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AuousT 19, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



55 



The Minnesota State Florists' Association on the Occasion of the Meeting at Red Wing. 



new contract to be entered into be- 

 tween the railroads and the express 

 company, the commission said "Noth- 

 ing said herein is to be taken as preju- 

 dicing or forecasting the decision in 

 either of these proceedings." 



OUnNOS IN MINNESOTA. 



Trip to Bed Wing. 



The Minnesota State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation and the Minneapolis Florists' 

 Club together had two good outings re- 

 eently. 



The first was a trip to Bed Wing to 

 visit the Bed Wing Union Stoneware Co. 

 About fifty-five made this trip in auto- 

 mobiles and thoroughly enjoyed the visit 

 to the pottery works, the dinner and the 

 visit to the boys' reform school. At noon 

 they were the guests of the company 

 at a chicken dinner served at one of 

 the hotels. After a trip over the re- 

 form school grounds and buildings a 

 game of baseball was played between 

 5ie visitors and the school, in which 

 the school came out ahead. Visits were 

 made to the greenhouse of John E. Sten 

 and to other points about Red Wing. 

 The accompanying illustration shows the 

 members of the Bed Wing party. 



Wildwood Picnic. 



The state association and the Minne- 

 apolis club had a picnic at Wildwood, 

 White Befir Lake, August 10. Between 

 200 and 300 enjoyed this picnic. Games, 

 bowling, launch rides and bathing were 

 indulged in. The day was ideal, though 

 hot. A great deal of credit is due the 

 committee that put this picnic through. 

 It consisted of Messrs. Buedlinger, 

 Kaiser, Eosacker, Nyloff, Lindsay and 

 F. W. Topel. About $400 was con- 

 tributed from local sources and some 

 handsome donations were m^de by out- 

 of-town florists. 



About fourteen sporting events were 

 pulled off. The tug of war was won by 

 St. Paul, as was also the bowling match. 

 While the tug of war was easy for St. 

 Paul, the Minneapolis team lost the 

 bowling by only thirteen points. St. 

 Paul's score waa 1,363 and that of Min- 

 neapolis 1,350, The Minneapolis team 

 won the baseball game. In the men 's indi- 



vidual bowling, E. Meyer, Minneapolis, 

 stood first; B. Topel, St. Paul, second; 

 Julius Vasatka, St. Paul, third; T. Pe- 

 terson, fourth; Ed. Puvogel, St. Paul, 

 fifth, and F. G. Schugard, sixth. High- 

 est number of strikes, Ekel; highest 

 number of spares, Julius Vasatka; high- 

 est number of railroads, J. Belsky. 



The ladies' individual records were: 

 Miss H. Metzdorf, first; Mrs. E. Fran- 

 son, second; Mrs. O. Schugard, third; 

 Mrs. Theo. Wirth, fourth, and Mrs. A. 

 Otting, fifth. Highest number of 

 strikes, Miss H. Metzdorf; highest num- 

 ber of spares, Mrs. E. Franson, and 

 highest number of railroads. Miss N. 

 Puvogel. ' L, C. 



OBrrUABY. 



John Dawe. 



John Dawe, former Chicago sales 

 agent for the Perry Nursery Co., Boch- 

 ester, N. Y., was buried from the family 

 residence, 1212 Wilson avenue, Chicago, 

 August 9, at 2 o'clock. He is survived 

 by two sons, Clifford and Albert; two 

 daughters. Miss Maude Dawe and Mrs. 

 Winifred D. Thomas, and two grand- 

 children. Mr. Dawe was 79 years of age. 

 Burial was at Graceland. 



cmcAoo. 



The Market. 



Old-timers in the market will tell you 

 that August always is the dullest month 

 of the year and that convention week 

 is the dullest week of August. While 

 not undertaking to say which is cause 

 and which is effect, convention'week is 

 running true to form; it is the dullest 

 week in the dullest month this market 

 has had in a long, long time. There 

 are those who go so far as to say busi- 

 ness is not now as good as it was at this 

 time last year. If this is true in an 

 individual case it undoubtedly is the re- 

 sult of increased competition. There are 

 far more flowers on the market than at 

 this date last year and the man whose 

 sales are falling down no doubt is suf- 

 fering because there are so many other 

 places where flowers may be obtained. 



There is considerable difference in re- 



ports as to roses. These are the prin- 

 cipal greenhouse flowers now in the 

 market. Some growers are cutting heav- 

 ily, but many are cutting nothing at all. 

 Thus it happens that some houses are 

 heavily supplied while others are doing 

 their principal business with garden 

 flowers. There prooably are more Co- 

 lumbia in the market this week than of 

 any other one rose. At least three-quar- 

 ters of all the roses are pink, of the 

 three leading varieties. While the ship- 

 ping trade takes a considerable part of 

 the best grades, there is a lot of stock 

 which can be moved only through 

 channels outside the trade. 



Gladioli are extremely plentiful. It 

 is not possible to move them all. The 

 best stock still commands fair prices, 

 but the old and poorly handled spikes 

 are being jobbed off at rather ridicu- 

 lous figures. Asters have been so over- 

 abundant that many wholesalers have 

 notified some of their growers to stop 

 shipping. Naturally, the rejected stock 

 was of the poorer grades, so that there 

 has been an improvement in the average 

 quality as a result of this undesirable 

 method of reducing supply. Lighten- 

 ing the load on the market has had some 

 effect on the prices, more on the aver- 

 age than on the regular price. 



New carnations from indoors have 

 made their appearance considerably 

 earlier than usual. Many growers 

 planted carnations directly in the bench 

 early in spring, because of the labor 

 shortage. They are now cutting some 

 quite fair flowers, as the weather has 

 been unusually favorable for that meth- 

 od of growing. 



Valley is about the only scarce item 

 for which there is any special call. There 

 are not many orchids, but not much de- 

 mand. Easter lilies continue abundant. 

 There are considerable quantities of 

 rubrum and a few album. 



There continue to be large supplies 

 of garden flowers of all seasonable 

 kinds. These sell quite well to the local 

 trade, but they do not cut much figure 

 in the shipping business. 



Greens of most kinds are plentiful, 

 but adiantum continues short. 



The Second (feneration. 



We hear a great deal these days about 





