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The Florists^ Review 



March IS, 1920 



PITTSBUBGH, PA. 



The Market. 



All indications point to splendid 

 Easter stock, both as to quantity and 

 quality. More lily of the valley ar- 

 rived during the last week than during 

 the preceding four months. American 

 Beauties are still a little scarce, but 

 some fine freesias are being received 

 from the local growers. Some good tu- 

 lips and calla Qilies are appearing on 

 the market. 



Various Notes. 



Notable among the many magnificent 

 floral tributes at the funeral of the late 

 James J. Flannery, founder of the 

 '\' anadium Corporation of America, was 

 a wreath resting on an easel four feet 

 in height designed by Harvey C. Sheaff, 

 manager of Mrs. E. A. Williams' estab- 

 lishment. It was composed of 200 cat- 

 tleyaB, eighteen sprays of vandas 

 and 1,500 violets. Another contribution 

 from the same firm was a large Boman 

 gold vase of Premier roses with white 

 lilacs and pussy willows. 



Friday afternoon, March 12, Pitts- 

 burgh experienced one of the worst 

 wind, rain and hail storms in its his- 

 tory. A large plate glass window on the 

 Stanwix street side of the McGrath & 

 Langhans store was blown in. Mr. 

 Langhans/ who had just returned to the 

 store after an attack of tonsillitis, was 

 sitting at a desk nearby and fortunately 

 escaped injury. Mr. McGrath was 

 called from his suburban home, but be- 

 fore he reached the store every plant 

 and cut bloom in the place was frozen, 



William A. Clarke and Theodore P. 

 Langhans, of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower 

 Co., made a trip to the range at Bakers* 

 town, Pa., Thursday, March 11, to in- 

 spect the Easter stock. 



Ira H. Landis is sending in some fine 

 freesias from his place, near Lancaster, 

 Pa. 



The verdict in the case of C. Colyn, 

 of Voorhout, Holland, vs. Theodore 

 Verscharen, which has just been tried 

 in the Allegheny county court, was the 

 awarding to the plaintiff $350 and or- 

 dering the defendant to pay all court 

 costs besides. The report, however, is 

 that Mr. Colyn has refused to accept 

 this settlement. His appeal was for 

 full compensation for bulbs valued at 

 between $1,500 and $1,600, Mr. Ver- 

 scharen having refused to accept the 

 consignment on account of its late ar- 

 rival during the summer of 1918. 



Earl Tipton has returned from a sev- 

 eral days' trip to Detroit and Cleveland, 

 where he went to inspect the new branch 

 stores of the McCallum Co. James 

 Reilly has been changed from the sales- 



room of the main store in Pittsburgh 

 to the Detroit store on Elizabeth street. 



Michael J. Steiner and Peter Mat- 

 Bukes are again on duty in the salesroom 

 of Bandolph & McClements, following 

 attacks of the grip. 



Joseph Fineberg has almost entirely 

 recovered from the serious operation 

 which kept him a patient in the Passa- 

 vant hospital for two months. Mr. 

 Fineberg, who was formerly connected 

 with the Victoria Flower Shop of A. 

 Krongold, is now associated with the 

 retail shop of John Kuntz, on Seventh 

 street. E. E. S. 



BAI.TIMOBE, MD. 



The Market. 



The market last week was easier than 

 it has been for a long time; the supply 

 has increased materially and the de- 

 mand has to some extent fallen off. 

 Prices are beginning to get back to 

 normal for this season of the- year, al* 

 though there is no precedent for flower 

 prices this spring. 



Boses are in fair supply and of ex- 

 cellent quality. Carnations, since the 

 bright weather has come, are blooming 

 in fine shape and plenty are to be had 

 each day. Sweet peas, which stood still 

 so long this winter, have responded well 

 to the sun's rays, so much so that at 

 times there was almost a glut of them. 

 Bulbous stock is in fair supply, perhaps 

 enough to meet the requirements. Calla 

 lilies, which also seemed to have stood 

 still this season, are now in almost 

 abundant supply. Easter lilies, while 

 not 80 plentiful, are in sufftcient quan- 

 tity to supply the demand. Miscellane- 

 ous flowers, such as pansies, mignonette 

 and other small flowers, are scarce. 

 This class of stock has been scarce all 

 winter. 



Olub Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Baltimore 

 Florists' Club was held in Royal Ar- 

 canum hall March 8. The advertising 

 committee, of which Joseph S. Merritt 

 is chairman, held the floor the entire 

 evening. It was the committee's meet- 

 ing from the start to the finish. It 

 would seem that the five young men on 

 the committee — Joseph S. Merritt, Geo. 

 J. Muhly, C. Harry Wagner, Henry 

 Baynes and Wm. F. Keyes, Jr. — had 

 made up their minds that Baltimore 

 should stay in the piker class no longer, 

 for they came to the meeting with a 

 specific amount of money pledged and, 

 more than this, they had some of the 

 city's best advertising men present to 

 do business with. There was a discus- 

 sion as to ways and means, but the plan 

 that seemed to be in most favor was the 



It is Necessary 



to eliminate overtime costs in printing The 

 Review. Advertisers are urged to send in 

 copy on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 

 whenever possible. If copy is not received 

 until Tuesday we have to pay double for 

 setting the type. 



percentage plan; that is, for the growers 

 to pay one-half of one per cent and the 

 retailers one per cent on all stock that 

 passed through the wholesale houses. 

 This will mean one and one-half per 

 cent on the business transacted by the 

 four wholesale houses of the city and 

 should give the committee ample funds 

 to take care of the local as well as the 

 national advertising. The committee 

 had $4,000 per year in sight to start 

 with and George A. Deatel, of the 

 Deatel Advertising Service, was asked 

 to submit plans on a basis of $4,000 per 

 year to get the campaign started. When 

 this campaign gets under way this 

 amount will be doubled, and before it 

 is 1 year old the subscribers will, as 

 in some of our sister cities, insist on the 

 percentage being doubled. Baltimore 

 may be a little slow at the barrier, but 

 look out for her once she gets into the 

 stretch. 



Fred Bauer had several blooms of his 

 new seedling rose, W. B. No. 2, on dis- 

 play. This is a cross between Ward and 

 Sunburst; the color is delicate yellow, 

 verging to orange in the center. The 

 blooms were on stiff stems thirty inches 

 long and covered with fine foliage. One 

 of the good points about them is that 

 they are not susceptible to mildew and 

 are never seen with bent stems. 



George Morrison, manager of the 

 Jacobs estate, an authority on all kinds 

 of growing, was an interested listener 

 at this meeting, but as Mr. Morrison is 

 not directly interested in advertising he 

 took no part, but when any question of 

 growing is up he is a busy man. 



Varions Notes. 



The following members will be vis- 

 itors to the international flower show 

 at New York: B. Vincent, Jr., Mr. and 

 Mrs. W. J. Johnston, A. E. Erdman, 

 William Patterson, Harry Wagner, John 

 Bider, William Feast, Oeorge Morris, 

 George J. Muhly, Douglas Hamilton, 

 GeOrge Eberly and William F. Ekas. 



Charles Paterson has bought the Lutz 

 range at Glenburnie, Md., where he is 

 growing a general assortment of stock 

 for his Orleans street store. 



Wm. Patterson, of Beady avenue, has 

 bought the Boyd Merritt range on Pa- 

 tapsco Neck, Md. Mr. Patterson has 

 had this range wrecked and stored and 

 is now negotiating for a place to erect 

 it this spring, as there is not enough 

 room on his present location. He is of 

 the opinion that there is a great future 

 in growing and with the Merritt range 

 combined with his own he will have 

 l)lenty of glass. Tate. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market is suffering from an over- 

 supply of stock and a surprisingly 

 small demand. The result is daily ac- 

 cumulations, which are exceedingly dif- 

 ficult to move. Arrivals of bulbou- 

 flowers are enormous, many crops evi- 

 dently arriving at one time, and the 

 sales of other staples are materially' 

 affected. The demand for stock haa 

 been of the hand-to-mouth variety 

 largely, possibly due to uncertair 

 weather. Saturday, March 13, was ."v 

 particularly bad day in this respect, 

 closing with a regular blizzard for a 

 few hours. 



While roses are not in particularly 

 heavy supply, they are sluggish in 

 movement and prices are on a normal 



