November 20, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



33 



Ind., is shipping some fine mums, includ- 

 ing Eaton, Yellow Eaton, Seidewitz, 

 Major Bonnaffon, and some new ones 

 in bronze shades that are especially 

 worthy of mention. The Laddie carna- 

 tion grown by this firm is the best on 

 the market. 



L. A. Fennel, orchid grower, Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., reports that orchids are bloom- 

 ing slowly. Mr. Fennel supplies the 

 local trade with the best varieties of 

 cattlevas, also oncidiums and leelias. 



H. E. K. 



Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Ohmer and 

 their son, James Ohmer, left for their 

 home at West Palm Beach, Fla., Satur- 

 day, November 15, after spending the 

 summer and fall here with Mr. and Mrs. 

 Gillett and in the north. 



Thomas Windram has gone to Lees- 

 burg, Fla., to spend the winter at the 

 Lake Shore Ferneries. 



Among recent visitors were J. E. 

 Thomas, Circleville, Ohio; C. P. Dietrich, 

 Maysville, Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. Norval 

 Kiger, Marietta, Ohio, and Mrs. J. F. 

 Young and Miss Olive Bitter, Dayton, 

 Ohio. 



George Klotter has been sending in 

 some Diana mums tliat are exception- 

 ally good. 



Among Cincinnatians who attended 

 the Indianapolis show last week were 

 W. Bay Murphy, H. W. Sheppard, B. L. 

 Fern and Fred Murphy. C. H. H. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Market. 



The market is still on the upward 

 trend. The orchid situation has been 

 serious. They are })ringing $2 each and 

 it is hard to obtain them at that price. 

 There is a good supply of American 

 Beauties, which are bringing up to $7 

 and $8 per dozen. Sweet peas are still 

 scarce. Out-of-town business has shown 

 a large increase. There has been a large 

 ilomand for clirysaiitlu'iiiunis and the 

 supply ha« been sufficient to ni'.'et the 

 demand. 



Various Notes. 



George Prokos, of Z. D. Blackistone's 

 force, has been making arrangements to 

 have a series of fine window displays. 

 There will be a different display each 

 week and each one of the series will 

 impress a different meaning upon the 

 public. 



J. H. Small &: Sons have been busy 

 lately with important work in connec- 

 tion with the many distinguished vis- 

 itors in this city; it included much deco- 

 rating work. 



One of the largest and most important 

 jobs so far this season was the work at 

 the British embassy during the visit of 

 the Prince of Wales. This work was 

 done by the Louise Flower Shop. The 

 entrance to the embassy was decorated 

 with boxwood plants and yellow and 

 white chrysanthemums. The stairway, 

 which is one of the old colonial styles 

 of dark woodwork, was draped with 

 southern smilax. At the head and base 

 of the stairway there were huge clus- 

 ters of yellow chrysanthemums. 

 Throughout the hall there were baskets 

 of yellow and white chrysanthemums. 

 The ballroom and reception room were 

 decorated with palms, ferns and large 

 l>askets of mums. The dining room had 

 vases of American Beauty roses ar- 

 ranged on the table and around the en- 

 tire room. About 1,000 chrysanthemums 



and almost 500 American Beauty roses 

 were used in this work. There were 559 

 people at the reception. The Louise 

 Flower Shop made the wreath which the 

 prince placed on the tomb of Washing- 

 ton. 



Z. D. Blackistone, chairman of the 

 "Say It with Flowers" week commit- 

 tee, made the following statement in 

 reference to the recent campaign: "The 

 'Say It with Flowers' campaign of No- 

 vember, 1919, has been voted a huge suc- 

 cess by everyone. A more appropriate 

 time for this campaign could not have 

 been selected. On account of the Red 

 Cross campaign there were opportuni- 

 ties for making appeals to the people 

 which otherwise would have been im- 

 possible. Who would have thought of 

 taking our little organization of fifty 

 people and bringing to it the great or- 

 ganization of the American Red Cross 

 with its 5,000 or more workers? This is 

 just what happened on Sunday evening, 

 when they allowed a committee com- 

 posed of W. F. Gude, George Shaffer and 

 myself to appear before their mass meet- 

 ing of probably 10,000 people. Mr. Gude 

 presented a huge basket of flowers on 

 behalf of the florists, with an appro- 

 priate and timely speech. I feel justi- 

 fied in making the statement, which has 

 been corroborated by many fellow mem- 

 bers of the trade and associates, that 

 our 10-day campaign has advanced 'Say 

 It with Flowers' week more than five 

 years. All the florists showed fine spirit 



and put forth every effort in this cam 



paign. 



G. V. S. 



DENVER, COLO. 



The store of the Central Floral Co., on 

 Fifteenth street, makes an attractive 

 appearance with its false ceiling of oak 

 foliage. This firm, although the young- 

 est in the city, has branched out by 

 opening a stand in the New Grand Cen- 

 tral market, on Champa street. 



Frank Dykstra is now with Boldt & 

 Lundy. 



J. L, Ennegon, of the New York Floral 

 Co., motored to Colorado Springs Friday, 

 November 14, to buy mums for Thanks- 

 giving. 



The America Flower Shop is doing 

 an ever increasing F. T. D. business on 

 both outgoing and incoming orders. 



R. S. 



Bock Bapids, la. — John Baart, who 

 has had fifteen years of greenhouse ex- 

 perience in New York, has recently 

 bought the 5-acre William Thiessen 

 property on North Union street and 

 hopes to be able to put up this fall the 

 frame of a 24x60 greenhouse. 



Enid, Okla.— The Oklahoma Floral 

 Co. has leased from the Elks' Club the 

 ground floor room in the rear of the 

 Elks' building and will use it for down- 

 town retailing. This firm has completed 

 the construction of its greenhouses near 

 the street railway barn, having recent- 

 ly installed the heating system. 



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MOTT-LY MUSINGS 



Conrad C. Gindra, of Poughkeepaie, 

 N. Y., held a flower show in his fine 

 range coincident with the opening of 

 Vassar College and was "tickled to 

 death," using his own expression, with 

 the enthusiasm shown by the students 

 as they passed along, noting the various 

 attractions and showing familiarity 

 with the subject of floriculture. "In 

 short," sagely observed Mr. Gindra, 

 ' ' we have to get a wiggle on to keep 

 in the front row, or the fair sex will 

 supplant us and we shall be transplanted 



elsewhere. ' ' 



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. Saltf ord 's Flower Shop, of Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y., offers constant attrac- 

 tions in the form of novelties in floral 

 work, being the first to make the cor- 

 sage bouquet so popular among the col- 

 legians. The usual well grown stock is 

 at the greenhouses, under the charge of 

 the veteran founder, who is justly proud 

 of the orchids and poinsettiaa, the latter 

 being unrivaled in the state. 



• • • • 



Wood Bros., of Fishkill, N. Y., are 

 among the many shippers of young 

 stock that have been handicapped by 

 the condition of the express system and 

 hope for improvement ere heavy ship- 

 ments of rooted cuttings, of which they 

 grow large numbers, are ready to be 

 made. Taking it all in all, things might 

 be worse and assuredly will improve, is 



the opinion of Louis Wood. 



• • • • 



Henry Hansen, of Catskill, N. Y., has 

 no complaint to register, having a 

 steady demand, an occasional spurt on 

 funeral work and good stock, the result 

 of careful attention. 



Valentin Burgevin's Sons, of Kings- 

 ton, N. Y., opened the fall season with 

 a flower show, for which their fine store 

 is well adapted. Commenting upon the 

 mention made in The Review of carna- 

 tions growing in England as tall as five 

 feet, George Burgevin realizes that 

 sturdy growth is essential; the stockier 

 the plant the stronger is the flower 

 stem. It is still an open question as to 

 which is more profitable in the end, old 



or new soil. 



• • • • 



The Allen Greenhouses, of Hudson, 

 N. Y., specialize on foliage plants. 

 Since the atmosphere is charged with 

 dust from cement works located some 

 distance away, such stock as carnations 

 and roses do not bloom well. Blooming 



plants are not affected so seriously. 



• • • • 



Seymour Cunningham, of Cold 

 Springs, N. Y., is a trinitarian in that 

 he is a florist, sexton and undertaker. 

 He is equally successful in all three and 

 each occupation is interdependent on 



the others. 



• • • • 



A tour among the growers in Rhine - 

 beck found violets and pansies up to 

 usual standard and volume, with appar- 

 ently a good crop for Thanksgiving. 



• * « • 



F. S. Folwell & Co., Pittsfield, Mass., 

 report a busy season, with weddings and 

 funerals calling for an unusual amount 

 of house and church decoration. 



• • • • 



L. W. Acheson, Pittsfield, Mass., has 

 thoroughly renovated his store, which 

 is spick-and-span in its new coat of 

 green and white. W. M. 



