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Junk 10, 1020. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



where the season's business has sur- 

 passed all previous records. 



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The now familiar signboard, "Say It 

 with Flowers/' is seen in many places 

 along the railroads. One of the most 

 conspicuous fronts the establishment of 

 David Scott, at Corfu, N. Y., and can- 

 not fail to attract the attention of the 

 traveling public on the main line of the 

 New York Central railroad. 



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Daylight saving, moonlight and the 

 fine weather were fully taken advantage 

 of by the William Scott Co., Cold 

 Spring, N. Y., in what is described by 

 William Scott as the most strenuous sea- 

 son in the history of the business. 



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Nothing daunted by having the build- 

 irs next door overshadowing him, S. A. 

 Anderson, Buffalo, N. Y., is putting up 

 some fiine window displays. Quite at- 

 tractive is a collection of orchids from 

 a private grower, all labeled with a 

 brief history of their origin. 



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Charles Sandiford, Buffalo, paused for 

 a few moments to express satisfaction 

 with the volume of outdoor planting, in 

 a great part the result of strenuous mis- 

 sionary work among his Bison City 

 patrons. George McClure is equally well 

 satisfied with results. W. M. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The* Market. 



Taken as a whole. Memorial day busi- 

 ness was far better than in any former 

 year. With some dealers it was a riot 

 of orders from Wednesday, May 26, un- 

 til Saturdajr night. May 29, and with 

 everybody it was good, clean business, 

 with good prices and sufficient stock. 

 There was much uncertainty about the 

 peony crop until the week opened, when 

 the weather warmed up and brought the 

 buds out on time. There was less than 

 half a normal crop, owing to the late 

 spring, but what matured were fine 

 blooms that held up for shipping and 

 were handled well. 



There is no doubt about the effect 

 that department store sales had on the 

 retail business. One store sold 20,000 

 home-grown peonies at $1 per dozen 

 Saturday morning and another had a 

 arge supply at the same price. As 

 these were advertised in Friday's 

 papers, there was a crowd waiting when 

 the stores opened and men and women 

 scrambled wildly to get hold of the 

 nowers, which were of excellent quality. 

 ihe retail florists sold peonies at $3 and 

 .+ per dozen, according to qualitv, and 



, . ■^nolcsale price was $1 per dozen, 

 ^nch was reasonable considering the 

 ^'■ort crop. The growers could have ob- 

 ^■<ined more money by selling to the 

 'Wholesalers instead of to department 

 'Stores and the retailers would have con- 

 '"lered themselves lucky to buy the 

 "f"ims at the prices at which the de- 

 •'•'rtmcnt stores sold them. Notwith- 

 ■'andmg this and the fact that the peonv 

 ;;^f' ^"•'^ «hort, there was enough other 

 •irnf , ^"PP'>' everyone and it was a 

 ; fat cleanup all around. The green- 

 ■' ses near the cemeteries were stripped 

 everything in the wav of flowers, 



L -1 '\"u ^""^- Wreaths sold more 



. '\"y than ever this year and there 



, .' noticeable increase in the sales of 



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CHABLES PAUL MUELUSB. 



IV/fANY men have gone west and succeeded, but they got their start in the east. 

 iVl Of such is Charles Paul Mueller, who was born June 13, 1862, in Williamsville, 

 N. Y. Six years later his parents moved to Lawrence, Kan., but grasshoppers 

 drove them back to New York, where at the age of 14 he began his trade training 

 in the greenhouses of Long Bros., Buffalo. In 1883 he returned to Kansas, worked 

 for two years in Lawrence and then bought a part interest in a firm in Wichita. 

 Buying out his partner in 1887, he started out entirely "on his own" with two small 

 houses. The next year he returned to Buffalo long enough to marry his former 

 employer's niece and brought her back with him to Wichita. He now has a range 

 of 90,000 feet of glass and two retail stores; his weekly pay-roll is $900. He is a 

 Rotarian, director of the board of commerce and member of the board of education. 

 He has been a member of the S. A. F, for many years, a life member since 1909, 

 and for several terms vice-president for Kansas. He is also a director of the 

 Florists' Hail Association. 



Various Notes. 



- ■ ><'ewell sold 200 wreaths for the 



holiday and this was but a small part 

 of the business. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miller and son 

 will go to Portland, Ore., on the Shrin- 

 ers' special. Mr. Miller is one of the 

 W. L. Eock Flower Co. force. He is 

 chairman of the music and entertain- 

 ment committee of the local delegation. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Bohannon have 

 bought a home at 3927 College avenue 

 and are awaiting the arrival of their 

 household goods from Chicago. Mr. Bo- 

 hannon is a former resident of Kansas 

 City, having resided here before going 

 into business in Chicago. 



Philip Foley, of the Foley Green- 



house Mfg. Co., Chicago, was in the 

 city last week. 



James Ragan will put up a new house 

 for carnations. This will give him an 

 addition of about 9,000 plants. 



Frank Stuppy, of St. Joseph, Mo., 

 who was in the city Thursday, May 27, 

 is figuring on building a tile stack 110 

 feet high to replace the steel stack 

 which was blown down in one of the 

 early spring wind storms. 



Cut flowers held the balance of sales 

 with the Peterson Floral Co. for Me- 

 morial day, but innumerable plants and 

 wreaths wore disposed of as well. 



