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The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



Thomas A. Cox. 



Tl^omas A. Cox, one of the oldest and 

 best known florists in Massachusetts, 

 died May 20 at his late home in Dor- 

 chester and was interred May 22. Mr. 

 Cox had been a resident of Dorchester 

 nearly half a century and had been in 

 active business until a little over a year 

 ago, when he disposed of his interests. 

 For many years he was the largest and 

 most successful local grower of smilax 

 and earned the sobriquet of Smilax 

 King. More recently he grew aspara- 

 gus in quantity. He was a native of 

 England and had reached his seventy- 

 ninth milestone at the time of his death. 

 Many of his confreres attended to pay 

 their last tribute of esteem. Many 

 beautiful floral tokens were sent. 



W. N. C. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market has been decidedly dull 

 in the last few days, with clearances 

 hard to make unless at concessions in 

 price. There is no longer any equality 

 in supply and demand, generally speak- 

 ing, conditions of both being spasmodic. 

 The big drive of the Salvation Army 

 is thought to have had much to do 

 with the curtailing of demand, and as 

 other drives are expected to follow, re- 

 tail florists are a little doleful as to 

 their effect on the trade. Certain it is 

 that they are likely to cause the turn- 

 over of a lot of money which ordinarily 

 would be used in other directions. 



Peonies from the south are coming in 

 quantity, rather short in stem and of a 

 quality hardly up to standard, but their 

 movement militates against staple lines. 

 A quantity of fine Spanish iris of really 

 good quality is also coming from the 

 south. 



Boses are in oversupply with a dimin- 

 ished demand, and clearances at times 

 are diflScult. American Beauties in the 

 special grades are considerably off in 

 quality. The flower heads are small. 

 The quality of the hybrid teas is bet- 

 ter than usual at this season, the cool 

 weather favoring them. Prices varj 

 from day to day, according to conditions 

 of supply and demand. 



The demand for carnations is less 

 than for some time; consequently prices 

 have tumbled. While occasionally 5 

 cents is obtained for a few selected from 

 the best, the price range may be said to 

 be $2 to $4 per hundred, left-overs going 

 for much less than the minimum. The 

 quality of carnations is unusually good 

 for the time of year. 



The supply of cattleyas is somewhat in 

 excess of the actual demand and when 

 the best of arrivals have been taken 

 'he surplus is moved at prices varying 

 according to conditions. Spray orchids, 

 while not particularly plentiful, are hard 

 to move without concession in price. 

 There are not many lUies coming in, 

 but the demand is light even for the 

 small supply. Lily of the valley is 

 plentiful and the quality of the top 

 grades is good. A quantity of outside- 

 grown stock is still coming in, as well 

 ;»s some frame-grown stock of splendid 

 'luality. The range of prices for forced 

 stock is 2 to 6 cents. 



There appears to be no reduction in 

 the supply of miscellaneous flowers and 

 the demand for them is anything but 

 urgent; consequently much stock goes to 

 waste. Sweet peas are particularly 

 plentiful and some really fine stock is to 

 be had. The best moves at $1.50 per 

 hundred. There is an abundance of 

 snapdragons, pansies, delphiniums, dai- 

 sies, calendulas, stocks, primroses, myo- 

 sotis and mignonette. A few outside- 

 grown tulips are still in evidence. Lilac 

 is in heavy supply, but moves fairly 

 well at some price or other. Prices of 

 white varieties are fairly remunerative. 



Various Notes. 



The list of new corporations for the 

 state of New Jersey last week contained 

 the name of the Julius Eoehrs Co., Eu- 

 therford, N. J., with Julius E. Roehrs, 

 Rudolph Eoehrs and Edouard Eoehrs as 

 incorporators. Capital, $15,000. 



In the drive for funds for the Sal- 

 vation Army, which occupied the at- 

 tention of New York last week, florists 

 and allied trades were allotted a quota of 

 $500, but at the end of the week, as with 

 most of the other trade committees, the 

 quota had not been fully met. As the 

 drive has been extended, it can hardly be 

 imagined that this modest quota will 

 not be met, even though florists have 

 been liberal, individually, with sub- 

 scriptions. 



The Broadway Association at its meet- 

 ing last week made public a list of ex- 

 cerpts from replies to 15,000 letters re- 

 cently sent to business men and resi- 

 dents in the ' ' Give a Thought to Broad- 

 way" campaign for the betterment of 

 this highway. Prominent in the list 

 was "flowers and plants in summer 

 before store and apartment windows." 



William Frazier, commonly known in 

 Montana as "big-hearted Bill," general 

 superintendent of the rich Davis-Daly 

 mines at Butte, died May 17. He was 

 a brother of Mrs. W. H. Long, wife of 

 the Columbus avenue florist. 



Theodore Weston, for many years in 

 the employ of his brother, Henry Wes- 

 ton, of Hempstead, L. I., as a carna- 

 tion grower, and later in business for 

 himself at Bellmore, L. L, is now with 

 one of the large establishments near 

 Cleveland, O. 



Lawrence Theiler, formerly book- 

 keeper for John Young & Co., and re- 

 cently returned from service in France, 

 is still suffering from wounds and shell 

 shock, and is under government care at 

 White Plains, N. Y. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., 

 of Pana, 111., has been awarded the con- 

 tract for the erection of a roof garden 

 on the new Hotel Pennsylvania, the cost 

 to be $20,000. 



W. C. Eickards, Jr., for many years 

 with J. M. Thorburn & Co., seedsmen, 

 has severed his connection with that 

 house and associated himself with Wil- 

 liam M. Hunt & Co. 



The members of the joint flower show 

 committee are to be the guests of Theo- 

 dore A. Havemeyer, at his estate in 

 Brookville, L. I., Ikfay 31. 



The S. A. F. committee on tariff and 

 legislation held a meeting at the. so- 

 ciety's oflBces May 24, for further dis- 

 cussion of the plant embargo. 



Visitors were Patrick Welch, Boston; 

 Mr. and Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy, Wen- 

 ham, Mass., and J. D. Eisele, Eiverton, 

 N. J. 



J. H. P. 



from Philadelphia to New York city, 

 their office being at 50 Park place. E. F. 

 Hoehl, who travels for the firm, has be- 

 come a partner. 



Malandre Bros., 2077 Broadway, an- 

 nounce that they have sold their store at 

 2703 Broadway, whick is known to the 

 trade as their One Hundred and Third 

 street store. 



International Flower Show. 



The first preliminary schedule for the 

 International Flower Show, which will 

 be held in the Grand Central palace. 

 Forty-sixth street and Lexington ave- 

 nue, March 15 to 21, 1920, has made its 

 appearance. The show will be held un- 

 der the auspices of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York and the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



An important feature of the show will 

 be the trade exhibition. Floor plans 

 are now available, showing the different 

 sections reserved for trade displays. 

 Greenhouse builders, manufacturers 

 and dealers in florists' supplies, acces- 

 sories, greenhouse supplies and equip- 

 ment, fertilizers, garden furniture, 

 garden and lawn tools; plantsmen, seeds- 

 men and producers in any line connected 

 with commercial or amateur floriculture 

 are invited by the secretary of the 

 flower show committee, John Young, to 

 write for reservations. 



The classes for which prizes will be 

 awarded commercial growers include 

 the following: Plants in flower, palms 

 and foliage plants, ferns, bulbous 

 plants, special open class, orchid plants 

 and roses in pots and tubs. The private 

 growers will enter in classes of their . wn. 

 The special open class, which is a dis- 

 play of bulbs arranged as a bulb gar- 

 den, covering 500 square feet, and the 

 one for roses in pots and tubs, are open 

 to both commercial and amateur grow- 

 ers. 



T. A. Havemeyer is chairman of the 

 show committee. Other members are as 

 follows: Secretary, John Young; treas- 

 urer, Frederic E. Newbold; members, 



F. R. Pierson, George V. Nash, James 

 Stuart, Joseph A. Manda, W. H. Sie- 

 brecht, John Canning, Julius Eoehrs, F. 

 L. Atkins, John G. Scheepers, Richard 



G. Hollaman, C. H. Totty, Frank H. 

 Traendly, W. R. Pierson, G. E. M. 

 Stumpp, Max Schling, Charles Schenck, 

 A. L. Miller, P. F. Kessler, W. H. Duck- 

 ham, P. W. Popp, Arthur Herrington; 

 chairman schedule committee, C. H. 

 Totty; members schedule committee, F. 

 R. Pierson, Julius Roehrs, F. L. Atkins, 

 P. W. Popp, W. R. Pierson, John Can- 

 ning, James Stuart, Joseph A. Manda, 

 Max Schling, A. L. Miller, W. H. Duck- 

 ham, John G. Scheepers, Arthur Her- 

 rington. 



CHICAGO. 



S. S. Skidelsky & Co. have removed 



The Market. 



During the first few days of last 

 week there was a steadily declining de- 

 mand, but Saturday the market cleaned 

 up in beautiful shape at first-class prices. 

 When the wholesalers saw the trend of 

 demand, most of them sent word to the 

 greenhouse men that it would be in 

 line to cut a little less closely and there- 

 by accumulate some small reserve for 

 the heavier demand which was in sight 

 for the present week. Consequently, 

 prices were kept from breaking badly, 

 even though the market had rather 

 more flowers than were required. The 



