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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcbmbbr 19, 1018. 



Muller-Sealey Co. A selling arrange- 

 ment with the Boehrs Go. is retained. 

 Mr. Muller has been a member of the 

 New York Florists' Club for some years; 

 Mr. Sealey is a candidate for election 

 next month. 



Michael Andropulos, who has retail 

 stores on Ninety-sixth and One Hundred 

 and Twelfth streets, where business is 

 conducted under the style of The Gar- 

 den Florist, is home on furlough from 

 a southern camp, where he is a private 

 in a surgical unit. "Mike" has had 

 much enjoyment, so far, from his mili- 

 tary life, but is rejoiced to think that 

 he has an opportunity personally to 

 supervise the good Christmas business 

 expected at his two stores. 



The beautiful blooms of the new chrys- 

 anthemum. Golden Mistletoe, shown by 

 the A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn., at the meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, December 9, were on ex- 

 hibition next day at the store of the 

 Henshaw Floral Co., Inc., 127 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. 



The United States Employment Serv- 

 ice, of the Department of Labor, which 

 has an office at 469 Fifth avenue, would 

 like to record definite assurances of aid 

 in obtaining employment for returning 

 soldiers, and florists whose former em- 

 ployees entered the service would do 

 well to intimate to the department their 

 willingness to take the men into their 

 employ again, and' the salaries they 

 would be willing to pay. ' It is believed 

 that such information would expedite 

 the mustering out of thousands of men, 

 as the government is unwilling that our 

 troops be discharged broadcast without 

 prospect of employment. 



Mrs. J. Clark Curtin, chairman of the 

 Flower Distribution Committee of the 

 National League for Woman's Service, 

 whose work the florists have been so 

 generously supporting, as it is entirely 

 among sick and wounded soldiers and 

 is greatly appreciated by them, is mak- 

 ing an appeal for donations of flowers 

 for Christmas. She fully realizes the 

 condition of the market at this time, 

 but still pleads for flowers, hoping that 

 the florists will even sacrifice to insure 

 that all her poor boys shall have the 

 cheer and comfort which a few flowers 

 bring to them. Individual donations as 

 small as a dozen carnations or roses 

 would be gladly welcomed and if any 

 florists could ship Christmas greens, 

 such material could be used to advan- 

 tage. Mrs. Curtin is raising among her 

 friends a fund, all of which is to be . 

 expended in flowers, but she does not 

 hope that this will provide more than 

 a small portion of requirements. There 

 are many thousands of our boys in hos- 

 pitals in and around New York. The 

 New York Florists' Club's flower com- 

 mittee, J. S. Fenrich, chairman, 51 West 

 Twenty-eighth street, will receive any- 

 thing that may be sent in. 



The many friends here of Eichard 

 Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, Md., con- 

 gratulated him on reaching his seventy- 

 fifth birthday, December 16. 



Fifth avenue — or shall we refer to it 

 by its new name, "Avenue of the Al- 

 lies"? — is particularly beautiful just 

 now in its dress for the Red Cross drive 

 now in progress. From its beginning in 

 Washington square to Fifty-ninth street, 

 on each side of the avenue, are rows of 

 large Christmas trees, each tree in an 

 enormous tub, and crossing the street at 

 intersections overhead are substantial 

 ropes of evergreens. All this decorative 



material was furnished by the Ker- 

 van Co. 



Meyer Otile, partner in the firm of 

 Biedel & Meyer, Twenty-eighth street 

 wholesalers, was taken ill December 16 

 and removed to Bellevue hospital, where 

 for a time his condition was serious and 

 diagnosis difficult for the physicians. 

 By the next day, however, he had im- 

 proved sufficiently to be taken home. 



John Young received congratulations 

 December 17 from friends, it being his 

 fiftieth birthday anniversary. There 

 was no formal celebration of the event. 



J. H. P. 



Max Schling has introduced a novelty 

 in bridesmaids' bouquets by combining 

 a corsage with the bouquet. The brides- 

 maid carries the double piece while at- 

 tending the ceremony and then detaches 

 the corsage for wear at the wedding 

 dinner, leaving the bouquet intact. F. 

 T. D. advertising at this establishment 

 had, by December 9, brought eighteen or 

 twenty Christmas orders for out-of-town 

 delivery. He looks for a record Christ- 



NOTICE 



To those who want things 

 printed in 



Because the Christmas and New'Tear's 

 holidays fall on Wednesday, the day the 

 paper usually is printed, it will be neces- 

 sary to KO to press for the next two weeks 



ONE DAY EARLY 



TUESDAY 



with the issues fir December 26 and 

 January 2. 



Get Your Matter in Monday 



mas business and is planning for ma- 

 terial progress in 1919, to be a big year 

 for New York florists. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Market conditions remain the same as 

 described in last week's report. The cut 

 of roses and carnations still is far short 

 of requirements and the dark weather 

 that prevails in this locality is not going 

 to help the holiday cut. Good poinset- 

 tias are arriving and clean up daily. 

 Stevia is of good quality. Easter lilies 

 and callas are coming and violets, both 

 single and double, are here, but in short 

 supply. A few freesias and calendulas 

 come to the market and are quickly 

 taken. American Beauties are in good 

 demand. Plants of all kinds for the holi-. 

 days have been practically cleaned up. 



Various Notes. 



A. Barber had the decorations for the 

 opening of the new Hotel Cleveland De- 

 cember 16. Poinsettias and Beauties 

 were used in large vases and baskets, of 

 which there were more than thirty. The 

 lobby was filled with palms and ferns. 



Ophelia roses, pompons and leucothoe 

 sprays were used on the tables. 



Mr. Darnell, formerly with the J. M. 

 Gasser Co., is helping this firm during 

 the holiday rush. 



C. Betscher, of Canal Dover, O., was 

 in the city last week on business. 



The sympathy of the trade is extended 

 to D. Bramley in the death of his wife. 



W. F. B. 



Hugo Schroeter is helping Paul Hahn 

 during the Christmas rush, having put 

 in much of his spare time in Mr. Hahn 's 

 store for several months. After Christ- 

 mas Mr. Schroeter will go to Cincinnati 

 to become connected with the Cincinnati 

 branch of the White Motor Co., selling 

 trucks. 



DETBOIT. 



Tlie Market. 



Detroit never had better business than 

 at present, although the degree of satis- 

 faction with which the situation is 

 viewed depends altogether on the point 

 of view. Stock has been scarce and high 

 in price for weeks, necessitating the re- 

 vision of many preconceived ideas of 

 how to run a flower store. 



The prospect for Christmas is that 

 there will be far more buyers than cut" 

 flowers or plants and that everything 

 will sell at higher prices than ever be- 

 fore. 



Olub Meeting. 



At the recent meeting of the Detroit 

 Florists' Club the Hills, of Bichmond, 

 staged a vase of Bose Premier. It made 

 quite a hit if one may draw conclusions 

 from the enthusiasm of the judges, as 

 it is seldom a committee goes on record 

 as strongly as did M. Bloy, A. J. Stahe- 

 lin, Thomas Browne and Wm. Dilger, 

 who reported: 



The committee appointed to examine closely and 

 to report on the exhibition of 100 blooms of 

 this novelty at the meeting of the Detroit 

 Florists' Club, December 11, submit the follow- 

 ing: 



We regard this rose In all its features and 

 constitutional qualities to be far superior to 

 any rose now in commerce. It is so far in ad- 

 Tance of all other varieties that mere com- 

 parison does not alone disclose Its merits, 

 which in the total seem to entitle it to the 

 designation of perfection in a rose. 



We highly commend this wonderful variety 

 and predict for It a great future as supplying 

 a long-felt want for a rose of its magnificent 

 color, rose-pink, with stifT thomless stems and 

 luxuriant and really beautiful foliage that 

 augments the striking appearance of the roa* 

 on exhibition. Its pronounced delicious fra- 

 grance Is a distinct mark of this truly wonderful 

 rose. 



Of course Premier will make good, but 

 wouldn't it be one on these judges if 

 Mr. Hill should spring a still better one 

 in about a year? 



At the same meeting Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mioh., showed three new 

 mums being sent out this season, Vic- 

 tory, Loyalty and December Gem, which 

 the committee praised unreservedly; 

 also a 1920 white and a 1920 anemone- 

 flowered variety. 



Various Notes. 



Hugo Schroeter, who has been con- 

 nected with a Pierce-Arrow truck dealer 

 in Cleveland since leaving Detroit, has 

 made a direct connection with the White 

 Company at Cleveland and right after 

 Christmas will go to Cincinnati to sell 

 White trucks there. 



Peter F. Eeuss, who was associated in 

 business with the late B. Schroeter, has 

 purchased the business from the estate 

 and is running it under his own name. 



