Mat 22, 1919. 



The Florists'" Review 



29 



PITTSBUBOH. 



The Slarket. 



A review shows that the business of 

 Mothers' day was fully up to the ex- 

 pectations of the most sanguine of its 

 promoters. The wholesale market did 

 a splendid business and, according to 

 reports from retail shops, that division 

 of the trade did equally well. 



As the market stands now, roses range 

 from $6 to $15 per hundred; sweet peas, 

 $1 to $3; snapdragons, $1.50 to $2; 

 adiantum, $2 straight; ferns, $5; carna- 

 tfions, 8 cents each; orchids, 75 cents; 

 mignonette, 4 cents; daisies, 2 and 3 

 cents; calendulas, 35 cents; Sprengeri, 

 60 to 75 cents; plumosus, 40 and 50 

 cents; Mexican ivy, 75 cents; galax, 

 $2, and leucothoe, $7.50. 



Brook Lodge TuUp Show. 



Since the opening of the Eed Cross 

 benefit tulip show at Brook Lodge, the 

 summer estate of J. Wilkinson Elliott, 

 thousands have journeyed there. The 

 Brook Lodge garden is said to be one 

 of the finest natural spots in the coun- 

 try. 



Chairman Edward A. Woods, of the 

 show committee, said, in launching the 

 benefit: "I have seen many floral dis- 

 plays in^this country and abroad, but I 

 have never seen anything to equal the 

 present exhibition." 



Miss Dorothy Elliott, the youngest 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott,' pro- 

 vided a special entertainment for the 

 children in a charming scene from Mae- 

 terlinck's "Blue Bird." The show was 

 under the auspices of the garden club 

 of Allegheny county the afternoon of 

 May 16. 



Various Notes. 



Accompanied by his family, Oliver J. 

 Parker, president of the Scobie & 

 Parker Co., has gone to Los Angeles, 

 Cal., to remain until October. Mr. 

 Parker has a lemon and alfalfa range 

 near Los Angeles, which is in charge of 

 his son, Joseph Parker. , 



Earl C. Tipton, manager of the cut 

 flower department of the McCallum 

 Co., has returned from a several days' 

 trip, during which he visited Philadel- 

 phia, Harrisburg and Lancaster. 



Joseph H. Seaman has severed his 

 connection with the Alpha Floral Co., 

 to become a staff representative of the 

 artificial department of the McCallum 

 Co. His territory will include the Pitts- 

 burgh field. 



Max Goldhammer has become man- 

 ager of the Grand Flower Shop, suc- 

 ceeding Peter Matsukes. He will be 

 assisted by Harry A. Smith, a former 

 casket trimmer in a local undertaking 

 establishment. Mr. Goldhammer has 

 just closed the branch shop of the Vic- 

 toria Flower Shop, in the Oliver build- 

 ing, which was opened just before 

 Easter for the business of that holiday. 



E. E. S. 



The showing of floral pieces at the 

 funeral of H. J. Heinz May 17 was per- 

 haps the largest ever known in Pitts- 

 burgh. The services were held at a 

 church close to the store of Randolph & 

 McClements, that firm having the family 

 order -and being in charge of the flow- 

 ers. Not only were the pieces unusually 

 numerous, but they were of the finest 

 character. Wreaths predominated, cat- 

 tleyas being used extensively. No pre- 

 vicag event in the historv of the trade 



in Pittsburgh has brought so many tele- 

 graph delivery orders. The deceased 

 not only was a wealthy man, but had 

 connections all over the country and 

 telegraph orders for funeral pieces came 

 from all parts of America. 



WHITE FLY ON ROSES? 



We are sending you by parcel post a 

 sample of rose buds that have been af- 

 fected by something that we are puzzled 

 about. A week or ten days ago our sec- 

 tion of roses, Killarney, Ophelia, Eich- 

 mond and Russell, had a promising crop 

 in sight. A few days ago they seemed 

 to be blighted and we are sending you 

 the buds and an envelope with some 

 small flies. They are quite small and 

 look white when flying and are hard to 

 •catch. 



One of our growers thinks that the 

 trouble was caused by this fly and an- 

 other thinks possibly it may have been 

 the sun, which came out strongly last 

 Saturday and Sunday after a dark spell 

 of nearly three weeks. We would like 

 to have you ascertain what is the matter 

 and if you can describe any way of get- 

 ting rid of this pest or correct our sys- 

 tem of growing we would appreciate it. 



We might say that we have been using 

 a mulch of cow manure that has been 

 in a tank soaking for two weeks and 

 have mulched quite heavily, especially 

 the last two weeks. In fact, we have fed 

 them with this mixture since last fall, 

 with the exception of most of January 

 and February. C. F. N. C. — Minn. 



Probably it was the white fly, brought 

 in with the manure mulch. The writer 

 has had no personal experience with this 

 insect on roses and has been unable to 

 find any other grower around Chicago 

 who has had similar trouble. If any 

 reader has had such an experience and 

 will send in an account of his treatment, 

 no doubt The Review will be pleased to 

 print it. 



Persistent fumigating with one of the 

 standard nicotine extracts in accord- 

 ance with the instructions on the can 

 will clean up any house infested with 

 the white fly, but where this process is 

 too slow or too costly because of the 

 quantity of space to be fumigated, then 

 the use of hydrocyanic acid gas will do 

 the work. The formula has been pub- 

 lished many times in The Review and no 

 doubt every grower knows it or has 

 saved a clipping. H. O. 



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There were many carnations unsold 

 Mothers' day in Syracuse, N. Y. Sun- 

 day evening I saw quite a large number 

 in the stores. 



• • * 



Fred A. Taylor, of Canastota, N. Y., 

 like many others who felt rather blue 

 during the dark days of last winter, has 

 recovered his old-time push, and the 

 place has a prosperous look, so the de- 

 sire to dispose of it has almost van- 

 ished. All that is desired is the early 

 return of the young man who is still in 

 France and who was a big asset to the 

 business. 



• • * * 



The Allen-Churchill Co., Cortland, N. 

 Y., in handing in a subscription to The 

 Review, expresses the opinion that The 

 Review's columns will be perused more 

 closely than ever before owing to the 

 scarcity of some kinds of stock and the 

 necessity of keeping posted. The com- 

 pany mentions having been fortunate 

 during the winter in having large cuts 

 to meet the excellent demand. 



• * * * 



Brant Bros., Utica, N. Y., spoke of 

 Mothers' day — in fact, all the season's 

 business — as being a banner one for the 

 grower and expressed the opinion that if 

 money is not made now, it never will 

 be. They mention that a contract placed 

 with the Lord & Burnham Co., for 50,- 

 000 feet of glass, before the war, will 

 be carried out this summer, with the 

 possibility of an additional 100,000 feet 

 next year. 



• * • • 



H. L. Crandell, of Glens Falls, N. Y., 

 says: "To be successful, one must put 

 on a big front. In this instance, it is 

 necessary to make a prominent display 

 to catch the eye." The new store, front- 

 ing on the junction of the two principal 

 streets in town, is on a good site and 

 will be adorned with window boxes, kept 

 v;ell filled, both during summer and 

 winter. 



The Adolph Frost establishment, at 

 Cortland, N. Y., is known as "The Sign 

 of the Pansy," because of the presence, 

 on the front of the place, of an im- 

 mense wooden sign in the shape of a 

 pansy and painted in natural colors. 

 "For more than fifty years," observed 

 Adolph Frost, '"our place has been 

 known by this name." It was an idea 

 of the first Adolph Frost and, as it has 

 been such a successful name," the third 

 generation of the Frost family will con- 

 tinue to use it. 



• * • • 



A visit to several growers on Long 

 Island found all satisfied with the sea- 

 son's business. Many are rebuilding; 

 some are adding. All have high hopes 

 of a continuance of the good times, for, 

 though prices are higher than hereto- 

 fore, they cannot be allowed to return 

 to the former scale, with the cost of pro- 

 duction remaining as it now stands. 



• • * • 



Theodore Hengstenberg, of Hemp- 

 stead, L. I., has one of the best grown 

 full lines of bedding plants on the island. 

 All will undoubtedly be disposed of at 

 good prices, so that he will not regret 

 having switched over from carnations, 

 which happen also to be a profitable crop 



this season. 



• • • • 



William H. Workman, of Oswego, N. 

 Y., observed that the growth of The 

 Review reflects, in a floricultural sense, 

 the tremendous resources, vastness of 

 scope and range of vision of our coun- 

 try and its laborers. Geographical and 

 other lines are becoming rapidly ob- 

 literated. The position of the florists 

 was formerly in a corner, so to speak, 

 but they have been brought to the front, 

 mainly through the medium of the F. 

 T. D. Mr. Workman regretted hia in- 

 ability to fill a home order for a casket 

 cover, to consist solely of cattleyas. 



W. M. 



