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NOV£MBKB 6, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



31 



N, Leon W. Neubeck. 



Leon W. Neubeck, of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 died October 30. He was the son of 

 L. H. Neubeck and conducted a shop at 

 360 Connecticut street. The funeral 

 took place November 2 at the parlor of 

 Henry Sauerwein, at 934 Niagara street. 



James Nolan. 

 James Nolan, for nearly forty-nine 

 years gardener in charge of the grounds 

 of the Rumford Chemical Works, in 

 Rumford, East Providence, R. I., died at 

 his home in that village Saturday morn- 

 ing, November 1. He was born in 

 County Fermanagh, Ireland, but came to 

 this country with his parents when only 

 a few years old and settled at Paw- 

 tucket, R. I. He attended the public 

 schools of Pawtucket until his sixteenth 

 year, when he took a position on a pri- 

 vate estate as assistant to the head gar- 

 dener. After a few years he became 

 head gardener for the Rumford works. 

 He is survived by his widow, two daugh- 

 ters and three sons and sixteen grand- 

 children, as well as two brothers. 



W. H. M. 



DETROIT, MICH. 



The Market. 



The report of many retailers is that 

 business for October was better than 

 ever. There were a dozen or more large 

 jobs, averaging $500 or over, together 

 with a good amount of regular work. 

 The market was steady during the 

 month, with practically no gluts. Chrys- 

 anthemums are on the increase, with 

 greater amounts being sold, which 

 leaves the market fairly well cleared. 

 Pompons are about equal to their in- 

 creased demand; only the poorer va- 

 rieties are slow to move and at times 

 even those find a buyer. A good amount 

 of Chieftain is coming into the market 

 and is quickly disposed of. This is true 

 also of a large white variety named 

 Emperor, bringing $5 per dozen. Good 

 yellow mums, such as Chrysolora, C. C. 

 Pollworth, and a golden yellow, are 

 scarce, with a large demand and only 

 a medium grade in the market. 



Roses of all kinds are plentiful. Amer- 

 ican Beauties of the best quality even 

 find the demand slow, but during the 

 day almost all are sold. The short- 

 stemmed Beauties are in a glut. Long- 

 stemmed Hoosier Beauty and Premier 

 are also in oversupply. Columbia roses 

 are few, being off crop; the few long- 

 stemmed ones that come in are quickly 

 sold. High-grade Shawyer and Ophelia 

 are in oversupply, the demand being 

 slow, as is usually the case during the 

 mum season. Ward is scarce. Sunburst 

 is used to fill in instead of Ward. White 

 roses of high quality are plentiful, as 

 several growers are cutting them in 

 quantity. Killarney and short-stemmed 

 Russell are to be had, but are not much 

 in demand. Safrano and Bon Silene 

 buds are plentiful, but they, too, are a 

 bit slow to move. 



Carnations stacked up during the 

 week and the price came down to $2 to 

 $6 per hundred, compared with $4 to $8 

 per hundred last week. Several carna- 

 tion growers are cutting elegant stock 

 in large quantities, but, as the demand 



is more for pompons, the carnations tend 

 to glut the market. Fortunately, sev- 

 eral large orders calling for carnations 

 moved a good quantity of them. 



Sweet peas are of best quality, but 

 they, too, move slowly. Violets clear 

 each day, though the quality ia poor. 

 Dahlias continue to reach the market 

 and are quickly disposed of, as they 

 are short in supply. 



Calendulas sell well, a good quantity 

 of them clearing each day. Snapdragon 

 and bouvardia are scarce and are quickly 

 disposed of. Cosmos is in oversupply, 

 since the demand has stopped sud- 

 denly. The first cut of Paper Whites 

 came in during the week, bringing the 

 high price of $8 per hundred. 



Bowling Club Meets. 



The Detroit Florists' Bowling Club 

 met Thursday evening, October 30, 

 with the following scores for the eve- 

 ning: 



Tigers. l8t 2nd 3rd Beauties 1st 2nd 3rd 



Rabe 159 164 168 Sylvester ..145 116 147 



Berlin 141 125 145 Taylor 159 160 147 



Bloy 124 148 136 Bezemer ..169 145 125 



CharTot 157 142 198 Melsel 166 121 189 



Totals ...581 579 647 



Indians. 

 Fetters . . . 

 Browne . . . 



Cobie 



Wallace .. 

 Kirkpatrick 



1st 2nd 3rd 

 169 152 134 

 148 132 109 

 118 99 105 

 91 123 93 

 166 145 147 



Totals ...639 542 608 



Bisons. 1st 2nd 3rd 

 Hertling ...138 134 138 



Klang 155 152 184 



Davis 123 143 153 



Moss 152 138 105 



Strelt 189 167 138 



Totals ...692 651 688 Totals ...757 734 718 



The evening's results in games fol- 

 low: 



Won 



Bisons 3 



Tigers 2 



American Beauties 1 



Indians 



Lost 

 

 1 

 2 

 3 



The present standing of the teams is 

 as follows: 



Won lioat 



Bisons 9 6 



Indians 9 6 



American Beauties 7 8 



Tigers 5 10 



Louis Charvot rolled high game with 

 198 and also had high average at 166. 

 E. A. Fetters won a special game against 

 Joe Streit, his famous slow ball having 

 more stuff on it than Joe Streit 's speed 

 ball. 



Various Notes. 



R. Y. Leslie, of the Detroit Green- 

 houses, Redford, Mich., is bringing in 

 the first of his sweet peas. He has re- 

 cently added two new houses. 



The Highland Park Floral Co., 2571 

 Woodward avenue, held its annual fall 

 opening October 18 and 19. The store 

 was well stocked with baskets of mums, 

 etc., also a good line of mum plants and 

 primroses. Henry C. Wustrow, the pro- 

 prietor, had special shipments of mums 

 from Krueger Bros., of Toledo, O., 

 which were specimen stock. 



Albert Stahelin, of Redford, Mich., 

 has returned from his trip to Chicago, 

 where he visited the trade. He contin- 

 ues to supply the market with fine long- 

 stemmed Premier and Hoosier Beauty 

 roses. 



T. Browne, of Greenfield, Mich., is 

 cutting excellent mums for this market. 

 His Chieftain and his white Emperor 

 are of high quality. His carnations are 

 in full crop and he is cutting them by 

 the thousands. 



George Bayer, of Toledo, O., is ship- 

 ping fine mums, both large and pompon, 

 to this market. 



Sidney Beard, of Beard Bros., has a 

 good lot of plants, especially cyclamens. 

 He entertained the Detroit Forists' 



Club Tuesday, November 4, at the range 

 out on Fort street, west. 



The L. Bemb Floral Co. had much 

 work for the opening of the Parisian 

 Co., on Woodward avenue, as did sev- 

 eral of the downtown retailers. 



John Breitmeyer's Sons had orders 

 for the opening of the Parisian Co. and 

 decorations for several weddings and 

 other social affairs. Philip Breitmeyer 

 is back after a motor trip to Indiana. 

 Elmer Reihhardt, one of the old relia- 

 bles of John Breitmeyer's Sons, ia at 

 home under a physician's orders. After 

 a quiet rest he is expected to be back 

 on the job. 



A dozen or more local florists were 

 disappointed by express shipments from 

 the Chicago market, in that they did 

 not arrive until Saturday night, too 

 late for Saturday's rush business. 



H. T. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The market has been heavily sup- 

 plied with stock. Except for one or 

 two cool days, the weather has been 

 unseasonably warm and flowers of prac- 

 tically all kinds have been brought to 

 maturity ahead of the natural time. 

 That there has been an immense volume 

 of business no one will question who has 

 noted the great quantities of stock 

 which have been handled each day. 

 Business has been big, but the demand 

 has not been large enough to take up 

 all the flowers offered, with the result 

 that prices have sagged. Nobody wants 

 to see values go down to a point where 

 the growers will not have an incentive 

 to work, but there have been times 

 when sacrifice sales were necessary to 

 clean up the accumulation. This has 

 been particularly true of the low grade 

 stock. In times of abundant supply the 

 grower who produces the highest qual- 

 ity always has the best of the demand. 



It is the height of the chrysanthe- 

 mum season. Bonnaffon and the popular 

 midscason sorts began arriving in quan- 

 tity last week. There are extremely 

 large daily receipts and it is not pos- 

 sible to find a first-class market for 

 them all. There are too many white. 

 Except for All Saints' day, which made 

 no great demand on this market this 

 year, white chrysanthemums are not in 

 strong request; the buyers want as 

 many yellow as all other colors com- 

 bined. The only chrysanthemums that 

 are not in oversupply are the finest 

 grade of big exhibition blooms. The 

 moderate quantities of this grade find 

 quick clearance at prices which make 

 small, soft stuff look ridiculously cheap. 

 There also are tremendous quantities of 

 pompons. They sell well, but not at 

 high prices and the market never is 

 clean. 



The warm weather has hurried the 

 rose crops along. The supply has been 

 large and much of the stock has been 

 softer than anyone liked. Selling has 

 been large and steady, but it could not 

 hold prices up. Roses certainly have 

 afforded excellent values in the last 

 week. Carnations also are more plenti- 

 ful, of improved quality and lower in 

 price. 



Sweet peas have become sufficiently 

 abundant so that they now are an item 

 to be reckoned with. The quality is 

 good and they hurt the sale of New 

 York double violets. Calendula is much 

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