Januaby 29, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



33 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The supply of cut flowers continues to 

 be short and prices on practically every- 

 thing are somewhat higher in conse- 

 quence. Dark and stormy weather is in 

 large degree responsible for the light 

 supply of stock. There is a marked in- 

 crease in arrivals of bulbous stock, par- 

 ticularly of tulips. 



Eoses are in especially short supply 

 and clean up quickly in all grades. 

 American Beauty in the special grades 

 moves at about the same price range as 

 in the previous week. Hybrid teas 

 clean up shortly after arrival. Carna- 

 tions are in poor supply and sell quickly 

 at $15 to $20 for the best. The propor- 

 tion of splits is somewhat high, but they 

 are taken freely at $8 to $10 per hun- 

 dred. 



Cattleyas are in better supply than 

 are most of the other flowers and appear 

 to drag at times. The best blooms are 

 bringing 75 cents, the remainder moving 

 at prices between 35 cents and 50 cents. 

 Few spray orchids are coming in. Gar- 

 denias are in moderate supply, the best 

 bringing about $9 per dozen. Lily of 

 the valley is quite plentiful and moves 

 ■slowly. Easter lilies are scarce and 

 bring 35 cents when good. 



Paper "White narcissi are in good de- 

 mand at $1.25 to $1.50 per bunch. 

 Trumpet narcissi are not in great sup- 

 ply and move at $2 per bunch, with se- 

 lected stock at $2.50. Tulips when good 

 bring $2 to $2.50 per dozen. 



A good selection is available among 

 miscellaneous flowers. Calendulas, myo- 

 sotis, wallflowers, snapdragons, mignon- 

 ette, pansies, Primula malacoides and 

 bouvardias are all active in movement. 

 Arrivals of sweet peas are increasing, 

 but there is a good demand for them at 

 $2 to $5 per hundred. Lilac is arriving 

 in small quantities and a little acacia 

 is to be seen. Callas are in good demand 

 at $3 to $5 per dozen. 



Various Notes. 



A. M. Henshaw, returning from the 

 meeting of the S. A. F. board of direc- 

 tors, was obliged by an attack of influ- 

 enza to stop off in Pittsburgh, where he 

 is in the hands of relatives of Mrs. Hen- 

 shaw. Mrs. Henshaw left for Pitts- 

 burgh Monday afternoon, January 26. 



Peter K. Papes, of the Central Floral 

 ■Co., Detroit, with Mrs. Papes, was call- 

 ing upon the retail trade in this city 

 last week. 



It seems settled that many of the 

 wholesale florists will locate in the old 

 •Greenhut building, Sixth avenue and 

 Eighteenth street. Arrangements are 

 being made to have the building ready 

 for tenants about May 1. 



A regular meeting of the flower show 

 committee was held at the secretary's 

 office, 1170 Broadway, Monday after- 

 noon, January 26. 



Among the new incorporations noted 

 in New Jersey last week was that of 

 the Thurston Floral Co., Passaic, with a 

 capital of $25,000. The incorporators 

 were Charles Roth, East Paterson; Alex 

 Hay, Haledon, and David H. Thurston, 

 Paterson. 



The eleventh annual dinner of the 

 "Wholesale Cut Flower Protective Asso- 

 ciation was held at the Hotel Breslin 

 Saturday evening, January 24. Thore 

 was a good attendance of members and 

 the invited guests included C. H. Totty 

 and W. H. Duckham, Madison, N. J.; 



Eugene Dailledouze, A. T. De La Mare, 

 A. F. Faulkner and J. H. Pepper. The 

 dinner was served in a private room 

 and the table decorations were of wild 

 amilax and spring flowers. The menu 

 was excellent and greatly enjoyed. 

 President F. H. Traendly acted as toast- 

 master in his usual effective style and 

 professional entertainers added much to 

 the enjoyment of the evening. 



J. H. P. 



Boman J. Irwin will move February 1 

 from 108 West Twenty-eighth street to 

 new quarters on the third floor of the 

 building at 321 Sixth avenue, between 

 Twentieth and Twenty-first streets. 



The Crestwood Greenhouses were in- 

 corporated last week, with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $10,000, by Max Schling, D. Mc- 

 Kenzie and A. M. Schneider. 



What is probably the largest green- 

 house building contract ever signed is 

 one for $800,000 placed with the Amer- 

 ican Greenhouse Mfg. Co. by the East 

 Coast Hothouse Operators, Inc., of Mill- 

 ington, N. J. It calls for the construc- 

 tion of fifty-four houses, each 36x333, in 

 such form that they are to be practically 

 eighteen houses of 1,000 feet in length, 

 totaling in area well over half a million 

 feet of glass. The company includes 

 some New York capitalists, it is under- 

 stood, though definite information as to 

 its organization and plans for growing 

 has not been given out. 



H. C Riedel has decided to discon- 

 tinue business for the present on ac- 

 count of his health. He is the senior 

 member of Eiedel & Williams, which 

 succeeded Riedel & Meyer at the death 

 of Meyer Otile. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The market these days is showing 

 evident signs of a famine, with daily 

 prospects of its becoming more acute. 

 The weather has improved only a little. 

 We shall have to wait some time before 

 we can get our normal supply of stock, 

 even though the weather becomes favor- 

 able for production. Bulbous stock is 

 still scarce and not much of it is ex- 

 pected before St. Valentine's day. It is 

 reported that this year's supply is not 

 equal to that of a year ago. Some daffo- 

 dils and tulips are coming in. These are 

 of poor quality, but, with the present 

 shortage, they demand high prices. Car- 

 nations advanced last week; roses also 

 gained higher levels, but were not so 

 prominent as carnations. 



If it were not for the good demand 

 for funeral flowers, there would be lit- 

 tle business. Plants in good variety are 

 l>lentiful, with little demand. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Anna Brennan, of Machias, N. 

 v., proved a valuable asset to the estab- 

 lishment of Scott the Florist through- 

 out the holidays. Miss Brennan had 

 charge of the corsage department and 

 every order was executed with a high 

 standard of workmanship. Miss Bren- 

 nan is now spending a few days' vaca- 

 tion at her home. At this establishment 

 tulips and daffodils are a fine exhibit. 



W. H. Grever, of Allen street, the in- 

 ventor of the Ever Ready pot cover, has 

 turned over the pot cover business to his 

 son. In the last two years the business 

 has enjoyed material increase. 



Charles Kessler has charge of the 

 growing end at the greenhouses of G. F. 

 Xewlands. 



Wallace Eiss is spending a few days 

 in Chicago. The other day he took oc- 

 casion to wire in, saying, "Get better 

 prices for roses." F. P. A. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Club Meeting. 



Dr. Otto E. Jennings, curator of the 

 Carnegie Institute Museum, will give an 

 illustrated talk on "Central Florida in 

 Midwinter" before the monthly meet- 

 ing of the Pittsburgh Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club Tuesday evening, Febru- 

 ary 3, at 8 o'clock in the lecture hall 

 of the north side Carnegie library. This 

 talk will be right up to the second, as 

 Dr. Jennings has just returned from his 

 trip to central Florida and now has his 

 lantern slides in course of preparation 

 for the lecture. The meeting will be 

 open to the general public, an invitation 

 having been extended through the local 

 press. 



Various Notes. 



Merlin Harris has been added to the 

 greenhouse staff of G. P. Weaklen & Co., 

 at Springfield, which is under the gen- 

 eral supervision of John Mailie. Mr. 

 Harris was for several years in charge 

 of the orchid houses of Dr. John Fre- 

 mont Shaffer, on South Negley avenue, 

 east end, the contents of which were 

 donated to the Phipps Conservatory, 

 Schenley park. Meanwhile he has been 

 engaged with a commercial landscape 

 architect in Kittanning. Miss Rebecca 

 Marie Shaffer, secretary of G. P. Weak- 

 len & Co., returned Tuesday evening, 

 January 20, from a several days' visit 

 with friends in Parkersburg, W. Va. 



Mrs. Thomas Cavenaugh, of John- 

 ston's Braddock Flower Shop, who is 

 spending the winter in Bradentown, 

 Fla., recently spent a week or ten days 

 at Tampa. Mrs. Cavenaugh 's health, 

 which was considerably undermined as 

 the result of an attack of Spanish in- 

 fluenza last autumn, is improving and 

 she has gained twenty pounds since her 

 departure from Pittsburgh; her throat, 

 however, is still in a serious condition. 



E. E. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in market 

 conditions in the week ended January 

 27. Wintry weather has held production 

 at the minimum and the increase in the 

 death rate has provided demand at least 

 as great as anything experienced this 

 season. The situation might have been 

 thought to justify continued advance in 

 prices, but, as a matter of fact, prices 

 have only held steady. There have been, 

 however, two prices in most of the 

 wholesale houses. What has become the 

 fairly stable market price has been 

 charged to the regular buyers and for 

 much the greater part of each day's re- 

 ceipts. The transients, the ones who 

 buy in Chicago only when the home 

 supply is short, have had to pay a little 

 more. By cutting down the regulars 

 .ind tacking on a few extra pennies on 

 shipments to buyers who will disappear 

 as soon as stock becomes plentiful, it 

 has been possible for commission men to 

 make a little better averages for in- 

 satiable growers without putting the 

 market so high as to turn away many 

 customers. Of course a few buyers have 



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