Junk 12. 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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occasion and the result was a magnifi- 

 cent display that seemed a flower show 

 in itself. Some of the baskets of Amer- 

 ican Beauties cost from $75 to $100. 

 One of the daily papers estimated the 

 amount of flowers received during the 

 day at $10,000. Florists say this was 

 an exaggeration of many thousands, but 

 those who had the bulk of the business 

 agree that it was a big day. 



The Alpha Floral Co. has been send- 

 ing complimentary boxes of flowers to 

 homes where new babies have arrived. 

 The names have been chosen from the 

 record of births in the daily papers and 

 selections have been made according to 

 location most likely to afford future 

 business in the way of orders. This is 

 one of a number of advertising schemes 

 which this company has tried. As yet 

 results are difficult to trace. Acknowl- 

 edgments of the courtesy have averaged 

 about one to every six boxes sent. 



Graduation exercises at the numerous 

 private schools in the city have been 

 more festive in the way of flower giving 

 than any year since war began. A year 

 ago there were practically no gifts of 

 flowers to graduates. This season the 

 economy was more than made up for in 

 the numbers and lavishness of orders. 

 Some graduates in the more exclusive 

 schools were recipients of as many as 

 eight and ten corsages in addition to 

 other floral gifts. 



P. A, Manson, general manager of the 

 Pinehurst Floral Co., Pleasant Hill, Mo., 

 who has been ill for a couple of weeks, 

 is recovering. 



W. L. Rock has gone to Detroit to 

 join A. Pochelon and together they will 

 enjoy a vacation in the Wisconsin 

 woods. 



H. T. Smith, president, and Harry 

 Blake, secretary of the Pinehurst Floral 

 Co., were in Kansas City, June 7. They 

 say that they have more than doubled 

 the force of employees at the green- 

 houses. 



R. C. Hinz, Leavenworth, Kan., and 

 Roy Murray, Olathe, Kan., were recent 

 visitors. 



Lawrence Rock, who was in the navy 

 during the war, has been released from 

 service and is now learning the retail 

 business with Max Schling, in New 

 York. J. E. K. 



CHBYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Prize List for Fall Show. 



The Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America announces the following list of 

 special prizes to be offered at its annual 

 exhibition, which will be held in con- 

 junction with the American Institute, in 

 New York city, November 5, 6 and 7, 

 1919: 



Class A — The C. S. A. silver cup for the best 

 needling chrysanthemum not disseminated. Six 

 blooms one variety ob long stems. 



Class B— The C. S. A. silver ciip for the best 

 six vases pompon chrysanthemums, six varieties, 

 twelve sprays, not less than eighteen inches 

 long, to a vase. 



Class , C — The Lord & Burnham Co. prize for 

 twelve blooms, twelve varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums on short stems. First prize, $20. 



Class D— The E. G. Hill Co. prizes for six 

 blooms of Chrysanthemum Delight. First, $15; 

 second, $10. 



Class E — The Elmer D. Smith & Co. prizes for 

 four vases disbudded pompon chrysanthemums, 

 four varieties, twelve blooms each. Open to all. 

 First, $10; second, $5. 



Class F — The Charles H. Totty Co. prizes for 

 six blooms of Chrysanthemum Vermont. First. 

 gold medal; second, silver medal; third, bronze 

 medal. 



Class G — The Charles H. Totty Co. prizes for 

 three vases of single chrysanthemums. Ten 

 sprays in a vase, yellow, white and pink. First. 

 $10; second, $5. 



Class H — The H. E. Converse silver cup for 



the best ten blooms, bronze chrysanthemums, 

 one variety on long stems. Open to all. 



Class I — The A. N. Plerson, Inc., prize, 

 $10, for the best ten blooms white chrysanthe- 

 mums, one variety on long stems. Open to all. 



Class J — The Henry A. Dreer prize, $10, for 

 the best ten blooms, one variety of a chrysan- 

 themum certiflcated by the C. S. A., season of 

 1918. 



Class K— The Stumpp & Walter Co. silver cup 

 for eighteen blooms of chrysanthemums, three 

 varieties, six blooms each, on long stems. 



Class L— The H. F. Michell Co. silver medal 

 for the best seedling, chrysanthemum of Ameri- 

 can origin, not disseminated. Six blooms on 

 long stems. 



Class M — The Weeber & Don prize, $5, for the 

 largest bloom of chrysanthemum, any variety, 

 on long stems without artlBci«l support. 



Class N — The National Association of Garden- 

 ers' silver medal for the best six bloomn of 

 chrysanthemums, six varieties, on long stems. 

 Open to members of the N. A. C. only. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



INDIANA ASSOCIATION. 



The Indiana State Florists' Associa- 

 tion met June 3 at the commission house 

 of the Smith & Young Co. In the ab- 

 sence of President Anders Rasmussen, 

 Vice-President Herman Young presided. 

 O. E, Steinkamp was also absent, and 

 A. F. J. Baur acted as secretary. Frank 

 Anderson was elected to membership, 

 and Mr. Kiefer and Fred Steinmeyer 

 were proposed. 



A communication had been received 

 from Dillon Myers on the insurance 

 project. A general discussion of this 

 subject followed, and the committee was 

 instructed to go ahead with its investi- 

 gation. 



The fall chrysanthemum show was 



one of the topics of the meeting. Re- 

 ports were heard from the various com- 

 mittees, which were found to be work- 

 ing to make this a big success. 



Good fellowship and cooperation 

 among florists was a vital topic. A bet- 

 ter business bureau for florists seemed 

 a good proposition. Reliability is the 

 secret of success and if the entire flo- 

 rists ' business could be built on this the 

 trade would surely prosper. These were 

 the sentiments expressed. 



Attention was called to the vase of 

 beautiful Ruth Baur carnations, which 

 showed exceptional quality for this time 

 of the year. Some fine samples of bed- 

 ding stock from Miller's Greenhouses, 

 of Muncie, were also shown. 



E. E. T. 



BOEBLINa ORCHIDS SOLD. 



The celebrated orchid collection 

 owned by the late Charles G. Roebling, 

 of Trenton, N. J., has been sold intact 

 to a private collector prominently 

 known in Philadelphia. This sale of 

 orchids, which probably is the largest 

 transaction of its kind that has ever 

 been made in this or perhaps any other 

 country, was executed by A. M. Van 

 Den Hoek, the Philadelphia district 

 manager of the W. H. Moon Co., Morris- 

 ville. Pa. The collection consists of 

 over 600 species and varieties, with sev- 

 eral thousand flowered and unflowered 

 home-raised seedlings. J. G. 



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"Grand weather, fine stock, big 

 sales," reports Sam Hanson, of North 

 Troy, N. Y. 



W. W. Hannell, of Watervliet, N. Y., 

 reports that the demand for hydrangeas 

 and hybrid roses is beyond that of any 

 former season and he thinks that over- 

 production is altogether unlikely, owing 

 to their increasing popularity. 



H. C. Neubrand, representative of 

 Barr & Co., Manchester, Conn., writing 

 from Eustis, Fla., where he has spent 

 some time with his family, who are 

 sojourning there for their health, hopes 

 to call on his old friends as usual. He 

 expected to arrive in New York June 10. 



E. F. Hoehl, who has represented S. 

 S. Skidelsky & Co., of Philadelphia, as 

 traveler and adviser, observed that it 

 was a coincidence that with his closer 

 affiliation with his house. New York 

 should be selected as future headquar- 

 ters. "We have felt for some time the 

 necessity of being located at the prin- 

 cipal port of entry for most of our 

 goods," he said, "and to be in closer 

 contact with many of our larger grow- 

 ers. ' ' 



James G. Barrett, of Troy, N. Y., was 

 putting the finishing touches to a superb 

 wreath of magnolia leaves and lilies for 

 the funeral of a deceased patron, who 

 had passed the century mark, and ob- 

 served, apropos of longevity, that he 

 was trying to figure out his period of 

 existence, when a well-wisher, in his 

 enthusiasm, expressed the desire that 

 Mr. Barrett "would live to see the day 

 when he would eat the bird that 

 scratched the gravel upon his grave." 



A. D. Carpenter, of Cohoes, N. Y., 

 takes a most cheerful view of the sit- 

 uation, basing his optimism upon the 

 business done during the week preced- 

 ing Memorial day and on the day itself. 



Commenting on the possible scarcity 

 of Dutch bulbs next season, Fred Gold- 

 ring, of Slingerlands, N. Y., observed 

 that this should not be an excuse for 

 the theft of 100 tulip bulbs from 

 a bed in City Hall park. New York city, 

 which has caused the mayor to order 

 an investigation into what is turning 

 out to be a deep mystery, as the beds 

 were under the care of special police. 



"Fully up to our expectations," re- 

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

 "For Memorial day we had the finest 

 line of blooming plants, cut fiowers and 

 artificial designs ever carried and all 

 of them went rapidly, at prices mutiially 

 satisfactory." W. C. Gloeckner spoke 

 in a similar strain, adding that the 

 plants which were not in bloom, and 

 therefore were left over, will not wait 

 long for a purchaser, as, now that the 

 weather has become warm, the planting- 

 out fever is stirred up. 



The Rosendale Flower Shop, of 

 Schenectady, N. Y., reports that 

 through the medium of the pink section 

 and the F. T. D. combined, the business 

 fairly jumped over that of any former 

 Mothers' day, although more orders 

 were sent than received. ' ' Business 

 for Memorial day was never better, ' ' 

 observed Henry Eberhardt, "nor prices 

 better and steadier, geraniums as lead- 

 ers going at $3 per dozen, selected at 

 $3.50, and these we believe were the 

 standard prices for this locality." 



