November 14, 1918. 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



R. L. Dunn, St. Catharines, Ont., vase 

 of a new chrysanthemum, a yellow sport 

 of William Turner, scoring eighty-five 

 points, preliminary certificate. 



The C. H. Totty Co., Madison, N. J., 

 vase of new rose, Premier, scoring 

 ninety-one points, preliminary certifi- 

 cate. 



Various Notes. 



Notice of the death of Charles R. 

 Miller will be found in the obituary 

 column of this issue. 



Joseph A, Manda, of West Orange, 

 N. J., was in Boston November 6, a 

 guest of the Horticultural Club. Ac- 

 cording to the Boston Transcript of 

 November 6, Mr. Manda is credited 

 with acquiring Cypripedium insigne 

 Sanderianum in London. 



W. C. Cook, who recently embarked 

 in business in Cleveland, O., is reported 

 to be a patient in a hospital in Newark, 

 N. J. He is remembered here as a 

 former salesman for Vaughan 's Seed 

 Store. 



There was a meeting of the directors 

 of the American Dahlia Societv at the 



Grand hotel November 6, at which were 

 present President Richard Vincent, Jr., 

 of White Marsh, Md., Secretary Lewis, 

 of New York, James Duffy, George Still- 

 man, Alfred H. Langjahr and George W. 

 Kerr. The finances of the society were 

 found to be in excellent shape. It was 

 arranged that the next annual meeting 

 and exhibition will be held in Syracuse, 

 N. Y., at the New York state fair, and 

 that sectional exhibitions be held in 

 connection with the show of the Con- 

 necticut Horticultural Society, in New 

 Haven, and the show of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, in Boston. 



Recent visitors were: F. C. W. Brown, 

 of the J. M. Gasser Co., Cleveland, O.; 

 Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass.; George 

 Stillman, Westerly, R. I.; George W. 

 Kerr, of W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; Richard Vincent, Jr., White 

 Marsh, Md., and R. L. Dunn, St. Cath- 

 arines, Ont. 



Henry Duncan, of Guara, Cuba, farm 

 engineer and horticulturist for the 

 United Fruit Co., was among the vis- 



itors at the meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club November 11, Mr. Dun- 

 can was an eyewitjiess of the sinking of 

 the British man-of-war Audacious off 

 the northern coast of Ireland, some time 

 ago. 



Morton F. Plant, a prominent exhib- 

 itor at the New York flower shows, died 

 last week. His exhibits were greatly 

 missed at the two shows just closed. 



The stores of many of the wholesalers 

 on Twenty-eighth street were gayly dec- 

 orated with iDunting November 11, in 

 celebration of the signing of the armis- 

 tice, ending the war. The day was ob- 

 served as a holiday, unofficially declared, 

 all business being suspended and the 

 populace rejoicing in unrestrained en- 

 thusiasm. 



In a fight last Thursday a man was 

 shot for the reason, it was given, that 

 he wore a yellow chrysanthemum above 

 a miniature American flag. The gen- 

 eral publicity given to the affair seemed 

 to affect somewhat seriously the sale of 

 yellow mums during the peace celebra- 

 tion. J. H. P. 



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SOUTHERN FLORIST SUSPENDS. 



It is announced that the Southern 

 Florist, published at Fort Worth, Tex., 

 has suspended publication. The journal 

 had been in existence a little more than 

 three vears. 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



Ever since the Charles W. Crouch 

 store was again taken over by the 

 Crouch family, business has been ex- 

 cellent. October was one of the most 

 successful months in the history of the 

 store. Not only was this true in the 

 amount of business done, but old friends 

 would drop in and say: "It certainly 

 looks good to see you folks back in the 

 game." This little greeting cannot be 

 estimated in dollars and cents, but the 

 good feeling brought so much business 

 that it was impossible to fill more or- 

 ders, although at one time the fourteen 

 employees of the store worked night and 

 day. We expect great things of the 

 flower business, especially since we have 

 secured the services of an expert grower 

 of mums, orchids and roses to take 

 charge of our greenhouses. 



W. H. Crouch. 



BIRMINGHAM'S BIG BUSINESS. 



No Shortage of Stock. 



Business with local florists through- 

 out October was unusually good, it be- 

 ing occasioned by the epidemic of in- 

 fluenza, which struck this district hard. 

 Practically every florist in Birming- 

 ham was hard pushed to keep up with or- 

 ders. The demand was heavy, not only 

 in Birmingham proper, but in the out- 

 lying districts for a radius of approxi- 

 mately 100 miles. In this district there 

 are many prosperous mining towns, 

 which called for much floral work dur- 

 ing the epidemic. Fortunately, there 

 was an abundance of roses, dahlias and 

 .mums from outdoors available, so that 



no serious shortage of flowers was notice- 

 able. Greens, however, were scarce and 

 such substitutes as cherry, laurel, arbor- 

 vitae, etc., were used to a large extent. 

 Since the epidemic abated business 

 has settled down to nearly normal again, 

 the demand still being for funeral work 

 principally, there being only a few so- 

 cial affairs and little prospect of much 

 in this line in the immediate future. 

 Outdoor flowers are still abundant, there 

 having been no killing frost as yet. 

 Chrysanthemums are fine and nearly all 

 of the local growers have good stocks of 

 both large flowers and pompons. 



Purely Personal. 



Miss Charlotte Black has recently re- 

 decorated her flower shop and it now 

 presents an attractive appearance. 



F. G. Kelly, the Ensley florist, has 

 recovered from the " flu " and is back 

 on the job again. Mr. Kelly is the only 

 local florist, so far as is known by the 

 writer, who had an attack. Through 

 the capable and energetic work of Mrs. 

 Kelly his business did not suffer dur- 

 ing his enforced absence. 



We might add that the stork visited 

 the writer's home November 3 and left 

 a fine 10-pound boy, who has been named 

 for his "dad," Oliver Weston Fraser. 

 This is the first boy and naturally we 

 are proud of him. O. W. Fraser. 



TAMPA, FLA. 



The Market. 



Business has been excellent during 

 the last month, the epidemic of influenza 

 creating a large amount of funeral work. 

 Locally grown flowers are, at this time 

 of the year, scarce and it was next to 

 impossible to secure enough stock to fill 

 orders. There are now a few gladioli, 

 roses and dahlias in the market, most of 

 which are shipped from the north. Re- 

 tail prices are as follows: White Kil- 

 larney roses, $3 to $5 per dozen; Russells, 



$4 to $7.50 per dozen and the larger 

 northern stock $8; fancy carnations, sf^ 

 per dozen. 



Various Notes. 



During the rush the Knull Floral Co. 

 had all the work its staff could do, and 

 had to turn down many orders through 

 lack of stock, time and extra help. For- 

 tunately, none of its force had the in- 

 fluenza, only bad colds, but all were 

 worn out from the long, strenuous rush 

 and the constant hurry. This is the 

 only concern in Tampa that ships stock 

 regularly throughout the year. The 

 Knull company's new catalogue is now 

 on the press and will be distributed 

 soon. It will contain thirty illustra- 

 tions. 



Arthur Dervas reports that a few 

 mums will be ready soon, but on account 

 of being flooded with salt water by 

 the high tide during the recent storm the 

 crop will be short. 



Anton Fiske, proprietor of the Tampa 

 Floral Co., reports that his concern 

 has been busy with funeral work. 



The florists' trade of Tampa is look- 

 ing forward to an excellent season, as 

 it is expected the number of tourists will 

 be large. Knull Floral Co. 



HOUSTON, TEX. 



Business Breaks Record. 



With the passing of October, there is 

 little doubt that it was the largest 

 month's business with all the florists of 

 the city that has ever been experienced 

 in the history of Houston. We had a 

 continuous run of funerals from October 

 3 until the end of the month. Flow- 

 ers were scarce. The epidemic took off 

 some of our best known men and con- 

 sequently there was a heavy run of 

 funeral work. It should certainly put 

 the florists in a good condition to start 

 off the winter's work. 



Mums are coming in quantities. There 



