

Dbcehber 25, 1919. 



The Horists' Review 



Enud Gimdestrup. 



Knud Gundestrup, seedsman and 

 onion set operator, died at his home in 

 Chicago, December 18, after a brief ill- 

 ness. Mr. Gundestrup was 52 years of 

 age. He was a native of Denmark, 

 where he grew up to a knowledge of 

 agricultural seeds and the export seed 

 trade. His first business venture on 

 his own account in America was under- 

 taken in 1904, but after some years he 

 returned to the Scandinavian countries, 

 where he spent three and one-half years. 

 Returning to (Chicago in 1915, he at once 

 re-established himself in the seed trade, 

 with a store on Milwaukee avenue, in 

 the Jefferson Park district of Chicago, 

 making a specialty of supplying market 

 gardeners' seeds and wholesale dealing 

 in onion sets. 



The funeral was held at the Jefferson' 

 Park Congregational church December 

 22, interment being at Mount Olivet. 

 There was a large attendance and many 

 flowers. 



Mrs. Aurena Humfeld. 



Mrs. Aurena Humfeld, wife of W. 

 H. Humfeld, of the' Humfeld-Orear 

 Floral Co., Kansas City, Mo., died 

 December 17 at her home, 3126 Chest- 

 nut avenue, after a short, illness. She 

 was 62 years of age and had lived in 

 Kansas City thirty years. She is sur- 

 vived by her husband, a brother, Her- 

 man Braumecker, Cincinnati, O., and 

 five daughters, Mrs. L. M. Orear, Kan- 

 sas City; Mrs. P. J. Newman, Manhat- 

 tan, Kan.; Miss Sammai Humfeld, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., and Miss Emma W. Hum- 

 feld and Miss Viola May- Humfeld, of 

 the home address. Funeral services were 

 held at the home Friday afternoon, De- 

 cember 19, followed by interment in 

 Forest Hill cemetery. 



QeoTge T. Schuneman. 



George T. Schuneman, of Rockville 

 Center, N. Y., died at his home Decem- 

 ber 22, from pneumonia, following an 

 illness of three days. Mr. Schuneman 

 was at one time a large grower of vio- 

 lets and later became one of the pioneer 

 growers of winter-flowering sweet peas. 



NEW YORK. 



< The Market. 



The eve of the Christmas holiday 

 found the market short in supply and 

 the demand less than might have been 

 expected. If the demand had been nor- 

 mal, some difficulty might have been ex- 

 perienced in meeting it. It was quite 

 evident that growers in some lines were 

 holding stock as long as possible for 

 late sales. Prices in most lines aroused 

 much criticism among retailers and 

 hand-to-mouth buying was general. 



Plantsmen generally report being sold 

 out, with the biggest trade ever. Deal- 

 ers in green goods also report a good 

 business, although stock has all along 

 been plentiful, with the exception, per- 

 haps, of lycopodium, which is hardly 

 })rocurable. Holly in case lots is mov- 

 ing freely, but many florists prefer to 

 buy wreaths ready-made, asserting that 

 it no longer pays to bother making them 

 up. 



Roses before Christmas were plentiful 

 only in the longer grades, which required 

 considerable effort to effect a movement. 

 Sales of extras were made last week at 

 prices little in advance of No. 2 grades,- 

 so much out of proportion was the sup- 

 ply. The zero weather experienced De- 

 cember 18 did not seem to curtail ship- 

 ments and little stock arrived in frozen 

 condition. American Beauty specials 

 moved at up to $150 per hundred and 

 promised to go higher, since the supply 

 in sight was not believed to be large. 



Carnations were on the short side in 

 point of supply, and little stock was to 

 Ije had at less than $10 per hundred; $12 

 was the price for best grades, with as 

 much as $15 for selected flowers. 



The supply of gardenias was better 

 only because the price asked affected the 

 demand for them and the severe weather 

 had prevented outdoor use of corsage 

 bouquets. Prices ranged from 75 cents 

 to $1 each. Cattleyas were affected 

 for the same reasons, and much stock 

 was carried over each day. Cypripe- 

 (^iums were plentiful and moved fairly 

 well at $4 to 6 per dozen. 



Easter lilies were short in supply, and 

 the quality of arrivals was nothing to 

 boast of at $25 per hundred. There was 

 a fair supply of rubrums and albums, 

 the former bringing $6 to $15 and the 

 latter $6 to $10 per hundred. Lily of 

 the valley was in much greater supply, 

 but was not active in movement at the 

 prices asked, 15 to 30 cents per spray 

 for the best. Violets were not- in heavy 

 supply, the growers shipping much stock 

 to the west. "When good, these flowers 

 brought $3 per hundred. Some good 

 myosotis was availabje in small quanti- 

 ties and moved at $2 per bunch. Paper 

 White narcissi were plentiful, the best 

 moving at as high as 75 cents per bunch. 

 Sweet peas were not plentiful, the crop 

 having been cut down through bud-drO'p- 

 ping on account of weather conditions. 

 The Christmas supply of these flowers 

 was short. The tail end of the chrys- 

 anthemum cut included mostly Chad- 

 wick, Bonnaffon and Nonin, with a good 

 supply of singles in long sprays. Stevia 

 was quite abundant at 15 to 35 cents 

 per bunch. Daisies, pansies, calendulas, 

 pink bouvardia, wallflowers and snap- 

 dragons were among the miscellaneous 

 offerings and all moved freely. 



Market arrivals were light December 

 23. Top prices for Beauties touched $2. 

 Cattleyas were $3. Carnations brought 

 15 to 20 cents each and sales were made 

 for the day before Christmas at 25 cents 

 apiece for red varieties. 



Various Notes. 



It is definitely settled that Ladies' 

 night of the Florists' Club will be held, 

 as previously arranged, on the night of 

 January 12, in the club's quarters at 

 the Engineering Societies' building. The 

 January meeting of the club must nec- 

 essarily take place on the same evening, 

 but, with the meeting called to order 

 promptly, it is not expected that the 

 proceedings need-tbe of an extended na- 

 ture. The house committee has arrange- 

 ments well in hand, and the cuisine will 

 be in the hands of a first-class caterer. 



Among the state incorporations an- 

 nounced last week was the Burnham 

 Boiler Corporation, of Irvington, N. Y., 

 with a capital of $1,000,000. H. L. Van- 

 derbilt, C. H. Seifert and O. F. P. Karb 

 are incorporators. 



The death occurred December 20, at 

 the Postgraduate hospital, of Mrs. 



Helen K. S. Pitcher, wife of James R. 

 Pitcher, of the old firm of Pitcher & 

 Manda, Short Hills, N. J. 



Fifth avenue and Broadway florists 

 displayed for the holiday trade artificial 

 plants decorated with ribbon, and quite 

 handsome in appearance. Small made- 

 up plants of retinispora sprays were also 

 seen and were a novelty. 



A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., presi- 

 dent-elect of the S. A. F., has been quite 

 busy of late with the appointments he 

 is to make at the beginning of his ad- 

 ministration, and which are to be an- 

 nounced January 1. 



Samuel Redstone, recently with the 

 Beechwood Heights Nurseries, Bound- 

 brook, N. J., is now with the Julius 

 Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 



A. M. Henshaw, president-elect of the 

 New York Florists' Club, h-^s been con- 

 -fined to his home for some days with 

 a severe cold. 



The Kottmiller store, 426 Madison 

 avenue, has had a rush of business lately, 

 chiefly decorations for debutantes' par- 

 ties. The crop of society debutantes 

 this year seems to be unusually large. 



The sudden cold snap of last week 

 caught several florfsts badly and result- 

 ed in the loss of much stock. 



The next meeting of the flower show 

 committee will be held at Secretary 

 Young's office, 1170 Broadway, Monday 

 afternoon, January 12. At this meeting 

 the designs submitted in the poster con- 

 test will have consideration. 



At the last meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club, John Canning, of Ards- 

 ley, was depressed with a presentiment. 

 He hastened home, and on arrival found 

 a baby daughter awaiting him. Both 

 mother and daughter are doing well. 



J. H. pr 



CHICAOO. 



The Market. 



Monday of this week, December 22, 

 set a new record for the Chicago market. 

 It was the biggest day in the history 

 of the trade in Chicago. 



With this issue of The Review going 

 to press a day ahead of the usual sched- 

 ule, it is impossible to give more than 

 a summary of the Christmas trade; the 

 details must wait until the report of the 

 final day's business can be included. 

 Business increased steadily during the 

 week before Christmas, while the supply 

 of stock as steadily went down. Old- 

 timers in the market have become 

 accustomed to what is called the lull 

 before the storm, but this year the trade 

 encountered nothing in the nature of 

 a calm. December 19 the market was 

 well cleaned up and December 20 scarce- 

 ly a flower of shipable character re- 

 mained in the wholesalers' iceboxes. 

 December 20, if not considered as with- 

 in the holiday period, will rank as the 

 best Saturday this market ever has 

 known. 



Christmas shipping began on Sunday. 

 There was a sufficient volume of long 

 distance shipments to keep most of the 

 wholesalers busy all day. Much effort 

 also was put on drawing in from the 

 greenhouses the greatest possible quan- 

 tity of stock for Monday, because the 

 accumulated Christmas order* largely 

 concentrated on December 22 and it wnf 

 apparent that unusual effort would be 

 necessary to obtain the quantity of stock 

 needed to fill the advance orders. For 

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