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JUNB 10, 1920. 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



With an avalanche of peonies from 

 outside the ordinary territory of the 

 jiiarkct, conditions have been far from 

 rosy for several days. All staples have 

 boon affected, and values have tumbled 

 ( onsiderably. Of course, such a state 

 ff things must be anticipated, but 

 < ..nifortable weather has helped to in- 

 i.iisify a situation which, at best, is 

 .ictrimental to the movement of green- 

 iioiise products. Still, with the excep- 

 tion of the early officinalis varieties, not 

 1 locally grown peony has reached the 

 iii.irkct, and it does not look as though 

 iiy would come in for a week. After 

 a few days of real summer weather, we 

 nre back into the sixties again, condi- 

 1 ions favorable to outdoor stock. So far, 

 j'oony prices have not been particularly 

 itniunerative. Extra fine flowers have 

 i>ti)u<?ht as much as $10 per hundred, 

 "}iit the quantity of them has not been 

 iit'a^y; about $1 to $3 has been the 

 <'learance range and many have gone 

 to waste. 



While roses are not in particularly 

 good supply, the demand for them is 

 not at. all active. American Beauty 

 specials Monday commanded only $25 

 ]i(M' hundred for the best, with slow 

 riioveinont. Hybrid teas show a marked 

 decline in values. If it were fair to 

 report a general market price, the range 

 so recorded might be only temporarily 

 reliable. Good stock in specials can 

 be had at from $8 to $10, with other 

 grades descending to $1 or less for No. 

 2. Preferred varieties, of course, bring 

 a little more, if the preference is* 

 marked. Hadley, for instance, may 

 roach $1.5 to $20 for the best, with Key 

 in the same category. 



Carnations are rather more than the 

 market can absorb. Arrivals show the 

 usual signs of the end of the season 

 just now, small flowers on long stems. 

 The best bring $2 to $.3, with little avail- 

 able at the latter price, but ordinary 

 stock moves sluggishly at $1. 



The supply of cattleyas is not gener- 

 ous, and the demand is nothing to boast 

 of. A fairly regular demand seems to 

 take care of the choicest of arrivals, 

 at $1 to $1.50 per flower, and the rest 

 move at anything down to 25 cents. 



Valley is in fair supply at $2 to $8 

 I>er hundred sprays, with prices strong, 

 :ts the outside supply has ceased. Easter 

 lilies are plentiful, but their movement 

 i-* fair at $5 to $8 per hundred. Gar- 

 ''•'nias are in poor supply, as far as 

 ival y good flowers are concerned. 



Ihere is a wealth of miscellaneous 

 -^!"ck available. Iris is plentiful, but 

 "^ the usual quality, not bringing much. 

 '^"ine fairly good gladioli are to be 

 ''^"1, at $1.50 to $2 per dozen stalks, 

 ^lyosotis, pansies, calendulas, delphini- 

 '">9, mignonette and antirrhinums are 

 ."•omincnt among the offerings. 



Various Notes. 



An event of last week was a dinner 



-'^^n in honor of Charles H. Totty by 



' lew of his friends at Mouquin's 



'■^taurant, Saturday evening, June 5. It 



;a^ a ,nos^ enjoyable affair and lasted 



■ 'i"i nearly midnight. A souvenir 



^'nu was provided, the various items 



' .i^^e way of edibles set down having 



;, '^, ^.S'^en to them by sayings and 



T IP f "^1 f^f the distinguished guest. 



.,., , ^^'^^^ "St was made up of quotations 



jjO'i authors and poets selected for 



" appropriateness to the occasion. 



and there was hearty response to all. 

 The following were present: W. H. 

 Siebrecht, Sr., James Stuart, F. E. Pier- 

 son, John Young, F. H. Traendly, P. 

 F. Kessler, Joseph S. Fenrich, John H. 

 Pepper, A. L. Miller, Walter F. Sheri- 

 dan, C. B. Weathered, F. L. Atkins, 

 John Canning, John Donaldson, Leonard 

 Barron, Eugene Dailledouze, A. M. 

 Henshaw, Joseph A. Manda, Charles 

 Schenck, Julius Eoehrs, A. Herrington, 

 C. Lowther, B. Hammond Tracy, L. J. 

 Renter, John Miesem, George Hilden- 

 brand, Charles Weber, Henry Weston 

 and A. F. Faulkner. John Young pre- 

 sided and John H. Pepper was the 

 toastmaster. The dinner arrangements 

 were in charge of Messrs. Kessl6r, Fen- 

 rich, Young and Pepper. In the course 

 of the proceedings Mr. Totty was pre- 

 sented with a gold-mountod cigar case 

 of 25-cigar capacity and filled with a 

 choice brand. The din'laer was reall.y a 

 send-off to Mr. Totty, who, with Mrs. 

 Totty, is to ,sail for Europe June 22, 

 meeting their daughter, Helen, in 

 France, where she has been studying for 

 some time. The tables were set in E 

 form, and the floral decorations were 

 of roses. 



B. Hammond Tracy, of Wenham, Mass., 

 and L. J. Renter, of Boston, motored to 

 New York to attend the Totty dinner. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held in the club's 

 rooms, in the Engineering Societies' 

 building, Monday evening, June 14. 

 This will be the last meeting prior to 

 the summer vacation. 



Roman J. Irwin has been enjoying 

 a few days' vacation. Mrs. Irwin, who 

 has recovered from a shake-up due to 

 an automobile collision near their home, 

 in Larchmont, May 24, is accompanying 

 her husband on a short trip. 



P. J. Smith, Sunday, June 6, celebrat- 

 ed the tenth anniversary of his estab- 

 lishment in business. 



Max Schling, Saturday evening, June 

 6, celebrated at his home at Tuckahoe 

 the sixteenth anniversary of his wed- 

 ding. ' J. H. P. 



An exhibition is to be held in the 

 Museum building of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, at Bronx i)ark, Juno 

 12 and 13, containing six classes for 

 peonies and several for hardy roses and 

 other hardy plants and shrubs. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



The Market. 



The market is flooded with flowers and 

 the demand is poor. Peonies, arriving 

 too late for Memorial day, are abundant 

 and cannot even be given away. Carna- 

 tions are also abundant and the quality 

 is not so good. Sweet peas are also 

 plentiful and move slowly. Snapdragons 

 and daisies are available in large quan- 

 tities and at reduced prices. 



Roses are the only flowers in season 

 that are not in oversupply and these 

 continue to be just about equal to the 

 demand. Garden flowers have been put- 

 ting in their appearance. Among this 

 latter class are delphiniums, pyreth 

 rums, irises, daisies, etc. 



Bedding stock has had an active boom 

 and the majority of florists have moved 

 practically all of their stock. This has 

 been higher than in previous years, but 

 has sold exceptionally well. 



Decorations for social functions have 

 also been an important item in the last 

 few weeks. Numerous weddings have 



taken place, calling for more elaborate 

 decorations, not to mention the pre- 

 nuptial social affairs, calling for cor- 

 sages, etc. 



Various Notes. 



Indianapolis was 100 years old June 

 7. The city was gay with decorations. 

 The downtown streets were lined with 

 flags and a number of the stores had 

 effective floral displays. One of the de- 

 partment stores had its windows deco- 

 rated effectively with palms and other 

 greens, featuring the dates 1820 and 

 1920. In the evening was witnessed one 

 of the longest parades ever held in this 

 city. Each school was represented by a 

 float in which the school children par- 

 ticipated. The various city enterprises, 

 large and small, were represented and 

 many of them showed that they had 

 learned the value of "Saying It with 

 Flowers." 



The convention of the Associated Ad- 

 vertising Clubs is being held in this city 

 this week. Several of the flower stores 

 have special welcome decorations for 

 this convention. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Temperley leave 

 Sunday, June 13, on the Shriners' 

 special for the convention at Portland, 

 Ore. They will also make stops in Cali- 

 fornia before returning home. Mr. 

 Temperley is a member of the naval 

 patrol. 



O. E. Steinkamp, as a member of the 

 gatling gun squad, will also take the 

 trip to Portland. 



The Hukriede Floral Co. bedded out 

 the state house yard. E. E. T. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The Chicago market has had another 

 strenuous week. The conditions have 

 not been whollv satisfactory to any 

 branch of the industry, but an extremely 

 large quantity of stock has been moved, 

 if at low average prices. It has been 

 seldom that the market has received 

 such large quantities of good flowers. 

 This is not saying that all the stock has 

 been of first-class quality, but, consider- 

 ing that we are "knee deep in June," 

 the weather has been cool and it has 

 maintained the quality of cut flowers 

 above the average grade for this season 

 of the year. The retail demand, neither 

 shipping nor local, has been sufl[iciont to 

 consume the daily receipts and it has 

 been necessary to seek outlets of other 

 than the usual character. This con- 

 dition always means low average prices, 

 not pleasing to the grower, and it also 

 means that the retailers meet exasperat- 

 ing forms of temporary competition, so 

 that they join with the growers in mak- 

 ing life more or less burdensome for the 

 wholesalers, whose position is that do- 

 scribed as "between the devil and the 

 deep sea." It is the fact, however, that 

 b.v one means or another the extremely 

 large receipts have been moved; only 

 the lowest grades of flowers have been 

 thrown away and each day's arrivals 

 have been sold by night, except peonies, 

 large quantities of which have gone into 

 cold storage. With a majority of the 

 wholesalers May was a big month and 

 June thus far has run considerably 

 ahead of the corresponding days of June 

 last year. 



Roses have suffered more than other 

 flowers, because the crop has been 

 heaviest. Nearly all the growers are 



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