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The Florists^ Review 



OcTOBEit 23, 1919. 



There is a plentiful supply of bou- 

 vardia, white and pink; centaureas, 

 delphiniums, candytuft and other out- 

 door flowers. The aster cut is still un- 

 finished. 



Various Notes. 



John B. Nugent, of Young & Nugent, 

 42 West Twenty-eighth street, is a can- 

 didate for alderman for the twenty- 

 first aldermanic district on the Demo- 

 cratic ticket and his picture is promi- 

 nently displayed on window posters 

 throughout the wholesale district. 



Among the callers at the S. A. F. 

 office last week were: President J. F. 

 Animann, Edwardsville, 111.; George 

 Asmus, Chicago; Paul R. Klingsporn, 

 Chicago; Clarence G. Ellsworth, Chi- 

 cago; L. J. Renter, Boston; Warren G. 

 Matthews, Dayton, O.; William L. 

 Rock, Kansas City, Mo.; Henry Penn, 

 Boston, and Waltcr^^Mott, repres?nting 

 Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 

 John N. Champion, New Haven, Conn., 

 was also in town. 



Roman J. Irwin, 108 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, who with Wallace R. 

 Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., and F. C. 

 W. Brown, of the J. M. Gasser Co., 

 Cleveland, went into the wilds of New 

 Brunswick, Canada, last month on a 

 liunting trij), has returned and is en- 

 thusiastic over the results of his trip. 

 A beautiful specimen of white deer was 

 among his trophies of the hunt. Mr. 

 Pierson and Mr. Brown also brought 

 down deer and the latter a moose in 

 addition. Among the piscatorial spoils 

 secured by the party was a 40-ppund 

 salmon. 



Miss Lavinia Peek, in charge of the 

 flower seed department of Roman J. 

 Irwin, and formerly of Vaughan 's Seed 

 Store, died Sunday, October 19, of pneu- 

 monia, at the home of her sister, Mrs. 

 Lawrence, Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. 

 Lawrence is remember'.'d as Miss Belle 

 Peek, who for many years was a mem 

 ber of the office force of Vaughan 's 

 Seed Store. 



The committee on awards of the New 

 York Florists' Club, Saturday, October 

 18, visited Madison, N. J., to inspect 

 the stock of the new rose Frank W. 

 Dunlop growing at the establishment of 

 the C. H. Totty Co. In the afternoon, 

 A. L. Miller, of Jamaica, motored to 

 Madison, taking with him as guests J. 

 F. Ammann, George Asmus and Secre- 

 tary John Young. Messrs. Ammann, 

 Asmus and Young later left for Atlan- 

 tic City, X. J., to attend, as representa- 

 tives of the S. A. F., the big meeting 

 of industries called by the United 

 States Cham])er of Commerce to open 

 October 20. 



Nathan F. Barrett, who in 190.3 was 

 president of the American Society of 

 Landsca])e Architects, died October 16 

 in the Mount Vernon hospital, of throat 

 trouble. The deceased was 74 years 

 old. He laid out the town of Pullman, 

 IIJ., and tlie country estates of P. A. B. 

 Widener, Philadelphia, Joseph H. 

 Choate and H. O. Havemeyer, New 

 York, and others. 



The strike of employees of the Ameri- 

 can Railway Express Co., which began 

 October 13^ is still unbroken and ship- 

 ments of flowers by express are greatly 

 hampered. The strike of the long- 

 shoremen, which has tied up New York 

 harbor for some time, shows no sign 

 of settlement, although military aid has 

 been called for. It is understood that 

 some heavy shipments of Dutch bulbs 



are held up on board of three steamers 

 in port. J. H. P. 



The fall exhibition of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York will be held 

 October 30 to November 2 at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. All, 

 whether members of the society or not, 

 are invited to make exhibits. Sched- 

 ules can be had by addressing the secre- 

 tary, George V. NasH, New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, Bronx park. New York. 

 Exhibitors are urged to make entries 

 early, so that adequate arrangements 

 may be made for the proper presenta- 

 tion of the exhibits. 



TORONTO, ONT. 



The Market. 



Business is generally good. Last 

 summer was an exceptionally good one 

 for the florist and this fall businessfivas 

 been maintained, though at timesit has 

 been difficult to secure sufficient'V^ock. 

 This was especially true after the gar- 

 den flowers were no longer available. 

 Now the roses and mums are becoming 

 more plentiful and pompons are making 

 their appearance. 



The repainting and redecorating of 

 so many of the flower stores in anticipa- 

 tion of the fall trade indicates the ex- 

 pectation of large business. Design 

 work is in demand and the bouquet 

 trade is also good. 



Various Notes. 



The Dale Estate, at Brampton, has 

 just completed 1,500 lineal feet of glass, 

 fifty-one feet wide. In addition, they 

 have purchased the fifteen greenhouses 

 of William Fendley, at Brampton, cov- 

 ering two and a half acres, together 

 with forty acres of ground adjacent to 

 the greenhouses. 



Arrang?ments are nearing completion 

 for the big exhibition to open November 

 20. The florists have been examining 

 the buildings and laying plans for their 

 share in the mammoth exhibition. The 

 last one under the Ontario Horticultural 

 Association was canceled owing to the 

 war. Now it is to be resumed on a 

 greater scale than ever. There will be 

 thousands of dollars donated in prizes 

 and thousands of classifications and en- 

 tries. 



Toronto dealers have been troubled 

 lately with street peddlers selling flow- 

 ers in front of their stores on Saturday 

 night. They have been driven off 

 Yonge street, but now seek the streets 

 farther out and manage to undersell the 

 legitimate florists, who have taxes to 

 pay and considerable upkeep. The 

 growers arc ])lamod for making this 

 condition possible. 



Fourteen Toronto representatives 

 were at the F. T. D. convention in Buf- 

 falo and returned enthusiastic for this 

 organization. They are looking for- 

 ward to entertaining the F. T. D. in 

 Toronto in 1921. With two Canadian 

 florists on the board of directors, 

 they naturally feel that they are being 

 treated right and will show their ap- 

 preciation in a tangible way, if the 

 convention comes to Toronto two years 

 hence. 



Charles Cross, son of Melville Cross, 

 died in Orangeville, October 16. 



An important meeting of the Toronto 

 Retail Florists' Club will be held Octo- 

 ber 27. This will be a combined busi- 

 ness and social meeting. Fall advertis- 



ing plans, the Horticultural Exhibition 

 floral displays and other matters will bi 

 dealt with at this meeting. Arraugr- 

 ments will also be made for the "Say It 

 with Flowers" parade. 



A meeting of the executive commii- 

 tee of the Canadian Retail Florists' 

 Association will be called by the presi- 

 dent at an early date to deal with oi- 

 ganized work. 



Recent visitors to Toronto were: 

 Frank McKenna, Montreal; Mr. Mc- 

 Kenna, Quebec; Charles Scrim, Ottawa; 

 S. W. Coggan, Battle Creek, and Eail 

 Mann, Richmond, Ind. 



The Ontario Agricultural College, at 

 Guelph, will hold three free 2-week 

 classes in fruit, vegetable and flower 

 growing, beginning January 26, Febru- 

 ary 9 and February 23, respectivelv. 

 J. J. H. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The week-end found much improve 

 ment in market conditions. Stock of 

 all kinds has been moving with a pace 

 bordering on liveliness and at steady 

 prices. Carnations, under moderate sup- 

 ply, have advanced to $5 per hundred. 

 Most of the stock can hardly be classed 

 better than seconds. Chrysanthemums, 

 which are now the principal flowers of 

 the market, are holding steady at a 

 price which is quite profitable to the 

 growers. Roses have fallen off in sup- 

 ply to the extent of a shortage in some 

 varieties. Sunburst of the better 

 grades is in good supply; so are special 

 Beauties, while White Killarney, which 

 is the only white this market has, is, as 

 usual, short of the demand. The week- 

 end brought frosts which killed all out- 

 door stock. 



Results of the F. T. D. Convention. 



What the church does to bring the 

 human soul nearer to the ultimate goal, 

 that did the F. T. D. convention for 

 the florists' business here. In the 

 minds where conventions had no part 

 — and in some there was even an idea 

 that they were a loss of time and money 

 — there is now the firm belief that such 

 gatherings are the essence of trade 

 progress and prosperity. It is in such 

 conventions that ideas are exchanged 

 and that something which one wanted 

 is given a name and a place under the 

 sun. Everyone here who attended 

 agrees that it was a wonderful occasion, 

 and, asked what he means, says that he 

 has learned much about two phases of 

 the business, how to advertise and hoji" 

 to decorate a window effectively, whicii 

 is, in a way, to make even a child under- 

 stand what you want him to know. 

 Here are a couple of lines from a modern 

 book: "The first and most practical 

 step in getting what one wants in this 

 world is wanting it. One would think 

 that the next step would be expressing 

 what one wants. But it almost never 

 is. It generally consists in wanting it 

 still harder and still harder until one 

 can express it." 



Various Notes. 



J. T. Salach has opened a store at 

 118.3 Genesee street. The store is a 

 corner one, with suitable windows for 

 effective decorating. 



Joseph Kolodziejizat, who has been 

 doing landscape work for some time, 

 will return to Holland to straighten up 

 property affairs. 



