Fbbruart 26, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



Natlian Dickinson. 



Nathan Dickinson, former treasurer 

 of the Albert Dickinson Seed Co., Chi- 

 cago, died Sunday, February 22, at Lake 

 Geneva, Wis. Mr. Dickinson was 62 

 years old. He had been connected with 

 the seed concern until ill health forced 

 his resignation as treasurer in 1913. His 

 widow, two children, and two brothers, 

 Albert and Charles, survive him. 



Mrs. Alice L. Winter. 



Mrs. Alice L. Winter, wife of Her- 

 man Winter, proprietor of the Winter 

 Floral Co., Charleston, W. Va., died in 

 a local hospital, Saturday afternoon, 

 February 21, after a long illness of a 

 complication of diseases. She was 50 

 years of age. Funeral services were 

 held at West Charleston and the re- 

 mains afterward taken to Newcastle, 

 Ind., for burial. Mrs. Winter is sur- 

 vived by her husband and one son, John 

 Winter, of Charleston. 



Oliarles Wiegel. * 



Charles Wiegel, an old-time florist of 

 Leonard street, Frankford, Philadel- 

 phia, died February 19 after only a few 

 days' illness of influenza. For nearly 

 half a century Mr. Wiegel had done a 

 retail business in northeastern Phila- 

 delphia. Phil. 



J. M. Fontaine. 



J. M. Fontaine, a nurseryman resid- 

 ing near Linden, Cal., on the Calaveral 

 river, died Friday, February 13, at the 

 Dameron hospital at Stockton, Cal., of 

 pneumonia. He was only sick two days 

 and was removed to Stockton, where 

 everything known to medical science 

 was done to try to save him. 



Mr. Fontaine leaves a wife and five 

 little children to mourn his loss. 



PITTSBITBaH, PA. 



The lilarket. 



"The largest ever" was the unani- 

 mous verdict of both retailers and 

 wholesalers in reporting the St. Valen- 

 tine's day business, which, unfortunate- 

 ly, included an exceptional amount of 

 funeral as well as holiday work. Vio- 

 lets were plentiful, but there was prac- 

 tically no call for them until it became 

 necessary to reduce the price, which 

 had gone up to $3, back to the original 

 $2 per hundred. Carnations were the 

 only flowers which increased beyond the 

 holiday price, 12 and 15 cents apiece 

 being asked. There were not enough 

 American Beauty roses to supply the 

 heavy demands. Meanwhile the short- 

 age has continued, the embargo caused 

 by snow in the east helping to make a 

 bad matter worse. Fortunately, sweet 

 peas are now particularly good and in 

 fair supply. 



Olnb Meeting. 



The February meeting of the Pitts- 

 burgh Florists* and Gardeners' Club, 

 Tuesday, February 3, in the lecture hall 

 of the North Side Carnegie library, was 

 an exceptionally interesting session. 

 Dr. Otto C. Jennings, curator of the 

 Carnegie Institute Museum, contributed 

 a most interesting illustrated lecture on 



"Florida in Midwinter." Before the 

 lecture, the annual business meeting 

 and election ■ of officers was held. The 

 officers are: President, John Baraet; 

 vice-president, De Forest W. Ludwig; 

 (secretary and treasurer, Carl Becherer. 

 Mr. Barnet is superintendent of J. Den- 

 niston Lyons' Sewiekley Heights estate 

 and is one of the foremost private gar- 

 deners of western Pennsylvania. 



Various Notes. 



The marriage of Miss Marion Lang- 

 hans, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Theodore P. Langhans, to Eobert L. 

 Thompson, Jr., of Ben Avon, was 

 solemnized Tuesday evening, February 

 17. Mr. Langhans gave his daughter 

 away, while the son, Oliver H. Lang- 

 hans, was one of the ushers. The 

 bride's bouquet was of white orchids, 

 valley and lilacs caught with silver rib- 

 bon. Both the matron and the maid of 

 honor carried bouquets of white lilacs, 

 heather, pussy willow and pink roses 

 tied with blue ribbons. One of the 

 flower girls carried an old-fashioned 

 nosegay and the other a wicker basket 

 of rose petals. A centerpiece of spring 

 flowers in the Dresden tints was used 

 on the bridal table. The Thompsons are 

 spending their honeymoon in Cuba. 



Elmer E. Freeland and John W. Jones 

 liave leased the building on the corner 

 of Liberty and Ferry streets, just op- 

 posite the Wabash railway station. 

 They intend to have their nursery and 

 landscape designing headquarters there. 

 These gentlemen were formerly with 

 the Pittsburgh Tree Co. and started for 

 themselves the first of the year, but ow- 

 ing to the scarcity of office quarters 

 they have been located with the Pitts- 

 burgh Florists' Supply Co. at 618 

 Duquesne way. 



Harvey C. SheafF is again able to re- 

 turn to business, following a week^s de- 

 tention at his home with the flu. 



Mrs. E. A. Williams has just lost one 

 of her most faithful employees, Mrs. 

 Jennie Gunst, who died Thursday, 

 February 19, following a three weeks' 

 attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Gunst, who 

 was about 42 years of age, had been in 

 the employ of Mrs. Williams for over 

 twenty years. 



Spiro Kaps, manager of the East Lib- 

 erty station's corridor flower shop, left 

 Saturday, February 21, for a two weeks' 

 visit to his former home in Minneapolis, 

 Minn., with his brother, Peter Kaps. 



John Harris, manager of Harris Bros., 

 has returned to business after two 

 weeks ' detention at his home with an at- 

 tack of the grip. 



The L W. Scott Seed Co. has moved 

 to more commodious quarters at 500 

 Liberty avenue and 113 Diamond street. 



The E. C. Ludwig Floral Co. has an 

 exceptionally fine showing of calla lilies 

 and spring flowers grown at the green- 

 houses at Ludwig station, near Mars, 

 Pa. Edward Earl Ludwig, the junior 

 member of the firm, has been confined 

 to his home with a severe coldr for the 

 last ten days. 



A. G. Keroes was in the city last 

 week, calling in the interest of the Cli- 

 max Manufacturing Co., of Castorland, 

 N. Y. Milton Selinka was also a recent 

 visitor, representing Schloss Bros., New 

 York. 



John McClements has returned to 

 business following several weeks' ill- 

 ness with influenza. Michael Steiner 

 and John Jedlico, salesmen for the flrm 

 cf Randolph & McClements, are ill with 

 the same disease. 



William M. Turner, of Penn avenue, 

 Wilkinsburg, has been a patient in the 

 city Homeopathic hospital for the last 

 fortnight. His condition, which was at 

 first alarming, is reported as being fa- 

 vorable. Mr. Turner's head salesman, 

 William R. Shackleford, is still con- 

 fined to his home. 



Much anxiety is felt among the 

 friends of Stephen W. Galchek, the well 

 known floral wire frame designer, of 

 231 Diamond street, who has been miss- 

 ing since January 27. It is feared that 

 he may have been murdered. The daily 

 papers are trying to solve the mystery 

 and have advanced the theory that he 

 might be held for ransom. Mr. Galchek 

 is a native of Austria and came to this 

 country about sixteen years ago. 



E. E. S. 



CHIOAOO. 



The Market. 



At last the turn has come. After 

 practically two months of unprecedented 

 demand and comparative scarcity of 

 stock, the Chicago market again is in 

 position to fill all orders. 



Early last week it was apparent that 

 production was catching up with de- 

 mand, or that demand was subsiding to- 

 ward the point where production would 

 be adequate, but the real change did 

 not come until February 20. Up to that 

 time orders were sufficient to consume 

 all the flowers that came to market, 

 without affecting prices. Friday, one 

 of the best of shipping days, proved a 

 surprise because, although mountains of 

 boxes were piled up at the express com- 

 pany's concentrating station, the sup- 

 ply for the first time in many weeks 

 exceeded the demand and prices were 

 attacked. 



This week opened with an overstocked 

 market. Part of the trouble grew out 

 of the fact that there was no delivery 

 of mail. Monday morning's mail is the 

 heaviest of the week. Sunday was 

 Washington's birthday and the post- 

 office elected to observe Monday as a 

 holiday without giving adequate notice 

 to business interests. How the admin- 

 istration can hope for the support of 

 business houses while treating their in- 

 terests with such little regard is past 

 comprehension. The result in this case 

 was that the mail orders intended to 

 reach the market Monday, for shipment 

 that day, did not reach the wholesalers 

 until Tuesday. Application at the post- 

 office failed to obtain mail. Consequent- 

 ly the only shipping from Chicago Feb- 

 ruary 23 was on standing orders or on 

 telegrams. Many of the wholesalers 

 wired their regular customers advising 

 them to repeat by wire any orders 

 mailed Saturday or Sunday, but there 

 were many letters which did not arrive 

 until too late for the purpose for which 

 they were intended. As city business 

 also was quiet, this week started with 

 the first accumulation of stock Chicago 

 has seen since the chrysanthemums 

 cleared up. 



The time has come again when the 

 importance of shipping trade is thor- 

 oughly apparent. The first houses feel- 

 ing the necessity of cutting prices were 

 those which depend principally on local 

 buyers. For the last two months every- 

 body has been busy, but last week the 

 principal activity was in the houses 

 that cater specially to the shipping de- 



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