APBiL 24, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Co. contemplates erecting a new build- 

 inj^ on the fifty feet of ground just east 

 of the present quarters. This will be 

 known as 1406 and 1408 Pine street. 

 The old building will be wrecked. It is 

 expected to have the new building com- 

 jiieted early in the fall. 



The Diemer Floral Co., on South 

 I, roadway, furnished a large banquet at 

 the Hotel Statler last week. There were 

 lifty tables, all handsomely decorated. 

 .^[rs. Diemer personally did the work. 



The inauguration of the newly elected 

 ( Ity aldermen, April 17, created consid- 

 erable business for the local florists, as 

 'he desks of the new members of the 

 loard were covered with large bouquets 

 t rom friends. 



At the funeral last week of Henry 

 J^ecker, known all over the country in 

 -porting circles as "Kid" Becker, there, 

 /ere many telegraph orders filled by 

 ocal florists. Orders came from many 

 )f the large cities throughout the coun- 

 iry. 



William Schray & Sons, John Held, 

 Oharles Beyer, F. J. Fillmore & Son and 

 iJeorge B. Windier are fully prepared 

 for the planting out season, with plenty 

 of excellent bedding stock and many 

 advance orders. 



Carr & Bichardson report a large Holy 

 Week plant trade. This firm also had a 

 large cut flower trade. 



Otto Sander was well pleased with his 

 first Easter at his new Seventh street 

 store. His pretty window displays are 

 big drawing cards. Transient trade this 

 season is better than ever. 



The officers of the Florists' Club will 

 meet this week, at which time a meeting 

 place will be selected for the next club 

 meeting, which is scheduled to be held 

 May 8. 



Easter business was extremely good 

 this year, according to Vincent Gorly, 

 of Grimm & Qorly. Everything in cut 

 flowers cleaned up and plants of all 

 kinds had a large demand, he states. 



Lily plants were extremely scarce this 

 year, but Scruggs- Vandervoort-Barney 

 had a few thousand, the bulk of them 

 in green bud. According to Julius 

 Schaflfer, they sold just the same. 



The retailers who advertise in the 

 pink pages of The Review say that they 

 handled more telegraph orders for 

 Easter than ever before. Orders came 

 from all parts of the United States. The 

 dealers give The Review credit for this 

 business. Plant orders, especially, were 

 large. 



According to the wholesalers, the new 

 plan of raising funds for publicity, as 

 requested by all the local florists' or- 

 ganizations, is working well, as only a 

 few of the retailers object to the addi- 

 tion of one per cent to their bills. The 

 same may be said of the growers, who 

 contribute one-half of one per cent of 

 their sales. J. J. 6. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Easter, 1919, has passed into history, 

 but it will long be remembered as being 

 unique in many respects. Everybody 

 had a good clean-up. Good prices pre- 

 vailed and weather conditions at the 

 end of the week were the best. The 

 florists and growers are now counting 

 the profits, while they take a breathing 

 spell before girding their loins for Me- 

 morial day, less than six weeks away. 



The florists of this city and vicinity 

 were confronted by the most difficult 



combination of conditions and circum- 

 stances imaginable. High prices and 

 curtailed supply of potted plants and 

 cut flowers, on one hand, and inclement 

 weather and a big telephone tie-up, on 

 the other, badly handicapped them. The 

 entire telephone system throughout New 

 England was put out of commission 

 April 15 by a strike of the operators. 

 The following day it began to rain and 

 continued to rain two days. With the 

 last two days preceding Easter warm, 

 bright and spring-like, business took a 

 boom that rapidly cleaned up everything 

 in sight. 



Prices almost reached record figures. 

 Carnations were 10 cents to 15 cents; 

 roses $6 to $20, with Columbia, Russell, 

 Ophelia, Shawyer and Hearst command- 

 ing the top prices. Daffodils were $4 

 to $6; lilies and callas, $35, and sweet 

 peas, $2 to $4. This resulted in re- 

 tailers getting from 50 cents to 80 cents 

 a bud for lilies; $2 to $12 a dozen for 

 roses; carnations, $2 to $3.50 a dozen; 

 lilies, $4 to $10 a pot. 



Various Notes. 



Lawrence Hay sold several hundred 

 fine ramblers in pots for Easter. 



Timothy O'Connor had the largest 

 stock of lilies and azaleas in town Eas- 

 ter. They came -from his own houses. 



Charles Smith kept three extra de- 

 livery trucks busy and had several ad- 

 ditional clerks because of the Easter 

 rush. 



Ed Brooke, of T. J. Johnston & Co., 

 said he was tired but satisfied because 



of the Easter business. He 1 ad several 

 large auto truck loads of potted plants 

 that he had brought from various parts 

 of New England. He had a big stock, 

 but it was too small for the demand. 



T. Peterson, Benefit street, did an 

 enormous Easter business, mostly with 

 high-priced stock. ' 



Cohen Bros., who recently took over 

 the greenhouses of E. Carl, did a good 

 Easter business. 



Macnair was so busy at both stores 

 on Broad street that he had to call in 

 several extra clerks. 



Johnston Bros., Dorrance street, were 

 overwhelmed with Easter orders and did 

 not get the last of the deliveries out 

 until nearly midnight of the day before. 



William Bowers reported that he could 

 have sold several times his Easter stock 

 if he could have obtained a supply. 



Miss Ellen O'Connor said Easter was 

 the biggest day ever. 



Philip Lavery, for many years with 

 James Canning and later with T. O 'Con- 

 nor, but now in charge of the green- 

 houses at Wallum Lake, was in the city 

 last week. 



The Newport Nursery Co. has added a 

 large two-ton automobile truck to its 

 delivery department. 



Alexander H. Johnston, -with George 

 Johnson & Son, is one of the principals 

 in the formation of a state branch of 

 the American Legion, an organization 

 of veterans of the world war. 



C. Warburton, of Fall River, Mass., 

 was a business visitor in this city last 

 week. W. H. M. 



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Adgate & Son, of Warren, O., express 

 satisfaction with the progress of busi- 

 ness. The death of several prominent 

 citizens has called for much floral work 

 of the highest order. Prospects for 

 Easter, both in stock and inquiry, augur 



well. 



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E. R. Fry, of Rochester, N. Y., re- 

 ports that business is excellent and 

 prospects for the spring business are 

 most encouraging. His store is well 

 filled with a large variety of blooming 

 plants, which have been selling well dur- 

 ing the last few weeks. 



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"The Posey Shop of G. W. Haas & 

 Son" is the sign upon the recently ac- 

 quired store at Meadville, Pa., which 

 is the converted lower front of a resi- 

 dence, in an ideal location next the post- 

 office. A double-fronted window was 

 put in, allowing for good display. A 

 mantel in the parlor is utilized for deco- 

 rations and even mock weddings among 

 the collegians are among the possibilities 

 to boost the. business. "I fully agree 

 with Henry Penn," said Mr. Haas, "in 

 maintaining that our slogan, 'Say It 

 with Flowers,' should be protected and 

 not burlesqued, as, for instance, per this 

 newspaper clipping, headed Milwaukee, 

 which says that the suggestion, 'Say 

 It with Flowers,' wrecked the marital 

 life of Joseph and Barbara Murarik. 

 The former averred, in his divorce peti- 

 tion, that Barbara had hurled flower 

 pots at him. Possibly the flowers were 

 artificial, but someone in Milwaukee 

 should 'get' that smart reporter." 



■"We were never so busy on funeral 

 work as of late," observed Henry J. 

 Krueger, of Meadville, Pa. The Krueger 

 family has the deep sympathy of the 

 trade in the loss of Mrs. Stanton, known 

 to her host of friends as "Minnie." 

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Manager George M. Geraghty, of Dun- 

 lop's, Toronto, Can., returned from an 

 eastern trip in time to join in welcom- 

 ing home a large body of Canadian 

 heroes. Mr, Dunlop prolonged his stay 

 to accompany Mrs. Dunlop on a visit to 

 her old home, in Nashua, N. H. The 

 recognition given by the New York Flo- 

 rists ' Club to the new rose, Frank M, 

 Dunlop, named in honor of the junior 

 Dunlop, the aviator, and the entertain- 

 ment of Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Geraghty, 

 were much enjoyed. J. A. Simmers is im- 

 porting in almost unlimited quantity 

 this season, anticipating a banner busi- 

 ness. As evidence of geographical ex- 

 tent, shipments of garden seed are made 

 to James Bay, situated 640 miles north 

 of Toronto. Manager A. W. Annandale 

 of the Steele-Briggs Seed Co., Ltd., ob- 

 served that whichever direction the 

 needle^ of the barometer points, both 

 countries are almost equally affected, so 

 closely are they associated. John Pur- 

 vis, manager of the William Rennie Co., 

 Ltd., excused himself for a few moments 

 to give personal attention to some im- 

 portant matters, handing me a copy of 

 The Review that had just arrived, with 

 the remark that "it is religiously pe- 

 rused and highly valued by us, as repre- 

 senting the pulse of the trade. ' ' 



W. M. 



