June 26; 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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rist this year. After two years of prac- 

 tical inactivity, the clubs are planning 

 dinners and dances, which will necessi- 

 tate many table decorations and corsage 

 bouquets. A. H. M. 



John B. McItttyTe. 



John Bead Mclntyre, of Morristown, 

 N. J., died at his home there- June 5. 

 He was 71 years old, and the oldest 

 member of the trade in Morristown. He 

 had been in the business forty years. 

 He is survived by his wife and eight 

 children. 



Elmer P. Morse. 



Elmer P. Morse, of Dedham, Mass., 

 died at his home May 31, aged 68. He 

 was one of the best known citizens of 

 Dedham. In his early youth he was em- 

 ployed in a greenhouse in Natick, and 

 later at the Harvard Botanic Gardens, 

 in Cambridge. In 1873 he established 

 himself in Dedham as a florist and con- 

 ducted a prosperous business until 1916, 

 when ill health compelled him to retire. 



Mr. Morse was a stockholder in the 

 Boston Flower Exchange. He also be- 

 longed to the Boston Florists' Club. 

 He is survived by his wife and one 

 daughter. 



MILWAT7EEE. 



The Market. 



The long period of hot weather, which 

 so demoralized the market, has passed, 

 but not without doing much damage. 

 Flowers have been too plentiful, but 

 stock of good quality has been hard to 

 find. Even garden flowers are not so 

 good as usual at this time of the year, 

 and owing to their soft growth more 

 Qare must be taken in bunching and 

 marketing to give them value. The 

 peony season, which generally extends 

 into July, is nearly over.' Few peony 

 growers' receipts paid them for their 

 trouble of pickil^ and marketing. Car- 

 nations are gettjjmg small and have no 

 substance. They sell at $1 to $2 per 

 hundred. Bose^ftre the most depend- 

 able stock and ^ksive the best sale. A 

 few good sweet T»eas are coming in and 

 sell rapidly, SHiis week sees fewer 

 flowers, but thef- are of better quality 

 and prices are firmer. 



The bedding plant season is nearing 

 the end. Prices were good this season 

 and sales were large. 



Various Notes. 



A great deal of comment is heard re- 

 garding the action proposed at the meet- 

 ing of the Chicago retail florists June 

 17. The opinion that prevails here is 

 that the grower will not suffer nearly 

 so much by pooling his stock at a set 

 minimum price as he does now by al- 

 lowing an overcrowded market to run 

 his returns down. 



There will be about fifteen local flo- 

 rists at the state convention June 28 

 in Fond du Lac. 



The E. Welke Co. will remodel its 

 store front with a large single window 

 and a red tile roof. Henry Welke, who 

 has charge of the business, is a hustler, 

 and has made more modern quarters 

 necessary. 



June weddings are numerous enough, 

 but the flower orders do not run into 

 money. Even the decorations are sim- 

 ple and no show of extravagance is 

 noticed. 



The summer social season at the coun- 

 try clubs is most promising for the flo- 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



With a shortening up of the supply, 

 the market is firmer in character than 

 for many days. While, perhaps, the 

 supply was in some measure greater 

 than the demand, clearances were not 

 particularly difficult because prices 

 were at low ebb. The current week 

 opens with a firmer market, on account 

 of fewer arrivals, and there is a pros- 

 pect that before the end of the week 

 values will rise. Around New York 

 this is graduation week and the ordi- 

 nary demand will be much stimulated 

 in consequence. Crimson Bambler 

 roses are coming in quantity, but 

 Dorothy Perkins, especially desirable 

 for this week, is scarce, its cropping 

 season, at least locally, not being in 

 sight. 



There is a fair supply of roses and, 

 with no surplus to speak of, values have 

 advanced slightly. American Beauty is 

 not conspicuous as regards quality, but 

 moves well. Hybrid teas have been 

 benefited by favorable temperatures 

 and in quality are all that might be ex- 

 pected at this season. The weather the 

 last three or four days has been most 

 favorable to roses. 



Carnations are in only fair supply and 

 the quality of arrivals is generally poor, 

 due to the approaching end of their sea- 

 son. While the range of prices quoted 

 covers flowers of the better quality, 

 much stock goes at prices dictated by 

 the purchaser. 



There are few lilies available, but 

 such as come in are taken at about 20 

 cents per flower if of good quality. Lily 

 of the valley is still scarce, but fairly 

 good stock can be obtained for 12 cents 

 per spray. 



Orchids are in fair supply and prices 

 continue at 25 cents to 75 cents for 

 cattleyas. The wedding season, of 

 course, has been a factor in the main- 

 tenance of a profitable range of prices. 



There is an abundance of miscellane- 

 ous flowers, all of which move fairly 

 well, the public seeming to have widened 

 its choice largely in the selection of 

 flowers. 



Various Notes. 



H. J. Elwes, noted English horticul- 

 turist, recently spent a few days in New 

 York, returning June 16 to England. 

 Mr. Elwes, who has seen practically 

 every evergreen in its own habitat, ex- 

 cept the white pine, was given an op- 

 portunity to see the white pine at its 

 best on Long Island. He was particu- 

 larly interested in the eremurus, which 

 he saw on the estate of T. A. Have- 

 meyer, Brookville, N. Y., and which he 

 said seemed to thrive much better there 

 than it does in England, in spite of the 

 more severe winters it experiences here. 

 Mr. Elwes is responsible for many in- 

 troductions of new varieties in plants, 

 and in the cyclopedias the varietal 

 name of Elwesiana is prominent in the 

 description of many subjects. 



Antonio Martin, of the firm of Car- 

 ballo & Martin, Havana^ Cuba, is spend- 

 ing a few weeks in New York, visiting 

 growers in the different lines in which 



he is interested. His firm is the lead- 

 ing florists' organization of Cuba, both 

 in the retail and growing line. Ho 

 makes frequent visits to New York, 

 which he thinks necessary in order to 

 keep in touch with the business of the 

 American florist. This time he is ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Martin and his little 

 daughter. He says that business in 

 Havana has been good all along, war 

 times making little difference in the 

 volume of trade. The firm has many 

 acres of rose plantings, necessarily not 

 covered by glass, from which supplies 

 are drawn. Mr. Martin is wide-awake 

 and loses sight of nothing which could 

 be utilized to advantage in his busi- 

 ness. 



Max Schling has about completed the' 

 album of decorative pieces on which ha 

 has been engaged for many months. It 

 is to be published in de luxe form, with 

 many of the subjects in colors. A sup- 

 plementary volume will describe the 

 method of construction of the different 

 pieces and reproduce detail drawings. 



There seems to be a movement on foot 

 to make the closing of wholesale stores 

 during the summer uniform. There is 

 little doubt that any definite arrange- 

 ment in this respect will be cordially 

 welcomed by the employees, who have 

 their share of the "grind" during the 

 busy months; 



George Hildebrand, of John Young & 

 Co., 53 West Twenty-eighth street, is 

 negotiating for a residential site in 

 Nassau county. As with many others, 

 apartment house life with him is losing 

 its charm and he is seeking to escape 

 thp thrall of the profiteering landlord. 



Henry Weston, of Hempstead, is now 

 gathering a fine crop of tomatoes from 

 his big sweet pea house. In the last 

 year or two he has followed his sweet 

 peas with tomatoes, and — well,^ he keeps 

 it up. 



Frank Strolitsky, for the Idst eight 

 years with Boehrs Co., has taken over 

 the Dean greenhouses at Baldwin, L. I., 

 and will operate them. J. H. P. 



The Chicago Carton Co., a large manu- 

 facturer of florists' boxes, has opened a 

 New York office at 516 Fifth avenue, in 

 charge of M. E. Chapin. 



D. Fexy, who has been a wholesaler 

 at 108 and later at 58 "West Twenty- 

 eighth street, is sick and out of busi- 

 ness for the present. 



OHIOAOO. 



The Market. 



The expected improvement in market 

 conditions began to be apparent in the 

 later days last week and with the open- 

 ing of the present week the market re- 

 gained its equilibrium and the trade set- 

 tled down to summer business on a basis 

 that is expected at least to be steady if 

 it does not improve. The huge overswp- 

 ply has melted away. There still are 

 abundant quantities of nearly all sea- 

 sonable flowers, but satisfactory prices 

 are obtainable for all good stock. A 

 large part of the stock coming in is of 

 extremely poor quality and not usable 

 for shipping trade or for the orders of 

 the first-class city stores. Chief of these 

 flowers are the carnations, but there are 

 many poor roses. This stock must be 

 sold at extremely low prices if at all, 

 the probability being that a few days 

 more will convince the growers that it 

 does not pay to ship these flowers. The 



