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The Florists' Review 



35 





eeutive board at Cleveland suffering 

 from a heavy cold and was confined to 

 his room for a few days, but is now at 

 his desk again. 



A. M. Henshaw, president of the New 

 York Florists* Olub, who was taken ill 

 while in Pittsburgh on his way home 

 from the S. A. F. directors' meeting, is 

 reported to be well enough to return to his 

 home this week. 



The Morris County Gardeners* and 

 Florists' Society held its annual dinner 

 at the Morrison House, Morristown, on 

 the evening of January 28. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 FloriBts'^ Club will be held at the club's 

 rooms in the Engineering Societies' 

 building, 25 West Thirty-ninth street, 

 Monday evening, February 9. Business 

 of importance will be transacted at this 

 meeting and reports are expected from 

 the dinner and flower show committees. 

 As it is to be carnation night, the ex- 

 hibition committee wishes carnation 

 growers to send exhibits of either new 

 or standard varieties. They should be 

 sent prepaid to the exhibition commit- 

 tee, 127 West Twenty-eighth street. 



Wholesale Florists is the name of an 

 organization incorporated last week 

 with a capital of $50,000. This firm is 

 taking over cooperative quarters in the 

 lOld Greenhut building, at Sixth avenue 

 and Eighteenth street. A. Slinn, R. J. 

 Jrwin and M. C. Ford were named as 

 incorporators. H. E. Froment is presi- 

 dent; A. M. Henshaw, secretary, and 

 E. C. Horan, treasurer. The corpora- 

 tion also includes the following, who 

 will move to the new quarters when they 

 are ready for occupation: M. C. Ford, 

 J. J. Coan, E. J. Irwin, Joseph S. Fen- 

 rich, S. Gilbert, Clarence Slinn, I. Gold- 

 stein, J. K. Allen, P. J. Smith and Do- 

 lansky & McDonald. 



Alfred Futterman, of Futterman 

 Bros., 122 West Twenty-eighth street, is 

 laid up with an attack of double pneu- 

 monia. J. H. P. 



Joseph Trepel probably operates the 

 largest chain of flower stores in the 

 United States, if not in the world, 

 although they are all located in the 

 city of Brooklyn. From a small begin- 

 ning in 1888, the business has grown 

 so that two recent additions to the 

 chain bring the number of stores to 

 eleven. Headquarters still is in the 

 store at Lewis avenue and Hancock 

 street. 



The East Coast Hothouse Operators, 

 Inc., whose $800,000 contract with the 

 American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. was 

 recorded in these columns last week, 

 filed incorporation papers recently, with 

 a capitalization of $1,500,000. M. M. 

 Lucey, M. Butler and L. S. Dorsey, all 

 of Wilmington, Del., are the incorpora- 

 tors published. 



WASHJNGTON, D. 0. 



The Market. 



Conditions were better last week. 

 Despite the fact that there was but lit- 

 tle sunshine, the supply of stock showed 

 an increase. There has been a large de- 

 mand for funeral flowers, and some of 

 the local florists have resorted to arti- 

 ficial stock. The wholesalers find it 

 hard to divide the supply evenly among 

 the trade, because there is seldom 

 enough stock to go around. Carnations 

 and sweet peas hardly touch the tables 

 when the growers bring them in, and, in 

 some cases, the members of the trade 



DAVID G. GRILIfOBTZEB. 



THE recent election of David G. Grillbortzer as vice-president of the American 

 Carnation Society may be regarded by him and by the trade jointly as a silver 

 wedding present. It was just twenty-five years ago, when he was 16 years old, 

 that he began a five years' apprenticeship with J. Louis Loose, in Alexandria, 

 Va., his native town. After that he joined his brother, J. Fred Grillbortzer, in 

 business under the firm name of Grillbortzer Bros., with four houses 30x100 feet. 

 Three years later his brother died and he continued the business under his own 

 name. When, in June, 1918, he had an opportunity to buy out the business of 

 Mr. Loose, he had approximately 150,000 feet of glass. His purchase doubled 

 his holdings and added the store, on Fourteenth street, of the Washington Floral 

 Co., of which he is now head. Mr. Grillbortzer is an ex-president of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington and a member of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, of 

 the Masonic lodge of which George Washington was the first master and of other 

 associations and orders. 



meet the growers outside to claim their 

 share. 



Paper Whites are plentiful, but roses 

 are still scarce and prices remain high. 

 The market has been well supplied with 

 greens. 



Various Notes. 



Fred Leapley is back on the job again 

 after several days' illness. 



Marche & Co. have been busy with 

 decorating work during the last week. 

 They had several large casket covers. 

 Mr. White is back again after his ill- 

 ness. 



L. E. Hoover reports an unusually 

 large amount of funeral work on hand. 

 He has noticed a large increase in the 

 demand for various plants. 



One of the many fine pieces of work 

 which the Oehmler Floral Co. turned 

 out last week was a beautiful basket 

 made up with roses, orchids, freesias, 

 Enchantress carnations and Asparagus 

 plumosus. Tbe basket stood over four 

 feet high and was tied with a piece of 

 pink ribbon, bearing the words, "Ac- 

 counting Division," in gold letters. 

 The basket was presented to the new as- 

 sistant secretary of the Treasury De- 

 partment by the clerks in the account- 

 ing division, of which he was formerly 

 chief. 



John Sharper, of Oxon Hill, Md., ha» 

 been bringing in some fine stock, includ- 

 ing carnations, peas and calendulas. 



G. V. S. 



