NOVSMBBB 21, 1918. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



Herbert and Guy Bate, of Newton 

 Falls, were visitors last week. 



W. r. B. 



BOOHESTEB, N. T. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in the 

 local market since the last report. 

 Weather conditions are favoring us, No- 

 vember continuing open and clear. The 

 shipping demand continues brisk, with 

 plenty of stock on hand. The health 

 department reports that the epidemic of 

 influenza is well under control and each 

 day the reports of new victims are 

 smaller. Funeral work has fallen off 

 considerably and conditions are getting 

 back to normal. The chrysanthemum 

 season is now at its height and each 

 store is almost a flower show in itself. 

 Wonderful blooms are seen, including 

 yellow and white Turner, Appleton, 

 Bonnaffon, Golden Gleam, Maud Dean, 

 Queen, Eager, Harvard and Chieftain. 

 According to report, the trade expects to 

 be well taken care of in mums for the 

 Thanksgiving trade. The growers re- 

 port heavy stocks and the later varie- 

 ties will be plentiful by that time. The 

 outlook for pompons is encouraging. 

 Plenty of good stock continues to ar- 

 rive daily. Prices are normal. The 

 supply of carnations is increasing week- 

 ly and fairly good stock is seen. Violets 

 are of splendid quality, but do not sell 

 japidly. They are bringing from 50 

 cents to 75 cents per hundred. Easter 

 lilies are falling off in supply and they 

 are cheaper. A few good callas are 

 seen. All outdoor stock, except cosmos, 

 was frozen several days ago. Thus 

 we are relying entirely on inside- 

 grown stock. The supply of roses is 

 equivalent to the demand. Stock is 

 good, with clean foliage. Short-stemmed 

 stock is more plentiful and sells well. 

 Bed roses have been good sellers this 

 week, both in bouquets and basket work. 

 Tied with the tricolor ribbon, they have 

 been popular indeed. Ophelia and Sun- 

 burst always find a ready sale. Orchids 

 meet with only a small demand. Bou- 

 vardia in white and colors is seen, but 

 the colored does not sell so readily. 

 There is a noticeable demand for potted 

 stock. Cyclamens, pompons, Primula ob- 

 conica and begonias are most prominent. 

 The demand for asparagus continues 

 good. SmUax and other greens receive 

 a fair demand. Supplies of all kinds 

 are plentiful at the wholesalers' and a 

 good amount of business along this line 

 has been noticed of late. 



Various Notes. 



Lieutenant Sims, well known among 

 the local florists, and a brother-in-law 

 of Oliver Boucher, is reported killed in 

 action in France recently. He was as- 

 signed to the 108th Infantry and had 

 seen considerable service. He was well 

 liked by his comrades and they enjoyed 

 being under his command. 



George Pantos, who for the last year 

 or so has occupied the flower stand at 

 the corner of Main and Clinton streets, 

 has sold his business to Collates Bros, 

 and in the near future will open a flower 

 store in Lynn, Mass. 



Visitors to the trade last week were: 

 Richard H. McKerr ancl daughter, of 

 Canandaigua, N. Y.; Milton Selinka, of 

 Schloss Bros., Ribbons, Inc., New York, 

 and Morris Cohen, of Cohen & Hiller, 

 New York. 



Hugo Teute is cutting some wonder- 

 ful white and yellow Turner mums, 

 which are bringing him real money. 

 They are large and sell rapidly. His 

 other varieties are also in fine shape and 

 he is cutting heavily from these. 



The chrysanthemum show which has 

 been held at the store of George T. 

 Boucher during the whole of this week 

 has proved a great success. The store 

 has recently been redecorated, and for 

 this special occasion white lattice 

 brackets have been placed close to the 

 ceiling, from which are suspended 

 branches of brown oak. Many bright- 

 colored Japanese lanterns are hung in 

 the store and also in the windows. The 

 collection of chrysanthemums is inter- 

 esting, ranging from miniature types to 

 the largest specimen Turners. Beauti- 

 ful baskets of fruit and flowers, as well 

 as small gourds filled with strawflow- 

 ers, are shown. The management is to 

 be congratulated on such a splendid dis- 

 play. 



Walter La Vigne, son of Frank La 

 Vigne, who enlisted in the Aerial School 

 of Photography at Kodak park and 

 graduated recently, is stationed at Call 

 Field, Texas. He writes home saying 

 that he enjoys the life. 



All the florists closed their stores at 

 noon November 11, when the glorious 

 news of the signing of the armistice 

 was made known. Never in the history 

 of the city has a bigger crowd collected 

 or a bigger celebration taken place. 



H. J. H. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



Business is good. The supply has 

 shortened up within the week and 

 everything that comes into the whole- 

 sale houses finds a good market. As far 

 as the supply is concerned. Thanksgiv- 

 ing prospects are not overbright. The 

 supply of chrysanthemums will be below 

 that of other years, for the reason that 

 practically all varieties generally used 

 for Thanksgiving will have been cut 

 by the end of this week and sent to 

 the market, as least so far as many local 

 growers are concerned. Of course there 

 will be many, but there will not be so 

 many as in the past for that day. 



Roses are plentiful and meet with a 

 ready sale. The carnation supply is 

 fair. Pompon chrysanthemums are in 

 good supply and meet with a good mar- 

 ket. Callas may be had. Easter lilies 

 are scarce. Among other offerings are 

 sweet peas and single violets. Greens 

 are fairly plentiful. New bronze galax 

 is here. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Laura Murphy, of the Christmas 

 Fund committee for the boys in the 

 service, reports that up to this time 

 over $500 has been subscribed and paid 

 into the fund. Forty-two names have 

 been handed in up to this time. The 

 money for the boys who are overseas 

 will be mailed this week. 



C. E. Critchell has just received a new 

 stock of supplies for Christmas. During 

 the last several weeks he cleaned out 

 his entire stock of supplies which he 

 expected to use for the early winter and 

 Christmas demand. 



William Mayhall has received honor- 

 able discharge from the Artillery Offi- 

 cers' Training School, which he was 

 scheduled to enter November 21. 



Miss Fannie D. White, of Lexington, 

 Ky., when in town this week, reported 

 that she had sold her place to L. A. 

 Fennel, of Cynthiana, Ky., and that the 

 latter already had taken possession. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Kyrk have the 

 sympathy of their friends in their be- 

 reavement in the death of F. W. Bur- 

 chard, Mr. Kyrk's brother-in-law, for- 

 merly of Tiffin, O. 



J. A. Peterson & Sons have an ex- 

 cellent lot of cyclamens and begonias 

 ready for shipping. They expect to dis- 

 pose of every one of them by the time 

 the holidays come around. 



Among recent visitors were Robert 

 Shoch, representing the M. Rice Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. Barber, of the 

 Jones-Russell Co., Cleveland, O.; W. C. 

 Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., and G. W. 

 Frisch, Dayton, O. C. H. H. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



With the waning of the epidemic the 

 volume of funeral work has decreased, 

 but there is still a good deal to be done 

 in this line. Transient trade is fair at 

 present, but not in comparison with pre- 

 war conditions. 



Mums are arriving in quantities suffi- 

 cient for the demand and the quality of 

 the stock is excellent. The number of 

 varieties is larger than in former sea- 

 sons. Cosmos is still good, but shows 

 signs of being past its prime. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Manda, of Valley road, West 

 Orange, N. J., a grower of orchids, has 

 developed a new type of this flower 

 which he has named Sergeant Manda, 

 after his son, Edward A. Manda, who 

 is a sergeant in the service overseas and 

 was recently reported wounded. The 

 orchid is a small bloom of reddish brown 

 color. 



Now that peace seems at hand, New- 

 ark florists are looking forward to the 

 steamboat basket trade again. Before 

 the war some of the trade enjoyed a 

 brisk business in baskets of flowers for 

 people leaving New York for Europe. 



R. B. M. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Business continues good, the number 

 of funerals still being slightly above 

 normal, causing stock of all kinds to 

 clean up well at satisfactory prices. 

 There are few novelties in the market, 

 but everything finds a ready sale. Chrys- 

 anthemums are now at their zenith and 

 are among the best features. They 

 bring from 50 cents to $1 per dozen on 

 sprays and $1 to $4 per dozen on single 

 blooms; roses sell for 5 to 12 cents and 

 carnations 2 to 5 cents. The demand for 

 mums was considerably accelerated dur- 

 ing the latter part of the week by the 

 annual chrysanthemum exhibition at 

 Narragansett hotel by the Rhode Island 

 Horticultural Society. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Smith, of Washington street, 

 was a business visitor in Boston last 

 week. 



Frederick Dietz, of French street, 

 made a business trip to New York last 

 week. 



H. M. Robinson, Jr., of Boston, Mass., 



