OCTOBBB 7, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



23 



John Welter. 



John Welter, associated with his 

 father, Nicholas K. Welter, in the 

 greenhouse business at Evanston, 111., 

 died September 30 and was buried 

 October 4. Mr. Welter was about 33 

 years of age and his entire business 

 life had been spent in producing cut 

 flowers for the Chicago market, where 

 they were sold in various commission 

 houses. He was an expert forcer of 

 bulbous stock and a good grower of car- 

 nations, chrysanthemums and sweet 

 peas. He was one of a family of five 

 children, being survived, besides his 

 parents, by three brothers and a sister. 

 Mr. Welter leaves a widow, his marriage 

 having been the subject of a news note 

 in The Review only a little more than a 

 year ago. 



PBOVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



The fall season for 1920 has started 

 out with an activity that has not been 

 equaled in many years, and the long 

 social calendar augurs well for an in- 

 creasingly active winter. Never has 

 the fall opened with so many weddings, 

 while numerous others scheduled for 

 later are contributing to keeping things 

 moving. Since the middle of Septem- 

 ber there have been several elaborate 

 weddings that have called for more 

 than usual in floral decorations. The 

 demands for funeral work have also 

 exceeded^ the usual call and there has 

 been a slight shortage in some supplies. 



Prices are, if anything, a trifle higher 

 than usual at the opening of the season, 

 roses bringing .$3 to $25 at wholesale, 

 while American Beauties are $6 to $10 

 per dozen. Carnations are just begin- 

 ning to crop and are not yet of more 

 than secondary merit at $2 to $5. As- 

 ters are $2 to $5; gladioli, $8 to $12; 

 lily of the valley, $10 to $15; Easter 

 hlies, $12 to $15; and sweet peas, $1.75 

 to $2.50 per hundred. The first chrysan- 

 themums have made their appearance 

 at 25 to 40 cents each, while a few 

 orchids are shown at $15 to $25 per 

 dozen. 



Various Notes. 



Among the taxpayers of East Provi- 

 dence who are assessed on property 

 valuations of $5,000 or more are: Law- 

 rence Hay, $6,450; Joseph E. Koppel- 

 man, $22,560, and Hannah A. Olsen, 

 $23,270. In the city of Cranston are the 

 following: Frank L. Budlong, $11,860; 

 Frank L. and James A. Budlong II, 

 $36,395; Harry A. Budlong, $34,240; 

 James A. Budlong II, $277,675; Bud- 

 long Mfg. Co., $25,000. 



Miss Annie O'Connor has returned 

 from a vacation tour through England, 

 France and Belgium. 



The Colonial Flower Shop, Inc., is the 

 name of a new retail flower concern 

 that is opening at 31 Westminster 

 street and has been incorporated by 

 Paul Brookner, for ten years with 

 Johnston Bros., of this city; Archie C. 

 Aiken, for several years with Peter 

 Murray, at New Bedford, and Page F. 

 Potter, with Johnston Bros. 



H. H. Tyler has leased for fifteen 



years to the Westminster Greenhouses 

 a lot of land on the north side of West- 

 minster street. 



Johnston Bros, had a casket cover of 

 500 American Beauty roses for a recent 

 funeral. 



Smith the Florist had a special sale 

 of house ferns last week at his new 

 branch at the Washington market. 



Page F. Potter has returned from an 

 automobile trip through the White, 

 Green and Adirondack mountains and 

 Canada. W. H. M. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The market last week experienced a 

 set-back consequent upon one or two 

 warm days. The thermometer reached 

 as high a point as 85 degrees and all 

 stock was affected, indoor stock ill and 

 outdoor stock well. Boses arrived at 

 the opening point, many fully opened, 

 and prices went down to $1 per hun- 

 dred for extras, and other grades in 

 proportion. Outdoor stQck was in- 

 creased in supply almost to the extent 

 of fifty per cent. It was not until 

 October 2 that anything like an im- 

 provement was noticeable, when chilly 

 weather and local storms had brought 

 conditions to a normal point. 



Chrysanthemums are arriving in in- 

 creased quantity, with pink and bronze 

 varieties, strongly in evidence. The 

 quality is good, but the demand is not 

 active. Some of the best flowers bring 

 $5 per dozen, but $3 and $4 per dozen 

 ia about tHfe 'price range. 



Boses are- in increasing supply, but 

 the demand for them is good. The qual- 

 ity is of the average sort for the time 

 of year. Long-stemmed grades are not 

 particularly plentiful, but in sufficient 

 supply for the demand. Short stock is 

 plentiful, but cleans up fairly well. 

 American Beauty is in good supply, 

 but the demand for this variety is 

 slow. Special grades October 4 were 

 bringing from $20 to $40 per hundred. 

 Hybrid teas are moving within a 

 range of $1 to $25 per hundred, with 

 one or two varieties, such as Francis 

 Scott Key and Crusader, bringing more 

 for selected stock. 



The supply of carnations is increas- 

 ing, but the quality is such as to keep 

 the price range down to $2 or $3 per 

 hundred for the general run of varie- 

 ties. Mrs. C. W. Ward, when good, 

 brings as much as $4. Arrivals are 

 practically all cut from under glass. 



Cattleyas are in good supply, but the 

 demand for them is not active. Out- 

 side of hybrids, the top price is $1 for 

 the best, with excellent stock at 75 

 cents down to 35 cents. A few oncid- 

 iums are coming in, and they move 

 at $4 to $6 per hundred florets, accord- 

 ing to quality. 



White lilies are fairly plentiful at $8 

 to $10 per hundred blooms, as also are 

 rubrums at $3 to $6. Lily of the val- 

 ley is not particularly plentiful and the 

 quality generally is poor; sales are 

 made within a range of $4 to $12 per 

 hundred sprays. White bouvardia is 

 available at 50 cents to $1 per bunch. 

 Dahlias continue in large supply, de- 

 spite a light frost which caught open 

 flowers. They bring from 50 cents to 

 $4 per hundred, according to variety 

 and condition, but large quantities are 

 thrown away. Asters are plentiful 

 enough at $1 to $3 per hundred. There 



is a good supply of miscellaneous flow- 

 ers, which include the daily arrival of 

 a few violets, chiefly single varieties, 

 prices of which run from 50 to 75 cents 

 per bunch. 



Various Notes. 



Boman J. Irwin, with F. C. W. 

 Brown, of Cleveland, O., vice-president 

 of the S. A. F.; Wallace B. Pierson, of 

 Cromwell, Conn., and Ernest Gude, of 

 Washington, D. C, left October 1 for a 

 hunting trip in the wilds of the province 

 of New Brunswick, Canada. 



The fall exhibition of the Tarrytown 

 Horticultural Society will be held in 

 Music hall, Tarrytown, November 3 

 to 5. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held in the club's 

 rooms in the Engineering Societies' 

 building, October 11. 



William H. Duckham, of the Duck- 

 ham-Pierson Co., Madison, N. J., who 

 sailed for Europe July 31, is expected 

 to return home about the middle of this 

 month. 



Several growers in this vicinity are 

 on the anxious bench as to when they 

 will receive coal. The situation be- 

 comes more serious as the days go by. 



Secretary John Young, of the S. A. 

 P., will leave October 9 for Indian- 

 apolis to be present at the meeting of 

 the publicity committee called for 

 October 11. Max Schling and C. H. 

 Brown, with A. L. Miller, president of 

 the S. A. F., will leave for Indianapolis 

 October 10 to attend the convention of 

 the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Asso- 

 ciation. J. H. P. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



After a month of unusually warm 

 weather, the temperature fell to a point 

 considerably below normal and stayed 

 there for three days last week. The 

 effect on the market was immediate and 

 pronounced. The city trade, which had 

 been unusually dull, came back with a 

 bounce and Saturday, October 2, was 

 one of the biggest days this market has 

 enjoyed in several months. With Sun- 

 day closing, Saturday has assumed a 

 new importance to those who ship flow- 

 ers in quantity. There now is, under 

 normal conditions, a big local business 

 in the morning, with heavy shipping in 

 the afternoon. It was this combination 

 which made October 2 a record day. 



As usual, the increased demand has 

 come at a time of decreased supplies. 

 'Tis ever thus. During September there 

 were flowers galore, because of the fa- 

 vorable weather conditions. Most of 

 the summer flowers had been cut out 

 before October came and what were left 

 were finished by the frost and rain, 

 leaving the market practically depend- 

 ent on indoor flowers. The frosts thus 

 far have been light and a little stock 

 has escaped injury, but gladioli and 

 asters, which have been extremely over- 

 abundant for months, now are practi- 

 cally out of the market. 



The increased demand also came at 

 a time when many rose growers were 

 going off crop. Here and there an estab- 

 lishment is on the up-grade with its 

 cuts, but the majority are going down. 

 The rose continues to be the most abun- 

 dant flower and under the new condi- 

 tions has reasserted its market leader- 

 ship. There has not been much advance 

 in quoted prices, but there has been ma- 



