JOLY 1, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week business was quite active. 

 With peonies practically out of the 

 way and a good demand for flowers for 

 college and school functions, arrivals 

 cleaned up well, and at times there were 

 shortages of some staples. New York 

 has been favored with exceptionally 

 cool weather, which in many ways has 

 been helpful. Now, however, summer 

 has arrived and the temperature is run- 

 ning along in the eighties, with a pros- 

 pect of a continuance at that level. 



Eambler roses, always in demand for 

 weddings, are just beginning to come in, 

 - about three weeks late. Dorothy Per- 

 kins, of which quantities are usually 

 available at the same season, is only 

 now showing color in this district. 

 These items show how far the season is 

 behind. Northern-grown peonies in 

 small quantity havei^helped out in wed- 

 ding decorations, and a wealth of 

 herbaceous material has been moved 

 for .similar requirements. 



American Beauty roses have been in 

 good demand, with the supply about 

 equal, although the quality has been, 

 nothing to boast of. Special grades 

 have been bringing as much as $40 per 

 hundred for the best, with inferior ones 

 down to $20, and short-stemmed grades 

 within a range of $2 to $15. The 

 supply of hybrid teas has been a little 

 short; consequently, clearances have 

 been easy at prices somewhat in excess 

 of the quotations of the previous week. 

 White varieties have been quite 

 scarce, and short grades have moved at 

 a $4 minimum. 



The supply of carnations is greatly 

 decreased, and arrivals in general are 

 of poor quality. One grower, however, 

 is sending in some Mrs. C. W. Ward and 

 Benora easily of the finest quality seen 

 in recent years at this season and com- 

 paring favorably with the quality of 

 early March. Stock such as this brings 

 easily $4 and $5, but the remainder 

 cleans up slowly at from $1 to $2. 



There is a fair supply of cattleyas 

 and only a moderate demand for them. 

 The best Cattleya gigas bring as much 

 as $1.50 per flower, with inferior 

 blooms moving at prices down to 35 

 cents. White lilies are available in 

 quantity to meet all demands, moving at 

 $5 to $8 per hundred. The scarcity of 

 lily of the valley is ended, arrivals 

 having more than doubled and prices 

 having receded to a range of $4 to $12, 

 with the demand not exceedingly 

 active. 



There continues to be a liberal sup- 

 ply of herbaceous flowers, which seem 

 to move fairly well. Gladioli from out- 

 door plantings have not yet put in an 

 appearance and, according to one or 

 two of the local growers, it is possible 

 that cutting will not commence much 

 before July 20, early plantings having 

 been kept back by the cold season. 

 There are quantities of delphiniums, 

 gaillardias, careopsis, calendulas, corn- 

 flowers, candytuft, gypsophila, cen- 

 taureas and daisies, and small lots of 

 bouvardia, stocks and myosotis. 



Various Notes. 



Steamer business is improving every 

 week. At the sailing of several liners 

 last week the package depots on the 

 piers presented an old-time appearance. 



C. H. Totty and Mrs. Totty, Madi- 

 son, N. J,, sailed on the steamer France 



Thursday, Jiine 24, for Havre, and will 

 return about the middle of August. 



Joseph 8. Fenricli is commuting now 

 from Asbury Park, whore he has loc&ted 

 his family for the summer. 



Peter Theophine, of the Boulevard 

 Floral Co., Eighty-Eighth street and 

 Broadway, was married Thursday eve- 

 ning, June 24, at the Hotel Pennsyl- 

 vania, to Miss Nina Stavrianon. James 

 Papadem was best inan, assisted by C. 

 Sakalos. There were eighty-four guests 

 present, among them Mr. and Mrs. F. 

 H. Traendly, Geo. D. Nicholas and Nick 

 Laeles. 



N. Denis, of the Subway Arcade 

 Florist Store, on St. Nicholas avenue, 

 is receiving congratulations on the ar- 

 rival at his home, June 23, of a 

 daughter. 



A recent visitor was Jelle Roos, the 

 gladiolus grower, of Concord, Mass. 



The many friends of Charles Willis 

 Ward, formerly of Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, N. Y., received with regret 

 news of his death, on the Pacific coast, 

 Wednesday, June 23. 



Charles A. Dards has returned from 

 a tour of several months in South 

 America. J. H. P. 



The East Coast Hothouse Operators, 

 Inc., whose plans for an extensive range 

 at Millington, N. J., were outlined in 

 these columns some time ago, have ap- 

 plied for an increase in capital stock 

 from $500,000 to $2,000,000. 



PEOVIDENCE, E. I. 



The Market. 



Business kept up remarkably well in 

 June, some of the stores reporting that 

 their sales for the first half of the 

 month were equal to the sales for the 

 entire month of June last year. The 

 planting season, numerous weddings 

 and an increasing counter trade, with 

 heavy demands for funerals, have made 

 this a particularly busy month. 



The quality of stock received is not 

 up to standard. Roses are showing the 

 effect of the weather, while carnations 

 are rapidly going off, as many of the 

 growers are clearing their benches for 

 the season, and sweet peas have practi- 

 cally all gone. 



Prices last week were quoted as fol- 

 lows: Roses, $4 to $16 per hundred; 

 carnations, $3 to $4; sweet peas, $1 and 

 $1.50; peonies, $4 to $6; lilies, $1 and 

 $2 per dozen; gladioli, $6 to $10; snap- 

 dragons, $3 to $5; stocks, $2 to $4; 

 valley, $8 to $12, and marguerites, 

 $1.50 and $2. 



Various Notes. 



The building occupied by the Eastern 

 Wreath Co., on Valley street, was struck 

 by lightning during "the storm Tuesday 

 afternoon, June 22. The young women 

 employed in the factory received slight 

 shocks, but the only damage done was 

 the delaying of the machinery for sev- 

 eral hours. 



Eugene McCarron, of Hope street, 

 had a big run of business for small wed- 

 dings last week. 



Last week was an unusually busy one 

 for Johnston Bros., because of wedding 

 work. 



Thomas A. Galligan is about to join 

 the ranks of the benedicts, his bride- 

 to-be being Miss Pearl M. Blackmar. 



Charles W. Grant, for many years 

 superintendent of the Mount Hope 



cemetery, North Attleboro, died last 

 week at his home in that town, after 

 an illness of several months. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and two daughters. 

 R. A. Foulds, of Fall River, who re- 

 cently suffered an attack of paralysis, 

 is reported as improving. 



M. B. Saunders, on Public street, is 

 doing considerable repairing about his 

 range of houses this season. 



Wallace Steere, of the What Cheer 

 Wire Works, and his family have taken 

 a cottage at Narragansett Terrace for 

 the summer. 



Macnair has repainted the interior 

 of his recently enlarged store, corner 

 of Chestnut and Broad streets. 



James B. Canning and family, of 

 Smith street, have gone to their cot- 

 tage at Highland Beach for the summer. 



Vincent J. Berarducci has been hav- 

 ing a big run of funeral work. For one 

 funeral last week he had thirty-nine 

 large designs. 



Benjamin Andrews has closed his 

 flower department at the Pawtucket 

 store of the S. S. Kresge Co. for the 

 .season. 



William A. Bowers has moved into 

 his new suburban bungalow on Shaw 

 avenue, Edgewood. 



William Doel, of Broad street, 

 Pascoag, is making extensive repairs at 

 his range. 



William H. Buffington is building a 

 new carnation house at his range at 

 Fall River. 



Charles Sword, of Attleboro, was 

 married Wednesday evening, June 23. 



W. H. M. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market is much more heavily 

 supplied than was the case a week ago. 

 The increase is principally in roses, 

 which have been forced out again by 

 the return of extremely warm weather. 

 With the rapid-growing varieties of 

 the present day it takes only a few 

 weeks from crop to crop, and under the 

 influence of extremely hot weather only 

 a few days are required to force out the 

 buds on the plants. After a week of 

 the weather that gives Chicago its repu- 

 tation as a .summer resort, only three or 

 four days of southwestern climatic con- 

 ditions were required to fill the market 

 again with small or open roses. There 

 is a lot of stock in the market that is 

 only fit for department store, or chain 

 .store, or peddlers' uses. That it should 

 find this outlet cannot possibly do any 

 retailer harm; anyone who buys that 

 class of flowers is almost sure to go to 

 a real florist next time. 



Aside from roses, which are plenti- 

 ful, there is not much else in the market 

 except odds and ends. Carnations are 

 disappearing rapidly. There are large 

 quantities of peonies in cold storage, 

 probably more than ever before on the 

 last day of June, but they have been 

 selling extremely well and are regarded 

 as first-class property. Prices have risen, 

 a most unusual circumstance with 

 peonies in the last days of June. Some 

 of the dealers are tkking advantage of 

 the good market lo clean up, while 

 others are holding j for a cent or two 

 above the market price to stretch their 

 supply through July and into August. 



Easter lilies are coming from a large 

 number of new sources. Nearly every 

 wholesale house has them in quantity. 



