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DiCEMBER 4, 1019. 



The Rorists^ Review 



29 



basing his judgment on the business up 



to date. 



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F. A. Danker, Albany, N. Y., sent in 

 a fine lot of stock from the greenhouses. 

 The store carried a line of combination 

 baskets of fruit and flowers that found 

 ready sale. The condition of the store 

 was described by a local paper as "a 

 blaze of glorious riot of color." 



• • • • 



Manager Tracey, of the Albany Bulb 

 Flower Exchange, reports a good run on 

 choice stock. Owing to the sharp 

 weather, extra care was essential for 



safe delivery. 



• • • * 



W. W. Hannell, of "Watervliet, N. Y., 

 cut Wm. Turner and Chadwick mums 

 that averaged 50 cents each at whole- 

 sale and were welcome locally. 



• • • • 



Sambrook Bros., of Troy, N. Y., note 

 that choice stock sold far ahead of any- 

 thing else, which proves that quality 

 and not quantity is the desideratum. 



• • • • 



J. G. Barrett, of Troy, N. Y., observed 

 that extra help is exceedingly difiScult 

 to get at this time. 



• • • • 



A. D. Carpenter, of Cohoes, N. Y., 

 gave the usual chrysanthemum show 

 preceding Thanksgiving and had one of 

 the best periods in the history of this 

 time-honored business. The venerable 

 founder is still able to share in the con- 

 genial work. W. M. 



BUTFAIiO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Business continues to be brisk. Pro- 

 duction has been retarded somewhat by 

 lack of sunshine, but demand, too, has 

 been hindered by the disagreeable 

 weather. If we should have a week of 

 ideal weather, a hunt" for stock would 

 fltill be in order. 



The general report for Thanksgiving 

 is that a fij^isfactory amount of trade 

 was done "hjr all. While the chrysan- 

 themum supply appeared short at first, 

 it proved P> be ample for everybody. 

 The plant tjade was good, perhaps bet- 

 ter than ever before, and about the 

 only thing short of the demand was 

 roses. The rose supply at this time 

 is off. 



Various Notes. 



F. J. Baum has the best batch of aza- 

 leas in the city. 



C. .T. Guenther's chrysanthemum, 

 Hamburg Late "White, is a wonderful 

 success for Thanksgiving and later 

 flowering. 



The coal shortage will not menace 

 local growers, since most of them are 

 well stocked. F. P. A. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



The Market. 



Practically all of the florists report an 

 excellent Thanksgiving business, many 

 of them cleaning out their stock entire- 

 ly. Prices were high, but people paid 

 them. Chrysanthemums cost $8 and $9 

 a dozen wholesale and retailed at $1 per 

 bloom. Roses and carnations were 

 scarce and high-priced; they are off crop 

 now, due, it is reported, to the fact that 

 the early part of the season was so 

 warm that the buds developed earlier 

 than usual. As a rule, as soon as mums 



MRS. BTJTH DAY. 



BREAKING precedents last July, the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen 

 chose as its president a woman — one might say a girl, since she is but 24 — 

 Mrs. Ruth Day, manager of Overman's Nursery, Spokane, Wash. The selection 

 seems less unusual when one considers her ancestry and experience. Her mother's 

 uncles, Nathan and Cyrus Overman, founded the Mound Nursery, in Canton, 111., 

 over fifty years ago and Cyrus Overman was president of the Illinois State Horti- 

 cultural Society. Her uncle, Leigh Overman, had been in the nursery business for 

 twenty odd years when she and her mother moved to Spokane from Pasadena, 

 Cal., where she had been born March 13, 1895. She at once went to work in her 

 uncle's oflSce. Although not yet 17, she soon became his first assistant and after 

 his death, four years ago, she took over the business, retaining the old firm name. 

 She married Mr. Day four years ago and for the last two years he has been her 

 copartner in the business. There are three "little Days," aged 3, 2 and 1 years. 



begin to disappear there is a good crop 

 of carnations and roses to take their 

 place. Some rose growers who are cut- 

 ting but little now report that they will 

 have other varieties arriving in time 

 for the Christmas trade and will have 

 more still later in the winter. A larger 

 supply of carnations is expected later 

 in the season also. 



"Various Notes. 



Charles E. Maillard, 516 Orange 

 street, reports a fine Thanksgiving busi- 

 ness, notwithstanding the high prices. 

 He states that business has been good 

 all the fall, though there has been no 

 rush at any time. 



Charles Trauth, Orange street, reports 

 that the Thanksgiving trade cleaned out 

 his stock entirely. Business since 

 Thanksgiving has been better than he 



expected, as usually there is a little dull 

 spell following a big holiday trade. 



Harry I. Stein, proprietor of the Pub- 

 lic Service Terminal flower store, sees 

 some danger in the present high prices 

 of flowers. With such high prices many 

 people who at other times are steady 

 customers purchase flowers only on spe- 

 cial occasions. Under such conditions 

 it is harder to plan purchases. It is also 

 harder to use up stock that is a little 

 past its prime. A steady trade at some- 

 what lower prices is a healthier business 

 condition, he thinks. R, B. M. 



Windsor, Ont. — The store of Charles 

 R. Tuson, former mayor of Windsor, at 

 46 Ouellette avenue, has been sold to 

 the Bank of Hamilton for $80,000. An 

 office building and bank will be bailt 

 on the site. 



