says that any scarlet car- 

 nation which will beat Beacon has to 

 "travel some." 



At Penn's this week one window is 

 devoted to begonias, mostly Rex varie- 

 ties, planted in beds with green moss- 

 covered walks between them. All are 

 named and the exhibit is both unique 

 and educational. 



The Quidnick Greenhouses, Quidnick, 

 R. I., are having an excellent season 

 with roses. They have especially good 

 Ophelia, Shawyer, Double White Killar- 

 ney and Hoosier Beauty. 



The W. W. Edgar Co. has a fine stock 

 of cold storage lilies for Easter; also 

 roses in abundance, genistas, azaleas, 

 lilacs, rhododendrons, bulbous plants 

 and hard-wooded stock. They already 

 are nearly sold out. W. N. C. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The Market. 



Business continues quite good and the 

 bright, warm days have brought on 

 plenty of stock with which to do busi- 

 ness. 



Roses have finally become plentiful 

 and are priced at $3 per hundred and 

 up. These are to be had in almost all 

 varieties. Carnations are abundant and 

 in good demand, ranging in quality and 

 price from $3 to $6. Lilies are equal to 

 the demand. 



Sweet peas are in large supply, but 

 are readily utilized. These are in spe- 

 cial favor along with various spring 

 bulbous flowers for corsages and socitS 

 affairs. The latter are becoming more 

 numerous and the next two months bid 

 fair to set a record, so far as social 

 affairs are concerned. 



Funeral work has been unusually 

 heavy and flowers for the ill have been 

 in constant demand. 



