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May 8, 1019. 



The Florists^ Review 



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run, who bought it as an investment 

 and have rented it to the Missoula 

 Greenhouse & Nursery Co. David Brown 

 is managing the plant. 



F. X. Scully, proprietor of the E. & S. 

 Flower & Seed Store, has returned from 

 a trip through western Montana and "a 

 visit to his oil properties in Wyoming. 



Louis Voigt, formerly of Chicago but 

 . ^ ' foreman for the E. & S., is the 

 proi d owner of an automobile an'd 

 spends all his spare time out at the 

 .iiountain streams trying to lure the 

 trout. 



Adolph Eeims, of the Eugene Flower 

 Store, of Spokane, was married April 

 26. He went outside of the craft for a 

 helpmate. 



The Hamilton Nursery Co., of Hamil- 

 ton, Mont., has discontinued business. 

 One of the Hamilton banks holds the 

 property, which is lying idle. 



Mrs. Tony Beihler has opened a flow- 

 er store in Hamilton. The name of the 

 store is The Fern. F. X. S. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Market. 



Business continues good, with plenty 

 of both city and out-of-down orders. 

 There have been some elaborate wed- 

 dings of late, which have called for big 

 displays in the florists' line, and there 

 have been more luncheons and dinners 

 this spring than for some time. Stock 

 is fairly plentiful. Eoses are especially 

 reliable just now and are selling at 3 

 cents to 15 cents. Sweet peas have been 

 shq^ened in supply by lack of sunshine 

 and^re scarce. Those to be had are 

 50 cents and $1. Carnations are slowing 

 down in supply because of dark weather 

 and bring 4 cents. There are some yel- 

 low and white daisies, calla lilies and 

 a few Easter lilies. Snapdragon is good 

 at this time. American Beauties are so 

 scarce and of such poor quality that they 

 are not being quoted. 



Mothers' day will see a scarcity of 

 carnations in this vicinity, as a number 

 of cloudy days recently have cut down 

 the supply. Those shipped in will be so 

 high-priced that the dealers will have 

 to sell at a loss or charge so much that 

 the public will not care to buy. Carna- 

 tions always have been the best sellers 

 here on this particular day, but, with a 

 shortage, the experience of Easter with- 

 out the lilies may be repeated, and it 

 is safe to say that other flowers will 

 make their appeal. It is not any special 

 flower so much as the sentiment that 

 counts, after all. 



Various Notes. 



T. J. Noll & Co. have added a new line 

 of baskets to their stock. 



Robert Fields, who was in France, has 

 returned home and has engaged in busi- 

 ness with his father in Kansas City, 

 Kan, Ernest Moore, another local flo- 

 rist who saw service on French soil, is 

 now with E. A. Humf eld. 



The W, L. Rock Flower Co. has sent 

 notices to all its agents that orders for 

 carnations for Mothers' day will be 

 filled with twenty-five per cent white 

 and seventy-five per cent colored blooins. 

 Heretofore there has been so strong* a 

 demand for white carnations for this 

 holiday that the supply has been far 

 from adequate and late buyers could not 

 get any white. This time, to be fair to 

 all, only twenty-five per cent of any 

 order will be white. This company has 

 a good crop of carnations, in prime con- 



dition for the occasion, but will need 

 them all. 



The deal involving the sale of the 

 greenhouses and business of the George 

 M. Kellogg Flower & Plant Co. in Pleas- 

 ant Hill, Mo., and the wholesale busi- 

 ness in Kansas City, to the Pinehurst 

 Gardens Co., of Pleasant Hill, Mo., has 

 been closed and the new concern is 

 known as the Pinehurst Floral Co. Wil- 

 liam Wade, who was a valuable member 

 of the Eock force for fifteen years, is 

 manager of the Kansas City brajich. 

 Mrs. H. M. Lamb, who was in charge 

 of the business under the Kellogg owner- 

 ship, has retired. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb 

 have sold their home here and are pre- 

 paring to go to Minnesota in June. 

 Later they will visit Yellowstone park 

 and then go to California for several 

 months' stay. They Will make the trip 

 by motor car. M. F. Parker, president 

 of the Kellogg company, has retired 

 from business. He and his family will 

 continue to make their home in Pleasant 

 Hill. v^ 



Samuel Murray says that the senti- 

 ment of Mothers' day makes it one of 

 the biggest days in the florists' calen- 

 dar. Mr. Murray is an optimist, as he 

 has good reason to be as the owner of so 



successful a business, but it is largely 

 due to his gift of looking on the bright 

 side of things that he has succeeded. 

 "The war has taught us many valuable 

 lessons," Mr. Murray said, "and one 

 of these is to be content with what we 

 have. We must work in the present and 

 be earnest in our efforts. We found at 

 Easter that we could do without lilies, 

 impossible as we thought that would be 

 a year ago. We are entering the great- 

 est era of prosperity the world has ever 

 known and the florists will get their 

 share of it. Every holiday is getting 

 bigger each year and will continue to 

 grow as the years go on. Mothers' day 

 will be bigger still next year and the 

 next." 



Kansas City was busy last week wel- 

 coming some of the returning heroes. 

 First there were the 110th Engineers, 

 the advance part of the famous 35th 

 Division. These engineers won distinc- 

 tion in the Argonne, when they threw 

 down their picks and shovels and took 

 up bayonets to stop a German advance. 

 This was only part of the brave work 

 they did and the town went wild when 

 the boys arrived, April 30. May 3 the 

 129th Field Artillery and Battery E, 

 128th, arrived in the city. J. E. K. 



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When the writer expressed his ad- 

 miration of some fine specimens of 

 conifers at the nursery of Rowehl & 

 Granz, of Hicksville, L. I., Mr. Granz 

 stated that the land upon which they 

 were growing would have returned much 



more had it been cropped with potatoes. 



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Commenting upon the general condi- 

 tion of the market, the veteran New 

 York wholesaler, J. K. Allen, observed 

 that "it could be better." Memorial 

 Sunday, April 27, created a slight in- 

 crease in the demand. The muse noted 

 in one church twelve handsome wreaths, 

 also an immense, standing floral cross 

 placed in the chancel, in commemoration 

 of deceased members of the Tlst Infan- 

 try. Doubtless other regiments were 

 similarly remembered elsewhere. This 

 promises to be an annual event and the 



trade will do well to mark the calendar. 



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' ' ' Your ship will not come back if you 

 do not send it out.' Quite true," ob- 

 served Henry Weston, of Hempstead, 

 N. Y., "and has it occurred to the read- 

 ers of The Review that if there is not 

 a radical change it will not be such a 

 great while ere there will be no crew to 

 man the ship? In other words, where 

 are our successors to come from if the 

 present conditions continue ? How many 

 boys, can you tell me, are following in 

 the footsteps of us old-timers? Pub- 

 licity is being urged with the avowed 

 intent to create a greater taste for flow- 

 ers, but equal thought should be paid to 

 the production or the creation will be 

 wasted effort. During my term as presi- 

 dent of the New York Florists' Club 

 this important subject of production was 

 often mooted, but no solution of the 

 problem was arrived at. Evidently it 

 is slow to evolve, but it will come, and 

 in as vigorous a manner as did the pub- 

 licity movement." Here is food for 

 thought and action. 



F. A. Danker, of Albany, N. Y., notes 

 a great change in the class of flower 

 buyers. Formerly it was the elite; now 

 it is the rank and file. Also, the big 

 prices paid for large specimen plants 

 are a thing of the past. "In my ex- 

 perience of twenty-seven years," ob- 

 served Mr. Danker, "I have never be- 

 fore found the situation so complex. It 

 will take some time to find out how 

 things stand and what to grow for an- 

 other season to the best advantage. It 

 is a gamble, anyhow. It certainly was 

 a winner for the grower, whether of 

 plants or cut flowers." At the Danker 

 residence, fronting the nursery, a bed 

 of Beaute de Poitevine geraniums is 

 planted. It is the first in town. It is 

 a fine ad and worth the risk of freezing. 

 Similar plants, in 4-inch pots, in full 

 bloom, sold readily for $1 each at Easter. 



"Sold everything we had that was 

 appropriate for Easter," observed 

 Henry Hansen, of Catskill, N. Y., "at 

 what we consider a fair advance. This 

 will be our policy right along and when 

 we have to go outside and pay what 

 we think is an exorbitant price for 

 stock, we are not anxious for the busi- 

 ness. And let me add in passing that 

 while the publicity movement is a fine 

 idea, great care must be taken not to 

 kill it by an overinflation of prices. 

 That is the danger today. I speak ad- 

 visedly, after a long experience as a re- 

 tailer who grew most of what I 

 handled." Our confrere has no need 

 to be pessimistic as far as he is per- 

 sonally concerned. ^ He resides on Easy 

 street and in a place where the trolley 

 car is considered ancient. The rolling 

 stock was scrapped, rails were torn up, 

 and streets were repaved to accommo- 

 date more modern means of transporta- 

 tion. W. M. 



