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The Rorists' Review 



15 



come back as long as the quarantine 

 prohibits the importation of orchids. 

 Mr. Barnard had expected to sail from 

 New York June 2, on the Aquitania, 

 but received notice to board the steamer 

 at Halifax instead. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market. 



The last week in May ended with an 

 abundance of flowers and prices some- 

 what broken. The weather has been 

 iiot — the first protracted hot spell of the 

 rear — and its effect has been felt by the 

 ,:jrowers. It was hard for the whole- 

 salers to get enough stock to look after 

 .ihipments and also supply local buyers 

 arly in the week. But by Thursday 

 ifternoon things congested somewhat 

 md late buyers found prices easy. 



Peonies and carnations were the only 

 tlowers which were scarce. These main- 

 tained their prices throughout. 



Memorial day was satisfactory gen- 

 I'rally. Florists near the cemeteries did 

 a wonderful business, those growing 

 their own stock being compelled to call 

 on the wholesalers for new supplies. 



In this latitude lilac is seldom fit for 

 bouquets by May 30. But the past cold 

 weather retarded it and made it just 

 right. Some florists complained bitterly 

 about the abundance of lilac used on 

 Memorial day. 



A general summary of the month of 

 May, 1919, gives it the distinction of 

 being about the most satisfactory flo- 

 rists' month in the calendar. The grow- 

 ers received good prices throughout, the 

 wholesalers never lacked buyers and 

 the retailers found the demand steady, 

 with Mothers* day and Memorial day 

 high lights in the record of sales. 



Various Notes. 



The Fox Point Floral Co. is consign- 

 ing some of the finest snapdragon we 

 have ever seen to Gust Rusch & Co. 

 Hans Deering, proprietor of the Fox 

 Point Floral Co., has a knack of grow- 

 ing that is all his own. Everything 

 g^own here commands a little better 

 than market price. Mr. Deering not 

 only knows how to grow flowers, but 

 shows painstaking thoroughness in 

 grading and bunching his stock. 



The directors of the Florists' Adver- 

 tising Club met June 3 at the Hotel 

 Blatz. An appropriation of $1,000 for 

 newspaper ads to boost "Say It with 

 Flowers" in June was one of the items 

 brought up. 



The Cudahy Floral Co. is planting four 

 houses to Premier and Columbia. This 

 concern has had good cuts of Ophelia, 

 Shawyer and Killarney all spring. 



J. P. McCarthy, representing M. Rice 

 Co., and Martin Reukauf, representing 

 H. Bayersdorfer & Co., called on their 

 Milwaukee patrons this week. 



William Zimmermann is moving his 

 business one door west. His former 

 store is being transformed into a bank 

 • •ntrance. Although Mr. Zimmermann 's 

 ~^tore has been torn up for three weeks, 

 and adorned with a boarded front in- 

 ■^tead of show windows, business has 

 'leen good with him. 



Gimbel Bros, were closed on Decora- 

 tion day. Mr. MacDonald, who is in 

 ("harge of the floral department, says 

 •^hat the sales May 29 were larger 

 han May 29 and 30' of last year. The 

 ■mployees enjoyed their dav of rest. 



A. H. M. 



^^CIJEyELAND, O. 



The Market. 



Decoration day found the market well 

 supplied with nearly all varieties of 

 flowers except peonies, which did not 

 quite make it, owing to the rainy 

 weather. There were only a few of them 

 and the supply was far short of the 

 demand. It was possible to get south- 

 ern peonies, but most florists who had 

 had experience with them preferred to 

 pass them up and use the flowers avail- 

 able in the local markets. 



This shortage of peonies created a 

 good demand for carnations and roses, 

 which cleaned up well. Carnations were 

 not of first-class quality, but fair. There 

 were also a few calendulas, Easter 

 lilies, yellow and white daisies, outdoor 

 valley, violets and good sweet peas, 

 which, for the most part, cleaned up 

 nicely. 



Greens of all kinds, Plumosus Spren- 

 geri and string smilax went quickly 

 and considerably more could have been 

 disposed of had they been on hand. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Ritsonthaler, of Knoble Bros., 

 has purchased a new machine and now 

 goes around in great style. 



Walter Havlicek, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., has been doctoring for some 

 time owing to the efifects of wounds and 

 poison gas received in France. 



Charles Bastian, of the Cleveland 

 Plant & Flower Co., reports his daughter 

 quite ill. W. F. B. 



EVANSVIIiLE, IND. 



The Market. 



Decoration day was a fine, clear day 

 and business was good. There was a 

 large supply of flowers and plants of all 

 kinds and an equally great demand. 

 The market gardeners brought in large 

 quantities of cheap flowers, also peonies. 

 Peonies sold at $1 to $1.50 per dozen. 



The spring planting is not yet fin- 

 ished, owing to the long wet spell. 



Various Notes. 



The Lockyear Floral Co. has adver- 

 tised a clean-up sale for this week. It 

 will dismantle two houses at once to 

 make way for two new houses. 



The Florists ' Club will have a meeting 

 at Theodore Kuebler'^s place June 11. 

 This will be the first meeting for a year. 



Las Vegas, N. M. — The Firemen's 

 Flower Festival will be held June 9 

 and it promises to be the best ever. 



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"Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, 

 Where'er Its stages may have been. 



Has paused to think he oft has found 

 The warmest welcome at an Inn." 



"True," observed Robert Greenlaw, 

 of the S. S. Pennock Co., Philadelphia, 

 "the clerk extended the glad hand and 

 possibly handed out rosy mail from 

 one's best girl or from the house. All 

 was serene and the day was not suf- 

 ficiently long to tire. IIow conditions 

 have changed! Now, quite frequently, 

 as one approaches the hotel desk, pos- 

 sibly feeling almost all in after a stren- 

 uous day's work, the clerk greets you 

 with the, to him, happy remark, 'House 

 full,', and your dream of a room with 

 bath is changed to an icy shower that 

 chills the spine. The mail, if any, cor- 

 responds at such times with the sur- 

 roundings. Wife is worried; babe has 

 measles; house writtes that, owing to the 

 extraordinary and unexpected returns 

 through an ad in 'the' trade paper, the 

 special line upon which you figured to 

 make a big drive has been gobbled up, 

 and you are left to peg away with the 

 regular list and try to increase your 

 sales by personi.1 masfnetiam and per- 

 sistent effort. Meanwhile, however, you 

 are conscious you are ' doing your bit ' 

 and you are moralizing that 'such is 

 life' and things might be worse." 

 • • • • 



The Peck Floral Co., of Gloversville, 

 N. Y., notes a healthy condition of trade. 

 This company is a late addition to the 

 ranks of the F. T. D. and received 

 seventeen orders thrcfugh that organiza- 

 tion for Mothers' day, including one 

 from San Francisco. The Barson green- 

 houses, formerly at Johnstown, have 

 been removed and added to the Peck 

 range. 



John Sambrook, of Sambrook Bros., 

 Troy, N. Y., speaking for his fellow 

 Trojans, declares the demand has been 

 limited only by supply and he opines 

 that the present bedding-out season is 



the busiest on record. 



• • * • 



Sam Hanson, of North Troy, N. Y., 

 has a sign conspicuously placed: 

 "Please do not handle the flowers." 

 "Each of the plants is so valuable this 

 year that we just have to protect them," 

 observed our prosperous confrere. "We 

 expect a clean sweep of every plant, in 

 bloom or out, at prices decidedly in ad- 

 vance of former seasons." 



• • • • 



W. E. Cahill, of the traveling force 

 of Roman J. Irwin, New York, dropped 

 in at the C. F. Baker & Son place, Utica, 

 N. Y., during a discussion of Mothers* 

 day and previous business. It was gen- 

 erally agreed that it was, from all points 

 of view, the best yet. There were some 

 weak points. The big inflation of prices 

 is. regretted. Memorial day loomed up 

 with a call from the city children for 

 1,500 geraniums for the graves of the 

 veterans and this was only a starter. 

 After the busy season, Frank Baker 

 proposes to take a brief vacation, pos- 

 sibly to fish. This elicited a remark 

 from "Billy" Cahill to the effect that 

 there is a striking similarity between 

 the traveling salesqian and the fisher- 

 man, in that the rod represents the 

 fisher; the line, the "long green" neces- 

 sary to provide the means of communi- 

 cation; the reel is the brain working; 

 the dobber, the pleasant line of talk 

 which goes on while the bait is being 

 nibbled at; the bait is the goods offered 

 —the better the quality, the quicker the 

 bite; the customer is the fish, and the 

 basket the order book. W. M. 



