December 25, lil9. 



The Florists^ Review 



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cede the credit for the major part of 

 our business, which is steadily increas- 

 ing," observed Henry Eberhardt. 



• • • • 



Louis Menand, of Troy, N. Y., was 

 sanguine regarding Christmas trade, hav- 

 ing a larger number of advance orders 

 on his books than at any preceding sea- 

 son. 



• • • • 



Manager Tracey, of the Albany Cut 

 Flower Exchange, Albany, N. Y., men- 

 tioned that choice stock would be 

 scarce around the holidays, although 

 their contracts were well taken care of. 



• • • • 



Fred A. Danker, of Albany, N. Y., 

 has had a fine trade in combination 

 baskets, most of the stock having been 

 grown under personal supervision. 



• • • • 



Wm. C. Gloeckner, of Albany, N. Y., 

 has an eye on a big corner store that 

 will be the finest in the city. He said 

 the deal would be closed if the holiday 

 trade was of the magnitude that he an- 

 ticipated. 



• • • • 



Sam Hanson, of North Troy, N. Y., 

 hit the market right with a fine crop of 

 carnations, which helps relieve the 

 strain upon the local growers. 



• • • • 



John A. Murnane, of Albany, N. Y., 

 finds an increase in the call for cemetery 

 decorations at this season, evidence of 

 increasing desire for perpetual adorn- 

 ment of the last resting place. 



• • * * 



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

 optimistic, as usual, with an abundance 

 of well grown stock to supply his high- 

 class trade. 



• • • • 



Fred Goldring, of Slingerlands, N. Y., 

 had all the fine crop of roses and carna- 

 tions sold up for the holidays and looked 

 for a general clean-up in plants of all 

 kinds. W. M. 



PITTSBXJRGH. 



The Market. 



Shortage of stock was expected for 

 the Christmas trade, which is not at all 

 surprising when one considers the fact 

 that there has been practically no sun- 

 light for eight weeks. 



Prices last week were higher natu- 

 rally, almost as high as those quoted for 

 this week. Carnations sold at wholesale 

 for $12, while roses varied from $12 to 

 $14 per hundred. American Beauties 

 ranged from $9 to $12 per dozen and 

 were quoted at $18 straight for the 

 holiday trade. 



Boxwood is practically cleaned up, the 

 southern shippers having failed to get 

 in their late shipments. Those who 

 failed to get part of the early shipments 

 skirmished to get the crumbs of the 

 trade. 



Various Notes. 



William A. Clarke recently said that 

 a local woman of cosmopolitan social ex- 

 perience told him that the floral deco- 

 rations for the numerous debutante en- 

 tert^nments in Pittsburgh were the 

 n'ost artistic she had seen anywhere in 

 this country or Europe. While, per- 

 haps, one or two other cities now and 

 then did something on a larger scale, 

 the latter somehow lacked the results 

 gained by the master hand at the re- 

 cent Pittsburgh entertainments. 



William .\. Clarke, .Tr., returned De- 

 cember 20 to spend the holidays with 

 his parents. This is his first year at 



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HEBMAN P. KNOBLE. 



EXACTLY thirty-three years ago, on Christmas day, Herman P. Knoble, with his 

 mother, two brothers and one sister, arrived at Castle Garden, New York, from 

 Ehrenstatten, Germany, where he was born October 9, 1880. The first thirteen 

 years in this country the family spent mainly at Huron, O., where Herman worked 

 at odd jobs, notably for a Dr. Woessner, and the medicinal properties of plants and 

 Dr. Woessner 's botany book were the first links in the chain that led to flowers. 

 Later he gained a business training from six years' work in the Mcintosh-Hunt- 

 ington Co., a Cleveland wholesale hardware firm; at the end of this period he was 

 in charge of the mail order department. Just then, in March, 1906, a welcome offer 

 came from Mr. Greiff, president of the Ohio Floral Co., Cleveland, to operate its 

 retail store as the Ohio Cut Flower Co. He accepted and six weeks later took 

 into the business his brother. Otto. In 1913 Herman Knoble bought out his 

 brother's interest and conducted the business alone until July 1, 1919, when he 

 took in his half-brother, Frank J. Ritzenthaler; operating under the firm name of 

 Knoble Bros. Co. Last August he was elected a director of the S. A. F., having 

 become nationally known in the trade from his energetic and progressive work in 

 Cleveland. 



the Pennsylvania State College, where 

 he is a student in the agricultural de- 

 partment, specializing in floriculture. 



William E. Colligan is in charge of a 

 temporary holiday store at 708 Smith- 

 field street for Abraham Krongold. After 

 nine years with the PittsbuVgh Cut 

 Flower Co., Mr. Colligan went to Chi- 

 cago and entered the sales department 

 of Poehlmann Bros. CH). in the autumn of 

 1915. In September, 1917, he entered 

 service as a private and received his 

 discharge June 9, 1919, having attained 

 the rank of lieutenant in the 320th In- 

 fantry. 



Max Goldhammer, of Samuel Gidas' 

 The Eosery, at 3703 Fifth avenue, re- 



ported business good in the Oakland 

 district. ^tr. Goldhammer said that 

 while the majority of customers gener- 

 ally began by decrying the high prices 

 of cut blooms, they usually ended by 

 purchasing them. 



William A. Hansen, of the E. C. Am- 

 ling Co., Chicago, was a visitor last 

 week. 



The Elliott Nursery Co. has just pur- 

 chased a set of dictaphones for the of- 

 fice in the Magee building. The firm 

 has had an exceptionally successful sea- 

 son, reports President J. Wilkinson 

 Elliott. 



De Forest W. Ludwig has been ap- 

 pointed chairman of a committee in 

 charge of a Dutch stag supper to be 



