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The Florists^ Review 



NOVBMBER 28, 1918. 



The victory peace festival at the Hip- 

 podrome November 24 in aid of the 

 American Fund for French Wounded 

 was a huge success. All the boxes and 

 reserved seats were sold days ahead. 

 Flowers played a prominent part in the 

 proceedings. A peace tableau was a 

 feature, the characters taken by promi- 

 nent society ladies; a group of flower 

 bearers, composed also of society ladies, 

 was prominent in the piece. Numbers of 

 society buds served as flower girls and 

 disposed of flowers among the audience. 

 The front page of the handsome program 

 carried an advertisement donated by 

 Frederic E. Newbold in compliment to 

 the florists of New York, with the 

 slogan, "Say It with Flowers," as the 

 head line. The receipts from the sale 

 of flowers are to be applied toward the 

 maintenance of the ambulances pre- 

 sented to the fund by the New York 

 Florists' Club and the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York. Many florists sup- 

 plied flowers for the occasion, notably 

 W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J,; A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., and the 

 Duckham-Peirson Co., Madison, N. J. 



Sunday, November 24, was "Fathers' 

 day," the date being set by the Stars 

 and Stripes, the organ of the American 

 Expeditionary Forces, and the emblem 

 to be a rose of any color. As there was 

 no extra demand November 23 for roses, 

 it looks as though poor dad will have to 

 wait until next year, when the boys 

 have returned, before his festival will 

 be of much account. By that time the 

 bill which Representative J. Hampton 

 Moore, of Pennsylvania, introduced in 

 Congress as far back as 1913, designat- 

 ing the first Sunday in June as a day 

 to be hereafter observed as Fathers' 

 day, may be called up for action, but, 

 without doubt, the war has determined 

 the date. 



The first wedding of any note, at least 

 from a florist's point of view, since the 

 entry of this country into the war was 

 the Fleitman-Chambers ceremony, which 

 took place November 23 in the Collegiate 

 Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth avenue 

 and Forty-eighth street. The church 

 was decorated profusely with palms and 

 chrysanthemums. Florists will welcome 

 a return to lavish floral decoration on 

 wedding occasions. 



Prospects were good for a large sale 

 of flowers for Thanksgiving day cele- 

 brations. Never before were so many 

 public functions, dinner parties and en- 

 tertainments scheduled for this day, and 

 if flowers are used for a small part of 

 them only our supply will be used up 

 quickly. J. H. P. 



Central City, Neb. — J. W. Lawson 

 grows vegetables and flowers for the 

 market at his well stocked range. This 

 establishment has grown in a compara- 

 tively short time to one of the largest 

 and most thriving of its kind in the 

 state. 



Freeport, 111. — The Freeport Floral 

 Co. reports that November 11, which 

 witnessed a monster celebration in honor 

 of the signing of the armistice, brought 

 also the lifting of the ban on public 

 gatherings, which has been in force in 

 Freeport for four weeks. 



Winnetka, 111. — Henry Ilg, who al- 

 ways has done a nice business in this 

 prosperous suburb of Chicago, reports 

 that the business this autumn has ex- 

 ceeded everything in his experience and 

 that he looks forward to the largest 

 spring planting season on record. 



CINCINNATI. 



up quickly from day to day at L. H. 

 Kyrk's. C. H. H. 



The Market. 



Business is good, but the market ib 

 running short of stock of all kinds. The 

 Thanksgiving demand has been heavy, 

 but receipts are not sufficient to satisfy 

 it. Prices have advanced somewhat. 

 The demand from out of town is heavy. 

 Boses are in good supply, but at that 

 are not any too plentiful. AU carna- 

 tions that come into the market are sell- 

 ing readily. Easter lilies are again more 

 plentiful than they have been for a fort- 

 night. Callas may be had. The chrys- 

 anthemum cut is nearing an end and by 

 the time Thanksgiving is over, except 

 for a few straggling receipts and a few 

 late varieties, the end of the reason 

 for this flower will be at hand. The lim- 

 ited sweet pea offerings clean up readily. 

 Stevia is now in the market. Among 

 other offerings are lily of the valley, 

 orchids and double and single violets. 

 Greens are plentiful. 



Christmas for the Boys. 



The florists of Cincinnati and vicinity 

 have completed their fund for the mem- 

 bers of the trade in the service over- 

 seas and at the training camps in this 

 country, A money order for $11 was 

 sent to each of the following: 



Overseas: In this Country: 



Serg. Clifford Mcrland First Lieut. C. B. Jones 



Corp. Arthur J. Gear First Lieut. Ray H. Rut- 

 Corp. George F. Popp tie 



Corp. Edward Foran First Lieut. Herbert H. 

 Corp. Otto H. Walke Thaden 



Wesley Gear Joseph Lee Baer 



Joseph Grimme George H. Kessen 



Fred R. Murphy William J. Stein 



William H. Deller Robert Ruttle 



Paul Naber Ben J. George 



R. H. Schlomer Sidney J. George 



Arlington A. George Frank Herb 



George Farrell U. 0. Brunner 



H. J. Kramer Charles Windram 



Harry A. Gray Edward Cavanaugh 



Daniel G. Gray Lawrence Schlomer 



John Mensch Roy Greensmith 



Ernest Steelman Leo Kennlnger 



Edward Thomas George H. Trautman 



Sam Zellner Harry Rutenschroer 



Edson P. Kittle Joseph Durban 



Elbert C. Kittle Joseph D. Thomas 



Frederick E. Wiegile Charles Garvey 



Henry Rutenschroer Bernard Decker 



Harry Meckstroth J. L. McDufT 



George Epely Clarence Pfeiffer. 

 WlUard E. Eiler 

 John Palmer. 



Accompanying the money order was 

 the following letter: 



"You can never understand how 

 proud we, your friends, the florists of 

 Cincinnati and vicinity, are of you and 

 the balance of the boys in the service, 

 and we all felt tliat we wanted to write 

 to you and toll you about it. 



"During your absence wc have been 

 thinking of you, and have been with you 

 in spirit, while you have won our high 

 regard by your loyal sacrifices. 



"While we are eagerly waiting to wel- 

 come your return, as victors from the 

 scene of this terrible struggle, we want 

 to send you our best wishes for a Merry 

 Christmas and a Happy New Year, and 

 we trust that the postal order enclosed 

 herewith may be of a little assistance to 

 you in your merrymaking. 



"With all best wishes and affection, 

 we are, your friends, 



"The Florists of Cincinnati and 

 Vicinity. ' ' 



Various Notes. 



The W. C. Schaefer Floral Co. is send- 

 ing some excellent easter lilies to C. E. 

 Critchell and they are proving a wel- 

 come addition to the short supply in the 

 market. 



George Klotter has begun to cut his 

 excellent double stevia. It is cleaning 



TORONTO, ONT. 



The Market. 



Business is better than usual for the 

 season, though not so brisk as during the 

 epidemic of influenza. We consider this 

 the more wonderful in view of the fact 

 that so many Canadian dollars were 

 handed out in Canada's Fifth Victory 

 Loan. The 1918 Victory Loan went over 

 the top to the tune of $676,000,000. 



Club Meetings. 



The Toronto Retail Florists ' Club held 

 its monthly meeting November 25, with 

 a large attendance. The feature of the 

 evening was an interesting paper on the 

 subject of "Costs," by H. G. Dillemuth, 

 which is to be made the subject of dis- 

 cussion at the next meeting of the club. 



A questionnaire will be sent out to all 

 retail florists of the Dominion as to the 

 advisability of forming a retail organ- 

 ization and putting some pep into our 

 business. The scheme was sanctioned 

 by the Retail Florists* Club at its last 

 meeting. A general meeting of retail 

 florists will be called at the C. H. A. 

 convention to be held in August, 1919. 



The regular meeting of the Toronto 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club was held 

 in St. George's hall November 19 and 

 the following officers were elected: Pres- 

 ident, H. G. Dillemuth; first vice-presi- 

 dent, G. H. Mills; second vice-president, 

 F. D. Clark; secretary, Alex. Simpson; 

 treasurer, George A. Hall; executive 

 committee, T. Manton, Frank Fletcher, 

 John Woods, George L. Douglas, L. P. 

 Whittick, George Thompson and E. F. 

 Collins; representative to the Canadian 

 National Exhibition, T, Manton; repre- 

 sentative to the Canadian Horticultural 

 Association, Messrs. Simpson, Whittick, 

 Douglas and Collins. 



Various Notes. 



We are proud to be able to report that 

 our Queen City subscribed $144,946,000 

 to the Fifth Victory loan, although its 

 quota was set at $80,000,000. It would 

 have been a grand showing indeed had 

 only that amount been realized. 



Twenty-five army motor ambulances 

 were driven here from Ottawa Novem- 

 ber 21 and among the drivers was Nor- 

 man Scrims, of Ottawa. J. J. H. 



Alton, la. — Chris Jacobs has removed 

 to Orange City, la., and intends to take 

 down his greenhouse here. He is grow- 

 ing peonies, phloxes, delpiniums and 

 other perennials at his new home and 

 may build a greenhouse there next 

 spring. 



HomeU, N. Y.— W. A. Wettlin, of 

 the Wettlin Floral Co., finds the com- 

 bination of market gardening and 

 florists' business highly profitable at 

 this time. Summer crops are easily 

 handled at the store and find ready sale 

 with the best customers. Mr. Wettlin 

 is proud of a small orchard of cherry 

 trees, planted four years ago, which 

 yielded a crop of fruit this season that 

 sold for $400. Asters and gladioli on 

 the farm did well and proved valuable 

 stock. In fact, the gladiolus has be- 

 come indispensable to the retailer owing 

 to its choice colors, quality of flowers 

 and length of blooming season. Prob- 

 ably more will be forced this winter 

 than ever before. 



