October 30, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



OBITUARY 



Albert A. Spear. 



Albert A. Spear, for many years one 

 of the best known florists along the 

 Massachusetts south shore, died at his 

 home on Broad street, East Weymouth, 

 after a short illness, October 23. He 

 was 76 years of age. The deceased was 

 a native of England and is survived by 

 a widow and three children. One of his 

 sons, Charles A. Spear, has been for 

 some years active in the business. At 

 the funeral services, October 24, there 

 was a large attendance and many beau- 

 tiful floral tokens were noted. 



W. N. C. 



Albert S. Miller. 



Albert S. Miller, 79 years old, a well- 

 known florist of Lancaster county, died 

 at Sporting Hill, Pa., October 17. He 

 was a charter member of the Patriotic 

 Order Sons of America. 



SALT LAKE CITY. 



The Maxket. 



Business continues to pick up, and 

 while the last week has not been quite 

 80 good as the same week was last year, 

 business is good for this season. Koses 

 are moving fairly well. Columbia and 

 Hoosier are in good demand, while 

 Ophelia, Shawyer and White Shawyer 

 clean up fairly well. 



Carnations are coming on in fine 

 shape; the stems are long and flowers 

 extra good. White Wonder and En- 

 chantress Supreme are the leaders, sell- 

 ing for $6 per hundred. A few Laddie 

 have begun to appear, but the stems are 

 not yet long enough to make them a 

 leader. 



The week has seen many changes of 

 the weather. The first part was warm, 

 with plenty of sunshine, while the end 

 of the week the ground was covered 

 with four inches of snow. What few 

 outdoor flowers the frost did not get 

 are now ruined. 



Pompons and large mums arc at 

 their best and some extra fine stock can 

 be had. As a whole, the mums are the 

 best seen for some years. 



E. O. Hill at Farmington. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hill, of Richmond, 

 Ind., visited Salt Lake City last week 

 on their way home from their tour of 

 the Pacific coast states. While here 

 they visited the greenhouses of the 

 Miller Floral Co., at Farmington, espe- 

 cially to see some new roses which are 

 being grown there. 



The new roses being tested out con- 

 sist of two sports from Shawyer, one 

 white and the other a deep pink, almost 

 red, and two seedlings produced on the 

 place. Seedling No. 1 is a cross be- 

 tween Ophelia and Shawyer, having 

 many qualifications of a good forcing 

 rose, being a good grower, profuse 

 bloomer and beautiful light pink in 

 color. Seedling No. 3, a cross between 

 Hoosier Beauty and Shawyer, appealed 

 to Mr. Hill for its pleasing deep pink 

 color and other qualifications as a forc- 

 ing variety. 



The Miller Floral Co. will grow these 

 varieties in large quamtities next year 

 and if they continue to prove satisfac- 



tory they will be offered to the trade 

 in 1921. The white sport from Shawyer 

 has been extensively grown by the com- 

 pany for the last three years and is 

 considered by retail florists of the in- 

 termountain country much superior to 

 White Killarney, which it has now re- 

 placed. G. J. B. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



The Market. 



During the last two weeks there has 

 been a rather marked quickening in 

 business. Social functions have been 

 numerous, while a number of prominent 

 weddings have helped to swell the de- 

 mand. 



Taking receipts as a whole, the period 

 has seen some improvement in both style 

 and quality, and the assortment, espe- 

 cially of roses and carnations, has been 

 broader. The high temperature which 

 has ruled of late has, however, proved 

 a difficulty with the dealer and some 

 stock which had been carelessly packed 

 has had to be dumped into the garbage 

 can. 



The market has been well supplied 

 with roses and one has heard but few 

 complaints as to the quality arriving, 

 although the long-stemmed grades have 

 not been so plentiful as might have been 

 desired by the higher-class trade. Long- 

 stemmed carnatiojis have been in better 

 supply and the quality has improved 

 materially. Gladioli have been in poor 

 supply and in many instances style has 

 been lacking. The market has received 

 a few consignments of chrysanthemums 

 from California. These have arrived in 

 good condition, especially Wm. Turner 

 and Chieftain, while the general de- 

 mand has been met by the addition of 

 a few local cuts of Robinson. 



In the way of home-grown outdoor 

 stock the market has been well supplied 

 Mdth Cochet, Killarney and Radiance 

 roses. 



The high level of temperatures ruling 

 all through the month has been detri- 

 mental to the chrysanthemum crop to a 

 large extent. The crop will not be up 

 to last year's in volume. Last year 

 there were a large number of amateur 

 growers who eked out their income by 

 a few dollars, but they have dropped 

 largely by the wayside. Those who were 

 accustomed to employ labor in the work 

 have found it a missing quantity all 

 through the summer and some have 

 balked when taking into consideration 

 the high price of the cloth used in finish- 

 ing off the crop. 



Various Notes. 



The monthly meeting of the New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society was held Oc- 

 tober 16, with a large attendance of 

 members and the venerable Charles Eble, 

 president, in the chair. The society 

 went on record as advocating the crea- 

 tion of a chair of horticulture in the new 

 trade school out of the bequest left the 

 city by the late Isaac Delgado. This 

 trust fund is now estimated to be about 

 $1,250,000. 



James A. Newsham, of the Magnolia 

 Nursery, proposes to graduate as a full- 

 fledged ■ ■ bubolician, ' ' having purchased 

 a 270-acre farm on the banks of the 

 Tickfaw river, in the heart of the dairy- 

 ing and strawberry section. The pres- 

 ent nursery is to be carried on as usual 

 and the new place will act as a partial 

 feeder of outdoor stoftk to the establish- 

 ment on Metairie road. 



H. E. Dresel, Metairie road, secured 

 the first premium for his exhibit of cut 

 flowers at the Shrewsbury fair October 

 9 to 12. The vase of outdoor-grown Ra- 

 diance roses came in for a great deal 

 of favorable comment and his dahlias 

 were pronounced superb. One of the 

 most notable in the latter exhibit was 

 the new Dr. Tevis, the creation of Frank 

 Pelicano, San Francisco, Cal. 



Max Scheinuk opened his new estab- 

 lishment on St. Charles avenue and 

 Third street October 22 with a display 

 of chrysanthemums, roses, cattleyasi, 

 palms and ferns such as is seldom seen 

 here. The new building is a modification 

 of the old Creole architecture, adapted to 

 modern tastes and requirements, and 

 nothing has been spared by the owner to 

 emphasize the point that it is well to 

 "Say It with Flowers." 



The Avenue Floral Co. celebrated its 

 thirty-fift,h anniversary October 25. Un- 

 der its president, C. W. Eichling, many 

 of the most successful of the trade re- 

 ceived their training. The salesrooms of 

 this firm are always tastefully decorat- 

 ed with the best of the season's flowers, 

 while the approach to the nursery has 

 likewise its display of typical shrubs 

 and outdoor flowers. E. F. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market filled up with flowers in 

 the later part of last week and October 

 27 found a supply considerably ahead of 

 requirements. The condition seemed to 

 be principally due to unfavorable 

 weather, the temperature having been 

 much higher than normal for the sea- 

 son, skies dark and atmosphere humid. 

 It was weather that produced unusual 

 quantities of flowers, of none too good 

 quality, but which did nothing to accel- 

 erate the demand. In the night of Oc- 

 tober 27 a cold wave arrived. The tem- 

 perature now is normal and it is ex- 

 pected that there will be a prompt im- 

 provement in conditions. 



The houses which ship flowers over a 

 large part of the central part of the 

 United States reported that the situa- 

 tion in Chicago last week, and at the 

 start of the present week, seemed 

 merely to be a reflection of conditions 

 general throughout the country. Their 

 advices were to the effect that all the 

 secondary markets in the territory were 

 badly congested with flowers. The con- 

 dition was apparent in the reduced num- 

 ber and size of the shipping orders. The 

 situation is exactly the opposite of what 

 prevailed at this time la.st year. Then 

 nobody had flowers and everybody who 

 ever bought stock here was reminding 

 the shipper that he was an old customer. 



The chrysanthemum has come to the 

 front as the predominating flower. It 

 seems to be literal truth that at the 

 moment there is no limit to the supply, 

 either of large flowers or of pompwas. 

 Anything the chrysanthemum market 

 ever afforded is available now. Of 

 course prices have eased. Except for 

 a limited quantity of specially high 

 grade blooms, any reasonable ideas as 

 to what the buyer wants to pay can be 

 met. Some of the local retailers are 

 receiving California chrysanthemums in 

 considerable quantity and their failure 

 to purchase from the local market is a 

 factor in the preserft situation. It 

 is probable, however, that all reason for 

 importing mums from the coast has 

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