Dbcbmbbb 4, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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OBITUARY 



has several weddings on hand this 

 month, G. V. S. 



Henry J. McGrady. 



Henry J. McGrady, a stockholder of 

 the Boston Cooperative Market, died 

 November 25, after a short illness with 

 pneumonia. The deceased was in his 

 seventy-sixth year and had resided and 

 operated greenhouses in Newton Center 

 for jnany years. Eecently his daugh- 

 ters have had charge of the business. 

 The deceased leaves a widow and three 

 daughters. Funeral services were held 

 November 28 and a number of his mar- 

 ket confreres attended. There were 

 some beautiful floral tributes from 

 friends in the trade and others. 



W. N. C. 



Mrs. W. 0. Lawrence. 



Mrs. W. C. Lawrence, wife of the 

 owner of the Lawrence Floral Co., At- 

 lanta, Ga., died November 25. She is 

 survived by her husband, one son and 

 four daughters. 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 



The Market. 



The market has been brisk since 

 Thanksgiving and everyone reports 

 business good. The mum supply has 

 been good and there is a demand for all 

 stock available. Stock is all bringing 

 fair prices. Out-of-town business has 

 shown a large increase in the last two 

 weeks. 



Various Notes. 



All of the local florists are busy pre- 

 paring for the Christmas rush. They 

 have placed many orders already, to be 

 sure that the stock arrives on time. 



Fred Leapley is booked right up to 

 Christmas with wedding orders. The 

 store is attractively decorated and he 

 has a large variety of seasonable flowers 

 in stock. Mr. Leapley has a fine icebox, 

 which is attracting much attention; it 

 was designed and built by him. 



The Louise Flower Shop has adopted 

 a quite unusual way to deliver near-by 

 orders. It is a small automobile which 

 is propelled by the driver and can carry 

 a number of orders at a time. It is 

 brightly painted and attracts much at- 

 tention while making its daily deliv- 

 eries. 



J. A. Phillips has gone out of the flo- 

 rists ' business and he and his wife are 

 preparing to go south. 



George H. Cooke has been doing a 

 large amount of funeral work and also 

 has booked a number of go&d Christmas 

 orders. 



George Prokos, of Z. D. Blackistone 's 

 force, is carrying out his plans for a 

 series of impressive window displays 

 and the public has been greatly inter- 

 ested in the clever arrangement of his 

 work. Z. D. Blackistone 's store is 

 crowded most of the time and he has a 

 large amount of work on hand. 



George C. Shaffer took on extra help 

 to cope with the Thanksgiving rush. He 

 has booked a number of large weddings 

 for this month, in addition to the large 

 amount of funeral work which he has 

 been doing. 



The Du Pont Floral Co. has been do- 

 ing a large amount of funeral work. It 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Last week was an eventful one for 

 the florists. The Thanksgiving day 

 business was especially heavy, the 

 volume being much greater than ever 

 before for this day, and the prices of 

 flowers in all lines advanced materially. 

 The market was, with the exception of 

 one or two items, liberally supplied, 

 but the clean-up was quite satisfactory. 

 Some late arrivals on Wednesday after- 

 noon fared less favorably than the 

 early morning arrivals, with a decline 

 in price, affecting particularly carna- 

 tions, which early brought 10 cents to 

 12 cents and went down to 6 cents. 

 TherOfWas also a decline in violet prices, 

 which had been strong at $2.50 to $3 

 per hundred. 



This week opened with arrivals rather 

 light and prices strong. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are shortening in supply and 

 prices are firm at $2 to $12 per dozen. 



Boses are not so abundant as they 

 have been in the last few weeks and 

 short-stemmed grades show a marked 

 advance in values. American Beauty 

 is much less plentiful and the best spe- 

 cials bring as much as $1.25 each, with 

 cheaper grades in proportion. Teas 

 and hybrid teas are also short in supply 

 and prices much advanced in conse- 

 quence; the shortest grades bring $5 

 per hundred. Two or three days of dull 

 weather have not helped the rose situ- 

 ation. 



Carnations are also on the short side 

 in point of supply and the best of to- 

 day's arrivals are bringing $10 to $12 

 per hundred. The quality of stock is 

 improving and some really fine flowers 

 are available. 



Orchids continue quite scarce and the 

 best cattleyas command $2 each, with 

 some of tpe hybrids bringing 50 cents 

 more. Spray orchids are especially 

 scarce. Cypripediums are fairly plenti- 

 ful, the insigne variety bringing $4 per 

 dozen, with Sanderaj $6. 



A few Easter lilies are to be had, the 

 price running from $20 to $25 per hun- 

 dred. Rubrum are much shorter in 

 supply and the price of the best has 

 gone up to $10 per hundred. Albums 

 are plentiful and hard to move at $5 

 per hundred and less. Lily of the valley 

 is scarce and 50 cents per spray is being 

 asked and obtained, although buyers 

 are vigorously protesting. Gardenias 

 are in good demand, but there are not 

 enough to go around; such as are avail- 

 able bring $1 each and most are sold 

 before arrival. 



White bouvardia is almost out of the 

 market, but a good deal ef the pink is 

 arriving. Paper Whites are plentiful, 

 but move well at 35 cents to 50 cents 

 per dozen. Stevia is selling well at 25 

 cents to 30 cents per bunch, with select- 

 ed stock as high as 50 cents. Snap- 

 dragon arrives in small quantities and 

 brings 25 cents to $1 per bunch. Sweet 

 peas are abundant at $1 to $2.50 per 

 hundred sprays. "Violets today move at 

 75 cents to $1 per hundred. 



Various Notes. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held Monday 

 evening, December 8, in the club's new 

 quarters in the Engineering Societies' 



building, 25 West Thirty-ninth street, 

 between Fifth and Sixth avenues. It 

 will be election night and an unusually 

 large attendance is expected. A. M. 

 Henshaw and I. S. Hendrickson are 

 candidates for the office of president 

 and the contest should prove quite in- 

 teresting. 



The flower show committee will hold 

 a joint meeting with a committee from 

 the American Eose Society, December 

 8, at the New York Florists' Club's 

 office, 1170 Broadway. Details of co- 

 operation on the work of the spring 

 show wiU be settled at this meeting. 



A. Kottmiller, of 426 Madison avenue, 

 had the decorating of the ballroom for 

 the ball given November 24 by Mr. 

 and Mrs. H. H. Rogers. Oak trees of 

 considerable height were a feature of 

 the decorations. Chrysanthemums were 

 chief among the floral adornments of 

 the big room, while orchids were promi- 

 nent in the centerpieces provided for 

 the tables in the supper rooms. 



Charles Thorley's store, both interior 

 and exterior, was featured last week in- 

 a film at the Broadway theater, where 

 Elsie Janis was the star in "A Regular 

 Girl." 



A page advertisement in the New 

 York Tribune November 22 and 26 was 

 carried by the Associated Retail Florists 

 of New York. 



Miss Grace LaRue is singing "Say It 

 with Flowers" at the Alhambra this 

 week. C. C. Trepel, of Bloomingdale 's, 

 is assisting in the floral decoration. 



J. H. P. 



S. B. Wertheimer has returned from 

 a vacation trip south, the first time that 

 he has been away from his office in 

 many months. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Summing up the Thanksgiving busi- 

 ness at the end of last week was a most 

 satisfactory process. Never in the his- 

 tory of the Chicago market has there 

 been so great a demand for flowers for 

 the feast day. Nor has there ever been 

 so large a supply of stock. Almost with- 

 out exception, every wholesale house 

 which caters to the shipping demand 

 had total sales exceeding last Thanks- 

 giving, and every other Thanksgiving. 

 In many cases the increases were phe- 

 nomenal. But it was due to the tre- 

 mendous supply of stock rather than 

 to high prices. The supply turned out 

 to be much larger than had been ex- 

 pected. Where all the flowers came 

 from is a mystery, especially because 

 nearly everything was of first-class 

 quality. There was so large a supply 

 that it held prices down, even though 

 the demand was so great. Nowhere in 

 the list was there a shortage which jus- 

 tified a material increase in prides and 

 on the whole values were much below 

 those of last year, perhaps one-third 

 below on the average. The greatest 

 difficulty was experienced in getting 

 fair prices for the pompons. Thanks- 

 giving never saw half so many of these 

 flowers in any other year. They were 

 so abundant that some of the growers 

 actually peddled their stock from store 

 to store instead of shipping it to a 

 commission house. The result was that 

 the prices realized varied widely; on 

 this item there was no market basis to 

 guide either seller or buyer. 

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