September 9, 1920 



The Flonsts' Review 



23 



cars are often stopped and searched. 

 The enforcement of this quarantine and 

 the inspection of growing crops gives 

 profitable employment to numerous 

 young college and high school youths, 

 wlio perform their duties in a quite 

 leisurely fashion. The corn borer dan- 

 gers are much exaggerated; it is a slow- 

 moving pest and its damage has as yet 

 been comparatively trifling. 



The W. W. Edgar Co. is cutting 

 Lilium speciosum in quantity of fine 

 quality. This concern's large stocks of 

 cyclamens, begonias, poinsettias and 

 other plants are coming along in fine 

 shape. W. N. C. 



BERTEEMANN BUSY FOR F. T. D. 



From now until October 12 and 13, 

 when the F. T. D. has its convention 

 in Indianapolis, Ind., there are going to 

 be some quite busy men in that city. 

 If Irwin Bertermann is not the busiest 

 of them all, it will be because his work 

 as grand chairman of the various com- 

 mittees appointed by the Indiana State 

 Florists' Association to make the con- 

 vention arrangements has been so well 

 organized in advance that he can af- 

 ford to rest fairly easy. But he is too 

 active a worker for the trade and par- 

 ticularly for the F. T. D. to be much 

 at leisure during preparations for such 

 a convention. Born forty years ago in 

 Indianapolis, he has been for the last 

 half of that period a member of the 

 Bertermann Bros. Co., in the city of his 

 birth. The importance and the variety 

 of his activities in the organized life 

 of the trade are shown by the offices 

 which he has held. He was treasurer of 

 the first national flower show, at Chi- 

 cago; in 1915 he was chairman of the 

 S. A. F. national publicity committee; 

 he was the first secretary of the F. T. D., 

 was its president in 1915 and at the last 

 convention was elected vice-president. 



Under his general chairmanship, the 

 following committees are perfecting the 

 plans for the Indianapolis convention of 

 the F. T. D.: 



Show committee: A. F. J. Banr. rhalrmnn; 

 Frod Domer, John Hartje and Thomas Hepler. 



Finance committee: Joseph Hill, chairman; 

 Len Elder, George Blackman, W. W. Coles, Fred 

 Kiel and Oscar Carlstedt. 



Entertainment committee: B. E. Teraperlev. 

 chairman; Oscar Carlstedt, Charles Pahud and 

 Kdwin Mourner. 



Hotel committee: O. B. Steinkamp, chairman; 

 Irwin Bertermann and Morris Marer. 



Show window committee: Arno Nelirllng. 

 ^hairman; Albert Pochelon, of Detroit, and Irwin 

 Bertermann. 



Publicity committee: Herman Junpe, chalr- 

 miin; Ella Grant Wilson, Clarence Greene, George 

 Wipgnnd, John Rieman, Bert Hetz, Harr.v Pa- 

 mid Frank Rieman, Fred H. Lemon and Harry 

 Itoo^edls. 



Decoration committee: Homer Wiegand, chair- 

 man; Otto Larenz and B. A. Nelson. 



Hereption committee: E. G. Hill. Nixon Gano. 

 Htnry Rieman, Glen E. Moore, Frank Morris. 

 Anders Rasmussen, John Grande, Sr., George 

 '■aiise, Frank J. Knecht and Charles Bamaby. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The last week in August closed what 

 everyone hopes was the real summer 

 season, wherein retail business is at its 

 low point. For several weeks flower 

 trade has been only a fancy. True, 

 there have all along been funerals and 

 ^ few functions calling for flowers, but 

 the real basis of the business, the gen- 

 ^ral home demand, has been wanting. 

 I^i'obably, never before have so many 

 -^'ew Yorkers left the city in the sum- 

 nier months. Almost every retail florist 



Irwin Bertermann. 



believes that eighty per /cent or more 

 of his customers are summering outside 

 Gotham. The congestion in the bag- 

 gage departments at the various de- 

 pots, where the return season has al- 

 ready set in, would seem to bear out 

 this estimate. Accompanying this, Sat- 

 urday, September 4, there was a no- 

 ticeable improvement in the demand for 

 flowers, and all staples cleaned up early. 



Roses are in fair supply only; conse- 

 quently clearances are easily effected. 

 A few days of cool weather have im- 

 proved the quality of the hybrid teas. 

 American Beauty is light in supply, for 

 which, perhaps, its growers feel thank- 

 ful, for stock in the better grades ar- 

 riving could not return the prices 

 brought today if available in even or- 

 dinary quantity. 



A few carnations from field-grown 

 plants are coming in and move well be- 

 cause they are few. According to re- 

 ports, benching generally was late this 

 year; consequently, under-glass flowers 

 cannot be looked for until late October 

 at the earliest. 



There is a moderate supply of cat- 

 tleyas, with an equally moderate de- 

 mand for them. About $l..'iO per flower 

 is the selling price for the best, down 

 to 50 cents for culls. 



White lilies are plentiful enough for 

 the demand, which is rather light. Spe- 

 ciosum rubrum is arriving in 'quantity 

 now and moves fairly well at $4 to $6 

 per hundred. Lilies of the valley are 

 rather scarce and the quality is poor; 

 still, $4 to ,$15 per hundred sprays is the 

 range of prices. 



Gladioli and asters continue to arrive 

 in avalanches. The ash barrel, how- 



ever, is not getting much, clearances 

 being possible with concessions. 



There is still a plethora of miscel- 

 laneous flowers, the familiar line now 

 being augmented by strawflowers and 

 tuberoses. 



Various Notes. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held Monday, Sep- 

 tember 13, at the club's quarters, in the 

 Engineering Societies' building. It 

 will be a get-together meeting, and 

 somewhat reminiscent of the Cleveland 

 convention. 



The Agricultural Society of Queens- 

 Nassau Counties will hold its seventy- 

 eighth annual exhibition at Mineola, 

 September 21 to 2,'5. The floricultural 

 section is, as usual, quite extensive, for 

 both commercial and amateur exhib- 

 itors. Henry Weston, of Hempstead, is 

 again the judge in this section. 



Ed. Welch, son of Patrick Welch, 

 Boston, was a visitor last week. 



J. H. P. 



The regular fall exhibition of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York will 

 be held November 4 to 7 at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. 

 Schedules are now ready for distribu- 

 tion and will be sent on application to 

 the secretary, George V. Nash, New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx park, 

 New York. The premiums are quite 

 different from those of other years, a 

 number of prizes being offered for fruits 

 and vegetables. Substantial premiums 

 are offered for groups of greenhouse 

 foliage and flowering plants, the first 

 prize including, besides the cash, the so- 

 ciety's silver cup, valued at $100. 



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