Septbmbeb 23, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



Banquet in Honor of Visitors to Gardeners' Convention in Disolay House of Missouri Botanical Garden. 



American Beauty roses are in mod- 

 erate supply only, and the price for 

 really good flowers in special grades 

 has gone to $50 per hundred. Hybrid 

 teas are not overplentiful, and special 

 grades, when available, are bringing 

 more than the top range quotations of 

 the last few weeks. New varieties, 

 such as Crusader, are bringing prices 

 a little better than the staples. White 

 roses, in which White Killarney seems 

 to be the representative variety, are 

 quite scarce, and there is little above 

 the No. 3 grade to be had. 



Carnations from newly benched stock 

 are making an appearance. Two or 

 three growers who usually bench early 

 are in with a cut, but $4 per hundred 

 is about the top price for the best 

 stock. The demand, however, is poor, 

 as buyers want stems as well as flower 

 heads. 



Cattleyas are in better supply, but 

 there is little improvement in the de- 

 mand. The labiata variety is in cut 

 now, but market prices have to fall to 

 the demand. The best flowers are 

 bringing about $1 each, and plenty may 

 be had for funeral work at 50 cents or 

 less. 



White lilies are plentiful and are 

 likely to be so from now on. There is 

 a wide choice. Lilium speciosum ru- 

 brum is in good supply. Lily of the 

 valley is scarce, but there is little de- 

 mand for it, recent high prices having 

 made it unpopular with retailers. 



Outdoor flowers are more or less in- 

 teresting to buyers who want to give 

 much for a little money, and dahlias, 

 good varieties, at $1 to $6 per hun- 

 dred, move fairly well. So also do 

 bouvardia and zinnias. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are in larger supply. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Craig, of Philadelphia, last 

 week spent a few days in New York, 

 visiting various growers and his many 

 friends. 



Frank L. Deery, formerly with J. H. 

 Small & Sons, is now manager of the 

 New York store of Dolansky & Mc- 

 Donald, in the Eighteenth street mar- 

 ket. 



Eichard Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, 

 Md., is enthusiastic over the prospect 

 for the success of the show of the 

 American Dahlia Society, of which he 

 is president, which opens in the roof 

 garden of Hotel Pennsylvania Monday, 

 September 27. The exhibition quarters 

 are superb. It is a "pay" show this 

 year, but the trade may obtain trade 

 tickets of admission, large numbers of 

 which are in the hands of seedsmen 

 and others throughout New York. 



The fall exhibition of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York will be held 

 at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, November 4 to 7. 



John H. Bockman, of the H. F. 

 Michell Co., Philadelphia, was a visi- 

 tor last week. J. H. P. 



Harry H. White, for the last nine 

 years employed by Schloss Bros., Rib- 

 bons, Inc., has formed a company for 

 the importation and manufacture of 

 ribbons, under the name of the White- 

 house Ribbon Co. 



TORONTO, ONT. 



The Market. 



Flowers are fairly plentiful, but last 

 week saw an advance in prices. This 

 synchronizes with a little better busi- 

 ness, there being a better demand than 

 has existed during the last few weeks. 

 There have been a good number of wed- 

 dings in September and considerable 

 demand for design work. People are 

 getting settled in the city again and 

 an improvement in trade conditions 

 may be expected. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Toronto 

 Retail Florists' Club was held at 12 

 Adelaide street, west, Monday, Septem- 

 ber 13, with President H. G. Dillemuth 

 in the chairv^ This was the annual meet- 

 ing and repWts of the officers showed 

 the aSairsjisJihe club to be in a pros- 

 pe*Q^.,>e^ndition. The treasurer, George 

 Hatcher, reported several hundred dol- 

 lars in the general account and $267, in 

 addition, in the advertising account. 



John H. Dunlop offered the club the 

 use of quarters for its regular meetings. 

 The offer was accepted and the secre- 

 tary was asked to send a letter to Mr. 

 Dunlop thanking him for his offer. 



The following officers were elected: 

 President, Silas A. McFadden; vice- 

 president, J. J. Higgins; secretary, 

 Harry W. James; treasurer and finan- 

 cial secretary, Len Waters; directors,. 

 Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Moore, E. S. Sim- 

 mons, George Gard and S. A. Frost, and 

 the past presidents, G. M. Geraghty and 

 H. G. Dillemuth; auditors, E. S. Sim- 

 mons and G. M. Geraghty. 



The retiring president, H. G. Dille- 

 muth, thanked the members of the club 

 for their support last year and asked 

 that they give the same loyal support 

 to the incoming president. He spoke 

 of the necessity of pulling together to 

 secure the cooperation of the growers 

 in improving conditions in the business, 

 of securing a standard grading and of 

 spreading the gospel of good will among 

 all connected with the business. 



The incoming president, S. A. Mc- 

 Fadden, thanked the members for their 

 expression of confidence in him and 

 stated that he had several plans he 

 wished to have carried out. A program 

 would be mapped out and an endeavor 

 made to interest all the retailers in the 

 club and secure their regular attend- 

 ance. The executive will be asked to 

 approve of a set program of papers and 

 addresses apart from the social fea- 

 tures, and he thought that they would 

 be able to arrange for something to 

 benefit all. In addition they would at- 

 tack the problems confronting the re- 

 tailer and endeavor to secure better 

 conditions in the retail trade. 



The next meeting will be held Octo- 

 ber 4, as many of the members will be 

 at the F. T. D. convention at Indian- 

 apolis the week after that. 



John Milligan was proposed as a 

 member. 



Various Notes. 



Fred C. Brown, of Cleveland' was a 

 welcome visitor to Toronto for a few 

 days last week, 



George Yavncr has returned from six 



