APRIL 10, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



35 



Alfred Broman. 



Alfred Broman, for the last ten years 

 foreman for the J. S. "Wilson Floral 

 Co., of Des Moines, la., died suddenly 

 April 3. Death was attributed to heart 

 failure. Mr. Broman was found dead 

 in his room early in the morning by his 

 landlady. 



Mr. Broman was 60 years old and a 

 native of Norway. He came to the 

 United States twenty-six years ago. He 

 had been in the business of growing 

 flowers all of his life and, before taking 

 the position with the Des Moines con- 

 cern, owned and operated a greenhouse 

 in Independence, Mo. 



Surviving Mr. Broman are a brother, 

 P. Broman, of Chicago, and a daughter, 

 thought to be living in Kansas City, Mo. 



Funeral services were held and burial 

 made in Kansas City, Mo., April 7. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



After a dullness extending over sev- 

 eral days, the market became quite ac- 

 tive during the last two days of last 

 week. In a measure, the condition was 

 accounted for by a shortening, to the 

 point of passing, of the supply of bulb- 

 ous flowers and a diminished supply of 

 carnations, with, perhaps, a stimulation 

 of the general demand, which had been 

 quite sluggish for a time. This week 

 opened with a continuance of these con- 

 ditions and arrivals in all lines were 

 on the short side. 



Boses continue plentiful, but clear- 

 ances are not difficult. Prices are quite 

 well maintained and quality is good. 

 Yellow varieties are scarcer, but this 

 fact does not appear to occasion con- 

 cern on the part of buyers. American 

 Beauties are in fair supply, with the 

 top grade at 50 cents, a normal figure. 

 Other varieties are fairly even in sup- 

 ply, with short grades becoming more 

 and more abundant. 



Arrivals of carnations are not so 

 heavy as they have been of late and 

 prices have stiffened in consequence. 

 The best stock brings as high as 8 

 •cents, according to variety, but the gen- 

 eral range may be said to be 3 cents to 

 6 cents. 



Orchids are not in particularly good 

 supply. In cattleyas, the general qual- 

 ity of arrivals is rather low. While 

 the top-grade flowers of Mossiae occa- 

 sionally bring as much aiHl each, the 

 next grade moves at 60 lents or less, 

 with inferior grades down to 40 cents 

 and even less. The general grades of 

 gardenias move within a range of $3 to 

 $5 per dozen, with special grades at $6 

 to $9. 



Lilies are plentiful at prices ranging 

 from 10 cents to 15 cents. There is 

 considerable speculation as to what 

 these will bring at Easter, but it is 

 known that a number of orders have 

 been booked at $25 per hundred, with 

 no difficulty in the way of placing fur- 

 ther orders. Lily of the valley is plen- 

 tiful, but the quality is inferior. Prices 

 range from 1 cent to 4 cents. A few 

 rubrums are to be had at 8 cents to 

 10 cents. 



Tulips have almost passed, with the 

 exception, of course, of Darwins, which 

 are now coming in. These command as 

 high as $1 per dozen for the best. Nar- 

 cissi, too, glass-grown, are about done, 

 but the best of the final shipments are 

 moving at 75 cents per dozen. 



Spanish irises are plentiful, as are 

 sweet peas, pansies, mignonette, daisies, 

 callas, gladioli, wallflowers, delphiniums, 

 lupines and ranunculi. Scabious and 

 camellias also are among the offerings. 



The Victory Loan. 



Quotas for the Victory loan have 

 been assigned to the florists' and allied 

 trades of New York and Brooklyn, and 

 the organization of committees has 

 started. Philip F. Kessler will be chair- 

 man of the New York committee and 

 William A. Phillips chairman of the 

 Brooklyn committee. The latter commit- 

 tee also includes the whole of Long 

 Island in its working territory. 



In the last loan drive similar commit- 

 tees greatly exceeded their quotas and 

 it is expected that in the forthcoming 

 drive the efforts of the new committees 

 will be rewarded by like successes. 



riorists' Club. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held in the club's 

 rooms. Grand Opera House building, 

 Twenty-third street and Eighth avenue, 

 on the evening of April 14. At this 

 meeting, it is expected, the reply of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to the brief 

 presented to him a few weeks ago will 

 be formally presented and discussed. 



Chairman Roman J. Irwin, of the ex- 

 hibition committee, is making an effort 

 to stage a fine exhibit of plants and 

 flowers at this meeting. 



Schedule Committee Meeting. 



The schedule committee, having in 

 charge the preparation of the schedule 

 for the 1920 International Flower Show, 

 is to meet at the secretary's office, 1170 

 Broadway, April 14, to discuss prelim- 

 inaries. 



Various Notes. 



There was exhibited, April 5, in the 

 window of Joseph S. Fenrich, 51 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, a vase of the new 

 rose, Frank W. Dunlop, raised by John 

 H. Dunlop, of Toronto, Can. It is a 

 cross of the roses Mrs. George Shawyer 

 and Mrs. Charles Russell. Later in the 

 day the exhibit was to be seen in the 

 window of one of the stores of the Colo- 

 nial Florists. 



E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., is 

 spending a few days in the city, calling 

 on the trade. He has been making some 

 side trips, one of which was a visit to 

 Hadley, Mass., where he saw some new 

 roses in the houses of the Montgomery 

 Co., Inc., although they were in the last 

 stages of propagation. While privileged 

 only to see lateral blooms, he was im- 

 pressed. "Anyway," he says, "any- 

 thing Montgomery puts forward is al- 

 most sure to be right." Incidentally, 

 it may be said that Hadley has been a 

 Mecca of late, almost every visitor in- 

 terested in roses having that town on 

 his itinerary. 



A visit to the plant growing estab- 

 lishment of Louis Dupuy, at Whitestone, 

 N. Y., discloses some fine Easter stock, 

 finished in the well known Easter style. 

 While to describe the various items 

 would be merely to catalogue them, a 

 word must be said for the potted roses. 



which are superb. Chief among them 

 are the varieties Tausendschoen and Ex- 

 celsa, the former in a strong pink color, 

 evidently a selected strain, and the lat- 

 ter generously budded, the open flowers 

 and clean foliage at once testifying to 

 the advantage the variety has over the 

 aid Crimson Rambler, when used under 

 similar conditions. A surprise was a 

 generous bench of Lilium candidum in 

 pots, timed just right for Easter flower- 

 ing. It was a disappointment not to 

 have seen Mrs. Dupuy, who, since her 

 return from Indian River, Fla., where 

 she and her husband recently spent a 

 winter vacation, has been quite ill. Ed- 

 ward Dupuy, since his return from 

 France, has been visiting the trade in 

 distant sections and now is actively en- 

 gaged in his father's business. 



Charles Weber, of Lynbrook, N. Y., 

 is cutting some fine Laddie carnations. 

 He speaks highly of this variety and, 

 evidently, it appears to be up to the 

 standard he looks for. 



Frank R. Pierson, of Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 was present at the meeting, April 3, of 

 the Horticultural Club of Boston, on 

 which occasion E. H. Wilson, the well 

 known plant collector, was welcomed 

 home from an expedition in eastern 

 lands. E. G. Hill also was present, 

 staying over for the occasion while re- 

 turning from Hadley, Mass., to New 

 York. J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Last week's market showed strong 

 symptoms of spring fever. There was 

 not a large quantity of stock in the 

 market, but the demand was what our 

 former associate, W. E. Lynch, delighted 

 to describe as lackadaisical, judged by 

 this season 's standards. The fact of the 

 matter seems to be that flowers are 

 much more plentiful in all that part of 

 the United States tributary to the Chi- 

 cago market and that ordinary demands 

 can, in greater part, be met from home 

 supply. The retailers who look to this 

 market for their stock still are ordering 

 in the usual quantities, but those who 

 call on Chicago only in case of having 

 business exceeding their own production 

 are not being heard from so frequently 

 as earlier in the season. The result is 

 that there is considerable variation in 

 the reports of wholesalers, depending on 

 what class of buyers they cater to. 



The market weakened on roses more 

 than it did on any other item. Rose 

 crops are rather on the down grade, but 

 there were more roses than the market 

 required last week and the condition 

 still prevails, for spring weather has re- 

 turned. While quoted prices for se- 

 lected stock have not been greatly af- 

 fected, the market does not clean up 

 as it did earlier in the season and the 

 average price is pulled down by the 

 necessity of forcing a sale on the left- 

 over receipts. In a general way the qual- 

 ity of roses is fine. This is especially 

 true of Beauty, Russell, Ophelia and 

 Columbia. 



Carnations have held up splendidly in 

 price considering the enervated condi- 

 tion of the market. There have been 

 times when it was difficult to find carna- 

 tions of shipping quality. 



Sweet peas have become one of the 

 important items. There are large quan- 

 tities on the market and the quality in 

 most cases is excellent. They are alL 



