NOVBMBBB 20, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



85 



OBITUARY 



John T. Shore. 



John T. Shore, one of the pioneer 

 members and organizers of the National 

 Association of Gardeners and organizer 

 of the Westchester County Horticul- 

 tural Society, died at his home in Har- 

 rison, N. Y., Wednesday, November 12, 

 after a long illness, at the age of 76. 

 For twenty-five years he had been su- 

 perintendent of the Sterling estate, in 

 Harrison, and was held in high esteem 

 by all who knew him. He was a charter 

 member of the Harrison fire department 

 and its president for fifteen years. He 

 was also a school trustee and an elder 

 in the Presbyterian Church. 



Frederick Shawyer. 



Frederick Shawyer, for the last few 

 years head gardener at Farnholme, the 

 estate of Miss Mary Sharswood, at 

 Wequetequock, near Westerly, R. I., was 

 killed by an automobile shortly after 

 midnight Saturday, November 8. He had 

 been visiting friends during the eve- 

 ning and was on his way home when he 

 was struck by an automobile and left 

 dead at the side of the road. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife and four children. 



Allen J. Hamm. 



Aft^r a prolonged illness, Allen J. 

 Hamm died at 2 o 'clock Friday after- 

 noon, November 7, at his home, 912 

 North Braddock avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 The funeral services were held the fol- 

 lowing Monday morning at 10 o'clock in 

 the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic church, 

 Kelly street. 



Mr. Hamm was the younger sou of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Hamm and the 

 brother of Harry J.. Hamm, with whom 

 he had been identified in business since 

 leaving school, acting as manager for 

 some time previous to his illness. He 

 was one of the earliest victims of the 

 Spanish influenza epidemic during the 

 autumn of 1918, the disease rapidly 

 developing into tuberculosis of the 

 lungs. Mr. Hamm is survived by his 

 parents, his brother, his wife^Mrs. Stella 

 Messier Hamm, and a son and daughter, 

 Miss Gertrude and Allen J. Hamm, Jr., 

 respectively. 



Mrs. Lydia Flora Current. 



Mrs. Lydia Flora Curront, 61 years 

 old, died November 9 at lier liomc, 2724 

 Monroe avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Be- 

 sides her husband, she is survived by 

 a daughter, Mrs. Maude Everett, of 

 Pawhuska, Okla. Mrs. Everett took 

 the remains to Pawhuska for burial. 



J. E. K. 



Mike Bobinius. 



After a struggle of ten months to re- 

 gain his health, Mike Robinius, of Paris, 

 Tex., died Wednesday, November 12. 

 All the members of his family were at 

 his bedside at the time. Mr. Robinius 

 went to El Paso in search of health and 

 returned home about three weeks before 

 his death. 



Mr. Robinius is survived by his wife 

 three daughters, Mrs. Harry Book, Mrs 

 L. T. Craigo and Miss Esther Robinius 

 and his two sons, Henry and Charles 

 The business at the Evergreen Green 

 houses will be conducted by Mrs. Ro 

 binius and the sons. 



Catholic services were held at Our 



Lady of Victory church. Interment was 

 at Evergreen cemetery, where the de- 

 ceased was laid to rest beneath many 

 beautiful floral offerings sent by his 

 friends. 



Mrs. John Ralph. 



Mary Maher Ralph, widow of John 

 Ralph, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., died 

 at her home, on Woodlawn avenue, last 

 week. She was born in Tipperary, Jre- 

 land, in 1842. She went to Canada and 

 then, forty-five years ago, came to the 

 United States. For forty-three years 

 she had been a resident of Saratoga 

 Springs. 



She is survived by three daughters, 

 Mary Jane and Katherine Louise, of 

 Saratoga Springs, and Mrs. Robert Mor- 

 rissey, of Port Henry. 



The funeral was held at the late resi- 

 dence and a half hour later at St. 

 Peter's Catholic church. Burial was in 

 St. Peter's cemetery. 



BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 



The Market. 



The members of the local trade were 

 busy November 15 filling orders for 

 corsages and cut flowers for the Yale- 

 Princeton game. Quantities of violets, 

 white carnations and chrysanthemums, 

 in combination with violets and yellow 

 chrysanthemums, were disposed of. 



Business has been rather quiet on ac- 

 count of the unseasonably warm weath- 

 er, which has prolonged the life of out- 

 door flowers. Fortunately, we have now 

 had a killing frost and the outdoor 

 flowers are about gone. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are plentiful at the present time 

 and some splendid blooms are being 

 displayed in the florists' windows. Car- 

 nations are also in good supply. Al- 

 though counter trade has not been as 

 brisk as might be desired, funeral or- 

 ders have been abundant. Weddings are 

 taking place daily and, although most of 

 them call for bouquets, no large decora- 

 tions have been furnished recently. 



Various Notes. 



A new greenhouse range is now in op- 

 eration at Beardsley park. It is a park 

 board project and cost $25,000. 



James E. Beach is cutting some splen- 

 did yellow mums and carnations. He 

 is also well supplied with Paper Whites. 

 There is a large assortment of begonias 

 and primroses on hand. He had nu- 

 merous calls for funeral orders last 

 week. 



John Keck made preparations for a 

 big day's sales for the game, November 

 15, and was not disappointed in the 

 number of violets and chrysanthemums 

 disposed of. 



George Pflomm reports an abundance 

 of funeral work. He had also an 

 elaborate window decoration for the 

 Yale-Princeton game. 



James Horan & Son disposed of a 

 large number of violets for the Yale- 

 Princeton game. Funeral orders have 

 been abundant, among the pieces de- 

 signed being two casket covers. One 

 was made of Columbia roses and the 

 other of white and yellow chrysanthe- 

 mums. This firm'also had the elaborate 

 decorations for the entertainment and 

 dance which the merchants who have 

 adopted the 6 o'clock closing on Sat- 

 urday gave to their employees on the 

 first night on which the new plan was 

 tried out. This affair was held at the 

 Casino on State street. The walls were 

 festooned with laurel, while hanging 



baskets of ferns were suspended at in- 

 tervals. Palms, boxwood and bay trees 

 were also used. 



The Park Gardens store is well sup- 

 plied with carnations, of which the firm 

 is cutting large quantities daily. Chrys- 

 anthemums are also in their prime and 

 some splendid snapdragons are being cut. 

 This firm's share in the trade for the 

 game was satisfactory. 



Robert Hawkins anticipated a rush 

 for flowers for the game and had it. He 

 furnished several elaborate table deco- 

 rations recently and decorated the ball- 

 room of the Stratfield hotel for the 

 woman suffrage convention, festooning 

 the chandeliers and encircling the ban- 

 ners with southern smilax. Pink chrys- 

 anthemums were used for the table dec- 

 orations. 



Julius Reck reports that he is all 

 ready for cold weather, although he still 

 has a number of bedding-out orders for 

 bulbs to be filled. Callas and snapdrag- 

 ons are now in bloom at these green- 

 houses and some fine chrysanthemums, 

 carnations and Paper Whites are being 

 cut. His son, John Reck, is still in 

 France. 



The Arcade Flower Shop sold a 

 number of violets and yellow chr/san 

 themums for the Yale-Princeton game. 

 Although this firm has been in business 

 only a short time, it reports that busi- 

 ness is increasing steadily. I. L. B. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business is good. There has been 

 some spottiness in the demand, some 

 days being much better than others and, 

 on busy days, some houses seeming much 

 busier than others, but on the whole 

 there seems to be no reason for dis- 

 satisfaction with existing conditions. 

 Prices are not nearly so high as they 

 were a year ago, but most of the whole- 

 sale houses say that sales are running 

 as good as or a little better than last 

 November, so that the growers must-be 

 taking in about as much money as they 

 did last year. Probably their expenses 

 are higher, but not enough higher to 

 make the business otherwise than prof- 

 itable. That the enterprising members 

 of the producing branch of the trade 

 look upon conditions as favorable- is 

 shown by the number of reports of new 

 construction for next season. 



The supply of stock continues large. 

 There are at least twice as many flowers 

 as were in the market at this time last 

 year. Chrysanthemums arc distinctly 

 on the down grade. Only the late 

 varieties now are in the market. Bon- 

 naffon is the leader, but there are ex- 

 cellent Chadwieks, Seidewitz and Eaton. 

 Although the market rarely is cleaned 

 up on mums, the sellers are able to hold 

 all good stock for fair prices. There 

 is scarcely any demand for the low 

 grade mums. Pompons are less plentiful 

 then they have been, but the supply still 

 is large and varied in character. 

 Classed with the pompons are the semi- 

 double and anemone varieties. It is 

 noticed that in all types the strongest 

 demand is for yellow, but that the call 

 for pink is strongest in comparison to 

 the quantity of stock available. 



There is little change in the rose situa- 

 tion. Cooler weather has improved the 

 quality with many growers, but new 

 crops are not yet ready. The demand is 

 running more and more to the finer 

 grades, social functions consuming a 

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